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Chapter 944: 230: The Truth Emerging from the Surface_4
The sudden joy made Granny Liu’s head spin. "Qinian, who is this?"
Could it be a relative from Liu Qinian’s family?
Liu Qinian turned to look at Ni Yang, hesitating. "There are some things I can’t say in front of outsiders."
Granny Liu wiped her tears. "Yangyang is not an outsider, she’s no different from my own granddaughter. Just say it directly, you don’t need to hesitate."
Liu Qinian remained silent; in his eyes, Ni Yang was an outsider.
Ni Yang wasn’t the kind of person who couldn’t read the room. She smiled and said, "Granny Liu, I still have some issues at home to handle, I’ll come and visit you later."
Granny Liu grabbed Ni Yang’s hand. "Yangyang, you don’t have to leave."
Having Ni Yang leave at such a moment would only hurt her feelings.
Granny Liu genuinely didn’t consider Ni Yang an outsider.
"Zhao Shuyue!" Liu’s father’s expression clearly seemed off.
Seeing this, Ni Yang still decided to leave. If she insisted on staying, it would make her uncomfortable, and so would the Liu Family.
Besides, their home was close to Granny Liu’s. If anything really happened, she could still rush over to help her.
After Ni Yang left, Liu’s father sighed in relief.
Granny Liu pushed open the half-closed door. "Come in and sit with me."
The house was dilapidated, but it was kept very clean, and there was even a TV in the living room.
Jiu Wentang carefully surveyed the environment. The fact that there was a three thousand yuan TV showed that the old woman still had a fair amount of money.
Granny Liu was busy pouring water for everyone.
Jiu Wentang hurried over to help. "Let me help you with that, sister."
The tea set at Granny Liu’s was quite old, though clean, making Liu’s father somewhat hesitant to drink from it.
He hadn’t used such worn-out cups in many years.
Considering the state of the house, who knew if it had been crawled over by rats.
Liu’s father was hesitant, and Liu Ru, who was used to living comfortably, was even more so.
Liu Qi, however, didn’t mind. He was thirsty and picked up the cup to drink. "Aunty, this tea is wonderful! Is it barley tea?"
Granny Liu nodded and smiled. "Yes, it’s barley tea! If you like it, I can pack some for you to take when you leave. I have plenty here."
With that, Granny Liu turned to Liu’s father. "Qinian, can you talk now? Who are these children to you? How have you really been all these years?"
Hearing this, Liu’s father sighed deeply, his face full of pain. He began to talk about his difficult past years, how he braved gunfire and crossed seas alone to reach Taiwan Island, and there achieved some success.
"Thankfully, thankfully, in my most difficult and helpless times, I met Wentang. Wentang is a good woman. She didn’t mind my age or that I had been married before, and she took great care of me. Without her, I might have died... After we got married, Wentang gave birth to two children, one named Liu Qi and the other Liu Ru. Xiaoqi, Xiaoru, come and greet your aunty."
"Hello, Aunty," Liu Qi and Liu Ru approached Granny Liu.
Granny Liu was stunned.
She hadn’t expected Liu Qinian to have remarried.
Not only had he remarried, but he also had two children.
Her years of waiting seemed, at that moment, to become a joke.
Hearing this, Granny Liu staggered backwards, nearly falling, but Liu Qi promptly steadied her. "Aunty, are you alright?"
"I’m fine," Granny Liu waved her hand and looked up at Liu Qi. "Child, do you know what my last name is?"
"Liu?" Liu Qi guessed.
It should be Liu, right?
Otherwise, why would Ni Yang call her Granny Liu?
"No," Granny Liu shook her head, her tone ambiguous between sadness and joy. "My surname is Zhao, Zhao Shuyue. I called myself by the Liu surname because my late husband was a Liu."
Yes.
Liu Qinian was her husband.
They were a couple who had gone through the formal wedding rites.
Old-time women adhered to the principle of following their husband, and after his death, their son.
Especially for Zhao Shuyue, coming from a prominent family, this concept was deeply ingrained.
War took her family and husband, and a famine forced her to leave the place she had grown up in, to live incognito in Jinghua Village, assuming the name Liu Zhao. 𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Nobody knew that she had had her own name.
She was Zhao Shuyue.
