IACF [QT] Chapter 30.1

Not long after the misunderstanding on New Year’s Eve, Xiao Yan took action and adopted a pair of brothers.

The two children came from the disaster area. Their parents died in the disaster and they had no other relatives, so they had to be sent to the local welfare home.

Xiao Yan’s company donated a sum of money to the disaster area. Assistant Huang mentioned this in his report, so he paid attention to it.

Originally, he was only planning to adopt one, but the older brother, who was only four or five years old, held his younger brother’s hand tightly after learning that he was going to be taken away.

His dark eyes were full of fear and stubbornness. He refused to let go no matter how the adults coaxed and persuaded him.

The other child, who was less than two years old, probably sensed the tense atmosphere and began to cry loudly.

The scene was noisy. The staff of the welfare home coaxed him anxiously while looking at Xiao Yan, fearing that he would get impatient and leave.

Later, when Xiao Yan left, there were two more children in the car.

Xiao Xing had no opinion on his approach, and Su Wanting and Grandma Qu had no objection either. Only the two elderly people in the Xiao family were not very happy at first.

However, you couldn’t force a cow to drink water if it didn’t want to, let alone a living person.

Besides, the two children were indeed pitiful and well-behaved, which made people feel distressed.

Old Mr. Xiao came to see them twice with some awkwardness, and then he moved back with Old Mrs. Xiao.

The two of them were happily playing with their great-grandsons and no longer bothered to care whether Xiao Yan wanted to find a girl or a boy.

In order to take care of the children, the family hired a nanny. The mansion, which was originally a little deserted, suddenly became lively.

Children forget things quickly. Although they always cried because they missed their parents at the beginning, the memory and pain gradually faded over time, and they became close to the Xiao family.

Except for occasionally asking where their parents were, they rarely cried.

Since the family had them, when Su Yi came back from abroad, in addition to Mimi, there were also two little guys who kept calling her ‘Auntie’.

Su Yi never thought that she could handle children, nor did she feel that she had enough patience to endure their fighting and noise, but in fact, the reality was much better than she imagined.

She sat in the yard with Grandma Qu and the two elders of the Xiao family, watching the two little guys chasing and playing with Mimi in the yard.

The night was about to fall, and the house behind them was lit with warm lights. The smell of food wafted out from the window.

Outside the yard, Su Wanting and Xiao Xing’s car was slowly stopping.

Somewhere in the city, Xiao Yan might have just turned off the computer and was ready to go home.

At this moment, the stars and the family were all there.

She was in a trance for a moment, thinking that this moment could last forever.

Mimi was the first to leave.

For a dog, it was indeed old enough.

But for Su Yi, it seemed like it was just yesterday that she was jealous of the little puppy and competed for her grandmother’s attention.

She still remembered that she hid a little snowman in the refrigerator, which made the stupid little dog feel itchy and whimper.

But now, it just lay there. Its hair was white, and its limbs were stiff. No matter how hard she tried to trick it, it would never be fooled again.

The two children in the family cried loudly, and the others were more or less sad. However, Grandma Qu, who had raised Mimi the longest and was closest to it, did not cry.

She knew that this day would come sooner or later.

Su Wanting wanted to take another puppy to raise, but Grandma Qu refused, saying that she wanted to move back to the small fishing village.

Fallen leaves return to their roots, and people return to their hometowns when they grow old.

Although Su Wanting and the Xiao family repeatedly tried to keep her, Grandma Qu was determined this time.

Xiao Xing had no choice but to have someone renovate the two-floor house in the fishing village before sending her back personally.

More than ten years had passed. The outside world had undergone earth-shaking changes, but the small fishing village seemed to have not changed.

The sea is still the same sea, and the wind is still the same wind, but there are fewer familiar faces and more strangers.

Su Yi and Grandma Qu came back together. First, her grandmother was old and needed someone to take care of her. Secondly, even though she didn’t want to think about it, she always had a bad premonition.

When she first returned to the small fishing village, Grandma Qu was still very strong. Every day, she would either go out to visit old friends or go to the cemetery to weed her husband’s grave and chat with him.

One night when Su Yi came back from a walk with her, she suddenly said, “Yi Yi, Grandma is going back.”

‘Going back’ is a way for the elderly here to say that their life is coming to an end and they are about to leave.

More than half a month later, Grandma Qu passed away in her sleep.

Su Wanting faint several times from crying.

Su Yi stared at the rising sun outside the window in a daze. The light was so bright and dazzling that she closed her eyelids, and a drop of water fell from her eyes.

Grandma Qu was buried together with Su Yi’s grandfather. A pair of lovers who had been separated for more than 40 years were finally reunited under the ground and buried together on a hillside facing the sea.

After the funeral, Su Yi neither returned to City S nor traveled around the world, but she remained in the small fishing village.

Xiao Yan came to see her.

It was almost winter at that time. The sea breeze was cold and the waves were sluggish.

The two of them stood on the reef and quietly enjoyed the sea breeze for the entire afternoon. When it was almost night, Xiao Yan returned to the city alone.

Su Wanting also called her, which was very rare.

Su Yi knew that they were all worried about her and afraid that she would be too sad.

She didn’t feel that she was very sad. No one had probably seen more separations of life and death than her.

She just needed to take a break for a while. Everything would be fine after it was over.

Moreover, she once again realized that she had stayed in this world for too long.

 

 

 

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