dear tiger tooth boy

01

The Zheng family and the Zhao family have always been regarded as famous local families, and their ancestral houses occupy the best Fengshui places in the whole village.The houses are large and quite grand.

In comparison, the ancestral house of Jiang Ning's family is a typical graceful school.The Jiang family only has a small courtyard, but it is neatly organized, and there is a Jianfang pond in the courtyard.Although Jiang Ning doesn't understand the school of architecture, she always has a feeling that the Korean style here is not so strong, but has a kind of ink and wash atmosphere of her hometown in the south of the Yangtze River.

In winter, everything should be bleak, and the ancestral house is also unoccupied all year round, but it is strange that there are still many blooming flowers and thriving green plants in the courtyard.

Walking into the house, there was no obvious ash in the house.Jiang Ning even found that there are a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator.

The house doesn't look like it's been left alone.

As Jiang Ning began to pack her luggage, she couldn't help asking curiously: "Grandma, do you have someone to clean and manage the flowers and plants here?"

Grandma didn't seem to hear, and continued to take out the change of clothes in the suitcase.

Jiang Ning has long been used to her grandmother's selective "deafness" from time to time, and she is even more used to not asking questions, and like her grandmother, she keeps her head buried in packing her luggage.

Grandma suddenly said: "Your mother paid someone to manage the place, and every once in a while someone would come to clean and trim the flowers and plants."

Jiang Ning paused for a moment.

It's rare to hear grandma mention her mother so openly, but Jiang Ning doesn't know how to answer.

After a long silence, she said a few words lightly: "Oh, that's it."

Jiang Ning had considered countless times to find a suitable opportunity to ask her grandmother about her mother.

My mother's childhood, the marriage between my mother and my father, the reason why my mother left her in China, and what kind of mood she has to bring her back now.

Everything is fine.

Want to know everything.

But now, grandma finally showed a gesture of non-rejection, and the opportunity to ask questions came, but Jiang Ning didn't know what to say.

She could only giggle and put on a naive look.

"Grandma, I'm going to look outside, it seems that there are still fish in the pond." Said and ran out the door with a jump.

In the small pond in the small courtyard, the red carp is not afraid of people. When they saw Jiang Ning, they rushed over to beg for food.

Jiang Ning looked at her shallow reflection in the pond.

Mother's matter is also good, Yunho's matter is also good.

You are really...

Really are……

Jiang Ning grabbed an innocent leaf and threw it into the center of the pond.

Why dare not face it.

Why dare not ask.

In the first three days of arriving in my hometown, each family was very busy with worshiping ancestors and seeing relatives and friends.

During these three days, except for the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the group ate a five-grain meal together at Zhao's house, the children of each family did not meet each other.

It's not that even the children are too busy to get away for a moment, but in the delicate atmosphere that day, even Zhao Enfei seems to have no energy to pester Yunho to call Oppa during the short break time.

According to the practice of previous years, on the afternoon of the third day, most of the parents have to go back to the city to go to work, while the children will stay in the countryside to accompany the elderly until the end of the school holiday.

Grandma Jiang Ning doesn't need to go to work, and Jiang Ning likes this beautiful place, so she plans to stay here until school starts.

Having not seen Yunhao and Zhizhi for many days, Jiang Ning really felt a little lonely.

Children don't hold grudges, not to mention they are just making trouble for no reason, Jiang Ning has long since had no grudges in her heart.

But she didn't know how to speak.

Both Yunhao's house and Zhao Chengbin's house are on the other side of the village. She wanted to go to find them, but she couldn't move her legs.

There was no real contradiction, but because of this, he couldn't even make an excuse to apologize.

The days grew longer and slower.

02

During these long and slow days, Jiang Ning, who saw her hometown for the first time, took out the spirit of a researcher and began to slowly explore the place where her mother grew up in her own way.

The land in the courtyard is the small square inch of land under her feet, and her mother must have stepped on it.

The bed I slept on was my mother's.At night, will my mother be like Jiang Ning, staring at the ceiling with her eyes open, can she also hear the chirping of unknown bugs outside the house?

Because her mother lived here, Jiang Ning felt that all the ordinary things around her became extraordinary.

A few tiny scratches on the stairs, a few faded words on the wall.Jiang Ning couldn't help touching everything quietly.

Mom should have touched these places.Jiang Ning always thinks this way.

She always thought that she was full of resentment towards her mother, but when she was here, she was surprised to find that there was a tenderness in her heart.

Mom lived here.

Jiang Ning felt sour and relieved, but she couldn't bring up the resentment she always thought she had.

She was even a little depressed about it.

He is not decisive enough in all aspects, even when it comes to resenting someone.

But this frustration was soon buried by other, more complex emotions in her heart.

When she was sleeping at night, she couldn't help touching the bed carefully and gently.

Her movements were careful and gentle, and a little sneaky, as if she was worried about being discovered by someone.

But.Obviously, no one would push the door and enter.

Jiang Ning couldn't feel how miserable she was, but she didn't know when the tears started, flowing silently in the dark night.

Grandma chats with the old neighbors every day, and makes cakes and kimchi together. It seems that she deliberately doesn't disturb Jiang Ning, letting Jiang Ning immerse herself in her own world.

Although she didn't explain anything about her mother, grandma gave Jiang Ning a wooden box.

"This is something from your mother's childhood." Jiang Ning has never seen such a gentle gaze from her grandmother, "It's like when you were your age."

Jiang Ning solemnly hid the wooden box under the bed, secretly going through it every night.

No diary, nothing too special.

Most of them are trivial matters of little girls.

Jiang Ning didn't know that the relationship between mother and grandmother had not been very good.

Grandma was widowed in her early years and had always been extremely strict with her mother, but it had the opposite effect if she didn't want to.

Jiang Ning's mother didn't like studying since she was a child. She dropped out of school and went to work in Seoul on her own initiative when she was a teenager. Jiang Ning's grandmother was so angry that she wanted to sever ties with her.But I never thought that God would take care of her very much.Jiang Ning's mother got into a film crew by accident. She was beautiful and able to endure hardships. With the blessing of luck, when Jiang Ning's grandmother saw her daughter again, it was actually on a large billboard in the streets and alleys.

"The first national goblin". "The Pride of Gwangju".

The former wayward and rebellious girl returned to her hometown.

Jiang Ning's grandmother was working in a Chinese restaurant in Gwangju at the time.A large number of reporters chased and blocked her, asking if she and her daughter were at odds.

Grandma raised her head, half sincerely, half stubbornly: "My daughter is my greatest pride."

But the beautiful scene of mother-daughter harmony didn't last long.

Jiang Ning's mother fell in love with Jiang Ning's father, the son of a Chinese restaurant owner.

The owner of the Chinese restaurant is tired of wandering in a foreign country and plans to return to China with his family.

A woman who is thriving in her career, the standard attitude in the face of scandals is to refuse to admit it.

But Jiang Ning's mother is not a "standard" female artist.She lived a more willful life than ordinary people.

Jiang Ning's mother decisively decided to give up her career in South Korea and marry the son of a Chinese restaurant owner in a flash to hit the unknown Chinese market.

She has always insisted that she has not signed a contract with the company, but there is no worries about coming and going.

Such an actress, in any era, is a bit shocking.

The war between mother and daughter is on the verge of breaking out again.

"Ding Caijing, if you dare to marry now, I will really no longer have you as a daughter."

It is not the first time that Jiang Ning's grandmother said that she would sever the mother-daughter relationship.But Ding Caijing knew that this time she was not just talking.

But she was never one to give in.

On impulse, Ding Caijing moved all her belongings in her hometown to the yard and lit a fire.

"I will be responsible for my life. In the future, you don't have to worry about me anymore."

And in the past ten years, Grandma Jiang Ning really obeyed the cruel words she left at that time.

"Okay, I'll treat you as dead."

Mother and daughter are so much alike.

If Jiang Ning could know all this earlier, she would be able to better understand why her grandma obviously loved her, but she never showed strong affection for her grandchildren like other old people.

Grandma Jiang Ning could have predicted Jiang Ning's birth and growth, but she really didn't know anything about it.

A few months ago, grandma suddenly received the news that Jiang Ning's father had passed away, and that Ding Caijing was going to bring Jiang Ning to Korea.

Not a negotiation, just a seemingly pleading notice.

Inform her that this grandmother is going to accept a strange granddaughter.

Ding Caijing is still the daughter who does her own way.

But the money that Ding Caijing sent to Jiang Ning's grandmother in recent years, the grandmother never moved.She is old, but she is still that tough mother.

In the end, it was Ding Caijing's words that made her accept Jiang Ning.

Not the phrase "Mom" that I haven't heard in years.But Ding Caijing said, "The child has no father, and she needs at least a mother."

She, Ding Caijing, also needs a mother.

In any case, it is required.

She can't bring Jiang Ning home yet, so she hopes her mother can help her fulfill her mother's responsibilities.

A mother is never more stubborn than her dear daughter.

Jiang Ning and Ding Caijing grow more and more alike.Grandma sometimes dare not look at her little granddaughter more.

Compared with her own daughter, her granddaughter's temper has neutralized the characteristics of the Jiang family, and she is obviously more peaceful.Moreover, the tutoring of the grandparents does not seem to be bad, and the little girl is also very well-behaved.

But grandma can still see in Jiang Ning's eyes as stubborn as Jiang Ning's mother from time to time.

In some respects, essentially the same temperament.

It's just that one is so flamboyant that he wants to tell the world that he can upset the world, but the other uses his cute appearance to hide his indifference to foreign things.

They are all people who have made up their minds and will not listen to others.

In the whole wooden box, the most special thing is a small photo.

Ding Caijing in the photo is only thirteen or fourteen years old, her eyebrows and eyes are gradually opening, she is very beautiful, and she also reveals a heroic spirit that ordinary girls don't have.

On the back are words written by the girl Ding Caijing to herself with a blue pen.

Jiang Ning knelt on the floor of the room, looking at the photos over and over again under the desk lamp, and reading the words written by her teenage mother.

"Ding Caijing, you have to be the master of your own life! Remember, you can shine!"

Zhong Er was full of anger, but word by word, it penetrated into Jiang Ning's heart.

You have to be the master of your own life.

You can shine.

The night outside the house was dark, and from time to time, there were long and long chirping insects.

Under the warm light in the room, the slender girl was sitting quietly on the floor in her pajamas.

She put that old photo in her heart, as if she could draw inexplicable power from it.

You have to be the master of your own life.

You are going to shine.

ginger lemon.

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Going to prepare for the final exam first.There's still a bunch of stuff to "preview".See you after I pass the exam week(つд?)