Grandma Ding’s house, the hall.
Granny Ding sat at the table of the Eight Immortals, and Gu Lan sat opposite.
Qingqing was hugged and sat on Granny Ding's lap, her small soft body still shaking, so pitiful.
"Good boy, good boy doesn't cry, good boy is the best..."
Granny Ding held Qingqing kindly on her face, and the wrinkled old palms gently patted Qingqing's back on her small back to give her comfort.
After coaxing for a long time, Qingqing finally stopped choking, but her eyes became as red as a rabbit, and the little fleshy hands rubbed their eyes sleepily.
She was tired from crying and wanted to sleep.
"Second Young Master, wait a moment."
Smiling apologetically at Gu Lan, Granny Ding carried Qingqing into the back room without putting her directly on the bed. She took out a freshly washed quilt out of the closet with one hand and carefully wrapped Qingqing. Take the child back to sit in the hall again.
At this time, what children need is not a comfortable sleeping position, but a safe environment.
"Aunt Ding didn't ask why my sister became like this?"
Gu Lan seemed to rarely call Qingqing his sister in front of outsiders, and she was still a little dazed when she finished speaking.
"What are you asking?" Granny Ding looked down at Qingqing's sleepy face softly with tears, her voice softly: "Zuo, but I have been wronged again. I have asked too many questions. Missy is not happy. Old lady, I don't have the same heart. Does it hurt?"
She is not only Gu's nanny, but also Qingqing's nurse.
After giving birth, the wife refused to breastfeed in order to get back in shape as soon as possible. Qingqing drank milk and was not nutritious. At that time, the little one was as thin as a monkey, and it made people feel distressed to cry every day.
It just so happened that Granny Ding gave birth to a young son.
As soon as the child was full moon, he had to come out to be a nanny because of his livelihood. Seeing the young lady crying pitifully, she could not help but secretly feed her together.
This matter was later known by the wife, and Granny Ding thought she would be unhappy, but she did not expect that she would just give her an extra salary and continue to acquiesce that the eldest drank her breast milk.
It can be said that Qingqing was brought up by Granny Ding.
After so many years, she had already treated this child as her own daughter.
Taking care of her diet and daily life, teaching her to read and be sensible, and teaching her the principles of life are almost comparable to her biological parents.
If it wasn't for the wife who didn't like the eldest being too close to her and dismissing her, maybe the eldest would not be wronged so much later.
At least let her know that there are still people around her who care about her.
It seems that Granny Ding's words
A lot of memories were drawn, and Gu Lan was silent for a long time before she whispered, "I'm sorry."
He felt that he should apologize because he did not protect his sister.
In front of this elder who loves their siblings, Gu Lan feels a long-lost feeling at a loss and guilt.
"Second Young Master doesn't need to apologize. If you want to apologize, the eldest lady should apologize to you. Her previous attitude towards you... I am not blind to the old lady."
Qingqing is not very good to her brother. This is a fact that all Gu's domestic helpers know.
"She doesn't like me, I knew it a long time ago."
Gu Lan's face was a little stiff, but it wasn't that she couldn't understand her sister's feelings from the bottom of her heart.
When there was only one child in the family, the parents would more or less pay attention to her.
After all, Gu Qingqing was unique in the family.
But then there was more of his younger brother who was not caring for his parents, and everyone would have to blow up this matter.
Although that little care of Gu Lan is not uncommon.
But he can rationally say that if his mother was not pregnant now, he might be more extreme than Gu Qingqing if his mother was a dozen or twenty years earlier, instead of just looking at people as unpleasant.
"Who told you that the eldest lady doesn't like you?"
Unexpectedly, Granny Ding was a little surprised when she heard Gu Lan's words.
"Isn't it?" Gu Lan raised an eyebrow.
"Of course not. How could the lady who brought her up by the old lady didn't understand her? Although your arrival was an accident for the lady, she never hated you."
Granny Ding still remembers that the eldest lady once begged her to have a second child when she was young. At that time she was in charge of the Gu family alone, and naturally she didn’t have the energy to give birth, so she agreed to her wish. .
Unexpectedly, the eldest had just graduated from elementary school, she was notified that she was about to have multiple younger brothers.
At that time, Granny Ding remembered very clearly that although the eldest lady had been a little disappointed, she also told her in private that she was looking forward to the arrival of her younger brother.
"The disappointment of the eldest lady is only for the lady's untrustworthiness, not the second young master, you, before you were born, the lady still thought about how to be a good sister in the future, and make up for the love that the lady and the others did not give you. superior."
"..." Gu Lan didn't know what expression he should put on.
He knew that Aunt Ding had upright character and never lied, and that is why he felt more absurd.
how can that be possible
"How could Gu Qingqing like me? Doesn't she hate me the most, wishing I was never born?"
may be
The shock was too great, and Gu Lan unknowingly stated all the psychological words he had suppressed for a long time.
"No hate."
The childish little milk sound suddenly sounded, attracting the attention of the two adults present.
It turned out that Qing Qing woke up from sleep.
She was wrapped in a quilt, and she was struggling to reach out her small hand at this time, trying to reach Gu Lan's big hand.
Gu Lan silently looked at the little hand that kept working hard, and tentatively stretched out his big hand forward, and then was tightly held two fingers by the little hand.
"Qingqing doesn't hate his brother."
For fear that Gu Lan would not believe it, Qing Qing repeated it anxiously: "Qing Qing likes his brother the most. From now on... After Qing Qing grows up, he will take his brother to the amusement park to play, buy sweets for him, and even more. …"
Qing Qing originally had a lot to say, but under tension, she actually forgot all of them.
She looked at Gu Lan's face blankly, whimpered, and wanted to cry again.
"What's wrong? I didn't say I blamed you, Xiao Chui Bao."
With a long arm, he hugged Qingqing across the table. Gu Lan said disgustingly, but unambiguously held the cuffs of his expensive shirt to wipe her tears.
After wiping it in twos or twos, he habitually took out a candy from his pocket and stuffed it into Qingqing's hand, and he didn't peel the candy paper for her nasty.
"Tang Tang!" Sure enough, the child is so coaxing.
Qingqing, who got the candy, lowered his head and peeled the candy happily, forgetting what he was crying before.
Fortunately, the sugar that Gu Lan gave was not sealed, but simply wrapped in a layer of sugar paper. Qing Qing played with it slowly for a long time. After all the hard work, he finally rescued the sugar cubes from the sugar paper.
Then it was eaten.
"Second Young Master, there is actually one thing that the old lady has never told you."
While Qingqing was indulging in the delicacy of candy, Granny Ding hesitated and said to Gu Lan.
"Aunt Ding has something to say straight."
Gu Lan admitted that he had already subverted many of his previous wrong impressions of his sister, but now that it is subverted a little bit, it really doesn't matter.
"Do you know why Gu's family has stopped walking with those side relatives now?"
"Because my cousins bullied me before."
When mentioning this incident, Gu Lan still had some impressions.
When he was young, he was not seen by his parents and sisters at home, so many outsiders mistakenly thought that he was not favored or bullied.
Among them are two cousins from the mother's family.
Those two cousins were spoiled by the family, habitually insulting others, and they had to be held by everyone around them.
They, let them.
Gu Lan has never had a good temper since he was a child. Once he met them, it was inevitable that the two sides would have conflicts.
Gu Lan no longer remembered how the dispute started. He remembered that he was pushed into the swimming pool at home when he was only eight years old, and he was framed that he had fallen into it because of his own playfulness.
Not only did he develop a high fever afterwards, he was also scolded by his parents.
At this point, Gu Lan was completely disappointed with the parents, and no longer wanted to get any love from them.
But then the relatives of Gu's family somehow didn't contact their family.
At first, Gu Lan didn't think deeply about the reason, only vaguely knew that it should be related to the matter of being bullied by his cousins.
Now when I heard Granny Ding mentioned it, I realized that there might be something hidden in it.
Granny Ding didn't immediately answer. She looked at Qing Qing in Gu Lan's arms, and the smile on her face suddenly became hearty and proud.
"Hahaha... Don’t you know that the eldest lady back then was terrible. After knowing that you were being bullied, she chased after the two girls’ school, forced them from the classroom to the toilet, and opened the faucet to wash someone. Taking a bath, she said that since their minds were not clear, she helped them clear up."
"..." Gu Lan.
I have always known that his sister is very cruel, but I didn't expect it to be so cruel.
"Not only this time, but later anyone who dared to say something ill of you was ruthlessly cleaned up by the lady in private. After a long time, don't those people have to avoid it?"
After all, bullying is very happy, but life is more important, isn’t it
This time Gu Lan's expression was so complicated that he couldn't describe it. He looked down at the Qing Qing in his arms.
The little guy with bulging cheeks, still eating sweets, bored his hands with his two big hands, playing with his ten fingers, counting one, two, three, four, five, but he can always miss a seven, and in the end he counts no matter what. not understand.
So stupid...
He has been protected by such a stupid person for so many years without knowing it, but he is the one who is more stupid, right
"Second Young Master..."
It wasn't until Granny Ding's cautious voice sounded that Gu Lan later realized the wetness on his face.
"Brother is crying!" Qingqing also noticed, "still laughing?"
He tilted his little head puzzled, Qingqing didn't quite understand why Gu Lan wanted to cry and laugh.
But this does not affect her comforting people: "Don't cry, brother, crying ugly."
The little hand wiped down Gu Lan's face, trying to wipe his tears away, but wiped more and more clumsily. In the end Qingqing couldn't help turning her head in a panic to ask Granny Ding for help.
"Aunt Ding, my brother is crying, so please coax him."
This sentence seems familiar. It seems a long, long time ago, whenever Gu Lan was crying, Qingqing would beg Granny Ding to help and coax people.
But this time, Granny Ding just shook her head gently, and said, "The okay eldest lady, the second master is just too happy."
"Why do you cry when you are happy?"
This problem is obviously not within the scope of the children's knowledge reserve.
"This... Qingqing will understand when she grows up."
Qingqing pouted, opened her arms and gestured to Granny Ding to see: "Qingqing is already a big child, very big and very big."
Granny Ding couldn't help but chuckle cutely by Qingqing: "Then it will be longer."