Jika dia benar-benar ingin mencari seseorang, dia sudah pasti menemukannya sekarang.
Ren Li kemungkinan mengirimkan beberapa pesan ke arah tersebut sepanjang tahun, tetapi apakah ada seseorang dari sana yang pernah datang mencarinya, menanyakan tentangnya?
Tidak, tidak sama sekali.
Sekarang Chengcheng sudah dewasa, namun dalam Hatinya, cucuya tetap masih Old Master Wang, dan mukulankannya adalah Wang Zitan dan yang lainnya.
Jangan percayai terlalu serakah pada apa yang disebut-bisekan persahabatan.
Bagi sebagian orang, persahabatan mereka benar-benar terlalu rapuh, terlalu pepek untuk menahan sungguhana satu tumbukan.
Mereka adalah keluargaku.
...
Ren Li masih sikap teguh ingin membuat berupaya memewajikan keluarganya sendiri.
"Sang Zhilan juga keluargaku."
Tang Yuxin berbisik dengan nada tak berarti, ini bukan contoh yang baik.
Jika mereka bisa memperlakukan keluarga Ren Li sebagaimana maka lalu, dia tidak percaya mereka akan mempunyai niat untuk maaf.
Bukan semua orang tua yang mencintai anak mereka, dan bukan semua orang tua benar-benar tulus menantang mereka.
Dan dia serta Ren Li sekadar bertemu dengan kerabat yang menyedihkan.
Mereka tidak memiliki cara, harus menerima realitas itu, ya, memang begitulah.
"Tapi..." ada sisi harapan yang tersembunyi dalam hati Ren Li.
"Kalau mereka sudah berubah, kalau mereka menyadari kesalahan mereka?" Tang Yuxin ringan menyentuh bibir-merahnya.
"Maka kau semoga beruntung."
Apa yang bisa dia katakan selain itu?
Dia hanya bisa memberikan sebuah doa semacam itu.
Memang, bukan semua orang tua yang mencintai anaknya, tapi bukan semua ibu yang disebut Sang Zhilan, selalu ada pengecualian, mereka yang benar-benar tahu cara maaf.
Dia tidak bisa, karena pengalamannya sendiri, menyangkal orang lain.
Itu tidak adil pada orang lain, dan sama tidak adil pada Ren Li.
Dia sudah cukup dari Sang Zhilan, telah merasakan keganasan dari masa lalu.
Namun mungkin keluarga Ren Family yang berbeda; Shangli mungkin lebih beruntung daripada Ren Li.
"Terima kasih, Yuxin."
Ren Li merasa jauh lebih tenang setelah mendengar kata-kata Tang Yuxin, dan ia berencana membawa Chengcheng kembali beberapa hari lagi untuk mengenal kakaknya.
Chengcheng telah besar, namun belum pernah bertemu dengan nenek atau kakeknya ibu.
Tang Yuxin hanya tersenyum.
Ya, Chengcheng sudah cukup besar, tapi seorang anak berukuran itu sudah tidak butuh nenek atau kakeknya lagi.
Setidaknya, ini masalah Ren Li, dan ia tidak akan mengganggu.
Semua hal yang tidak diketahui, karena dalam hidup sebelumnya, ia tidak pernah bertemu Ren Li, dan tidak tahu nasib Ren Li dalam hidup ini.
Ren Li dan Chengcheng tidak diperlukan, atau setidaknya tidak penting.
Dia selalu merasa agak tidak nyaman di sinilah, namun Ren Li seperti telah menerima kakinya; dia terlihat lebih tenang, sehingga Tang Yuxin bahkan kurang berhati untuk melukainya lagi.
Selain itu, ada beberapa perempuan yang tidak bisa dikalahkan saat ini, seperti Ren Li saat ini.
Secara adil, dia sudah menjadi perempuan yang kuat.
Padahal, Ren Li memang merasa jauh hati, yang Tang Yuxin pahami.
Walaupun setelah lahir kembali, dia masih memegang harapan-harapan terhadap Sang Zhilan, namun harapan itu pada akhirnya berubah menjadi keletihan, cinta ibu menjadi luka.
sampai sekarang, dia tidak perlu lagi ibu, dan telah melewati usia yang memerlukan ibu itu.
Diantara dirinya dan Sang Zhilan, tidak ada lagi utang atau kelalaian yang saling menyerang.
Walaupun Sang Zhilan pernah menyalahinya, itu semua sudah lewat.
Namun Ren Li belum melepaskan; Ren Li masih memegang harapan.
Pada malam itu, ketika Tang Xincheng pulang, ia, seperti biasanya, bermain bersama Gu Dabai, nepanya, selama sementara.
Sayangnya, Xiaobai masih di rumah Gu Family, kedua orang tuanya sudah ada, bahkan Qiqi bisa mengasuh adiknya kecil.
Mereka tidak ingin Xiaobai pulang, sehingga kedua anak itu telah terpisah selama beberapa hari sejak pertemuan terakhir mereka.
Namun beruntung, ada dua orang, satu untuk masing-masing orang, tidak terlalu cepat, tidak terlalu deras.
"Chi chi..."
Tang Xincheng melenturkan kakunya yang lembut, mulutnya berlumuran makanan, sambil membersikannya dengan hati-hati seperti merayakan seorang leluhur.
Ia sudah begitu besar, namun masih membutuhkan untuk dimakan.
Ia mengingat bahwa saat masih berusia kurang dari dua tahun, ia sendiri sudah dapat makan sendiri, namun begitu head ini, setiap saat makan, pasti ada makanan yang menempel di wajahnya.
"Apa yang baru saja terjadi, Chi chi?"
Tang Xincheng lagi membawanya dengan suap berisi ke adiknya.
Sejak lahir, lucu ini hampir menjadi pengayat kecil—mengganti popok, memberi susu, menenangkannya, membawanya di punggung, bukan sekali dua kali, melainkan telah menjadi hal yang kaku.
"Chi chi, Gu Dabai tidak makan, tidak makan."
Gu Dabai menghela wajahnya yang kecil, menunjukkan dia tidak ingin makan lagi, atau mungkin hanya saja yang tersinggung?
"Makan satu lagi."
Tang Xincheng mengambil sendok lagi dan memberinya seujung besar krim telur, berbisik, "Mmm, makan lebih banyak agar bisa berkembang lebih cepat.
Lihat cucu kecilmu, betul-betul buruk, kepalanya kering badannya kempes, namun karena banyak makan, sekarang telah menjadi yang sangat cantik.
Dan anak yang cantik mempunyai keuntungan.
Kalau kamu ingin lebih banyak mainan, makan dengan baik.
Yang lebih banyak yang dimakan, semakin banyak yang akan kamu dapatkan."
Dengar soal lebih banyak mainan, mata Gu Dabai memang benar-benar menyala.
"Satu lagi."
Tang Xincheng memegang krim telur ke bib
Chapter 820: Chapter 804: More Eating, More Toys Chapter 820: Chapter 804: More Eating, More Toys If she had truly wanted to find someone, she would have found them by now.
Ren Li likely sent some messages to that side over the years, but did anyone from there ever come looking for her, inquire about her?
No, not at all.
Now Chengcheng is all grown up, yet in his heart, his grandpa is still Old Master Wang, and his uncles are Wang Zitan and the others.
Don’t put too much faith in so-called kinship.
For some people, their kinship is really too fragile, too brittle to withstand a single blow.
They are my family.
...
Ren Li still stubbornly wanted to make excuses for her own family.
“Sang Zhilan is also my family.”
Tang Yuxin said indifferently, this wasn’t a very good example.
If they could treat Ren Li’s family like that back then, she didn’t believe they would have any intention to repent.
Not every parent loves their child, nor is every parent truly sincere towards their child.
And she and Ren Li just happened to meet such unpleasant relatives.
They were helpless, and they had to accept the reality, that was all there was to it.
“But…” there was still a sliver of hope hidden in Ren Li’s heart.
“What if they have changed, what if they realize their mistakes?” Tang Yuxin lightly touched her red lips.
“Then I wish you good luck.”
What else could she say?
She could only offer such a blessing.
Indeed, not every parent loves their child, but not every mother is called Sang Zhilan, there are always exceptions, those who truly know how to repent.
She couldn’t, because of her own experiences, negate others.
That would be unfair to others, and equally unfair to Ren Li.
She had had enough of Sang Zhilan, had suffered enough persecution in her past life.
But maybe the people of the Ren Family were different; Shangli might fare better than her.
“Thank you, Yuxin.”
Ren Li felt much comforted when she heard Tang Yuxin’s words, and she planned to take Chengcheng back to recognize his relatives in a few days.
Chengcheng had grown so big, yet he had never met his maternal grandparents.
Tang Yuxin just smiled.
Yes, Chengcheng was now quite big, but a child of that size no longer needed his grandparents.
After all, this was Ren Li’s affair, and she wouldn’t interfere.
Everything was unknown, for in her previous life she hadn’t met Ren Li, and she didn’t know what Ren Li’s fate would be in this life either.
Ren Li was superfluous, and so was Chengcheng.
She always felt somewhat uneasy here, but Ren Li seemed to have come to terms with it; she seemed to be in a better mood, so Tang Yuxin had even less heart to crush her spirit any further.
Besides, there are some women who can’t be defeated now, like Ren Li at the moment.
Frankly speaking, she had already become a powerful woman.
In fact, Ren Li was homesick, which Tang Yuxin could understand.
Even after her rebirth, she still had some expectations of Sang Zhilan, but those expectations eventually turned into disappointment, motherly love into hurt.
Until now, she no longer needed a mother and had passed the age where she needed one.
Between her and Sang Zhilan, there were no longer debts or harms owed to one another.
Even if Sang Zhilan had wronged her, that was all in the past.
But Ren Li hadn’t let go; Ren Li still had hopes.
In the evening, when Tang Xincheng came back, he, as usual, played with Gu Dabai, his nephew, for a while.
Regrettably, Xiaobai was still being cared for at the Gu Family’s house; both Grandpa and Grandma Gu were there, and even Qiqi could take care of her little brother.
They didn’t want Xiaobai to come back, so the two kids had been separated for quite a few days since their last meeting.
But luckily, there were two, so one for each person, no rush, no fuss.
“Qiuqiu…”
Tang Xincheng dangled his tender little feet, his mouth smeared with food, as he cleaned his whole tiny face like taking care of an ancestor.
He was already so big, yet still needed to be fed.
He remembered that by the time he was a little over two, he ate by himself, but this little dummy, every time at mealtime, would end up with food all over his face.
“Mmm, what’s up now?”
Tang Xincheng again fed his little nephew a mouthful of rice.
Ever since the little one was born, he practically became a little nanny—washing diapers, feeding milk, soothing him to sleep, letting him ride on his back, not just once or twice, but had become second nature.
“Qiuqiu, Gu Dabai no eat, no eat.”
Gu Dabai turned his little face away, indicating he didn’t want to eat anymore, or was he just being petulant?
“Have one more bite.”
Tang Xincheng took the spoon again and fed his little nephew a big mouthful of egg custard, saying, “Mmm, eat more to grow faster.
Look at your little cousin, how ugly he was, all shriveled up, but because he ate a lot, now he’s turned out so handsome.
And handsome kids have the advantage.
You’ve got so many toys, they fill several rooms, way more than your ugly little cousin, so if you want more toys, eat well.
The more you eat, the more you’ll get.”
Upon hearing about more toys, Gu Dabai’s eyes indeed lit up.
“Another bite.”
Tang Xincheng held the egg custard to his little nephew’s mouth, and Gu Dabai, very much in the spirit of giving face to his uncle, took a big bite.
So Tang Xincheng kept talking while stuffing Gu Dabai’s mouth, until a large bowl of egg custard had settled into his belly, and then he finally stopped feeding him.
“Burp…” Gu Dabai let out a burp, then patted his chubby belly.
Tang Xincheng, curious, poked it too.
Ah, the watermelon’s ripe, he had eaten so much.
“So full, so full…”
Gu Dabai lay sprawled out, exposing his little tummy, just so Uncle would rub it.
The door outside opened, and Ren Li walked in.
“Grandma, grandma, hug hug…”
Gu Dabai stretched out his little arms to Ren Li; he wanted Grandma to pick him up.
He could only call out Grandpa and Grandma now, but as he grew older, he would be able to distinguish better.
Ren Li picked up Gu Dabai and couldn’t help but sigh; she was only so old and yet already called someone’s grandma, while in reality, her son was still in primary school.
Although she found her role as honorary grandmother a bit strange, it didn’t stop her from loving Gu Dabai.
“Good grandson, give Grandma a kiss.”
Ren Li planted a strong kiss on Gu Dabai’s little face, finding him more and more adorable the more she looked.
Tang Zhinian’s genes really were remarkable, producing children who were all so fair and beautiful, from Tang Yuxin to Dabai and Xiaobai, all utterly endearing, extremely so.
Gu Dabai also covered Grandma’s face with drool and then started gnawing on his little finger, playing with Grandma and babbling with Mom.
Meanwhile, Tang Xincheng continued to sit on the side doing his homework.
The profile of his face, showing a certain firmness, resembled both Tang Zhinian and Ren Li, making him quite standout in a crowd.
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