Double Life: My whole world is you

It was just that she had just said goodbye to Cheng Xia and Cheng Xiu and was walking towards the elementary school. At this time, her grandmother was waiting for her not far away! She was a little surprised to see her grandmother! Her grandmother seemed relieved to see her. When Cheng Qiao approached, her grandmother held her and said, "I'm glad you're back."

"Huh?" Seeing her grandmother's behavior, Cheng Qiao was a little puzzled. Since she started school at the age of seven, she has been going to and from school by herself. Now she is fourteen years old, and there are so many friends going to and from school. It is only a few hundred meters from Chengliangwan to her grandmother's house.

"I was worried when you didn't come back on time." Grandma explained and took her hand, "The noodles are cooked. We can eat them when we get home."

Seeing her grandmother's behavior, Cheng Qiao was puzzled, but she did not ask too many questions. After eating noodles with her grandmother and going to the room, she started to do her homework. Today's main homework was English. Although most of it could only be guessed, it still had to be done. After finishing the English exercise book, she took the English book for the second semester of junior high school to review. She had almost memorized all the English books for the first semester of junior high school. Although she felt sleepy when listening to English, she still tried her best to catch up. After reviewing the English homework, she did the math problems she copied at noon again in the evening. Looking at the time, it was almost eight o'clock. She was ready to lie on the bed with the geography and biology books to remember the key points.

At this time, grandma had already been lying on the bed. Looking at her with her eyes closed, Cheng Qiao opened his mouth and finally called out tentatively, "Grandma, are you asleep?"

Grandma opened her eyes and shook her head, "I'm not asleep."

"Grandma, this is what's going on." Cheng Qiao squatted beside her and said, "The school will have the town police station come over to process ID cards this Friday, which is the day after tomorrow. Is my household registration booklet here?"

"The household registration book is here." After saying that, grandma got up to get the household registration book.

"Grandma, there's no rush. You can find it tomorrow and I can bring it to you the day after tomorrow." Cheng Qiao said quickly.

"Okay." After the grandmother said that and lay down, she saw Cheng Qiao still squatting there, and she understood instantly. She sat up and took out the plastic bag from under the pillow. Cheng Qiao turned her head away embarrassedly and called softly, "Grandma."

"I haven't given you money for more than a month. You don't have any money for lunch, right?" Grandma said as she opened her purse layer by layer, finally took out the only 50-dollar bill, counted out three 10-dollar bills, and handed them to her. "Here, this is for this month's living expenses. You also need to pay for your ID card."

Cheng Qiao nodded. She felt really embarrassed every time she asked her grandmother for money. She took the money and said softly, "Thank you, grandma."

"It's getting cold now, so you can't bring food with you, and you can't save money on school meals," said grandma. "Everything will be fine after a few years of hardship. No matter how you are now, you are better off than we were back then."

"I know." Cheng Qiao nodded. Grandma was born in the war years and had experienced too much hardship. For her, having food to eat was a great happiness.

"Okay, read for a while and then go to bed early." Grandma said and lay down again.

Cheng Qiao put the money into her schoolbag, turned off the light, picked up the flashlight and silently opened the biology book...

The next morning, Cheng Qiao set her alarm to wake up at 5:30. At this time, her grandmother also got up. Cheng Qiao was a little surprised. Since the weather turned cold, she had tried to persuade her grandmother not to get up so early. She also agreed to wait until she left and it was light before getting up. Cheng Qiao tried to stop her grandmother while getting dressed, "If you can't sleep, just lie down on the bed for a while!"

"It's okay! I'm not comfortable lying with too many people." Grandma quickly put on her clothes, tied her scarf, and put on her hat. After Cheng Qiao got dressed, she quickly washed up outside the yard. She put on her schoolbag and prepared to say goodbye to her grandma, but she was locking the door. Cheng Qiao was puzzled, "Grandma, are you going out?"

"I'll take you there." Grandma said, then pulled her clothes and followed her.

"Grandma, there's really no need. It's such a short distance and the weather is so cold..."

"Let's go! Don't let Cheng Xia and Cheng Xiu wait anxiously."

Seeing her performance, Cheng Qiao knew she couldn't persuade her, so she quickly took her grandmother's hand. Although it was only a distance of 500 to 600 meters, this was the first time she had an adult escort her to school, and she felt warm in her heart. At the intersection of Chengliangwan, Cheng Xia and Cheng Xiu were waiting, and at the same time, Wang Caiyun, Wang Ran and Wang Liqin were also there. After saying goodbye to their grandmother, everyone went to school together.

"Qiao, why did grandma think of sending you here today?" Cheng Xia asked puzzledly, "It's so cold, you should let her sleep a little longer."

"I don't know either! She came to pick me up yesterday!" Cheng Qiao shook her head.

"I know." Wang Ran said weakly.

The three sisters looked at her curiously, while Wang Liqin and Wang Caiyun felt a little uncomfortable. Wang Ran glanced at Wang Liqin and Wang Caiyun and said, "I'll tell them. I believe they won't tell anyone."

"Don't worry, we won't tell anyone." Cheng Qiao asked quickly, "Did something happen in the village?"

"Yes." Wang Ran nodded, "The police came yesterday."

"Ah?" The three friends exclaimed at the same time. What happened that even alerted the police? You have to know that they had only seen the police on TV until they were in their teens. Cheng Xiu asked tremblingly, "Did someone die?"

"No, but it's almost the same." Wang Ran sighed, "There was a beast in my bay. He gave the girl of another relative in my bay to that guy. It seemed to be quite serious. Then I called the police, and the police came. The beast in my bay was arrested."

Hearing her words, the three of them took a deep breath, and Cheng Qiao was also stunned for a few seconds. She suddenly remembered this incident. Her grandmother didn't tell her at that time. She only knew about it when she heard adults talking about it during the Chinese New Year. The girl was also a sad person. Her parents died and she was fostered in her aunt's house. She was only in the sixth grade, only twelve or thirteen years old, and the boy was an old bachelor in his forties...

"You shameless person, you evil person!" Cheng Xia cursed with gritted teeth.

"It's really crazy," Wang Liqin said, "So my mother made us go to school together. She never let me go to school alone again. She even sent me to Wang Ran's house in the morning."

"My grandma urged us to go find Caiyun after seeing you coming." Wang Ran said, "I also feel disgusted that there are such people and such things in our bay."

"No wonder my grandma was so nervous." Cheng Qiao nodded in understanding.

"It just so happens that we all prepared a pair of scissors when we go back today." Cheng Xia said, "If we encounter a criminal, we will stab him without hesitation."

Seeing everyone looking frightened, Cheng Qiao quickly comforted them, "There are very few scum like this, so don't worry too much."

In Cheng Qiao's memory, nothing like this happened afterwards...