Ji Shuying was so excited that her eyes were filled with tears, and she could not see clearly what her eldest sister looked like.
Feng Yanhong, who was standing aside, saw clearly that the old lady's eyes were full of indifference. She even had a hint of disgust when she saw Ji Shuying, and she helplessly smiled.
This was the first time she had seen such a look. To be honest, she didn't quite believe what her mother-in-law said. She didn't see any sign of a good relationship between the sisters.
"Shuying? You're still alive? It's great."
Under Feng Yanhong's gaze, the old lady's expression changed very quickly and she was able to hide it very well.
"Sister, it's really you. I've been waiting for you. I've been asking for a long time and asked many people, but there's no news about you. I..."
"Okay, okay, don't cry, let's talk after we get in."
"This girl is..."
The old lady's eyes were very poisonous, and she looked at Feng Yanhong penetratingly.
"This is my eldest daughter-in-law, Feng Yanhong. I haven't been back long, so she is staying here temporarily. After we buy a house, we will move out immediately."
"Yanhong, this is my eldest sister, called auntie." When Ji Shuying faced her eldest sister, she behaved like a guilty child.
"Hello, aunt."
With a gentle smile, Feng Yanhong removed her eyes from Ji Shulan's facial expression and naturally observed her dress.
Ji Shulan is thirteen years older than her mother-in-law, which means she is now sixty-seven.
Dressed in a lady's attire, one could tell at a glance that she was a big-name brand. A pearl sweater chain hung around her neck and was inlaid with a ruby the size of a fingernail.
Although her face is full of wrinkles and she still wears heavy makeup, she is not ugly. The old lady has an aura of nobility, and her temperament is already a perfect score.
"Okay, let's go in and talk." The old lady was also looking at Feng Yanhong.
Feng Yanhong had just rushed home. She was still wearing the clothes she bought casually in the town. She had no makeup and even looked a bit gray.
Combined with Ji Shuying's simple clothes, she already had an idea of the family's situation.
She didn't say much about the borrowing.
The young man next to Ji Shulan looked unkindly at Ji Shuying's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"Grandma, do we really want to go in? No one has lived here for decades."
In fact, compared to an old house that no one has lived in for more than ten years, what he can't accept is a poor-looking mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"If you bear with me any longer, we won't stay here. We will go back to the hotel in the evening."
Although Ji Shulan's voice was small, it still reached Feng Yanhong's ears.
What this young man dislikes is not the house, but the people living in it. What Aunt Ji said, in fact, revealed that her feelings for her mother-in-law were not as deep as sisterly love as her mother-in-law thought.
I'm afraid this old lady is here with bad intentions!
She should have bought a house when she first came to Haishi. It might be difficult to find a house she likes in the next day or two.
How should she remind her mother-in-law?
At this time, my wife and mother-in-law had enthusiastically brought out fresh fruits and were busy getting tea leaves to make tea.
"Sister, mom and dad...are they okay?" If her father were here, he would be ninety years old. She didn't dare to think about it.
Mom should be better off. After all, she is my father's second wife. She is nearly twenty years younger than his father and is only in her early seventies...
"Little sister, I failed to take good care of my father and Aunt Dong. My father got seriously ill the year he first arrived in Singapore. The situation at home was not very good at that time, and my father could not hold on."
"Aunt Dong died of lung disease in the winter of the third year after my father passed away. Your third sister... our family left in a hurry at that time. Your third sister and your younger brother were separated from the family. Your second brother and I
I have been trying to find out their whereabouts, but to no avail."
Ji Shulan seemed to be describing a very common thing. After Ji Shuying heard the news that her parents had passed away one after another and her sister and brother were separated, she burst into tears. The emotions that had been accumulated for a long time finally couldn't be held back and poured out at this moment.
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Feng Yanhong hugged her mother-in-law and let her collapse and cry in her arms.
Ji Shulan took a handkerchief and wiped her tears, "Little sister, I have always believed that your third sister and little brother are still alive, and that we brothers and sisters will one day meet again."
"God's eyes are open! I finally found you. You don't know that my father asked someone to find connections to send you so many letters, but none of them were answered. At that time, my father was really sad."
"Back then, if it hadn't been for you... well, it's my fault that you were young and didn't understand anything."
As soon as these words came out, Ji Shuying felt even more guilty and couldn't explain anything at all.
Feng Yanhong was skeptical of Ji Shulan's words. If she looked at her current dress, she would know that she was either rich or noble. If she really wanted to find some clues about her mother-in-law in China, it was impossible that she would not be able to find out at all.
Moreover, her words seemed to be deliberately linking the failure to contact her mother-in-law with the decline of the Ji family and the death of her parents.
She didn't explain it clearly, but her mother-in-law must have been thinking about it in that direction, just by hearing the heartbroken crying.
Many thoughts suddenly flashed through Feng Yanhong's mind. Perhaps this Ms. Ji wanted to make her mother-in-law feel so guilty that she might give up her inheritance rights to the Ji family.
Or maybe there are deeper, more vicious thoughts...
"Mom, people cannot be resurrected. We have more important things to do. If you do anything bad, how will our family support you?"
If Ji Shulan's words just made her sad, Feng Yanhong's words awakened her from the illusion.
Ji Shulan's eyelids twitched and she stared at Feng Yanhong with half-closed eyes for a moment before smiling and saying to Ji Shuying:
"Your daughter-in-law is smart, and what she said is right. My father and Aunt Dong have passed away and have lived for decades. There is no use being sad now."
Ji Shulan actually followed her words, which caught Feng Yanhong off guard.
"Well, how have you and your second brother been doing these past few years?" Ji Shuying sobbed and wiped the tears on her face with the handkerchief Feng Yanhong handed her.
"We have suffered a lot over the years, but we have survived."
Ji Shulan's tone was not so relaxed, which almost made Ji Shuying, who had just stopped crying, lose control again.
"Mom, everything will be fine. Look at how difficult it was for aunt and others abroad, didn't they survive it?"
"Now that we finally have news from our family, it means that the most difficult days are over."
Ji Shulan suddenly raised her eyelids and stared at Feng Yanhong closely, with a sinister light emerging.