The familiar layout made Xiao Yuqi feel uncontrollably tearful before he even entered the door.
If he had been somewhat unsure before, he would have been able to find his mother's trace so easily.
Then, after seeing the layout of the courtyard, which was 80% similar to the alley, the uncertainty in his heart suddenly disappeared.
Instead, there is only uneasiness and endless bitterness.
Mother...she still remembers it!
She actually remembered...
Two old men came out.
He looks to be in his sixties.
Two men with gray hair and a calm and gentle smile on their faces, one leaning on a cane, walked towards Xiao Yuqi, one in front and one behind.
They didn't know who Xiao Yuqi was.
...
...
But Xiao Yuqi saw some of his mother's shadow on their faces.
It turns out that my mother looks more like my grandmother.
Xiao Yuqi lowered his head and hid the tears in his eyes.
"Mr. Yin, Madam Yin, I hope you will forgive me for coming here rashly."
Xiao Yanli took two boxes of gifts from the special assistant. "This is the tea my father asked me to pass on to you, and a silk scarf my mother brought back from Hangzhou. Please accept them. I have completed half of the task my parents entrusted to me."
Old Yin personally took the two gifts from Xiao Yanli.
Old Madam Yin looked at Xiao Yanli with a smile.
"Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao are so thoughtful. Every time they go out, they remember to bring us gifts. We feel embarrassed."
The young old man handed the gift to the butler.
"I recently got two bottles of good wine. You can bring them to your father later. He likes this kind of wine."
Xiao Yanli smiled and replied, "Okay."
"I don't know, who is this?"
Old Master Yin immediately spotted Xiao Yuqi standing in front of Xiao Yanli.
He looked younger than Xiao Yanli, but he stood in front of Xiao Yanli.
The Xiao family is a large family that attaches great importance to etiquette and rules, and every position they take is very prestigious.
Old Master Yin thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. In the Xiao family, besides Xiao Yanli's parents, who else could stand ahead of Xiao Yanli?
"This is one of my elders, his name is..."
Xiao Yanli hadn't finished speaking yet.
Yin Luowan came out from the living room.
She was wearing a plain skirt, which looked a little thin in the cold wind.
Her long hair was tied up with a jade hairpin, hanging to one side, in front of her chest, and reaching below her waist.
She wore no makeup and was wearing a pair of lilac embroidered cloth shoes.
He walked to the edge of the vegetable garden as if no one was around and watered the plants carefully.
White radishes and cabbages are growing very well this season.
The green garlic has not yet sprouted, and it is growing there in lush greenery, very pleasing to the eye.
Longcheng is a city with distinct four seasons, and fresh fruits and vegetables can grow all year round.
Yin Luowan diligently waters, fertilizes and weeds the vegetables, fruits and melons every day!
It has been sixteen or seventeen years since she came back. She is immersed in her own world every day, unable to see anyone or hear anyone talking.
This situation once caused great pain to the two elderly people in the Yin family.
As they grew older, they both became more open-minded.
Now, Yin Luowan is alive right under their noses. It is better than his life or death being unknown, making them worry about him and unable to rest in peace until their death.
All eyes were on her.
She turned a deaf ear to it.
Yin Luowan was mumbling something.
Xiao Yuqi subconsciously took two steps forward, wanting to hear her voice clearly.
The two elders of the Yin family wanted to stop it.
Xiao Yanli then took a step forward and said, "Old man, let him try!"
This morning, Xiao Yanli talked to Mr. Yin on the phone according to his schedule.
Even so, the Yin couple were still not reassured.
They have tried countless methods for this daughter.
She could never get out.
They couldn't fit into her world either.
Although they lived in the same house, there seemed to be a huge distance between them.
The Yin couple were still worried and wanted to give it a try.
No matter how bad it is, it can’t be worse than now, right?
The group walked around the vegetable garden and went to the west wing.
In the warm courtyard, only Yin Luowan and Xiao Yuqi were left.
Xiao Yuqi walked in slowly.
Finally, he heard his mother's voice again.
She was saying, "Ah Qi, today, I will make you your favorite stuffed radish, okay?"
Perhaps, in Yin Luowan's memory, Xiao Yuqi still looks like a child.
She squatted at the edge of the vegetable garden and raised her hand about one meter high. Through the transparent air, she seemed to travel through time and space and touched Xiao Yuqi's round head when he was a child.
"There are some osmanthus flowers that I just stored before the New Year in the kitchen. Mother will make some osmanthus sugar cakes for you. Do you want to eat some, Qi?"
Long-lost memories come back to my mind one by one.
Xiao Yuqi recalled the days when they depended on each other in the alley.
My mother was not good at cooking. Occasionally, she would use the money she earned from selling vegetables to exchange for some meat from the kitchen staff. She would then chop the meat into fine minced meat and cut the radishes she pulled from the vegetable garden into thin slices, layering them together with a layer of minced meat. She would put the food in a bowl, alternating between a layer of radish and a layer of minced meat, until it became a radish flower, which she would then steam in a pot and eat.
She could never get the taste right; every time it was either too salty or too bland.
But that was the best meal that they, mother and son, could eat.
Xiao Yuqi had never eaten osmanthus sugar cake.
But I can always hear my mother's description.
The reason was simple: honey was so precious that my mother used the money she had saved for vegetables for half a year to exchange for meat, but she couldn't exchange it for sugar.
He was still young at that time, and his mother always wanted him to eat better so that he could grow better.
His biggest regret was that until his death, he was never able to let his mother taste her favorite osmanthus sugar cake again.
Xiao Yuqi didn't want to cry, but his tears seemed to have a consciousness of their own and were completely out of control. They rushed out, filling his eye sockets, and then fell one after another.
Drop by drop, it dripped into the vegetable garden that my mother had carefully tended.
"Mother, Aqi wants to eat."
Xiao Yuqi squatted beside Yin Luowan and rubbed his head against her palm.
The real touch made Yin Luowan stunned, and then, a hint of surprise appeared in her smiling eyes.
"Aqi?"
She called out again tentatively.
Xiao Yuqi smiled faintly, "Mother, I'm here."
Yin Luowan stood up and moved his palm away from Xiao Yuqi's head.
"Why did you suddenly grow so big?"
She used her hands to gesture the size of Xiao Yuqi's head.
As Xiao Yuqi slowly stood up, Yin Luowan discovered that he couldn't stretch his arms that long.
Yin Luowan couldn't believe it.
She took a step forward and stood on tiptoe.
Xiao Yuqi cooperated by lowering his head.
But his hands were clenched tightly, and he was very nervous.
Standing in front of the French window of the west wing, staring closely at the two elders of the Yin family, they looked more nervous than Xiao Yuqi.
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