Chapter 1478: Chapter 1479: Encounter
“I want to take the car, Mommy, you’re lying, I want to take the car.”
Even after their car had driven far away, Gu Lingling seemed to still hear Gou Dan’s heart-wrenching cries.
“With a mom like that, Gou Dan won’t turn out well,” Mo Hongying said.
She hadn’t had a child yet, but had seen other wives in the military compound taking care of children. Some indulged their children, but none had a child like Gou Dan.
“Yuanyuan from your family is well-behaved,” Mo Hongying said, smiling at the mention of Zhang Lanfang’s Yuanyuan. “Why didn’t you bring Yuanyuan with you when you came out?”
“I was afraid she might fuss in the car,” Zhang Lanfang said with a smile.
Actually, she was quite conflicted when she left. The child’s pitiful gaze made her heart ache, but she still painfully decided to leave her at the neighbor aunt’s house.
It’s also the reason she was late.
“Happened to pass by, let’s go and get her together,” Gu Lingling said, “Yuanyuan is so well-behaved, she won’t fuss.”
Zhang Lanfang hesitated for a moment, but Gu Lingling had already turned the car onto the road to her house, “Thank you for that.”
Picking up Yuanyuan, she was crying at the neighbor’s house. Seeing her mom coming, her eyes looked pitifully at Zhang Lanfang, making Zhang Lanfang’s eyes suddenly wet.
Yesterday she left the child alone for a day to attend the market, and today she had to do it again, the child surely wouldn’t want that.
“Yuanyuan, I’m sorry, mommy is here to pick you up,” Zhang Lanfang hugged the child, “Come, let’s take Auntie’s car with mommy.”
“Can I really go with you?” Yuanyuan cautiously asked Gu Lingling.
“Of course you can,” Gu Lingling said with a smile, “Yuanyuan is so good.”
Probably afraid of being excluded, Yuanyuan was very quiet in the car until she was certain she wouldn’t be left behind, only then did she start to smile happily.
Moreover, Zhang Lanfang taught Yuanyuan well, she was very polite.
Gu Lingling had fruits in the car and offered them to her. She always asked Zhang Lanfang for permission before accepting Gu Lingling’s tangerines and then politely thanked her.
Really lovable.
The three of them had originally planned to go to the post office to send things today, to courier the mountain goods they bought yesterday back home.
After leaving the post office, it was still early, so Mo Hongying suggested shopping. It wasn’t easy to get out, and they had a ride, so they could buy something to take back.
Qin City had changed a lot in recent years, with many new malls, but the most famous was still the Overseas Chinese Mall.
Gu Lingling was originally from Qin City, and she had worked at the transformer factory for a few years, so she already anticipated running into acquaintances.
But she didn’t expect the first person she encountered would be Liu Miao.
Looking at the bent-over woman working in the distance, if it weren’t for the mole between her eyebrows, Gu Lingling wouldn’t have believed this woman was the girl Liu Miao who used to follow Gu Juan and bully her.
At this moment, she was only in her twenties, but looked like she was in her forties, not only hunched when working but also bent even when standing.
She was being scolded by a woman nearby, “What are you dawdling for? Hurry up and pack these things!”
The woman finished speaking and gave Liu Miao’s hunched back a few hard slaps, “Lazy woman, only knows how to slack off.”
“Do you know her?” Mo Hongying asked, following her gaze.
“Let’s go,” Gu Lingling said with a smile.
The past was like clouds that had passed.