What could the Qin Family do with its power?
Qin Sheng was not sure yet. He had never asked his sister, Qin Changan or Gongsun. He just kept others’ words on his mind, analyzing and guessing. After all, he had begun to take over Qin Family’s resources, trying to undo the veil on the Qin Family. He thought that Spring Festival had given him enough chances to explore.
But he never imagined that he could watch that scene.
From what he saw in the Zhu Family, he was sure about something. He had already known who his mother’s brother was, and it wasn’t hard to search for information. Since then, Qin Sheng was confident to confront Yan Chaozong and his other enemies.
At that moment, Qin Ran didn’t notice that Qin Sheng was hesitating. She walked slowly toward the kind elderly man sitting at the center. There were two red cushions next to him. Qin Ran giggled and kneeled on the cushion. “Grandfather Song, I’m here to pay you the New Year’s visit. I wish you a happy New Year. I wish that you’re safe and sound. I wish that you remain in good health.”
Qin Sheng was staring at the elderly man. That was a kind of offense, but the others were not surprised by seeing Qin Sheng’s reaction. Obviously, Master Qin didn’t tell that young man about the Songs’ background.
The young man sitting at the lowest seat had a disappointed and unsatisfied face. He thought, “Is that my future brother-in-law?” The young man sighed. “It will be impossible for my picky cousin to fall in love with such a normal man. What about grandfather…?”
Qin Sheng’s wandering mind was called back by his sister’s voice and he immediately felt the young man’s hostility. Qin Sheng talked to himself to calm down and remember that he was currently representing the Qin Family.
“My little girl, come on. Come here. You haven’t come to see me for a long time.” Old Master Song bent a little and stretched his arm to Qin Ran. He was skinny. His face was covered with wrinkles and senile plaque. But those traces of time gave him a mysterious and powerful temperament, unlike other common elderly people.
Qin Ran didn’t dare to let the elderly move to approach her, which would be impolite. She stood up and stepped forward, holding his hand. “Grandfather Song, I wanted to come, but I was afraid someone would be unhappy…”
Qin Ran gave a glance at the young man. Other people exchanged tacit glances, giggling. They all knew their story and felt regret for they didn’t have a happy ending.
“Oh? Haha, you two naughty kids. You both like kidding others.” Old Master Song knew their situation and couldn’t help laughing.
The young man was calm and still. He stared at Qin Ran as if provoking. Qin Ran, however, didn’t care. She looked at Qin Sheng, who was walking toward them. “Qin Sheng, come here. Pay your respects to grandfather Song.”
Then the other people’s attention was shifted to Qin Sheng. Their penetrating eyes made Qin Sheng uncomfortable.
Old Master Song looked at Qin Sheng then. His smile froze little by little, followed by a sigh; his eyes were filled with sad feelings. He knew all the details of the Qin Family’s stories. He remembered that calamity, which almost ruined the Qin Family.Several days ago, Qin Changan called him to talk about Qin Sheng. He thought about it for a long time after hanging up the phone. For one thing, he felt sorry for Qin Sheng’s experiences. He shouldn’t have suffered those difficulties. Fortunately, he had finally returned. And for another, Old Master Song had been informed that his old friend Old Master Qin had passed away several years ago. He had been waiting for news about him, and never expected his old friend’s death. He was deeply pained for he had no chance to pay his debt of gratitude, so that he would always be ready to help Qin Changan from then on.
The last time he met his old friend was about twenty years before and he would never be able to meet this friend again. Old Master Song looked at Qin Sheng, who made him his memories with Qin Sheng’s grandfather, and sighed.
Qin Sheng did as Qin Ran just did, as the New Year’s visit required. He kneeled on the cushion and said, “Qin Sheng’s here to pay Grandfather Song a New Year’s visit.”
He didn’t express other wishes. He wasn’t familiar with those people from the Song Family, unlike his sister. Moreover, he was still drowned in his feelings of shock and was unprepared to face that legendary senior.
“Good boy. Come here.” The elderly was going to lift Qin Sheng up. Qin Ran reminded Qin Sheng to stand up by himself, for fear that Old Master Song would get hurt by accident.
Qin Sheng stood up slowly then and bowed, smiling and looking at the elderly man. His hands were held. Old Master Song said, “The little boy is a grown-up now. You might have forgotten, when you were still a baby, I hugged you and you peed on me.”
Qin Sheng stepped forward a little to hold his hand, feeling the strength of a senior man. He had no memory of his childhood, but he could feel the importance he had been attached to.
“Father, let them take a seat first.” The middle-aged man sitting on the left was afraid that Old Master Song would be too emotional, which was not good for his health.
Old Master Song said, “I’m just too happy. Xiao He, get a chair for him beside me. I have a lot of questions for him.”
Xiao He was who Qin Ran called Uncle He. He brought two chairs for them. The young man went to help, picking up one chair and carrying it to Qin Ran. He spoke to her with a very low and soft voice. “Your younger brother is just so-so.”
Qin Ran was not pleased by his words. When she took over the chair, she covertly stepped on the young man’s tiptoe heavily. The young man felt so much pain that he almost screamed. When he was about to question Qin Ran, she had started a conversation with Old Master Song and he found it extremely impolite to interrupt. So he had no other choice but to bear it.
Old Master Song asked after Qin Ran and Qin Sheng took their seats, “Have you met your mother’s mother?” He got along well with her. The old lady was from the Zhu Family. She mostly lived in Shanghai, and barely went back to Beijing. They hadn’t seen each other for a long time. The Zhu Family was in Shanghai, so she was more used to the lifestyle there.
Qin Ran smiled and answered, “Not yet. We’re going to Shanghai the day after tomorrow. She doesn’t know Qin Sheng’s back.”
“Oh? She still has no idea. She will surely be very happy once she learns of it. I remembered that in the past, every time I met her, she praised Qin Sheng a lot.” Old Master Song kept laughing.
Qin Ran gave Qin Sheng a glance and said with a nod and smiling, “Of course, granny likes him best.”
Old Master Song suddenly remembered something and turned to the middle-aged man on his right. “Xingwen, where’s Yu’er? She was here just now.”
The middle-aged man’s smile froze. That meeting was unavoidable. He said to the young man, “Hesheng, go find Yu’er.”
Song Hesheng nodded and glanced at Qin Sheng before he left the living room. That was his first time meeting Qin Sheng since they grew up. He disliked that Qin Sheng for no specific reasons. Maybe because of the engagement between Qin Sheng and his cousin. He believed that she was so excellent that no men deserved to be her husband. Let alone Qin Sheng, who looked extremely plain.
Qin Ran was not a strange person to him. They had met several times but never entered a relationship, half due to some people’s disturbances, half due to them not being lucky. That was a story without ending. Quite a few of their friends mentioned that when gossiping.
When Song Hesheng was about to open the door, someone came in. Her voice came before she stepped in. “Grandfather, here I am.”
Qin Sheng looked toward the coming woman and was immediately amazed by her unique temperament and elegance. “Who was she?”