Mili couldn't help but ask: "Mom, where have you been in the past few years? Lan Lan and I asked people everywhere to find out your whereabouts. Are you... going to come back this time?"
Bai Meifeng was silent for a few seconds, took half a step back, raised her head slightly, looked at Mi Li, and said with a forced smile: "Mi Li, how are you and Lan Lan doing these past few years?"
She didn't answer his question just now.
Mili felt complicated and nodded slightly, "Well, Lan Lan and I are fine. Xiaoxiao, you have also seen that we are fine too. You can rest assured about this."
"That's good! That's good."
Bai Meifeng took a breath, smiled at him again, and said softly: "Mi Li, I'm leaving soon. I can't stay. Also, I want to ask you something."
"What? Mom, what else do you want me to ask for? What do you want to say?"
Mili agreed immediately.
Bai Meifeng looked at him, "Don't tell Lanlan that I've been back later, keep it a secret for me, okay?"
"this……"
Mili frowned with a confused expression and shook his head, "Mom, you finally came back, why do you have to leave again? Wouldn't it be better to just stay and live with us?"
Bai Meifeng smiled bitterly and shook her head.
When Mi Li saw it, he couldn't help but ask: "Mom, is it because of my second uncle? Are you... still with your second uncle?"
Xu Weixi, Xu Tongdao's father, is indeed the second uncle of Mi Li and Bai Lanlan according to his seniority.
In short, the relationship between their families is a bit messy at the moment.
Bai Meifeng smiled bitterly in return and shook her hand to Mi Li, "That's it! I'm leaving, Mi Li, remember to keep it a secret for me and don't tell Lan Lan that I'm back."
As she said that, she glanced reluctantly at her granddaughter Xiaoxiao who was still playing wildly in the small square, and then walked away.
Mili shouted several times to keep her, but she didn't look back.
But he attracted the attention of his own daughter Xiaoxiao.
The little girl spread her legs and ran over. She looked at Mi Li curiously and then at Bai Meifeng, who was looking in the direction Mi Li was looking at.
Xiaoxiao blinked her big eyes and asked curiously: "Dad, who did you call just now? Is grandma out? Where is she? Grandma?"
She just heard Mi Li call "Mom", and she subconsciously thought he was calling her grandma.
As for grandma Bai Meifeng?
Sorry, she was only two years old when Bai Meifeng left. Now five years have passed and she has long forgotten what her grandmother looked like.
Not to mention that she only saw Bai Meifeng's back at this time. Even if Bai Meifeng came to her and she stared at Bai Meifeng's face carefully, she would not recognize that Bai Meifeng was her grandmother.
"Oh, it's okay. Dad just saw it wrong, Xiaoxiao! Let's go home with dad. It's time to get food. Go back and kowtow with dad."
Mili withdrew his gaze, looked at his daughter beside his legs, and casually brushed her off.
It's always easier to lie to children.
Xiaoxiao didn't think much, she agreed readily, took his big hand, and skipped home with him.
Mi Li led his daughter home with a lot of worries. As soon as he walked in the door, he heard banging and crashing noises from his bathroom, which was quite loud.
During this time, the sound of his father screaming in pain was also heard.
The big noise not only startled Mi Li, but also startled the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were busy in the kitchen. One woman held a kitchen knife in one hand, and the other held a spatula in his hand, and ran out of the kitchen in panic.
Old lady: "What's wrong?"
Bai Lanlan: "What's the sound? Mili! Was dad calling just now?"
Before Mili had time to answer, his father's voice of "ouch, ouch, ouch" came from the bathroom.
The faces of the whole family changed. Mili immediately let go of his daughter's little hand and ran quickly to the bathroom door. At a glance, he saw his father and his father's wheelchair lying next to the toilet in the bathroom.
The wheelchair's four wheels, two of which are high in the air, are spinning smoothly.
His father... fell down next to the toilet in a state of embarrassment, screaming ouch and ouch in a weak voice. He covered his forehead with one hand, and blood spilled out from between his fingers, which made Mili's heart beat with fear.
"Dad! Dad, what's wrong with you? Why did you run to the toilet by yourself? Dad! Are you okay?"
Mili immediately rushed into the bathroom and reached out to help his father.
The old man screamed in pain and said weakly: "I can't hold it in anymore... You went out and didn't come back. Your mother and your wife were busy again, so I just thought of solving it myself. Who knows, I might fall."
Already..."
…
The family hurriedly pushed the wheelchair and took the old man to the hospital.
It was true that the old man fell hard just now. Not only did he break a large piece of skin on his forehead, but when he fell, he subconsciously used his right hand to support the ground. As a result... his right arm can no longer move, and it hurts when he touches it.
Ye Ming, Mi Li, Bai Lanlan, and the old lady all suspected that the old man's arm was broken.
After all, if you have old arms and legs, even if you eat a lot of food, you still can't withstand a fall.
…
Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
On the same afternoon, Xu Tongdao's family was very harmonious.
The two brothers posted Spring Festival couplets together, and sister Ge Yuzhu went to the kitchen to help her mother. The family was busy preparing a large table of sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.
After closing the courtyard door, setting off a bunch of firecrackers, the family began to have New Year's Eve dinner.
The family is having fun.
As the eldest brother, Xu Tongdao wrapped two big red envelopes for his younger brother and sister as usual. His mother also had some, but they were not red envelopes, but gifts.
The gift he prepared for his mother this year was ten gold bricks.
Years ago, he asked the group's finance department to go to the bank to exchange the gold bricks. Each gold brick was very small, about the size of a matchbox.
To him now, it is not worth much, but it is suitable as a gift to honor his mother during the Chinese New Year.
When he took out the gift box from his bag with a smile and handed it to his mother with both hands, his mother, brother and sister were all curious.
Ge Yuzhu: "Brother, what's in this? Can you open it so we can take a look?"
Xu Tonglu: "Is it jewelry again?"
This kid obviously still remembers that Xu Tongdao gave his mother jewelry during the Chinese New Year last year.
"Spending money indiscriminately again!"
Mother Ge Xiaozhu glanced sideways at Xu Tongdao, but there was a smile on her face and eyes.
What mother can be unhappy if her son is filial?
"Okay! Mom, open it and see if you like it. If you don't like it, I'll give you another gift next year."
Tongdao Xu stretched out his hand to signal his mother to open the gift box.
He had seen through his mother's temperament, so he gave her jewelry, but she was usually reluctant to wear it, and it was useless no matter what he said.
If you give her money, she will keep it.
But he knew in his heart that money would slowly depreciate as long as he kept it.
For example, you can buy a lot of things with 10,000 yuan now. It is not easy for ordinary people to save 10,000 yuan. But in 20 years, 10,000 yuan? People who deliver food, people who work on construction sites...many
People can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
Now you can buy four meat buns for one dollar. In 20 years, one bun will cost one and a half yuan, or even two yuan.
So, he thought carefully and decided to give gold bricks to his mother to try.
If she likes it, he will give her gold bricks every year in the future, so that she can gradually feel more at ease and sleep better at night.