Song Wan Yue asked in surprise, “Mother remembered everything?”
Xu nodded her head.
“Then how did Mother go missing?”
Xu froze, trying desperately to remember, but her mind was blank, she couldn’t remember anyone but the old man and her own mother.
Seeing her reaction, Song Wangyue’s rising joy receded a little, “Mother didn’t remember, did she?”
Xu wanted to whack herself on the head, but just as she raised her head, she was stopped by Song Wangyue, “Mother is still stuck with needles, don’t hurt yourself.”
She wanted to see them now and tell them that she was alright.
Song Wangyue seemed to understand what was going on in her mind and whispered, “The situation is a bit complicated now, if Mother can’t remember how she disappeared, you can’t go back to the Xu family.”
“But ……”
“Mother listen to me ……”
Song Wangyue told her all that she had heard in the Xu House, “No one in the house knows how you disappeared. It couldn’t have been an accident, because if it was, there would have been a commotion and there’s no way the Xu family wouldn’t have known about it. My elder brother and I speculate that the person who killed you may be in the Xu House, which means that the Xu House is not safe. Therefore, you can’t go back yet, you have to wait until after big brother’s temple exams. As long as big brother achieves success in the golden list, the people who want to harm you will be afraid and won’t dare to do it easily.”
“Can I only see your grandmother and great-grandfather?”
Xu prayed.
“And grandfather.”
Xu didn’t know why, but a strong feeling of hatred rose up inside her and the words came out, “I don’t want to see him.”
After saying that, she herself froze.
Song Wan Yue’s eyes narrowed and she became more and more certain that Mr. Da was involved in her mother’s disappearance, so she asked in a soft voice, “Why doesn’t she want to see him?”
Xu didn’t know either, she had no memory of Mr. Da in her head, she slowly shook her head, “I don’t know, I just don’t want to see him.”
“Then let’s not see him, let’s only see Old Sir and First Lady.”
“I want to see them now.”
Xu couldn’t wait, her heart ached like a knife plucking at the thought of the First Lady’s broken body because she missed herself.
“Mother allow me to go and discuss this with my elder brother first, this is not a trivial matter and I don’t want the family to know about it for now.”
“Go now!”
Song Wan Yue went out and heard that Song Si was accompanying Grandma Song to talk to a few people, her feet turned and went to Gu Yi’s house, but a moment later Gu Yi came out of the house and went to the hall, “Big brother, I don’t know a few words, go over and teach me.”
Hearing that he wanted to read and write, Grandma Song was very happy, “Go, go quickly.”
Song Si gave him a strange look, but got up and followed him there. Once he entered the house and saw Song Wan Yue, he asked, “What’s wrong?”
“My mother remembered part of it, she remembers Old Sir and First Lady, the rest of them don’t, and she doesn’t remember how she disappeared, she is now desperate to see Old Sir and First Lady, I don’t want to alert the family, let’s discuss a way to have the best of both worlds.”
Song Si sat down and took a glance at the sky outside, “In this way, have someone go and tidy up the courtyard over there, I will go to the Xu Mansion and fetch Old Mister over in the name of inviting him to dinner, as for the First Lady’s side, don’t startle them yet to avoid alerting the snake.”
Song Wangyue nodded, “That’s it, big brother will go to the Xu Mansion to pick up the old gentleman, later Gu Yi and I will take my mother over.”
Song Si went back to the hall, hearing that he was going to invite the old gentleman for dinner, Grandma Song immediately went back inside and took a hundred taels of silver to him, instructing him to make sure to find a good restaurant.
Song Si took the silver and got on the carriage and went to the Xu family.
In response to his visit at such a late hour, the old gentleman thought he had some urgent business and asked Xu Liang to go over and bring the man to his study personally.
“Old gentleman.”
Song Si bowed and saluted, “Old sir, there are two days left before the temple exams, and the student still has some questions that he would like to ask you, it is late in the day, so if you don’t mind, old sir, you can come to the house for a casual dinner.”
The old gentleman was so old that he rarely went out even during the day, let alone when it was about to get dark.
“I will not go to your home, the house has also prepared a meal, you stay and eat with me, after eating I will give you an explanation.”
“Old sir, I don’t know, my family is here today, they heard that you have helped me a lot, they are very grateful to you, they have all cooked good dishes, they are waiting for old sir to come over.”
“I appreciate your thoughts.”
The old gentleman waved his hand, “It’s just that I’m old and don’t like to go out, especially not at night, so I won’t be going over.”
“Old gentleman ……”
Song Si took a step forward and lowered her voice, “You don’t know, Yue’er and I are not blood siblings, she is my eldest aunt’s daughter, and my eldest aunt her surname is Xu.”
When he said that he and Song Wan Yue were not blood siblings, the old man’s pupils shook, and when he finished the last sentence, the old man stood up with a huo and looked at him excitedly, “You, what do you mean?”
“The old gentleman will know if you come with me to see.”
The old gentleman walked out from behind the table with extremely quick steps, “Xu Liang.”
Xu Liang pushed the door open and entered.
“Quick, help me find my clothes, find the snowy green one.”
Xu Liang froze slightly, the old man hadn’t worn that outfit for over ten years.
“Quickly!”
Xu Liang quickly found it and helped him to put it on. The old gentleman couldn’t wait to go outside, as if he was many years younger, his steps were so windy that Xu Liang was scared to follow him, not daring to lag behind, lest he slip and be too late to help himself.
“Old man, calm down.”
Song Si reminded in a soft voice.
The old gentleman’s heart had already flown away, but he slowed his steps. If it really was Wan Er, but she had not come back to the house, it must be because there was someone in the house that she was afraid of.
Thinking of this, the old gentleman’s excitement heaved down, if it was really like that, he would never be merciful and would definitely throw the person out.
After leaving the mansion, the old gentleman let Song Si get straight into his carriage, asking about Xu on the way.
This way, after Song Si went out, Song Wan Yue went back inside, took the silver needles off and helped Xu up, “Big brother has already gone to fetch the old gentleman, the doctor is personally weak and cannot be fetched out for the time being.”
It was good to see her grandfather, Xu changed her clothes, combed her hair, spoke to the family and followed the two out the door to this side of the courtyard. She sat on a stool in the hall and waited apprehensively.
There was the sound of a carriage coming, and she couldn’t wait to go outside, but when she reached the courtyard she suddenly stopped and looked timidly at the gate, not daring to take another step forward.
Song Si helped the old man out of the carriage and walked into the courtyard.
When he saw the person standing in the courtyard, the old man’s steps stopped abruptly.
Xu was already in tears, “Grandfather.”