"Duo'er, listen to your grandpa, don't hold a grudge against your grandma, okay?"
"She's old and doesn't have many years left to live. She's even getting confused. Please don't take it to heart, okay?"
“Your maternal grandparents love you dearly; otherwise, they wouldn’t have taken the opportunity to come see you in this cold weather.”
“My dear child, we’re all old now, we’ve reached the age where every year is a year. We’re not like your grandparents, they can see you every day, but we…” Old Zhao shook his head vigorously, his expression full of helplessness and sorrow. After a long pause, he continued, “We only hope that before we close our eyes, we can see you a few more times and do our best to be good to you…”
Old Zhao took out what he had said before, rephrased it, and repeated it again. Before he could finish, Yun Duo suddenly yawned widely and said listlessly, "How boring! Don't you have anything new to say?"
Old Zhao was taken aback, and his words involuntarily stopped. Then, he subconsciously looked at Yun Duo and asked, "Duo'er, what do you mean?"
"Huh?" Yun Duo had lost interest in continuing their conversation. She yawned widely and said with a bored expression, "It's cold, and Grandpa and Grandma won't let me go out. I'm not having any fun. You guys came to keep me entertained, like listening to your opera, but..."
Yun Duo pouted, looking utterly bored: "You guys are so unprofessional. You came all this way to put on a show for me, but you didn't even rehearse beforehand or come up with any good lines. You just keep repeating the same few phrases over and over again. I could recite them by heart."
"I was thinking that if you performed well, I could have Grandpa give you money. People used to give tips when they watched plays. Although it's not so fashionable now, you came all this way to perform for me, so you must have something in mind. So, I think you would accept the money, right?"
"I've thought it all out. If you perform well, I can ask Grandpa for more money. If not, I won't ask for my New Year's money."
"But it doesn't look good or sound good... I don't think you're worth a single penny."
Old Zhao's face turned from red to white, then white to purple, then purple to blue, and finally swelled up to the color of a pig's liver. His tongue swirled in his mouth, but he couldn't utter a single word.
That's outrageous!
This brat, she's been watching the show the whole time, making a fool of herself like a monkey!
This is simply outrageous! Absolutely outrageous! Utterly unfilial!
"I...I...I am your maternal grandfather!" With great effort, Old Man Zhao finally managed to say the sentence in its entirety.
“You’re not.” Yun Duo blinked, looked at Old Man Zhao, and said seriously, “I just said, you’re not my maternal grandparents. Uncle County Magistrate said himself that I’ve severed my mother-daughter relationship with your daughter. If we’re not even mother and daughter, how could I have a maternal grandmother?”
Old Zhao pointed at the clouds and stammered, "You...you...you unfilial son..."
"Yes, that's right." Yun Duo blinked, nodded seriously, and looked at Old Man Zhao earnestly, saying, "I don't need to be filial to you in the first place. If some random old man or woman came along and said they were my elder and that I had to be filial, would I even be able to live? Don't you think so?"
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