"It's likely we'll be moving out soon," Lin Xiao shrugged. "Xun'er, in a little while, we'll be moving out."
"Moving out?"
Xun'er held the spoon in her hand and wiped her mouth with it.
"I told you, use a napkin, your hands get dirty," Luo Qinghan emphasized, then quickly used a napkin to wipe the smudges from her hands and mouth. Only then did he say, "Xun'er, later, you, me, your dad, and Grandma and Grandpa will probably move into a new house. There won't be Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma here then."
"No Great-Grandpa?" Xun'er waved her hands. "Does Great-Grandpa hate us too?"
"No, no..."
Luo Qinghan quickly explained, "Didn't Great-Grandma treat you poorly? So we'll move out. Later, after some time, we'll still come back to visit Great-Grandpa."
"Oh... so Great-Grandpa doesn't hate Xun'er."
Xun'er was very well-behaved. As she said this, her eyes blinked, showing no signs of distress.
When she was younger and just starting to understand things, she had asked Luo Qinghan why Great-Uncle was always so stern with her, why Great-Grandma wouldn't let her have candy, and why her uncles and aunts often scared her.
Luo Qinghan had told her it was because they didn't like Xun'er.
Xun'er hadn't understood what that meant at the time. Later, when she did, she was sad for a long time. But since her mother and grandparents liked her very much, she had always stayed close to them.
"Yes, Great-Grandpa likes Xun'er very much."
Lin Xiao chimed in immediately.
"That's good!"
Hearing this, Xun'er's face instantly lit up with a happy smile.
Outside, after a long silence, the Old Master looked at Luo Buyu, then at Li Xin, and sighed, "Alright..."
He could only agree. He was already old, and Luo Buyu had been ostracized and bullied in this family for so long... If it were him, he might have left long ago. The only reason he had stayed was his own health.
For several years now, his health had been deteriorating, and Luo Buyu had dedicated more and more of his attention to him.
This was the reason he had never left.
It was almost laughable!
The sons and daughters he had painstakingly raised, after growing up, had gone astray. Not only were they not good to him, they couldn't even ease his worries. Besides the family fortune, their minds were filled only with women.
On the other hand, this son, who had grown up elsewhere and was only brought back later, was actually the best to him in his old age and the most dedicated at work.
This was a huge irony for him!
And now, this son of his was also preparing to leave...
As for his other sons and daughters, they didn't want to leave, but they would all have to go in and repent properly, to take responsibility for their actions.
"Then, in this house, it will just be me and her... and the nanny," Old Master Luo said with a wry smile.
He had never imagined that his sons and daughters would stoop to this level.
In just one day, he was left with only one child who would be there to see him off.
Old Mrs. Xiang now seemed to have realized this too. Her expression was troubled, with tears flashing in her eyes. She lowered her head, her lips moving silently.