Chapter 113 - 113 Holding your breath
113 Holding your breath
It was a picture of a woman.
The woman in the photo was beautiful. She had dimples on her face and looked very young. Chuchu calculated for a moment and decided to call her Auntie.
However, she had never seen this Auntie before! How could there be a photo in the drawer of her father’s office? Her big eyes began to turn around, and the more she thought about it, the more terrifying she became.
“Are you hungry?” Liang Wen put down his phone and asked the child. He had been busy the whole morning and did not feel hungry at all, but it was time for lunch, and the child should be hungry.
Chuchu shook her head in a daze. The money she found was scattered on the table, and she didn’t have time to collect it. She felt a buzzing sound in her head, and then it turned off like her mother’s computer.
Who could this Auntie be?
She couldn’t figure it out, but she secretly stuffed the photo into her pocket so she could ask her mother later.
Liang Wen saw that Chuchu’s expression didn’t look too good and thought she must have been famished. He quickly held her hand and asked her what she wanted to eat.
“Food stall?” Chuchu loved their sweet and sour pork ribs the most.
Chuchu shook her head.
“Fish soup noodles?” she had been eating this since she was young but never tired of it at all.
Chuchu closed her eyes and shook her head vigorously. Her head was buzzing.
“KFC?” she couldn’t lose her appetite, as she had been asking for it every week.
Chuchu swallowed her saliva and firmly shook her head.
She really had something on her mind. Eating wasn’t the first thing right now.
“Alright,” he said. Liang Wen had no other choice. He didn’t have the time to make the child happy. “I’ll send you home and ask Grandma to make you something, okay?”
Only then did Chuchu agree. She thought that there was finally someone she could talk to about this matter. She kept it in her heart and felt it was unfair for a child to be unable to solve an adult’s problem. However, when she got home, she could at least tell Grandma.
On the way, this little sparrow didn’t say a word. Liang Wen was sure that she was thinking about Qu Zhi, so he comforted her, “It’s okay. Mommy will be back tomorrow.”
However, Chuchu was screaming in her heart, why isn’t it today?! It was too difficult for her to keep a secret! If she had known that it would be so painful, she would not have rummaged through her drawers for the five Yuan.
She pouted her little mouth and slumped in the back seat as if she had no bones, as if she was the one who was working.
Liang Wen thought she was too cute this way and teased her, “Do you practice the art of softening your bones?”
Chuchu mumbled in reply. She just wanted to go home as soon as possible. At this time, she suddenly didn’t want to tell Grandma about this. She probably didn’t know.
Chuchu thought that time would pass by quickly as long as she went home and watched TV. She only needed to watch a few episodes of cartoons and it would be the next day. By then, her Mother would have returned from her business trip.
However, when she got home and saw her Grandmother, she couldn’t help but burst into tears.
Seeing her sister cry, Sisi also sniffled and cried behind her.
“Baby, what’s wrong?” Aunt Hui didn’t know how much she had suffered in the morning.
Chuchu didn’t say anything, but her stomach was growling.
Aunt Hui didn’t know whether she should feel heartache or prepare food first, so she hugged Chuchu and whispered in her ear, “Grandma will make you some pancakes, okay? I’ll add half a sausage for you.”
The family usually didn’t allow Chuchu to eat ham sausages, saying it was unhealthy. However, Chuchu love to eat them. She kept pestering Aunt Hui to make it, but Aunt Hui wouldn’t easily compromise.
Her heart had indeed softened today.
Chuchu stopped crying. She wiped her tears and bravely bargained, “One.”
Aunt Hui also found her funny. “Alright, one. Wait here and watch how you take care of your sister.”
The bidding was a success! Chuchu was no longer sad. After she cried, the pressure on her decreased, and she didn’t feel so sad anymore.
The moment the hot pancakes were served and the cartoon on the television started playing, Chuchu felt that she wasn’t as pitiful as before. Her appetite improved, and one pancake wasn’t enough for her to eat. She then poured herself a glass of fresh milk and gulped it into her mouth. It seemed like she was really famished.
After cleaning the dishes, Aunt Hui slowly pulled Chuchu into her arms. “What happened just now? Can you tell Grandma?”