unknown in time

Chapter 7 Lies
Song Qian came back a few days before school started in September. She wore a white shirt with a beige pleated skirt. Her complexion was soft and white like that of Shen Bing. She had baby fat on her cheeks, and she wore a bangs that were popular at the time. Showing two crooked eyes.

It was rare for Zhou Shangshang to go downstairs to post a letter that day, so he happened to meet Song Qian face to face.

Song Qian said, "Hi!"

Zhou Shangshang replied: "Hi."

Song Qian: "Are you going out?"

Zhou Shangshang raised a letter in his hand: "Send the letter."

Song Qian looked thoughtful: "There is a mailbox outside the door, and someone will come to pick it up around three o'clock."

Zhou Shangshang said thank you.

Song Qian shrugged.

Zhou Shangshang's letter was sent to Zhou's family in City B—Jiang Ailing, who is Zhou Changan's mother, Zhang Lin's mother-in-law, and her grandmother.

Zhou Shangshang has always lived a clear life since she was a child. There is only one thing that she doesn't understand after she became sensible, that is, Jiang Ailing will never smile at her.

When I was young, the uncles and aunts in the yard liked to tease her, such as hugging her and asking Shangshang who he likes the most?

She answered Dad.

Who do you hate the most?

"Grandma." She answered without thinking.

It happened that this conversation was overheard by Zhang Lin.Although Zhang Lin was strict with her since she was a child, she had never hit her before, but that time, the thick ruler opened her body and hit her without hesitation.

"Father said you can't lie, I just hate grandma, why is mother angry?" She was stubborn, and then ran to the room, threw herself on the quilt and cried, extremely wronged.

In the evening, she was so angry that she couldn't come out to eat. Zhou Changan found out about it when he came back from get off work. He first accused Zhang Lin of domestic violence, and then came to her room. When she saw Zhou Changan, she cried, just like Dou E seeing Qingtian grand lord.

Zhou Changan hugged her and talked to her a lot. For the age of five or six years old, she didn't understand some of the words, but after listening to Zhou Changan's words, she didn't have any grievances. before.

"Father said that a person's heart is as broad as the sea. I am a tolerant child. It is wrong for you to beat someone today. Because you are my mother, I will forgive you. I am also wrong. Grandma is an elder. I Even if you don't like her, you can't say you hate her, it's a child's duty to respect the elders."

After she finished speaking, she secretly glanced at Zhang Lin, Zhang Lin hurriedly turned away, Zhang Lin cried, the only time she saw her.

In fact, that day, Zhou Changan also said: "Grandma likes business, but grandma, how should I put it, she just doesn't know how to express her feelings...you ask what expressing feelings is...it is to express a person through actions For example, my mother cooks for Shangshang every day, this is a way to express my affection.”

She asked: "Grandma can't express feelings, is it because of the old relationship?"

Zhou Changan was taken aback for a moment, then patted her on the head with a smile: "Our merchants are smart."

Zhou Changan's lies were gently uncovered after his death. After Zhou Changan and Zhang Lin passed away, Jiang Ailing looked at her like a poisoned knife.

Jiang Ailing asked to hold a traditional funeral, and she was really stupid in those few days. Zhou Changan and Zhang Lin’s former friends came to help. She didn’t understand anything, so the aunts asked her to burn paper money in the mourning hall. The paper money was in a basin Burning, flashing red and yellow flames, Zhou Shangshang really hoped that everything was a dream, the next day he was woken up by Zhang Lin because he was going to be late for school, Zhou Changan would regularly go for a morning run on Furong Road, and bring blessings when he came back Remember the steamed stuffed bun come back.

During the days of the funeral, many people really came. Every time one came, Jiang Ailing asked her to get up to return the gift. The wreaths and elegiac couplets they sent were placed on both sides of the mourning hall, a long one, and the first two were Uncle Gu accompanying her. I went to buy it, and then I saw that Uncle Gu wrote:
"The sound and appearance are like grandeur, and the daughter of Zhou Shang is always crying."

Song Linsheng came after Zhou Chang'an and Zhang Lin's Sanqi. He was wearing a gray shirt. He stepped forward and lit a stick of incense, and then put the incense in the incense stand.

That day Jiang Ailing was wearing a decent black suit and a pair of black sunglasses, Zhou Shangshang couldn't see her eyes.The nanny took her to sort out Zhou Changan and Zhang Lin's belongings, and when she was halfway through, she stopped and said to her, "Shangshang, please pick a few special commemorative things to keep with you..."

She asked: "Are we going to move, is it grandma who wants to move?"

The nanny was crying, and she couldn't finish her words: "No...it's not that grandma is moving away...it's you who want to move away..."

She said that you are not a child of the Zhou family, and the Zhou family has suffered from being dumb for so many years, enough is enough.

After she found out about this, she didn't believe it at first, and then she didn't give up and begged Jiang Ailing after she believed it. She said: "I may not be a child of Zhou's family, but I am Zhou Changan's daughter, and I am her daughter...Grandma, since childhood When I grow up, you are my relatives, and now I am suddenly asked to be a child of another family, grandma... I really can't do it..."

She thought that Jiang Ailing would soften her heart, but Jiang Ailing has always had the ability to make people give up completely. The next day, Song Linsheng and Song Linsheng changed her guardian under the witness of a lawyer.

Zhou’s old nanny helped her organize a lot of clothes, and she only brought one photo album with her in the end. Before she left, she made a copy of all the photos in it. Of the two photo albums, she took one with her and left one for Jiang Ailing .

As for what Zhou Changan told her, "Grandma loves you, she just doesn't know how to express her feelings." Whenever she thinks about it, she has the urge to cry.

This white lie was the warmest thing Zhou Shangshang had ever heard.

(End of this chapter)