Chapter 159: Chapter 159: Grandma Yu Can’t Open the Jade Pocket Watch
Gu Qiaoqiao looked at the elderly woman with surprise and delight, “Grandma Yu, you’re awake. How do you feel? Where does it hurt? I’ll call the doctor.”
“No need, I… I’m fine.” Grandma Yu said hoarsely, then seemed to remember something, her expression suddenly becoming anxious as she looked at Gu Qiaoqiao, “Girl, are you alright?”
“I’m fine.” Gu Qiaoqiao hurriedly shook her head, then directly said, “Just now, the jade string around your neck broke, and I tied it back together for you.”
Grandma Yu touched her chest and let out a soft “Oh.”
Her expression seemed very confused.
“Grandma Yu, your jade is really beautiful. You’ve worn it for many years, haven’t you?”
“It seems so.” Grandma Yu frowned, troubled, “There’s something wrong with my memory, I can’t remember.”
“Is there something inside this jade?” Gu Qiaoqiao probed further.
Grandma Yu sat up, extended her hand to touch her chest, and asked oddly, “What could be inside a stone?”
“Haven’t you opened it before?”
“Can’t open it.” Grandma Yu muttered.
Gu Qiaoqiao was stunned.
It couldn’t be opened?
At this moment, Grandma Yu seemed to have regained a lot of spirit as her body had recovered.
She took off the jade from her neck, tried to pry and poke at it, and after a while, looked at Gu Qiaoqiao with surprise, “Girl, it really won’t open.”
Gu Qiaoqiao’s brow furrowed slightly.
She took the jade, placed her finger on the little protrusion, and then realized that she could find the switch because of her hand.
It was somewhat like an organ box.
It was just like Grandpa’s desk.
In the hands of ordinary people, this piece of jade was just a solid rock, but only in her hands, or the owner’s hands, could it be opened.
This wasn’t something ordinary families would have.
What secrets did Grandpa have in the past?
Was there a connection between him and the present Grandma Yu?
And was the jade on Grandma Yu’s neck hers or someone else’s?
Without changing her expression, Gu Qiaoqiao put the jade back on the elderly woman and casually asked, “Grandma Yu, you always say that you recognize me, is it possible you’ve seen a photograph of someone who looks similar to me?”
Grandma Yu murmured to herself, her blurry eyes squinting as she thought, causing Gu Qiaoqiao to watch her nervously.
You could no longer imagine what Grandma Yu looked like when she was young, her face was so ravaged by age.
Her somewhat scattered eyebrows were tightly knitted together.
After a moment, she let out a defeated sigh, seemingly becoming somewhat lucid in that moment, but her lucidity was because she realized she had aged, become muddled, forgotten everything from the past…
Suddenly, Grandma Yu’s eyes moistened, and she looked at Gu Qiaoqiao with a hoarse voice, “Girl, I… I can’t remember, but I truly recognize you, I… really do know you…”
Her aged, raspy voice repeated this over and over.
Gu Qiaoqiao’s heart inexplicably ached, and she didn’t press further, “Grandma Yu, you must recognize someone who looks like me. It’s alright, don’t think about it anymore. Thinking too much will give you a headache…”
“Mm.” Grandma Yu obediently nodded her head, looking affectionately at Gu Qiaoqiao, “You’re as good as Niuniu…”
Right at that moment, the door to the base hospital ward was pushed open.
The middle-aged woman Gu Qiaoqiao had seen that day walked in with a face full of anxiety.
It was only when Gu Qiaoqiao saw that Grandma Yu was safe and sound that she finally let out a huge sigh of relief.
Gu Qiaoqiao watched her striding energetically.
She had finally confirmed the speculation in her heart, that the woman with sunglasses had actually come for her.
It was all to lure her to that deserted place.
But how had that woman known she would go out today?
And how had she known Grandma Yu was waiting for her?
To say she wasn’t scared would be a lie.
But she couldn’t afford to be afraid!
When she broke the man’s arm and injured the back of another man’s head, no one knew that at that moment, she finally truly realized.
What kind of feeling and experience strength brought to people!
After the middle-aged woman had spoken with Grandma Yu for a few words, she then thanked Gu Qiaoqiao and revealed her name was Zhao Yuxiang.
This year she was forty-nine years old.
Because of Grandma Yu, she had remained unmarried to this day, and added to her tall and strong build, she worked hard, which is why she was nicknamed Zhao Esha.
And it was only upon hearing this that Gu Qiaoqiao realized that there was no blood relation between the present Grandma Yu and Zhao Yuxiang.
It was on some day before the liberation, that Grandma Yu found her, merely seven years of age and close to death from starvation, and then she saved her. From that day on, they depended on each other for survival and had never been separated again.
A sudden leap occurred in Gu Qiaoqiao’s heart, though she was anxious inside, she still asked unhurriedly, “Aunt Zhao, what about Grandma Yu’s family members then?”
“Sigh…” Zhao Yuxiang sighed, glanced at Grandma Yu, “By the time I could remember things, my mom was already , sometimes lucid, sometimes confused…”
“Then, when Grandma Yu is lucid, hasn’t she talked to you about her family? Maybe her family is looking for her…” Gu Qiaoqiao asked innocently on purpose.
Zhao Yuxiang shook her head, “If only she had told me, I would’ve taken her to find her family long ago, so she wouldn’t have to endure hardship with me. You don’t know, I remember clearly when I was young, my mom’s hands were so white, fine, and smooth, one look and you knew she came from a well-off family, but now…”
“Aunt Zhao, Grandma Yu encountering you is also her good fortune, not everyone likes to take care of the elderly, let alone someone who isn’t their own mother,” Gu Qiaoqiao said straightforwardly.
From Grandma Yu’s appearance and spirit, it was evident that she was being well cared for.
“Yeah, that’s true,” Zhao Yuxiang smiled and nodded with regret, “I don’t have much ability, my mom seems like she should have a son, but I can’t help mom to find him.”
“A son?” Gu Qiaoqiao’s voice trembled imperceptibly.
Zhao Yuxiang did not notice Gu Qiaoqiao’s abnormality and continued, “You saw her clutching the wooden doll that day, didn’t you?”
“For decades now, whenever my mom sees a wooden doll, she’ll desperately snatch it up and then hug the wooden doll and cry, ‘My son…'”
At this moment, Grandma Yu seemed to be triggered by these words, her gaze grew a bit frantic as she grabbed Zhao Yuxiang’s hand and said, “The wooden doll, is… my son’s…”
And then she became confused once more.
It was only then that Gu Qiaoqiao truly realized Grandma Yu’s memories were disordered, without the slightest clue.
After they had managed to calm the elderly woman down, both Zhao Yuxiang and Gu Qiaoqiao were sweating profusely.