IACF [QT] Chapter 3.1

She slept until dawn and saw that it was only six o’clock.

After Su Yi finished washing up and went downstairs, Grandma Qu was already busy in the kitchen.

Su Wanting and others were tired from the journey yesterday and had not gotten up yet.

“Grandma, what do we eat for breakfast?” Su Yi poked her head out from behind Grandma Qu.

The aroma of porridge was already wafting from the rice cooker. There was mixed meat filling on the chopping board. Grandma Qu was skillfully rolling out the wrappers for dumplings.

“Are you awake? You don’t have school to go to, so why don’t you sleep a little longer?”

Su Yi washed her hands and helped, “I went to bed very early last night.”

Grandma Qu tilted her head and looked at her carefully, only to see that her face was normal and there was nothing unusual.

Her daughter and granddaughter both looked fragile, but each one was more resilient than the other.

When the accident happened to Wanting, she was only in her early twenties and had not graduated from college yet.

She called on the first day and said that she had found a part-time job on weekends and that she would be able to save money for her family in the future.

On the third day, the school teacher informed her in a heavy tone that Wanting was missing and was most likely abducted.

When Grandma Qu recalled it now, she felt a wave of palpitations, and her hands and feet went cold, as if the sky had fallen down.

How did she get through those days? Now she couldn’t remember it.

It was probably too painful, so her mind subconsciously chose to forget it. She didn’t dare to think about what Wanting had suffered during the more than one year she was missing.

Fortunately, God had eyes and returned her daughter.

When Wanting returned home, she was almost unrecognizable. The little girl, who was as young as a flower, was tortured like a piece of dry firewood.

Her spirit was even worse. She hid in the room all day, like a frightened bird. She dared not to see people except Grandma Qu.

Grandma Qu was both sad and happy but also frightened, fearing that she would be unable to get over it.

But she managed to get through it slowly, and she was able to regain some vitality.

Her experience was known to everyone in the entire small fishing village and even the entire town. At first, many people felt sorry for her, but after a while, some gossipers started to say some indecent things about her.

One day, someone even came to her house and said that she wanted to introduce her to a man. The man was already in his forties, a well-known old bachelor who was idle all day and had been supported by his mother for half his life.

Even after being rejected under these conditions, the introducer also hinted that given Wanting’s situation, it was not good to be too picky.

Poor Grandma Qu had always had a good temper all her life, but for the first time ever, she got angry, drove the person out, and stood outside the door cursing loudly, so loud that the whole village could hear her.

The next day, Wanting came downstairs.

She had not left her room for a long time, but that day she was neatly dressed, washed, and wore the new clothes that Grandma Qu bought for her.

Grandma Qu still remembered her daughter’s pale face and what she said word by word. She said, “Mom, I am unwilling. My life should not be like this.”

Grandma Qu knew that it was not only the knife that could kill people. The soft knife made life worse than death.

If she left her daughter here, those gossips would destroy her sooner or later. So even though she was reluctant and worried, she had no choice but to let her leave.

After Wanting left home, she still had Su Yi by her side.

As for this child, not only did Wanting hate to see her at that time, but Grandma Qu herself also did not like her. After all, this was proof of her daughter’s suffering, and she had half of the hateful blood flowing in her body.

But the older people get, the softer their hearts become.

Seeing her as a little baby, with her little hands and feet curled up there, crying like a kitten, who could be cruel enough to ignore her?

Grandma Qu sometimes thought that this child had a bad fate. Born like this, her father did not love her and her mother did not love her. She grew up with so many problems, and she never even called her parents a complete sentence.

Like she and Wanting, they were all miserable people.

But with so many people in the world, how many of them were not miserable? As long as you are still alive, you will persevere, and eventually, you will get through it.

She slowly let out a long breath.

“Yi Yi, don’t blame your mother. She is the one who suffers the most.”

Su Yi nodded gently, “I know.”

Of course, she would not have any resentment toward Su Wanting.

She was a child born under coercion. Even if she hated her in her heart, she had to accept that Grandma Qu raised her and sent money home all the time. She never let her go hungry or feel cold.

Su Yi felt that even if it wasn’t this devil herself who was here, anyone else couldn’t ask for more.

 

 

 

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