investigative chronicle

Now facing such a situation again, it is simply a large-scale social death scene.More than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at her in unison, and she stuttered and used the phrase "you are staying here" to fool her.

But I didn't expect that they looked at each other and didn't reply to her, they still looked at her quietly.

Ji Si'an swallowed, nodded in embarrassment, and almost trotted past them into the alley next to them.

It wasn't until she walked a few meters away that the people behind her seemed to have pressed the start button and started talking again...

"Who was that person just now?"

"I do not know."

"Is it someone's object?"

"I haven't heard of anyone talking about the object."

"Why do I look so familiar?"

"Could it be the granddaughter of Lao Ji's family?"

"Which granddaughter? Isn't there only one grandson in her family?"

"Tsk. That was born later, and the one before, didn't there be a daughter-in-law before?"

"Oh, it's the one who was killed..., the child left behind by that person."

"Oh... I remembered. Has that girl been out for several years? Why are you back today?"

"It must have been a few years. After the old aunt left, she never came back..."

……

Listening to the discussion of the people behind, Ji Si'an regretted coming back, but she didn't want to go in when she saw her father's house.

Just when she was hesitating to leave, the blue iron door was suddenly opened.The stepmother, who was about to go out, saw Ji Si'an at the door, and was stunned for a moment.

Seeing the embarrassing atmosphere getting stronger and stronger.The stepmother spoke first: "Xiao An?...Why are you back?"

"Oh, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came back... What are you doing here in a daze, come in quickly."

Perhaps because of the life-saving money before, her stepmother's attitude towards her has changed a lot.The false enthusiasm and politeness in the strangeness made people uncomfortable, but Ji Si'an followed her invitation into the house.

"I'll call your dad... He didn't know you came back and went to work in the field."

"A few years ago when the factory was closed, he went home. We live on a few acres of land now... and your brother is still in school... and the family is not well-off."

The stepmother was worried that Ji Si'an would ask for debts when she came back, so she talked about the family's difficulties intentionally or unintentionally.

Ji Si'an didn't answer, but looked at the furnishings at home calmly.She is very new to this family….

"Your dad said he'll be back right away. The house is a little messy. You sit down first, and I'll get you a glass of water." As she spoke, the stepmother began to clean up the clutter on the table.

Although the decoration inside the house is old, the room is cleaned very clean. The window grilles on the glass and the carefully cultivated flowers and plants under the window sill all show the hostess's housekeeping.

"Don't bother. I'm just coming back to take a look." Ji Si'an was still a little weak, and his voice was not loud.

The stepmother looked at her pale face and asked, "Are you sick?"

"It's better now, but it's still a little weak."

"I'll get you some brown sugar water. Girls should be more careful."

Knowing that her stepmother might have misunderstood, Ji Si'an did not correct her.Seeing the belated cup of brown sugar water she brought up, Ji Si'an felt a little warm.

Ji Si'an was not good at talking, and her stepmother was also a stranger to her. Just when she was about to run out of words of greeting, her father and younger brother came back.

"You guys are back. It just so happens...you stay with Xiao An. I'll cook."

Seeing her stepmother fleeing the living room as if she had been pardoned, Ji Si'an couldn't help but smile.

"Your injury...is it better?" Her father sat across from her somewhat awkwardly.

"Well, much better."

Ji Si'an didn't ask his father how he knew about her injury, thinking that the Criminal Police Team might have notified him.

"Girls from all over the world, don't keep thinking about running away, it's reasonable to find a decent man to marry." That's what my father said when he came up.

Although Ji Si'an didn't like to hear it, he didn't refute it either.

Ji Hui hates chatting with her daughter, not only because she looks like her mother, but also because of her calm and calm appearance, but she has more thoughts than anyone else, as if she is the smartest in the world.For some reason, everything I said in front of her seemed stupid...

Just like now, even if she doesn't refute herself, she still looks aloof, just like her mother back then...

Everyone is thinking about their own little thoughts, so the topic is cold here.In the end, the younger brother came out to smooth things over.He was very curious about the world in front of him. Hearing that his sister went to university in Chenghuang and was working as a lawyer there, he dragged her to ask questions.

His joining immediately swept away the dull atmosphere, and Ji Hui and Ji Si'an breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Ji Si'an put all his thoughts on his younger brother's problem, and the time passed much more smoothly.

After dinner in silence, the family ushered in the most embarrassing time before going to bed.Seeing that the work of washing dishes was over, the stepmother had no excuse to go out, and the father stopped talking after handing Ji Si'an an apple.Even though his stepmother kept winking, he just lowered his head and stared at the cigarette in his hand, as if the cigarette butt was some rare object, and he was already fascinated by it.

The younger brother has finished asking all the questions he should ask, and he has long been bored playing with his mobile phone.The stepmother kicked him and wanted him to find something to talk about, but he thought it was time to break up, so he got up and went to his room.

"Don't go back, clean up your room and let your sister sleep."

The younger brother wanted to refute but was killed by the stepmother's eye knife.

Ji Si'an felt a little regretful about coming back, and made up his mind to go back to City God tomorrow.

It was really boring to sit, and it was my younger brother's idea to let the family play cards to kill a few hours before going to bed.

Playing double liters... Ji Si'an hasn't played poker for many years. To be exact, she never played poker after her grandma passed away.At that time, a deck of one-dollar cards was the biggest pastime for her and grandma at that time....

Thinking of grandma, she was a little slow in drawing cards, and was urged several times by her impatient brother.

"Sister, hurry up and draw cards..."

"Sister, why are you so lucky..."

"If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't let you sit at the opposite house with my father. How can I play with my mother..."

……

Looking in through the glass with red window grilles, they looked like a family sitting together.

But this kind of feeling is only felt by the heartless and young brother.As soon as the time reached ten o'clock, the stepmother reminded them to go to bed earlier as if telling the time.

The father and Ji Si'an both breathed a sigh of relief, only the younger brother was still a little unsatisfied, pulling Ji Si'an and constantly emphasizing that he must be with her next time.

Ji Si'an smiled and didn't answer, she...may not want to come back.No matter how I persuaded myself intellectually to ease the relationship between father and daughter, I did not do half of it emotionally.There is no longer any affection between her and him...

Although he was extremely tired that night, Ji Si'an couldn't fall asleep for a long time.Even if he fell asleep in a daze afterwards, he would still be haunted by nightmares.

In the dream, she heard her mother screaming again.Her father dragged her out of the bed by pulling her hair. She wanted to catch up, but she tripped over something under her feet. She saw her mother being dragged into the kitchen by her father as she kicked and beat her feet.She cried out loudly, but no one helped her.