allonlinenovel Chapter 390 Looking for Lin Meng
Chapter 390 Looking for Lin Meng
"Wife, are you busy tomorrow?"
"What?" Xiang Sichen's heart was lifted. Could it be that her husband discovered something...
"If you're not busy, I'll pick you up for Haidilao after get off work."
The woman rolled her eyes at her husband...what a foodie!
"No, I'm not going to eat. I have several meetings starting tomorrow afternoon, and I don't know when they'll end... I might even have to go on a business trip."
"Ah...you're always so busy."
"I wish I had as much free time as you do."
"Hey, then there has to be one person busy and one person idle at home, so that there is harmony." The man said attentively: "Wife, when you are at work, you should stand up and move around more often. Sitting for a long time is harmful to your health and it is easy to get cervical spondylosis."
"Have you used the figure-eight resistance rope I bought you for yoga?"
Xiang Sichen's head was dizzy, and he answered halfheartedly: "Hmm..."
"If you like them, I'll buy you a few more on Pinxixi."
"It's all right."
"hey-hey."
The man kept moving his hands, humming a little tune, and massaging Xiang Sichen's shoulders and back with his hands for half an hour.
The next morning, Xiang Sichen waited for her husband and daughter to go out, then quietly followed them.
When they arrived at the school gate, as soon as her husband's car left, she started calling her daughter's class teacher.
"Hello, Teacher Li, I'm Xuanxuan's mother."
"Yes, I called to ask for a day off for Xuanxuan. Her grandmother is not feeling well and she said she won't take medicine until her granddaughter visits her."
"Yeah... I tried to persuade him, but it was no use. People say he's just a child..."
The woman said a lot more into the phone before Teacher Li relented and approved Xuanxuan's day off.
"Mom, what happened to grandma?"
The woman observed her daughter's face and when she was sure she was normal, she replied, "Grandma, it's okay. You haven't been feeling well lately, so I want to take you to the countryside to relax."
"Are you going back to grandma's house?"
The woman looked at her daughter with an inexplicable expression. She also wanted to take her daughter back to her grandmother's house for a visit, but now was not the time. Once her daughter got better, she would definitely make it up to her.
Xiang Sichen retracted his gaze, gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, looked straight ahead and said:
"No, it's a place that even my mother has never been to."
Hearing her mother say this, Xuanxuan didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she took out her Chinese textbook from her schoolbag and said, "I'm so happy to be able to go out and play, but I have to fall behind in my homework today."
The little girl pouted as she finished speaking and flipped through her textbook intently.
When the woman saw her daughter's well-behaved appearance, she felt bitter in her heart. This was her Xuanxuan, the well-behaved, sensible and studious Xuanxuan.
I hope everything goes well today and my daughter can change back.
Xiang Sichen sighed and stepped on the accelerator.
Along the way, Xuanxuan read books, ate snacks, rarely talked to her mother, and soon fell asleep in the car.
"Where should we go next?" the woman muttered to herself.
Just then, a fellow villager wearing a straw hat passed by the car. She opened the window and shouted, "Hello, how do I get to Lizipo?"
The fellow showed his big white teeth and said, "This is Lizipo Village. Whose relative are you? I don't think I've seen you before."
Xuanxuan in the car was woken up. She looked at her fellow villager outside the window and showed her big white teeth, "Uncle Wang, my mother brought me here to play."
Xiang Sichen and his fellow villagers were stunned.
The old man spoke first: "Little friend, do you know me?"
Xuanxuan shook her head.
Xiang Sichen thought about what the netizens in the live broadcast room said, and suddenly felt uneasy. He hurriedly continued to ask
"Do you know a family named Lin? They have a son and a daughter. The son is about my age."
When the fellow villager heard this, the expression on his face became a little unnatural, "So you are their relative... Keep driving forward, turn right at the third intersection, and their home is at the end." After he said that, he pointed his finger forward.
"Okay, thank you." After getting the answer, Xiang Sichen immediately rolled up the car window.
"Are you feeling guilty?" Xuanxuan's expression became disdainful, and her tone was full of contempt.
The woman knew that it was the bad Xuanxuan who came, so she continued driving without saying a word.
After the car drove away, the villager took off his hat and said thoughtfully: "They have such rich relatives? Why don't they help them... Alas!"
"Mom, who is that farmer wearing a hat? He keeps looking at our car. Could he be a bad guy?"
Xiang Sichen looked nervous, and Xuanxuan seemed to be back to normal.
The woman's heart was pounding as if it was about to jump out of her chest.
She swallowed and explained, "Mom just asked him for directions... He's not a bad guy." Then she gave her daughter a meaningful look and said, "Xuanxuan, don't worry. Even if there are bad guys, Mom will protect you at all costs."
As soon as he finished speaking, the car had already driven to the foot of a small hill. There was only one family here. This must be the place the fellow villager was talking about.
Xiang Sichen got out of the car with his daughter and walked to a bungalow. There were straw huts and chicken coops on both sides of the house. A pungent smell lingered in the air.
A middle-aged woman with short hair stood hunched over in front of the chicken coop, spreading rice into the trough. Seeing Xiang Sichen and her daughter approach, she stopped what she was doing and looked in their direction.
The middle-aged woman looked stunned, and after a while she managed to say, "Are you lost?"
Xiang Sichen slowly approached the other person and said cautiously: "I'm here to find your daughter."
Hearing this, the woman's face turned pale and she asked, "What do you want with my daughter? Does she...does she owe you money?"
"No, I was her good friend in junior high school. I haven't been able to contact her for so many years, so I came back this time to see her."
The middle-aged woman's eyes were red, and she lowered her head in silence.
When Xiang Sichen and his daughter approached, they discovered that the other person was actually sobbing softly.
"Grandma, what's wrong with you?" Xuanxuan held the middle-aged woman's hand and comforted her, "Are you feeling unwell? You can tell my mom, she will cure you."
After the little girl finished speaking, she looked at her mother, who gave her a gentle smile.
The middle-aged woman wiped her eyes with her sleeve and said with a nasal voice, "Follow me."
When Xiang Sichen's mother heard what the middle-aged woman said, she thought she was going into the house, but she didn't expect her to go up the mountain.
Could it be that Lin Meng was digging wild vegetables in the mountains? Although the woman was confused, she still followed the middle-aged woman obediently.
Along the way, she didn't dare to talk, for fear that she would accidentally let the other party know the real purpose of her and her daughter's visit.
After walking for about twenty minutes, both mother and daughter's shoes were covered in mud. The middle-aged woman stopped under a tree covered in wildflowers and said, "We're here."