Chapter 59: Chapter 59 Broken Head (4)_1 Chapter 59: Chapter 59 Broken Head (4)_1 “Mom, thank you,” Ruan Jianguo didn’t know what else to say. He understood what his departure signified, but he truly couldn’t let go.
In their several teams, over a dozen youths had come from the cities. Many had married and had children on the team, but once the college entrance examination was restored, most of the youths, regardless of gender, abandoned this place and left, even if they had sons and daughters who were almost adults. All had the option to leave.
But Ruan Jianguo believed in Shu Jiao; she was definitely not that kind of person.
He couldn’t rest for the rest of his life without finding her to get to the bottom of things.
If… if things didn’t turn out as hoped in the end, then he would accept his fate…
“What nonsense are you talking about? You’re tired from the day; go to sleep. Let Jiaojiao sleep beside her brother tonight,” the matriarch of the Ruanlin family waved her hand dismissively.
“Alright,” Ruan Jianguo nodded. “I’ll go check on them again.”
The instant Ruan Jie and Ruan Jiaojiao inside the room heard him, they both startled and turned around. Ruan Jie didn’t react much, but Ruan Jiaojiao, upon seeing Ruan Jie’s handsome face, almost cried out.
Ruan Jie covered her mouth, and they quietly got back into bed together.
When Ruan Jianguo entered, they pretended to sleep with their eyes closed and only opened their eyes after Ruan Jianguo gently closed the door.
Neither sibling felt sleepy for a while.
Lying in bed, they stared at the pitch-black ceiling, lost in thought. After a long time, Ruan Jiaojiao broke the silence, “Brother, are you asleep?”
“Yeah,” Ruan Jie muttered a response.
Ruan Jiaojiao laughed softly, her small hand fumbling to grab his through the rustling of the quilt, and finally, her chaotic little hand was gripped by Ruan Jie.
Ruan Jiaojiao asked, “Brother, is Dad going to look for Mom?”
“Yeah,” Ruan Jie responded again.
“Why did you fight today?” The adults all kept it from her, but she had a feeling it was related to her.
Ruan Jie didn’t answer, and just when Ruan Jiaojiao thought he wouldn’t respond, he said, “Jiaojiao, do you hate Mom?”
Ruan Jie did hate her, hated her very much.
He had never hated her as he did today.
Initially, when Shu Jiao wanted to leave to find relatives and take the college exam, he was unwilling. He had heard too many stories of people like his mother who left and never returned, and so he didn’t want her to go.
But she left eventually, sneaking away from the three siblings.
She was gone for over half a year, and people said that if she really left to find relatives or take the college exam, she should have returned long ago. Even if she couldn’t return, there should have been a letter, but there was nothing from their mother—no letters, no calls, nothing at all.
His sister ran away from home, believing the instigations of their second aunt and fell into a small gully at the edge of the village, soaked for a full four or five hours. He remembered when they pulled her out, she had almost no breath left, her whole body was ice-cold, turning pale.
At that moment, everyone said she wouldn’t survive.
Their grandmother didn’t believe it and took her to the health clinic, which refused to admit her, so she was then taken to the town hospital.
After wandering near death at the Ghost Gate for over half a month, they barely managed to save her.
From that moment on, he hated Shu Jiao to the bone!
Yet, as much as he hated her, he couldn’t tolerate others speaking ill of her… Today, it was because Lu Xian said that his mother must not want them anymore, that she had gone back home, probably found another man, called his dad a cuckold, and called his mom a used shoe… that’s why he couldn’t help but step forward and fight.
Even now, with a bleeding head and agonizing pain, he had no regrets, and if it happened again, he would still fight!