After a long time, Li Tong and her great aunt hugged and cried for a while.
Zhao Chunrong also wiped tears on the side.
Zhao Chunrong thought that she and her daughter had been through so many trials and tribulations, and that they were already strong enough.
The joy of seeing their loved ones still broke down the defences they had built up in their hearts.
Being strong was for outsiders to see, in front of their loved ones, there was no need for so much pretence.
“Look at you, such beautiful make-up has been blurred by crying.”Li Xiang Xiang wiped Li Tong’s tears while helping her, looking at her niece who hadn’t seen her for more than ten years becoming so radiant, she as an aunt was heartily happy.
Li Tong clutched Li Xiang Xiang’s other hand and said, “Big Aunt, you’ve lost weight.”
“Big Aunt is old, her teeth don’t work anymore, she can’t compare to you youngsters.”Li Xiangxiang looked Li Tong up and down and said, “Tong Tong is getting prettier and prettier, just like a big star, if you walk down the street, Big Aunt won’t dare to recognise you.”
Li Tong smiled and said, “No matter where I meet you, I’m sure I’ll be able to recognise Big Auntie at once.”
Li Xiangxiang caressed Li Tong’s hair and said with a doting face, “This child of yours, you are still so good at talking and so pleasing to the eye.”
Zhao Chunrong looked at her aunt and nephew with a smile on her face, as if she had returned to more than ten years ago in a trance.
Li Xiangxiang was very good to her mother and daughter back then, treating Li Tong, her niece, as if she were her own daughter.
Zhao Chunrong and Li Tong’s father, Li Dainian divorce, Li Xiangxiang this big aunt with a shovel full of yard running after Li Dainian, to shoot her conscience let the dog eat his brother.
When Li Tong and Zhao Chunrong left Pingshan, the only one who still kept in touch was Li Xiangxiang.
Li Xiangxiang was so distressed that she sent money to both of them every month.
The first year Li Tong and Zhao Chunrong drifted north, New Year’s time, the two could not resist the persuasion of Li Xiangxiang, bought a train ticket from Kyoto back to Li Xiangxiang’s home for New Year’s Eve.
As a result, the great aunt Wang Guisheng saw this pair of no longer have any relationship with their own family, but has always been by the wife of the mother and daughter of the nose is not nose, eyes are not eyes.
Li Xiangxiang was furious, Li Tong and Zhao Chunrong were persuaded to come back by her own efforts, but suffered from her husband’s eyes, there is no such reason.
The new year, Li Xiangxiang and her husband had a big fight, in the village made a lot of noise, let a lot of people look at the joke.
If not for the Civil Affairs Bureau holiday during the Spring Festival, it is estimated that the two would have taken their marriage certificates to exchange them.
Li Tong and Zhao Chunrong learnt the reason from the course of their quarrel and knew that the two of them were persona non grata.
Since then, the mother and daughter never came back, and broke contact with Li Xiangxiang.
Continue to keep in touch, as if it is clear that Li Xiangxiang to succour himself and his mother.
Although the days are hard and poor, but Li Tong is also a person with backbone, do not want to drag anyone down again.
A flash of more than ten years past, the events of that year are still vivid, as if right in front of us.
Once again, Zhao Chunrong visited Li Tong’s great aunt’s home, Zhao Chunrong had a lot of feelings.
Thinking back to that year, he and his daughter to Li Xiangxiang home New Year’s Eve with a chicken and a fish, but also spent more than 90 yuan to buy two green train tickets even seats are not.
The daughter is not easy to earn money, and he is a sick man without any income, Zhao Chunrong felt quite heartbroken at that time.
Today, the two of them are carrying a few boxes of gifts that cost more than 1,000 yuan.
Zhao Chunrong always remind themselves, also always remind their daughters, their two can have today are Wu brought to the two.
Seeing the mother and daughter who were so down and out that they needed their own help, but now they look like they are doing well, Li Xiangxiang also had a burst of emotion inside.
Niece Li Tong’s dress, from inside to outside through a noble atmosphere.
Although Zhao Chunrong was dressed plainly, but looking at the material of the clothes she was wearing, the clothes she was wearing were not cheap either.
The large bags that the two people were carrying were things that Li Xiangxiang had only seen on TV.
Across more than ten years, meeting twice before and after, there were too many changes on these two mothers.
“Tongtong, Chunrong you guys are also, come to the house and still buy these things for what, with me still so outgoing.”Li Xiangxiang looked at the two of them carrying large bags and chided.
Li Tong smiled and said, “The company issued a shopping card, do not spend the expiry of the void.”
Zhao Chunrong said: “Her great aunt, I and Tong Tong so many years have not come to the door, come to see you to buy some things is due.”
“Buy have bought, I will not say anything, next time you can not bring something, people come than bring anything.”
Li Xiangxiang didn’t make too much of a fuss with the two men and greeted them as they entered the door: “People are getting old and their brains don’t work well anymore, come in and sit down, let’s not stand around in the courtyard.”
Li Xiangxiang pulled Li Tong with one hand and Zhao Chunrong with the other towards the main house.
Entering the house, Li Tong looked at the empty living room and felt a little strange.
The big aunt’s house looked like it was newly built within a few years, spacious and bright.
But the living room only support a small round table, placed a few homemade small stools, giving people the feeling of empty.
Li Tong also found that the floor by the north wall has obvious traces of furniture.
Zhao Chunrong entered the house, and like Li Tong’s reaction, asked Li Xiangxiang, “Her great aunt, is this the home being prepared for renovation?”
Li Xiangxiang waved her hand and sighed, “Hey, don’t mention it, don’t mention it.”
“Tongtong, Chunrong, quickly sit, don’t stand.”Li Xiangxiang said, moving small stools for mother and daughter.
Li Tong and Zhao Chunrong looked at each other, feeling as if something had happened in Li Xiangxiang’s house.
The two sat down and put the gift box at their feet, Li Tong put her bag on the other small bench, and the car keys on the small round table.
Li Xiangxiang changed the topic and asked, ”Tong Tong, when did you and your mum come back? Where are you staying now? Are you still leaving this time?”
Li Tong smiled and said, “I’ve been back for a few months, I’m not leaving this time, my mum and I are now living in Shimen, temporarily renting a room, and I’m about to buy my own house.”
“Buying a house in the city?”Li Xiangxiang was startled when she heard Li Tong’s words.
The topic of housing prices was a hot topic of discussion even in the countryside.
The houses in Shimen were still far away for Li Xiangxiang, and she was not sure about the property prices.
But she had heard people in the village discussing the houses in the county, and the house prices in the small county were looking to break ten thousand, and the houses in the city would only get more expensive.
In the city, a house of a hundred or so square metres would cost at least a few million.
Rural people save a lifetime of money, it is difficult to save enough for a down payment.
Li Xiangxiang looked at her radiant niece and had a very bad feeling inside.
Tong Tong wouldn’t be the same as the kind of women played in TV dramas, learnt a bad lesson, degenerated, and worked for a rich man as a ……
“No, it won’t be ……” This idea just flashed out from Li Xiangxiang’s mind, and was hastily rejected by her.
She knew that her niece was not that kind of person.
After Zhao Chunrong saw Li Xiangxiang’s expression, in order to avoid any misunderstanding, she hurriedly explained, “Tongtong and I met a noble person, Tongtong has a classmate ……”
Zhao Chunrong told the story from beginning to end of how the two met Wu Jun in Kyoto and were brought back by him.
“After Xiao Wu picked me and Tongtong back up, he arranged a place to live and a job, it’s all thanks to Xiao Wu that Tongtong and I are here today, that we both made it back.”
Zhao Chunrong’s voice had choked up a little when she said it at the end.
Li Tong reached out to hold her mother’s hand, she knew her mother’s intention of always mentioning Wu Jun in front of her.
In fact, without her mother’s constant reminder, Li Tong already had an idea in her heart.