Chapter 228
Ji Wanmei's aunt and uncle came on the third day of the Lunar New Year.
My uncle drives a black German-imported sedan, a type of car that is almost never seen in Pingquan County. So when the car is parked outside the factory compound, it attracts a lot of attention.
Everyone is guessing which family this couple who arrived in a luxury car are related to.
However, they soon received the answer: the couple got out of the car, carrying large and small bags of New Year's goods, and walked into the factory compound, going straight to Director Ji's house.
This result was both unexpected and expected.
Indeed, who else could it be but Factory Director Ji?
Everyone withdrew their envious and appraising gazes and went back to doing their own thing.
"Meimei? Are you home?"
Shi Manlu and her husband arrived at the innermost courtyard of the compound and called out through the gate.
Before they arrived, Shi Manlu had called Ji Wanmei to tell her that they would be coming today, around a certain time.
So today, Ji Wanmei deliberately didn't go to the store and stayed at home to wait for her aunt and uncle to come over.
Ji Xingguo didn't want to see the couple, so he left early, saying he was going to his old friend's house to go fishing with someone.
Ji Wanmei was quite helpless about her father's stubborn temper, but in order to avoid an awkward silence between her father and aunt, she let him go fishing.
Hearing her aunt's voice, Ji Wanmei quickly ran out of the house, opened the courtyard gate, and happily said to her aunt and uncle, whom she hadn't seen for three or four years, "Auntie, Uncle, you're here! Did you drive or come by car?"
"Let me carry the things. Come in and have a seat!" Ji Wanmei said, taking her aunt's arm as they walked inside.
Aunt looked at Ji Wanmei tenderly and sighed, "It's been years since I last saw you, and you've grown even more beautiful. You really do change a lot as you grow up. You look just like your mother when she was young!"
Aunt and Ji Wanmei's mother are half-sisters. Ji Wanmei's mother is named Shi Manyun, and her aunt is named Shi Manlu.
Ji Wanmei's mother looks like her maternal grandmother, but Ji Wanmei has never met her maternal grandmother since she was a child.
Her maternal grandmother passed away decades ago during a time of war and turmoil. Ji Wanmei only ever saw one extremely blurry black-and-white photograph in a box left by her mother.
It's clear that her mother inherited her beauty from her maternal grandmother, while Ji Wanmei inherited her beauty from her mother.
My aunt was the daughter of Ji Wanmei's maternal grandfather's second wife. She inherited her maternal grandfather's appearance, with relatively flat facial features and single eyelids.
Judging by appearance alone, you wouldn't be able to tell that Ji Wanmei and her aunt are related by blood.
Ji Wanmei said to her aunt, "I'm nineteen years old this year, or twenty if we're talking about the traditional Chinese age reckoning."
The uncle next to her smiled and said, "Wanmei, this is a gift that your aunt and I brought back for you from abroad. We don't know if you will like it."
There were several exquisite boxes. Ji Wanmei didn't know what was inside, but she accepted them with a smile.
How could she not appreciate it when her aunt and uncle brought her back from such a faraway place?
only……
Ji Wanmei said with difficulty, "Auntie, you know my dad has a bad temper. He knew you were coming to see me today, so he made an excuse to leave and avoided seeing you. You won't mind, will you?"
Aunt smiled and said, "Your dad's temper has been the same for decades, I'm used to it. Besides, we're here to see you, not to see him."
“Okay, I’ll cook lunch and make a few of my signature dishes for Aunt and Uncle to try.” Ji Wanmei smiled immediately.
“Okay, Xiao Wanmei can cook now, then Auntie must try some,” Auntie said. “But we’re short on time, we might have to leave again after dinner.”
"So eager?" Ji Wanmei said, "You rarely come back to China, why not stay a few more days?"
Aunt: "I've already booked my plane ticket for the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. I'm still making time to come see you."
After admiring the flowers and plants in the yard for a while, my uncle laughed and said, "Your father still loves gardening so much. He's almost a professional at it."
Ji Wanmei's uncle works at an international trading company, where he is responsible for helping foreigners and Chinese people deal with each other.
In other words, it means helping foreigners make money off Chinese people.
Ji Wanmei remembered that in her previous life, her uncle had vaguely become the regional manager of some company in China.
Because of what happened to the Ji family at that time, Ji Wanmei was all alone. Her aunt even called back, planning to send Ji Wanmei abroad to live with them.
However, Ji Wanmei rejected him at the time.
She wants to take back what she has lost, bit by bit, instead of running away to another place to escape.
So Ji Wanmei knew that her aunt still cared about her.
However, her father, Ji Xingguo, disliked people who "worshiped foreign things" and didn't have a good opinion of her uncle.
Ji Wanmei could only see them once every three to five years. She didn't have many relatives to begin with, so she cherished the few family members she had.
After inviting Aunt and Uncle into the house, Aunt suggested that she wanted to pay respects to the memorial tablet of Ji Wanmei's mother.
Ji Wanmei led her aunt to the study where Ji Xingguo kept the memorial tablet.
Since his mother passed away, Ji Xingguo has kept her memorial tablet in his study to keep her company.
Aunt lit an incense stick, came out of the living room, and sat down to talk with Ji Wanmei.
“Your father is truly devoted to your mother. Even though your sister has been gone for so many years, he hasn’t remarried.”
How could a normal middle-aged man endure a ten-year-long empty nest?
But Ji Xingguo could.
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