Chapter 993: Chapter 993: Bitter dicine Benefits the Ill
The Old House
Beichen Jue stood by the window, his eyes deep as he looked at the busy servants in the courtyard below.
Ye Xinluo pushed the door open and walked in, carrying a bowl of freshly brewed herbal dicine from the kitchen. The old man, hearing the noise, turned and imdiately furrowed his brows, stepping forward to take the porcelain bowl from her hands. "Why don’t you take a good rest? Leave these things to the servants. You’re pregnant, so don’t do these chores."
"I’m fine, Grandpa. It’s good to move around a bit while the months are still early. This is the dicine freshly brewed in the kitchen. Please drink it while it’s hot."
Upon hearing he had to take dicine, Beichen Jue furrowed his brows as if facing a great enemy, glancing at the bowl with disdain. "It’s that herbal dicine again, bitter as hell. Just seeing it irritates ."
Since Xu Yi was sent to prison, the old man’s health had been deteriorating, and in not much ti, he had lost a lot of weight.
"Good dicine is bitter but beneficial. Drinking it will help you get better faster. Please drink it while it’s hot, or the effect won’t be as good when it cools down."
Patiently comforting him for a while, she handed him the bowl. Beichen Jue looked at it for a long ti before finally mustering the courage to gulp down the dicine in several large swallows.
Ye Xinluo seed to perform magic, for suddenly several candied fruits appeared in her palm. She smiled, took two pieces and placed them in her mouth, feeling the bitterness dissipate a bit...
Looking around the room, just as she was about to withdraw her gaze, she noticed a photo fra on the bedside table.
Slightly surprised, she thought it wasn’t the first ti she had been in Grandpa’s bedroom, but it was the first ti she saw this fra.
She walked over to take a look and found the person in the photo unfamiliar. The photo seed aged, like those taken decades ago.
The woman in the photo had long hair down to her waist, dressed in a floral dress, sitting on a swing, her toes touching the ground, her eyes lowered slightly, smiling faintly.
Suddenly sothing clicked in her mind, she stood up and said, "Grandpa, is this Grandma’s photo from when she was young?"
"Yes." Beichen Jue nodded, his eyes filled with deep longing, "This was taken when your grandma and I just got married. Back then, caras were a novelty, and Beichen Group hadn’t been established yet. Your grandma and I had so education, and we borrowed the cara from a friend to take this."
Ye Xinluo listened quietly, she could feel the profound affection Grandpa had for his late wife. Despite the separation of life and death, the endless longing could not be severed.
To place the photo fra by the bedside, seeing his beloved first thing every day upon waking—such a life, must be lonely, right?
"Your grandma really loved noodles, especially tomato and egg noodles, but I wasn’t skilled in cooking, so it took
a long ti to make sothing barely edible. Over ti, I grew to love them too."
"We lived like that for several years. Later, in my youthful impetuosity, I t Xu Yi’s mother and made so mistakes, often arguing with your grandma!"
His weary eyes clouded over, recalling the past as if it happened yesterday, each scene vivid in his mind.
Coming out of his thoughts, he looked at Ye Xinluo, "Girl, when you first returned to Z City, I brought Jingxi back without your consent. Do you hate ?"
Ye Xinluo shook her head, "I don’t. So things might just be destined—I’m destined to return ho with the child, and Jingxi is destined to return as well. Honestly, I had resentnt at first, but later, I slowly let it go..."
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