"You understand what I mean! It’s not that your older brothers and sisters don’t love you. You grew up before our eyes, you are our most beloved sister, and also the child our parents worry about the most. In this lifetime, we will always be your closest kin, but considering Grandma’s situation, you will never be able to be close to her.
Your elder brother isn’t a fool, and it’s only because of us that you haven’t completely severed ties with Grandma.
But to ask you to be close to Grandma, that is absolutely impossible, so you should have other relatives, at least ones that you can visit."
The old man coughed, tears nearly falling, this young person was really too sensible.
Those words warmed everyone’s hearts.
"Bai Xiao, if you really don’t want to, you can treat us as distant relatives as well, it’s okay not to interact, we just hope to know that you are well, your grandfather doesn’t ask for more. If you want to visit us, do so; if you don’t want to come back, we will come to see you, alright?"
Truthfully speaking, the Yu Family really doesn’t owe me anything.
But she doesn’t owe the Yu Family either.
This is an issue without a clear distinction of right or wrong, the answer is simply a personal choice from one’s heart.
But seeing the old lady secretly wiping her eyes in the kitchen! Pretending she hadn’t heard anything, there picking vegetables, bending over backward despite her age to come to the door, begging shamelessly, wasn’t it all because she is Shao Ya’s daughter? If not for this blood relation, perhaps the two elderly people could have been influential figures outside! And yet they needed to kowtow to a young girl like this.
Bai Xiao’s heart softened after all; she has never been a hard-hearted woman, which was indeed a flaw.
"After dinner, you should hurry back, don’t trouble yourselves with running back and forth, it’s too much of a hassle."
Her tone was far from pleasant, but it immediately relieved the tense Mr. Yu, his cheeks flushing with color! It seemed as if his vitality had instantly recovered.
Bai Song patted his sister’s shoulder and pulled the old man to the sofa, "Old man, let me keep you company for a game of chess!" easing the atmosphere for everyone.
The old man perked up immediately upon hearing this.
He nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes. You don’t know how rare it is to find a young person who respects the elderly and cherishes the young like you. Everyone in our family avoids playing chess with me! They see me and run faster than anyone else." He clutched Bai Song’s hand tightly and wouldn’t let go, ordering Yu Shaohua to bring the chessboard.
Yu Shaohua cast a sympathetic glance at Bai Song.
This was truly like walking into a trap.
An Zhiyuan found a chessboard in the bedroom, a housewarming gift from a comrade that hadn’t even been unwrapped yet, and now it would be put to good use.
The old man opened it himself in no time, pulling Bai Song alongside, pleased as can be.
"You are Bai Xiao’s brother, clearly a good one. I have heard that for these past years, it was you and your siblings who supported Bai Xiao. I really must thank you," the old man said, recalling the documents reported in those files, how Bai Xiao lost her parents at fourteen, and how her foster parents treated her like their own. Her siblings contributed more to her upbringing than anyone else! It was this family that raised their Bai Xiao.
This has resulted in such a successful granddaughter today.
Thinking about it, they are truly benefactors to their family.
Thinking back to how that little person was raised well through the hardships endured by this family, they owed them a great debt.
Bai Song laughed, "Old man, look at what you’re saying, Bai Xiao is our sister, it’s only right. There’s no need for thanks."
The old man liked him even more for it.