4 If Only You Were Here. (2/2)
She was delighted when he offered, so immediately she said, ”Yes! I would love to.” They head towards the parking lot, and they reached his car.
Like a gentleman should behave every-time he opened the door for her in the passenger's seat first before he would go to the driver's seat. He buckled up, and he said, ”It would be a very long drive to Tian-Bo-Fu,” he said as he started the engine.
”Tian-Bo-Fu?” Tong Yue-Yan was surprised, and she thought that they were going to the Yang's family manor in City Y.
The Yang's Family Mansion that they were headed to was a very big siheyuan, it was also pretty far away, the siheyuan located outside of the city on twenty-five acres of land, not only was it very huge but it was a traditionally styled home. In fact, it seems like it could have used as an ancient home in an ancient-costume drama or movie.
It was a well-styled courtyard home, modern yet traditional. The Yang family had lived in this home for over a hundred years. It wasn't the same Yang Family home as the one during the Song Dynasty, where everyone knew it as Tian-Bo-Fu.*
No, this home got remodelled after the Tian-Bo-Fu original home from over a thousand years ago. Yang Ming-Wa was Yang Tian-Xu's great-great-grandfather. Yang Ming-Wa was the direct descendant of the Yang Family, and he wanted to rebuild that same legacy of the Yang Family and passed down the teaching of the Yang family to the later generation.
Even though he could only accomplish that in the business industry as their country is currently at peace, but if there was ever a war; he wouldn't hesitate to join the army, and be like his ancestors, him so long to revive the Yang's Legacy even in his deathbed.
For over a hundred years the Yang Family had made their way into wealth and power. Slowly they became one of the wealthiest family households and gains plenty of reputation in City Y, perhaps even in the country. The one who had designed and rebuilt this siheyuan style mansion was Yang Ming-Wa himself, he called it Tan-Tian-Bo Fu. However, over the years that pass by them is precisely merely calling it Tian-Bo-Fu.
Yang Ming-Wa has three daughters and a son. His only son was Yang Wei-Bin, his only son. Yang Wei-Bin had two sons, and one of them had passed away at an early age, and his remaining son, Yang Bo-Ting is Yang Tian-Xu's grandfather. His grandfather has a son and a daughter. Yang Fei-Hung and Yang Fei-Fei. His aunt is married to the mayor in City X which is far away from City Y. She barely comes back to visit after Great-grandfather; Yang Wei-Bin had passed away. That was before Yang Tian-Xu was born.
Yang Bo-Ting is still healthy and alive. He is a very fit man for his age. The man had just recently turned 87!
Yang Tian-Xu's parent would always have dinner at Tian-Bo-Fu on Friday. After his parents got married instead of living together in the Tian-Bo-Fu, they decided to move out, closer to their business. However, Yang Bo-Ting always wanted to see them and his Grandson, Yang Tian-Xu so every Friday they would go up to the traditional family style mansion and stayed for the weekends.
Lately, Yang Tian-Xu had been relatively busy and hadn't visited him for three entire weeks. Grandfather Yang wasn't so happy about that; he demands to see him today. Mrs Yang had no choice but to call her son up and tell him to bring Tong Yue-Yan with him. Of course, she didn't forget to use this opportunity to introduce her to Grandfather Yang.
From where Yang Tian-Xu and Tong Yue-Yan located, it would take a good hour drive to get to Tian-Bo-Fu. Tong Yue-Yan had always wanted to visit Grandfather Yang, but it wasn't like her, or her family was very close to Grandfather Yang.
Tong Yue-Yan's parents had a slight business deal with Yang Tian-Xu's father one-time, the partnership was successful, so they kept their contact for future cooperations. For sure, tonight is the perfect time for her to get some good points with the Grandfather!
When they had arrived at Tian-Bo-Fu Tong Yue-Yan was speechless. She never expected it to be so grand; it was like she had taken a step back into the past. The shown many are traditional, but this Tian-Bo-Fu has a modern twist to it. The front gate opened up automatically for the two to come inside. The cameras monitored by the 24-hour security company that always had two security guards.
The full-time employees that worked at Tian-Bo-Fu were their family chefs and about ten to fifteen live-in maids. An elderly lady rushes over to greet them. ”Young master, you have come!”
”Hello, this is our guest Miss Tong.”
”Hello,” the maid greeted her with a slight head-bow, ”I am the head of the maids here, I have served the Yang family for a very long time. Please don't just stand there, the Madam and Master Fei-Hung are in the living room, with Grandmaster Yang.”
The head-Maid show them inside, and as soon as they step in Tong Yue-Yan was amazed by the courtyard in the centre, it was beautiful. It was like she had ventured into the emperor's palace. Tong Yue-Yan may be the girl beside Yang Tian-Xu, but for him, he thought, ”If I had known the girl, perhaps I could have brought her here one day?” he thought to himself. ”If only you were here.”
This manor genuinely shows just how wealthy and powerful the Yang Family is; they own many estates and apartment buildings throughout the country. However, they would dominate over City Y for sure, there could be no comparison, but the Tong Family is also very wealthy as well. At least in City A, they are the mayor and most powerful family, Tong Yue-Yan is determined to marry into the Yang Family. She must give it her all to win Grandfather Yang's favours.
The time was 6:45 PM, as Tong Yue-Yan was determined to get favours point with Grandfather Yang. Wang Yi-An's mother had just got home. She was just happy to see her daughter had made food for her. She saw the covered up dinner and saw her precious daughter, Wang Yi-An's sleeping at the dinner table.
Ms Wang placed her hand on her head and patted her. ”Oh, my sweet little girl. You shouldn't sleep out here. You'll catch a cold if you sleep like that.”
Wang Yi-An made a small groan before she lifted her head up for a yawn. ”Mommy? Welcome home!” she jumped in her mother's arm for a sweet hug.
Her mother smiled and laughed, ”My baby girl, still acting like such a baby!”
”I'm always going to be your little girl!” she smiled and babied to her mother. ”Mom, I got the internship.” She said as she laid her head on her mother's chest.
”Really? Already? Don't they wait for a while to announce their accepted interns?” her mother wonders as she pats Wang Yi-An's head.
”Well, the hiring managers today truly liked my talent, and I think his name was Tseng Kuan-Yin, he said I could start work in two weeks, and he'll send me an email soon.” She said as she lifted her head up to see her mother's face.
”Wang Yi-An, you are just too innocent. Sometimes, of course, they'll say that. They say that to everyone!”
”Really?” she questioned herself, ”Oh well, I'm sure I would get hired. Who do you think I am?”
”My daughter.” She laughed and giggled at her as she pats her hair, ”Of course you'll be hired, my daughter is so capable. Come, let's reheat dinner and eat, Mommy is hungry.”
”Yes!” she and her mother grabbed the plates and reheated the food. They had dinner at around 7:15 PM, after dinner Wang Yi-An would help her mother do the dishes, and told her mother to go to bed earlier. Wang Yi-An also has to work early in the morning tomorrow as well. So she didn't do anything much but washes-up and go to bed.