Rebirth: Don’t be a coward and be a mother’s baby

Listening to Zuo Liang's narration, some vague memories in Xie Jianjia's mind gradually became clear.

In the previous life, the chef who worked as a dishwasher in the proprietress's small restaurant for several years and finally obtained the ancestral recipes left by the proprietress's husband during her lifetime, couldn't be him, right?
  "Did you go to this town two years ago? When?" Xie Jianjia raised her head and looked at the man steadily and asked.

"Yes, I have a deep impression. It happened to be the winter vacation for students, but it was not yet the New Year's Day. Hey, I was tricked into going there. Not only did I not get my money back, but I also felt like I was in pain all over the body. I only had ten yuan left for travel expenses and I couldn’t find a job that included food and accommodation, so I had no choice but to leave.”

Zuo Liang was used to the little girl's interrogation style and didn't care.

She, Zhou Chunyan’s daughter, would be willing to accommodate her even if she had a bad temper. Maybe in the future
  After thinking about it, Zuo Liang showed a sly smile on his face.

"Being fooled? What happened? What happened if you didn't get the money back?" Xie Jianjia was sitting in the back seat of the car, unable to see his expression, and tried her best to pick out what she wanted to ask from his answers.

"The year before last, I was working as a cook in a plastics factory in another town. I couldn't sleep and went out for a walk in the middle of the night. I met someone in the backyard who was hanging himself from a tree with a rope. After I rescued him, I found out that it was a little girl who was cleaning the factory cafeteria. She looked very handsome. Not big. She said that her father hit someone with a truck and injured him and needed to pay hundreds of thousands in compensation. The family had no money to pay back. The other party said that she would be exempted from the compensation if she married the disabled man who was hit. She was forced by her family to get married. Look at her. She looked so pitiful like that. When her brain got hot, she said that she would lend it to her. When she left the plastic factory, she gave me her home address and said that if I asked her for money, I would look for her at the address. Later, the plastic factory closed down and I Something happened and I spent all my money, so I took the address and found it in the town, but I didn’t know that the address the girl gave me was fake!"

Xie Jianjia was shocked after hearing this.

"How much? Hundreds of thousands?! You just borrow it if you ask for it? Are you the reincarnation of a boy who scattered money?"

There was a red light ahead, and the left driver stepped on the brake. Although his body was wearing a seat belt, he still leaned forward due to inertia.

"No, no, no, I was just a cook in a factory at that time. How could I earn more than [-] yuan? After saving for four or five years, I could barely scrape together [-] yuan."

"Give it all to her? No IOU?"

"She has her home address written by herself. Does it count as an IOU?"

"."

It's so easy to cheat your money.

As if sensing the little girl's speechlessness, Zuo Liang rubbed his hands nervously.

"You can't blame me. That girl looks a bit like her."

Xie Jianjia immediately guessed what he was going to say and answered, "Like my mother?"

Zuo Liang gave a slight "hmm" with some embarrassment.

"It's exactly the same as when your mother was in high school."

Good guy.

"So you mean to blame my mother?" Xie Jianjia asked.

"No, no, no, no, absolutely not! Blame me, blame me, blame me, it's all my fault." Zuo Liang hurriedly denied it.

Xie Jianjia was amused by his nervous look.

"Uncle Zuo, the light is green, don't delay driving."

Xie Jianjia didn't speak anymore, and the car suddenly fell into a deathly silence. Zuo Liang, who was driving and staring at the road ahead, felt uncomfortable, thinking that it would be better to continue interrogating him. At least the two of them had something to talk about.

As he wished, after Xie Jianjia drank two sips of pure milk, her voice rang again.

"Uncle Zuo, are you familiar with your third brother?" Zuo Liang shook his head: "Not familiar. If he hadn't seen me on TV, I would have never had anything to do with their family in this life."

Not familiar...

Xie Jianjia stared at the slanted back of Zuo Liang's head, her thoughts racing rapidly, and after a few seconds she said, "You believe him if you don't know him and call him, and come back to see your father like that?"

Zuo Liang replied thoughtfully: "The main purpose of my coming back this time is not to visit the old man."

The fact that Zuo's father was seriously ill accounted for only a small part of the reason why he returned to Yunlu City.

Two months ago, not only Zuo Laosan saw him on TV, but his high school classmates who were studying at Yizhou Middle School also saw his interview.

The two had a good relationship in high school and were good brothers who went to Fangjiewa together. However, after Zuo Liang graduated, he disappeared from the world. No one knew where he went. Everyone thought that he had already gone to university in a big city and became a successful person. Unexpectedly, When he heard the news again many years later, he was working as a cook in the provincial capital.

The classmate took his wife and children to take care of the business of Zuo Liang's private restaurant. While the two were reminiscing about old times, the classmate asked Zuo Liang if he knew that Qian Xiao was imprisoned for harassing Zhou Chunyan.

Zuo Liang was shocked. Ever since he witnessed Zhou Chunyan and Xie's family being "happy and happy", he had been half-dead working as a cook behind the scenes in various restaurants in remote places, living day by day.

Where do you know these things?

The classmate also said that the principal of Yizhou Middle School conspired with the Qian and Zhou families to set up Zhou Chunyan, and her university place was faked. After the incident was exposed, several families died, running away and getting in.

Finally, the classmate threw a bombshell to Zuo Liang.

Zhou Chunyan divorced her husband and left home with her daughter!
  God knows that when Zuo Liang heard the news, his head was confused, and subconsciously he was worried. He was worried about how Zhou Chunyan, a woman with a weak temperament, could take her daughter to earn a living outside.

The second reaction was heartache. It turned out that Zhou Chunyan was admitted to college just like him, but she was framed as an impostor. Among the people who framed her were her family members. She must have been extremely sad when she found out.

Then there was anger, anger at the trashy principal of Yizhou Middle School for not being a good person, anger at her ex-husband Xie Dahai and his family for being shameless, and actually letting her take her daughter out of the house without giving her any property.

Finally, there was a hint of despicable joy in my heart.

She got divorced, does that mean...he has a chance?

Being one day late and failing to stop Zhou Chunyan from getting married was something Zuo Liang regretted every time he thought about it.

……

Xie Jianjia waited for Zuo Liang's next words, but he didn't speak for a long time. She directly interrupted his memory.

"The main purpose is not for the old man? What is it for? Could it be my mother again?"

Zuo Liang rubbed the steering wheel with his fingertips, cleared his throat and said: "Ahem, uncle knew you were a smart little girl the first time he saw you. I believe you can also tell that uncle really wants to be with you. Your mother is... a friend."

Seeing that he was about to confess, Xie Jianjia tightened the cap of the bottle of milk in her hand and put it aside, folded her arms across her chest, leaned back, and leaned on the soft backrest of the car seat.

Zuo Liang: "Uncle has been in a state of confusion for more than ten years, and his mind has never been clear for a day. To put it harshly, it is no different from eating and waiting to die. So I blame myself for not having the ability or courage to inquire about your mother's situation and let her suffer. It's all my uncle's fault that I have suffered so much. Now I have some skills. I can cook some food and earn a little money. It's not easy for your mother, who works hard to sell lunches to support herself and you. You are still young and don't know how to spend money. There are plenty of places, so let’s do it. Why not let her follow me to Xilu City to open a joint store, and she will definitely earn much more than she does now, what do you think?”

what?
  Xie Jianjia sat up. She thought she was going to listen to a middle-aged man's disgusting confession, but she didn't expect that he wanted to get her mother to open a joint store!
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