Grandpa Dong pulled Grandma Lin aside, "Fenglan, don't worry. Comrade Lin is still in a very far place. She will be here the day after tomorrow. When she arrives, she will come to our house to see you. You should stay home and wait for her."

Upon hearing this, Granny Lin felt somewhat disappointed because she couldn't see the girl immediately.

"You said the girl is coming to see me, you can't lie to me."

"I'm not lying to you. This is what my third grandson told me over the phone. I answered the phone myself just now, so it's definitely true."

"Alright then, I'll wait for you at home, girl."

The old lady immediately perked up and ran back to the bedroom, pulling clothes out of the closet.

Grandpa Dong followed her in and asked, "Fenglan, what are you doing?"

"I'm looking for pretty clothes, the ones my daughter made for me, those pretty clothes."

Grandpa Dong recalled the clothes that Granny Lin was wearing when she first returned.

"I had the nanny put that dress away for you." But that nanny had already left, and a new one had taken her place: "I know where it is, I'll get it for you."

He took out the garment and gave it to Granny Lin.

Grandma Lin didn't put it on immediately. "I'll wear it when the maid comes."

"Okay, okay, you can wear it on that day."

Dong Wenhua is in the living room now. She just saw the change in Grandma Lin. Her daughter gave the old woman a memory-fading drug. These days, the old woman has been in a daze and has forgotten everything that happened not long ago. Unexpectedly, she immediately thought of that person just by hearing a name.

Is this the magic of blood ties?

After receiving Xu Xinning's call, she planned to find a way to get the old lady to run out again so that she wouldn't be able to see Lin Qingyan.

Now that the old lady has decided to wait for Lin Qingyan at home, she needs to think of another way.

Standing next to her was a young woman, about twenty years old, who was the housekeeper the family had just hired a few days ago.

The original nanny went home to retire, so they introduced her great-niece to the new nanny.

After arriving at the Dong family, Yoshiko Kawashima temporarily changed her name to Li Damei.

She had been here for several days, and as soon as she arrived, she tried to get close to Dong Bonian and Old Master Dong. Unfortunately, Dong Bonian always appeared very calm and composed. When he returned home, he either continued to work in his study or spent time with his partner.

His wife, Lu Ying, was also a shrewd woman. She dared not openly seduce Dong Bonian, for fear that they would find out and suspect that she had ulterior motives, and that they would kick her out.

As for Grandpa Dong, he doesn't need to work; he spends all his time looking after that old woman, and often treats her like she's invisible.

The younger generation of the Dong family all work in other places, so she hasn't had the chance to get close to them yet.

She couldn't use her youth and beauty to seduce them and find out the whereabouts of the jade pendants from them. So she decided to stay hidden here for a long time and find a way to retrieve the jade pendants from this house.

She had already been to all the rooms in the house except for Old Master Dong's study. Since she hadn't been there long, she didn't dare to do anything too serious and only looked at the surface. She would thoroughly search every room when she had the chance in the future.

However, he was unable to enter Old Master Dong's study.

Because Mr. Dong had explicitly given an order that no one was allowed to enter his study without his permission.

He rarely goes into his study, and when he's not there, it's always locked. He has the key, and no one else can get in.

This made her even more curious: what good things were hidden in Old Master Dong's study?

Maybe those jade pendants are inside.

If she can't find the two jade pendants in the other rooms, she will risk going to Old Master Dong's study to investigate.

Since they were both in Beijing, after getting off work, Lu's mother first went to her daughter Lu Xinping's house to tell her about Lin Qingyan and Lu Zhengting's plans to come back.

“Your sister-in-law is coming to receive an award, and Zheng Ting will accompany her back as her bodyguard.”

"Zheng, Zheng Ting is acting as a bodyguard for his sister-in-law?" Lu Xinping thought she had misheard.

"That's right, your sister-in-law is going to the Great Hall of the People in the capital to receive an award."

"Mom, my sister-in-law is amazing. When are they coming? We need to prepare properly."

"Of course we need to prepare properly, this is your sister-in-law's first time visiting our home. They're taking a flight the day after tomorrow morning, and they should arrive in the afternoon."

"Okay, I won't go to work that day. I'll go buy a gift for my brother and sister-in-law."

"Yes, yes, I also want to buy a gift for my daughter-in-law."

"Let's go together tomorrow."

Lu's mother refused outright, "I'm not going with you. I'll wait for my daughter-in-law to arrive, and then I'll go with her."

Lu Xinping pouted, "You two are so close, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. You've already met Qingyan, but this is my first time meeting her. I can't just not give her a gift. Forget it, I'll go by myself tomorrow."

That evening, at the Lu family dinner table, Lu's parents told the rest of the family that Lin Qingyan and Lu Zhengting were coming home. They also made it clear that Lin Qingyan was in Beijing to receive an award at the Great Hall of the People, and Lu Zhengting was acting as her bodyguard. They said that the two of them were mainly there for work and were just stopping by to visit and meet everyone.

“I really never expected that someone in our family would be received by the leader at the Great Hall of the People in the capital. Oh my, this is the result of burning incense for generations!” Mrs. Lu was still extremely excited. “If I told my old friends this, they would be green with envy.”

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