Crazy childhood sweetheart always thinks of me

The color of the silver hairpin didn't turn black, and I was relieved. My mother glanced at my grandfather, and worried that he was upset, she blamed me again: "What's wrong with you? It's ok that you don't know things normally, but why are you..."

My mother smiled at my grandfather and said, "Dad, Ranran is indeed immature, but I am also worried about your health. I have never seen Dad so thin since I was a child..."

As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes again. Grandpa held my hand with one hand and my mother's hand with the other: "I know, I won't be angry with Ranran. I got sick like this because I was out doing business and encountered bandits. I got some injuries. I will be fine after I recover. This has nothing to do with her."

Grandpa just mentioned it casually, not wanting my mother and I to get suspicious. My mother turned her head and looked at me, then forced a smile and said, "Dad is right..."

At this moment, a sneer was heard outside: "Oh, it was said that my brother-in-law had been waiting outside the door all morning. It turned out that a distant guest had arrived?"

My mother winked at me and I nodded silently. I knew I had to swallow my anger.

My mother pulled me out. Grandpa looked at us and suddenly started coughing. My mother immediately left me and ran to the bed to pat grandpa on the back, while telling me, "Ranran, go pay your respects to your aunt."

I nodded and looked at my grandfather again. His face had a little color because of coughing: "Ranran, don't be afraid." His voice was hoarse.

I said to grandpa in a comforting tone, "Ranran is not afraid. Mother, remember to let grandpa take the medicine."

Outside the door stood a woman wearing a navy blue padded jacket and a cotton skirt. She had her hair combed into an intricate bun, her skin was as white as cream, her eyebrows were furrowed, a golden hairpin with a crabapple flower pattern was inserted in her hair, and she wore a pair of Sichuan brocade fox fur short boots.

I walked over and bowed, "Su Ran greets aunt."

The woman snorted and scolded, "Where's your mother? I asked a little girl like you to come out and pay my respects to me, but she hid herself."

I wasn't unhappy at all. Every year when I went back to my grandpa's house, she would always make such sarcastic remarks. I was mentally prepared: "To answer my aunt, my grandpa is seriously ill, and my mother wanted to show her filial piety by his bedside, so she asked Su Ran to come out and greet my aunt."

The woman twisted her waist and walked over to me, lifting my chin with two slender and delicate fingers. I was forced to look her in the eye. "You are so obedient and filial, but are you here to beg for money? Your whole family is sick and weak. I'm afraid you won't even have enough food to eat."

Begging for money? Ever since I can remember, no matter how poor our family was, my mother would never take a penny from my grandfather. She knew what kind of person my aunt was and didn't want her to make trouble at home.

I was filled with anger at being wronged. If I were Yun Hance, I would have strangled her to death by now. I clenched my fists and suppressed all my anger.

But over the years, all the grievances she brought me came one after another. She indulged her youngest daughter Zhou Shufen to snatch the New Year's money given to me by my grandfather. My mother said, it's okay, that little money is not important.

Her eldest daughter Zhou Shufang tricked me into going out to play and left me in the woods, leaving me unable to find my way home.

Once, Zhou Shufen even teamed up with outsiders to beat me up severely. Afterwards, my grandfather was angry and wanted to use family rules, but my aunt was too noisy. In order to calm things down, my mother applied medicine on me while asking me to explain to my grandfather that they did not beat me.

I remember that time, they beat me so hard that my face became swollen like a pig's head, and I was too embarrassed to see anyone for many days.

The more I thought about it, the more aggrieved I felt. The look in my eyes as I looked at her slowly became eerie and terrifying. The pleasure of killing someone last time began to come back to me, and suddenly a voice in my heart kept shouting, "Kill her, kill her."

She raised her hand and cursed, "How dare you look at me like that, little bitch." As she finished speaking, she was about to slap me, and my clenched fist gradually loosened because I thought of my uncle.

If I really make a fuss, the one who will suffer the most is my uncle. Maybe it's because of what my mother has taught me over the years, so I can't really make a fuss with her.

The slap didn't come because her hand was held by someone. The uncle gritted his teeth and pinched her wrist: "The elders bully the younger ones. They are really well-educated."

After saying that, my uncle shook her arm away, pulled me and walked away: "Let's go and see your daddy."

I followed him, and my aunt kept chattering behind me: "Stop, I'm your eldest sister-in-law. How can you treat your eldest sister-in-law like this? What kind of upbringing do you have?"

The uncle paused for a moment, without looking back at her: "Sister-in-law? Do you think you look like a sister-in-law?"

Until we left, she was still cursing there, and slowly her voice drifted away. He suddenly asked me: "Ranran, don't be angry. After all, we are all family. Next time you encounter something like this, just yell and she will at least have some face."

I nodded and said hello obediently.

"Tomorrow, if the weather is fine, I will take you out for a walk and your uncle will buy you some delicious food."

I smiled and said, "I want to eat roast chicken, candied haws, pan-fried buns, and rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice..."

When I thought of the glutinous rice balls, I suddenly thought of Yun Hance. I wonder if he is better now. He will probably come to see me when he is better. It would be great if I could spend New Year's Eve with him. We wouldn't have to rush back, and we could go to the lantern festival together and release river lanterns on the Lantern Festival. I want to make a wish to be with him for the rest of my life, no matter how much suffering I am willing to endure.

"You look so longing just thinking about food. What a loser." My uncle laughed at me.

I raised my eyebrows at him: "No, I was thinking of my Yun Hance."

My uncle looked so disgusted that he wanted to vomit: "I know about your relationship, but it's not good for you to show off your affection like this. He's not here."

I succeeded in seeing that he was disgusted, and then I was satisfied: "Yes, he is not here, I miss him again."

My uncle tapped my head and said, "Don't keep talking about him. I'm tired of hearing him."

I smiled and said, "I'm so annoyed with you."

My uncle glared at me, but I acted as if nothing had happened. Finally, he had to give up: "Haven't they come to pay the betrothal gifts yet?"

I shook my head. The princess hasn't agreed yet. How can I get her to agree to my marriage to Yun Hance? I remember that the princess likes Guanyin statues the most. Otherwise, when grandpa recovers from his illness and returns to the capital, can he take a detour to Hanshui Temple to ask for a Guanyin statue?

Although the princess will definitely not agree to let Yun Hance marry me just because of a Guanyin statue, but in order to marry Yun Hance with dignity, I am willing to please the princess bit by bit, and I am also willing to kneel down three times and kowtow nine times to sincerely invite the Guanyin statue.

"What's wrong with Yun Hance? Isn't he threatening you with death? Doesn't he want to be responsible for you?" He became more and more excited as he spoke, and looked like he was about to die.

I immediately explained: "I'm still young and don't really want to get married so early. It has nothing to do with him. You can't blame him."

My uncle rolled up his sleeves and said, "Ranran, don't be afraid. When your grandpa recovers, we will go back to the capital. I want to ask him what he means. He has kissed you and hugged you, but now you don't want to take responsibility. Does he want to die?"

I held my forehead and said, "Brother, are you looking for death? Even if he doesn't attack, you can't beat the people around him, right? Are you losing your memory?"