It was as if she had inadvertently turned on her mother's strange switch, and in short, for some time, Rhaedia found herself completely unable to cope - her life had been in a dark state since ten years ago, and the sun of love had never shone into her room, let alone faced with such a somewhat ladylike topic.

I've grown up, go back to ten years ago, and then my mother suddenly showed her affection for you and asked you if you had an appointment, how should you answer!?

Maybe the madman will be happy, but this is not Rifan, and Rhaedia is not a lady who has lost her temperament, so she can't be excited at all!

"This ...... We're all women!"

"It's because they're all women and can't have children, so I'm a little bit interested. Rhodia's mother sighed with some disappointment, "Even if I really like a man again, it will hurt him to be with him, and the man in my family is ...... Forget it, let's not talk about it. ”

It seems that her mother only said this to make fun of herself, right? After seeing that her mother restrained the smile on her face and became a little sad, Rhodia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon, a sudden confusion took root in her heart. If she heard it correctly, it seems that her mother once mentioned that the cause of her father's death came?

Rhaedia swallowed subconsciously.

Because when her father died, her brother had just been born, and Rhetia herself was still ignorant. So she doesn't have much sense of identity with the role of "father", after all, in her memories since she was a child, she doesn't have much impression of this man. But now I heard my mother unintentionally mention it. But it was impossible for Rhedia to ignore - she instinctively felt an air of intrigue in it.

The claws hidden in the darkness hooked not only her father, but her entire family......

"Madame, is your husband dead?"

"Just call me sister, don't call a young girl like you to be a wife, I always feel like I'm getting old all of a sudden. Rhodia's mother smiled, a hint of bitterness on her face. "My husband died several years ago, the year my youngest son was born. It can only be said that fate is very tricky. Fortunately, the welfare of our country is not bad, even if I am alone with three children, there is no problem...... Otherwise, I'm really worried, those kids. Can you grow up healthy? ”

For the cause of death of the father. Completely shutting down?

Seeing her mother's jealousy of this issue, Rhodia basically understood in her heart - thinking about it, the cause of his death was definitely not an ordinary "accident", but a very direct and targeted murder. Depending on the situation, his mother is definitely not ignorant of this...... Possible. Who she did and what her purpose was. It's all clear!

But Rhaedia couldn't get her doubts out of her mind at all.

Not to mention how offensive it was to delve into such taboo questions, and Rhaetia herself could not consult them with a normal mind—when she saw her mother, who was still alive, her heart was beating far more than usual, and her heart ached uncontrollably at the thought that soon her mother would be reduced to a cold corpse.

In this case, how do you ask her to ask things carefully!

But Lynn hadn't spoken since Rhodia had spoken to her mother, and even if her voice wasn't heard by anyone else, Lynn hadn't urged Rhodia once afterward. Rhaedia didn't know why Lynn wasn't in the slightest hurry about it, but she did understand one thing - the other party didn't intend to push her, and he didn't mind her "passivity".

"Well, I was joking just now, don't take it personally. ”

Seeing Redia's silence, Rhaea's mother thought she was thinking about the joke she had made before, and quickly explained, "It's really just a joke, because looking at your sister you is really heavy, and it just makes you lighter - even if it's just for less than an hour and a half here." ”

"Well, is it really just a joke?"

"I have three children, and if I do this kind of thing, it will have a great impact on their education. Okay, let's not talk about that, let's try my apple pie first!"

Rhaedia's mother, smiling, took out a plate of freshly baked apple pie from the oven and placed it in front of Rhaedia.

The fragrance of the cream, the sweetness of the apples, accompanied by the rising heat, gently drifted into Rhaedia's nose, and instantly lifted her desire to eat. Rhaedia has always had a sweet tooth, especially the apple pie baked by her mother...... It's just that, since that nightmare began ten years ago, this can only be a dream bubble in memory.

"My youngest daughter likes to eat this the most, how about you try it too?"

Yes, she was her favorite apple pie - but Rhaedia found that she couldn't lift her hand to pick up even one piece and stuff it into her mouth.

"How...... What's wrong? Don't like it?"

"No, I just suddenly remembered my mother. "Rhaedia tried her best to make her mother smile at ease, but in reality, the expression on her face was as if she was about to cry," she ...... When I was younger, I also loved to make apple pie for me. Every time I don't have a long memory, I let the hot stuffing in it burn my tongue because of my greedy mouth, but as I ate it, I completely forgot that I would have to pay attention to it next time......"

"Eh, this is really similar to my Rhodia, and that little fool is so cute and stupid...... Then your mother is still ...... Uh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!"

The expression on Rhodia's face did not make the young mother realize that the "mother" she spoke of was still alive and well, if nothing had happened. Why did she look like she was about to cry you?

"No, it's okay. ”

Rhaedia picked up a piece of apple pie, unconcerned about its temperature. Stuffed it straight into his mouth and took a bite - the hot stuffing oozed out of the puff pastry and instantly burned Rhaedia's tongue. But Rhaedia didn't spit it out, but endured the hot temperature, and chewed the apple pie in her mouth...... Not only social complaints, but also the mucous membranes and teeth of the mouth are constantly under attack by the hot stuffing. Let Rhodia's tears flow uncontrollably.

"It's so hot......"

I don't know if these tears came out because my tongue was burned, or because of some other reason......

"Your tongue will burn that way!"

Rhaedia's mother was immediately anxious - the human tongue is very delicate. The hot stuffing of the apple pie is enough to burn your tongue in your mouth. But I saw the girl in front of me being burned into tears, and at the same time still gobbling up the freshly baked apple pie. I don't know what to say.

How old the mother's gaze was. Naturally, it has been discovered that Rhodia's tears did not just flow because they burned her tongue.

In this regard, she could only complain to herself in her heart--what a little guy who was awkward! Even if she wanted to hide her feelings, she couldn't find a more gentle way? Now, she even read a hint of "fanaticism" in the girl's eyes.

Apparently, now this girl. I was very excited.

"Is it delicious?"

(Nodding his head.) ）

Rhodia didn't dare to speak now, she was afraid that if she stopped chewing. If she let the air go freely, she couldn't help but cry.

Then again, how can the apple pie made by my mother not taste good!

"Ahaha, it's great if you like it~"

Her work has been praised by others, and it is also praised by a girl who misses her mother very much, which is undoubtedly a great happiness for this young mother. This means that her works have not only been affirmed in taste, but also have not lost to the other party's mother in terms of "mother power"!

"If you like to eat, eat more, now Rhaedia is still taking a nap, and she won't come to grab apple pie with you......"

Before the words fell, I heard an exclamation from the staircase not far away.

"Ahh

With the sound of slippers hitting the floor, a small figure immediately jumped in front of Rhodia and looked at Rhodia very unhappily: "This is the apple pie my mother made for me! You actually ate it all......"

Rhaedia looked down and saw a little girl with brilliant blond hair, looking at her with an angry face.

"Bad guy!" the little girl shouted to Rhaedia in a squeamish voice, "the bad guy who stole my apple pie...... Mom, don't hit me on the head, I'm going to be stupid!"

"Aren't you supposed to be taking a nap now?

"I don't want to take a nap anymore!And if I were asleep, wouldn't I have found this bad guy who ate my apple pie!?"

"So what's that...... Rhaedia, you don't seem to be sleeping well at all?"

"No, there's no such thing! I have a good sleep!" Seeing that her disguise was about to be discovered by her mother, the little girl hurriedly argued, "I just woke up when I smelled the scent of apple pie!

Asking a puppet if he was asleep at all?Looking at this familiar excuse, Rhodia couldn't help but feel nostalgic...... I may not have felt it back then, but now from the perspective of a bystander, this behavior ...... Alas, it's stupid.

Shame on you.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh. ”

The young mother, holding her daughter in her arms, kept pinching her pink cheeks as she apologized to Rhodia.

"It doesn't matter, my old cousin was not much better than hers - I used to deliberately keep my breathing at a low rate for twenty minutes in a row in order to pretend to be asleep. Well, in the future, sister, you can try it, after your daughter is 'asleep' for half an hour, secretly open the crack in the door and see what she looks like......"

"You, what nonsense are you bad guys talking about!"

Seeing her daughter's reaction. The young mother sighed helplessly—it seemed that her daughter had indeed succeeded in deceiving herself. Then again, I feel that this girl and her daughter really don't have much in common. She just casually talked about her past experience, and she really poked at Rhaedia's little secret......

Well?

Something doesn't seem right?

Rhaedia's mother, between her own daughter and the girl opposite, her eyes drifted back and forth a few times—she always felt as if the other party looked like her own daughter...... It's not that she looks like herself, it's that she looks like Rhodia?

Although the appearance is very different because of the age span. But as a mother, she can see in the other person's face, what she has in common with her own daughter—and this girl. In almost every detail, it seems to be the same as his daughter.

"Okay, okay, let's not grab your apple pie, can't you give you the rest?"

"You've already eaten a lot! It's all mine!"

See the old self like this. Rhodia smiled unceremoniously and exposed her lies: "Don't you have a sister and a brother? These should have been shared by the three of you, right?

"I-!!"

How does the little girl compare with herself ten years later. In a few words, he was blocked and red-eared, unable to speak. She secretly glanced back at her mother, and found that she was not too harsh on her expression, but a little speechless...... Seeing this, the little girl grabbed the remaining apple pie unceremoniously, fearing that the other party would snatch it away, and desperately stuffed it into her mouth one after another.

"Eat slowly, be careful of choking......"

Rhodia wasn't done yet. I saw that the little girl's face turned red, and she kept coughing at the same time. Frightened, she hurriedly picked up a glass of milk on the table, leaned over and poured it into the little girl's mouth. At the same time, her hand was rhythmically caressing the other person's back...... Her mother didn't have a chance to intervene for a while.

The action is even faster than the mother of her child?

"Ahem...... Ahem...... Big bad guys, it's all your fault!"

Hey, this can also depend on my head? Looking at her past self with a delicate and willful appearance, Rhaedia was also quite speechless, it turned out that her mother was so difficult at the beginning? The little girl with the tsundere attribute looks really hard to serve......

"But for your good sake! I forgive you!"

“......”

Rhaedia found that when she was a child, she really looked like a high-spirited little princess, looking at this expression of "because I forgive you, hurry up and be grateful to Dade", her flat chest obviously did not rise and fall at all, but she still stood forward, obviously too proud.

Touching the head......

"What are you doing!" the little girl immediately jumped up in panic and looked at Rhodia with a wary face, "Don't touch my head, I won't grow tall!"

Girls develop two years earlier than men, but when the girls around Rhaedia were developing, she was still quiet, so she was extremely sensitive to the word height at the time. At the time, the act of touching the head was regarded by myself as an act close to provocation.

Seeing that her past self, as she expected, was blown up by the action of touching her head, Rhaedia couldn't help but show an expression of "sure enough".

"You're a ...... It's so annoying!"

"Rhaedia, don't be so rude in front of guests!"

"I don't care! I don't care if I touch my head! The friends around me are taller than me, but I'm still the same...... Of course, if it's a mother, it's no problem at all, but everyone else, don't think about it!"

"This can't be done...... the young mother smiled apologetically at Rhodia while comforting her restless little daughter in her arms, "I'm sorry, if my daughter's momentary gaffe inadvertently caused you harm, it's all mine, not ......"

She remembered very clearly, the girl in front of her, before her daughter appeared, but the air pressure was quite low, to put it mildly, before her, like the kind of mine that explodes at the touch of a button, maybe because she is not aggressive, and will not be vicious to the people around her, but undoubtedly she is also a very fragile girl.

It can be seen that her heart is full of scars, and she is not very able to withstand the harm of Mowgli's fairy tales.

"It's okay, I don't hate this feeling. ”

This sentence was completely sincere in Redia - not to mention that she knew that her childhood self did not really hate herself, and even if she did, so what? This kind of life, this little fight, had long since disappeared from her life, and even if she wanted to taste the sourness of ordinary life, she had no chance at all.

"Eh, big sister, is she unhappy?"

The little girl couldn't help but widen her eyes and looked at the big sister in front of her.

"It's not a big deal......

"Liar! If it weren't very strict, my mother wouldn't have dragged you in, right? In the past, my mother was like this, and I couldn't let go of the sad people around me, but I knew very well!"

You can't even fool yourself in the past—Redia couldn't help but smile bitterly.

And, indeed, my mother has always been like this in the past.

"If you're sad and unhappy......"

The little girl pounced on Rhedia's body, and the index fingers of both hands pressed against the corners of Rhedia's mouth, and pushed up slightly upwards, holding up a small arc.

"I don't know much about it, but my mother said that as long as you smile more, you will have faith and courage!" (To be continued......)

PS:Christmas code is so heartwarming in this chapter...... Well, by the way, I'm actually the mother