"I've never heard my mother mention these things. Grandma Sheng, could you tell me more?" Ye Qingqing looked at the old lady hopefully. She knew so little about her mother, like a complete stranger. She didn't even know Xu Yali's true personality.
The old lady's heart skipped a beat. She remembered what Ye Qingqing had said before: her mother died when she gave birth to her younger brother, and her current mother was her stepmother. That meant Xu Yali...
"Your mother?" the old lady asked cautiously.
Ye Qingqing sniffed, "She died during childbirth when she gave birth to Xiaotong due to a difficult labor and severe bleeding."
The old lady sighed and gently patted Ye Qingqing's head. "How old were you back then?"
Five years old.
The old lady looked at Ye Qingqing with pity, her eyes filled with tears but still smiling. Without her own mother's care, it was easy to imagine that this girl was not doing well. She also had to take care of her mentally challenged younger brother. No wonder she was like a little adult. While other girls her age were still being pampered in their parents' arms, this girl already had a heavy burden on her shoulders.
"Where is your grandfather? Doesn't he live with you?" The old lady found it strange. Xu Yiping couldn't possibly watch his granddaughter suffer without doing anything!
“She was gone before I was born,” Ye Qingqing said calmly.
"How could that be? Your grandfather is a few years younger than me!" The old lady couldn't believe it.
Lu Mo pushed the wheelchair over and said, "When my maternal grandfather and my grandfather were blasting the mountain, they encountered a dud. He died trying to save my grandfather."
The old lady was surprised. "The Xu family are just ordinary people. They shouldn't be implicated. Why would they be involved in reform?"
“I don’t know either. I’ve never even met my maternal grandfather. My mother said he was a capitalist roader.”
Ye Qingqing had the same question. Her grandfather was penniless, and even his underwear was patched again and again. How could he be considered a capitalist roader?
The old lady frowned, finding it increasingly strange. It was expected that she and Nianci would be labeled as capitalists, given the vast wealth of the Sang and Gu families.
But Xu Yiping was dirt poor and had impeccable revolutionary credentials, so how did he become a capitalist roader?
I'll talk to Huaiyuan later and ask her to investigate what happened back then. She won't be at ease until she gets to the bottom of it.
"Is your maternal grandmother also...?" The old lady had a bad feeling. Ye Qingqing had never mentioned her maternal grandmother, so it seemed that the situation was not good.
Ye Qingqing nodded. "After my grandfather was taken away, my grandmother was timid and fell ill from fright. She passed away not long after."
The old lady looked somber. Xu Yiping's wife was indeed timid and fearful. In those chaotic times, if something happened to the head of the household, that little woman certainly wouldn't be able to bear it.
"Your mother's life has been so hard, sigh... Is your father good to your mother?" The old lady inquired, but didn't have much hope. He didn't care about the child his ex-wife risked her life to give birth to; that's just the kind of character a man can be.
Ye Qingqing gritted her teeth and said, suppressing her hatred, "I don't know much, I was still young at that time."
It's not that I don't trust the old lady, but Lu Mo said that the fewer people who know about it before things are clear, the better.
The old lady could tell at a glance that Ye Qingqing was not being sincere, but she understood that family scandals should not be aired in public. Qingqing was just trying to save face for her father. What a good girl!
In the evening, Sun Qiuyun and Sang Huaiyuan came over for dinner. Sun Qiuyun was very curious and asked the old lady why she suddenly wanted so many medicinal herbs.
"Qingqing is preparing medicine for Huaiyuan, saying it can help improve his health, but a few ingredients are still missing," the old lady explained with a smile.
Sun Qiuyun was overjoyed, but she still had some doubts, "That little girl is so young, can she really have a way?"
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