Chapter 1: Warm Eyes (4)

  As soon as they returned to Grandma's house, Tang sugar first gave her drenched grandma a bath from head to toe, so that she could avoid getting sick from getting rained on.

  After washing her hair, Tang sugar was blowing dry Grandma's wet hair while hesitating to speak.

  At this time, Grandma's mind was also much clearer. Like a child who had done something wrong, she would occasionally steal a glance at the mirror and say after a long while: "It's all grandma's fault. As soon as I see a beautiful middle-aged woman, I'll think it's your mother."

  "Mom died early." Tang sugar finally said what she had wanted to say for a long time, sadly lowering her eyelids. This sentence was like reminding grandma, and also like telling herself not to fantasize anymore, mom is really gone, no one can replace mom.

  Teacher Qin's appearance flashed across her mind like a shooting star, and she silently sighed.

  It was already dark outside before 7 o'clock due to the rain, and since Dad wasn't home today, Tang Sugar decided to spend more time with Grandma.

  "Your mother is not dead." Grandma suddenly muttered.

  Tang Sugarnar's hand holding the hair dryer shook involuntarily as she stared at her grandmother in the mirror with a solemn expression.

  "Think about it, every year I make osmanthus cake, as soon as I put it on the table, a few pieces are always missing. It must be your mom sneaking to eat them, she loves osmanthus cake the most. She must be hiding somewhere in this house playing hide-and-seek with us."

  The more grandma spoke, the more agitated she became, and was about to get up and go look.

  Tang Sugar suddenly wanted to get angry: "Mom is really dead! Dead for a long time! Those osmanthus cakes were stolen by Xiao Heizi!"

  She let out a hysterical cry, and a wave of inexpressible grievance surged up to her heart. Tang sugar squatted on the ground and burst into tears, burying her head between her knees and sobbing: "Every time osmanthus cake is placed on the dinner table, Xiao Heizi always passes by the table without stopping, and each time it passes by, one piece of osmanthus cake will be missing."

  "What cat would eat Osmanthus cake? That's made of glutinous rice." Her grandmother didn't believe what she said.

  Tang Sugar was speechless for a moment, and it took him a long time to say: "Little Black was originally just a very strange cat."

  That was indeed a very strange cat, from nowhere, only to know that it suddenly appeared on the day of mom's death, looking very cute and silly, with a round head, big eyes shining like two gems.

  At that time, Tangtang had just lost her mother and cried all day. She didn't want to play with her little friends anymore. In the end, everyone was tired of her crying and no one bothered her again, except for Xiao Heizi who stubbornly stayed by her side.

  Later, Father was going to take her to his new home, and Xiao Hei was also going to follow, but Tang Sugar thought that Grandma was old and alone, so she left Xiao Hei with Grandma as a companion. Xiao Hei seemed to be spiritual, every time Grandma's illness relapsed, it could bring Tang Sugar to find Grandma quickly, but this time, why didn't it appear?

  Tang sugar suddenly worried about Xiao Hei, and immediately forgot to cry. She stood up and asked her grandmother: "Why can't I see Xiao Hei?"

  Just as Grandma was about to answer, a lazy meow came from the bedroom: "Meow..."

  Xiao Heizi walked out with a steady and unhurried pace, looking extremely arrogant.

  Tang sugar's face was filled with mixed emotions as he picked it up, pretending to use a lot of force but actually being very gentle, and slapped its buttocks lightly. He scolded in a stern tone, "I told you to take good care of your grandma, where did you run off to play?"

  The little black cat meowed loudly, as if it was telling her thousands of words, but unfortunately Tang sugar couldn't understand a single word.

  After having a simple dinner with her grandmother, watching her fall asleep, Tang sugar turned off the lights and prepared to leave. In the darkness, her grandmother suddenly said sadly: "Tang sugar, I don't want to live here anymore. As long as I live here, I won't be able to forget your mother."

  Tang Tang was stunned in the darkness, tears silently and continuously falling. After a long time, she barely controlled her emotions, choking back sobs to say: "Grandma, wait until I have money later, then I'll take you away from here."

  Leave this cold place, leave these humiliating memories of being bullied and isolated.

  Little Hei squatted on Grandma's bed, a pair of bright eyes like the brightest stars in the night sky twinkling in the dark, as if encouraging Tang Sugar.

  Walking on the empty street, the wind and rain outside were still so strong. Tang sugar was holding an umbrella, but a gust of wind blew it over, she hastily closed the umbrella against the wind, not daring to open it again, hugging the wet umbrella tightly in her arms like a precious treasure. She thought of Gu Xian's eyes and felt a warmth in her heart, but suddenly that piercing phrase popped into her mind: "I would even care for a stray dog." Her heart suddenly chilled, and she felt a wave of coldness, involuntarily hugging her arms tightly.

  When she stood at the door of her father's house, drenched from head to toe, it was her aunt who opened the door. As soon as she saw her appearance, she exclaimed in an exaggerated tone: "My goodness! How did you end up like this? A girl from a good family, not returning home after school, wandering around outside, must have met some bad people, wait till your dad comes back and beats you to death!"

  Her cries startled three other households on the same floor, who opened their cold and heavy anti-theft doors one after another, looking at her with strange expressions.

  Tang sugar tried to stick close to the wall, reducing her presence as much as possible. She didn't want others to see her tattered clothes, but she also didn't want to explain herself, and could only weakly resist in silence.

  "Mom, how did she end up like this?" A girl's voice. Tang Sugar knew at once that it was Jiang Lili from the neighboring class, who loved gossiping and seemed to have inherited her mother's true legacy.

  "It must be that you've met a bad guy, this is the consequence of not studying well!" Jiang Lili's mother said disdainfully and then heavily closed the security door, as if even looking at Tang Sugar for another second was filthy.

  Several other households also quietly closed their anti-theft doors.

  "Hurry up and come in, aren't you ashamed enough already?" Auntie shouted sternly, her seductive face twisting into a fierce scowl.

  Tang Sugar carefully walked into the house, with rainwater dripping onto the floor from her body.

  Auntie glared at her with extreme disgust: "Get out and take a bath, look what you've done to the house!"

  "Then loudly shouted: 'Aunt Mei! Mop the floor again!'"

  Mei Yi responded with a "hmm" and walked out of her nurse's room. As she passed by Tang Sugar, her expression immediately changed, and she complained: "Young lady, can't you make things easier for me?"

  Tang Sugarmouth walked into the bathroom with no expression, and behind him, Mei Ayi said: "Look, compared to Young Master, one is in heaven and the other is underground!"

  As soon as the faucet was turned on, Sugar's tears also flowed out, and this seemed to have become a necessary task for her every day. Only at this time could she cry freely and vent the grievances and pain in her heart.

  After taking a bath, Tang sugar went upstairs and entered her own room to do her homework. No one asked if she had eaten dinner or not.

  After a while, Tang sugar felt hot all over her body. She knew she had a fever. At first, she endured it, but later she started to have severe headaches and began to worry. Since the back of her head was hit today, would...

  She suddenly became afraid, swaying and staggering as she got up from her chair, feeling dizzy.

  She struggled to walk to the door, her hand barely touched the doorknob, but she couldn't hold on any longer, and her whole body fell softly onto the cold floor...