Chapter 11 Ten, the fourth day (evening)

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Ji Ning and his mother returned home. Dad is not off work yet, only Doudou and grandma are at home.Hearing the voices of her cousin and aunt, Doudou happily ran out of the room and threw herself on Ji Ning. "Cousin, you are back so soon! I thought it would be tomorrow." Doudou said happily. "That's right, the campus of the university is like that, and I finished it in half a day." Ji Ning said. Mom walked upstairs. "Jining, go upstairs and say hello to grandma, let her know we're back." Ji Ning walked Doudou to grandma's room together.Grandma was still lying on the bed, she didn't seem to be in a very good state of mind, but when she saw Ji Ning and his mother came back, she pulled herself up and sat up again, and asked them how the university was doing.Ji Ning and his mother improvised and made it up. Grandma didn't understand these things and didn't hear any flaws.

After six o'clock, Dad came back from get off work.The three of them understood, and deliberately talked about the university in front of grandma and Doudou, pretending that nothing happened.When eating, grandma sat in a wheelchair, and the family gathered around the dining table to have dinner. Since my mother didn't go shopping today, dinner was a bit simple.But because of the pistachio, Doudou, the atmosphere seemed happy.Ji Ning and his mother spent the past two days in sadness and depression, and finally came into a good mood.The feigned happiness seemed to have become real. Unexpectedly, this short-lived joy lasted less than ten minutes before it was replaced by unexpected horror.

Doudou was eating, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Cousin, I called you yesterday, why did you hang up before finishing your sentence? I also heard you yelling on the phone ,what's wrong?" Ji Ning was taken aback for a moment, the horrible scene from yesterday reappeared in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but twitched all over his body.At this time, he remembered that after hanging up the phone yesterday, he originally wanted to call back after his mood calmed down, and make up a reason to explain.As a result, when he came back from the funeral, he completely forgot about it!

Grandma heard Doudou say this, stopped eating, looked at Ji Ning and asked, "What's going on?" Ji Ning's mind was running rapidly. "Oh, it's nothing... When Doudou called me yesterday, we happened to be crossing the road, and a taxi drove too fast, which surprised me." "Didn't it hit you?" Grandma asked eagerly. "No, if we bump into each other, we won't be able to come back today." Ji Ning said with a smile. "You guys, be careful when crossing the road, don't be half-hearted. The phone is coming, can you pick it up later..." Grandma continued nagging, and Ji Ning nodded repeatedly to confuse the matter past.

Doudou put down her chopsticks, ran into the room and took out a stack of paper, and showed it to her cousin and aunt excitedly. "This is the picture I drew yesterday, do you see it well?" Ji Ning's mother took a picture and looked at it. It was a big-headed doll painted with gouache paint, full of the childishness of children's paintings.She burst out laughing with a "puchi": "Is this a picture of me?" Dad leaned over to take a look, nodded and said, "Well, don't mention it, it really looks a bit like your aunt." Doudou said, "Auntie, I'm giving you this painting."

"Great, thank you Doudou." Ji Ning's mother smiled and touched Doudou's head. "Isn't this a painting of me?" Ji Ning picked up a painting and smiled, "Am I so ugly? This nostril is bigger than that of an orangutan." Doudou blushed and said, "You didn't sit in front of me, I drew it from my imagination." Grandma smiled "hehe" and said, "Don't make things difficult for Doudou, I think he draws pretty well. I have collected the one he gave me." Ji Ning's mother praised: "Doudou is very talented in painting, maybe he can become a painter in the future."

Doudou was praised, and his face was full of light. He held up a painting and showed it to everyone: "This is my mother, and it is a gift I plan to give to my mother when I go back." The expressions of Ji Ning and his parents froze for a moment. The painting they saw was the most careful, delicate, and most similar among all the portraits - that was Doudou's mother, looking at everyone Show a smile—after all, this is the person Doudou knows and cares about the most, and the painting is full of love.But he didn't know that he would never see his mother again.Ji Ning's heart tightened suddenly, and the mother next to him was almost unable to support herself, she bit her lips tightly, trying her best not to let the tears fall.

Doudou saw everyone standing there in a daze, and asked in bewilderment, "Why don't you talk? Am I not good at drawing?" "Well, the painting is really good!" Ji Ning's father said.He wanted to quickly change the topic, and reached for another stack of paintings in Doudou's hands. "Uncle, let's see what these paintings are about." Doudou moved the stack of paintings behind her, dodging. "It's nothing... just don't look at these." Then put away the paintings just now and cover them.Take it to the room. Doudou's evasive attitude is a bit strange, but everyone's thoughts are not on the painting at this time.After Doudou comes out, continue to eat.

After a while, grandma suddenly said to herself: "I don't know how Huiyun is doing, she hasn't seen me for a long time." Ji Ning's heart was hit hard.Parents were also stunned, for a while no one knew what to say. At this time, Doudou said something shocking: "Grandma, my mother is fine. She called me yesterday and said she would come to see you in a few days." Ji Ning temporarily forgot to breathe - what, yesterday? He and his mother looked at each other, and both of them showed unconcealable horror in their eyes.They fought desperately. Grandma didn't seem to notice the shocked expressions of Ji Ning's family. She nodded and said, "Well, that's good."

All night, Ji Ning was in a trance, and his mother also seemed absent-minded, obviously thinking about the same problem. What exactly is going on? My aunt died three days ago, but Doudou said just now that he received a call from my aunt last night! Is Doudou lying?But why would he do it? ——Ji Ning guessed uneasily in his heart, puzzled. Ji Ning observed Doudou quietly and found that there was nothing unusual about him.I wanted to ask tentatively, but I didn't know how to speak, and my heart was blocked.