Old Mr. Lu clenched his fists against his lips and coughed. His eyes couldn’t help looking elsewhere, and he was a little dissatisafied.
Lu Jinting seemed to hear nothing and took Ye Guanguan in his arms and said, “Let’s go. I’ll take you home to deal with the wound.”
“Ahem!”
Old Mr. Lu coughed several times. Even Lu Zhencong, who was taking Tuanzi to come in, stopped and looked at him with uncertainty.
Pulling at his sleeves, Ye Guanguan lowered her voice, “I’ve already been to the hospital. I’m fine. Dad and grandfather are still there.”
It was in the standoff. Ye Guanguan was in his arms and she was very embarrassed. Old Mr. Lu had frowned upon her. Today she was called here to be denounced. If she just left this way, there would be a knot in his heart.
Lu Jinting frowned, then slowly looked up, and called “Grandpa, Dad”. Qiao Xinyi who stood aside was completely ignored. Standing outside the door, she was overwhelmed and stood there like a frozen statue.
“Come on in. The whole family are standing outside the door. This is not good.”
Old Mr. Lu frowned and said. What he said aimed at Ye Guanguan who did “wrong”.
The whole family entered the room, but only Ye Guanguan and sulky Lu Jinting were left outside. Ye Guanguan clearly saw the worry in his eyes.
“Let me see.”
“I’m really fine. Who told you that I’m hurt?”
Ye Guanguan dodged to prevent him from checking. Lu Jinting scowled and gripped her more tightly, revealing her arm bound by gauze.
He found that an area of her skin was red and swollen. And her arm bound by the gauze couldn’t bend. His action made her ache badly.
He looked at her with icy gaze and questioned, “Who did it?”
“It was careless of me. There was a competition at Tuanzi’s School today, right?” She answered.
Averting her gaze, she took her arm back and rolled down her sleeve. Worrying that he would blame it on Tuanzi, she continued to explain.
“This is the first time I’ve been to the parents’ meeting. And I have no experience. While Qiao Xinyi is really much better at that. Why not just let her attend next time?”
Lu Jinting frowned, “How did she know the meeting?
Seeing he was as baffled as her, Ye Guanguan smiled.
“Miss Qiao said that she attended these two years ‘parents’ meeting. Mister, you’ve been so busy in the troops. It is reasonable that you are not clear .”
He really had no idea , and he even didn’t know which class Tuanzi was in. He had been busy with the work in troops over the past few years. He was more careless than busy. In short, people in this house would help arrange it.
It seemed that there was an apologetic look on his face. He took her gently by the arm and they were going inside.
“I’ll go and tell Grandpa not to let Qiao Xinyi come again.”
Ye Guanguan didn’t stop him. She was not a saint. What was more, Qiao Xinyi and her were rivals in love, which made Ye Guanguan even more unable to bear her.
Nodding her head, Ye Guanguan still told Lu Jinting before getting through the door, “Mister, this is at home, not in the troops. Please be more tender when you talk to Grandpa.”
He had never thought that Ye Guanguan would care about the trivia. His relationship with the old Mr. Lu was not that bad. He would not wish to maintain some relationships with his family until he married Ye Guanguan.
He did this only because she wanted.
“Got it, where else did you get hurt?”
Seeing him tucking up her skirt , Ye Guanguan was flush and pushed him. They entered in laugher.
The dinner plates were arranged one after another in the dining room. Tuanzi and Lu Zhencong were familiar with each other, and they were happy sitting next to each other and play together. But since Ye Guanguan came in, Qiao Xinyi had been averting her eyes.
It was obvious that she had guilty conscience.
Ye Guanguan and Lu Jinting sat down one after another. Given the hurt on her arm and knees, Lu Jinting took good care of her and ignored those people present.
Qiao Xinyi’s face turned pale, while the dishes were not fully severed.
“Grandpa, it might be a misunderstanding today. I have already asked Guanguan. She was hurt for Tuanzi’s performance in the sprinting match…”
Hearing this, Qiao Xinyi finally couldn’t help but bite her lips. She was almost in tears and interrupted Lu Jinting to argue.
“I didn’t want to intentionally complain. It was just because that Guanguan and Miss Yu went to the hospital for too long but didn’t come back. I didn’t know what to do, so I called Uncle Lu.”
She gave vent to her grievances and was kinda choked. Seeing this, Lu Zhencong was so heartbroken. But Lu Jinting didn’t care at all.
Don’t cry, Xinyi. No one is blaming you. You’ve taken Tuanzi to school for matches for so many times without getting hurt for once. It was unfortunate that someone was hurt today. Luckily, Tuanzi is fine.”
No one was worried about Ye Guanguan at all, just like in her previous life. She was marginalized by all people. At that time, she didn’t know how to please others, which made Lu Jinting completely lose the support from his family.
Although Ye Guanguan felt wronged, she didn’t defend herself.
Sitting in Lu Zhencong’s arms, little Tuanzi was very worried and struggled out of him. He jumped down and stepped in front of Ye Guanguan to protect her.
“No!” Mommy and I got the first place today! We won the championship!”
Panting for breath, Tuanzi flushed with anger. He didn’t want his grandpa and grandgrandpa to misunderstand his mother.
Ye Guanguan felt touched. She reached out her arms to hug Tuanzi, while straining the wound again. Her face twisted slightly.
“Tuanzi, I’m fine. Grandpa, daddy. I didn’t have experience. But it is known that practice makes perfect. Besides, Miss Qiao taught me a lot today. It won’t happen again next time.”
Old Mr. Lu thought that she would talk back, because she used to be headstrong, but today, not only did she not argue for herself, but also she even sincerely admitted her mistake.
If they kept picking on her, Lu family would ask for trouble.
Old Mr. Lu coughed and said, “Forget it, as long as everyone’s fine.”
Lu Jinting didn’t know about Lu Zhencong’s proposal that Qiao Xinyi took care of Tuanzi. Now that they were silent, Ye Guanguan didn’t say anything else ’cause she knew that the less trouble, the better.
The atmosphere was dull. Lu Jinting took care of Ye Guanguan because of her hurt. Knowing she was wrong, Qiao Xinyi buried her head, hardly daring to breathe.
It was getting late. Given the experience last time, Qiao Xinyi dared not to ask Lu Jinting to drive her home. Lu Zhencong then asked the driver to drive her home.
Lu Jinting was left to talk with old Mr. Lu. Ye Guanguan knew what they would talk. It was no more than that she was an unfit mother or something like that.
She felt relaxed when Qiao Xinyi left, and went directly to the yard to admire the red maple in the sun.
On this crisp fall, the maple woods were shaking in the night wind, and the dead leaves were falling.
Ye Guanguan took two steps forward and was about to reach out her hands, when a figure suddenly walked towards her.