Chapter 67: The Trap of Tenderness
"Aunt Bailan, I'm sorry. I know that you and Uncle Zheng really like me and want to save me from fire and water. Since my mother died, you are the only elder who has been so good to me. However, I don't dare and can't make any promises to you and Xiaoxin now. I don't think about anything now, I just want to study hard, and I've done that. ā
Wan Yan and Bai Lan looked at each other, and both of them knew in their hearts that the next words might be sad for each other. But it also has to be said. "So, Aunt Bai ......"
"Don't talk about it, let's not talk about it, girl, I understand everything......"
Bai Lan was distressed, pressed one hand on Wan Yanping's hand, held her cold hand, shook her head with a smile, and tears almost burst out of her eyes. After Zheng Yuan told her that after Yan Ping's grades in school, she knew that the Zheng family was afraid that the Zheng family would not be able to keep her with this child.
"I asked Xiaoxin to wait for you at the school gate, and I was so worried, but I was confused...... Let's not talk about the engagement first, and we'll talk about it later. But I really like you and Xiaoliang, you don't have to doubt this. In the future, you can come to see me often, like today, we should be relatives, and Xiaoxin and I will be very happy. ā
"Well, it will."
Wan Yanping pursed her lips and nodded vigorously. Even when she slept, she was wearing armor, but at this moment, she was moved to a mess, and her heart was as soft as water.
"Then let's prepare dumplings!"
"Good!"
Cooked dumplings were brought to the table, and they sat together like a family, eating happily. Bai Lan looked at Xiaoxin and said, "The happiest person today should be Xiaoxin." ā
Xiaoxin looked at Bai Lan and then at Yan Ping, and said very seriously, "No, the happiest person today is my mother!" ā
Bai Lan smiled with satisfaction.
After the meal, Yan Ping said that she wanted to play a game of chess with Xiaoxin, but she was not very good at it.
Xiaoxin took Go and said triumphantly, "Playing chess is very simple, Xiaoxin can teach you." ā
"I might be a little stupid, you have to be a little patient." Wan Yanping sat down on the opposite side of the chessboard, she really didn't know how to play chess, and she didn't even understand the rules.
Xiaoxin patiently explained to her the method of Go, and she listened very carefully, but she just didn't understand. Wan Yanping said that this is more difficult than mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Bai Lan finished the kitchen work, and saw that the children were playing energetically, so she didn't bother them, and sat on the sofa to catch her scarf.
The two were playing chess, and Xiaoliang sat quietly next to him and watched.
Wan Yanping was confused, she didn't understand and wouldn't know, she always asked Xiaoxin, Xiaoxin patiently told her, and she still wouldn't leave the next second.
Wan Yanping scolded herself in her heart, she wouldn't be blind about what she could and what kind of chess she played, it was really embarrassing. After a few games of chess, she lost miserably, and she really suffered a big blow. Playing chess is really torturous, it's better to go back and brush up on the questions, it's simpler.
After Yan Ping and Xiao Liang said goodbye to Bai Lan, the scarf in Bai Lan's hand just finished up. She happily showed it to Xiaoliang to try, the length was just right, and said to Wan Yanping, "I knitted a scarf and gloves for you, and I will knit it for Xiaoliang, you wait." ā
After saying that, Bai Lan entered the bedroom, and when she came out, she carried a paper bag in her hand, saying that inside were the gloves and hat she had knitted for Xiaoliang. She put the scarf in it, took a ruler and measured Xiaoliang's height, and said that she would knit a sweater for the little girl next.
Bai Lan's craftsmanship is really good, and the gloves she knitted for Yan Ping are as beautiful as those sold in the shops outside. Her hands were frozen, but she was reluctant to wear them.
She has a special affection for these handmade clothes, since she was a child in Zhou Ting's tailor shop, she has been exposed to it, watching her take a tape measure and measure carefully, gently draw with plaster, and the big scissors click down, and the fabric has thousands of shapes.
She sat in front of the sewing machine, bent down and bowed her head, clicking, neat and dense threads appeared on the cloth, her attentive appearance, especially vivid.
It's like Bai Lan sitting on the couch, with her head down, her hands neatly up and down, so fast that you can't see her needle clearly, and she goes in and out in that position......
Handmade objects are slowly becoming obsolete, and the clothes made by machines are fashionable and beautiful, but they can never replace their love.
As soon as I got out of the alley and turned onto the main road, I met Zhao Yi. Zhao Yi rubbed Xiaoliang's head and asked where she went? Wan Yanping said that she went to Zheng's house.
Zhao Yi glanced at her and said, "Don't fall into the Zheng family's gentle trap!" ā
Wan Yanping smiled, if it was the previous life, maybe it really would, after all, the Zheng family could shelter her from the wind and rain for a while. But in this life, she has her own goals and people she wants to protect, and she will no longer make any choices so impulsively.
Although fate is unfortunate, you still have to hold it in your own hands, and you can't always pin your hopes on others. The mother pinned her hopes on Wanyan Hongtao, but once Wanyan Hongtao had money, he was ungrateful, messing with flowers and grass outside, and raising a son......
The aunt put her hope in her biological parents, but the biological parents pushed her into the fire pit with their own hands again and again, sold her children, and beat her to death.
The suffering that my mother and aunt had suffered and the stupidity they had committed, she would not be stupid enough to go through it again.
"I'm not stupid." She whispered to herself.
Zhao Yi still heard it, and snorted coldly, "You were quite stupid before. ā
Wan Yanping glared at him with disgust, "You're looking for a fight, right?" ā
Zhao Yi hurriedly turned sideways and said jokingly, "Yo, it's still addictive to beating people, right?" Didn't fight enough yesterday? Hey, you tell the truth, was it because I was angry with me yesterday that I had no place to, so I slapped Zhao Jing? ā
"Slap her, she deserves it! But you reminded me. ā
"What?"
"IāI'm really angry!" After Yan Ping finished speaking, her elbow was already towards Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi hugged his chest, and she hit his navel. Zhao Yi laughed, this girl, now it's really amazing.
He bent down and muttered in Xiaoliang's ear, "Your sister is like a turkey now, beating people at every turn!" ā
"Don't speak ill of me, she's my sister." Wan Yanping glared at him.
"She's my sister too!"
"Okay, don't talk about it, then let's get serious. I'm afraid that you will be clever and mistaken by your cleverness. Zheng Yuan and his family are by no means a good thing, they are obviously ambitious, but they want to pretend to be good people, just to pick up your big bargain, and obediently go back to support them and raise their sons. ā
"In the past, they knew that your grades were not good, and they would definitely fall off the list again, so they waited for next year, when you threw yourself into the net and drilled into their Zheng family. But now, when I saw that your grades were good, I panicked. Come soft first, if you don't eat it, I guess she'll come hard next. Anyway, you have to be mindful and don't be deceived by their appearance. ā
Zhao Yi has always insisted that Zheng Yuan and Li Mei are the same dog, and they are on the same chain of interests.
Wan Yanping's mood became heavy again, not that she believed Zhao Yi's words. On the contrary, Zhao Yiyan reminded her that she had destroyed the interests of some people, but I was afraid that he would not be reconciled.