Chapter 615: Are You From… the Ji Family in Hai City?
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Ji City.
Ji Nuan came straight here the next day.
Her grandmother lived in this city. Ji Nuan was not quite familiar with her grandmother. She only vaguely remembered when she was very young, it seemed that once during the Spring Festival, her grandmother took her other daughters and grandchildren to Hai City to live for a few days. At that time she was still young and didn’t know what happened. She only remembered they broke up in discord in the end and her mother was in a very bad mood at that period of time.
Ji Hongwen asked her to come to Ji City to visit her grandmother, whom she had not contacted for many years because her grandmother had suffered a brain hemorrhage two months ago and almost died. Luckily, she met a professional doctor who managed to rescue her life. She was now recuperating at home, but not as healthy as before. She was now confined to a wheelchair or in bed.
According to Ji Hongwen, her grandmother was already in her seventies and although cerebral hemorrhage did not kill her, she probably would not live for many years. Two months ago, her grandmother had someone call the Ji family and said she wanted to see Ji Nuan and Ji Mengran saying that she was afraid that she could never see them again.
But Ji Mengran didn’t want to pay any attention to these poor relatives. She didn’t even bother to go back to the Ji family. How was it possible for her to go to a small place like Ji City to visit her dying grandmother?
Ji City was really small and had no airport. She needed to take planes and trains to get to this place. When she got out of the railway station, she noticed that there were always people looking at her. At first, she thought that she brought too many suitcases with her, which attracted the attention of passersby. When she got into a taxi, the driver gave her the answer. “Beauty, the clothes you wear look very expensive. Aren’t you afraid you will be robbed in such a poor place?”
Ji Nuan had tried to dress as plain as possible. She knew Ji City was small and remote and it would take her a long ride to get to her grandmother’s house, so she only wore casual clothes whose logos were not shown and didn’t wear any jewelry. The two suitcases contained some small gifts that she had bought at the airport when she boarded the plane and planned to give her grandmother and her family when she met them.
Why did they still think her clothes were expensive? Was there something wrong with her clothes or didn’t she look like someone who had lived in this city?
After another two hours, Ji Nuan finally arrived at her grandmother’s door.
She was about to knock at the door when the door was opened.
“Hey! There are so many beautiful clothes in the world. Why do you insist on wearing my clothes? If you like it, ask Mom to buy you one. You can’t wear my… Oh? Who are you?”
A girl who could be said fashionable in this city looked in surprise at Ji Nuan who carried two big suitcases. She stared at Ji Nuan’s face in surprise and looked back at her sister who came after her. The two girls, standing at the door, both stared at Ji Nuan as if seeing something rare.
“Shit, she looks really like the woman in that photo… oh, no, she looks damn like that dead Aunt!”
Ji Nuan: “…”
From her words, she guessed the two girls should be the children of the other daughter of her grandmother, aka, her cousins.
Before coming here, Ji Nuan had asked about her grandmother’s family. She had asked Ji Hongwen, Aunite Qin, and some old servants in the Ji family.
When her mother was young, she lived in this small city and her family was very poor. Then she went to study in the United States with scholarships. The people and things she met in the United States changed her life. Then her mother married into the rich Ji family, which was like a sparrow turning into a phoenix to her family. But no one told Ji Nuan why her mother cut off the connections with her family.
But Auntie Qin told her that her mother was not on good terms with her family, especially her sister who was such a bully. It was said that once they visited the Ji family but ended up being driven out, and then they didn’t contact each other again.
“What are you fighting for? For a new piece of clothes? You’re both in your twenties! Do you still think you are babies who fight for candies?…” From the door came the querulous voice of a woman. After a while, a woman in her fifties came out. When she saw Ji Nuan, she gave her a strange look, stared at her face for a while and looked at her clothes. Then it seemed that she remembered something, but her tone was cold and harsh. “Are you from… the Ji family in Hai City?”
Ji Nuan nodded. “Hello.”
The woman in her fifties frowned. “Are you Ji Mengran or Ji Nuan?”
“Ji Nuan.”
“Wow!” Before the middle-aged woman said anything, the two girls suddenly gathered up. “Hello, my cousin, I’m Song Sisi. This is my younger sister Song Keke. We’ve heard a lot about you from Grandmother. Are you really from Hai City? Are there many skyscrapers in Hai City? I heard that trains can run in the sky in Hai City!”
Ji Nuan: “…”
She wanted to say that it was not a ‘train running in the sky’ but a light rail. It was just that the light rail in Hai City was higher than in other places.
Ji Nuan looked at the two cousins who were the same age as her but played innocent, however she just smiled at her and said hello.
The two little cousins led Ji Nuan into the room and helped her with her suitcases. There were only gifts for them in the suitcases anyway, so Ji Nuan just let them carry them. She turned to look at the middle-aged woman and the latter cast a cold glance at her and called, “Mother, Ji Nuan is here.”
Then she saw an old woman in her 70s or 80s come out of the door by herself in a wheelchair, who looked shocked, and then the middle-aged woman next to her complained, “Why didn’t you tell us in advance before you came here?”
“Are you Nuan Nuan?” The old woman looked at Ji Nuan excitedly.
Ji Nuan smiled and nodded. “Hello, are you… my grandmother?”
The old woman nodded.
Ji Nuan didn’t speak anymore. After all, she had already greeted her grandmother. It was said that they were not on good terms with her mother, so she didn’t have to be very enthusiastic about them. If Ji Hongwen hadn’t said that this might be the last time she saw her grandmother, she might not have come to Ji City. Since she had come here, she would just take things as they came.
Just take this trip as a vacation. It was not bad to spend some time in this small city near the mountain and by the river.
The middle-aged woman and the old woman talked for a while and then invited Ji Nuan into the house. They exchanged some pleasantries. Ji Nuan didn’t expect them to be affectionate to her.
She entered the door, only to see her suitcases were thrown randomly on the ground. It turned out that her two cousins who enthusiastically offered to help her with her suitcases just threw them to the ground as soon as they entered the house.