Chapter 2: The Greatness of Motherly Love

  It wasn't intentional, but when it reached his stepmother's ears, the meaning changed.

  The daughter has been very close to her since she was a child, but this time, it was she who personally broke the intimacy between them. More than a week has passed, which feels like a year or even ten years to her. The daughter's attitude towards her is distant and measured, like a knife that cuts deeply into her heart, blocking her airway.

  Looking at her foster mother's expression, Sumo Ruo felt very awkward in her heart. She wanted to comfort her foster mother with a few words, but she didn't know what to say. After opening her mouth several times, she finally had no choice but to give up. After all, the identity swap was too fast, and only one week's time was not enough for her to fully adapt to this brand new identity.

  "Never mind, just rest well at home." Her foster mother's face, which had experienced many hardships, was filled with worries and her eyes were tinged with a faint sadness.

  Such a foster mother made Su Mo's heart and mouth churn, finally squeezing out a word from her throat, "Hmm." Then she fell silent again.

  She didn't let her move, the stepmother herself quickly cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks with her nimble hands and feet. Only a faint sound came from the kitchen, and soon the bowls and chopsticks were washed clean.

  Watching her foster mother walk out of the house with a slightly hunched back, hearing the creaking of the old door slowly closing, she finally closed her eyes weakly.

  The past will eventually be cast aside, in this life, she must live out her own life once again.

  ……

  In the room, leaning on an old wooden recliner, Sumo Ruo closed his eyes and was lost in thought when he faintly heard a knock at the door. He slightly turned his head but didn't get up immediately, instead slowly opening his eyes again to reorganize the information about Sumo Ruo in his mind.

  The corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up into an arc, as if Su Mo's "gang of foxes and dogs" had arrived.

  As for these "partners in crime", they are actually just a group of like-minded friends from the same town.

  Their relationship can be said to be revolutionary friendship, established since childhood, boys and girls, growing up wearing the same pants.

  Let's take this time when they broke the head of someone else's little friend, in fact, it was because the other side bullied one of their friends, Lin Mei, out of righteousness and being young and hot-headed, they directly went to the opponent's door, and she was ruthless, not taking action unless it was shocking, directly hitting the person with a brick and killing them.

  If it wasn't for being sent to the health clinic in time, that child's life would have been lost.

  These days, her companions didn't come to visit her, probably because of this matter, which led the family members to put them under house arrest. Today they came over, it seems that the house arrest order has been lifted.

  The continuous knocking at the door, lying on the chaise longue, lazy and unwilling to move, thinking of these friends, actually each one doesn't have a bad heart, from childhood playing together until grown up, with the owner of this body Su Mo's established revolutionary feelings, that's not just talking nonsense.

  But this matter has made a big fuss, and the families of these companions can't help but want their children to keep a distance from her. Su Mo Ruo herself is not inferior to boys, she values loyalty very much, so today's face cannot be seen.

  Everyone is impatient, you say one sentence and I say one sentence. If something goes wrong again, she really doesn't know how to face her foster mother who has become more and more weathered.

  The knocking at the door finally stopped after more than ten minutes of continuous knocking.

  Looking out the window at the scorching sunlight, I think of my foster mother's dark face, her eyes that have seen it all, her tightly pursed red lips. I think about what she has given up for me over the years, and how despite being born into such a family, she has never been tainted by worldly desires, sometimes even thinking that she wasn't my foster mother, but rather Su Mo's nanny.

  Under the scorching sun, she was resting at home, while her foster mother was busy running around for her. In the past, Su Mo had been causing trouble every day, and parents would come to their doorstep almost daily, even teachers had visited several times. If it weren't for her good grades, perhaps in this small town, even studying would be a problem.

  It's strange to say, but Su Mo Ruo, who has been perfunctory in his daily studies, was born with a good brain. No matter what he does, he is extremely clever, and his academic performance is even more impressive, able to achieve good results by relying on his last-minute efforts.

  She is simply impossible not to regard as a freak.

  And she became famous throughout the small town because of this.

  Everyone knows that the Liu family has a treasure, and this treasure has two explanations. One explanation is: trouble never ends, right and wrong never end, known as the reincarnation of the devil, and in a more unpleasant way, it's called "baoyi" (a local slang). The other explanation is: no matter how lazy and mischievous one is every day, skipping class and fighting, as long as there are exams, they always come out on top, even ranking first, making people both love and hate them.

  For several days in a row, they sat at the same table for meals but were extremely silent, with no more than three sentences exchanged each day. Her foster mother went out every day, leaving early and returning at noon to cook lunch for her, washing the dishes after eating and then going out again, only returning home near dusk to make dinner for her.

  There were still people coming to look for her, but she refused to see them.

  Gradually, these children seemed to have felt Su Mo Ruo's estrangement from them and were very anxious in their hearts. After all, Su Mo Ruo was their mainstay, and if this mainstay was gone, how could they mix in the future? Therefore, after everyone persisted for five days in knocking on her door in the afternoon, they all chose to come to her home at noon.

  Because his foster mother was at home, when he heard the knock on the door, he directly opened it.

  Everyone saw the big gate open and rushed in with joy.

  Watching a group of children laughing and thanking them as they rushed into their daughter's room, Liu Qin's eyes involuntarily revealed a hint of a happy smile.

  These days, her heart is also very uncomfortable. She can clearly feel that her daughter has changed a lot and become distant from her, but her temperament has also changed a lot.

  Although she was not happy about her daughter being distant from her, at least there was one change that made her feel fortunate. Everyone hopes to have a lovely daughter, and this daughter had a bad temper, but she didn't mind, instead she felt grateful.

  She had no daughter all her life, but with this adopted daughter by her side, she wouldn't be so lonely. She was worried about her daughter, who although excelled in studies, had a bad reputation and wasn't likable. Her worry was how to find a good husband for her in the future.

  These days, she also knew that these people came to find her daughter every day, but it was several days before she saw her daughter. She was surprised and delighted by her daughter's unusual behavior. And these friends of her daughter, persisted tirelessly, allowing her to feel the friendship between them very clearly at this moment.

  The daughter has been without parents since she was a child. The thoughts in her heart are not fully understood by her mother, but she also knows roughly what's going on.

  These children can enter the daughter's heart and become good friends with each other, and also relieve some of the daughter's inner loneliness.

  She is just a mother who merely hopes her daughter will be happy and attain her own happiness.

  Digression

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