Chapter 53: Who is he?

  Seeing Su Mo being ignored, Wu Linlin looked a bit annoyed. Her gaze at Su Mo also changed. The intention to make friends with her earlier had dissipated due to Su Mo's attitude towards her. "Hey, I'm telling you, country bumpkin, what's with your attitude? We're both students of Jinghua University, how can you be so rustic? It's really embarrassing."

  As for these childish words, Su Mo had no intention of arguing at all, and simply lay down, turning his body away from Wu Linlin, thinking about his own affairs.

  "Hey, I'm talking to you, do you have any manners? Didn't you hear me? Wu Linlin felt annoyed when Su Mo didn't respond to her. She had always had a sense of superiority, which became even stronger after being admitted to Jinghua University. Now that someone was ignoring her, how could she tolerate it?"

  At this time, an old lady who was sleeping opposite Su Mo Ruo suddenly opened her eyes. She had been resting with her eyes closed, but Wu Linlin's voice, which was as loud as a sparrow's, made her feel annoyed in her heart. She couldn't help but say sternly: "You're just a student from Jinghua University, what are you proud of? Others are also students of Jinghua University, and they don't show off like you."

  Wu Linlin's face suddenly turned red, and her family members had never been able to scold her since she was a child. How could others say such things? "Hey, what business is it of yours? I'm talking to my classmate, are you sick or something?"

  The old lady's face turned ugly at once, got up and stretched out her head, looking at Wu Linlin who also stretched out her head on the upper bunk, "Little girl, what you just said makes me seriously suspect whether your family has any home education."

  "It's none of your business whether our family has a home tutor or not, but you think I'm impolite just because of that? You don't even know the basics of politeness. I was talking to my classmate, and you rudely interrupted us." Wu Linlin said with an air of righteousness, becoming more and more convinced that she was in the right.

  "Why bother with this kind of person?" Just as the old lady was about to faint from anger, Su Mo spoke up, casting a cold glance at Wu Linlin who was gloating above. Thinking about the family education problem since childhood, it had created such an extreme product. Recalling Wu Linlin's attitude towards her parents earlier, she shook her head in her heart. It seemed that in the future, Wu Linlin's parents would definitely not be spared from suffering.

  Giving birth to such a daughter, the old couple spoiled her into this way. At such an age, she already knows how to be dissatisfied with poverty and love wealth. She herself sits on a comfortable soft berth bed, while her own elderly mother has to follow various people to squeeze onto that smelly, cramped, hard seat. I really don't know what this daughter's heart is made of.

  The old lady was about to get angry, but suddenly heard Su Mo Ruo's voice, her eyes smiled into a slit, "Hmm, this kind of person is indeed not worth me getting angry for."

  Wu Linlin upstairs didn't expect Su Mo to suddenly speak up at this moment, and she immediately slammed the bed, "Su Mo, go die! Your mouth doesn't know when to shut up, no one thinks you're mute."

  "You started asking me questions, if I were mute, wouldn't you be foolish to talk to a mute for so long?" She raised her head and looked at Wu Linlin with a faint tone, but it carried an absolutely sharp feeling, not allowing anyone to underestimate her.

  "Little girl, I said you're impolite and you really are! Why do you have to pick a fight with people? What's the point of traveling with us if you can't even behave? We finally managed to catch the train after all that rush, and we're exhausted. But you just keep jumping around like a flea on top of us, making it impossible for those of us below to rest. If you continue like this, I'll have no choice but to call the conductor to ask you to get off."

  The woman sleeping below Wu Linlin was likely in her thirties, well-maintained and somewhat attractive. However, as she looked at Wu Linlin, her face showed undisguised contempt for her.

  "Little girl, where are you from?" The old lady had a good impression of Su Mo because of her words and didn't plan to rest anymore. She pulled her over and started chatting with her.

  "In a town of Fogang County." Tomorrow, I will be home. At this moment, Su Mo's heart is inexplicably excited. Her mind has always been fantasizing about the scene when she sees her foster mother. Will she get up early tomorrow to prepare food and wait for herself to return home?

  It turned out that Su Mo Ruo was going to the same place as herself, and the old lady suddenly became excited, hurriedly saying: "Little girl, I'm also going to Wu Qing County, but I came here alone and am not familiar with this side either. Can you please help me find my way?"

  As soon as the old man heard that he was going to the same place, this train wasn't a direct train to Wūqīng County. Wūqīng County is just a small station, and the train will stop for a while to let some passengers get off who are heading to Wūqīng County. Generally, people coming here are migrant workers or students. Judging from the old man's clothes, he must be neither rich nor noble, but surprisingly, he was also going to Wūqīng County.

  "At first, I didn't know where you were going, I'm only familiar with our side." Su Moer heard that the old man actually wanted her to be a tour guide directly, and she was suddenly a bit embarrassed. Even if it was the previous Su Moer, although she had a very bold personality, she was not familiar with the surroundings. Usually, she would stay in the town and rarely go out, even if she did, it was only occasionally once or twice."

  The old lady listened, not getting annoyed, and continued with a smile: "I quite like you, this young girl. To tell the truth, our family has a big group of grandsons and granddaughters around your age, but none of them are as considerate."

  You can tell by the way they dress and carry themselves that they're either rich or of high social status. It's better not to ask too many questions about such people, so she just smiled and didn't say anything.

  Looking at Su Mo, the old lady's smile in her eyes became even more intense. Such a girl, she didn't know whose family she was from, but at such a young age, she already knew how to behave and be polite. Thinking of her own grandchildren, none of whom gave her peace of mind, she suddenly thought of another grandson, and her heart tightened, her face becoming stiff. She covered her chest with her hand, her breathing somewhat labored.

  "Old lady, what's wrong with you?" Looking at the old lady's appearance, she was very likely to determine that she had heart disease and now should be having an attack, but he couldn't directly ask impolitely, so he just said this.

  As expected, the old lady's idea was correct. She stretched out her trembling hand and pointed to the package beside her, indicating that Sumo should bring it over to her.

  Seeing the old lady's struggling appearance, Su Mo quickly took over the bag, opened it in front of the old lady, took out a bottle of medicine, looked at the instructions, and quickly poured out one pill from inside, putting it to the old lady's mouth.

  The old lady finally swallowed the medicine and took a deep breath.

  "Good grief, if you know your body is not good, you shouldn't come alone to take the train. I really don't know if you'll die on the train and bring bad luck to us." Wu Linlin's crow mouth started spouting nonsense again.

  The old lady looked very ugly, but now her body is a bit weak, and she didn't want to argue with this ill-mannered little girl.

  The couple sleeping in the middle berth, seemingly a husband and wife, upon hearing Wu Linlin's words, directly blasted her: "Little girl, you don't have any sympathy at all for people of this age, how can your thoughts be so bad? Can you say such things? I really don't want to sleep with someone like you." And then they wanted to call the flight attendant.

  "What's wrong, what's wrong, isn't it just not speaking? I won't say anything, okay?" Wu Linlin is a typical paper tiger, when no one pays attention to her, she becomes fierce, but if someone really gets serious with her, she'll be scared and back down.

  One evening, it finally quieted down. Wu Linlin didn't speak again. Instead, after the old lady recovered, five people in a partition with six beds all chatted together.

  The old lady looked like it was her first time traveling far, and she was very curious about the things around her. As she slowly spoke, she also mentioned the reason why she came here. It turned out that she had come to see her grandson. Her daughter had been drifted away from home many years ago due to some reasons, and later got married and gave birth to a child. However, she was not recognized by her husband's family, and eventually died in a foreign land, leaving behind a grandson who was not recognized by his mother's husband's family. The grandson had a strong personality, and over the years, he had never returned to either of their homes, nor had he ever contacted them. This year, she couldn't bear it anymore when she knew that her grandson had gone to a remote mountainous area to be a teacher. She wanted to go see him, spend the New Year with him, but he was alone and cold in the mountains, which made her heart ache.

  Several people listening to the old lady's words couldn't help but shed a sympathetic tear for her poor grandson, and they all wished that the old lady could soon bring her grandson back home and acknowledge their ancestral heritage.

  Su Mo listened quietly and fell silent, without responding again.

  Just because of this, the old lady's words were surprisingly similar to Tan Yunning's. She started to feel conflicted in her heart again. She clearly remembered that Tan Yunning had told her he was an abandoned son of a wealthy family and only had his adoptive parents to rely on, so how did an external grandmother suddenly appear?

  "Little girl, why aren't you speaking? Do you think I'm not telling the truth?" The old lady smiled and looked at Su Mo, who was sitting silently across from her. She couldn't help but ask about her thoughts. For many years, their grandson had never contacted them, although they were not at fault. However, after many years of failing to find their daughter, she eventually died a miserable death in a foreign land, and their grandson also suffered greatly as a result. Although he was later taken back home, he was still not well-received, and ultimately left the house again. It wasn't until five years ago that they finally found him, but by then, everything had changed, and his suffering was far greater than they could have imagined. The possibility of their grandson forgiving them and returning home seemed extremely slim.

  All these years, she has been hearing from the people below about her grandson's situation. No matter how much hardship he suffers, he grits his teeth and doesn't relax a bit, let alone ask for help from them.

  Digression

  Dear, I'll update one chapter first, and there will be another update later.