In the evening, Old Master Yuchi sent Yu Bo over to invite everyone for dinner at the Yuchi residence. Yu Bo explained, “Yesterday was the last day of the lunar year, and it’s a festival that we celebrate. Though we couldn’t gather yesterday, it’s the same if we gather today.”
Dinner at the Yuchi residence?
Han Muzi hesitated.
Yu Bo smiled slightly and explained gently, “Old Master has already sent someone to pick Miss An up.”
Han Muzi thought about it and asked, “Mr. Yu, so you’re saying that Aunty Song has agreed?”
When she saw that he had nodded, Han Muzi knew that she had to go to this dinner. However, now that Yan was so drunk, she definitely couldn’t join them, and someone had to stay back to take care of her.
At this moment, Xiao Su walked out from the room, frowning. “Something’s wrong with Yan.”
Upon hearing that, Han Muzi’s expression changed immediately. She quickly walked into the room to sit beside Yan.
“What’s wrong?”
Xiao Su walked over to them. “I thought she was just drunk, but she kept saying nonsense just now, and I saw her starting to sweat. After putting my hand on her forehead, I think she is running a fever.”
Fever…
That aside, what actually happened? Why was she so drunk when she returned with you?”
Xiao Su paused for a moment before saying, “Young Lady, when I met her on the streets, not only was she wearing very little, she was crying a lot as well. I felt that something was wrong, so I brought her to a restaurant to eat something. Toward the end, she told me that she wanted to drink, and I didn’t manage to stop her from drinking.”
When Han Muzi heard Xiao Su’s explanation, her frown tightened. Yan went out with Han Qing, but when Xiao Su met her, she was already alone. On top of that, according to Xiao Su’s description, Han Qing probably did or said something that hurt her.
Why did everything turn out this way?
Seeing the way Yan looked right now, Han Muzi also felt upset. She thought that this was a good opportunity for Yan to be alone with Han Qing this time, but she had never expected that Yan would be hurt so badly.
Could it be that this matter is too forced?
Thinking of this, Han Muzi remained silent and only nodded to Xiao Su to indicate that she understood the matter now.
Noticing the change in her expression, Xiao Su guessed that Han Muzi probably understood what had happened. After all, they had been good friends for a long time, and they had been together for all these years. Hence, how could she not know about Yan’s thoughts?
It seems like I don’t have to say anything more.
“Let her fever recede first. You’ve been taking care of her for quite long already. I’ll take over now.”
Xiao Su shot another glance at Yan. However, he just nodded and left the room without saying anything else.
After Xiao Su left, Han Muzi tried to cool down her fever physically. In the midst of doing that, she remembered that Yu Bo was still waiting for her in the living room, so she went out and explained, “I’m really sorry, Mr. Yu. I also intended to go over, but Yan is running a fever now. If we go with you, there would be no one else to take care of her here. So… I think I won’t go over tonight.”
Yu Bo had never expected that this would happen at such timing, but he also understood the situation. He didn’t say much and just looked at the others.
“What about Young Master Xuan and Little Young Master?”
After thinking about it, Han Muzi suddenly smiled. “Let Little Bean and Moxuan go.”
Yuchi Jin put on the facade of wanting to invite them for dinner, but in reality, he just wanted to see Little Bean.
The way he came here made it obvious that he was just trying to see his great-grandson. However, he didn’t get what he wanted in the end, so when he went back, he must have felt upset and was longing to see him even more.
After all, before he could say anything to his great-grandson, he had already fainted last night.
As for me? He will definitely be elated if I don’t go.
When Yu Bo saw Han Muzi’s openness, he touched his nose in a rather awkward fashion and explained, “Young Lady Ye, I understand your thoughts. But now, Old Master can accept things better. According to my understanding of him after so many years, even if he doesn’t want to, he has already accepted you as his granddaughter-in-law. He just appears to not act like that because of his pride, so—”
Han Muzi smiled slightly. “Mr. Yu, you don’t have to explain anymore. I know about all these.”
Yu Bo nodded in relief.
Indeed, from her attitude toward Old Master, it’s quite obvious that she still respects him even though his attitude is insufferable.
Judging from her character alone, this is rare and vital enough.
“But I can’t decide for them. Can you please go and ask them about this, Mr. Yu? If they are not willing to go, I can’t force them to do anything.”
Yu Bo nodded. “Indeed, indeed. I shall ask them, then.”
“Alright.”
With that, Han Muzi went into the room to take care of Yan. After a while, Little Bean went into her room to look for her.
“Mommy, aren’t you going to great-grandfather’s place with me?”
As soon as Little Bean entered the room, he asked this question. Only after that did he notice that something was wrong with Yan, who was lying on the bed. He let out a confused hum before asking, “Mommy, what’s wrong with Aunt Yan?”
Initially, everyone thought that Yan was just drunk, so they didn’t think too much about it.
But now…
After Han Muzi changed another wet towel for her, she replied, “Aunt Yan is running a fever, and she is not feeling well. I can’t leave her like this.”
Little Bean went silent upon hearing that.
“So I can’t join you to go to your great-grandfather’s place. If you want to go, you’ll have to go with daddy.”
However, upon hearing that, Little Bean wrinkled his nose. “But daddy rejected the offer.”
Han Muzi froze. “He rejected it?”
This is… pretty weird.
After thinking about it, it was also quite reasonable that he didn’t want to see Yuchi Jin.
“Then what are you going to do? Do you still want to see your great-grandfather? If you want, ask Mr. Yu to take you there, and daddy will pick you up later.”
Little Bean thought about it seriously in front of her. “In that case, I’ll be going to see him. Great-grandfather is always alone in the house, so he must be quite lonely. You’ll just have to take good care of Aunt Yan!”
“Alright.” Hearing his reply, Han Muzi smiled and pinched Little Bean’s soft cheeks. “You are the best, Little Bean. Off you go to accompany your great-grandfather. Remember to put in some good words for me. When he approves of me, we can have a meal together happily as a family.”
When that time arrives, as long as everyone is happy, every meal could be a reunion dinner.
There’s no need to care about such festivities that would only last for a few days.
When Little Bean heard that, he nodded fervently.
“Mommy, don’t worry. I’ll definitely change his opinion of you and make him like you!”
Uhm…
Han Muzi thought about it. Indeed, Little Bean has the ability to charm elderly people. I shouldn’t underestimate him.
Though he was young, his mind was precocious, and he had a lot of weird tricks up his sleeves.
Han Muzi didn’t have many special opportunities in her life, but the existence of Little Bean brought about a streak of luck for her.
In fact, Little Bean was her lucky charm.
