Just after the New Year, the landlord of the restaurant suddenly contacted Yu Qiuying, saying that he would not renew the lease and wanted to sell the property.
Yu Qiuying didn't plan to buy another house and asked Zhou Jiahong if he wanted to buy one. "If you're interested, I can lend you the money."
"I'm not buying anymore. I'm planning to open my own hot pot restaurant." Zhou Jiahong had this idea for a long time. Although he received a share of the profits from the restaurant and the food stall, it was still not as much as he would earn if he opened his own restaurant. Before, when he was single, it didn't matter how much money he earned, but now that he's married, he needs to support his family and earn more money.
He even borrowed 100,000 yuan from his mother to get married, and he's feeling the pressure now.
He really wants to open his hot pot restaurant as soon as possible, but the restaurant space is a bit small and not suitable for a hot pot restaurant, otherwise he would have bought it.
Zhou Jiahong told Yu Qiuying his plan, and Yu Qiuying didn't say anything. Since he wasn't going to buy it, she went to find Yu Zhigang and Liu Tianhua.
The couple were somewhat tempted, but they still went to ask Yu Jinbao and his wife what they thought.
After discussing it, the family decided to ask Yu Qingxiu and her sister Yu Qinghe for money to buy the house.
Yu Qiuying simply transferred the restaurant to Yu Zhigang and his group. Zhou Jiahong wanted to open his own hot pot restaurant, and she couldn't manage everything by herself. Transferring the restaurant to Yu Zhigang and his group would make things easier for her.
In recent years, rents in school districts have skyrocketed, and there are many people renting there. Yu Qiuying owns a building, and the rent she collects in a year is several times more than what she earns from the food stalls.
These days, the food stalls here are all staffed by hired people.
Last year, Yu Qingxiu was pulled into a large clothing store by Yu Qinghe as a partner. Yu Qinghe is very bold and courageous, and among the younger generation, apart from Zhou Jiadong, she is the most successful.
Yu Qingmiao studied law in college, but ended up becoming a flight attendant. Every time she came back from vacation, she would bring a lot of local specialties and trinkets from different places to visit Yu Qiuying.
Last year, Yu Qingmiao also had a boyfriend, but she hasn't brought him home to meet her parents yet.
Now only Yu Qinghe is still single. She is twenty-seven years old this year and only wants to make money. She is not in a hurry to find a partner at all.
Liu Tianhua has come to terms with it now and is too lazy to bother with her anymore. Now she just takes care of her grandson every day.
Yu Changfu and Wang Huimei also lead a leisurely life, watching TV, walking their dog, and occasionally going shopping. Every year, Yu Qiuying forces the two elders to have a physical examination, and so far, they are in good health.
In early May, Ye Yuan became pregnant with twins.
Zhou Jiahong was busy with the hot pot restaurant and didn't have much time to spend with her. Afraid that she would be bored by herself, the two of them simply moved in with Yu Qiuying.
Yu Qiuying would accompany her shopping whenever she had free time. Ye Yuan had never had a mother since she was a child and had never experienced maternal love, but now she felt it in Yu Qiuying.
There were no conflicts between the two, and Ye Yuan was intentionally getting close to Yu Qiuying. Now, the two were no different from biological mother and daughter.
Ye Yuan was pregnant with twins, and her belly started showing when she was only four months along.
Later, her belly swelled up like an inflating balloon, and by the time she gave birth, it was so big that she could hardly move.
Finally, she underwent a cesarean section and gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
Yu Qiuying had arranged two nannies for her in advance; they were recommended by Cui Yinhua and were trustworthy.
Both children were very small at birth. The older one was a girl, weighing 3.8 pounds, and the younger one was a boy, weighing 3.6 pounds. They stayed in the hospital for more than a month before going home.
Ye Yuan had a double postpartum period. She suffered a lot during this pregnancy. While most people gain weight during pregnancy and childbirth, she lost a lot of weight.
Zhou Jiahong felt sorry for her, so he secretly went to the hospital to get his tubal ligation without telling her.
Then they hired two nannies to help take care of the children. With Ye Yuan at home watching over them, there was no need to worry about the nannies treating the children badly.
Time flies.
Before we knew it, both children were in kindergarten.
Now the whole family of four lives with Yu Qiuying, and the house is lively every day. Yu Qiuying never had the experience of being a grandmother in her previous life, but in this life she is experiencing the joy of being a grandmother.
Sure enough, every day after school, the two children drop their schoolbags and head straight for their grandmother.
"Grandma, we're back!"
"Grandma, I'm back! I brought you a present!"
"What gift is it?" Yu Qiuying squatted down and patted the heads of the two little ones one by one.
The little girl, Zhou Chenxin, mysteriously clutched her pocket, saying, "Grandma, if you reach out your hand and close your eyes, I'll give you the gift!"
Yu Qiuying then obediently closed her eyes and stretched out her hand.
A moment later, I felt something in my palm, and it seemed... to be moving?
Yu Qiuying opened her eyes with a start, and when she saw what was in her hand, she was so frightened that she shook her hand away violently.
Zhou Chenxin giggled with delight.
Her younger brother, Zhou Chenxu, glared at her angrily, "You scared Grandma, Mom will spank you in a bit."
Ye Yuan changed her shoes in the entryway and came in. "Zhou Xinxin, what are you doing? What did you use to scare Grandma?"
Yu Qiuying glanced at the silkworm she had flung to the ground, and sighed helplessly, rubbing her forehead. This little girl was too naughty.
Zhou Chenxu complained in his childish voice, "Mommy, my sister scared Grandma with silkworms!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Yuan pinched her daughter's cheek in annoyance, "You little rascal, how could you scare Grandma like that? Grandma is old, you can't scare Grandma like that."
Zhou Chenxin tilted her little head back and said, "It's okay, Grandma, silkworms won't bite!"
Yu Qiuying twitched the corner of her mouth. "Grandma is afraid of these soft, squishy bugs. They don't bite, but she's still afraid of them."
Zhou Chenxin blinked her big eyes, "Okay, I'm sorry Grandma, I won't bring silkworms home anymore~"
The siblings' personalities are reversed. Zhou Chenxin is lively, mischievous, and shrewd. She has a sweet tongue, is very good at reading people's expressions, and knows how to coax them.
Zhou Chenxu, on the other hand, is overly well-behaved and clingy, always quiet and unassuming.
In July, the two children started their summer vacation, and Ye Jingchuan came over and took Ye Yuan and the two children to Kyoto for a trip.
With the two children gone, the house suddenly felt empty and quiet.
The three of them didn't return until just before the start of the school term.
Then Ye Yuan sensed that Yu Qiuying's condition was a bit off. When she went to bed that night, she said to Zhou Jiahong, "Jiahong, did anything happen at home while we were away? I feel like Mom has been a bit out of sorts these past few days. I've noticed she keeps staring at the calendar in a daze. I called her several times at noon today before she snapped out of it."
Zhou Jiahong hadn't noticed anything amiss. "Nothing happened? I didn't sense anything was wrong with Mom."
After he said that, Ye Yuan was unsure. "Well, maybe I'm overthinking it."
Yu Qiuying is indeed fine, but she keeps thinking about Lin Jiaojiao lately.
It's September 2011 now. In her previous life, Lin Jiaojiao was in a car accident not long after the start of the new school year.
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