Chapter 159.2: Visit to Parental Family
Chapter 159.2: Visit to Parental Family
Yao Shi frowned again and turned to look at Yao Yuan.
Yao Yuan lowered his head.
Old Madame Yao said with a profound voice, “Don’t look at him. It was me who asked him to have you visit. Otherwise, will you think of returning here yourself? When you married into the Marquis Estate, you broke off contact with the Yao Family without saying a word. I let you be. Why? Is ten years not enough for you to quell your resentment? At my age, I don’t know how many more days I will stay alive. I also want to meet my two precious grandchildren. What? Don’t tell me you don’t want me to see them?”
From the very beginning, Yao shi was really quite uncomfortable with this visit, but when she heard that she wanted to see her twins, she calmed down.
Yao shi called her three children in.
Gu Yan was in the forefront.
As soon as Old Madame Yao saw Gu Yan, her cloudy old eyes suddenly lit up. She held out her hand to Gu Yan and said, “Yan’er? Is it Yan’er? Come here! Come to grandmother! Let grandmother take a look!”
Gu Yan saw that she really liked himself and hesitantly went over.
Old Madame Yao was shaking with excitement. She pulled Gu Yan’s hand with one hand and touched Gu Yan’s face with the other, “Now grandmother has seen you… You really look like your father!”
Gu Yan was not liked by Old Madame Gu in the Marquis Estate. In contrast, Old Madame Yao’s affections made people feel warm.
“Let me hear you call me grandmother!” Old Madame Yao said.
Gu Yan briefly paused and was about to call her grandmother when Gu Jiao came in with Little Jing Kong.
Little Jing Kong tilted his head and looked at the old woman in the arhat bed. He asked, “Is it grandmother?”
Old Madame Yao was stunned for a moment.
Yao Yuan leaned over and explained in her ear, “It’s Jing Kong, the young monk adopted by JiaoJiao in the mountains. I also told you about him yesterday.”
Old Madame Yao had heard the story of the two children and the situation of Gu Jiao from her son. Since this little guy was Jing Kong, the one holding him should be Gu Jiao.
After all, she was Yao shi’s own, so Old Madame Yao didn’t show any dislike towards her. It was just that, like He shi, she looked behind them and asked, “Where is Jinyu? Why didn’t I see her coming?”
“Jinyu has entered the palace!” He shi came in with a smile and said with honor.
Yao shi added, “She won’t arrive until she’s done paying her respects to Imperial Concubine Shu.”
Gu Jiao noticed the disappointment in Old Madame Yao’s eyes, but Old Madame Yao didn’t snub Gu Jiao and Little Jing Kong on the spot. She gave them a kind look and said, “They are all good children. Come here!”
Little Jing Kong pulled JiaoJiao forward with energetic steps!
Little Jing Kong called her grandmother and presented his head to her, allowing his grandmother to touch his little bald head.
Gu Jiao didn’t call anyone.
Yao Yuan explained in a low voice, “JiaoJiao just met sister not very long ago, and she is rather introverted.”
“It’s okay.” Old Madame Yao had a gentle smile.
Seeing her mother’s impartial behavior, Yao shi finally believed what her brother told her yesterday.
Their mother was really repentant. She would no longer be the same as before, treating her son like a treasure while sacrificing her daughter for the family at any time.
Little did Yao shi know that she was happy too soon.
Old Madame Yao’s display of impartiality was only for her to see.
As soon as several people went out, when only Gu Yan was left in the room, Old Madame Yao asked the servant girl to bring a big box. Then she opened it, took out a big red persimmon and handed it to Gu Yan, saying, “This is the persimmon king that your First Uncle bought from others at a great price. This grandmother specially left it for you. Have a taste.”
“Is there only one?” Gu Yan asked.
Old Madame Yao was stupefied.
Gu Yan said, “Then I’ll save it for my sister and Little Jing Kong.”
“They also have one each; this is yours!” Old Madame Yao called the servant girl again in the room and handed her the box. She said, “Among the persimmons that the First Master bought yesterday, pick the two biggest ones and bring them to JiaoJiao and the child.”
Gu Yan frowned unconsciously when he heard that his grandmother didn’t even call Little Jing Kong by his name.
“I’m going to find my mother.” He made an excuse to go out.
Instead of looking for Yao shi, he walked to the little garden where Little Jing Kong went to play.
Little Jing Kong was making a snowman on the ground, and Gu Jiao was watching him.
The servant girl in Old Madame Yao’s courtyard brought over two persimmons, one for Gu Jiao and the other for Little Jing Kong.
Little Jing Kong was a sensible and contented child, he exclaimed “Whoa, whoa, whoa! What a big red persimmon! JiaoJiao, can I eat it?”
Gu Jiao nodded.
Little Jing Kong began to sit in the snow and peel the persimmon.
Gu Yan looked at the persimmon in his hand, then at the persimmons of Little Jing Kong and Gu Jiao, and his eyes suddenly grew cold.
Just now, he saw it. There was still another big persimmon inside the box. He thought that the servant girl would give it to Little Jing Kong or Gu Jiao, only to find the servant girl quietly putting the box away after giving them two smaller persimmons.
It went without saying who instructed this.
That persimmon must be reserved for Gu Jinyu.
His grandmother didn’t really love them, Yao shi’s children.
It still made sense that those in the Marquis Estate were partial to Gu Jinyu as it was only natural to have a soft spot for her given their years of affection.
However, his grandmother had never met the three of them before, and yet she left the biggest persimmon to him and Gu Jinyu, who didn’t even come to visit them today.
Gu Yan was very angry!
He walked over, took the persimmon Little Jing Kong was peeling for a long time, and handed him the persimmon king in his hand.
Little Jing Kong momentarily paused. Oh, with his two little hands holding the big persimmon king, he would have a hard time peeling it.
He peeled it nevertheless and handed it to Gu Yan with both hands when he was done, “Here.”
Gu Yan froze, “What are you doing?”
Little Jing Kong tilted his head and asked, “Didn’t you want me to peel your persimmon?”
Gu Yan: I— I am giving you my big persimmon to eat!
Gu Yan felt as though his chest was blocked by something.
Little Jing Kong stuffed the peeled persimmon into his hand, and took back his own small, half-peeled persimmon to continue peeling it.
He peeled it very carefully.
Gu Yan felt a bitterness in his heart.
He crouched down and looked at the little guy, saying, “This one is bigger, can’t you see? You don’t want to eat bigger ones?”
Little Jing Kong replied seriously, “I can’t eat it all.”
Little Jing Kong thought it was completely reasonable to give the big ones to the adults and the small ones to the children!
“Ah Yan.” Gu Jiao smiled at Gu Yan.
Gu Yan swallowed the words that would expose Old Madame Yao.
In fact, he knew what Old Madame Yao was thinking. He was his father’s favorite son, and Gu Jinyu was his father’s most beloved daughter. JiaoJiao didn’t even live in the Marquis Estate, so it would seem she wasn’t very favored.
Old Madame Yao didn’t value JiaoJiao and an adopted little monk, but she didn’t want to offend Yao shi, whom they managed to have returned home with great difficulty, so she did one thing in front of her and another behind her back.