"Your Uncle Lei Yao said it’s quiet over there. The Zhu family in the city hasn’t bothered him, and he finds it quite surprising," Zhu Shun Yao said with a light smile.
"It just shows the Zhu family in the city bullies the weak and fears the strong. They know Uncle Lei Yao’s temper, so they don’t dare disturb her," Zhu Yanyi said directly. She understood the nature of the Zhu family in the city well; they simply didn’t dare to confront Zhu Lei Yao.
Just then, Zhu Shun Yao’s phone rang. He went to the door to answer it. After hanging up, he came back in. "Ani, your second uncle and aunt are coming to Kyoto."
"Did something happen?" Zhu Yanyi asked.
Zhu Shun Yao replied, "Your second aunt had an accident. She miscarried, but the bleeding won’t stop. Your second uncle decided to bring her to Kyoto to see you. They are already at the train station and will arrive in Kyoto the night after tomorrow."
Zhu Yanyi frowned slightly. "How did Second Aunt have an accident?"
"I’m not sure. It’s hard to explain everything over the phone. Your second uncle just said he was coming," Zhu Shun Yao answered.
Zhu Yanyi nodded. "Alright. I’ll go pick them up myself the night after tomorrow. I’ll check the situation then."
"I think that’s what your second uncle wants too," Zhu Shun Yao sighed. His brother-in-law had always worked smoothly in Hangzhou. He never expected something like this to happen.
However, the exact reason could only be known when they arrived.
Zhu Yanyi was impatient and still worried, so she asked Luo Gang to investigate. Fortunately, Luo Gang had comrades in Hangzhou, so she got a reply quickly.
"No way! This was caused by Big Aunt," Zhu Yanyi rubbed her temples. She never expected that Wang Zhaodi, Xie Jingyu’s wife, was behind this.
It turned out that Xie Shiyun was now sixteen. Xie Jingyu wanted her to learn some arts during the summer vacation. But in her eyes, there were no good art teachers locally. So, she thought of Xie Chengyu and wanted Shiyun to go to Hangzhou to study.
Although Xie Chengyu didn’t have deep feelings for Xie Jingyu, they were still brothers, and Xie Shiyun was her own niece. Since she was only coming to Hangzhou for a month, she had no objections. After talking to Wang Xia, she agreed to let Xie Shiyun stay at her home. But Wang Zhaodi was worried and insisted on coming along, saying she would take care of her daughter.
Fortunately, Wang Xia was generous and didn’t mind. She let the mother and daughter come over. Besides, their house had enough space, and she had no other thoughts.
However, Wang Xia wasn’t very smart. She couldn’t change many rural habits. She didn’t clean the house and threw things around. This time, she was washing vegetables in a basin in the living room. She spilled the water, and just as Wang Xia came out, she stepped in the water, slipped, and fell. As a result, she lost her three-month-old baby.
Xie Chengyu was so angry he wanted to kill someone. But first, he had to take care of his wife. Wang Xia, perhaps unable to accept it psychologically, couldn’t stop the bleeding. No medicine worked. Finally, Xie Chengyu decided to come to Kyoto for medical help.
After understanding the situation, Zhu Yanyi frowned slightly. She couldn’t say much about Wang Zhaodi. Wang Zhaodi’s nature was good, but her mind was flawed. You couldn’t blame her too much. The only one to blame was Xie Jingyu. Knowing what kind of person her wife was, she still let her accompany Xie Shiyun to Hangzhou. It was basically inviting trouble.
Zhu Yanyi naturally couldn’t interfere in this matter. All she could do now was wait for Wang Xia to come to Kyoto. Zhu Yanyi was glad she had given Xie Chengyu Spirit Spring water earlier, so she wasn’t worried about Wang Xia’s safety during the journey.
At that moment, in the Xie family, Xie Zhong was full of anger. He never expected such a thing to happen.
"Has the eldest son’s family returned?" Xie Zhong asked Xie Shengyu.
Xie Shengyu also didn’t expect his brother to do such an unreliable thing. If they had known Wang Zhaodi was going to Hangzhou, they would never have agreed. But now that it had happened, Xie Chengyu and Wang Xia’s hard-won child was gone. On this point, no matter what, the brothers were almost becoming enemies.
"Chengyu called. He said he has sent his wife and daughter on the train. He and his wife are also taking a train directly to Kyoto," Xie Shengyu said.
"Going to Kyoto is good. With Ani there, I don’t worry about the youngest son’s family having problems. Shengyu, notify the eldest son. Tell him to pick up his wife and daughter, and then come to see me directly," Xie Zhong said, his face very dark.
She had three sons, each with their own career. But due to their different growing-up environments, each son had her own path. Because of this, she had divided the family. It was inevitable anyway. She didn’t live with Xie Jingyu, but with Xie Shengyu. Mainly because she saw that the second son, Xie Shengyu, was honest, while the eldest was opportunistic. As the saying goes, distance makes the heart grow fonder, but closeness breeds contempt. With the second son, she wouldn’t be disliked. But if she went to the eldest son’s place, she would eventually be disliked.
Over the years, he had also realized that the relationship between Xie Shengyu and Xie Chengyu was truly good. In contrast, Xie Jingyu’s relationship with his two younger brothers was relatively distant. Of course, Xie Shengyu’s personality was mild, and Xie Chengyu worked far away, so their distance didn’t make them enemies. But no one expected such a thing to happen now.
She couldn’t understand why Xie Jingyu thought of sending Xie Shiyun to Hangzhou to learn things. It was just a summer vacation, and half of it had already passed. What could be learned in the remaining time? Now, she hadn’t learned anything, but instead, relatives had become enemies.
Xie Jingyu picked up his family and came to see Xie Zhong. When Xie Zhong saw them enter, he didn’t speak first. He just finished writing the characters inside, put down his brush, and looked at Xie Jingyu. "How do you plan to explain this to Chengyu?"
Xie Jingyu knew that Xie Chengyu hadn’t wanted children for a long time due to work. He had had a child before, but lost it because he didn’t take good care of it. Over the years, Wang Xia had been recuperating. Who would have thought that the second child, finally conceived, would be lost because of his own wife? He didn’t know what to say. "Father, what should I do?"
"I won’t tell you what to do. You are the head of your family now. Your wife caused the trouble, so you need to handle it yourself. Now you ask me what to do. Am I a god? Can I bring back the lost child?"
Xie Zhong snorted and looked at Xie Jingyu. "A-Jing, you are the eldest. You have always thought you suffered the most among the three brothers. In fact, you did suffer a lot when you were young. But that doesn’t mean A-Sheng and A-Cheng didn’t suffer. They suffered too back then."