Chapter 327: Chapter 327: Suddenly Returning Ho Chapter 327: Chapter 327: Suddenly Returning Ho Hearing Lu Youxi’s words, Lu Zhenguo couldn’t help but look over.
In the past, Liu Yushu’s temperant ant she might easily be taken advantage of.
But now, Liu Yushu has beco quite fierce, no longer soone who can be bullied easily.
“This…” Grandma Xu knew Lu Youxi’s intention, which was actually to take her to the Imperial Capital to provide care.
But Lu Youxi then ntioned she could help Liu Yushu with her chores.
“Grandma Xu, please help ,” Lu Youxi said, “Besides, my parents are both busy now. My dad takes care of the cybercafe’s cleanliness, and my mom is busy at ho preparing boxed lunches, not to ntion she’s even busier with the restaurant business. Youxue is left unattended, and just in case any prohibited incident occurs while my parents are busy, you could also help by visiting Youxue’s school, right?”
When Grandma Xu heard this, it seed like her role was becoming more important.
“That’s fine, but I’ll pay my own rent,” Grandma Xu said seriously, “I am going to help you, and I can’t let you spend more money on .”
“What are you talking about!” Lu Youxi breathed a sigh of relief upon Grandma Xu’s agreent, and said with a smile, “We have a spare room at ho.”
“Yes, Youxi seldom cos ho since she lives at the school, and even during the weekends when she’s off, she stays in an apartnt with Shuyan at their company,” Liu Yushu joined in persuading, “It’s such a waste to leave a room empty at ho, why would you rent sowhere else, Grandma Xu? Just live with us.”
“That’s right!” Xu Jingmin eagerly said, “Then I can co visit you often too.”
“Having you there would be a great help to us,” Lu Zhenguo added.
Grandma Xu’s eyes gradually reddened as she looked at each of their faces, “I actually understand your intentions, you still want to take care of . I would really be in the wrong if I pretended not to know.”
“I…I’ll just thicken my skin and accept,” Grandma Xu said, lowering her head to wipe away tears.
She had never expected that her own children had long stopped caring for her, always complaining and asking for money whenever they called.
Yet even so, every ti she received a call from her children, Grandma Xu was still happy and filled with hope.
Even just hearing their voices would be good enough.
However, she was only a child who had been saved unintentionally, yet the filial piety shown to her was more genuine than that of her own children.
Grandma Xu sighed, suddenly stood up, and said, “Wait for a mont.”
Grandma Xu got up and slowly went into her bedroom.
She took out a key that was hanging around her neck and tucked close to her body, and unlocked a drawer, from which she pulled out an iron biscuit tin.
The edges and surface were sowhat rusty, and judging by both the rust and the pattern on the surface, it was sothing rather old.
The painting on the tin was a style from a decade or two ago.
Opening the tin, inside were a bankbook and a property deed.
Grandma Xu took out the bankbook; she had scrimped and saved every year, usually managing to save over ten thousand yuan.
The saved money was then given to subsidize her children.
And she gave her children equal shares, for fear that any side would feel treated unfairly.
This bankbook was last year’s savings because her children hadn’t returned for the New Year, she hadn’t yet had the chance to give them the money.
At that mont, a sudden noise ca from outside.
“Mom!” It was the voice of her son, Zhang Jialiang.
“Mom, we’re back.” This voice belonged to her daughter, Zhang Jiayu.
Grandma Xu was stunned, put the bankbook back into the drawer, and rely closed it without locking.
She then hurried out.
She saw that Zhang Jialiang and his wife, along with Zhang Jiayu and her husband, were standing tightly wrapped up in the living room.
In Grandma Xu’s ho, the living room served double duty as a dining room.
The dining table was placed in the middle of the room.
There were seldom any guests at ho.
She would eat and drink tea there all by herself.
Zhang Jialiang and Zhang Jiayu, the two couples, were still wearing their thick down jackets, carrying the chill on them.
Grandma Xu hurried out and saw the four of them, her face full of surprise, “Why have you co back now?”
After the surprise, she realized sothing was amiss.
Grandma Xu looked behind the four of them, and there was no one else, “Where are Pengpeng and Yueyue?”
Pengpeng was Zhang Jialiang’s son, and Yueyue was Zhang Jiayu’s daughter.
Without seeing her grandchildren, Grandma Xu felt a bit disappointed.
“There’s no heating here during the New Year, it’s too cold, Yueyue’s grandma was worried that Yueyue would catch a cold if she ca back, so she didn’t let her co,” explained Zhang Jiayu.
Xu Jingmin frowned slightly and whispered to Liu Yushu, “What kind of excuse is that? Is it really that cold? The coal fire at ho is blazing hot, it’s very warm.”
Liu Yushu sighed and shook her head without speaking.
They all knew that this was just an excuse by Zhang Jiayu.
It wasn’t clear whether it was her not wanting her daughter to co back, or Yueyue herself looking down on the conditions here and not wanting to return.
Zhang Jialiang followed, “Pengpeng has tutoring classes, so I didn’t bring him back. He’s at his grandmother’s.”
Xu Jingmin couldn’t help herself and whispered to Liu Yushu again, “It’s only the second day of the New Year, and he’s attending tutoring classes? Which tutoring center is so impressive that the teachers don’t take the Spring Festival holiday?”
Although Xu Jingmin’s voice was low, the room wasn’t large.
In fact, with a round table set, and all these people sitting around it, there wasn’t much space left in the hall.
Therefore, everyone, including Zhang Jialiang and Zhang Jiayu, could hear Xu Jingmin speaking, however softly.
Zhang Jialiang and Zhang Jiayu couldn’t help but glance at Xu Jingmin.
When they had just co in, seeing the hall filled with a table of people, they too were surprised.
Among these people, they only recognized the village chief and Lu Zhenguo and his wife.
They didn’t even recognize Lu Youxi.
When the two of them had left Hexing Village to work in the city, Lu Youxi was still young.
And they didn’t co back often.
Now Lu Youxi had grown up, matured, and even beco more beautiful.
Her appearance and deanor did not match the people of Hexing Village at all.
Instead, she seed to belong with Xu Jingmin’s and Zhou Shuyan’s family.
Xu Jingmin, Zhou Shuyan, and Lu Youxi were strangers to Zhang Jialiang and Zhang Jiayu; they had never seen them before.
Lu Zhenguo and Liu Yushu were sowhat stunned by the sudden return of Zhang Jialiang and Zhang Jiayu and were at a loss for words for a while.
Xu Jingmin had no intention of talking to these two at all.
From the expression in their eyes when they entered, she didn’t like these two families one bit.
She couldn’t understand how soone as simple and kind-hearted as Grandma Xu could have such children.
At tis like this, it was up to the village chief to speak up, “You’re back, co and sit.”
The Village Chief’s Wife stood up with a smile, “You ca back just in ti, we only just sat down too, let go add four more sets of bowls and chopsticks.”
Zhang Jialiang’s wife, Li Yuqin, had assud that their return would make the old lady overjoyed.
Their purpose for coming back seed easily achievable.
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