Chapter 231 Memories Treasured Here]
Upon hearing this, Mr. Jiang's first reaction was -
you kidnapped my wife, and you want her to live with you for a long time, leaving me as a left-behind elderly? His
second reaction was -
huh? Wait, didn't the little granddaughter just say "you guys come visit us in the future", "you guys"...
this room is prepared for my wife and him?
Old Master Jiang quickly understood what Ye Qingyue meant and said hurriedly, "Yes, yes, we still need to make a special room, so that it will be convenient for us to visit each other."
Without waiting for Ye Xianghong's leaky little cotton jacket to say that she could sleep with Li Qi, Old Master Jiang continued, "When A Ting comes back, I will ask him to find someone to move the unused beds at home to your place, and then sort out some beddings. After the New Year, when the workers go to work, we will hire a carpenter to make a new bed and some new furniture."
Seeing that Ye Qingyue and Old Master Jiang had discussed it, Ye Xianghong and Li Qi did not object.
Li Qi could see that the old man was alone at home and felt unbalanced.
When they entered the house, Li Qi said, "Then I'll go get the painting supplies."
"Painting supplies?"
Old Master Jiang asked, "What do you want to do with the painting supplies?"
Li Qi said, "Yue'er wants to move her late husband's tomb to the capital, and wants to paint a portrait. But now it's almost the New Year, and there are no painters in the park. I'm here to help her paint."
When Old Master Jiang heard this, he thought it meant that she would take the painting supplies and leave, and he got a little anxious. She's only been back for a minute!
He said, "Don't worry, you must be cold after walking all the way. Drink some hot tea and have some snacks first. When you're warm, I'll have someone drive you there."
Li Qi thought about it and nodded, "Okay."
Seeing her like this, Old Master Jiang couldn't help but say, "You look a little different today than usual."
On weekdays, Li Qi looks very dull even when she is awake.
But today, Li Qi is very similar to a normal person, without that dull and confused feeling.
"Really?"
Li Qi smiled, and did not say that after taking the medicine given by his little granddaughter, his mind became much clearer.
After all, he has just started taking the medicine, and who knows what the future will be like. If you tell him too early, it will easily give the old man expectations, and if he is disappointed later, he will feel bad.
"Yes."
Grandpa Jiang leaned on his cane with one hand and helped Li Qi sit down with the other hand, and asked Aunt Wang to prepare tea and snacks.
After Li Qi sat down, he pulled Ye Xianghong to sit next to him.
The family of three was neat and tidy, even if they didn't talk, they were there quietly, with a plain happiness.
Seeing this, Ye Qingyue said, "I was in such a hurry to come and go last time that I didn't have a good look at where grandpa and grandma live. Can I go for a walk?"
Her mother had just recognized her as a relative, and Ye Qingyue also wanted to give the long-unreunited family of three some space to be alone.
"Do you want grandpa to accompany you?"
Grandpa Jiang didn't see what Ye Qingyue was thinking. He just thought that he didn't treat his little granddaughter well last time, so he had to make her happy this time.
"No thanks."
Ye Qingyue didn't expect that Grandpa Jiang would be so considerate of her. When he heard that she wanted to go for a walk, he even stopped accompanying Li Qi and Ye Xianghong.
Perhaps, Grandpa Jiang was also using his way to make up for the mistakes he made before.
She smiled and said, "I'll just wander around by myself."
"This is your home, you can wander around however you want."
Old Master Jiang said, "There are signs on the doors of the rooms, telling who lives there and who uses it. You can go in and take a look at other places except the bedroom and the study." "
Okay."
Ye Qingyue nodded, got up and went out.
The Jiang family's house also has two courtyards, but the area is much larger than the one she bought.
After dinner yesterday, Jiang Ting mentioned that there was a bigger house at home, but it was too eye-catching, so he didn't live in it and just left it there.
Old Master Jiang said that the house was to be left for Yue'er, that is, Ye Xianghong.
After losing his daughter for so many years, Old Master Jiang felt too much guilt in his heart. Now that he has found his daughter, he just wants to leave the best for her.
In addition, Old Master Jiang plans to give most of the Jiang family's ancestral property to Ye Xianghong.
Jiang Ting had no objection to this. He also had a house under his name, although it was smaller. However, he had grown up under the protection of his parents and had received so many things. How could he compete with his own sister for a little property?
Moreover, he was not a slacker who only relied on his ancestral property to make a living. His company had already begun to take shape and would definitely have good future development.
Ye Qingyue was surprised but not surprised by the harmonious family style of the Jiang family. After all, she had known Jiang Shaoyan in her previous life. Compared with Lu Xue's impetuousness, Jiang Shaoyan seemed to be gentle and reserved, and rarely got into trouble with others.
A family that could raise such a gentle child must have very good personalities among the elders.
"Studio?"
Ye Qingyue walked around the Jiang family and stopped at a place where there was a small bamboo forest in front of the house. She saw the word "Studio" engraved on a small wooden sign hanging on the door of the room, and Li Qi's name was engraved in the lower right corner.
She immediately understood that this was where Li Qi usually painted and his painting tools were also stored here.
Ye Qingyue pushed the door and found that it was not locked. With a little force on her hand, the door opened and the wind blew into the house. For a while, there was a chaotic sound of blowing papers.
Those scattered on the ground and placed on the desk flew around.
"Oh no..."
Ye Qingyue did not expect that the studio would be so messy. She hurried into the house and closed the door with her backhand.
The light in the room immediately dimmed. She fumbled on the wall and soon found a string. She pulled it gently and the dim light came on.
Only then did Ye Qingyue see the scene inside the studio clearly.
Drawing papers covered the walls and the floor.
Some were finished, some were unfinished...
The scenes in those drawings were different, but there was always only one person at the center.
Ye Qingyue was stunned.
At this moment, her eyes flashed and a piece of drawing paper fell.
Ye Qingyue reached out to take it.
On the drawing paper in her hand, there was a picture of a little girl wearing a straw hat. She looked no more than three or four years old, with a chubby face.
The straw hat was obviously worn by adults, and when worn on the back of a child, it covered her head and most of her body, making her look very petite and cute.
She was smiling at Ye Qingyue -
or to be more precise, at the person who drew the picture.
Looking at this picture, Ye Qingyue felt that she saw fragments of someone's memory.
Warm and sunny.
Looking around in this studio, there were countless scenes like this.
There was a person - a mother, who treasured the memories of several years of her life here.
"Squeak."
At this moment, the door behind Ye Qingyue was opened.
She turned her head and saw Li Qi's helpless face.
"Well, I just said I came to get the painting supplies..."
Li Qi said, "I'm a little embarrassed to be seen by you kids." Ye Qingyue
said, "I'm sorry, I just want to see the paintings you usually draw..."
She didn't expect that the studio would be like this.
Indeed, she would be embarrassed if it were her.
Li Qi walked into the room and saw the portrait in Ye Qingyue's hand. She showed a nostalgic look and said, "In the past thirty years, my memory has been getting worse day by day. I was very afraid that one day I would completely forget what Yue'er looked like, so I started to paint, over and over again, one by one..."
Slowly, the studio was filled with portraits of her Yue'er.
The memories that she thought were forgotten were finally recorded vividly here.
"Last night, I heard Yue'er say that it was you who took her to separate from the family, and helped her get better little by little... Finally, we came to the capital and returned home."
Li Qi reached out his hand, hugged Ye Qingyue, and said softly: "Qingyue, thank you... Grandma is very grateful to you for bringing Yue'er back and reuniting our family, so that I don't have to hold these long-gone memories and live in a daze..."
Ye Qingyue's nose was sour when she heard this. How could she not be very grateful to Li Qi and the entire Jiang family for never giving up looking for her mother in past and present lives and fulfilling her mother's regrets?
"I am also very grateful to you... Grandma."