Luck fades, Jiang Zuo stays

Wei Zhiyu turned around and, after seeing who it was, the man who was usually eloquent suddenly lost his voice.

It was a man and a woman.

The man was wearing an extremely formal, decades-old suit, and his half-white hair was carefully combed into a side part. Meeting Wei Zhiyu’s gaze, he seemed a bit restrained.

What surprised Wei Zhiyu was not this, but that the man had lost his right arm.

Seemingly to support his frail wife, he had specially used cloth strips to tightly bind his arm, and the force was so great that it must have been very uncomfortable.

The man thought Wei Zhiyu hadn’t heard him clearly, and nervously handed over his pink card, repeating,

“Has the activity started now? Are we… are we late?”

Wei Zhiyu came back to his senses and hurriedly helped the man to place the woman on a chair to sit down.

He took the card and glanced at it, first welcoming their arrival, and then led Lin’s father to a wall panel.

“If you have anything you want to say to your child, you can write it on the back of this card, and we will hand the card over to the children.”

Lin’s father chuckled, held the pen for a long time, and awkwardly wrote a few words with his left hand, handing it to Wei Zhiyu.

Wei Zhiyu hung the card on the front end of the wall panel, and led the man back to his seat:

“You can rest here for a while, the activity doesn’t start until ten o’clock.”

Just as he was talking, a few obviously familiar women walked over chatting.

“Hey, you must be Teacher Wei, right? I’ve seen your variety show before, you’re much more handsome in person than on TV!”

“Oh, Teacher Wei, I’m so sorry, Shan Ze’s father is too busy to get away, I can only come myself.”

“I’ve long wanted to see what Zhiqing is like at school, that girl doesn’t focus on studying, I’m especially worried about her!”

They spoke with a strong local accent, and Wei Zhiyu could chat with them after hearing half and guessing half.

In this way, in a short while, the wall panel was mostly occupied.

Shan Ze’s mother whispered to Lin’s mother, her tone revealing concern: “Your body isn’t well, don’t come out and get blown by the wind again!”

Lin’s mother raised the corners of her lips: “Yunyun’s father said he doesn’t want Yunyun to be worse than others.”

At ten o’clock, the theme song of “I Have My Love” sounded in the kindergarten.

Although the children didn’t quite understand why, the muscle memory of doing exercises to this music during the inter-class activities for the past few days had already led them to dance with their hands and feet.

Jiang Song smiled and pulled open the latch, exchanged glances with Wei Zhiyu and Shi Yun, who were already standing outside ready, and pushed the door open vigorously.

Shan Ze was rolling on the ground with his partner, playing so absorbed that he didn’t notice.

When he looked up, he met his mother’s angry gaze, his head was still dazed, but he instinctively ran away: “Teacher, there’s a ghost!”

His partner was completely different from him, running happily to a man who was squatting down and waving: “Dad, Mom!”

As the door opened wider, similar sounds became louder.

Lucky was surrounded by many children, but now they all ran into the crowd, either finding their father or their mother.

Even if their parents couldn’t come, there were older sisters and brothers accompanying them.

All of a sudden, the kindergarten was filled with happy sounds.

Lucky felt as if there was a barrier in front of her, otherwise why couldn’t she blend in and empathize with their happiness?

Lucky tilted her head, standing outside the excitement, silently peeking at the happy appearance of the other children.

She watched Ning Jia acting coquettishly in her mother’s arms, imagining her own mother beside her, but when she looked up, she found that after so long, she had already blurred her mother’s face.

Lucky thought, it’s okay.

She silently picked up a colored flag that someone had dropped on the ground, sniffed, suppressed the lonely emotions, and comforted herself:

It’s okay, it’s okay… Grandpa said I’m a king, the strongest, and I can’t let Dad, Mom, and Grandma in the sky worry.
I can do it myself.

Lucky walked to the side of the little lamb Yuan Yuan, touched the little lamb, and said to herself, “Aren’t your parents here either? Brother will accompany Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan is not afraid.”

She thought of what Teacher An taught her, deliberately imitating an adult’s appearance, and said in a childish voice: “You are hope.”

As she was talking, she suddenly felt something cold slide across her cheek.

She blinked in confusion, and as larger and larger tears rolled down, she realized that she had already been in tears without realizing it.

An emotion called sadness swept over her.

“Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma, I don’t want to be a king anymore…”

Shan Ze’s mother couldn’t bear to watch and was about to go forward to comfort the child when a friend pulled her back, gesturing for her to look at the woman who was coming with Shi Yun.

Shan Ze’s mother and her friend exchanged surprised glances, and then felt relieved.

Jiang Song handed them a card and smiled mysteriously: “It will be hard for everyone when we eat later!”

The woman walked behind Lucky, what’s her name?”

Lucky turned her head and, at the moment she saw the person in front of her, she remembered all the details of her mother.

She couldn’t help but stand up, uttering the word with unfamiliarity, anticipation, and grievance, “Mom…”

Ms. Wang couldn’t hold back anymore,

“My child, I’m late…”

The tears, which had been suppressed for a long time, finally found an outlet to vent.

Shi Yun completed an important task, stood beside An Huaixu, relaxed, and shook the card in his hand at An Huaixu—

[Surprise Mission: Go to Sancun Market to pick up Lucky’s aunt, Ms. Wang.

Today is Lucky’s birthday, pay attention to maintaining a sense of surprise.]

An Huaixu glanced at the card, looked at Shi Yun, and couldn’t help but smile.

After Ms. Wang calmed Lucky down, she explained, “I’m your mother’s sister, Lucky should call me Auntie.”

Ms. Wang’s husband patted her on the back, squatted down, and said in as gentle a voice as possible,

“Your aunt’s health isn’t good, she just walked through the gates of hell, and she has always been very concerned about you.”

“Auntie?”

Lucky seemed to find this word unfamiliar.

Ms. Wang smiled through her tears: “When you were little, I even held you, don’t you have a scar on your forehead? I accidentally bumped you into it!”

Lucky touched the corner of her forehead covered by her hair, where there was indeed a triangular scar that no one knew about.

Ms. Wang seemed to remember something and took out a well-preserved black-and-white photo from her pocket: “Look, this is me, this is… your mother, my sister.”

Lucky looked at the familiar face in the photo and finally let down her guard.

She felt shy and called out “Auntie,” quickly lowered her head, and fidgeted with her clothes.

Ms. Wang touched Lucky’s head, looked at the child’s dirty appearance, and felt very sad:

“Lucky, do you want to see your grandpa and grandma? They are your mother’s parents.”

Lucky was stunned. In her memory, there had never been any memory of ‘grandma’ or ‘grandpa’.

She couldn’t answer this question for a while.

“Your grandma looks at your photos every day, and your grandpa has also bought you many toys.

Auntie’s house is in the city, it’s very big and nice, and you’re just like Lucky, such a precious treasure. Are you willing to go home with Auntie?”

Lucky needed time to digest this long list of information, blinked blankly, and didn’t say anything.

Ms. Wang wanted to continue asking, but was stopped by her husband.

“The crew invited us to come and play with Lucky, let’s play first, and give the child some time to adjust.”

After Ms. Wang’s husband finished speaking, he picked up Lucky with a “heiyo.”

Lucky was startled and clung tightly to his hand.

Ms. Wang supported Lucky: “Come on, today your aunt and uncle will take you to have a good time! Hey… don’t drop Lucky!”

“You underestimate your man too much, don’t you? With Lucky’s small body, not only can I carry her and walk, but I can also run!”

After saying that, Ms. Wang’s husband grabbed Lucky’s hands and ran forward.

Lucky closed her eyes nervously and, after realizing there was no danger, carefully opened a slit.

Then she saw a vast field of vision she had never seen before, heard her aunt and uncle’s affectionate bickering in her ears, and felt the warm wind finally rushing towards her.

Her hair was blown behind her head, and her stiff back finally gradually relaxed, and she giggled along with their voices.

She wouldn’t have to envy other children anymore.

From today onwards, she also had an aunt, an uncle, and grandparents she hadn’t met.

At 10:30, the parent-child games officially began.

The uncle took Lucky to play games such as ‘three-legged race’, ‘tug-of-war’, and ‘carrying stones across the river’.

The uncle was very humorous, and Lucky was very relaxed as a result.

Although their scores weren’t very good, Lucky’s laughter resounded from beginning to end.

As noon approached, the parents of a dozen or so children made a meal together.

Lucky sat at a small table, looking expectantly at the bowl of noodles that the uncle brought.

“Happy birthday.”

Lucky was stunned.

After Grandpa passed away, she thought no one would remember her birthday again, but unexpectedly…

She couldn’t help but cry again, hugging her aunt.

Only this time, she wasn’t crying silently, but crying out of happiness and surprise.

An Huaixu and Jiang Song came out together carrying a large cake.

Everyone who had received the small task cards issued by Jiang Song earlier smiled knowingly.

“Surprise!”

“It’s the first time I’ve done this sneaky thing, I’m still pretty unskilled.”

“Hey, if you don’t know how to describe it, then don’t describe it!”

Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Jiang Song called out to everyone, “Come on, little birthday star, let’s celebrate your birthday!”

Fang Yuan and Ning Jia were squeezing on either side of Lucky.

“Hey, why are you crying?!”

“Lucky’s crying!”

Guai Guai and An Shuqi were squeezed next to the cake: “So fragrant…”

Pin Chi pulled Guai Guai back: “You only think everything but the main meal is fragrant!”

A few parents walked over, placing a dish on the round table:

“We didn’t have time to make anything else, so this ‘scrambled eggs with tomatoes’ is to wish Lucky a prosperous future!”

“Zhiqing’s mom, what do you want us uneducated people to do!” This person paused, and said simply, “Better and better.”

Carpenter Chen gave Lucky a wooden airplane, following the crowd: “Then… more and more…”

The surrounding area burst into laughter again.

Shi Yun walked over with a staff member holding a camera: “It’s so lively today, let’s take a group photo!”

Under Shi Yun’s words, everyone got up and stood in place.

Shi Yun didn’t like taking photos, and originally intended to just watch, but unexpectedly a few parents noticed him and waved for him to come over.

He couldn’t refuse, so he stood next to An Huaixu.

An Huaixu looked at him, and the two smiled at each other.

Just as the shutter sound rang at this moment.

Ms. Wang leaned down and asked Lucky: “Do you want to go home with Auntie?”

Lucky pursed her lips and looked up at her uncle.

The uncle smiled: “It’s okay, say whatever you’re thinking, it’s fine!”

Lucky also looked at Shi Yun.

Shi Yun nodded to her, silently saying: “Go.”

Lucky wasn’t very confident: “Auntie, will Grandma and Grandpa like me?”

Ms. Wang nodded: “Of course!”

Lucky’s face was red, and she was looking forward to having a family: “Then, I want to…”

Ms. Wang was overjoyed: “Good, great, let’s go home this afternoon, Grandma has been missing you for a long time!”

Afternoon?

Lucky suddenly realized that she was about to leave the kindergarten.

Before she could say anything, Fang Yuan and Ning Jia “waahed” and pounced over: “Are you leaving?”

The other children were informed of this news by Shi Yun and also surrounded Lucky with great reluctance:

“Can you not go?”

“I’ll miss you.”

“Will you forget us?”

“Lucky, are you going to live in a big house?”

“Lucky King…”

“Lucky…”

Lucky deeply imprinted their faces in her heart.

Ms. Wang slowly retreated to Shi Yun’s side.

Shi Yun said, “Lucky usually looks carefree, but she’s actually quite sensitive and fragile.”

Ms. Wang chuckled: “She’s very similar to my sister in this respect.

My mom often says that if my sister had been a little stronger, she wouldn’t have—never mind, it’s just hard on our Lucky.”

Shi Yun listened to the intermittent sobs in his ears, and his heart wasn’t very good either, but he knew that this was still the best choice for Lucky.

After a long time.

Lucky, held in Ms. Wang’s arms, waved goodbye to the kindergarten with the printed kindergarten group photo.

Lucky got into the car with red eyes.

Shi Yun also coaxed the children back into the house with red eyes.

He stood outside and looked at the sleeping faces of the children, and said softly: “Congratulations to all the children for completing the ‘farewell’ class.”

Shi Yun heard the sound of footsteps behind him, turned around and found it was An Huaixu.

He looked at An Huaixu’s eyes and smiled twice: “Although you didn’t say anything, Huaixu Brother, I can tell that you’re also pretty sad.”

An Huaixu didn’t refute, but suddenly asked him: “What do you think your biological parents should be like?”

Shi Yun didn’t expect him to turn the topic to himself, propped his chin, and thought seriously but to no avail:

“I don’t know, when you mention my parents, my head is full of my dad and my mom, and my sister.”

An Huaixu nodded and didn’t say anything else.

The two of them stood side by side on the steps, looking up at the sky together.

Shi Yun seemed to be curious and actually threw this question to An Huaixu:

“Huaixu Brother, what kind of people do you think my biological parents are?”

An Huaixu was silent for a few seconds and said softly: “They love you very much.”

Shi Yun lowered his eyes and joked, “Are you comforting me because of yesterday?”

An Huaixu took a deep breath and was about to say no when Ani waved to Shi Yun in the distance, her expression a bit nervous.

Shi Yun walked over quickly: “What’s wrong, Sister Ani?”

Ani handed him the phone: “Teacher Jiang is trending on the hot search.”

What’s wrong with Teacher Jiang?

Shi Yun hurriedly looked at the phone screen and saw a string of cold words:

#Jiang Nianyu is not Jiang Song’s biological daughter#

#Jiang Song is gay#

#Chen Yu#

An Huaixu, who had just walked over, happened to hear Shi Yun exclaim in surprise, “Teacher Jiang is gay?!”

An Huaixu slowly stopped and looked back at Jiang Song, who was standing not far away.