Chapter 1024: Don't you know it in your heart?

She had expected her daughter to apologize first and then explain a few words.

Unexpectedly, Shen Shen Jingjing answered seriously: "Hide it until Sister Xiao Min graduates from university and finds a job, and gets a foothold in this city."

Because that was indeed what she had thought.

The old lady was stunned. Just as she was about to get angry, the nanny, Sister Wang, saw this and hurried forward: "Auntie, the food was cooked early. The mistress hasn't eaten a bite, just waiting for you to come back and eat together."

"She is pregnant, and she eats at regular times. Can we wait until after the meal to talk about anything?"

Sister Wang really had a good eye, and her brain turned fast.

Feeling that the atmosphere was wrong, she quickly interjected. It seemed like she was using the meal to divert the topic, but in reality, she was reminding the old lady—Shen Shen Jingjing was a pregnant woman now, and her emotions shouldn't fluctuate too much.

This trick really worked. Hearing this, the old lady glanced instinctively at Shen Shen Jingjing's belly, that round waist, which was bigger than others because she was pregnant with two.

In an instant, the anger in her heart was suppressed.

"Eat first. Let's talk after A-Ci brings Sister Xiao Min back."

This meal was naturally relatively silent. Shen Shen Jingjing understood the old lady's personality and didn't want to say more to find trouble, just waiting for her daughter to come back and talk to her.

About an hour later, Shen Ci brought Sister Xiao Min home.

As a result, as soon as she entered the door, the old lady saw Sister Xiao Min appear in front of her with her own eyes, but she still couldn't control her emotions for a moment, scolding and rushing forward to hit someone.

"Alright, you dead girl, your wings are really hardened. Let's see if I don't beat you to death!"

The old lady's current reaction came almost entirely from physical instinct and subconsciousness. It was a habitual conditioned reflex generated by the mode of getting along with Sister Xiao Min that had been formed over many years in her hometown.

Because it had always been like this, Sister Xiao Min had been disciplined by her since she was a child.

If she was happy, she would scold her a few times; if she was unhappy, she would hit her a few times. These had long been engraved in the old lady's bones.

So at this moment, after Sister Xiao Min ran away from home and appeared in front of her again, the old lady's first reaction was to teach her a lesson!

But this was not Longyang.

This was Longcheng.

This was Shen Ci's home!

Sister Xiao Min instinctively dodged backward, while Shen Ci took a step forward and blocked Sister Xiao Min behind her, then shot a sharp and awe-inspiring gaze at the old lady.

She didn't scold coldly, nor did she block her with force, but just such a look full of warning instantly shocked the grandmother whose emotions were running high.

The old lady's footsteps stopped, and the hand that was originally going to fall on Sister Xiao Min was now awkwardly raised in mid-air, but she was too scared by Shen Ci's expression to take another step forward.

Shen Ci softened her expression immediately, looked at the old lady and said: "Grandma, I didn't bring Sister Xiao Min back for you to hit her. We can talk about some things slowly, but if you want to use this kind of beating and scolding to deal with problems, then I will take Sister Xiao Min away now."

Vaguely, Sister Xiao Min's sobbing came from behind her.

She was crying.

She wasn't crying out of fear.

She was crying out of grievance.

She walked out from behind Shen Ci, looked at the old lady while crying, and asked: "Grandma, I've been away from home for more than a year. When you see me again, don't you want to ask if I've been doing well this year? Don't you care if I'm tired, if I'm having a hard time, or if I've suffered?"

"Sure enough, you only scold me, you only hit me. You don't care about me at all in your heart. You only care about Shen Taotao, you only care about Dabao, Erbao, and Xiaobao."

"I..." The old lady paused, feeling empty in her heart.

"Mom, sit down first. We'll tell you about things slowly." Shen Shen Jingjing broke the awkwardness, stepped forward, pulled the old lady back to the sofa, and sat her down.

Shen Ci turned around, took Sister Xiao Min's hand, gave her some strength while comforting her, and walked to the other side of the sofa to sit down.

Shen Shen Jingjing sighed, looked at Shen Ci, and said: "A-Ci, you were the one who went to pick up Sister Xiao Min. You should explain the whole thing to Grandma from the beginning."

Shen Ci nodded, looked at the old lady, and said: "Grandma, when Sister Xiao Min ran away from home, you called my mom and said she ran to Longcheng, so I went to the airport to pick her up."

"Saying we didn't pick her up at the time was a lie to you. Actually, we picked up Sister Xiao Min that day."

"Essentially, this matter was indeed us hiding the truth, and I really want to say sorry to you, Big Uncle, and Big Aunt. But there's no other way. Combining the reasons and experiences of Sister Xiao Min running away from home, I don't think there's anything wrong with us taking her in and helping her."

"We can talk about these things later. Let me start from after I picked up Sister Xiao Min..."

So Shen Ci recalled and told the old lady about Sister Xiao Min's experience in Longcheng for more than a year.

Sister Xiao Min cried again.

But she wasn't crying because she felt she was pitiful.

It was because every time she thought of the care and encouragement from Sister A-Ci, Aunt, and Little Aunt and Little Uncle during this year, she felt moved.

They were tears of happiness.

After finishing, Shen Ci looked at the old lady and asked: "Grandma, Sister Xiao Min ran away from home because she wanted to go to university, but you didn't support her in repeating a year."

"She didn't give up on herself. After leaving home, she relied on her own efforts to get into a first-class university. As her grandmother, shouldn't you be proud of her?"

"Yes, Mom." Shen Shen Jingjing also helped: "Sister Xiao Min is the material for studying. She can change her fate by studying. We should all support her."

Although the old lady was old and had no education, at least she could tell whether Sister Xiao Min's current situation was good or bad.

The facts were in front of her, and she couldn't refute them.

But she still had a breath of anger in her heart that she couldn't vent. Her lips moved, and in the end, she said: "But you couldn't hide it. You don't know how anxious your Big Brother and Sister-in-law were at home."

"Anxious?" A trace of disdain appeared on Shen Ci's mouth, and her tone was unceremonious: "I don't think it was necessarily true anxiety."

"Maybe it was true anxiety at first. What they were anxious about was that there was no one at home to wash clothes and cook, and there was no one to do the work at home."

"But later, when they couldn't find her, didn't they just let Sister Xiao Min 'work' outside?"

"Big Uncle and Big Aunt never asked what kind of work Sister Xiao Min was doing outside. Is this anxiety? In their eyes, as long as there is news that Sister Xiao Min is still alive, that's enough, right?"

Shen Ci's words were really straightforward, making even the old lady uncomfortable: "A-Ci, we, we can't talk like that."

"Why can't I say it?" Shen Ci still didn't leave any face: "Everyone knows it in their hearts. Does saying it out loud make you feel ashamed?"

"You just said we shouldn't have hidden it. Then Grandma, I ask you, if we had told you the news about Sister Xiao Min when we picked her up, could Sister Xiao Min still have taken the college entrance exam?"

The old lady was silent for a moment.

Shen Ci answered for her: "Of course she couldn't. Because Sister Xiao Min had already fought for herself before she ran away from home, but she didn't succeed. She left home because she had no other way out. Doesn't Big Uncle know this in his heart?!"

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