Su Xiaosi nodded, "Yes, mom said dad has already written to grandma."
His second brother and third brother heard their conversation and came forward to talk about Xiao Wu.
"I don't know when the fifth brother will come back. Do we have to prepare some gifts for him in advance?" Su Zhiyuan said.
"I'm ready," Su Xiaosi stood on tiptoes and found a red box from the cabinet, "I didn't eat all the New Year's candies, but I left one for my brother."
His second brother rummaged in the pocket of his old clothes for a while and also took out a candy.
"Just in time, I have one left." He threw the candy into Xiao Si's box.
Su Zhiyuan and his third brother looked at each other, walked back to the room in tacit understanding, and found the candy he had left specially for his fifth brother a few months ago.
Although everyone didn't agree in advance to leave candy for Xiao Wu, they all did so in unison.
For them, candy is the best gift. They only have to wait until New Year's Day to eat a few candies every year...
There is nothing more delicious than candy in the world.
"Xiao Wu will be very happy when he sees the gift we prepared for him!"
After Su Xiaosi finished speaking, he couldn't wait to give the candy to his fifth brother, and he was even more curious about when he would come back.
The same goes for his brothers.
The fifth brother was only two and a half years old when his grandmother took him away. It has been almost four years now. He is now six years old. I don’t know what he looks like.
Thinking of this, Su Zhiyuan and the other boys ran to their mother's room and asked the fifth brother when he would come home.
Bai Lu looked at the sons in front of her with worried expressions and shook her head, "I don't know either."
She was very anxious about Xiao Wu's affairs. In the past, Jin Bao's father would receive a reply within half a month when he sent letters home. Why was it that it had been more than a month now and there was no news at all?
Did something happen to Xiao Wu? Is he going to be sick?
She had been thinking wildly these days, and had nightmares several times at night. In the dream, Xiao Wu called her a bad mother for giving birth to him but not raising him. He hated his mother so much that he never wanted to see her.
Bai Lu woke up suddenly in the night, dripping with cold sweat every time, and her clothes were soaked through.
"Even mom doesn't know, hey, I want to give the candy to my fifth brother as soon as possible..."
Hearing Xiao Si sigh, Bai Lu said: "If there is no reply in two days, I will personally go to the countryside to take Xiao Wu home!"
"Mom, shall I go to the countryside with you?" Su Xiaosi couldn't hide her excitement, "I haven't been back to my hometown yet."
"I want to go too," several boys in the room said, "Mom, why don't we go to the countryside together as a family..."
"What kind of country are you going to?" The door was opened from the outside, and Su Jianmin walked home, "Your grandma is here, come out quickly!"
What?
Grandma is here?
Su Zhiyuan and his three brothers ran out in a hurry and saw their grandma.
Grandma is almost the same as she was four years ago, she is still as energetic as ever.
She was carrying several bags of things.
Su Jianmin wanted to help her carry it before, but she refused, saying that she was not old enough to ask her son for help.
"Grandma! Grandma!" The children surrounded the old man excitedly, "Grandma, you are here!"
Grandma Su's name is Li Xiu'e. She smiled so hard that the ends of her eyes were full of wrinkles, "Oh, this is Xiaosi, right? He's grown so big... The boss has grown so tall too, so good, so good..."
She walked to the table, took off the big and small bags on her body, turned around and looked into the room, "Where is your sister? Let me see Jinbao quickly."
"Mom, Jinbao is here with me!" Bai Lu had just changed her shoes and hurriedly carried her daughter out of the room, feeling hopeful and anxious.
Mom is here, Xiao Wu must be here too, right? I wonder what Xiao Wu looks like?
When she was thinking wildly, her mother-in-law took the little baby from her arms.
"Oh, my precious granddaughter, my sweetheart, look at this baby. Oh, my baby is so beautiful..."
Li Xiu'e hugged the little Jinbao in her arms and couldn't put it down. "Looking at this face, this forehead, and this little face, it looks like a lucky star. There are five generations of our old Su family, five generations of men, and Jinbao is the only one."
Girl doll!”
Jinbao clapped his hands and said in a sweet voice: "Grandma."
Hearing her call, Li Xiu'e instantly felt like her face was wet with tears.
She liked this granddaughter even more in her heart, and her tone was extremely doting, "How smart this child is, do you hear that? He is only less than one and a half years old, right? My parents didn't teach me. They would call me grandma when they saw me for the first time.
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"Grandma, the sixth sister is super smart!" Su Xiaosi said ostentatiously, "She can talk a lot now."
"Can you be smart? Our Su family's lucky baby, if your grandfather hadn't had bad legs and feet, it would have been him this time. He talks about this granddaughter at home every day, wishing he could put on his wings and fly over to see her..."
When Grandma Su spoke excitedly, Bai Lu stared in the direction of the door again and again, but never saw Xiao Wu's figure, and her eyes were full of confusion.
Although it was not good to interrupt, she still couldn't help interrupting her mother-in-law, "Mom, where is Xiao Wu? Why didn't Xiao Wu come?"
"Ah? Are you asking Xiao Wu?"
The expression on Li Xiu'e's face became slightly stiff, "Xiao Wu didn't come with me."
As if he already knew the reason, Su Jianmin kept his brows furrowed from the moment he walked in.
When he heard his mother finally mention Xiao Wu, his expression didn't change much.
Bai Lu glanced at her husband and realized that the matter might be serious. She felt her heart suddenly lift into her throat.
"Why didn't you come?" she asked hurriedly, "Did something happen to Xiao Wu? Is he sick?"
"No, he's very good. He doesn't know how tough he is in the village. He gets beaten by his grandfather every day and nothing happens to him."
"What? Being beaten? Why is Xiao Wu being beaten?"
Bai Lu felt distressed and regretful.
Sure enough, the old man was unreliable in raising children. She should not have agreed to her mother-in-law taking Xiao Wu away in the first place.
Although the whole family was so hungry at that time that they ate bark and leaves, and even went to the mountains to dig tree roots to satisfy their hunger, but later they gritted their teeth and endured until spring, when they could still pick wild vegetables to eat.
If Xiao Wu is kept by his side, at least he will have his parents to love him and not be beaten...
Before Bai Lu could continue to imagine the scene of her son's suffering, her mother-in-law said: "Can we not beat him? I can't control him, that child is too naughty!"
Bai Lu's tone was a little harsh, "Boys are quite naughty. Just reason with him. You shouldn't hit him."
"Oh, look at what you said, haven't Jianmin ever spanked these children in your family?"
Bai Lu was stunned when asked, "This..."
"Boy dolls are not like girl dolls, so what does it matter how many spanks? If you are raised to be as squeamish as a little girl, encounter difficulties, and have no sense of responsibility, and then marry a wife and have children, how can you be the backbone of the family?