Chapter 153: Missing My Mom

“Mom~Mom~Mom~” Lin Xiangnan held onto Hu Meili, refusing to let go, trying to awaken her motherly love.

“Why are you yelling? I’m not dead yet.” Hu Meili pulled Lin Xiangnan’s hand away and said with disgust, “I’m just going back to celebrate the New Year. It’s not like I won’t come back.”

“Didn’t we agree? We’d spend the New Year here in the family compound, and after the New Year, Gu Zhenhua would have a vacation, and we’d go back to our hometown together. Why did you suddenly change your mind?” Lin Xiangnan asked with a grievance.

“I’ve been reflecting on this for the past two days. I realized that I’ve indeed been too controlling, making you, who already has a child, still act like you haven’t grown up.”

Hu Meili said softly, “I think I should give you some space to grow.”

Just relying on preaching is difficult to make someone learn a lesson. It’s better to use facts to teach people how to be a person.

Hu Meili has rich experience in this.

Since Lin Xiangnan wouldn’t listen to her, Hu Meili simply let go.

“I was actually worried about your elder brother and younger brother being at home alone, and I wanted to go back and see them sooner.” Hu Meili said, “I’ll pack my bags tomorrow and go back the day after tomorrow.”

Lin Xiangnan asked with a whimper, “So suddenly? There won’t be anyone to pick you up when you go back. Why don’t you write a letter to your elder brother and them first, and you can go back a few days later?”

“No need. Home is not far from the train station, I don’t need anyone to pick me up.” Hu Meili refused mercilessly.

“The factory’s helicopter will officially take off in a couple of days, and the reporters from the provincial newspaper will come back to interview, Chief Engineer Zhang asked me to go back for photos. Mom, wait for me to finish this before you leave, okay?”

“Heh~ I know you. You never have time. It’s just taking a photo, it’s not that hard.”

Hu Meili had made up her mind, no matter how much Lin Xiangnan tried to persuade her, she wouldn’t budge. She packed her bags and left.

Leaving Lin Xiangnan holding the child, unable to cry or laugh.

In the evening, Gu Zhenjun put the two children on the bed and said to Lin Xiangnan and Gu Zhenhua, “Brother, sister-in-law, you two choose which child to take tonight.”

One child cried, and the other child would cry too. One person couldn’t coax them both.

Since Hu Meili and Gu Zhenjun came to the family compound, they had been taking care of one child each, and Lin Xiangnan didn’t have to worry.

Now that Hu Meili was gone, the burden of taking care of the children fell on Lin Xiangnan’s shoulders.

“Which one doesn’t cry as much at night?” Lin Xiangnan asked Gu Zhenjun.

Gu Zhenjun scratched his head, “Hmm~ It’s hard to say, sometimes they’re quiet, sometimes they’re both quite noisy.”

The two children were different genders, but they looked alike and wore the same clothes. They were lying on the bed side by side, sucking their fingers. It didn’t matter which one they chose.

Gu Zhenhua randomly picked one child and took it back to his room. He automatically coaxed the child to sleep before getting into bed.

When Lin Xiangnan had just given birth, it was he who took care of the children, so he was very familiar with the routine.

But with someone helping at night, Lin Xiangnan couldn’t free herself during the day. She was tied down by the children and couldn’t go anywhere.

Fortunately, Aunt Hua was very kind and knew that she was busy, so she went to her house to play.

Aunt Hua helped push the cradle while drinking tea, “You know, you really shouldn’t have provoked your mother. Now look what you’ve done, you’ve made her angry and she’s left.”

“I didn’t make her angry.” Lin Xiangnan said helplessly.

No matter what she did, at least she said good things, she didn’t argue.

“My mom just can’t stand me spending money lavishly. She wants to use the children to tie me down, so I have money but nowhere to spend it.”

“That’s okay. If you want to spend money, there are many ways. You can’t go to the city, you can ask me to bring things for you.” Aunt Hua suggested.

Although she didn’t know how much money Lin Xiangnan had, she could guess that Lin Xiangnan had more than just her salary.

Just relying on her salary, Lin Xiangnan couldn’t buy so many little things. Lin Xiangnan’s spending speed was even more extravagant than hers, an old cadre.

Aunt Hua herself had a lot of savings from before.

They both knew this, but they didn’t say it out loud, and they didn’t tell their families.

The money in their hands, the source wasn’t easy to explain, it would take a long time to tell.

Political Commissar Xu and Gu Zhenhua were both in the army.

They could accept their family members spending money on food and entertainment, but they couldn’t accept their family members doing “bad things”, which would really affect their future. If their family members committed crimes, they would inevitably be implicated.

It was better to keep things vague and muddle through than to tell the truth and cause a family feud.

Lin Xiangnan thought the same way. She would muddle through for two years, and then she could play openly.

The antiques she was buying now, in a few years when the reform and opening up happened, she could sell a batch and exchange it for money, then buy a new batch…

Antiques were not ordinary commodities, they didn’t have fixed prices.

Her hands were in and out of these things, no one knew how much money she actually made.

Then she could openly spend her own private money, buy a house, start a business… When she had a lot of money, became a rich woman in the eyes of others, even if someone investigated corruption, they wouldn’t think of her. A rich woman wouldn’t be bribed by a little bit of money.

Just as she was thinking about this, Xiaobao “wa” cried out suddenly.

“She peed, quickly change her diaper.” Aunt Hua didn’t move, she just stood there drinking tea and giving instructions.

Lin Xiangnan had no choice but to put down what she was doing, take care of the child, and after cleaning the child, she had to hold her in her arms to coax her.

Just as she had coaxed Little Treasure, Gu Zhenjun came back from outside and handed Big Treasure to Lin Xiangnan, “Sister-in-law, Big Treasure should be hungry soon, I’ll leave him to you first.”

After handing over Big Treasure, Gu Zhenjun took Xiaobao and left. He held the child and went to watch other children of the same age play hopscotch and gamble with cigarette boxes.

Sure enough, after a while, Big Treasure started to whimper.

Lin Xiangnan held the child, unable to cry or laugh, “I miss my mom. I even want to take the children back to my hometown for the New Year.”

“It’s not good to leave Gu Zhenhua alone here for the New Year.” Aunt Hua couldn’t stand to see Lin Xiangnan like this, so she took the child and helped her coax it.

“Children are like this, they’ll only cry for a couple of years, it’ll be fine when they can talk.”

Lin Xiangnan spent a day at home taking care of the children, she didn’t go anywhere. During the day, she was unable to cry or laugh, but at night, she was full of fighting spirit. She picked up a piece of paper and wrote a letter to Hu Meili.

“Mom just left, you’re already writing her a letter.” Gu Zhenhua asked in surprise, “What do you want to tell her?”

“Just tell her about things at home.” Lin Xiangnan continued to bury her head in her writing.

Gu Zhenhua held the child and leaned in to take a look. He saw that the letter said: The two babies at home are really too cute, I can’t get enough of looking at them… I asked Aunt Hua to go to the city to buy wool for me, I want to knit clothes and hats for them… I also want to buy them cute fur shoes… I found out that they’re missing peace charms, I asked Aunt Hua to buy them for me…

“Didn’t Mom say that children don’t need too many new clothes? They grow up too fast, they’ll soon be too small to wear them.” Gu Zhenhua asked in confusion, “You’re deliberately trying to make Mom angry, aren’t you afraid that she won’t come back after the New Year?”

Lin Xiangnan gritted her teeth, “Not afraid. After the New Year, I’ll take the children to find my mom.”