"What do you mean?" Chen Aiguo glanced at Guan Qiuju angrily, "It means your mother's mouth should be more polite and don't scold others easily. Otherwise, go back to Guan's house."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Aiguo got up and left the house.
Guan Qiuju's wailing voice came from behind, but he ignored it and left even faster. At the door, he met Chen Jinzhou who was coming back from outside. Chen Aiguo called Chen Jinzhou and asked him to drive out for him.
Door.
"Grandpa, where are we going?"
Chen Jinzhou asked.
Chen Aiguo pinched his eyebrows and glanced at the passing scenery outside, his usually mellow voice filled with a little fatigue.
"Let's go to Wutong Street and have a look."
Chen Jinzhou didn't know why his grandfather wanted to go to Wutong Street, but it didn't stop him from driving the car there.
Su Yun and the others bought a lot of things on the street, and then ate a bowl of mutton steamed buns outside before returning home. Su Yun, who was not used to eating mutton, felt that her whole body was very hot after eating mutton.
She drank a lot of water along the way and drank all the water in Xiao Lin's military water bottle before she felt better.
This thing is really only suitable for eating in winter.
As soon as the car entered Wutong Street, Su Yun and the others saw a car parked outside their house. The car looked familiar. Was it Chen Jinzhou's car? Su Yun looked at Xiao Lin, who was also sharp-eyed.
I saw Chen Aiguo standing beside the car.
He scowled.
I didn't expect Chen Aiguo to come so quickly.
"Brother Lin?"
Su Yun called softly, and Xiao Lin came back to his senses, with a gentle smile on his face, "I have a wife to work with."
Su Yun knew what he was referring to.
After Guan Qiuju and the others left in the morning, Su Yun had been looking for an opportunity to tell Mrs. Xiao about Chen Aiguo, but she never found the opportunity. Now that someone came to the door, she couldn't do it anymore.
"Grandma!" Su Yun took a breath, turned to Mrs. Xiao who was sitting in the back row and said, "Grandma, if grandpa did not die but was still alive in this world and had another family, would you be sad?"
Mrs. Xiao, who had kept her eyes closed, slowly opened her eyes, with a kind and gentle smile on her face. "Is it the one from the morning? His new family."
"Grandma?" Su Yun was surprised.
Even Xiao Lin was surprised.
But Mrs. Xiao said very calmly, "There is a daughter next to that old woman, who looks a bit like Anzi and his grandfather when he was young." She didn't care at first and didn't take it to heart.
But now that Su Yun said this, she guessed it.
I have to say that Mrs. Xiao is still very wise. Compared with Guan Qiuju, I don't know how many times she is wiser.
She was so rational, Su Yun wasn't so worried.
"Grandma, no matter what choice you make, Brother Lin and I will stand unswervingly on your side." In fact, Su Yun felt that given Mrs. Xiao's character, what would she do?
The choice can already be roughly guessed.
But she still wanted to make her position clear.
The old lady smiled, took her hand, patted it and said hello twice.
The car stopped at the door.
Chen Aiguo and Chen Jinzhou raised their heads together and looked towards them.
Xiao Lin got out of the car first, opened the door to let Su Yun get out, and then opened the door of the back seat. Mrs. Xiao slowly got out of the back seat. The moment she raised her head, Chen Aiguo's eyes filled with tears.
He was covered in water mist, and he staggered forward two steps.
"Xiaoyuan."
I wanted to hold Old Mrs. Xiao's hand but didn't dare. With trembling lips, she called her a nickname that only people who were extremely close to Old Mrs. Xiao would call her.
After opening his mouth and calling out his name, Chen Aiguo didn't know what to say anymore. He had so much to say, after all, the two of them had not seen each other for decades.
But now that he has a new family, everything he wants to say becomes pale and feeble.
In the end, he could only whisper Mrs. Xiao's nickname again, "How have you been these years?"
This question is really inappropriate.
In such difficult decades, Mrs. Xiao raised a child alone and grew up. If you think about it for a moment, you will know that her life must have been very difficult.
Chen Aiguo also knew that Mrs. Xiao was having a hard time, but he didn't know what to ask. He wanted her to scold him and make her hate him and blame him, so that the guilt in his heart would be a little better.
However, he could not see what Chen Aiguo wanted.
The two of them met after more than fifty years. Even though Mrs. Xiao still kept the marriage certificate, they were no longer husband and wife, right?
Mrs. Xiao smiled lightly, "Very good."
Her attitude of letting go made Chen Aiguo feel as uncomfortable as a thousand arrows piercing his heart. He opened his mouth to explain. He wanted to explain that he didn't mean not to go back. He was just seriously injured and lost his memory.
He will forget that his pregnant wife is waiting for him at home.
He really didn't mean not to go back.
"Xiaoyuan!"
Chen Aiguo's voice was choked with sobs, and tears fell from his eyes in two lines. Thousands of words could only be condensed into three simple words.
"sorry."
"It's okay." Mrs. Xiao raised her head and looked at the man who had been away for more than fifty years. He was still a young man when he left, but his hair was covered with silver when he saw her again. Her voice was as gentle as before.
Just listen to her gentle tone and say, "It's all over."
Over the years, she has long been accustomed to the days when he is not around. When he went to join the revolutionary team, she chose to support him. In this case, she would naturally choose to accept the consequences.
Compared to him dying on the battlefield, this is really better now.
"Xiao Yuan..."
Chen Aiguo approached, held Mrs. Xiao's shoulders with both hands, lowered her head and burst into tears.
If he hadn't recovered his memory twenty years ago, would things have ended differently? His Xiao Yuan had waited for him since she was a young girl, but he had simply forgotten everything...
Chen Aiguo burst into tears.
Mrs. Xiao just stood there, neither comforting nor avoiding Chen Aiguo, whose name had now been changed.
He just lowered his eyes like that, with a slight smile on his face, saying nothing, and his emotions did not fluctuate.
Su Yun looked on and felt very sad. As a woman, she could feel her grandma's efforts to suppress her emotions, no less than Chen Aiguo who cried bitterly.
But the other party now has another family. No matter how much emotion she has in her heart, the old lady can only abide by the principle, stand within the invisible red line, and not do anything that may violate her identity.
He didn't even have the right to cry in front of Chen Aiguo.
How can this not make people sad?
On one side, Chen Aiguo held Mrs. Xiao's shoulders and cried bitterly. Su Yun was also quietly wiping her tears. Xiao Lin folded the handkerchief and carefully wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Daughter-in-law, don't cry, I feel sorry for you."
Chen Jinzhou looked at them, and it was clearer than now that there was an invisible wall between them, and he could not get in no matter how hard he tried.
This may be good, he should have given up on those unrealistic thoughts long ago. Especially now that she is still the wife of his cousin who is related to him by blood, he should not have unrealistic thoughts.
sister in law……
Haha, what an ironic name.
Chen Jinzhou lowered his head with a wry smile on his lips.