Yu Yao is a rather laid-back person, and she usually takes a nap after lunch.
Sometimes she naps longer, sometimes shorter.
Today, with Shi Nuan around, she didn’t nap for long—less than an hour—and then went downstairs.
At that time, Shi Nuan was feeling a bit thirsty and happened to come downstairs to pour some water when she saw Yu Yao and paused for a moment.
She used to feel a little awkward calling Yu Yao "Mom," but now it comes naturally!
Yu Yao smiled lightly and said, "I thought of going to the hospital a bit earlier today to see your father..."
She stepped forward and gently took Shi Nuan’s hand, saying, "I want to take you with me, what do you think?"
On the day they registered their marriage, Shi Nuan and Song Yansheng went to see Song Xiuwen once, but Song Yansheng’s intent didn’t seem to be to visit Song Xiuwen, just to tell him in person: he was married!
Fifteen years ago, Song Xiuwen suddenly became a vegetable due to an accident, and at that time, Song Yansheng was just a fourteen-year-old child.
And now, Song Yansheng is twenty-nine, and Song Xiuwen can never imagine, during these fifteen years of silent slumber, what his wife and children have gone through!
Shi Nuan doesn’t know much about Song Xiuwen, but vaguely remembers Song Yansheng once saying that her grandfather had been a benefactor to Song Xiuwen.
At that time, Shi Nuan was still too young, and her grandfather’s prestige and status in T City were indeed very high, and many people visited him.
Almost every time Shi Nuan went to her grandfather’s place, she would see different uncles and aunts, and Shi Nuan couldn’t quite remember them all.
But she thinks maybe she met Song Xiuwen when she was little. She has no impression of Song Xiuwen, but if Song Xiuwen visited her grandfather often, he should have an impression of her.
As the car pulled out of the Song Family Mansion, Yu Yao glanced back with a hint of subtle melancholy in her eyes.
Shi Nuan was surprised and asked her what was wrong. She just shook her head and said, "It’s nothing really, just every time I leave the mansion, my heart feels empty, and I often think, if someday I’m gone, won’t this mansion become empty?"
Shi Nuan paused and quickly said, "Mom, don’t say that, you’re just in your early fifties..."
Yu Yao smiled and said, "Yes, indeed, just in my early fifties, but my body is really not as good as it used to be. After your father had his accident and A Yu went abroad, I often thought while guarding this old mansion alone, if I couldn’t wait for your father to wake up and left first, what would happen to this mansion? Wouldn’t the ancestors enshrined in the backyard temple be very lonely?"
Shi Nuan said, "Don’t think too much, there’s still a long way to go, Dad... Papa will wake up soon too!"
Actually, Shi Nuan really wanted to say, "In the future, we’ll stay with you here at the mansion," but she couldn’t bring herself to say it.
The mansion is Song Yansheng’s place of both joy and sorrow. Song Yansheng built the Dong Garden first, then the Song Mansion, and although he occasionally returns to the old mansion, for the most part, he doesn’t stay there.
She can’t control Song Yansheng, and she also feels that she’s not really suited to say such words.
She is Song Yansheng’s wife, but might not be at any time, and the future is really uncertain.
Shi Nuan inexplicably thought of Chu Jingyun again, through understanding some previous fragments.
Yu Yao is quite satisfied with Chu Jingyun, if Song Yansheng really ends up with Chu Jingyun.
Chu Jingyun would probably visit Yu Yao often, wouldn’t she? In some ways, she couldn’t do enough and didn’t really know how to do it.
Being clumsy with words and unskilled at making elders happy!