Rebirth: Pampered by My Children and Husband

Chapter 194: Chapter 194 What Kind of Person is Mother?

“What are you guys talking about?”

Ji Yuqiao walked in, interrupting their conversation.

She returned in a hurry, and still had a small backpack on her shoulder she had not yet had the chance to put down.

Lin Xu went over to help her take off the backpack, while walking toward the living room, “Your second brother said he’s going into the film crew to shoot a movie again; he can’t come back for several months, so he’s asking us to visit the set.”

“It’s just a few months, what’s there to see? Second Brother used to live outside for years without coming home, and he’s still living well, isn’t he? He never asked us to visit the set before.” Ji Yuqiao followed into the living room, nonchalantly said.

No sooner had she finished speaking than her head was knocked hard.

Ji Zeqiu was behind her, pulling at the corner of his mouth with a sneer but not really smiling, looking at her, “What’s there to visit? Don’t you want your allowance anymore?”

Ji Yuqiao immediately changed her tune, “Actually, not being able to see Second Brother for so long, I do miss you. When the time comes, I’ll visit the set every day!”

“It doesn’t matter whether you come or not.” Ji Zeqiu’s tone was slightly disdainful.

As long as the mother went, it would be fine.

“I don’t even want to go.” Ji Yuqiao pouted.

After a while, she remembered something and poked Ji Zeqiu, “Second Brother, why did I hear you calling Lin Xu ‘mother’ in the backyard just now?”

“Did I?” Ji Zeqiu said with an indifferent expression, “You might have heard wrong.”

Really?

Ji Yuqiao scratched her head, and her doubts didn’t last long before fading away.

…

Before going to the film crew to shoot, Ji Zeqiu had about a week of rest.

Finding it hard to get home once, he wanted to spend more time with Lin Xu, go see movies with his mother, have big meals, and buy his mother a dress…

But he didn’t expect that he got rid of Ji Tingyang only to have Ji Yuqiao to compete for their mother’s attention.

Lin Xu couldn’t go anywhere without her following, and she even wanted to sleep together.

Watching her about to squeeze into her mother’s bedroom, Ji Zeqiu quickly grabbed the back of her collar, “You’re so grown up, go sleep in your own room.”

“No way, I want to sleep with Lin Xu, we haven’t finished our whispers from last night yet.” Ji Yuqiao shook her head unwillingly.

“What whispers?” Curiosity surfaced on Ji Zeqiu’s face.

The mother had never whispered to him.

“That’s a secret, so I can’t tell you.” Ji Yuqiao broke free from his grasp and slipped into the room, about to close the door.

Ji Zeqiu stretched out his hand to block the closing door.

Ji Yuqiao looked at him, with a teasing light in her eyes, “Second Brother, you don’t want to come in to hear the whispers, do you?”

Ji Zeqiu’s gaze wavered, and he coughed and said, “…It’s starting to rain and thunder outside, weren’t you always afraid of thunder when you were little? I’m going in to protect you.”

“Second Brother, I’ve grown up so much, I’m not afraid of thunder anymore.” Ji Yuqiao rolled her eyes, then said with a bit of pride, “Besides, even if I were afraid of thunder, Lin Xu is here to protect me.”

After saying that, she didn’t give Ji Zeqiu any more time to delay, and she closed the door firmly.

Ji Yuqiao happily returned to the bed, shifted a bit, and cuddled closer to Lin Xu, “Now nobody will disturb us anymore.”

Lin Xu smiled, “What are you going to tell me tonight?”

In recent nights, Ji Yuqiao always liked to chat with her, talking about everything from childhood stories to school gossip.

Lin Xu also listened avidly.

Time flew, and before they knew it, it was morning.

It wasn’t until Ji Tingyang noticed Lin Xu had been sleep-deprived recently, constantly dozing off, after scolding Ji Yuqiao once, that she finally quieted down a bit.

“How about you tell me about yourself instead?” Ji Yuqiao thought over the fact that they had been focusing on her stories; it seemed she hadn’t really understood Lin Xu.

“Do you have anything you like?”

“And…” Ji Yuqiao looked somewhat conflicted, “My auntie, also my mom’s younger sister, right? Have you met her? What kind of person is she?”

Before when she would ask her brothers about their parents, their expressions always turned sad.

Over time, she dared not ask anymore.

But sometimes, I just couldn’t help being curious.

After Ji Yuqiao asked her question, a long time passed without an answer from Lin Xu.

Thinking that she might also be feeling sad, Ji Yuqiao looked up only to find that Lin Xu had already fallen asleep.

Alright then.

I’ll ask next time.

Ji Yuqiao also closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep while holding her.

The sweet scent seeped into Ji Yuqiao’s nose.

So fragrant.

And so warm.

She wondered if the embrace of a mother that her classmates often wrote about in their essays was also this warm…

The next day.

When Ji Yuqiao woke up, Lin Xu was no longer in the bedroom.

She rubbed her eyes and went downstairs, where she found only Ji Tingyang in the living room. “Big brother, where’s Lin Xu?”

Ji Tingyang’s expression clearly wasn’t too good. He answered in a muffled voice, “She went out with Ji Zeqiu.”

Now it was Ji Yuqiao’s turn to be so angry that she gritted her teeth.

Ji Zeqiu had actually sneaked out to have fun with Lin Xu while she was still not fully awake!

She took out her phone and fiercely jabbed at the screen, as if to punch a hole through it, sending several hundred words of condemnation to Ji Zeqiu.

However, Ji Zeqiu was far from repentant and was completely indifferent.

Qiu: [Who told you to oversleep?]

Qiu: [You deserve it.]

Ji Yuqiao threw her phone onto the sofa, huffily saying to Ji Tingyang, “Big brother, tell the crew to keep second brother there for a few more months, don’t let him come home!”

Ji Tingyang took a sip of coffee, his eyebrows slightly raised. “That’s a good idea.”

He glanced at the time on his watch; his lunch break was almost over, and it was time for him to go back to the company.

Ji Tingyang got up and headed for the door. Just after he had changed his shoes, as if remembering something, he turned to Ji Yuqiao, “There’s a sealed file bag on the desk in the study, help me get it.”

“Sure, the errand fee is 1 million.” Ji Yuqiao looked at him with a beaming smile.

Ji Tingyang’s dark gaze swept over lightly. Before he even spoke, Ji Yuqiao backed down, “Forget it, no errand fee then, consider it charity on my part.”

She quickly scurried to the study.

However, she searched the entire desk and couldn’t find any file bag.

Could it be in the drawer?

Ji Yuqiao muttered to herself while pulling open each drawer of the desk.

But as soon as she opened the bottom drawer, a photo caught her eye.

The photo looked like a family portrait, a family of five smiling resplendently at the camera, their happiness and warmth palpable even through the picture.

The people in the photo were very familiar.

Even without asking, she knew that the two little boys were Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu.

But why did the woman in the photo look exactly like Lin Xu?

She glanced at the time in the bottom left corner of the photo.

Twenty years ago.

Twenty years ago, Lin Xu would have also been a child, wouldn’t she? Could that be her mother?

It’s normal for Lin Xu and her mother to look alike if they were sisters.

But why did the man next to her also look so much like Xie Changyan?