50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 52 Recognition of relatives
Mr. Sun still has classes at Huiwen Middle School, going there two days a week. Today, he was just coming back from a class at Wenhui Middle School, and because he lives quite far from Wenhui, he arrived home very late.

Principal Yuan was already sitting at Grandpa Sun's house with Sun Zhiwei and Nannan. Nannan's well-behaved appearance immediately won the favor of Grandpa Sun's wife, Grandma Chen.

In fact, in Sun Zhiwei's opinion, Grandma Chen is not old at all. She is only in her 40s now and gave birth to her youngest son, Sun Quanlai, three years ago.

So, after everyone got familiar with each other, he asked Nannan to take the lead and call Grandma Chen Aunt Chen.

Principal Yuan was about to object, but Sun Zhiwei pointed at the three-year-old and asked him, "Principal, if I call Aunt Chen 'Grandma,' what should I call this little guy? 'Uncle?'"

Principal Yuan did not expect that Mr. Sun was still so strong and healthy at such an old age and had a child in his old age.

Aunt Chen fully supports Nannan and Sun Zhiwei calling her aunt. Who wants to be a grandmother? I can still give birth, so why should I be a grandmother?

When Grandpa Sun returned home, Principal Yuan and Sun Zhiwei came to greet him, one calling him "Old Man Sun" and the other "Uncle Sun".

Old Sun was also a little confused. How could he have been demoted in generation after not seeing him for a few days?

It was Aunt Chen who took the initiative to explain: "If I call you grandpa, doesn't that mean I should call you grandma? Am I that old?"

Mr. Sun could only smile when being scolded. This was his first wife who gave birth to five children for him. If he made her angry, all five children would ignore him.

"Just call me uncle."

"Hello, Uncle Sun." Suddenly a childish voice sounded behind my lover.

Old Sun looked closely and found that it was a pretty girl.

"Who is this?" Old Sun looked at Aunt Chen, who picked up Nannan and introduced her curiously, "This is Zhiwei's sister, Nannan. I felt so close to this child the moment I saw her, I really wanted to adopt her as my daughter."

Seeing such a cute little girl, Mr. Sun also liked it very much. He immediately opened his briefcase, took out a handful of candy and handed it to his daughter.

"Come, Nannan, tell your uncle how old you are, what's your name, and where do you go to school."

Nannan happily took the candy and replied, "Thank you, uncle. I'm 4 years old and I'm in the middle class of Beihai Kindergarten. My name is Sun Ailai."

As soon as Nannan said this, it was like a thunderclap exploding in the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Sun, and they were stunned on the spot.

Soon after the two of them were stunned, tears began to flow from the corners of their eyes.

This made everyone else dumbfounded. What was going on? Nannan didn't say anything exciting just now. What happened to Mr. Sun and the others?
Nannan was happily holding the candy, but suddenly she became silent.

She looked up in confusion and found that Aunt Chen and Uncle Sun both had tears streaming down their faces.

She quickly stuffed a candy in her hand into each of them and said, "Uncle Sun, don't cry, I'll save one for you."

The two of them finally reacted. Aunt Chen hugged Nannan tightly, and Old Sun returned the candy to Nannan with a helpless look on his face.

Old Sun turned around and saw the concerned expressions of Principal Yuan and Sun Zhiwei, and explained a little embarrassedly:
"Sorry, I lost my composure. Your Aunt Chen and I used to have a little daughter, also named Sun Aila. She died of illness when she was 8 years old."

The two then realized that it was all because of a name. However, this also showed that the two elders really loved their lost daughter too much.

When Sun Zhiwei heard this, an idea suddenly came to his mind.

Afterward, Aunt Chen arranged for dinner. After Sun Zhiwei helped clean up, Principal Yuan and Sun Zhiwei sat down in the living room to chat with Elder Sun over tea. Aunt Chen played nearby with their daughter. The conversation turned to Sun Zhiwei's parents. Sun Zhiwei briefly recounted the passing of both his parents earlier this year. Aunt Chen was filled with pity, and she held her daughter tightly, unwilling to let go.

Everyone was silent for a while, and Aunt Chen suddenly poked Mr. Sun secretly, then signaled to Nannan with her eyes.

Old Sun was stunned for a moment, as if he thought of something, and then he slowly nodded.

Aunt Chen smiled when she saw him, then suppressed her excitement and took the initiative to talk to Sun Zhiwei: "Zhiwei, it's not a good thing for this child to lose his parents since childhood."

"I know you're a good kid and will definitely be able to raise your sister well, but you're a boy after all, and you can't help with a lot of girls' things."

"I think we still need an older woman to help teach our daughter."

Sun Zhiwei looked a little worried after hearing this: "Finding a woman is easy. At worst, I can get married early. But how can I find an older woman? I can't find a mother for myself."

Principal Yuan standing by couldn't stand it any longer. Both sides were being cunning and unwilling to speak first. What could he do? He had to take the lead.

"You silly child, isn't there a ready-made elder here?"

"Ah! Is this appropriate?"

Aunt Chen raised her eyebrows. "Why, do you dislike Aunt Chen's age? Don't you think she's worthy of being called godmother?"

Sun Zhiwei was so frightened that he quickly stood up and said, "No, no, no, how is it possible? This, this."

He made up his mind, hugged his sister, whispered a few words in her ear, and then they both knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times, and shouted: "Godmother, Goddaddy."

"Hey, my dear child, good child." Aunt Chen stepped forward and picked up her daughter, and Old Sun also stepped forward and helped Sun Zhiwei up.

Nannan actually didn't understand what was going on. Sun Zhiwei had just taught her to do this in her ear, but she didn't know the specific reasons and consequences.

Aunt Chen held Nannan in her arms and said expectantly, "Nannan, come on, call another one."

Nannan blinked her big eyes and looked at Aunt Chen. After her eyeballs rolled around, she called out cautiously, "Godmother?"

"Oh, my dear, my godmother's good daughter, call me more often." Aunt Chen hugged the daughter lovingly and kissed her again and again.

Nannan smelled the familiar smell so close to her, and slowly hugged Aunt Chen, calling out, "Godmother, godmother, godmother, godmother, mother."

Then she closed her eyes, hugged her tighter and tighter, and murmured "Mom, Mom."

Aunt Chen seemed to have heard something and felt something. She gently patted Nannan's back and responded softly, "Mom is here, Mom is here, dear Nannan, Mom is here."

At this moment, the deceased Sun Ailai and Aunt Chen, and Nannan and her mother Jiang Aiping, the two pairs of mother and daughter seemed to overlap and were connected again through Nannan and Aunt Chen.

When Sun Zhiwei saw this scene, he sighed softly. What child doesn't miss their mother? As a brother, no matter how good he is to his daughter, he can never replace her mother.

Nannan never said anything, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t want to. Now the result is considered satisfactory.

(End of this chapter)