Those around them looked at Madam Xu and Gu Jueye with puzzled expressions.
Madam Xu gestured for him to enter with utmost respect.
"Mr. Bai, may I use your study?"
"Please make yourself at home. Yitang, quickly help your great-grandmother to the study."
"Let me help you." Gu Jueye reached out to help Old Madam Xu.
The other party seemed hesitant and wanted to refuse.
Gu Jueye seemed to understand Madam Xu's thoughts and spoke politely.
"I'll help you."
To outsiders, he was the younger one.
Madam Xu understood Gu Jueye's meaning, sighed inwardly, and accepted Gu Jueye's help.
The two went to the study
The Bai family returned to the main room, where Old Master Bai was deep in thought.
"Why is Madam Xu being so polite to that brat Gu Jueye?"
Just now, Madam Xu seemed to have used honorifics when talking to that brat.
Bai Qianmo fell into deep thought. When Madam Xu saw her and Fifth Brother, she showed a very surprised expression, especially when she saw Fifth Brother, her eyes were filled with undisguised awe.
In the study
With Gu Jueye's help, Madam Xu sat down in a chair, her gaze sharp and scrutinizing Gu Jueye's face.
"...Fifth Uncle?"
Although I found my thoughts somewhat ridiculous, the man in front of me really looked exactly like my fourth uncle.
The man's face was calm and composed.
A glimmer of hope flashed in Madam Xu's eyes. When most people suddenly heard this, they would be very curious and would subconsciously ask, "Who is Fifth Uncle?" or "Are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else?"
But the man in front of her didn't say a word. His eyes were too calm, as if it were perfectly normal for her to call him Fourth Uncle.
"Yu'er, it's been a long time."
Madam Xu's body trembled slightly with excitement.
"Fifth Uncle, is it really you? Why hasn't your appearance changed at all?"
It's unbelievable that when she was seven years old, her fifth uncle returned to the Xu family after studying abroad.
At that time, her father was working for the Communist Party and was transferred from Beiping to Shanghai. She and her mother moved to Shanghai with her father.
Her father was the eldest son of the third wife, and her fifth uncle was the adopted son of her second grandfather. According to the Xu family's seniority, he was her elder.
When she first arrived in Shanghai, she was unfamiliar with the place and had to face a group of unfamiliar relatives every day, which made her feel very bored.
During a visit to the Xu family home with my parents to see my great-grandmother, I met a beautiful older sister in the garden.
The older sister was very beautiful, even more beautiful than her mother. She thought she was the most beautiful older sister she had ever seen in her life.
She later learned that it was her cousin. During her time in Shanghai, her cousin Jin En took good care of her, and she liked this interesting and gentle aunt very much.
Subsequently, the warlord wars began. As the warlord leader of Shanghai at the time, Fifth Uncle often had to fight in the north and south. Jin En, Fifth Uncle's aunt, would also accompany him on his campaigns.
Several years passed like this, until 31 years later, when she was ten years old, a telegram came from Beiping that her cousin Jin'en, who lived in Beiping, had suddenly passed away. She was heartbroken for a long time because of this.
Actually, according to seniority, since her aunt married her fifth uncle, she should call her aunt "aunt-in-law".
However, since Fifth Uncle was only Second Grandfather's adopted son, and only nominally surnamed Xu, and later had a falling out with Second Master Xu, he started his own household. Jin En was her cousin, so her parents felt it was more appropriate for her to call her cousin.
After my aunt died, the warlord conflicts intensified, and my fifth uncle disappeared without a trace.
At the time, the adults all said that since my uncle was a warlord, in such a war-torn era, once a warlord was defeated, who could survive?
Nine times out of ten, they were secretly executed after falling into enemy hands.
It's unbelievable that even though she's now a hundred years old, her fifth uncle still looks the same as he did back then.
"Years ago, I unexpectedly traveled to a place where the people's civilization was far more advanced than ours; they extended my lifespan."
After hearing this, Madam Xu repeatedly praised it.
"What a strange experience! By the way, what's the relationship between Qianmo and my Aunt Jin'en?"
She looks exactly like Aunt Jin'en. Now that Uncle Wu is with Qianmo, could Qianmo be Aunt Jin'en?
Gu Jueye nodded: "Qianmo and Jin'en are indeed the same person, but the Qianmo in this case is Jin'en's soul before she entered the world more than a hundred years ago."
Madam Xu frowned. Had her soul not entered the world of her aunt Jin'en from over a hundred years ago? What did that mean?
"Could it be that Qianmo's soul traveled back more than a hundred years?"
This is too fantastical; it's even more unbelievable than those currently popular time-travel novels.
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