Yanjing.
In Yanjiao Twelve’s private territory.
It is called a territory mainly because it covers too large an area and does not look like a residence or manor that can be owned by a private individual.
There are amusement parks, gardens, rockeries and streams in the territory, and even a swimming pool that is comparable to a swimming pool...
The Garden Expo Park in a small city is probably about the size of Twelve Cities.
Twelve didn't live here until he was fifteen.
At that time, she had no fixed place to live. She moved around the country to follow the projects or according to the needs of the projects, and was drifting around.
It was not until she was fifteen that she settled down here and no longer wandered around all year round.
When I first came here, the Twelve Cities were not like this. They were quite desolate and did not have many supporting facilities.
Later, the Twelve Cities became more and more beautiful year by year, until they were twenty-nine years old, when the territory of the Twelve Cities stopped expanding and no other basic supporting facilities were added.
When Thirteen came to the Twelve Cities for the first time, he fell in love with this place at first sight.
Twelve was very happy. It took him a whole day to take his sister to visit all the twelve cities.
"Thirteen, what else do you want? Tell me and I'll give it to you." After taking his sister to visit the twelve cities, Twelve was still worried that his sister was not having a good time.
"I want you to stay with me, starting from the age of two." Thirteen held the hand of Twelve, who was nominally her elder sister but in fact, mentally she could act like her ten-year-old sister.
"I can't do it." Twelve's eyes were extremely pure, with a girlish smile on her face: "If I start from now on, I can do it. Grandma and the others told me that everything I do is to protect you and my family, and I have done it now."
"Then can you go to college with me? After the summer vacation, I will enroll and start my college life." Thirteen asked.
Twelve said with embarrassment: "Grandma and the others said that there are still many people who need my protection. I have to continue working for them. If I go to school, I will have less time to work."
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Standing on the balcony of the master bedroom on the second floor, looking at the meadow, lake and woods in the distance, Thirteen heard the voice of the smart elf coming from the inner room: "Master, the meal is ready. Grandma and Guoguo are waiting for you in the restaurant."
Thirteen turned around and went back to his room and went downstairs.
In the dining room next to the open kitchen, the kind-hearted old lady Wen with silver hair hung a napkin on Guoguo's collar: "Guoguo is so good. You are getting more and more beautiful."
"Really?" Guoguo looked surprised.
Her mother always told her that she was ugly. She didn't believe it at first, but everyone who saw her said she looked like her mother.
She began to believe it.
"Of course it's true. She looks so much like your mother." The old lady smiled kindly.
Guoguo felt a little depressed after hearing this, and said that I looked like my mother, but my mother was obviously not good-looking.
"I'm so beautiful, and it's not good to look like me?" Aunt Thirteen came over and sat down on the chair next to Guoguo.
Guoguo didn't want to argue with her mother, so she looked at the food on the table and said, "Looking good is useless, I'll still be hungry when it's time to eat."
The old lady smiled and sat down at the opposite table.
Wen's father and mother went back to the mountain city last night, and Aunt Thirteen and Guoguo will also go back tomorrow.
"Thirteen, do you want to come back to Yanjing?" the old lady asked Aunt Thirteen while eating.
Aunt Thirteen didn't even raise her head: "No!"
The old lady sighed. Before he lost his memory, Thirteen was very respectful and close to his grandmother.
Even after losing his memory, not much has changed.
During this period, the old lady always did everything she could to pamper Thirteen.
Because she knew that Thirteen would always remember everything.
She hopes that her kindness to her granddaughter will make her less hostile to her when she remembers it.
The contact over the past two days has made the old lady feel helpless and the effect is minimal.
"Come to Yanjing, I won't let you do scientific research anymore..." said the old lady.
Before he could finish his words, Thirteen interrupted him and said, "No!"
The old lady ate in silence. After a while, she spoke unwillingly again: "Come to Yanjing, you can do whatever you want. I will not arrange your life anymore."
Aunt Thirteen raised her head and said, "Grandma, when I was little I was afraid of ghosts because I thought they were hideous and scary. When I grew up I became afraid of people because they were well-dressed."
The old lady was stunned for a moment and continued to eat in silence.
After a while.
"If you don't live in Twelve's house, no one will live there," said the old lady.
There is a glass wall on the west side of the restaurant, through which you can see the garden outside. Aunt Thirteen put down the quick-serve and wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin while looking at the three treasures playing in the garden.
"Grandma, when I was a child, you asked my dad to cut down the orange tree in the yard. I asked you why you didn't want to do that, and you said that you missed my grandpa. Later, you asked my dad to cut down the jujube tree that I often climbed. I asked you why you didn't want to do that, and you said that you missed my third uncle." Aunt Thirteen said.
The old lady's eyes suddenly turned red.
"I probably won't come here again in the future." Aunt Thirteen said.
The old lady murmured with red eyes: "He was only in his early twenties, how could he be gone?"
The old and the young finished their dinner, and the young one was still enjoying the food on the table with relish.
Looking at Guo Guo eating, the old lady adjusted her mood, wiped her eyes with a tissue, and asked Thirteen with a smile: "When will you bring your boyfriend to Yanjing so I can take a look at him?"
"Let's talk about it when he's free." Aunt Thirteen used a napkin to wipe the oil stain on Guoguo's left cheek.
No matter how oily the food is, adults will only get some oil stains around their mouths. But it’s different for little girls. They can get the oil all over their faces.
"We have plenty of tissues at home, you can just get a new one." The old lady was speechless.
The tissue that Thirteen used to wipe Guoguo's face was one she had used before, and had used it to wipe her mouth.
"She doesn't mind." Aunt Thirteen disagreed.
The old lady looked at Guoguo.
The little girl is exactly like her mother. Since she was little, she has never paid attention to the outside world when eating. Even when she is in her teens and twenties, she is still very focused every time she eats, and few things can disturb her.
"Is Xiaofan good to Guoguo?" the old lady sighed inwardly and asked Aunt Thirteen.
"Very good, without Guoguo, Xiaofan and I can't be together." When mentioning Yang Fan, Thirteenth Aunt became less cold and more gentle.
"I've asked someone to entertain Xiaofan." The old lady took the initiative to inform Aunt Thirteen about this.
She didn't want to say it before, but now she thinks that Yang Fan must have informed Thirteen.
Then there is no need to hide anything anymore.
"Do you want to test him?" Aunt Thirteen was not angry.
The old lady said frankly: "That's what I meant. You are my most caring granddaughter. I am curious about the man you like and I also want to take a look for you."
"I'm not Twelve, you don't have to worry about me being cheated." Aunt Thirteen said.
The old lady sighed and spoke angrily again.
Twelve is not stupid at all, and there is almost no one who can deceive her.
She just has her own weaknesses. Even though she knows she is being deceived, she is willing to let herself be deceived.
And you are being deceived without even knowing it.