Three Women in the Cage

Therefore, she could not go to either family, nor could she tell Tan Liu the reason.

He could only pray secretly in his heart that Tan Liu's family would not be from the same village as any other family. With worry in his heart, he followed Tan Liu nervously.

As she walked, she got closer and closer to her aunt's house. When she passed by her aunt's house, she lowered her head in panic, fearing that she would be discovered by her aunt.

However, no one looked at her. Even if someone looked at her, they would not care, let alone call her. Only she took herself seriously.

They never took Yang Su seriously, so how could they take Yang Su's relatives seriously? What's more, Yang Su had been trained by them to be as snobbish as they were, so how could he care about those poor relatives?

So, even if they saw Xinxin, they would pretend not to see her and then look away without any care.

Looking at Xinxin's expression, Tan Liu asked in confusion: "Why? Do you know his family?"

She wanted to reply that she didn't know him, but maybe because she wasn't good at lying or because she couldn't deceive her friends, what she blurted out was "I know him."

After saying this, she immediately panicked, not knowing how to explain. She looked up and saw Tan Liu's confused look. She thought she would press the issue, but she didn't. She just looked away, lowering her head, wondering what she was thinking. Xinxin was a little surprised, but didn't explain much.

The two of them walked in silence for the rest of the journey, each thinking about their own things. Xinxin felt extremely embarrassed, and for a moment, she wanted to turn around and go home immediately.

However, he finally held back and followed Tan Liu to her home. After a while, he finally arrived at Tan Liu's house.

It turned out that her home and her aunt's home were in the same village. Looking at the location of her home, Xinxin realized that when she went to her uncle's house, she passed behind her house.

Fate is so wonderful. In the dark, many things meet inadvertently. She doesn’t know whether to be happy or bitter...

Standing at the door, she hesitated whether she should go in, but Tan Liu had already walked in and shouted inside, "Grandma, I'm back..."

After saying that, she turned around, ready to introduce Xinxin to her grandmother, but she found that Xinxin didn't come in. She had no choice but to walk out and said speechlessly to Xinxin who was standing outside the door, "What's wrong with you? You're already at the door and you don't come in. Are you going to your aunt's house? At least stay at my house for one night!"

Yes, although she was dissatisfied with Xinxin's pathetic behavior of pretending to be homeless instead of visiting her relatives, she wanted to complete the task assigned by the teacher at this moment, so at least she did it.

Without waiting for Xinxin to hesitate, Tan Liu quickly pulled her into the house. Just then, Grandma Tan Liu came in from the kitchen and saw the unfamiliar Xinxin in the living room. She immediately said with displeasure, "Tan Liu, how many times have I told you not to bring your classmates home casually? What if their parents get worried? You silly girl, why don't you listen?"

In the eyes of these older generations, they always feel that outsiders will eat up their food, and they don’t want to give outsiders something for nothing, so they feel a sense of alienation towards outsiders.

Their kindness is only reserved for their own family members, and they have no sympathy for outsiders.

Listening to Grandma Tan Liu's words, Xinxin forgot to say hello and stood there in a daze. It was Tan Liu who eased the awkwardness in time and said, "Oh, she is a classmate of ours. She just came to my house to spend a day. Her aunt's house is over there, in the same village as us. Don't worry, she will go to her aunt's house tomorrow."

I don’t know whether Tan Liu changed his mind at the last minute, or whether he had just made a false invitation from the beginning, or whether he would wait until he brought her here and then slowly face the scolding from grandma.

Anyway, things changed just like that. Xinxin hadn't wanted to go to her aunt's house, but now that Tan Liu had said that, facing her grandmother's questioning eyes, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Yes, grandma, I'm just here to play for a day. I'll go to my aunt's house tomorrow."

After hearing Xinxin's answer, Grandma Tan Liu relaxed her frown. She thought that it was getting dark today, so at most she could send her a dinner and let her go to her aunt's house early tomorrow morning. She wouldn't eat too much, so she didn't make a fuss about it anymore.

Later, for some reason, he seemed to be worried, so he called Tan Liu aside and said in a low voice: "How long will she be gone tomorrow? She won't leave until evening, will she? Let me tell you, let her leave as soon as she gets up in the morning. I won't eat here for nothing..."

When she was about to say something else, Tan Liu interrupted her and said, "I know, I know. Let her go tomorrow morning. Humph, it's not me who wants to bring her here, it's our teacher..."

Suddenly she stopped talking and didn't continue. She just muttered dissatisfiedly: "You won't understand even if I tell you. I'm too lazy to tell you. I'm going out now."

Looking at Tan Liu walking away, her grandmother said angrily from behind: "You silly girl, you taught me a lesson. I don't understand, do you? You want to understand how to just bring people back home, and think that food at home will fall from the sky? You silly girl, if she doesn't leave tomorrow morning, I will beat you..."

However, Xinxin did not hear their conversation, otherwise she would have turned around and gone home on the spot.

When Tan Liu walked out, she happened to see Xinxin sitting on a stool waiting for her seriously. Yes, in this unfamiliar environment, Xinxin could only seek the familiar Tan Liu and try to follow her to relieve her inner discomfort.

Seeing Xinxin's discomfort, Tan Liu didn't help her. He casually said, "Just relax," and went upstairs alone. Xinxin was left sitting alone in the living room downstairs, at a loss as to what to do.

I don’t know how long it was before the two children came back from outside noisily. When they saw the unfamiliar Xinxin, they thought they had walked into the wrong door. Then they looked at the door and confirmed that they were not wrong.

They asked in surprise: "Who are you? Why are you in my house?"

Xinxin was also suspicious of their identities and asked curiously, "Are you from Tan Liu?"

"She is my eldest sister. How do you know her?" The boy couldn't wait to say it when he heard Xinxin mention his eldest sister's name.

It turned out to be Tan Liu's younger brother or sister. Xinxin said politely: "I am her classmate, and she invited me to her home to play."

The boy said in a somewhat blaming tone, "Why did you leave us here all alone? We thought we came to the wrong door."

After saying that, he walked into the kitchen without waiting for Xinxin's response.

After a while, Tan Liu came down from upstairs and said to Xinxin nonchalantly, "Let's go to the kitchen to eat. Grandma should have prepared the meal."

Xinxin followed her dumbly, not asking what she was doing up there for so long, nor why she left her.

During the meal, Grandma Tan Liu kept picking up food for her grandchildren, but never picked up a piece of food for Xinxin. Although Xinxin felt uncomfortable letting a stranger pick up food for her, she still felt an indescribable feeling when she was treated differently in this way.

She didn't even dare to take more food, for fear that her grandmother would dislike her for eating too much. So she finally finished the meal in extreme depression. She was in a panic and just wanted to escape from her grandmother's sight.