Lumma fell into a drowsy sleep when her cell phone buzzed and vibrated on the bedside table. It was her grandmother who made a video call.
Lumma immediately answered, “Grandma, It’s so late. Why haven’t you slept yet?”
Her grandmother in the video was full of anxiety. “I have been unable to contact you, and I was almost scared to death by you.”
Only then did Lumma see several missed video calls from her grandmother, “Grandma, I just went shopping and forgot to bring my mobile phone.”
Grandma breathed a sigh of relief, “Lumma, have you had dinner yet? Are you stressed out by work? If you are, change your job, and don’t tire yourself out.”
Lumma’s nose turned sore when she heard that, and she said softly, “Grandma, I’m fine. Don’t worry about me. But you, have you been helping people with their lessons recently?”
Her grandmother, a former teacher, has since retired. Because of her teaching reputation, the school hired her back for a few years after her retirement. She did retire at the beginning of this year. But her grandmother was unwilling to be idle, so she began to be a private tutor.
“I’m idle and free. It is good to be a private tutor. I can earn some money and use my mind.” When facing Lumma, her grandmother was always cheerful. “Lumma, is Lucas still very busy at work?”
After a few words, her grandmother brought the topic to Lucas, her grandson-in-law.
Lumma knew how much her grandmother hoped that the man named Lucas could take care of her, so Lumma couldn’t bear to tell her grandmother about Lucas’s divorce from her.
For more than a year, whenever her grandmother asked about Lucas, Lumma would say he was busy, never telling her grandmother the fact that she and Lucas had met only once on the day of the marriage certificate.
Lumma smiled and acted like a child, “Grandma, every time I call you since I got married, you always talk about Lucas. Do you not love me anymore?”
Her grandmother also laughed, “Why don’t I love you? I just want you and Lucas to have a happy life. I know you are busy with your work. I will go to Red Pine City to visit you two on Christmas Day, and I can meet my old friend by the way.”
Once her grandmother came to Red Pine City, Lumma couldn’t hide the divorce from her.
Lumma felt it necessary to have her grandmother mentally prepared beforehand. Otherwise, her
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