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Tong Yue moved a stool and asked Jiang Mian to sit down. She stood there, silently turning a faded red string on her wrist.
Jiang Mian was playing a silent game on her phone, with most of her mind on the room behind her. She glanced at Tong Yue and suddenly asked, "Did your mother give it to you?"
Tong Yue said "Hmm": "I used to get sick a lot when I was a child. My mother went to the temple and begged me for this red rope. After that, I got better day by day. Later, my mother said that the air environment in Beishanyuan was good, so she took the place for me. I bought this villa."
Jiang Mian's question made Tong Yue talk more, or maybe she was uneasy and wanted to talk to ease it: "In other families, the father is usually kind and the mother is strict. In my family, it's the other way around. My father is a very strict person. When I was a child, I Even though my health was not good, he always trained me in various ways."
"I hated him very much at that time, so my mother would hold me in her arms, sing children's songs to me, and tell me that it's not that my father doesn't love me, he loves me in another way, and he wants to make me better through training. Get healthy so I don’t feel bad about getting sick.”
"My mother is a very gentle person. When I was a child, every time I failed in an exam, I didn't dare to tell my father, because my mother would stop me. One time when I was in school, I forgot to bring a very important exercise book. My father When I was on a business trip, my mother found out and sent it to me. Later I found out that there was a traffic jam on the road, so my mother ran all the way here in order to deliver the exercise book to me in time, and was hit by a car on the way."
"But she didn't say anything." A tear fell on the back of her hand. "Dad scolded me, saying that I didn't know how to understand my mother and that I was not sensible. For a serious and rigid person like him to be able to scold me like this, it shows that he was because of my mother. Angry about being hurt.”
"Turns out, my mother scolded my father after she found out that I cried after being scolded by my father." Tong Yue wiped away her tears, raised her head and said, "Senior sister, you know, my mother is really a gentle and gentle person. "
"After I went abroad, my family told me that my mother was gone and had gone to work in another country. When some friends found out, they said that my mother had changed her mind and was with another man, so my father decided to move the whole family to another country. foreign."
"Impossible." She shook her head, "Mom told me that the person she loves most is me, how could she be willing to leave me to be with another man. Besides, I know that my mother loves my father very much, and so does my father. Mom, it’s just that they don’t like to talk about these disgusting words.”
She smiled and suddenly stopped talking, but her tears flowed more quickly.
She remembered that morning many years ago, when she overslept and opened her eyes to find that she was going to be late for school. She rolled over and got up, complaining in her heart about why her mother didn't wake her up.
She never uses an alarm clock because her mother calls her at the same time every day. After cleaning up, she found that there was no one at home. Although she was surprised, she had to go to school in a hurry because she was going to be late for school.
When I got home from school in the afternoon, I found that my father who was on a business trip was back, and even my grandparents who lived elsewhere were here. Everyone was there except my mother.
She asked her mother, and her father told her that her mother had been notified to go on a business trip abroad and had already left. The family was going to live abroad.
She was surprised and thought it was too sudden. She hadn't even said goodbye to her classmates.
…
From that day on, she never saw her mother again. Later she discovered that from that day on, her father seemed to like drinking.
—
Jiang Mian was not good at comforting people, nor was he used to comforting others. The way the little girl lowered her head and cried silently was even more unpleasant than crying loudly.
She put down her phone, pulled out the little paper figurine dancing in her hair, and poked its head.
The little paper man held her finger with his hand, nodded reluctantly, then let go of Jiang Mian's finger, fell to the ground, and ran towards Tong Yue.
The silver fox disappeared without knowing where he was. As soon as he arrived at Beishanyuan, he proposed to explore the surrounding area. He disappeared without a trace. Jiang Mian let him go. Maybe he could find something.
Now in this situation, I have no choice but to let the little paper man get along with the "cute pet".
The effect was good. The little girl slowly stopped crying and interacted carefully with the paper man. Jiang Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked at the time on her phone. Half an hour had passed, and there was no movement behind her.
A WeChat message popped up at the top of the phone, which was sent by Master.
[Qi Yanshu: How are you preparing for the sports meeting tomorrow?]
[Jiang Mian: Don’t worry, it’s totally fine.]
[Qi Yanshu: Act according to your ability.]
[Jiang Mian: I know.]
After a while, Jiang Mian received another verification message from a friend, saying: I am Qi Menghan.
Probably because she was worried that Jiang Mian would not pass, she applied again, this time with a note: Gu Qiwen dropped out of school.
Jiang Mian raised her eyebrows and thought for a moment. She wanted to see what Qi Menghan said, so she clicked pass.
In an instant, he received a picture from Qi Menghan. In the picture, Gu Qiwen was lying in the corridor of the hospital, with a bruised nose and swollen face, and his right hand was bent into a twisted arc, looking very miserable.
[Qi Menghan: No need to thank me, I just told you this news to make you happy. Just block me.]
On the other side, Qi Menghan moved his fingers and typed out the words "My brother is discharged from the hospital" and then slowly deleted them.
Then, she sent a message and it showed that the message was sent successfully, which meant that Jiang Mian had not blocked her.
—
Gu Qiwen's miserable appearance did make Jiang Mian feel a little happier, and then there was news that made her even happier. Tang Anan sent her a message: [Mianmian, go check Weibo, big news!]
Almost every time there was any big news on Weibo, it was transmitted through Tang An'an. Jiang Mian clicked on Weibo with the mentality of "I am on the trending search again" and found that it was not her who was on the trending search, but Shen Shiqing. She I almost forgot about this person.
In the past, Shen Shiqing would call her from time to time and send her messages. After being ignored by her, she lost her voice. She didn't know whether it was because of her sexual transformation or something else.
As for what happened between Shen Shiqing and Guan Xin that caused Guan Xin and Gu Qiwen to break up, she was not interested in knowing.
The hot search terms about Shen Shiqing are: Shen Shiqing’s car accident
Jiang Mian clicked in and browsed briefly. Shen Jinqing suddenly hit the car in front of him. He fell out of the windshield and hit the guardrail. After being sent to the hospital for rescue, his life was now out of danger.
Click on an animation and you can see that when Shen Shiqing was thrown out, he was conscious and seemed to want to stand up, but failed.
Jiang Mian watched the animation several times in succession. After a moment, he frowned - in the animation, Shen Shiqing fell out and hit the guardrail, and it was his lower body that hit him.
According to this speed and strength, it is absolutely impossible for his two legs to be intact.
In the original book, Shen Shiqing and Gu Qiwen finally competed for Guan Xin. Although they did not compete with the latter, they both had to survive until the end of the novel.
Gu Qiwen was not only beaten, but also suddenly dropped out of school. Shen Shiqing had a car accident and had problems with his legs... It seemed a bit too coincidental.
Jiang Mian frowned and pondered. A vague thought was about to surface. The door behind him clicked, suppressing the thought.
Not caring about this, Jiang Mian turned around.
"Master Wu Zhen." Tong Yue, who was teasing the little paper man, immediately rushed forward, "My mother..."
Zuo Xing's eyebrows showed a bit of exhaustion, but when he saw his precious daughter, he immediately became energetic again. He said to Tong Yue: "You go in."
Tong Yue didn't know what she thought of, and her face turned pale: "... Is my mother in there?"
Zuo Xingping said: "Your mother is always here, go in, she is waiting for you."
Tong Yue entered the bedroom in a daze, and the little paper man followed.
"Dad." Seeing how tired Tianshi Dad was, Jiang Mian sat Tianshi Dad down on a stool and massaged him lovingly.
Zuo Xingping held his baby girl's hand and blinked his eyes exactly like his baby girl: "Mianmian, let's not charge any money this time, just treat it as a good deed, okay?"
"Listen to daddy."
Zuo Xingping pulled Jiang Mian downstairs to the yard outside, pointing to an old withered ginkgo outside the yard: "That girl's mother is right there."
It took Zuo Xingping a lot of effort to find Tong Yue's mother, but even he was surprised when he found her.
Mother Tong has always been here and never left.
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Tong's mother is a ginkgo demon, and the withered ginkgo tree is her true form. She doesn't know when she became conscious, and she doesn't know when she became a human being. Later, she met a pair of kind-hearted people who adopted her, namely Tong Yue's grandparents.
Later, she met Tong's father, the two fell in love and gave birth to Tong Yue.
Tong's mother confessed her identity when she and Tong's father were together. Tong's father did not flinch or be afraid, and never regarded her as an alien.
It is very difficult for a demon in human form to give birth to a human child. She must give up her long lifespan and her own cultivation to become pregnant, and there is no guarantee that the child she gives birth to will survive.
The child's father refused and even wanted to separate from the child's mother because of this, but the child's mother insisted on having a baby.
She has a long lifespan, and when the time comes, she will watch the people she loves die one by one, and end up alone. She doesn't want to. She would rather live a limited life like a real human being with the one she loves.
Tong's mother told Tong's father what she was thinking, and finally said: "If you love me, please help me."
So Tong's mother successfully gave birth to Tong Yue. After that, she was no different from ordinary humans. She would get sick, become weak, and age with age.
Tong Yue was in poor health when she was a child. The couple tried various methods to finally let Tong Yue survive healthily.
Later, Tong's mother planted her true body outside the villa, and she and Tong's father agreed that when they grow old a hundred years later, their ashes would be buried under this ginkgo tree.
But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. The fire a few years ago swept through the entire Beishanyuan, and all other villas were damaged. Mother Tong's true body protected this villa.
At that time, except for Tong Yue, everyone in the family knew that Tong's mother was a monster, and the old man was not afraid at all.
But they didn't tell Tong Yue because she was still young and didn't understand anything, and also because... Tong's mother was leaving soon.
The real body protected the villa, but also burned the root system.
After the child mother takes form, a primary and secondary relationship is formed between her and her real body.
If something happens to her, her real body will not be affected in any way, but if something happens to her real body, it will directly affect her.
Father Tong tried every means to raise the ginkgo tree, but all failed.
She saw him sitting under a withered ginkgo late at night, crying like a helpless child.
He traveled often, saying he was going to make money, but she knew he was looking for a way to keep her alive.
So Tong's mother makes the next decision, even if this decision makes Tong's father sad, she must make it.
She signed an agreement with Tong's father that after she left, their family must move abroad.
The farther away you are, the longer you stay away, the pain will slowly settle with the distance and time. Time is the best healing medicine.
She doesn't want the people she loves to be sad because she wants them to live well and be happy, even if she doesn't exist, she is satisfied.
Father Tong did everything she wished.
Sometimes love is not about possession, but about letting go. If he loves her, then he will help her.
The child's mother disappeared, but the withered ginkgo tree was still there. It stood here quietly, like an invisible guard, protecting the villa.
It is precisely because of this that the name of the haunted house spreads on the Internet.
Most of those who came to the live broadcast and encountered accidents deliberately staged the scene according to the script, but the accidents that happened were real, and that was the ubiquitous consciousness of the child mother.
This is her home, even if she is gone, she will still protect it.
She just didn't expect that one day, she would be able to gather her consciousness and see her daughter again.