Furthermore, the elder really was advanced in years, and her only wish was to have four generations under one roof. How to get her grandson to give her a great-grandchild sooner rather than later became a significant issue.
Alright, once Xiao Jianming consented, in the Xiao family, not just Grandma Xiao but nearly everyone could be excited and spurred into action for this cause.
Of the three daughters of the Xiao family, Xiao Shuju had recently, for reasons unknown, grown closer to her second sister and her family. Because the eldest, Xiao Shumei, and the youngest, Xiao Shuzhu, were both abroad and couldn’t rush back to help arrange the old lady’s birthday celebration, it was naturally expected that the local Xiao sisters, Xiao Shulan and Xiao Shuju, would need to help Grandma Xiao.
Because of this, the two sisters had the opportunity to offer suggestions regarding some of Grandma Xiao’s decisions about her birthday celebration.
One day, Grandma Xiao called the two sisters for a private, brief meeting and said, "Yebai’s match is certainly urgent, but your daughters are also not getting any younger. It’s time to start thinking about it, to make arrangements. After all, women simply can’t delay like men; men can marry later, but women can’t afford to marry late." New ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄhapters are published on 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭⚑𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⚑𝕟𝕖𝕥
This was exactly what the two sisters had been hoping to hear.
Xiao Shuju immediately replied with a bright smile, echoing the elder’s sentiment, "Grandma, just so happens, my Yishan has been wanting to bring her fiancé over to meet you for a while now."
It turned out that Xiao Shuju was Lin Yishan’s stepmother, and since Lin Yishan wasn’t really Grandma Xiao’s biological granddaughter, the old lady had never paid much attention to this granddaughter who didn’t carry the pure Xiao family bloodline. The only chance Lin Yishan usually had to see Grandma Xiao was during major family gatherings like the Xiao family’s birthday celebrations.
At such nearly public family gatherings, the elder naturally couldn’t be concerned with who was or wasn’t a blood relation—she had to consider Xiao Shuju’s and Lin Jiale’s marriage.
However, someone as distantly related as Wa Zicong was practically a stranger to Grandma Xiao; whether they met or not depended entirely on the old lady’s interest.
Grandma Xiao’s eyes casually swept over Xiao Shuju’s overly-exaggerated smiling face.
For an outsider, was it really worth it?
Xiao Shulan spoke up for Xiao Shuju, "Grandma, I’ve met Wa Zicong before. He’s really handsome and well-formed, and he somewhat resembles those stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan."
"Who?" Hearing that the child was good-looking sparked interest in Grandma Xiao, who asked eagerly.
Xiao Shulan said, "He resembles Leon Lai from the Four Heavenly Kings back in the day."
Later on, Xiao Shuju thought about it and indeed, Wa Zicong’s elongated face and his refined pair of eyes did hold a resemblance to the genteel and handsome Leon Lai from the past.
She wondered how her second sister paid so much attention to young men.
Grandma Xiao, hearing that he resembled one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and considering that those stars were now aging and wrinkled, no longer pleasant to look at, felt that meeting someone who looked like them would be a chance to feast her eyes on a younger version.
"Let Yishan bring him over," Grandma Xiao decided resolutely.
Xiao Shuju, grateful, promptly stood up and bowed deeply three times to Grandma Xiao.
Thereupon, Grandma Xiao offered some heartfelt advice to this granddaughter of the Xiao family, "After all, he is someone else’s child, with someone else’s blood flowing through him, born of another’s flesh and bone. All these years have passed, you’ve been married to him for five or six years now, right? What exactly have you been thinking? Why not have a child with him? Would he dare to say he doesn’t want you to?"
Feeling the elder’s mood change as she spoke, Xiao Shuju became nervous and looked hopefully at her second sister, Xiao Shulan, for support.
To Xiao Shuju’s surprise, Xiao Shulan was not prepared to help her this time.
Xiao Shulan thought that since this was a private matter between husband and wife, shut behind their bedroom doors, if she interfered, she might be accused of prying into her brother-in-law’s privacy.