Double Life: My whole world is you

Cheng Li said after a while, "Coincidentally, that person is back."

Cheng Qiao was stunned for a few seconds and then asked, "You mean your mother?"

"She's not my mother." She replied forcefully, then lowered her head and said, "I don't have a mother."

"Alas." Cheng Qiao sighed softly. Cheng Li's parents divorced when she was three years old. Her father remarried and settled down in another place. She grew up with her grandparents. She also has a great-grandmother. Her grandfather is a teacher. Her family is also well-off. Compared with Cheng Lin and Cheng Qiao, she is happy. In Cheng Qiao's memory, her mother came back to find her several times, but her grandparents did not allow them to meet, and instilled in her since she was a child that her mother had abandoned her. She hated her mother in her heart since she was a child. However, when she saw Cheng Li more than ten years later in the last life, she was married with her own children. She said that she understood her mother, but her mother went to another place and the two had lost contact since then. Thinking of this, Cheng Qiao said, "She still loves you."

"She loves me, why would she abandon me?" She looked up with resentment in her eyes, "Others have mothers, but I only have a grandmother."

"We don't judge adults' grudges." Cheng Qiao said, "If she really doesn't care about you, she won't come back to see you. Have you seen her this year?"

Cheng Li shook her head, "No, grandma won't let me see her."

Cheng Qiao pointed to the lawn below the tile kiln and said, "You know what? I remember when I saw her three years ago, she begged me to call you out. I went to your house, but your grandmother didn't agree to you seeing her. She squatted there and cried for a long time. In the end, I saw her leave a few bags of things she bought for you and left reluctantly."

Cheng Li stared at the grass in a daze. "But I still can't forgive her for abandoning me. I was so young, how could she be so cruel... Your mother didn't abandon you despite all the hardships... Grandma said she had a very bad temper and was not nice to me either. She either beat me or scolded me. She even said she wanted to strangle me to death once..."

"Our two families are in different situations and cannot be compared." Cheng Qiao said, "Don't listen to your grandmother's one-sided words. Go see her next time. After all, she is the one who gave you life."

"But grandma said she was a bad person, very bad, even my great-grandmother scolded her..."

Cheng Qiao thought about not seeing her this year and asked calmly, "Did your grandma tell you not to play with me this year too?"

"Yes..." She glanced at Cheng Qiao after answering, "She said you are not a good person, you don't respect your elders, and you curse people..."

"We grew up together. You should know what kind of person I am. They say I curse people. Have you ever heard me curse people since I was a child? Did you see what happened that day with your own eyes? They say I am a bad kid. Do you agree?" Cheng Qiao saw her shaking her head, so he said earnestly, "Sometimes what you hear is not true."

"But..." Cheng Li wanted to say something, but her grandmother came out from the back door and shouted, "Li..."

After she responded, she immediately stood up and said to Cheng Qiao awkwardly, "Qiao, I, I'll go back first."

Cheng Qiao nodded and said nothing more. She didn't want to get too involved in other people's lives. They just met by chance, and this was all she could do.

She silently sent her home. Cheng Li's home was less than a hundred meters away from the tile cellar. When she was about to enter the house, she heard her grandmother's voice, "I told you, she is a bad kid, and you still played with her."

"Haha." Cheng Qiao smiled helplessly. There was really nothing worth remembering about this place.

She looked at her watch. It was still early. She had to stay for a while before going back. She squatted on the grass alone, staring at a wild grass in a daze. At this moment, she missed Cheng Xia now and Ma Xiaomeng in her previous life. Ma Xiaomeng was the person who accompanied her the longest in her previous life. Although they each had their own lives and did not meet often, in that information-rich era, she would send messages to Ma Xiaomeng when she had something on her mind. She would share it with her no matter whether it was good or bad. Although sometimes she would not reply immediately, she would always reply to her attentively after seeing it, and would not dislike her for being wordy and sending dozens of messages in one breath. Sometimes she would also reply to her with a full screen. Although Ma Xiaomeng was married and she was not in sync with her, their relationship was still as good as it was in school. It is said that the older you get, the lonelier you become. But in her previous life, she still had Ma Xiaomeng.

She gently pulled up the unknown leaf and said, "Xiao Meng, I miss you. I still have another year and a half before I can see you again."

After 4:30, she slowly came down from the tile kiln and walked towards home. At this time, Cheng's mother was sitting outside the yard knitting shoes. When she saw her come back, she looked up and smiled at her, "There is still time to go. Sit for a while. I will go cook when your brother comes back."

"Okay, Mom, I'll get a book out to read." Cheng Qiao went in and brought a chair and the book "Childhood", sat opposite Cheng's mother, and immersed herself in the book. Cheng's mother looked at Cheng Qiao with satisfaction in her eyes...

Half an hour later, the fourth sister next door came back and Cheng Qiao greeted her. She stood outside the house and talked with Cheng's mother for a while. Cheng Qiao turned on the light outside and continued reading. This book was exchanged with Cheng Xia on the fifth day of the New Year. She had no time to read during the few days she went to the city, so she didn't read much. Now she is reading it very enthusiastically.

Cheng's mother talked to the fourth sister for a while, and then the uncle next door called the fourth sister to go home. Cheng's mother saw that it was getting dark and Cheng Zhu had not returned home yet, so Cheng Qiao put down the book and said, "Mom, I'll go find him."

"I'll go look for him. He must have gone to play with Kaiyang." Cheng's mother said, "Go to the room and close the door."

Cheng Qiao walked in, closed the door to the living room, turned on the light in the room, and sat on the bed to continue reading her book. After a while, she heard Cheng Zhu's voice, "Mom, I want to fly a Kongming lantern, too."

"Next year, Mom will buy good things and make one for me." Came Cheng's mother's voice.

Cheng Qiao got up and opened the door. Cheng Zhu came in angrily, "Kai Yang and I agreed to go together at 7 o'clock to release the fireworks."

Cheng's mother looked helpless. Cheng Qiao walked over and patted Cheng Zhu, who was sitting in a chair angrily. "Brother, let's make one ourselves."

"How to do it?" Cheng Zhu jumped up from his chair, his face full of excitement.

"Let's make a simple one out of paper," Cheng Qiao said. "Let me make it clear that I'm using yours."

When Cheng's mother came in, she saw two people squatting on the ground. At this time, the two people had made five hexagons. After dinner, the three of them released Kongming lanterns outside the yard. The wick inside was made of the white thread that Cheng's mother used to sew quilts, soaked in oil. Cheng Zhu lit the first one, and ended up lighting the paper next to it. It burned out in ten seconds before it took off. The second and third ones took off for a few seconds, and fell after a gust of wind. The fourth one flew three meters away and hung on a peach tree. The last one they got the direction of the tile kiln. Seeing it fly over the tile kiln, Cheng Zhu was very happy, "The cover of the textbook is still awesome." At this time, Cheng Qiao also saw the sound of fireworks and firecrackers and the noise of people and Kongming lanterns of various shapes not far away...