1489 How Sorrowful It Was… (1/2)
All these years, he had never forgotten Ye Tian's loves and tastes.
Ye Youyou walked in and looked around. She realized that the décor was actually very elegant and refined. In a small town such as this, the place looked extraordinarily stylish.
When Ye Youyou didn't see any trace of her grandfather after looking around, an ominous sense of foreboding came over her. She looked toward Ye Zhenhua and asked, ”Where is Grandfather?”
Ye Zhenhua looked at the expression on Ye Youyou's face. With a hint of rebuke, he spoke to her in the same manner he did when she had done something wrong as a child. ”Grandfather is inside, but he doesn't speak Mandarin. Can you still speak in our local dialect?”
Ye Youyou tried to recall the term and ventured, ”Gramps?”
Ye Zhenhua couldn't resist smiling as he replied, ”Gramps is inside. Hurry on in.”
Ye Youyou's heart warmed up. She walked into the main hall, but Gramps was nowhere to be seen.
In her memories, her grandfather was an old man who was always protective of her with a smile on his face. He'd always bend his back to pull her up and hold her hand everywhere they went.
When she walked into the old man's room, Ye Youyou's eyes began to ache. She couldn't hold back the tears that began pooling in them.
The elderly man in the room had a head full of white hair. His face was dry and papery, and he was wearing a grey Chinese tunic suit. He looked a lot older and frailer than when she last saw him many years back.
When he saw Ye Youyou, he called out, ”Qianqian, you're back?”
Ye Youyou's eyes began to sting as she walked over to the elderly man and said, ”Gramps…”
Other than that word, Ye Youyou couldn't utter anything else. It had been away for too long, to the point that she could no longer remember how to speak the dialect.
She suddenly came to the realization that all those years in the Capital had never really made her feel happy. What she had once mistaken as happiness had slowly eroded away bit by bit, until it couldn't even be compared to the warmth she felt from the old man at home.