"...How could it be?" She sat on her grandmother's bed and held her thin and cold hand, "Grandma, why are you like this suddenly?"
She left home half a year ago, and her grandmother is in good condition.
Although he was in poor health, it was not a problem to survive three to five years. It was precisely because of this that Yun Qiao was able to go out with confidence.
Unexpectedly, things took a sudden turn.
Grandma's eyes were kind and she looked at her tenderly: "Who would have thought that when people are old and their condition is getting worse? I asked you to come back this time because grandma has something to explain."
Yun Qiao sat upright and listened carefully.
"After I leave, you and your mother will live with Xi's family for a few years." Grandma restrained her gentleness, and wrinkles spread across her cheeks, showing her unprecedented seriousness.
Yun Qiao was stunned.
Her biological mother's name was Du Xiaoqin. She left home after giving birth to Yun Qiao, and then remarried in Yancheng.
Du Xiaoqin's current husband's surname is Xi, and he is the fourth master of the Xi family.
Yun Qiao and her grandmother have been to Yancheng several times, and once passed by the gate of Xi Mansion.
Grandma asked her if she wanted to see Du Xiaoqin, but she refused. Grandma also said that Du Xiaoqin didn't want her mother's family to bother her, so it would be best not to see her.
At that time, Yun Qiao was still young.
Now that she has grown up and is over 18, how can she go to the Xi family to seek refuge with Du Xiaoqin?
Grandma was secretly powerful and extremely wealthy, and Yun Qiao had managed some of it over the years. She went to Hong Kong this time not only to study, but also to pave the way for new forces.
She is a good person, rich and capable, so why should she go to live in the Xi family?
"Grandma, my mother may not be willing to accept me." Yun Qiao smiled bitterly, "Look, I am already so old. A woman becomes an adult at sixteen. If she gets married early, my children can even walk."
Grandma didn't joke with her.
She just squeezed Yun Qiao's hand: "Yun Qiao, are you contradicting me?"
"No." Yun Qiao said immediately, "Grandma, I didn't contradict you."
"Then remember, go to Xi's house." Grandma stared at her, "Repeat what I said!"
"I'm going to the Xi family." Yun Qiao repeated word for word, "I will go, grandma. I will go to the Xi family to live for a few years, I promise you."
Grandma slowly let out a breath.
She had lost all her strength, and now her eyelids could no longer be held up, and they were hanging weakly, as if she was asleep, but she was still talking softly to Yun Qiao.
"I have an enemy," said grandma.
Yun Qiao was stunned.
"Talking about the past, I can't explain it clearly in a few sentences. I asked you to go to Xi's house, and you will understand from now on. Yun Qiao, don't leave in a hurry when you get to Xi's house, stay at least three years." Grandma said again.
Yun Qiao said yes again.
Grandma continued: "Yun Qiao, I can't let go of your mother. Grandma is not worried about you, only worried about her. She..."
The final sound curled up and dissipated in the room.
Grandma is asleep.
Yun Qiao came out of her grandmother's bed and asked the housekeeper when her grandmother's condition deteriorated to this point.
"...for a while, my mother-in-law asked us to go out and come back in half a month, but we didn't dare to disobey." The manager told Yun Qiao, "When we came back, she was injured and vomited a lot of blood."
Yun Qiao clenched her fingers.
The steward added: "My mother-in-law didn't let us ask for a doctor."
"No doctor can cure grandma's disease. Grandma's own medical skills are the most powerful." Yun Qiao said, "So, grandma was harmed by someone?"
The steward nodded: "Probably, it was fine before."
Yun Qiao asked again who he was.
The stewards and servants at home helped to recall, but they only remembered that a man, tall and thin, who looked like a very young man, went out from the back door of the house.
However, no one saw his face.
"He wears a red coat, a darker red, like the color of blood." The steward added.
Yun Qiao was confused.
Grandma said that she had an enemy. Grandma had not been in good health these years, but she suddenly sent Yun Qiao to Hong Kong, as if she was deliberately trying to hide her.
The family was in a mess, but grandma asked Yun Qiao to leave.
Yun Qiao stood in the courtyard, unable to move for a long time.
On the second night after she returned home, grandma went to the Paradise. All the suffering in the world went away with the wind, and grandma was liberated.
Yun Qiao wiped away tears while attending to her grandmother's funeral.
At the same time, she sent a telegram to Yancheng's biological mother Du Xiaoqin, asking her to come back for the funeral.