Chapter 80: What is family love?

'That's not good enough either. If you can cook, it has to be your mother who cooks for you,' Shen Cuizhi said with a smile.

This child only comes back once every few years, and she doesn't want to let Gu Chen cook.

Gu Chen looked at his mother's wrinkled face and couldn't help but feel a little distressed. 'Then let's do it together. I'll keep you company and chat with you. Is that okay?'

After saying this, she put her arms around her mother and walked towards the kitchen.

Ji Pianran was holding Tang Tang in the courtyard playing with a rabbit, looking at the backs of Gu Chen and Shen Cuilan.

She couldn't help but smile knowingly.

The little girl looked at her mother with a curious face, 'Mom, are you very happy?'

Ji Pianran's eyebrows twitched, "Yes, mommy is very happy.'

Tang Tang looked over at her mother's gaze, "It's daddy, does daddy make you very happy?'

Ji Pianran looked at her tenderly and slowly said three words.

'It's family.'

It's the warmth of the family, the scene of a mother's love for her child.

Although Tangtang is a girl, she knows that the hearts of all mothers in the world should be the same.

She loves Tangtang, and Shen Cuizhi also loves Gu Chen.

The little girl didn't know what family love was and was full of curiosity.

'Mom, what is family love?'

Ji Pianran hugged Tang Tang and squeezed her little hand, saying each word very seriously: 'Family love is the love between mother and daughter, father and daughter, our family's love.

Tang Tang was confused by what she heard and tilted her head curiously at Ji Pianran.

'So if one day mother leaves, will family love disappear?'

At this moment, Gu Chen happened to come out and was about to take a handful of peppers from the windowsill.

and heard the conversation between Ji Pianran and Tang Tang.

A layer of sweat instantly appeared on her forehead.

Ji Pianran squeezed Tang Tang's little hand in her palm, 'Mommy won't go, Mommy will always be with Tang Tang.'

Gu Chen's heart trembled. In the previous life, why did she leave?

Since she said she would always be with Tang Tang, why did she leave?

Hearing that her mother would never leave, the little girl turned her head and hugged Ji Pianran, 'Mom, then we won't be separated for the rest of our lives.'

Ji Pianran pursed her lips, 'In this world, everyone will be separated. In fact, separation is not scary. Even if we are separated, I will always love you.'

Tang Tang didn't understand again. Just now, she said they would never be separated, but now they are.

She pursed her lips, 'You're lying, Mum!'

You said you'd always be with me, why are you going to separate again!

Ji Bianran reached out and gently stroked the little girl's head, her tone helpless.

'But birth, ageing, illness and death are the laws of nature. One day, Mum will die, not just Mum, but also Dad, and that includes my Sugar Baby. When you grow old, you will also die one day.'

Tang Tang still didn't understand, 'Mum, what do you mean by birth, ageing, illness and death?'

This realistic and helpless word came out of the mouth of the two-year-old Tang Tang, and Gu Chen instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Birth, old age, sickness, and death!

So, what exactly did Ji Pianran go through?

Did she leave Tang Tang because she was sick? Or maybe she died?

Just thinking about it made Gu Chen break out in a cold sweat.

No wonder in her past life, no matter what, she couldn't find Ji Pianran. Could it be that she went home to see a doctor?

It was clear that Ji Pianran was an extraordinary person.

And her family situation was definitely not as she said, that they had really fled for their lives. How could she know so much that even Gu Chen didn't know?

Just take the ink slab in Teacher Li's house, you can tell just by looking at it what kind of ink it is.

That means Ji Pianran must have been educated, and she knew about wolfberries and matsutake mushrooms.

If it's wolfberries, maybe an average family would know about them, but how do you explain that she knew about matsutake mushrooms?

Therefore, Ji Pianran's family must not want her to say that, and her family conditions must not be bad.

If she were sick, she would know she couldn't afford to see a doctor and go home.

Then it would make sense.

Everything would make sense.

But why, after being treated, did she not come back to see Tongtong once?

Could it be that she died...

Thinking of this, Gu Chen took a deep breath.

Ji Pianran left them to seek medical treatment, and never returned because she died.

God, that's horrible.

He simply couldn't bear to think about it further.

Gu Chen dropped the chilli peppers in his hand and rushed over to embrace Ji Pianran, his face full of pain that startled Ji Pianran.

'What's wrong with you?'

Gu Chen didn't say a word, just held Ji Pianran tightly, allowing the tears to roll down his face.

His wife fell ill, and because they had no money and no one to rely on, she was forced to leave the family and eventually died in a foreign land.

And his own daughter, who suffered from depression, died in front of him.

What kind of an asshole is he?

Tantan's father was in tears, terrified, and quickly held out his small hand on tiptoe to wipe Gu Chen's tears away.

Ji Pianran was also shocked.

'What's going on?'

She didn't know what had happened to make Gu Chen look like that.

Gu Chen wiped away a tear and hugged Tang Tang and Ji Pianran together.

'Promise me, no matter what happens, we will never be apart, no matter what happens, I will always be there for you!'

He said, trembling, and finally he could hardly speak.

Ji Pianran reached out and touched Gu Chen's head, and gave a small smile, 'What are you talking about, silly, haven't we always been together?'

'What if one day we aren't?'

Gu Chen was really scared.

Ji Pianran shook his head and turned his face to look at Tang Tang, who was still standing on the ground, 'No, don't worry.'

After that, he glanced at the kitchen again, "Mom is still waiting for you, go cook.'

The little girl touched her stomach and laughed, "Tang Tang is hungry, Tang Tang wants to eat a lot of delicious food!'

Gu Chen touched his face and put away his sadness.

'Okay, Dad will go make something delicious for Tang Tang.'

On the first day of the New Year, it is customary to eat dumplings, but as Gu Chen had returned home, Shen Cuizhi wanted to cook something delicious for her son and granddaughter, so she took out the meat anyway, thinking that while she was making dumplings, she could also stir-fry some meat.

She wanted Gu Chen and her child to have a nice meal.

When Gu Chen entered the kitchen, Shen Cuizhi had already started cutting the meat.

He looked at her with a smile, 'Mum, we should eat dumplings today!'

Shen Cuizhi of course knew that it was time to eat dumplings. She pointed to the basin resting on the cutting board and asked, 'What do you see there?'

Gu Chen loved dumplings, and his favourite was the one filled with cabbage. Back then, when conditions were difficult, Shen Cuizhi had to put a lot of cabbage and tofu in the filling so that the whole family could eat dumplings, and there was only a little meat.

Now things were different. She had bought five catties of meat just for the dumpling filling.

Gu Chen laughed, 'Mom, you can't eat all that.'

'If we can't eat it all, we'll save it. You have no idea how much Dongdong and Xuxu can eat!'

Dongdong and Xuxu are the children of the eldest and second eldest sons. The youngest is five and the oldest is six, and they can really eat.

They say that young boys can eat their fathers to death, and these two haven't even reached adulthood yet, and they can already eat their fathers to death!

Shen Cuizhi took out some preserved pork ribs. She rarely took this out even for the New Year.

Shen Cuizhi took out two whole ones. 'Do you remember, when you were little, you were always craving this. Now, I'll let you eat as much as you want!'

Today, her son is back for the rare occasion, so she took out all the delicious food in the house.