When Xiao's mother looked at her son, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes relaxed.

"Mom, I met my cousin today."

Xiao Xiao wiped the dishes in his hands carefully and said somewhat casually.

"cousin?"

"Yan Yan?!" Mother Xiao suddenly reacted after being stunned, and almost dropped the bowl in her hand.

Xiao Xiao's quick eyes and hands quickly caught the bowl that was about to slip out of Xiao's mother's hand.

"Um."

"Really?" Xiao's mother looked a little dazed. When she mentioned Yan Yan, she thought of her brother who died young and her mother who passed away.

That child, she knew, was the one her mother was thinking about when she was dying.

Yes, a child who was so young back then had not yet fully recovered from the pain of losing his father, and had to accept a new father and a new family.

The panic and fear in the child's eyes seemed to still be vivid in his mind.

I still remember that time, the child tightly clenched her mother's and her own hands, with her thin fingers holding them with an almost convulsive strength, as if she was grasping the last duckweed. She could even

I saw the raised veins on the back of the child's pale hands.

"Is she... okay?"

After the initial surprise passed, Xiao's mother calmed down her overly excited emotions. After all, she had not heard from this person for ten years, and she would inevitably lose her temper when she suddenly said that she had met him.

"My cousin is very good, and my uncle... and my aunt are also very good."
Chapter completed!