One of the paintings seemed to be a mother and daughter, but because the painter’s skills were not very good, the mother and daughter were painted in strange shapes, and it was difficult to see the prototype of the characters.
On the back of this painting, there were a few words written, ‘Happy Mother’s Day, Mom’, but because she didn’t know how to write the word ‘亲’, she used pinyin.
Jiang Baobei recognized all these things.
She made pottery figurines when she was in elementary school. At that time, the whole country advocated reducing the burden on elementary school students. All elementary schools responded to the call and opened extracurricular interest classes.
During an extracurricular interest class, ‘Qiu Wu’’s head teacher took them to make clay figurines with pottery.
Clay pottery cost money. At that time, the small hotel where Qiu Xia worked closed down, and she couldn’t get back the one-month salary she had withheld. It was the time when her family was most short of money.
The head teacher asked each student to hand in five yuan. At that time, a meat bun cost fifty cents, and five yuan could buy her breakfast for ten days, but her mother Qiu Xia still took out five yuan for her.
That day, ‘Qiu Wu’ happily made a doll, which was the image of her mother in her heart. That night, she happily took the doll home and gave it to her mother with great expectations.
After taking it, her mother just glanced at the clay doll indifferently and said, “So, this thing cost five yuan.” Then, there was no more.
When ‘Qiu Wu’ woke up the next morning, she didn’t see the clay doll on the table.
She thought that the clay doll had been thrown away by her mother. She felt sad for a long time.
She also remembered the bracelet deeply.
When she was seven years old, on the way home, she picked up one yuan that someone had accidentally dropped.
‘Qiu Wu’ took advantage of her classmates not noticing, stepped on the coin, and grabbed the one yuan in her hand while pretending to tie her shoelaces.
In a few days, it was her mother’s birthday. She used the one yuan that she picked up to buy a red string bracelet.
Before entering elementary school, ‘Qiu Wu’ had no pocket money, so when her mother saw the bracelet on her birthday, her mother asked her where the money for the bracelet came from.
‘Qiu Wu’ didn’t understand why her mother was so angry, but she told her the truth aggrievedly.
That night, her mother Qiu Xia scolded her for being a thief and then hurriedly took her coin purse and left.
Because of this incident, her mother Qiu Xia didn’t talk to her for a whole day, but perhaps she was also stimulated by the word ‘thief’.
So, in her later life, no matter how hard her life was or how hard her work was, ‘Qiu Wu’ never thought of getting something for nothing, or using despicable means to steal other people’s achievements.
But the warning was real, and the scar left by the thief word was also real.
In addition to the clay doll and bracelet, Jiang Baobei also recognized those poorly crafted paintings. She was the author of those paintings, and these paintings were also lost in her original memory.
As for the photo of her mother Qiu Xia holding her who had just turned one year old, it had never appeared in her memory. It turned out that her mother had also held her and smiled so happily.
“It turns out these things are all here.”
Jiang Baobei’s mood was very complicated.
Compared to her, Qiu Wu’s performance was more emotional. She cried directly at the pile of things she took out of the cookie box.
“I know, I should know.”
She seemed to forget the presence of Jiang Baobei, an ‘outsider’, and vented her inner thoughts: “If she didn’t love me, she wouldn’t have supported me to study when life was so difficult; if she didn’t care about me, she wouldn’t have saved money to buy me new clothes; if she didn’t care about me, she wouldn’t know that I don’t like ginger, and my favorite is stewed pig’s trotters with soybeans…”
Ah Wu talked a lot. The content was all the clues that she discovered from the perspective of a bystander after inheriting the memory of ‘Qiu Wu’.
Qiu Xia and ‘Qiu Wu’ obviously cared about each other, but they always used the worst attitude to hurt each other.
In their last life, they missed each other.
Ah Wu’s memory came to an abrupt end after ‘Qiu Wu’ died in a car accident, but she could imagine how painful Qiu Xia would be when she got the news.
She might want to stay away from her daughter for various reasons, but she could not deny that she loved ‘Qiu Wu’. The so-called staying away was because she hoped that her daughter could live a good life in a place where she could not see.
There was no chance of repeating many things, but fortunately, ‘Qiu Wu’ was back!
Ah Wu looked at Jiang Baobei who was stunned.
This might be an opportunity for them to redeem each other.
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