"Has Zhi Lan sent any more letters?" Ni Sitian asked Xiang Ma.
"Yes, we have photos from when the kids turned one. We just got them a few days ago." Xiang's mother gestured for Xiang's father to get them, and said to Ni Sitian with a smile, "We send photos about every three months. The two kids are so cute, but they don't look like twins at all."
Ni Sitian took the photo album from her father and looked down at it. The girl was lovely and the boy was mischievous. They all seemed to be doing well. Zhi Lan and the two children were all smiling happily.
However, it's strange.
She had asked Xu Tingchuan before whether Xiang Zhilan had sent any more letters, and Xu Tingchuan said he hadn't received any.
She felt something was off. If Zhi Lan's letter was sent to her mailbox through a friend, then when she 'died,' the news should have reached Zhi Lan, right? But Zhi Lan remained silent.
Logically, Zhi Lan should have returned no matter what after finding out, unless she was completely unaware that her friend had given her false information about Yi Hai and didn't want her to come back.
"If Hengheng and Xiaokui were here, Tuantuan would have company. They're about the same age, so they could definitely play together," Xiang's mother said with emotion as she held Tuantuan.
Ni Sitian sighed inwardly. So much time had passed in the blink of an eye. She wondered when Zhi Lan was planning to come back. Her two babies were two and a half months older than Tuantuan, and would be 14 months old by the end of this month. They should be able to walk and call out to people quite fluently by now.
Little Tuantuan still needs to hold onto something to walk a few steps, and she can only walk smoothly when her mother calls her name.
"Tuantuan, this is your New Year's money from Grandma Xiang. Come and give Grandma a kiss." Xiang's mother stuffed it into Tuantuan's little pocket.
Ni Sitian was at a loss for how to refuse. These days, Tuantuan had been given a lot of red envelopes. The elders would give her a thick envelope with both first-meeting money and New Year's money. She could only teach Tuantuan how to say thank you.
She stayed at the Xiang family home until about 3 p.m., then got up to say goodbye. Her mother warmly invited her to stay for dinner, but she declined because she was having dinner with Xu Tingchuan and others that evening.
She put Tuantuan into the stroller, said goodbye to the two elders, and left the house.
As soon as she went outside, she saw Shen Muzhi standing by the window. Come to think of it, this was the first time she had seen Shen Muzhi face to face since she came back.
I only caught a glimpse of Jia Yue's wedding from afar last time.
Upon closer inspection, she was taken aback. He was already cold, but now he seemed even more icy and aloof. He was also very thin, with more defined features, giving off a feeling of keeping people at a distance.
She heard a lot of things when she came back this time. It seems that Su Yan and Xin Zikai are together and they are preparing to get married.
In the end, Shen Muzhi failed on both fronts.
"Long time no see." Seeing him like this, Ni Sitian was able to face him more calmly.
She felt he had been punished, and Zhi Lan was doing well now, so there was no need for her to be so cold and sarcastic. After all, he was Ting Chuan's friend. Ting Chuan had said that when she had just 'died,' he was drinking with Shen Muzhi to comfort each other.
Now she's back, while Zhi Lan's return date is still uncertain. In a way, Shen Muzhi is much more pitiful than Ting Chuan. At least she left Ting Chuan with a child back then, so having something to rely on made it easier for her to cheer up.
Shen Muzhi was disliked by the two elders of the Shen family. They said they wouldn't let him into the house for the New Year. Commander Shen even said that if his daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter didn't come back, he wouldn't be allowed to enter the Shen family's gate for a day.
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