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Chapter 273 Introducing Ye Lian...

But they also knew that the houses in the city were very small.

It also has a separate bathroom and kitchen, so it's definitely better than a tenement building.

Fu Huaiyi took clean bedding and sheets to the other side, and Ye Lian took them and said with a smile, "Put them down, we can make the bed ourselves."

"Okay, I'll put it here."

Ye Lian looked at it and asked, "Do you have a needle and thread?"

This sheet had to be sewn with a needle.

"Yes, it seems to be...right, it's here."

Fu Huaiyi took out a sewing kit from the bedside table and handed it to him.

Ye Lian asked Lin Dawei to come and help, and the two of them sewed the quilt together.

Fu Huaiyi originally planned to invite them out for dinner, but Ye Lian and Lin Dawei were used to being frugal. They felt that it would be expensive for such a large family to eat out, so they insisted on cooking at home.

They had all sorts of pots and pans, and they even brought marinated meat with them.

Buy some more leafy greens, and you'll be able to prepare a delicious dinner.

So, while they were sewing the quilt, Fu Huaiyi and Lin Yuyao went out to buy groceries.

Lin Yuyao suddenly remembered the old man's driver. Although he was called a driver, his surname was Fu, and judging from his relationship with the old man, it didn't seem like a simple employer-employee relationship.

"That driver, Fu Wen, who is he in your family?"

She had always been curious, but at home, with her grandfather and Fu Wen both there, she never had a chance to be alone with him.

She asked them about it when they came out to buy groceries alone.

"His family has nothing to do with mine, but my grandfather gave me the name Fu Wen."

"What?"

"He was actually an orphan. Many years ago, his hometown was flooded. My grandfather led people to help with the disaster relief and found him when he was only three years old. He was clinging to my grandfather's leg and wouldn't let go."

He was too young then, and had been traumatized; he had almost no memory of anything before the age of three. He didn't remember his parents, nor his own name, only that people called him Xiao Wen. To make registration easier, my grandfather named him Fu Wen.

Lin Yuyao sighed, never expecting that Fu Wen had such a pitiful background.

"Your family adopted him after that?"

"No, my grandfather took care of him for a while, but after the mission was over, he sent him to an orphanage according to the rules."

"Oh, this is different from the usual approach."

"What's the trick?"

"Oh, I mean, I thought Grandpa would adopt him."

Fu Huaiyi shook his head and said, "Adopting an orphan isn't something you can just do whenever you want. My grandfather doesn't meet the adoption criteria. Besides, he's only two or three years older than me. If he brings this child back, people might think he's my grandfather's illegitimate child, right?"

Lin Yuyao: "..." You really are your grandfather's good grandson.

"How come we ended up at your house again?"

“Although my grandfather didn’t adopt him, he kept track of his activities at the orphanage and would visit him whenever he had time. Later, when he grew up and went to school, he started writing letters to my grandfather from the orphanage, and my grandfather wrote back to him. After that, they kept in touch by letter. Later, when he turned eighteen and left the orphanage, he became my grandfather’s driver.”

No wonder, he's a driver, yet he treats the old man like a nanny.

"Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"I was just curious, so I asked casually."

"He was very loyal to my grandfather, strictly speaking, he was only loyal to my grandfather, even..."

He stopped talking.

Ok?

Lin Yuyao was listening intently when he suddenly stopped.

"Even what?"

Fu Huaiyi didn't know how to start the conversation, so he pointed to his head.

Lin Yuyao: "..." Is there something wrong with her brain?

Fu Huaiyi usually doesn't talk about these things, but seeing Lin Yuyao's curious look, he sighed and said, "Sigh! You're not an outsider, so I'll tell you, he might have some problems."

"How to say?"

"He's not getting any younger, he's twenty-eight this year, almost a thirty-year-old bachelor. His grandfather is very worried about his love life. Over the past few years, he's introduced him to several suitable women, but none of them have worked out."

"What kind of problem is that? Maybe he just doesn't like the person his grandfather recommended."

"No, he becomes mute when he goes to a girl's house."

"Oh? Are you shy?"

"No, we later went to the orphanage to inquire. He didn't speak during those years there either, and everyone thought he was mute. It wasn't until my grandfather visited him at the orphanage that he started speaking, and everyone realized he wasn't mute."

He can speak when he's with my grandfather, but he can't speak when he's away from him, you understand? My grandfather can't stay with him forever. Tell me, what normal girl could accept a mute person? Especially one who isn't a normal mute.

Lin Yuyao: "Could it be a psychological problem?"

"Sure."

Have you gone to the hospital?

“I looked into it, but it didn’t help. My parents died, and I survived the flood by clinging to my grandfather’s leg. The doctor said he treated my grandfather like a lifeline.”

That's really pitiful.

He's young, while the old man is quite old; he definitely won't outlive him.

If the old man passes away in the future, it will be another fatal blow to him.

After buying the groceries, the two chatted all the way back.

Lin Yuyao didn't see him during the Chinese New Year. It turned out that during the New Year, the old man ordered him to go to the home of the girl he had been introduced to the previous year and try to integrate into their family.

It still failed.

The old man's attitude now is to give up and let things be.

If this problem can't be cured, it will harm the girl.

……

Dinner was cooked upstairs. Lin Yuyao's house was quite well-equipped, and she also had a terrace. Since there were many of them, they could move the table up to the rooftop to eat.

After the meal, Fu Huaiyi went downstairs on his own initiative, and Ye Lian also sent Lin Dawei away, leaving only her and Lin Yuyao in the room.

"Yuyao, you've been living here for over a year now?"

"Yes, Mother, what do you think of the environment here?"

"It's pretty good. There's a place to cook, a separate outhouse, and a place to dry clothes after washing them. I've seen people living in tenement buildings where they have to share outhouses with others."

Nowadays, most tenement buildings do indeed have shared toilets, with only a very few having private toilets.

"I heard that this building was originally allocated to the leaders of a certain unit. It does have a separate kitchen and bathroom, but it's too small to accommodate a large family. Later, when their conditions improved, they all moved away."

"So, did Xiao Fu also buy someone else's house?"

"Yes."

Ye Lian saw that the sky was very bright in one direction, and when she walked to the other side of the terrace, the light became even more obvious.

"Hey, what's that area with all those lights up ahead for?"

That's a department store.

"It's so bright, it must be huge!"

"It's quite big. I'll take you to see it another day."

"Okay, I'll go to the big department store and see the world. I'll tell them when I get back."