Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away-Chapter 80 - Eighty What is familial love_1

“It’s kinship.”

It was the warmth of a family, the tender scenes of maternal love and filial piety.

Even though Tang Tang was a girl, she knew that the hearts of all mothers in the world should be the same.

She loved Tang Tang, just as Shen Cuizhi loved Gu Chen.

The little girl didn’t understand what kinship was, her face full of curiosity.

“Mommy, what is kinship?”

Ji Pianran, hugging Tang Tang and holding her little hand, explained very seriously, word by word, “Kinship means the love between Mommy and Tang Tang, Daddy and Tang Tang, the love we have as a family. That’s kinship.”

The little girl was confused; she tilted her head and looked at Ji Pianran with curiosity.

“Then if Mommy goes away one day, does that mean kinship is gone?”

At that moment, Gu Chen happened to come out, intending to grab some chilies from the windowsill.

He heard Ji Pianran and Tang Tang’s conversation.

And was so shocked that his forehead immediately broke out in sweat.

Ji Pianran tightened her grip on Tang Tang’s hand in her palm, “Mommy won’t leave; Mommy will always be with Tang Tang.”

Gu Chen’s heart trembled. In his previous life, why did she leave?

If she said she would stay with Tang Tang forever, why did she leave?

Hearing that Mommy wouldn’t leave, the little girl turned and hugged Ji Pianran, “Mommy, does that mean we will never be apart for our whole lives?”

Ji Pianran pursed her lips, “In this world, everyone will part ways. It’s not scary to part ways. Even if we do part, Mommy will always love Tang Tang.”

Tang Tang was confused again. Just now, Mommy said they wouldn’t part, so why are they going to part ways now?

She pouted, “Mommy, you’re lying!”

She had clearly said she would always be with her, so why talk of parting now!

Ji Pianran gently stroked the little girl’s head with her hand, her tone helpless.

“But birth, aging, sickness, and death are natural laws. One day, Mommy will die, not just Mommy, but Daddy too, and even my Tang Bao. When you’re old, you too will eventually die.”

Tang Tang still didn’t understand, “Mommy, what is birth, aging, sickness, and death?”

The harsh and inevitable reality coming from the mouth of the little more than two-year-old Tang Tang shocked Gu Chen into breaking out in a cold sweat.

Birth, aging, sickness, and death!

So what exactly had Ji Pianran gone through?

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

Just the thought made Gu Chen break out in a cold sweat.

No wonder he could never find Ji Pianran in his previous life. Could it be that she had gone home to seek medical treatment?

It was clear that Ji Pianran was no ordinary person.

And her family circumstances were definitely not as she had described. If she were really fleeing disaster, how could she know so many things that even Gu Chen didn’t know?

Take Teacher Li’s inkstone, for instance; she knew the ink just by looking at it.

That indicated that Ji Pianran must have been educated, and she knew about goji berries and matsutake mushrooms.

While goji berries might be known to an average family, how could matsutake mushrooms be explained?

Therefore, Ji Pianran’s family situation must not be as she described, and her family’s financial condition must not be poor.

If she was sick and knew she couldn’t afford the treatment, she would have gone home.

Then it all made sense.

Everything made sense.

But why, after getting better, hadn’t she ever come back to see Tang Tang?

Could it be that she was dead…

At the thought, Gu Chen sucked in a breath of cold air.

Ji Pianran left them to seek treatment, and didn’t return because she had died.

Good heavens, that’s frightening.

He hardly dared to think further.

Gu Chen dropped the chili he was holding and rushed over to embrace Ji Pianran; his pained expression startled her.

“What’s wrong?”

Gu Chen didn’t speak, just held Ji Pianran tightly, letting the hot tears roll down his face.

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

And his own daughter, suffering from depression, died right before his eyes.

What kind of bastard was he?

Tang Tang’s father was weeping, terrified, and hurriedly, Tang Tang reached up on her tiptoes to wipe his tears.

Ji Pianran was also startled.

“What’s actually wrong?”

She didn’t know what could have caused Gu Chen to look like this.

Gu Chen wiped his tears and embraced both Tang Tang and Ji Pianran.

“Promise me, no matter what happens, we will never be apart, no matter what happens, I’ll be there!”

He trembled, and by the end, he was almost sobbing.

Ji Pianran reached out to touch Gu Chen’s head, smiling, “What silly talk. Aren’t we always together?”

“What if one day we’re not?”

Gu Chen was truly scared.

Ji Pianran shook her head and turned to glance at Tang Tang still standing on the ground, “It won’t happen, don’t worry.”

Then she looked towards the kitchen, “Mom is waiting for you, go cook.”

The little girl touched her stomach and giggled, “Tang Tang’s hungry, Tang Tang wants to eat lots of yummy food!”

Gu Chen touched his face and put away his sadness.

“Alright, Daddy’s going to make Tang Tang some delicious food.”

On the first day of the lunar new year, they should have been eating dumplings, but with Gu Chen’s return, Shen Cuizhi wanted to cook more tasty dishes for her son and granddaughter, so she took out some meat, thinking of frying a few extra dishes besides making dumplings.

To let Gu Chen and the children have a wonderful meal.

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

He looked at Shen Cuizhi with a beam, “Mom, today we should be eating dumplings!”

Shen Cuizhi of course knew they should eat dumplings; she pointed to the basin on the chopping board, “Look what that is?”

Gu Chen loved dumplings, especially those filled with cabbage heads. Before, when times were tough, Shen Cuizhi had to stuff a lot of cabbage and tofu in the filling to make enough dumplings for everyone, with just a tiny bit of meat.

Now was different; she had bought five pounds of meat just for the dumpling filling.

Gu Chen chuckled, “Mom, it’s too much; we won’t finish it all.”

“If we don’t finish, we’ll save it. You don’t know how much Dong Dong and Xu Xu can eat!”

Dong Dong and Xu Xu were the children of the eldest and second eldest in the family, respectively, one five and the other six years old, and they really knew how to eat.

It’s said that half-grown boys can eat their fathers into poverty, and these two weren’t even half-grown yet and could already eat their father into poverty!

After speaking, Shen Cuizhi took out some cured spareribs, a luxury not often seen, even during the new year.

Shen Cuizhi brought out two whole racks, “Remember how you used to crave this when you were small? Now, Mom will let you have your fill!”

Today, with her son’s rare visit, she had to bring out all the delicious food in the house.