Her wrinkled hands, trembling with age, carefully stroked every part of the box. The box was made of fine sandalwood and was one of her mother's favorite items.
Grandpa sat next to Grandma, gently patting her back, worried that her emotions might affect her health.
After touching the box thoroughly, Grandma opened it. Inside lay a finely crafted and complete gold headdress, though the gold had faded somewhat due to its age.
The tears that had been welling up in Grandma's eyes finally fell.
From the time she could remember, her mother told her that this headdress was made by the best craftsman her maternal grandfather had commissioned when she got married, and her maternal grandmother put it on her by hand.
When she grows up and gets married, her mother will put it on her head herself.
But……
Her mother never got to see her get married, nor did she personally put this headdress on her.
Seeing their grandmother's reaction, Xia Pei and Feng Qian knew they had given the right gift.
Xia Pei continued with a guilty expression, speaking cautiously: "Auntie, in the years you've been gone, our Xia family has been seen by outsiders as one of the four great families in the capital, a wealthy and noble family that is all the rage and prosperity."
In fact, after my grandfather and maternal grandfather passed away one after the other, neither my mother nor my father were good at running the company. The company was always barely surviving, and the family was always struggling to make ends meet.
So, when the family was short of money, my mother auctioned off some of the dowry left by my great-grandmother, and now all that's left is this box and this headdress.
"It's also because my nephew is useless and failed to develop and expand the family business left by our ancestors, which is why we've ended up in this situation," Xia Pei sighed.
Grandma composed herself, wiped away her tears, and knew perfectly well that Xia Pei's intentions.
He said directly, "I am very grateful that you returned my mother's things to me, but I don't understand or care about company matters. I am no longer a member of the Xia family, and I have no say in whether the Xia family lives or dies!"
Seeing that her grandmother's attitude was firm and she couldn't extract any more value from her, Feng Qian immediately said, "Auntie, we all understand that it was the Xia family and Mother who wronged you back then. We don't ask for anything else, we just hope that you can at least persuade our cousin Yiqing not to do anything to the Xia family, considering that we are of the same lineage."
In the past two days, Su Yiqing's reputation as the "Living Yama" in Chongqing's business circles has spread far and wide.
In Beijing today, who doesn't know Su Yiqing's methods?
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