mutual benefit [gl]

When Ji Cixi came home, she opened the door and saw Ji Xu sitting in the living room.

The light was on in the living room, the TV was off, the coffee table looked like it had just been wiped, and there was a faint smell of oily casserole rice noodles in the air.

She paused, closed the door, and glanced at her watch as she bent over to change her shoes.

At this time, Ji Xu should have fallen asleep.

Is it because tomorrow is the weekend, or...

Ji Cixi stood up, she took off her coat and put it on her arm.

Or, does the child have a premonition.

She walked into the living room, Ji Xu hurriedly stood up and asked her if she wanted some water, he struggled to pick up the teapot full of hot water on the coffee table, and poured her a glass of water.

"Auntie..." He watched Ji Cixi pick up the water glass, she blew away the hot air from the mouth of the glass, took a sip of the hot water, and warmed her cold stomach.

"Auntie...you..." Ji Xu hesitated to speak, Ji Cixi put down the cup, went to sit beside him.

"Ji Xu," she said slowly.

"Yeah!" Ji Xu hurriedly responded.

Looking at Ji Xu's face, Ji Cixi suddenly didn't know how to speak.

She awkwardly picked up the water glass, took another sip of water, the hot water slid down her throat, and fell all the way down her throat into her heart, igniting a fire.

"Your mother..." Ji Cixi hesitated for a moment, she pursed her lips and said, "She's gone."

Ji Xu didn't understand what Ji Cixi meant at first, he frowned slightly and looked at her suspiciously.

Only later, he found that Ji Cixi stopped talking, but just lowered his eyes.

He had never seen Ji Cixi like this before, the Ji Cixi he saw would always look into each other's eyes when speaking.

But she didn't look at herself anymore.

At this age, Ji Xu already understands that adults sometimes use many other words to replace death, such as leaving, such as leaving.

"what did you say?"

But Ji Xu still didn't want to believe it, he still had some luck in his heart.

Ji Cixi doesn't like to talk around corners. When she said "gone", maybe it was really just that her mother was transferred to another hospital, or even...

Even if his mother left him and ran away, he could accept it.

"I said, your mother is dead." Ji Cixi said calmly.

Almost instantly, Ji Xu's tears fell.

Ji Cixi raised her head, she looked at Ji Xu who first wept silently, then sobbed softly, and finally wept loudly.

She stretched out her hand, wanting to take the child into her arms like many adults did, but before she raised her hand, she took it back.

She found that she couldn't do it at all.

Before Ji Ciwen died, she didn't have any affection for Ji Xu, she just thought he was her sister's child and her nephew by blood, and raising him by herself was just helping her sister.

But now, Ji Ciwen is dead, looking at Ji Xu in front of him, Ji Cixi suddenly doesn't know what to take this child for.

Ji Xu cried heart-rendingly, and Ji Cixi sat beside him and watched him cry.

It took about half an hour, maybe tired from crying, Ji Xu collapsed on the sofa with sweat profusely and passed out.

Ji Cixi got up and went to his room to find a blanket to cover him, she bent down and pushed aside the sweat-soaked bangs on Ji Xu's forehead, and wiped his forehead with a tissue.Afterwards, she went to change her clothes, and when she returned to her room, she saw the almost finished sweater in the shopping bag brought back from the hospital.

Ji Xu didn't sleep well this time, he always woke up drowsily and then fell asleep drowsily again.Finally, he rolled over and rolled off the couch.

"Oops—" He held his buttocks that hurt from the fall, and he was completely awake.

Ji Cixi raised her eyelids and glanced at him, it turned out that she had been sitting beside her all the time.

"Wake up, just right." She handed two sweaters to Ji Xu who was still sitting on the ground, one grass green and one bright yellow.

"This is what your mother left for you, try it, and then put it away." After she said that, she stood up and looked down at him.

"Do you want supper?"

Ji Xu turned his head when he heard the words, and saw that it was still pitch black outside the window.

It is early morning.

It turned out that Ji Cixi sat beside him and accompanied him until now.

Ji Xu hurriedly stood up, he patted the dust off his body, he shook his head, his voice was still full of tears.

"No need, auntie, I'm going... to try on clothes."

After he finished speaking, he ran back to his room with two sweaters in his arms.

Ji Xu tried on two sweaters one by one, the grass green one was smaller, and the bright yellow one fit well.

He tried, and the tears burst again.

From now on, he will no longer be able to wear the sweater that his mother knitted by himself.

Ji Xu hugged the sweater and cried for a while, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Come out to eat." Ji Cixi's voice came.

Ji Xu hurriedly agreed, he stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears indiscriminately, packed his clothes and hurried out of the room.

"I bought some quick-frozen dumplings, wash your hands and come over to eat."

"Hey." Ji Xu responded, went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and washed his face by the way.

He knew that he would probably live with his aunt from now on, and he also knew that his aunt was just a aunt, and she had no obligation to live with him.

To my aunt, I may be a burden.

Therefore, he couldn't let his aunt despise him.

He walked out of the bathroom, cheered up and ran to the tea table. Ji Cixi glanced at him, and then at the hot dumplings.

"There's no need to pretend." Ji Cixi said.

It was said that the central matter, Ji Xuben was eating dumplings with his head down, and his head was even lower.

"If you don't cry when you encounter this kind of thing, are you still a normal person?" Ji Cixi didn't look at him, and just used chopsticks to fiddle with the white and fat dumplings on the plate, probably because the dumplings were cooked for a long time, and the outer skin of the dumplings was a bit soft.

"But don't cry for too long, and no one will sympathize if you cry for too long."

"What about Auntie?" Ji Xu raised his head, looking at her with red eyes ignorantly.

"Auntie...why didn't you cry?"

The chopsticks in Ji Cixi's hand suddenly slammed hard, piercing the skin of a dumpling, and the oil soup stored in the dumpling dripped out instantly.

Ji Cixi put down her chopsticks, she turned to look at Ji Xu, and said with a blank expression:

"Because I'm not normal."

She said and stood up.

"You cleaned the plate after eating by yourself."

Ji Cixi turned around and entered the room, and slammed the door shut.

Ji Xu realized that he might have said something wrong, and was a little at a loss.

Of course Ji Cixi was not as angry as Ji Xu when she was idle, she went back to her room and turned on her laptop, and typed the words "Chen Group" on the search engine.

News related to the Chen family popped up in front of him in an instant, Ji Cixi glanced at it coldly for a while, and then searched for the word "Chen Yuanyang".

She glanced intently, and finally turned off the computer and turned off the lights.

She lay down on the bed, her mind racing.

She suddenly remembered Chen Yuanzhen who had been hovering around Ji Xu before.

Chen, Yuan, Zhen.

It turned out to be a family.

Ji Cixi turned over, she closed her eyes.

Chen Yuanyang had already found the hospital before, and it seemed that he wanted to take Ji Xu away.Before her sister died, she also told her who the child's biological father was, and she probably wanted her to bring the child to the Chen family.

But Ji Cixi always felt that this calculation was wrong.

At the beginning, it was because Ji Ciwen insisted on being with Chen Yuanyang that indirectly caused the death of his parents.Ji Ciwen is indeed a jerk, but if Chen Yuanyang lived up to her, she wouldn't end up like that.

The most innocent person in the whole thing is Ji Cixi, but now her family is ruined.

Although she has no plans to fall in love and get married, she has been judged infertile in advance.If Chen Yuanyang really takes Ji Xu away, she will be a lonely family for the rest of her life.

The more Ji Cixi thought about it, the more annoyed she felt, she sat up abruptly.

She was sweating all over, and her heart was burning all over her body.

Early the next morning, Ji Cixi rushed to the hospital to deal with the remaining matters. When she went out, she took all the keys of the house with her and locked the door from the outside.

After she had completed the death certificate, she went to cancel Ji Ciwen's account. When the staff finished canceling the account and returned the account book to Ji Cixi, Ji Cixi's nose suddenly felt sore.

She hurriedly left after thanking the staff in a panic.

In the end, she followed the hospital car to the funeral home.

Ji Cixi finally decided not to hold a funeral for Ji Ciwen, but directly cremated.

Although the people in the funeral home advised her not to cremate the body so early, Ji Cixi remained unmoved and insisted on solving all the matters today.

She heard someone beside her whispering about her relationship with Ji Ciwen, and also heard their unbelievable exclamations when they learned that she was the sister of the deceased.

"Are you sure... today?"

Before the cremation, some staff members asked her in a low voice.

Ji Cixi didn't speak, but just nodded.

The words have come to this point, and the staff stopped persuading. After the eulogy was read, there was a collective silence, and after that, it was cremated.

Through the glass, Ji Cixi watched as Ji Ciwen's body was slowly pushed into the cremation furnace.

Her heart suddenly became empty, she turned and left, deciding to wait outside.

Standing outside the funeral home, she looked up at the already yellowed sky.

When she was studying, she saw that many authors were writing. When the protagonist's family died, no matter what she saw, she would feel a lot of emotions, and finally shed tears.

When she lost her parents, she looked up at the blood-colored sky, and she found that she had nothing to say.

Now that she has lost her sister, and looking up at the sky, she finds that she still has nothing to say.

Maybe she is really not a normal person as she said.

In the evening, Ji Cixi returned home, holding an urn in his hand.

She opened the door, and Ji Xu stood in front of the door, looking at her with blood red eyes.

Ji Cixi didn't speak, just closed the door, walked around him to the living room.

She put the urn on the table and called Ji Xu over.

"Do you know why you weren't allowed to go?" She sat on the sofa and asked coldly.

Ji Xu was still angry, he didn't speak, but looked at her.

"Because you will drag me down." Ji Cixi looked at Ji Xu with a blank expression.

"Although I can't swallow this breath in my heart, it is your father after all, and he is a very rich father."

Ji Cixi told Ji Xu the identity of his biological father, and described Chen's wealth in a way that Ji Xu could imagine.

"So, the next thing is actually a matter of choice." Ji Cixi said.

Ji Xu, who had no idea about his father, looked at Ji Cixi, his voice was a little hoarse and trembling.

"What... what choice question?"

"Whether you want to live in the Chen family or not. If you want to go, then you can go with this." Ji Cixi said, pushing the urn forward and knocking on it.

Ji Xu looked down at the urn, the mother in the photo was smiling brightly.

As fresh and dazzling as the morning sun.

"Maybe some guy will say that you can't speak ill of his father in front of the child, it's not good for the child's growth. But,"

Ji Cixi smiled, she leaned on the sofa and crossed her legs.

"However, I can't do it. Maybe for you, even if you haven't met your father, he is still a great existence in your heart. Unfortunately, compared to your feelings, I feel more sorry for my sister, and also It's your mother."

Ji Xu cried again in pain as he listened, he wiped it vigorously with his sleeve, as if he didn't want Ji Cixi to feel that he could only cry.

"So, even if you choose to go back to live with that scumbag, you still have to carry your mother's urn. That scumbag, that scumbag's family, can't forget her. As for you and me, from now on, we will never forget her." .but if..."

Before Ji Cixi could finish speaking, Ji Xu interrupted her.

"But...but what if I don't go back!"

Ji Cixi was taken aback, she paused for a moment before continuing.

"If you don't plan to go back, from today onwards, you will only be a member of the Ji family."

"I don't want to go back to the Chen family, and I don't want to be a member of the Chen family!"

Almost without hesitation, Ji Xu cried out.

Ji Cixi was a little surprised, she didn't expect Ji Xu to answer so simply.

"You should think about it. I will only give you the chance to return to the Chen family this time, and I won't give you a chance to go back on your word..."

Before she finished speaking, Ji Xu rushed over and threw himself into her arms.

"Auntie, don't drive me away...I don't want to go..." Ji Xu cried out with convulsions.

Ji Cixi was taken aback by Ji Xu's sudden action, she suddenly became at a loss.

Only gradually, Ji Cixi's heart softened when he saw Ji Xu who was crying pitifully in his arms.

Perhaps that is not a soft heart, but a kind of sympathetic understanding.

She stretched out her hand to caress Ji Xu's back.

Finally at this moment, Ji Cixi, who had never cried before, shed a tear.

The author has something to say: The next chapter should be posted (*^▽^*) Recently, I have been a little busy, and I may update it every two days, and it should resume every other day in a few days~