Lin Jinshun didn't tell Xiaoyu when he came out in the middle of the night last night. In the morning, Wang Ying rode a motorcycle to Shanghe Village to pick Xiaoyu up in the town.
When Meiling found Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu was still confused and didn't know what happened.
She kept asking Wang Ying, where is her grandfather? Is there any news about her mother? And why is Wang Ying suddenly so nice to her and crying while holding her in her arms?
But Wang Ying didn't answer anything except crying.
Although Wang Ying hated Lin Jiao, at this moment, it was still painful to see this orphaned child.
"Xiaoyu, I am your aunt." Meiling looked at the thin little girl and introduced herself softly.
"Aunt? Are you from the city??" Xiaoyu asked.
Meiling replied, "Yes, I came from Bincheng."
"What about my uncle? Is he here?"
"Here he comes, he has something to do. Come back later."
"Auntie, did something happen to my mother and you came here? Where is my mother?"
Xiaoyu is not young anymore. What happened yesterday and everyone's mood is not right today, she has some guesses in her heart.
She could guess that something serious might have happened to her mother, but what she didn't know now was how serious it was and whether her mother was dead.
From the day she got leukemia, she knew she would lose her mother one day.
Meiling smiled at her and said, "My child, it's okay. We just came to see you."
"Let's go, I'll take you to eat on the street, and after dinner let's go home."
Wang Guixiang saw Meiling coming and wanted to keep her at home for dinner, but Meiling politely refused.
"Auntie, you don't need to trouble me to take Xiaoyu to the street and show her around."
Meiling saw that Wang Guixiang and Wang Ying had serious expressions on their faces, and she was afraid that they would spill the beans in front of Xiaoyu.
As a mother, watching a child lose his mother is always more painful than others.
Xiaoyu followed Meiling to the street. Meiling bought her a bowl of noodles, but she couldn't eat a bite.
Xiaoyu also had no appetite and kept asking where Lin Jinshun went?
"Eat quickly. After dinner, let's go home and wait for your grandpa to come back."
Although it was the first time for Xiaoyu to meet Meiling, her gentleness and kindness soon made Xiaoyu put down her guard.
There seemed to be a kind of magic about her, she spoke so gently, and looked at him with such loving eyes, completely different from her own mother.
Xiaoyu listened to her words and finished a bowl of rice. Then Meiling took her to the street to buy some vegetables. The two of them sat together and took the bus back home.
When Lin Yongqiang just built this new house, Mei Ling went back to her hometown. She had a very good impression of her hometown, but because she worked in Bincheng, she didn't have time to come over and do it. She had previously discussed with Lin Yongqiang that they would retire when they were old.
Just go back to your hometown, raise some chickens and ducks, and enjoy life here.
Xiaoyu led Meiling into the house.
Xiaoyu said, "Auntie, which room do you live in? My mother and I lived in that side room. My grandpa lived in the main house. We didn't touch the other houses."
Xiaoyu followed Lin Jiao from time to time and became accustomed to living under other people's roofs. She knew how to read people's faces very well.
She knew that this home belonged to her uncle, so it also belonged to her aunt.
She and her mother were migrant relatives, and they lived here. She was afraid that Meiling would be unhappy, so she hurriedly explained to her as soon as she entered the door.
Meiling smiled and replied, "Your uncle and I can live in any room, as long as we have a bed."
Mei Ling put her things in the kitchen. The yard should be tidy and the house had been cleaned, but there wasn't much work to do.
But Xiaoyu kept following her, asking about the whereabouts of Lin Jinshun and Lin Jiao. This made Meiling very embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.
She diverted her attention and asked Xiaoyu to take her for a walk in the vegetable garden and watch other people pick apples.
She said she had never seen any of these in the city, and she was rather curious. Xiaoyu was successfully diverted, so she picked up the vegetable basket and took Mei Ling to the vegetable garden.
Lin Yongqiang followed the police to the police station to cooperate with the investigation.
The police initially determined that the fire was arson.
The police found that gasoline had been poured on the walls of Kou Lao'er's house, which was why the fire was so strong.
Fortunately, Kou's second family's private house was far away from the neighbors, so no innocent people were harmed. However, this house was burned down and nothing was left.
In the morning, the police visited some people who had issues with Kou Laoer to investigate their suspicions. Later, they made notes on Lin Yongqiang, Lin Jinshun and others. After learning that Lin Jiao had leukemia, the police changed their thinking.
Lin Jiao might have started this fire, and she wanted to die with Kou Lao Er.
But the facts still need to be investigated.
Lin Yongqiang was busy until the evening, and then returned to the hospital. In the hospital, Gu Decheng accompanied Lin Jin and kept enlightening him.
Seeing Lin Yongqiang come in exhausted, Lin Jinshun also felt sorry for him.
On this day, under Gu Decheng's guidance, he figured it out himself.
Everyone has his or her own destiny. Even if Lin Jiao got such a disease, she wouldn't be able to live long. She chose to end her life like this, which was regarded as her fate.
In the morning, he yelled at his son, which was a bit excessive. Something happened at home, and his old body couldn't bear it. He could only lie down in the hospital bed, and his son had to leave work and come to take care of it.
"Yongqiang, where is Meiling?" Gu Decheng said that Xiaoyu was at their home, and Lin Jinshun was very worried about the child.
Lin Yongqiang said, "Dad, Meiling and Xiaoyu have gone home. How are you? If everything is okay, let's go home too."