Chapter 117: ex-wife 16
When they arrived at the mall, Ruo Lin took her father's hand and walked around this store and that store. She was very picky.
In Shen Youtang's eyes, her daughter became too serious: "Linlin, don't be so particular, you're not an outsider."
"It's not an outsider, that's what matters!" The little girl plausibly said, "Dad, we can't perfunctory grandparents just because they are very close people!"
Shen Youtang laughed dumbly.
"When did you become so articulate?" he laughed.
Ruo Lin snorted and said solemnly, "Dad, I'm just being polite."
Pick and pick, turn and turn, until I bought the "favorite" gift and drove to my grandma's house, it was half past eleven.
It's almost noon.
"Why did you arrive at this time?" The aunt who was talking in the courtyard asked.
Shen Youtang held a gift in one hand and her daughter in the other, with a hint of pride flowing in her heart, not showing it at all on the surface: "Lin Lin said she wanted to buy some gifts for you, so I wasted a bit of time."
"Really, Linlin is so sensible?" The aunt looked away and landed on the little girl held by Shen Youtang, with superficial surprise and praise on her face.
Ruo Lin held her father's hand tightly.
In the past, she only felt that her aunt was not warm to her, but now...
"Thank you auntie." She lowered her eyes slightly and whispered.
The aunt didn't look at her anymore, and looked at Shen Youtang again: "Let's go, let's go in."
She had been watching a few children play football, but she stopped watching now and walked into the house together.
Shen's father and Shen's mother were sitting in the living room, along with their aunt and a cousin sitting on the sofa together.
"Grandpa, grandma, aunt, cousin." Ruo Lin called.
Several people looked over and nodded: "Linlin is here."
"Linlin, I heard that you bought us a present?" My cousin stood up first and walked towards her.
Ruo Lin nodded: "Yes."
Shen Youtang put the gift on the coffee table and let the child unpack it.
Looking at her parents, she said, "Lin Lin is now grown up, sensible, and knows how to be filial to her grandparents. Seeing that I didn't buy anything, she took me to the mall to pick them up."
Father Shen nodded and said nothing.
Mother Shen glanced at the gift and said, "It's all a family, why are you being so polite?"
Ruo Lin, who was unpacking gifts with her cousin, paused when she heard these words. Immediately, as if not heard, continue to dismantle.
"Is it stationery?" Cousin said in surprise, but quickly showed a look of liking, "Thank you Linlin."
Although Ruo Lin was trying to delay her visit to grandma's house, she was still very careful when picking gifts.
She chose stationery for her cousins. Among them, the stationery I chose for my cousin was the most beautiful. It was a stationery package from a Disney princess she liked, including pencil cases, pencils, sharpeners, erasers, brushes, etc.
"As long as you like it." She couldn't help but smile when she heard that her cousin liked it.
The good mood did not last long.
The cousins who were playing outside ran in, wiped their sweat and said, "I heard you bought us a present?"
Ruo Lin raised her head, called out "cousin", and then pointed to the coffee table.
The boys first glanced at the stationery in their hands, then walked to the coffee table to unwrap their gifts.
"Stationary too?" A few people curled their lips and put it back boringly, "Let's go, let's play football."
The smile at the corner of Ruo Lin's mouth faded.
The aunt shouted, "What are you running for? It's almost time to eat. Go take a shower and change your clothes."
The boys responded, but in fact they didn't listen at all, and ran out again in a hurry.
"One by one, the monkeys are so angry that people have a headache." The aunt rubbed her temples and said angrily.
Mother Shen glanced outside and said, "Boys are full of energy, let them play."
Not a single one said they were rude, as if they despised their cousin's gift, not a word of thanks, no problem.
Seeing the performance of his parents and sister, Shen Youtang frowned.
He was a little unhappy, feeling that his daughter's heart had been betrayed, glanced at the gift that was thrown away on the coffee table, pursed his lips, and said nothing.
When it was time to eat, Ruo Lin was sitting with her father, and she was obediently smothering her head, when she heard her aunt ask, "Lin Lin, is your mother back?"
The act of grilling the rice stopped for a while, and Ruo Lin raised her head and nodded: "Yes."
"After four years, I finally came back." The aunt said again, with a casual expression and a bit of sarcasm, "I heard that you now live with your mother every other day?"
Ruo Lin pursed her lips and nodded again: "Yes."
"Oh, that woman is really good enough. When she said she would leave, she was so ruthless that she didn't want children, but now she's embarrassed to come back." The aunt said with a sarcastic tone.
The latter sentence was not said to Ruo Lin, but to Mother Shen.
Mother Shen didn't raise her eyes and said, "You care so much?"
"Isn't this an injustice for Linlin?" The aunt said, turning to look at Ruo Lin, this sentence was said to Ruo Lin again, "Linlin, keep your eyes open, don't say something nice to your mother. , you were coaxed back."
Ruo Lin couldn't listen anymore and raised her voice: "My mother is very good!"
There was silence at the dinner table.
Even Father Shen raised his head and looked over.
Being looked at by so many eyes, Ruo Lin said that she was not afraid was a lie. Her face flushed red, her little hands tightly holding the chopsticks, and she said stubbornly, "My mother is very good, she didn't want me, and she didn't coax me!"
Father Shen lowered his head and continued to eat.
Mother Shen also lowered her eyelids and said nothing.
The cousin was quiet, while the cousins winked at each other, muttered, and said completely irrelevant things.
"Linlin." Shen Youtang reminded in a low voice.
Ruo Lin bit her lip and lowered her head.
As soon as he lowered his head, a tear fell into the bowl. Immediately, more and more.
She couldn't see the rice in the bowl, and she didn't dare to wipe it, she just fiddled with the rice with chopsticks without saying a word.
"Youtang, please keep that woman away from the child." The aunt turned her head and looked at Shen Youtang, "It's been four years since I came back, and the child started talking to her. She's very scheming. Watch out for her..."
"My mother is fine!" Ruo Lin suddenly raised her head and said loudly, interrupting her aunt's words.
Her vision was blurred by tears, and she couldn't see the faces of everyone in the room. She tensed up, wiped her tears with the back of her hands, and said while holding back her tears: "Mom asked me to say hello to my grandparents and taught me to buy them for everyone. Gift, mom is very good!"
Let her bring a good sentence, it's true.
Teaching her to buy gifts is Ruo Lin's nonsense.
But she just wanted to let others know that Mommy is okay, okay, okay! Not at all what they say!
"Buying a gift? She thought..." The aunt wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Father Shen, "Okay! Are you still going to eat?"
He immediately closed his mouth and changed his words: "Eat, eat." Glancing at a few boys, they taught him a lesson, "Eat more vegetables, one by one, you will know picky eaters!"
Mother Shen also looked over and said, "Picky eaters don't grow tall, don't pick up what you like to eat, and eat more vegetables."
"I know, I know." The boys dealt with it casually, grabbed a green vegetable and dealt with it.
When Mother Shen and Auntie talked about something else, the atmosphere at the dinner table seemed to have turned back and turned in a completely different direction. It seemed that she had just mentioned Ruo Lin's mother, but it was just a casual mention, only Ruo Lin took it seriously.
Ruo Lin squeezed her chopsticks tightly and pursed her lips, feeling uncomfortably angry. Her upbringing told her not to cry, to be graceful, to wipe away tears, and to eat obediently.
but…
"Crack!" She threw her chopsticks on the table, jumped off the stool, and ran out.
Shen Youtang was stunned: "Linlin?"
"Just say a few words and lose your temper?" The aunt was surprised and snorted, "I'm not wrong, I was really spoiled by that woman."
Shen Youtang frowned, got up and chased out.
Ruo Lin ran to the door, but before she could run far, she heard the aunt's words in her ears, and she couldn't help but stop.
Wiping away her tears, she turned to look at her aunt, and said loudly, "My mother didn't teach me badly! It's me... I don't want to eat with you anymore!"
Her heart was beating very fast, and she had never done such an impolite thing before, which made her brain dizzy, and her whole body was dominated by the irritability, fear, but indomitable recklessness: "I don't eat with picky eaters! There are no rules, I am afraid that I will bring, break, me!"
After speaking, no matter who was stunned on the table, he turned his head and ran out!
Run fast!
"Linlin!" Shen Youtang strode out after him.
Leaving a table of people with different expressions.
After all, Ruo Lin was young and couldn't outrun a tall and long-legged adult. She just ran out of the house when Shen Youtang caught up.
"Let go of me!" She waved her arms, trying to break free from Dad.
When Shen Youtang rarely saw her daughter being so fierce, she quickly let go and said, "Linlin, you were very wrong just now."
"Yes, yes, I'm wrong!" Ruo Lin grabbed her hand and took a few steps back, her eyes were still full of tears, she stubbornly raised her head, looked at her father and said, "Cousin accepted my gift, no Thank you, you don't say he's wrong! Auntie speaks ill of mother behind her back, but you don't say she's wrong! I'm just protecting my mother, you'll kill me!"
As he spoke, he felt even more aggrieved, covered his eyes, and burst into tears: "Mom!"
Mom won't kill her.
Mom won't let people bully her.
"I want mom!" she cried as she walked out.
Tears were so fierce that she couldn't see the road ahead at all, she only knew how to move forward.
Shen Youtang looked at the back of her daughter crying and walking, and she suddenly had a great headache.
"Dad didn't kill you," he explained.
Ruo Lin ignored him at all and walked out crying, only calling her mother. She was probably so sad that she forgot to call her mother.
Shen Youtang was at a loss for a while, and only knew to follow behind to coax: "Linlin, stop crying, Dad won't kill you anymore."
"You shouldn't have murdered me in the first place!" Ruo Lin turned her head and glanced at him with tears in her eyes, "If you want to be fierce, you are all fierce! Why are you only murdering me? You just think I'm easy to bully. Mommy isn't here, you can be with others. Bully me together!"
Saying that, she cried and called "Mom" again.
Shen Youtang was crying so much by her daughter that she had no idea in her heart, so she could only say, "No, that's not what Dad meant."
"You are." Ruo Lin choked with grievance, "You are not facing me, you are obviously my father."
Why didn't dad turn to her? Why let the aunt bully her? The more she thought about it, the more sad she became, and she cried "Wow".
The child's emotions were extremely pure, and when she cried, it seemed that the whole world was sorry for her. Infected by this emotion, Shen Youtang immediately felt extremely guilty, walked over, squatted in front of her and said, "It's my father's fault, it's my father's fault, Linlin, don't cry."
She took out a handkerchief and wiped her daughter's tears: "Don't rub it with your hands, your hands are not clean."
"Stinky Dad!" Ruo Lin stomped her feet in anger.