Rebirth: Pampered by My Children and Husband-Chapter 144 - The Sick Grandmother

Chapter 144: Chapter 144 The Sick Grandmother

Perhaps it was the sorrow overwhelming her, or maybe it was because the topic of her mother had come up, Ji Yuqiao suddenly felt like pouring out her feelings.

“Even though my mom passed away early, I did meet someone who was as gentle as my mother,” Ji Yuqiao said.

When she was seven or eight years old, because they didn’t feel at ease leaving her alone, Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu would always take turns picking her up from school.

But for some reason, neither of them came that day.

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As the school gradually emptied out, Ji Yuqiao stood at the school gates, beginning to panic.

She started to find her own way home.

Until the sky turned darker, she found herself crying in a deserted alley.

She cried with a heartbreaking intensity, her sobs echoing through the alley.

“Isn’t that our Lanyue, why are you crying so sadly?” a hoarse yet somewhat kind voice asked.

An old woman with silvery white hair and a hunched figure walked toward her, supporting herself with a cane.

The elderly face, covered with wrinkles, wore a gentle smile as she reached out to pat her head, “Tell grandma, why are you crying?”

“I… I can’t find my way home…” Ji Lanyue looked at the old woman with teary eyes, sobbing.

“Don’t be afraid, grandma will take you home now,” the old woman said, taking Ji Lanyue’s hand and leading her out of the alley.

Ji Lanyue thought she was going to take her to find her brothers, but instead, she was led into a strange and ramshackle room.

“This isn’t my home! You’re a bad person! Let me go!” Ji Lanyue, thinking she had encountered the human traffickers Ji Tingyang often mentioned, lashed out in fear and bit the old lady.

The old woman winced in pain, her grip on Ji Lanyue’s hand loosening significantly.

Seizing the opportunity, Ji Lanyue slipped away, not daring to look back.

Crying, she ran onto the main road until she was found by a police officer who took her back to her relatives’ house.

“I’m really sorry, the child ran off, it truly was a bother for you all,” the relatives were apologizing to the police officer.

Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu, clutching Ji Yuqiao’s hand, were sweating profusely, their clothes covered with mud, trembling as they apologized to her.

“Sorry, brother was late today, I didn’t pick you up…”

Ji Lanyue threw her arms around Ji Tingyang’s neck, clinging to his body and weeping bitterly, “Brother, there was a bad person over there, you almost couldn’t see me again…”

After that, Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu never dared to be late again.

Just when Ji Lanyue thought this incident was over, a few days later she came across the old woman again at the school gate.

The old woman stood at the school gate, continually craning her neck to look inside, smiling and waving at Ji Lanyue once their eyes met.

Ji Lanyue was startled and quickly complained to the teacher, “Teacher, there’s a bad person over there, that old lady is a trafficker! She shouted someone else’s name at me last time and took me to a different place!”

The teacher glanced over, sighed after seeing the old woman, and explained to her, “That old lady isn’t a bad person, she’s just sick and mistook you for her granddaughter.”

What kind of illness makes one mistake their granddaughter?

Ji Lanyue didn’t understand.

But hearing the teacher say the old woman was not bad, she breathed a sigh of relief and let down her guard.

Later during PE class, as Ji Lanyue was running on the field, she accidentally tripped.

The pain spread from her knee, and just when her tears began to well up, a pair of wrinkled hands embraced her.

“Lanyue, don’t cry, grandma will hug you, and the pain will fly away…” The old woman, it was unclear how she got inside, held her gently and comforted her.

Ji Lanyue somehow managed to stop crying.

“Lanyue is such a good girl, grandma will give you some candy.” The old woman pulled out a milk candy from her tattered pocket and handed it to her.

This piece of milk candy had been sitting around for who knows how long, covered with a few spots of black mold.

“Grandma, you can’t eat candy that’s expired. It can make you sick,” Ji Lanyue said.

“Is that so? It’s all grandma’s fault. Shall I take you to buy some new candy?” the elderly woman said with regret.

“No, school will let out in just a few minutes, and my brother will worry if he doesn’t see me,” Ji Lanyue shook her head and said goodbye to her.

However, unexpectedly, the old woman came again the next day. This time her pockets were full of fresh candy, which she stuffed into Ji Lanyue’s backpack.

“This is the candy grandma bought secretly. Lanyue, you must hide it well; otherwise, if your parents find out when you get home, it will be taken away,” the old woman instructed.

Ji Lanyue scratched her head.

Her parents had passed away a long time ago.

Then on the third day, the fourth day…

Ji Lanyue would encounter the elderly woman at the school gates. The old woman was especially gentle, would hug her, tell her stories, and buy her lots of tasty treats.

“Lanyue, whatever you want to eat, just tell grandma, and I will buy it for you,” the old woman said cheerfully.

“Grandma, you’re so nice!”

Ji Lanyue thought to herself, is this warm feeling what teacher often described as the warmth of a mother’s love?

This feeling was so good.

But the good times didn’t last.

After half a month, she never saw the old woman’s figure at the school gates again.

Ji Lanyue couldn’t resist, and ran to ask the teacher.

The teacher told her that the old woman had been hit by a car while crossing the road and had passed away.

“She usually doesn’t need to cross the street when she goes out. I don’t know why she took that road that day. I heard that when she was hit, she was clutching a box of colored pencils,”

Ji Lanyue stood frozen.

She suddenly remembered a casual remark she had made to the old woman a few days ago—”I want a box of colored pencils.”

During art class, the other students all had colorful pencils, while she only had one black pencil.

She didn’t dare to ask her brothers because they would definitely save their breakfast money in secret to buy her the colored pencils.

Yet, she never expected that her casual remark would lead to…

Tears suddenly welled up, and a pricking pain spread densely across Ji Lanyue’s chest.

That night when she went home, she locked herself in her room and cried for a long time, no matter how Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu tried to console her, it was no use.

The next day, with her eyes still swollen, she told Ji Tingyang that she wanted to change her name.

“No! Your name was given by mom, you can’t change it,” Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu refused sternly.

Ji Lanyue cried and made a fuss.

To her at that time, that old grandma seemed much closer to her than her absent mother.

Using her brothers’ affection to her advantage, she resolutely chose to go on a hunger strike. After two or three days of her persistence, they reluctantly agreed.

Ji Yuqiao, looking back on it now, feels like she was too wilful back then.

Lin Xu listened to her story and smiled.

It seemed that this wilful nature of hers was largely pampered into existence by her two brothers.

“By the way, what was your original name?” Lin Xu asked curiously.