"Son, I think we need to pick some clothes for you today," Jiang Haidai remarked while looking at the little boy. "Your old clothes have gotten much smaller than before. I think we need to throw them out."
"Then can I get the lucky duckling?" Meng Guo tentatively asked. His black grape eyes stared at Jiang Haidai with a pleading look and yet the little boy didn't say anything.
It took a while for Jiang Haidai to understand what her son was saying to her. She blinked her eyes and slowly recalled the little lucky duckling that he was talking about and the second she recalled it, her eyes turned red.
When Meng Guo was young, he was not as bold and cheeky as he was now. Instead, he grew up as a scaredy cat. However, there was this one time when he asked his father for a little duck suit. Mister Meng not only beat him up and called him a little mute but even told him that he was not worth wasting that kind of money.
Ever since then, Meng Guo grew even more troubled and scared.
He never dared to put forth his request in front of her or his father.
Now that her son had finally walked out of the shadow of his past, Jiang Haidai was so happy that she crouched down and hugged the little boy. She patted him on the back and said to him, "Don't worry, mom will get you all the duck suits that you want."
Since she was determined to get what her son wanted, Jiang Haidai didn't waste any time and brought her son to the RV that Bai Meiyue had brought from the Murong courtyard.
Zhou Hongbei and Shen Zhen also came. However, Shen Zhen's mind was still locked on Tong Huan. Unlike Jiang Haidai, who more or less grew up in front of her, Shen Zhen had never seen her other younger sisters. Thus, she didn't have any clear idea whether Tong Huan was her sister or not. However, something about Tong Huan felt really familiar and Shen Zhen couldn't help but worry about her.
She turned to look at Bai Jixuan and asked, "How is Miss Tong now?"
"I have no idea," Bai Jixuan was also worried about the young woman but he had no idea how to talk to her. The two of them could be considered single and the last time he ran into Madam Fang, the latter sneered at him and told him that he was a shameless man who was eating from the bowl and yet looking at the pot.
Bai Jixuan was a thin-skinned man to begin with. Thus, when he was scolded by his ex-mother-in-law, he decided to stay away from Tong Huan. It was one thing that he was scolded but an unmarried woman was scolded because of him—how could he let such a thing happen?
Thus, he started to keep his distance from Tong Huan.
"I only know that she has locked herself in the room and is not talking to anyone."
Mother Bai did try to make that woman speak but Tong Huan didn't say anything and simply listened to her. Bai Jixuan had no idea how Tong Huan was at the moment.
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