Upon hearing Huo Beixiao's words, Jiang Qiaoqiao naturally recalled her past life.

In her past life, she was repeatedly harmed by the Jiang family, and she had considered severing ties with them.

But she would soften every time the Jiang family admitted their mistakes and begged for forgiveness.

Because in her previous life, her marriage to Qin Haiyang was just an empty shell; there was no love, no friends, and the only emotion she could hope to grasp was the blood ties with the Jiang family.

Therefore, she couldn't bear to let go.

Huo Beixiao's state of mind now is probably similar to hers in her previous life!

"Qiaoqiao, can you come with me somewhere?"

Jiang Qiaoqiao had already guessed where Huo Beixiao was going to take her.

So she wasn't surprised when she saw the two graves in front of her.

"Grandpa, Mom, I've brought my wife to see you." After saying this, Huo Beixiao silently began clearing the weeds from the grave.

Jiang Qiaoqiao wanted to help, but he stopped her, saying, "Wife, you can just sit here and keep me company. This job isn't suitable for you."

Jiang Qiaoqiao couldn't dissuade him, so she could only stay by his side.

"Brother Beixiao, Brother Beixiao, it really is you back! The aunt in the village just told me you were back, but I didn't believe it. I didn't expect you to really be back."

Huo Beixiao had just finished pulling weeds from a grave when a clear voice reached their ears.

Huo Beixiao and Jiang Qiaoqiao looked in the direction of the sound and saw a girl wearing a corduroy top and stirrup pants running excitedly toward Huo Beixiao.

The girl had a trendy ear-length haircut, a fashionable butterfly clip in her hair, bangs, and a baby face.

The girl had a few freckles on her face, but she was quite cute.

But this outfit is really...

Although stirrup pants are indeed popular now, Jiang Qiaoqiao still can't accept the aesthetic of stirrup pants.

“Brother Beixiao, you haven’t come back since Grandpa Su left. I thought you had forgotten all of us!”

The girl held Huo Beixiao's hand and said coquettishly.

Huo Beixiao smiled and reached out to pat Yingzi's head like an older brother. "I won't forget, I've just been too busy."

Jiang Qiaoqiao noticed the forced smile on Huo Beixiao's face.

He wasn't too busy to come back; he just didn't want to come back to face the fact that the people who loved him were no longer in this world.

"Come on, come to my house for dinner today. I'll go back and kill a chicken." Yingzi acted as if she didn't even see Jiang Qiaoqiao, and pulled Huo Beixiao away.

Huo Beixiao frowned slightly, pulled his sleeve out of Yingzi's hand, and became more polite but distant towards Yingzi. "No need, I'll go back after I finish pulling the grass off my grandfather's and mother's graves."

Yingzi was stunned for a moment, and then she finally noticed Jiang Qiaoqiao's presence.

She puffed out her cheeks angrily and pointed at Jiang Qiaoqiao, saying, "Is it because she looks down on the countryside and won't let you stay there?"

Jiang Qiaoqiao: ...

She didn't say a word from beginning to end, so how did the blame end up on her again?

Huo Beixiao frowned this time, stood next to Jiang Qiaoqiao, took her hand, and said seriously, "Don't try to pin any accusations on my wife! You came without even saying hello to her, and now you're dragging me to your house for dinner. Where do you intend to put my wife?"

Luo Yingzi's face scrunched up. Although she was somewhat unconvinced, she knew she was in the wrong.

She pouted, lowered her head, and murmured, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to not greet her."

"Brother Beixiao, don't be angry with me. My grandpa asked me to come and call you home for dinner. If you don't come back with me, my grandpa will definitely think that I was being willful and didn't handle things well, and he'll be angry." Luo Yingzi said pitifully.

"The person you should apologize to is not me," Huo Beixiao finally uttered.

Luo Yingzi pouted, glanced awkwardly at Jiang Qiaoqiao, and said quickly, "I'm sorry!"

Jiang Qiaoqiao didn't say anything, and Huo Beixiao didn't say anything more either.

He looked down at Jiang Qiaoqiao and said gently, "When I was little, my maternal grandfather's family was not well-off. Grandpa Luo helped my grandfather and me a lot. Now that I'm back, I should go and see Grandpa Luo. Qiaoqiao, if you want to come with me, we can go together. If you don't want to, you can go back to the car and wait for me for a while."

Luo Yingzi glanced arrogantly at Huo Beixiao, then at Jiang Qiaoqiao.

Finally, after Jiang Qiaoqiao spoke up, she said in a haughty yet awkward tone, "You come along, otherwise Brother Beixiao will be worried about you and won't be able to drink in peace. Besides, my family doesn't need your food, hmph!"

After Luo Yingzi finished speaking, she turned her head to the side with an air of arrogance.

Jiang Qiaoqiao could tell that Luo Yingzi's family was quite well-off in the rural areas of that era.

Whether it's corduroy, stirrup pants, or the small hair clip in her hair, these are all fashionable items of that era, and none of them are cheap for the income of rural people.

The fact that the Luo family was willing to provide her with these things shows that her family is quite well-off.

Jiang Qiaoqiao felt that Luo Yingzi didn't have romantic feelings for Huo Beixiao, but she didn't know what was making her awkward about.

She looked at Huo Beixiao and said with a smile, "Grandpa Luo is an elder. Now that I've come back with you, it's only right and proper for me to go with you to visit Grandpa Luo."

Jiang Qiaoqiao and Huo Beixiao went to the car together to get the gifts that had been prepared beforehand.

Two bottles of Moutai liquor, a carton of cigarettes, two cans of malted milk powder, two cans of canned yellow peaches, a pound of steamed egg cake, and fruit candies and White Rabbit milk candies for the children.

Huo Beixiao carried the gift in one hand and held Jiang Qiaoqiao's hand with the other, constantly reminding her to be careful, afraid that she might fall.

Luo Yingzi rolled her eyes as she followed behind, muttering under her breath, "She's not a real city person, why is she acting all delicate!"

Although Luo Yingzi's voice was soft, Jiang Qiaoqiao heard it.

She instantly understood why Luo Yingzi had such a strong opinion against her.

It's very likely that the Luo family knows that Huo Beixiao's originally chosen city wife has been replaced by her, who grew up in the countryside, but they don't know exactly why.

So they assumed she was being cunning.

Although Jiang Qiaoqiao found it somewhat amusing, she could understand it, since people of this era had a fervent yearning for city dwellers.

So you can't blame Luo Yingzi for this.

On the way, Huo Beixiao told Jiang Qiaoqiao that Grandpa Luo had served as the village party secretary in his early years, and Luo Yingzi's father also worked in the commune, so the Luo family was relatively well-off.

Soon they arrived at the Luo family's house. The Luo family's house was one of the few brick and tile houses in the village, and the Luo family's courtyard was very spacious. The gate faced a row of five main rooms, and there were three outbuildings on each side, which showed that the Luo family had quite a few people.

Before they even reached the gate, they saw a sprightly man peering out from the entrance.