FSC [QT] Chapter 188.2

In the previous life, even if she and Xie Changzheng had not divorced, the women who knew that Xie Changzheng’s daughter died early and his wife was a crazy woman still threw themselves at him crazily, trying to give birth to a son for Xie Changzheng and inherit all his industries and connections in the future.

In this life, if she and Xie Changzheng divorced, wouldn’t those women want to eat Xie Changzheng alive?

In the final analysis, Xu Chunxiu didn’t have enough confidence in Xie Changzheng.

She felt that it was her daughter’s death in the previous life that made Xie Changzheng feel guilty toward them. In this life, her daughter was still alive. How long would Xie Changzheng’s guilt last?

She couldn’t guarantee that after the divorce, Xie Changzheng wouldn’t start a new marriage and have other children.

Xu Chunxiu was selfish. She felt that everything they had should be left to Ah Wu. She hoped that Xie Changzheng would do as he promised, to love and pamper Ah Wu for the rest of his life, giving his unconditional fatherly love to Ah Wu alone.

Thinking of this, Xu Chunxiu’s determination to divorce was no longer so firm.

But no matter what, she agreed with some of Xie Changzheng’s words, that was, during this period of time, she and Xie Changzheng should be fine, because in the current conservative folk customs, having a pair of divorced parents was not a good thing for Ah Wu’s reputation.

“Let’s go back. If it takes too long, Ah Wu will be worried.”

Xie Changzheng had been carefully observing Xu Chunxiu’s expression. Seeing that her attitude was no longer so resistant, he was relieved. It seemed that what he had just said had worked.

Xu Chunxiu nodded, turned around, and walked toward the ward, but her steps were a little unsteady. It was obvious that she was not as calm as she appeared.

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“Mom, brown sugar water.”

Seeing Xu Chunxiu coming in, Ah Wu’s face was immediately filled with a big smile, but her movements were too big, so the next second, she pulled the wound and cried out in pain.

Although the little girl was young, she knew how to share the delicious food with her mother who depended on each other for life. The brown sugar water in the enamel cup remained at the same level.

God knows how much Ah Wu swallowed silently while staring at this small half cup of brown sugar water, but she still stubbornly wanted to save the brown sugar water so that her mother could also taste this sweet taste.

Xie Changzheng followed Xu Chunxiu into the ward. When Ah Wu saw him, the smile on her face disappeared. She hid behind her mother, sticking out half of her face, and looked timidly at this somewhat unfamiliar father.

“Dad bought a lot of brown sugar for Ah Wu. Look, these brown sugars are enough for Ah Wu and your mother to drink brown sugar water for a long time.”

Xie Changzheng pulled the corners of his mouth. He hadn’t smiled for nearly forty years. He knew even without looking that his smile must be very awkward at this moment. He didn’t want to scare his precious baby.

Ah Wu hid behind her mother again.

When she saw the big bag of brown sugar, she licked her lips, but soon, she regained her timid expression and never looked at the big bag of brown sugar again.

In her memory, every time her father came back, he would always bring big bags and small bags filled with rare things she had never seen before.

When she was very young, Ah Wu had been looking forward to it. She would walk shyly to her father and ask if she could taste the candies he brought. Her father would pick her up, hold her high, and then fill her little pocket with candies and snacks.

Ah Wu once felt that the day when her father came home was her happiest day.

But such days were too short.

The day after her father left, her grandmother would rush into her room with her Eldest Aunt and Second Aunt, snatch away the new clothes and new shoes her father brought her, and then slap her hard in the face, scolding her for being greedy and saying that she was a starving ghost reincarnated.

The women in the farm family had strong hands. Once, Ah Wu’s loose teeth were directly knocked out, and the corners of her mouth were cracked.

Because she was afraid, she only dared to nod when her grandmother and aunts said that she was naughty and hit her mouth, and then she secretly hid in the quilt and cried.

After two times in a row, Ah Wu became afraid.

The day when her father came home, which she once looked forward to the most, became the day she feared the most. Because she knew that after two or three days of joy, what awaited her might be a hard life lasting one or two months or even longer.

She didn’t dare tell her father because she didn’t know what he would do for her after she told him.

In her heart, this father was different from other fathers. She could only see him for two or three days every two or three years. She was afraid that her father would leave after standing up for her, leaving her and her mother to the furious grandmother and then being tortured.

Ah Wu really liked her father. Every time she saw her grandmother receive a telegram that her father was about to come home to visit, she would secretly run outside the village to cut pig grass, just to see her father as soon as possible.

She missed the days when she was a child, riding on her father’s neck and welcoming the envious looks of other children in the village.

But she was a little afraid of her father. So, every time her father came home and looked at her with eager and loving eyes, she hid far away, not daring to express closeness, not daring to take anything from him.

At this moment, her father said that he had bought brown sugar for her and her mother, but what Ah Wu was thinking in her heart was whether her grandmother would slap her again.

Thinking of the old lady’s fierce look, Ah Wu hid in her mother’s arms again. The sweet taste of the brown sugar water remaining in her mouth turned a little bitter.

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