Chapter 277 Envy

When Gu Baozhu was young, she saw that everyone else had a father, but she and her brothers didn't. Everyone called her a fatherless bastard. Other friends in the village didn't play with her and her second brother, and pushed them away.

"Gu Baozhu! Gu Jingyun! You don't have a father. Our mother said that your mother killed him. We won't play with you, or you will kill us!"

"Get out of here, this is not a place for you to come!"

Someone took out a slingshot and shot a stone on Gu Baozhu's forehead. A bump quickly swelled up and she cried.

When Gu Jingyun saw his sister being bullied, he exploded like a small firecracker and rushed over to catch the person who shot Gu Baozhu with a slingshot.

After all, she was young, only four or five years old, and this small body was pressed to the ground by the other party and beaten black and blue.

Gu Baozhu was frightened and cried even louder, not allowing them to hit Gu Jingyun.

Gu's mother was attracted, and the group of people ran away immediately.

She looked at the wound on Gu Jingyun's face, her eyes turned red with anger, and she asked Gu Baozhu what was going on.

Gu Baozhu was young and didn't know how to take people's feelings into consideration. She cried and asked, "Mom, they said that you killed Daddy, and they refused to play with me and my brother, saying that we would kill them."

Gu's mother stared at Gu Baozhu in a daze.

Gu Baozhu didn't notice at all, and kept asking, "Mom, I have a daddy, right? I'm not a bastard, right?"

Gu's mother held Gu Baozhu's face with her rough hands, wiped the tears from her little face, her eyes were full of tears, but her tone was firm, "You are not a bastard, you have a daddy, he went to a very far place."

Gu Baozhu was coaxed, and later she knew what "killed" meant, and she never asked Gu's mother again, nor did she play with other friends, she and Gu Jingyun were inseparable.

When she grew up a little bit, she knew more clearly that Daddy didn't go to a very far place, and he would never come back.

She and her second brother were born without a daddy.

She didn't ask about Daddy again, which made her mother sad.

But now her mother told her that her father was really back!

Gu Baozhu's eyes lit up and she jumped up with joy: "Mom, where is Dad?" She looked around and didn't see any strange faces, so she asked in confusion: "Hasn't he come back yet?"

Gu's mother saw the expectation in Gu Baozhu's eyes and always knew that she longed for a father. When she was a child, she saw other children sitting on their fathers' necks and riding horses. She stared at them intently, full of envy.

She felt sour in her heart and many words were choked in her throat. There was no way to tell Gu Baozhu everything about Gu Qingsong in Xiliang.

Touching Gu Baozhu's smiling face and looking at her pure and clear eyes, Gu's mother squeezed out a smile on her face: "He just found him and is now living in the inn. If you want to see him, mother will send you there."

Gu Baozhu is simple in nature, but not stupid. Because of the environment she grew up in, her mind is particularly sensitive and delicate. She realized that when Gu's mother said this, her mood was not the joy of reunion after a long absence, but an unspeakable bitterness.

Her father hadn't appeared for eight or nine years, and suddenly appeared out of nowhere. There must be something she didn't know about it, otherwise why did her mother let him stay in the inn, and why didn't she send her there in person, but asked someone to send her to see her father?

The joy faded in an instant, and Gu Baozhu's smile was still sweet: "Mom, I'm so tired after coming from the mountains. I want to take a nap and change into clean and beautiful clothes to see my father."