Marrying My Bestie's Ferocious Brother - He Calls Me His Baby!-Chapter 189 - 188: Slandering My Son as a Fool? Next Second, the Light Will Blind You!
The feeling of autumn was getting stronger.
Lin Wan Yi and Gu Lan went back to school, and Gu Yanshen also went to the National Defense University for advanced studies.
In the small courtyard, only the caretaker Wang Guihua and two crying babies were left.
Without the imposing presence of Gu Yanshen, some people began to stir up thoughts again.
Public washroom.
Zhang Guilan was chopping cabbage noisily while talking to people loudly.
"Hey, you didn’t see it."
"That boy from the Gu Family, just sits around in a daze all day, eyes blank."
"Give him a toy, and he won’t even move it for half a day."
She lowered her voice, but her face bore a schadenfreude-filled smile.
"I think he’s probably an idiot."
A military wife washing clothes beside her was startled: "No way, he’s such a fair-skinned kid."
"What’s the use of fair skin? His brain doesn’t work!"
Zhang Guilan slapped her thigh.
"And that girl, even stranger!"
"Almost a year old and can’t even say ’Mama’ or ’Papa’, just babbles all day. I think she’s a little mute!"
"A family with two kids, one’s an idiot, the other’s mute, tsk tsk, what a misfortune!"
Rumors, like they had feet, spread throughout the entire family compound by the afternoon.
Lin Wan Yi came back from school in the evening, just entering the courtyard.
A neighbor came up, face full of sympathy.
"Wanyi, let me tell you something, don’t take it to heart."
"My nephew was just like your An An when he was little, didn’t like to talk. Later they went to the hospital and found out it was a developmental delay."
"Why don’t you take the kids for a check-up too?"
Lin Wan Yi didn’t stop walking.
She even carried a faint smile on her face.
"Thank you for your concern, sis, the kids are still young, no rush."
That carefree attitude left the concerned neighbor with no room to talk, and she walked away in dismay.
In the Gu Family courtyard.
Lin Wan Yi was feeding the two children supplementary food.
It was an egg custard boiled with spiritual spring water, smooth and tender, with a fragrant aroma.
The two little ones were eating with great delight.
From the neighboring courtyard, Zhang Guilan’s deliberately raised voice suddenly came.
"O goose! O goose! O goose!"
It was her grandson Zhuangzhuang reciting poetry.
"Grac... gracefully bending its neck to sing to the sky..."
Zhuangzhuang was stammering, making several mistakes.
Yet Zhang Guilan seemed to hear a celestial sound, clapping vigorously.
"Oh my! My grandson is truly a prodigy! So smart!"
She shouted with her voice raised, deliberately towards the Gu Family’s direction.
"Hasn’t even started school yet, and already recites half of the Three Hundred Tang Poems!"
"Unlike some kids, who can’t even speak a word! Truly worrisome!"
On the stroller in the courtyard.
Holding a rag doll, Gu Ning listened to the off-tune "O goose! O goose!" from next door.
She quietly lifted her head.
And rolled her eyes hugely at the direction of the neighboring courtyard wall.
The expression on her face was identical to someone looking at a fool.
On the other side.
Gu An, who had been quietly sitting on the carpet, also stopped his actions.
There were several small items laid out in front of him, glass marbles that Lin Wan Yi had found for him.
He picked up one and held it up.
The autumn sunlight shone through the glass marble, casting a small light spot on the opposite wall.
Gu An remained expressionless.
He adjusted the angle of the glass marble in his hand.
A slight movement of his wrist.
The small light spot on the wall seemed to come alive, jumping quickly and precisely onto the neighboring courtyard.
It landed right on Zhang Guilan’s chattering face.
More precisely, right in her eyes.
"Oh my!"
Zhang Guilan was speaking enthusiastically when suddenly a flash of white light appeared before her eyes.
It stung her eyes, making them water uncontrollably.
"What’s wrong with my eyes..."
She rubbed her eyes.
As soon as she opened them, that damned light spot jumped over again, directly into her other eye.
"Oh gosh! I can’t take it anymore!"
Zhang Guilan only felt the world spinning, dizziness, and blurred vision.
"My... my high blood pressure is acting up!"
She plopped down on the ground, holding her head and shouting loudly.
Zhuangzhuang was startled and started wailing loudly.
The neighboring courtyard instantly turned into chaos.
Lin Wan Yi watched her son calmly put down the glass marble, continuing to play with another small gear in his hand.
The corners of her mouth couldn’t help but twitch.
She’d understood.
Her eldest son wasn’t cold.
He was cunning.
A tech-savvy kind of cunning.
In the evening, Gu Lan came back from school, furious after hearing about the day’s gossip, and was about to rush over to argue with the neighbors.
"Sis-in-law, don’t stop me! I have to tear that old woman’s mouth apart!"
"How dare she talk about my nephew and niece like that!"
Lin Wan Yi held her back.
Her expression remained calm.
"Lanlan."
"If a dog bites you, do you want to bite back?"
Gu Lan was stunned, "Then what? Just let her spread rumors?"
Lin Wan Yi put a cup of warm water in her hand, speaking slowly.
"Biting back is beneath us."
Her gaze fell on her son Gu An, with a hint of a subtle smile in her voice.
"But we can wait for an opportunity."
"Find a sturdy stick and hit the dog dead with one blow."
"Make it unable to bark ever again."
Listening to her sister-in-law’s casual yet extremely ruthless words, a chill ran down Gu Lan’s spine.
She suddenly felt that Zhang Guilan was going to have a very bad time.
The night deepened.
In the corner of the small courtyard, several pots of strawberries carefully propped up with wooden frames finally ripened completely.
Unlike the nail-sized fruits available on the market.
Each strawberry here was the size of a baby’s fist.
They were a reddish-black color, so plump they seemed ready to burst.
An indescribable, overpowering sweet fragrance floated out from inside the courtyard walls.
Like an invisible hand, it hooked people’s cravings.
Next door.
Zhuangzhuang, who was rolling around demanding candy, sniffed hard with his nose.
His crying stopped.
He abruptly got up from the ground, rushed to the fence, and clung tightly to the crevice, peering out.
"Grandma!"
He pointed towards the Gu Family courtyard, drooling.
"I want that!"
"That red fruit!"
Zhang Guilan, bothered by his clamor, walked over impatiently.
Following her grandson’s finger.
Her movements stopped.
The corner, with a patch of reddish-purple fruit, glowed seductively under the moonlight.
The sweet fragrance made her mouth water just by smelling it.
In her eyes, a strong look of greed instantly burst forth.
Such good stuff!
Even better than the special supply fruits sold at the supply and marketing cooperative!
Why should those ’idiots and mutes’ get to eat them?
She patted Zhuangzhuang’s head, an insidious smile appeared on her face.
The night became the perfect cover for greed.
Next door, Zhuangzhuang’s wailing almost lifted the roof.
"I want to eat that red fruit! I just want to eat it!"
He rolled on the ground, snot and tears all over his face.
Zhang Guilan, annoyed by his noise and fueled by the growing evil fire in her heart, made up her mind.
She gritted her teeth and picked up her tantrum-throwing grandson.
