Because she didn't take Xiao Wu home, Bai Lu felt depressed along the way.
Although Su Jianmin tried to comfort her several times, no matter what he said, she always looked blank, as if she didn't hear anything.
After two and a half days of squeezing in the train, the couple finally returned to Jinghai City.
They hadn't showered in many days, their heads were covered in oil and their bodies stunk.
Before, Bai Lu would have been unbearable, but now she seemed not to smell it.
Seeing that his wife seemed to have lost her soul, Su Jianmin felt helpless and sad.
It's all Xiao Wu's fault, hey...
In fact, he has no right to scold his son. After all, he is an incompetent father who can't even bring his own son home.
"Oh, Master Su is back?"
In the staff building, everyone saw Su Jianmin and came up to say hello warmly.
"Huh? Why are you two alone? Didn't you say you wanted to bring your youngest son back to live with you?" Zhang Hongmei asked.
Su Jianmin winked at her for a while, signaling her not to ask this question.
Seeing him like this, Zhang Hongmei guessed that the process of picking up her son must not go smoothly. She laughed twice and changed the subject: "Oh, you smell so bad. Go home and take a shower."
"Yes, it's true that I haven't showered in many days, and I smell like pickled vegetables."
Su Jianmin smiled awkwardly and took his wife beside him home.
In order to continue to be neighbors with Lulu, Lin Yulan changed houses with others and moved from the third floor to the second floor.
When she heard that Lulu was back, she happily walked to Su's house and wanted to tell her about moving next door to her, but she saw her face was shrugged, downcast and listless.
"What's going on?"
Lin Yulan asked Su Jianmin in a low voice, "What's wrong with Lulu? She looks weird."
"My younger son doesn't want to come back. Oh, it's a long story. Anyway, you must not mention Xiao Wu's matter in front of her."
"Okay, I understand."
In the afternoon, Lin Yulan sat with Bai Lu for a while, chatted some gossip, and then went home to cook for her family.
"Cook?"
Bai Lu finally came to her senses, "Yes, it's time for me to cook too, Zhiyuan, Nanbing and the others are about to finish school, I have to cook..."
Halfway through her words, she suddenly thought of Jin Bao.
"Where is Jinbao?" Bai Lu's heart skipped a beat, "Jianmin, why isn't Jinbao at home?"
Su Jianmin sighed, "Didn't Xiaolin tell you just now? Jinbao was taken out by my mother, and he should be back soon."
"Where did your mother take her?" Bai Lu was confused and said in panic, "Could she have been taken back to the countryside by your mother?"
"What are you talking about? My mother's clothes are still in the room. Besides, if she really takes Jin Bao away, she must not discuss it with me."
Bai Lu nodded, "Yes, she probably won't take Jin Bao away without your consent. She probably won't..."
"It's not that it shouldn't happen, but it definitely won't happen," Su Jianmin patted his wife on the head and said with a smile, "Unless she wants to sever the relationship between mother and son and don't want me as her son."
"Jianmin..." Bai Lu burst into tears. The grievance and helplessness in her heart suddenly surged, and she couldn't hold it back no matter how hard she tried.
These days, her heart feels empty, as if something very important has been taken away.
Now that she suddenly came to her senses, she had only one impulse, which was to cry...
She threw herself into her husband's arms, said nothing, and cried loudly.
Su Jianmin patted her back, "Okay, okay, just cry. You feel like you have lost your soul these days, you scare me to death."
"Wuwuwu, Xiaowu doesn't want me as his mother, he hates me, he hates me..."
"Don't talk nonsense, he is so young, how can he know what hate is? And why does he hate you? There is no better mother than you in this world."
"No, I'm not good at all. I left him alone in the countryside and haven't taken care of him for so many years. I'm not qualified to be his mother."
When she was blaming herself, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and the words that followed were, "Grandma will cook brown sugar and egg custard for Jinbao to eat at night, okay?"
"Grandma eats it too, eat sweets..." The sweet and waxy voice of the little milk baby is so cute and cute, it can easily melt people's hearts.
"Oh, my dear granddaughter, you think about grandma all the time. Grandma's love for you is not in vain."
Li Xiu'e's face was full of smiles, her eyebrows were crescent, and she felt that she could live ten more years if she stayed with Jin Bao.
She held Jin Bao in one hand and carried the brown sugar she had just bought from the supply and marketing cooperative in the other.
She was startled when she saw the two people in the room, but she breathed a sigh of relief when she recognized them as her son and daughter-in-law.
"You guys are back so soon? I thought you would stay a few more days," Grandma Su said.
Bai Lu's face turned red and she hurriedly left her husband's arms and wiped away the tears on her face.
Looking up again, she said to her mother-in-law: "Mom, I'm sorry, I couldn't bring Xiao Wu back..."
"Why are you saying sorry to me? I've already guessed that you can't bring Xiao Wu back, with his character..."
With a long sigh, Li Xiu'e shook her head, "Hey, I really don't know what to say. No one can cure him anyway."
Bai Lu felt guilty towards her mother-in-law.
Although she didn't say it, she did have opinions about her mother-in-law. She always felt that her mother-in-law was older and was definitely not as good at raising children as she was.
But reality slapped her hard, and Xiao Wu couldn't listen to her at all...
What kind of education? What kind of heart-to-heart talk? To Xiao Wu, it was all nonsense.
"Mom, I always thought that he didn't want to come with you because you didn't reason with him properly. I thought he was just a six-year-old child and could just be coaxed, but it didn't work at all."
After hearing her daughter-in-law apologize to her again, Li Xiu'e hurriedly said: "It has nothing to do with you. If I had never taken care of Xiao Wu, I wouldn't believe that a six-year-old baby would be so difficult to control."
Having said this, she patted the little baby in her arms lovingly, "My Jinbao is better. She is well-behaved and sensible. I love her to death."
After Su Jianmin heard what his mother said, he felt something was strange.
When he thought about it carefully, he had never heard his mother say she loved anyone.
His mother had helped him take care of his children for half a year before, and she doted on his sons, but she never said she loved them.
Just when he was wondering, he saw his daughter kiss his mother on the face.
"Love grandma, grandma is so good..."
Little Jinbao shakes his little head and his voice is so cute that it will make you cute to death.
For a moment, Su Jianmin felt very sad, as if he had knocked over ten jars of vinegar.
Jinbao never said he loved his father...
"Let daddy give you a hug!"
Su Jianmin wanted to take Jinbao away from his mother's arms.
"Ouch, it stinks!"
Li Xiu'e hurriedly pushed her son away and said disgustedly: "Tell me, how many days have you not bathed? It stinks, oh, you want to hug my granddaughter after she stinks so much. Do you want to smoke her to death?"