Under the starlight, Taotao went home while eating grapes. When she was about to see the outline of the villa, Taotao tidied up her messy clothes on the roadside and combed her hair with her fingers in distress.
"Damn Gu Yunjie …"
Just now, when she entered the community, the security guard looked at her in a panic when he came to ask about her in a hurry. She knew that her image of an obedient girl had collapsed a little.
According to the ordinary residents in Jianghai, this villa area might be called a rich area. Of course, people didn't have an obvious idea of class in their hearts now. But objectively speaking, there was no doubt that people who could live in this community were generally rich.
The villa area had been located here before Taotao was born. The nearby scenery was beautiful, and all kinds of supporting facilities were complete. Time had precipitated a sense of grace here. Because a large number of rich or powerful people lived here, the security system was naturally the most important. Just now, when Taotao trotted all the way into the gate of the community, several people in the security room were shocked. Most of them could recognize Taotao, the only daughter of the president of Zhang's Heavy Industry.
Looking at her messy clothes and messy hair, they thought that she was kidnapped by a bad uncle outside.
If such a thing really happened, it would be terrible.
In the past, she had a one-on-one fight with Gu Yunjie, but it was not like this time. She was too flustered when she met Aunt Jing just now. If she had known it earlier, she would have changed her clothes in her father's house before coming here. At this time, she was eating grapes and walking under the street lamp to reflect on herself.
There were green grass and woods next to the villa. There were pedestrians walking dogs or taking a walk after dinner on the road. From time to time, there were various expensive sports cars passing by. Most of them were steady. There were also young men and women with colorful hair on their heads singing and screaming in the car. They were probably the participants of a party held in the villa by some "X second generation" or "Y third generation".
From time to time, there were residents who knew Taotao who came to ask her what happened. Taotao smiled a little embarrassedly and said that it was okay. She also waved the grapes in her hand, which meant that if something happened, she would not have the mood to eat grapes. Then she hurriedly tidied up her clothes … But it was useless to tidy up. Thinking of that, her whole face was smashed into the cake by Gu Yunjie at that time. She went out to chase Gu Yunjie all the way to the beach and wrestled with him on the beach. Even if she washed her face with water under the tap, she had no good image at this time …
I'd better hurry home …
He jogged through a few green belts and saw a few cars parked in the courtyard of his villa. It was probably another guest.
There were often guests at home. They were either looking for her grandfather or her mother. Relatives often came over as well. It was not good for her to enter through the front door. She took a detour to the back door and knocked on it. The security guard at the back door was shocked again. He thought that someone had done something to the young miss. It took her a long time to explain clearly. Then, she sneaked through the small garden and entered the house.
There were strict security guards outside the community. People like the Zhang family also hired several security guards. They lived here for a long time. In fact, they were almost like family members. It was said that Uncle Zhang and Uncle Gu were gay or something. Taotao heard this rumor when she was a child, so she ran to ask her mother. At that time, her mother didn't know why she laughed so hard that she had a stomachache. Then, she slapped Taotao's forehead and said that children shouldn't ask about this. Taotao was not sure whether it was true or not.
The villa of the Zhang family was very large, and there were many people living here. As the master of the family, the main people were her grandparents, her mother and herself. Then, there was a granduncle and his family who lived here. His two sons, one was an uncle and the other was an uncle, who also worked in the company. Then, there were several cousins and a girl from a relative's family who was sent to study in Jianghai, so she also lived here. The Zhang family had many relatives. Their hometown was not in Jianghai. There were also several cousins who were studying in Jianghai University. They would come here during the holidays. Grandpa liked the feeling of being together with everyone. During the festival, Aunt Jing, Aunt Shasha and the very beautiful Aunt Xun often came to live here. Grandpa didn't like a playboy father, but he liked Aunt Jing and the others. He even took them as his goddaughters.
Oh, I forgot to say that although he called Grandpa, he was not her father's father, but her mother's father. To be precise, he should call him Grandpa. But since she called him Grandpa since she was a child, she was used to it now. Anyway, her father didn't mind.
Other than these people, there were also security uncles, driver uncles, cook aunts, gardener aunts and so on living here. They could be considered as a big family. During the festival, it would be very lively.
However, because there were so many people, one shouldn't think that it was safe just by sneaking through the back door. Before she could run through the back door corridor, she was seen by the cook aunts. Then, her granny also saw her. Truly a gloomy life, because granny loved to nag.
Then, under granny's eyes and mouth turning into an "O" shape, she explained for a long time.
"Look, these are the grapes that Aunt Jing gave me." Only then did granny's exaggerated expression disappear.
Granny was a movie star in the past, and she was her mother's stepmother. At this time, she didn't look that old. Most people would probably think that she was her mother's elder sister, and was only in her thirties.
In fact, in this family, grandpa was very dignified. Mother was also very strict at times. Granny doted on her the most. However, little girls of this age would not be afraid of the dignity and strictness of others. On the contrary, they were afraid of being pampered like a child.
For example …
"Well, look at how dirty you are … Granny is going to take a bath. The water is ready. Just accompany granny to take a bath …" The beautiful woman who seemed to be in her thirties took the little girl's hand.
"Ah …" Taotao cried with a sad face, "Granny, I can take a bath by myself …"
"I know you can take a bath, Taotao. But you can take a bath together … Taotao, don't you like granny …" As expected, she was born in acting. She changed her face.
"But … but I'm very dirty …"
"It's because you're dirty that you have to wash it immediately."
"But …"
Roar!
Her face changed again. The beautiful woman stared at her with her almond-shaped eyebrows. Just now she said, "If you don't accompany me to take a bath, I'll call your grandpa and mother to come here at once!"
"… OK."
She won!
His grandma, who was a big star in acting, winked at Taotao playfully and held the little girl's hand. When they passed by the living room, Taotao peeped at them secretly. His grandpa and his mother were receiving some guests he didn't know. His mother hadn't changed her work clothes yet. She was sitting on the sofa with glasses and listening to them talking. It seemed that she looked beautiful and powerful with a faint smile. Taotao often thought that he would become such a powerful person in the future.
"Let's go. Go upstairs and take a bath first. Do you want to be seen by your mother like this?"
"Hee hee, I think my mother is very dignified."
"Oh?
Is she? "
The beautiful woman peeped at them curiously. Then she laughed, "I've told you before. When your mother shows this expression, she's probably absent-minded.
The thing that these people asked for is probably not going to happen.
Hum, I taught her to show this expression. Let's go. Let's go. Granny will teach you how to do it later … "
His mother was the CEO.
The scale of Zhang's Heavy Industry was very large. Taotao didn't know how big it was at present. In a word, others were very admiring when they talked about it. There were many classmates in the junior department of Sacred Heart College that Taotao was studying at present. Their families were quite well-off. Their parents had companies and power. But if they really wanted to compare, Taotao's family should be at the "best" level.
Although Taotao didn't care about these things because of the education from childhood, she could still understand the concept of these things.
When she was a child, her mother often took her to work in the company. At that time, she saw that many seemingly powerful people listened to her mother's command. She felt that her mother was really powerful. Relatively speaking, her grandfather who had retired from his position was more powerful. Her grandmother was also very powerful. Sometimes when she lost her temper, she often scolded other powerful people until they couldn't speak. Of course, sometimes her grandfather would joke, "Well, if you say who is the most powerful … Taotao, you should know that your mother and I are powerful because we need to be reasonable. When your grandmother is powerful, she doesn't need to be reasonable. So your grandmother is the most powerful person."
Every time she heard similar words, her grandmother would spend one night or several nights to seriously instill the concept of "what grandpa said is fallacious, and grandma is wise, generous and reasonable" into her mind.
Of course, Taotao liked her mother, her grandfather, and her grandmother very much. She couldn't tell who was better. Sometimes she was afraid of her mother's strictness, sometimes she was afraid of her grandmother's doting. But she also liked the feeling of being with them. Her grandmother often fooled around with her. This was probably a rare situation in many families. It was probably because her grandmother looked young and childlike.
This family might be more perfect than other people's families. But if there was a flaw, it might be that she was an illegitimate daughter. This family, in official terms, would be called a single-parent family. Similar to the survey form of the school, people often had to fill it in this way.
Jianghai was a metropolis connected to the international community. Time had developed to 2013, and the end of the world had passed. The situation of single-parent families was actually considered common. There were also many students in the class whose parents were divorced. This was not a strange thing. However, to be honest, the situation in his own family was much stranger than that of ordinary families.
When she was a child, she didn't feel too strange. Maybe it was because her parents, grandparents, and other people made the atmosphere too natural. But now she was twelve years old. She had her own ability to distinguish and think. If she really thought about it objectively, her family was actually quite strange.
In a single-parent family, either the parents had divorced or one of them had passed away. But her family was not like this. When she was very young, she knew who her mother was and who her father was. Neither of them had passed away. Their relationship was not broken, but they did not live together …
In fact, thinking about it, there was a third situation that was more consistent with this. Although it was not strange to say that the children of single-parent families were nowadays, there was also a situation that would occasionally be gossiped about. That was the illegitimate child of a mistress. It was said that there was a child in the next class who was often bullied. His mother was with the CEO of a company for money, had a child, and even had a "home". This was said to be an open secret.
If she really thought about it, her own situation was quite similar to this kind of thing.
Her mother was a mistress. Her relationship with her father did not seem to be broken, but they did not openly be together. Her mother told her who her father was, but she did not seem to be able to publicize her father's identity.
The strange thing was that in this kind of situation, no one could despise it.
Most women became mistresses because they coveted the other party's money, power, and status. But although her mother was a mistress, her mother was a big CEO. She had her own status and career, and she had hundreds of millions of assets.
And her father …
Her father was a small doctor, who opened a small clinic …
Thinking about it objectively, this kind of thing was really incomprehensible.
This was just a strange feeling on the rational level after her logical thinking ability matured. To be honest, Taotao grew up in this kind of atmosphere since he was a child. There was no contradiction between his father and his mother. Since she met Aunt Jing and Aunt Shasha when she was a child, she was very close to them. They often lived together and went out to travel together every year. So she naturally accepted this kind of thing in her heart. When she was seven or eight years old, she still felt that "there was nothing strange". The quarrel with Gu Yunjie was purely a conflict between siblings. This was one of the internal conflicts of the people. If there were outsiders who dared to bully them, they would unite against the outsiders. Even when Aunt Shasha gave birth to Yunting three years ago, she could also treat her intimately as her younger sister. It was only in recent years that she thought a little more about it.
Occasionally, she would talk about this kind of thing with her mother. Her mother didn't avoid it very much. But Taotao still didn't understand her explanation. She could only remember some very romantic and interesting stories that her mother told. Her room was next to her mother's room on the second floor. The windowsill was against the small pond. Her mother often told her about the scene that her father helped her escape from the house through the windowsill.
Of course, she couldn't tell her grandfather about this. But occasionally, she would mention it to her grandmother. Her grandmother would sigh, "Alas, since it's not for money, then … it's probably because they love each other … But Taotao, you can't be like your mother in the future …"
How much love could they have?
At present, Taotao had reached the age where she worshipped all kinds of idols and liked handsome men in movies. From the perspective of a daughter, her father was not too bad. But in any case, she felt that her father's image was far from those stars.
Why would her mother fall in love with her father, to such an extent? Furthermore, there was also such a good Aunt Jing and Aunt Shasha. She felt that it was truly hard to understand. As of now, this was one of the few things that she had in common with her cheap brother, Gu Yunjie.
In her mother's story, her father used to be her mother's student. He was a boy who was a little bad sometimes. His grades were not good, and he liked to copy homework. In Aunt Jing's story, her father was not a very powerful boy. Aunt Shasha always liked to fight with others. Her father didn't even fight. He was nothing more than an ordinary person.
Of course, if Taotao saw it by herself, her father was nothing more than an ordinary person. He was not very outstanding, and there were not a lot of powerful people who listened to his command. Even if he was a doctor, he was not a famous doctor. The business of the clinic had always been ordinary. When he was with her, he would not be like other fathers who always said to his daughter intimately, "Ah, my daughter, do you want to do this or that …" Sometimes, she felt that they were just like friends. They could sit together and talk. They could also sit together and be in a daze. Occasionally, her father would suddenly take her to play a prank.
She remembered that one afternoon when she was nine years old, she went to the seaside with her father for a walk. When she was tired, she sat down on the bench by the seaside together. They didn't say anything. She just listened to her father humming a song softly. She fell asleep. When she woke up, she slept on her father's legs. The setting sun was like fire. Then they had dinner together in the restaurant by the seaside. They didn't say anything, but it was one of the deepest memories in her heart. It was a great feeling.
That was nothing more than her father.
But when she thought about it carefully, she still didn't know why her mother and father were together. She didn't understand why this family was so strange. She didn't understand why she would take these things as natural even though it was so strange.
Her mother was a big president, and her father was a little doctor.
In the heart of the girl, whose nickname was Taotao, whose real name was Zhang Yunxin or Gu Yunxin, this was one of the biggest questions in her twelve- or thirteen-years-old age …