Chapter 9: Mother and Daughter Talk
Gu Xiaoyu hugged me, "Can you still stand up?"
"Hmm" When I was able to stand up completely, I hugged my mother, wiped the tears from her face, and looked at her red and swollen eyes, "Mom, you still have me"
My mother hugged me and trembled with fear, "No matter what happens in the future, don't leave Mommy, okay?"
Feeling the strength from my mother, I suddenly chuckled in my heart, "Mom, no, I won't leave you, unless you don't want me anymore"
"As long as you don't leave your mother, it's fine..."
After comforting my mother for a while, I stared at my grandmother in the coffin with my eyes intended, and said inwardly, 'Grandma, is it okay to come out and see me?'
However, nothing appeared in front of my eyes, until after my grandmother was buried, my mother and I stood in front of her grave and stared at the stern face of my grandmother on the tombstone for a long time, so long that we almost forgot the passage of time, until Yuehao and Gu Xiaoyu pulled us away.
After returning home and settling my mother to sleep, I knocked on Yuehao's door with red and swollen eyelids and "asked you something"
"Say"
I looked around to make sure there was no one, "Did you see my grandmother's dead spirit?" or can you summon her?"
Yuehao sword eyebrows twisted, looked at me and said "No, can't"
Feeling lost, he returned to his room and lay on the bed with his mind blank. All I was thinking about was what had happened in the past few days, and I didn't know what was going to happen in the future, and I always felt that the things that surrounded me didn't seem so simple.
Rubbing my heavy eyelids, I sat up, took out the wooden box my grandmother had given me from under the bed, stroked the old wooden box, opened and stared at the top of the book without a title, just the cover of a human head and a skull. I picked it up and muttered to myself, "Is this what ghosts and mages want?"
Just then, there was a knock on the door of my room, "Girl, open the door..."
I put the book under the pillow, the wooden box was stuffed under the bed, and when I opened the door, I saw Gu Xiaoyu holding a bowl of white porridge, and smiled slightly, "You haven't eaten much in the past few days, I boiled some white porridge, eat as much as possible"
Indeed, the wake almost didn't eat in the first two days, and the funeral was handled by Yue Hao and Gu Xiaoyu. I picked up the bowl of slightly warm white porridge and drank it in one go, "Thank you, Brother Xiaoyu"
Gu Xiaoyu reached out and touched the top of my head, "What's polite to me, if you can, can you call me by my name directly in the future?"
I looked at him in amazement with an expectant look, "This..."
Seeing that I was embarrassed, Gu Xiaoyu's sexy thin lips helplessly raised, "Go and rest"
Looking at his lost back, I could somehow feel a trace of sadness in his heart, an indescribable sadness, "Who are you? Why do I feel a little sad in the face of you..."
For the next few days, I stayed at home to take care of my grief-stricken mother, and Yuehao went to work during the day and returned to my house at night. Gu Xiaoyu has always been by my side, and I made up my mind to read all the books and diaries given by my grandmother in one go, but the book with a human head and skeleton could not be opened.
In the past few days, I have become a low-level exorcist, and I am confident that I will block low-level ghosts. The exorcism talisman is almost under control, and although the mana is not strong enough, the appearance is still there.
On this day, I was sitting on the couch watching the anime "Xiao Yi, are you free today?"
Looking at my mother's much thinner face, I nodded, "Mom, I lost my job."
My mother sat next to me and put her arm around my shoulder, "Silly girl, if you lose it, you will find it slowly, if you can't find it, you will get married and be a full-time wife at home"
Staring at my mother's heartfelt smile, I didn't know how to answer her.
"Xiao Yi, you're not going to change, are you?"
For some reason, I always felt like my mother had changed since my grandmother died, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
She reached out and touched my cheek "My little one is so beautiful, no matter what you become, my mother will always love you"
"I love you too, Mom," I said to my mother for the first time when I was so big.
After about ten minutes of such a warm moment, I looked at her kind face and stopped talking, and saw my expression, "Xiao Yi wants to say something"
"I, Mom, why don't I have memories of when I was ten years old? I look through the photo album at home, why don't I have pictures of me when I was a child?"
Looking at me who was puzzled, my mother's eyes seemed to be flashing with something, and she clenched my hand, "That's not because you broke your brain when you were a child and lost your memory before you were ten years old, as for the photo, it may have been lost in the process of moving!"
I always felt that something was wrong with this explanation, and I couldn't say, "Really?"
"Of course, you were naughty when you were a child, and you ran around all day long, but fortunately you didn't break your face, otherwise it wouldn't be beautiful..."
Looking at my mother, who spoke with relish, I couldn't bear to interrupt her memories of me, I had never dared to ask this question before, let alone who my father was. Because I saw her a few times, and I shed tears because I was hiding alone.
"Mom, may I ask you a question?"
"Hmm"
I swallowed hard and stared at her with my eyes intact, "Do you know that grandma is a mage?"
Sure enough, as soon as my words came out, my mother's whole body tensed, "What mage? Your grandmother is a fairy woman, those are all superstitions that fool people, don't talk nonsense about those who don't have it."
Asking the fairy woman is some ancient superstitious disguise, what can be asked about the superstition of the ghost and the gods, etc., which exist in different famous ethnic groups.
"Oh" Looking at my mother, who was so disgusted by this topic, I lowered my eyes and didn't dare to ask again, I didn't say anything about what I got back from my grandmother's house that day, and she didn't ask.
The atmosphere changed suddenly, and the atmosphere was silent for a while, "Ah, yes, Xiao Yi! Help me deliver something to a colleague of mine" Looking at a mother who got up and left quickly, I saw that when she came back, there was a small sealed cardboard box in her hand, and handed it to me, "Take it, take the address"
I held the carton in one hand, looked at the address on the note, and nodded "Okay, I'm leaving"
"Be careful on the road, don't fall"
"I know, I know!" The moment I stepped out of the threshold, I stumbled and looked back at my mother who rolled her eyes, "It's a pure accident, an accident, hehe!"
After putting the small cardboard box in the basket of the bicycle, I drove out of the street, and after half an hour, I pulled out the note from my trouser pocket, looked at it carefully, and made sure that I was not wrong.