The iron door, which had been rusted for many years, made a dull creak, and a wrinkled woman's face peeked out from behind the crack in the door.
There were still wet tears on the woman's face, and her cloudy eyes were full of fear. She timidly looked through the iron fence for a while to make sure that there was no one else behind Xi Wanlai, then she opened the door and saw the shocking line at the door.
The words on the paint made me sit down on the ground and cry.
"They are trying to kill me... Wuwu, what should I do? My poor Coco, where are you? Do you want to watch your mother die?"
Xi Wanlai awkwardly held her arm: "Auntie, you get up and talk first. I'm here to help you find a solution."
Zhong Lan acted as if he couldn't hear anything, sitting on the ground and acting rudely: "My daughter was also killed by you, and I have no hope in the next life. I might as well be hacked to death by them..."
She was crying nonstop, and Xi Wanlai had no choice but to stand with her on the corridor.
At this time, footsteps sounded again on the stairs, and for a moment Xi Wanlai thought that she had seen an illusion. Standing in the shadow was his Coco. She held her face high and walked toward her step by step. She opened her eyes and spoke softly.
Call him: "Come late..."
Zhong Lan seemed to be stunned, as the loud voice that echoed in the corridor suddenly stopped, and like him, he stared at the woman walking up the stairs for a moment.
The indifferent light coming in from the skylight tore away the dim shadows on her body little by little. Xi Wanlai felt that her heartbeat was slowly unbalanced, as if she was expecting something!
Until she stood completely in the light, holding a checkerboard calfskin wallet in her hand, and asked him: "Wan Lai, is this yours? I dropped it in the taxi."
"Oh..." It took him a while to find his voice and recognize Pei Xiao.
He was a little disappointed, but mostly self-deprecating. How could he still daydream like that, thinking that one day Coco would reappear in front of him?
However, Zhong Lan seemed to have lost his mind. He suddenly got up from the ground with his palms on his hands and rushed towards Pei Xiao——
"Coco! My good daughter... you are finally back! Mom knows you won't abandon mom..."
Pei Xiao staggered a little while being held in the arms. He held on to the wall before standing up safely. He looked confused and wanted to push but didn't dare to push.
She glanced at Xi Wanlai helplessly. Xi Wanlai sighed and walked up to pull Zhong Lan away.
"Auntie, you have recognized the wrong person. She is not Coco."
Zhong Lan seemed unable to listen and hugged Pei Xiao with brute strength, his rough fingers digging into her flesh.
"Don't try to take my daughter away again! Do you think I don't know? It was you who sent her away. You didn't let her come back to the country to see me. My daughter..."
Pei Xiao had an embarrassed look on his face, and he could hear some hints in the middle-aged woman's words. She was probably separated from her flesh and blood, and missed her daughter like crazy. How could she bear to push her away.
So he patted her back and comforted her patiently: "Mom, stop crying, am I back now? Let's go inside and talk if we have anything to say, okay?"
Only then did Zhong Lan become quieter. He held her face and looked at her carefully. Tears flowed out of his cloudy eyes again: "Keke, my coke, why are you so thin? Mom can hardly recognize you."
...You must have suffered a lot in these years, right?"
Pei Xiao let her hold her and glanced sideways at Xi Wanlai. After being slightly startled, Xi Wanlai nodded gently to her, so she held Zhong Lan's hand and said, "Mom, I'm trying to lose weight, it's popular to be thin now.