She then noticed that the village chief had not come in alone.
She looked at Xiao Che with a puzzled expression. "Who are you?"
Xiao Che roughly guessed who she was.
Every year after sending money, Grandpa Xiao would receive a thank-you letter from his third uncle, which mentioned his family's affairs.
His son has a daughter, and this must be the woman.
"Hello, my name is Xiao Che, and I am Xiao Zhengyue's grandson. My grandfather is unable to leave, so he asked me to see my third uncle off on his behalf."
The woman was taken aback. "Grandpa Xiao's family?"
She knew about this. If it weren't for Grandpa Xiao's help all these years, plus the pension for the families of martyrs, the family wouldn't have been able to survive at all.
After her father's sacrifice, her mother passed away not long after, leaving only her grandfather and her to depend on each other.
The thought that only she and her daughter were left now brought tears to her eyes.
"Thank you, thank you..."
Xiao Che sighed softly; he had overheard the commotion inside the room.
It's simply that there's no man left in the family, so the villagers want to take advantage of the extinct family.
Sure enough, the village chief pulled him down to sit and began to talk about the family's affairs.
"Yingzi is also pitiful. Her parents died early, and the man she married was a violent man who disliked her for giving birth to a girl. He would beat her after drinking a couple of ounces of cat urine."
When the old man found out, he firmly told Yingzi to divorce her husband and take her and her daughter home.
Unfortunately, he is old and in poor health, and cannot protect the mother and daughter for many more years.
He had barely left when all those distant relatives, the kind he rarely contacted, showed up. Sigh!
Every family has its own troubles, but Uncle San's family is particularly difficult.
The village chief told Xiao Che that he also had his own selfish motives in doing this.
He's an outsider after all. If someone's relatives want to seize the family property, he can help, but the help he can offer is probably limited.
The mother and daughter were truly pitiful, and he couldn't bear to see them suffer.
Xiao Che knew that poor and remote places breed unruly people, and with only the mother and daughter left in the family, it would be very difficult to protect their family property amidst a pack of wolves.
The woman cried while holding her child when she thought of sad things. Why was she so unlucky?
Did Third Uncle make any arrangements before he left?
He can help, but only if the other person is willing.
Upon hearing this, the woman quickly wiped away her tears. "Grandpa left a letter before he left, saying that if Grandpa Xiao came, he should give it to him."
She knew that they must have asked Old Master Xiao to help arrange things for her and her daughter.
She took the letter out of the house and handed it to Xiao Che.
Xiao Che took it, opened it, and read it quickly.
He then looked at the mother and daughter seriously.
"Third Uncle means that he wants us to take you and your daughter to Kyoto."
The letter said that he was dying and knew that after he passed away, his granddaughter would not be able to protect the family property and might even be harmed.
He asked Grandpa Xiao to help take the mother and daughter to Kyoto so that he could find a good family for his granddaughter to marry into.
The woman was somewhat nervous and conflicted. She had never traveled far from home and had stayed in this small town for over thirty years.
It's understandable that she felt nervous and conflicted about suddenly having to go to Kyoto, a place she knew nothing about.
However, thinking of those relatives who had just turned out unrecognizable, and looking down at her daughter who was terrified like a frightened bird, her heart ached.
I closed my eyes and made up my mind.
"Comrade Xiao, we'll go to Kyoto with you! But... I don't want those things to fall into the wrong hands!"
Why should those people have the house and money that Grandpa saved up all his life by living frugally?
Upon hearing this, Xiao Che nodded solemnly and agreed, "Okay!"
He also disapproved of those greedy so-called relatives!
They have an insatiable desire to possess other people's money; they're utterly shameless!
Upon hearing his agreement, the woman instantly relaxed her tense body and bowed gratefully to Xiao Che, saying, "Thank you, thank you so much! I will forever remember your family's great kindness!"
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