Chapter 21
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Chapter 21
Tracie replied, “Grover’s grandmother wanted to see her great-granddaughter, so Grover took Wendi to her grand- mother’s, and I brought Rico to visit you.”
“No, no! I want to see my son-in-law and my great-granddaughter! I need to show the whole village that I am doing well!” Her grandmother immediately pulled out her phone and called Grover.
Tracie’s grandmother was seventy-two, but still quick on her feet. Before Tracie could stop her, she had already dialed the number.
However, the call didn’t go through.
The number was listed as non-existent.
But the number definitely existed.
It was just that five years ago, Grover had added grandmother to his blacklist.
In the first year of Tracie and Grover’s marriage, grandmother would call Grover almost every other day. Back then, he still reluctantly picked up, out of a sense of obligation.
Every time he answered, grandmother would complain in a soft, pitiful voice, “Grover, you have to back me up. You’ll make sure to crush my enemies, right? I want them to see that even an old woman like me has someone on her side.”
Eventually, Grover blocked her number.
Tracie always made up excuses for grandmother, telling her there was no signal in the mountains or that Grover was out of town on a business trip and couldn’t get through.
Grandmother believed her.
Even now, she still often called her son-in-law, whom she thought she could rely on.
“Didn’t get through again? Tracie, I miss Wendi. He’s her great-grandmother’s beloved grandson and my beloved great-grandson too!” The old lady said, sounding heartbroken.
Mandy couldn’t resist teasing her. “Grandma, Wendi is indeed her great-grandmother’s favorite grandson, but he’s not your beloved great-grandson! You and Tracie don’t share any blood!”
Grandmother was speechless.
“Mandy! You’re being too much!” Tracie wanted to punch this troublemaker.
Looking at her grandmother’s clouded eyes, Tracie didn’t know how to soothe the old woman’s pain.
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Chapter 21
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At sixteen, after being kicked out by her parents and grandparents, Tracie still lingered outside the house, refusing to leave.
She hoped her parents and grandparents would change their minds.
But instead of them softening, she found herself meeting her grandmother, who showed up with a plastic bag in hand, looking like a beggar.
“Come with me. If you keep hanging around their doorstep, they’ll let the dogs loose on you.” Grandmother pulled Tracie, who hadn’t eaten in two days, back to her house and fed her some chicken she had raised herself.
Though the chicken was tough and bland, it still made Tracie feel warm.
A few days later, she learned from the neighbors that grandmother was her grandfather’s first wife, and they had never had children.
When grandfather went to the city to work in construction, he got involved with a woman there and had a child. He had to divorce his first wife and take his second wife and child back to the city, leaving his first wife behind in the vil- lage.
No children, no family, no support.
With a fiery temper and a stubborn nature, she would wander around with a plastic bag in front of grandfather’s house, though no one really knew what was going through her mind.
It wasn’t until later that grandmother told Tracie herself, “You’re my husband’s granddaughter. His family doesn’t want you, but I do. When you grow up, you’ll help me take revenge! I want him to see his own granddaughter get back at his family. That’ll really make him suffer!”
What a bitter, vengeful old lady.
Tracie wanted to tell her, “They kicked me out of the house, how could I take revenge for you?”
But she couldn’t bear to crush her grandmother’s hopes.
Now
was getting older, with only a small plot of land to barely get by. She often went into the city to
tle extra money.
ely old woman.
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