Chapter 153.2: Recognizing Relatives
Chapter 153.2: Recognizing Relatives
The old man had mixed feelings in his heart as he started asking, “Is that the Empress Dowager? Why are you with the Empress Dowager? You may not admit that you are Ah Heng, but you can’t deny that she is the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager is not dead yet.”
Xiao Liulang was silent.
The old man continued to ask sadly, “How did this happen? What happened to you and the Empress Dowager? The Empress Dowager seems to have lost her memory, but you haven’t, so you tell me!”
Xiao Liulang remained silent.
The old man closed his eyes painfully, saying, “Alright, if you don’t want to talk, I won’t force you. I’ll come see you again another day. What happened today… I will keep it a secret for you.”
Xiao Liulang bowed and then turned into the yard.
“Your leg…” The old man’s worried eyes fell on his right leg.
Xiao Liulang took a step and said, “It’s nothing serious.”
This was the only thing he said to him.
The old man felt that the only reason Xiao Liulang followed him outside was perhaps to tell him these three words.
He didn’t want the old man to worry about him.
The old man’s heart felt sour.
Xiao Liulang walked back to the yard while the old man returned to his carriage.
In fact, today’s “gain” was not only meeting the Empress Dowager, but also seeing his little benefactor.
He didn’t expect her to be together with Ah Heng… No, he should call him Liulang now.
She and Liulang turned out to be husband and wife.
What kind of fate was this?
……
In the backyard, the whole family looked at the elderly woman uniformly.
“Grandaunt, aren’t you sad that Granguncle has really left?” Little Jing Kong asked.
Not everyone in this family knew that the elderly woman wasn’t truly Xiao Liulang’s Grandaunt, this included Gu Xiaoshun.
When the elderly woman fainted in front of Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang’s house back then, Gu Xiaoshun was present. After that, Gu Yan, Little Jing Kong, Yao shi and others all thought that the elderly woman was really Xiao Liulang’s Grandaunt, who came all the way to find him and seek shelter.
Therefore, when a Granduncle appeared, Little Jing Kong believed it almost without a doubt.
Gu Xiaoshun also believed it, because they had been together for so long like a family, he gradually forgot that their Grandaunt was someone they picked up. [T/N: Lmao!]
The elderly woman grabbed a melon seed and said, “Why should I be sad? Even without him, I’m living a comfortable life!”
Who wanted to spend the rest of their life with a rotten old man like him?
Wasn’t it better to just enjoy yourself playing cards every day?
Little Jing Kong: “Oh.”
While Gu Jiao was cooking in the kitchen, Little Jing Kong walked in, tugged at Gu Jiao’s clothes and said, “JiaoJiao, let me tell you something.”
“What is it?” Gu Jiao asked.
Little Jing Kong tilted his head aside and looked at her, saying, “Brother-in-law has a nickname, Ah Heng, which means to tyrannize(Heng Xing Ba Dao).”
Although his brother-in-law wouldn’t admit it, he was already convinced that his nickname was that Heng!
Gu Jiao looked at him with a laugh, “Really? How do you know?”
Little Jing Kong said, “I heard Granduncle call him that. We met him the other day.”
Gu Jiao: “Oh?”
Little Jing Kong sighed, “Brother-in-law and I were on our way home from school. When we were at the entrance of the alley, Granduncle called brother-in-law Ah Heng, but brother-in-law ignored him, dragged me and ran away. I asked brother-in-law about it, but he irrationally insisted that Granduncle mistook him for someone else. Brother-in-law is such an unfilial guy. Even if he doesn’t want to recognize his Granduncle, he should not do this to his seniors. Teacher Jiang taught us to respect the old and love the young… “
Little Jing Kong didn’t feel quite right that day, and his Granduncle’s visit today proved his guess.
Sure enough, bad brother-in-law had really evaded the other party that day!
Bad brother-in-law was an unfilial descendant.
He mustn’t do that again in the future.
After he was done filing a complaint, Little Jing Kong deeply felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulder.
He went to the study and picked up books about other languages that he disliked.
Bad brother-in-law was unreliable, it looked like his feelings had been exhausted.
Starting today, he would redouble his efforts to support this family in the future.
Meanwhile, inside the kitchen, Gu Jiao reflected on Little Jing Kong’s words.
He had met the old man before?
And the old man also called him by nickname?
Then, the old man knew Xiao Liulang.
Judging from Xiao Liulang’s reaction, Xiao Liulang was also very likely to know the other party.
According to Gu Jiao’s observation of the old man, it was obvious that the old man also knew the elderly woman. Though for the time being, it was hard to tell whether they were a real couple or not.
The elderly woman’s memory was quite disordered, so it was possible for her to get the old man’s identity wrong.
But that wasn’t the point.
The point was that the old man knew both Xiao Liulang and the elderly woman, and Xiao Liulang also knew him. Then, did Xiao Liulang also know who the elderly woman was?
Back then, it wasn’t due to his sudden kindness that he wanted to shelter the elderly woman, but rather because they were old acquaintances?
An Junwang also knew the elderly woman…
Gu Jiao wrote several names on the wood ash with a firewood stick.
Old man, elderly woman, An Junwang, Xiao Liulang, Marquis Xuanping Estate, Ah Heng.
……
When the old man returned to the carriage, he felt restless for a long time.
Empress Dowager Zhuang didn’t get along with the Marquis Xuanping Estate, nor with himself, and Xiao Liulang was both a person of Marquis Xuanping Estate and his own disciple.
Putting Xiao Liulang beside that demon empress, the old man couldn’t be at ease.
“This won’t do, I have to keep an eye on her!”
In fact, the old man returned to the capital this time only because his close friend of many years was critically ill and was dying. He came to see him for the last time.
After seeing him, he intended to continue to live in seclusion in the mountains.
But now, he had changed his mind.
He quietly used his contacts that had been dormant for many years to rent a small courtyard in Bishui Alley, which happened to be next to Xiao Liulang and Gu Jiao’s house.
The old man slowly moved in.
He didn’t have many servants at home, only Liu Quan and a temporary hired coachman.
On the first day he moved in, he set up a ladder, climbed to the top of the wall, and poked his head over to observe the movements of the demon empress.
The elderly woman discovered him a long time ago.
This stalker old guy didn’t want her in their younger days, but now that they were old, he wanted to get back together?
Dream on!
The elderly woman resisted the urge to slash people to death and went back into her room to sleep.
But when she lay on the bed, she began tossing and turning, and the more she thought about it, the more she couldn’t swallow this annoyed feeling!
She went to the kitchen, took a kitchen knife and stormed to the next door.
The old man, who had been observing for a while, got sleepy, so he went back to the house to sleep.
The difference was that he fell asleep peacefully.
In the middle of his slumber, however, his neck suddenly felt a chill. He woke up in an instant, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the elderly woman pointing a kitchen knife at him.
He was startled, “What are you doing!?”
The elderly woman put the kitchen knife against his neck and said formidably, “Hand over your private money!”
Old Chief who was robbed inexplicably: “…!!!”
[T/N: Hahahaha!]