Although it doesn't matter if it's called the father's family or the mother's family, this grandma is still not his grandmother's.

The old man in front of him, with a round face, very fair skin, his hair neatly tied behind his head, and wearing a dark green cardigan. Judging from his face, this elderly man should be kind and kind. In my heart, I wanted everything to be as I wished, but after entering the house, I suddenly realized the lack of imagination, and this complicated thing completely overturned all my petty happiness.

Grandma took me by the hand and asked with a smile, "What's your name?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then there was a sudden silence around me, as if the whole room was waiting for my answer. I swallowed a mouthful of foam and struggled to spit out a few words: "Cao, Cao Muxi." ”

Before grandma could respond, the female Ula who had just spoken suddenly shouted: "Oh, also surnamed Cao? What a family! What did you just say your name was? Cao, what night is Cao? ”

I didn't raise my head, and replied in a whisper: "Mu, Mu bathed in the spring breeze, Xi, sunset." ”

The woman laughed: "Oh, it's amazing, husband, this little baby's name is Cao Muxi, your name is Cao Mu, you say, it's really a coincidence, you say haha!" The woman's laughter was exaggerated, and the sound of her laughter echoed from the walls of the huge house, and it shook my heart.

As the woman mentioned the name of my father, Cao Mu, I couldn't help but look at the middle-aged man on the sofa on my right. My father, my biological father, Cao Mu.

When my father noticed that I was looking at him, he immediately looked away, and looked in the direction where the voice came from, and the corners of his mouth were barely pulled, and he smiled. I don't know why my father chose to avoid my gaze, but for a long time in the future, my father always looked at me with three points of guilt and seven points of hatred in the eyes of the Cao family.

This man, with his hair cut into large parts typical of that era, was slightly chubby and had a relatively large belly, so that when he sat down, the slightly raised fat almost stretched the shirt button in front of his belly. A pair of gold-rimmed glasses, square face, not white. When I first joined the Cao family, I didn't have any hatred for my father at that time, even if he hadn't raised me for a day for so many years, but for me, catching up with the material living conditions of my peers and saving my vanity and self-esteem easily covered up all the responsibilities and obligations that my father should fulfill as a guardian.

And the only thing that makes this lack of social morality, and can be exposed to the sun and let it shine in a grand way, is only one thing - money.

Grandma didn't take her eyes off me because of the woman's words. Suddenly, my grandmother asked me in surprise, "How did you get your knees?" Fell? ”

I looked down and saw that the right leg of the knee had been stained with a little bit of pants from the wound, and there were a few patches of dried blood in the dirty ash. I wondered why I didn't feel any pain at the time, but now that I think about it, it was all because of my nervousness.

Actually, human emotions are a very interesting thing, and I later studied some of the people in my company in Toronto, and each one of them was so emotional that they could ignore the point of pain, which was very different. And this pain is not only physical, but also mental. For example, in my case, I am the typical kind of person who can paralyze the nerves with extreme sadness, especially before I returned to China, I had two-thirds of my stomach removed, and thanks to God's favor, I was one of the few people in the world who were extremely resistant to anesthetics, so that, before the operation was completed, I woke up and watched the doctor wave the scalpel with his bloodstained hand and say to the assistant, "What a pity!too young, too." unfortunate!” (Too young, it's a pity) all the misfortunes I encountered later were self-inflicted, so no matter how the doctor sighed, when I was lying on the operating table and being wiped sweat by several nurses, my eyes were all in the past.

Grandma hurriedly called her father's wife, the woman who was shouting just now, "Xiaoqin, you go and take Mu Xi to treat the wound and see if it is serious, and then, find a bright dress and change it for her." Then he turned his head and said to me, "You and your aunt go upstairs to take care of the wound and change your clothes, and your mother and I have something to say." ”

"Ah Mom, it should be called Auntie, your relatives over there, then you have to judge the seniority from the child's mother's side!"

"It doesn't matter what it's called, aunts and aunts are also the same generation. I think it's better to call my aunt closer. ”

"Ah, Mom is so right, I think so too. Call Auntie, call Auntie, dear! ”

I nodded no, and neither did I. I've been a strong kid since I was a child, not to mention this little injury, I didn't cry when I was a child when I climbed a tree and fell. But since my grandmother had said that she wanted my mother to have something to say, it didn't seem appropriate for me to stay here any longer, so she followed Aunt Qin and moved up the stairs step by step.

When I passed by a fallen plant at the top of the staircase, a person suddenly appeared from behind the flower pot, which startled me a lot. That's right, it's the girl who opened the door, and it's also my father's daughter, my half-sister, and Aunt Qin and my father's only daughter, Cao Cancan.

This sister doesn't look as bright as her name at all, with small eyes and dark skin. I may have inherited it from my mother, but it's the opposite of her, anyway. After all, the same father, this gap can only be found from the mother.

"Ahh People are going crazy! Ha I jumped. Wait a moment (wait a while), you take a pair of pants out and wear them for the ordinary class (ordinary people)! ”

"Damn (no)!"

"Eh, your shoes (child) are very wide (stingy), how did you see yesterday (before)? Get up (go) and bring one! Aunt Qin kept chattering beside Cao Cancan, no wonder, this princess of the Cao family has been pampered since she was a child, and she is reluctant to let me wear expensive clothes.

At this moment, grandma turned around and shouted at the staircase: "That, Cancan, speak Mandarin, Mu Xi is a distant relative of grandma's hometown, went to school in Nanjing, and lived in our house for a while." You are older than Mu Xi, you are a sister, you must look like a sister, don't let outsiders see us laughing. ”

It sounds fine, but this term is an outsider, which makes my mother and I feel very uncomfortable. I looked at my mother, who was awkwardly picking up the glass of water, not knowing if she was really thirsty or if she was overwhelmed and drank it all in one fell swoop.

My mother must have been sweaty from nervousness and fidgeting, because I observed that when my mother put down the empty cup, she faced the light, and the cup had my mother's water-stained fingerprints, and they were very clear.