Chapter 204: Guilty
Xin Yi didn't tell Lao Yu this answer.
Mainly because she still doesn't know what happened back then, and she doesn't even know if the person who committed suicide due to the failure of the business was her biological father.
After looking at her, Lao Yu suddenly asked, "Your mother died twenty years ago, right?"
Xin Yi nodded.
"And she...... Didn't I tell you about it?"
Lao Yu's words made Xin Yi stunned for a moment, and then, she slowly looked at him.
Seriously, at first she thought Lao Yu was out of curiosity.
But now, she suddenly realized something.
"Do you know her?"
"Who?"
"My mother."
Lao Yu frowned.
Xin Yi suddenly got up, stepped forward and grabbed his hand, "Do you know anything?"
Her reaction obviously startled Lao Yu, and Yao Wenwen next to him looked at the two of them in a daze.
Xin Yi took a deep breath, turned his head to Yao Wenwen and said, "You can help me watch it for a while."
After saying that, she had already pulled Lao Yu out directly.
When he arrived outside the store, Xin Yi asked, "Manager Yu, do you know my mother?"
"Your mother...... It's Xu Yan, right?"
Xin Yi nodded.
"We ...... I've seen it a few times." Lao Yu hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "At that time, I had just graduated and entered a start-up company, and Xu Yan was our boss at that time."
"I was only working for two months, right? I haven't even had an internship yet, but because the boss and the boss have a good personality, I had a very happy time."
"And then?"
"Later...... Then the company was suddenly dissolved." Lao Yu frowned, "I didn't know anything at that time, but before that, it was clear that the company's development prospects were very good, and they were all saying that if the project was completed at that time, the company's scale could be more than doubled."
"But one weekend later, my boss suddenly called me and said that I didn't have to go to work, and he also compensated me for two months' salary as a regular employee, I originally thought it was my personal reason, but later I found out that not only me, but all employees were dismissed by the boss."
"And then the boss...... I committed suicide by jumping off a building."
"I only saw the news of the proprietress marrying Jiang's people on the news."
Xin Yi's brows furrowed a little.
Then, something suddenly occurred to her, "What did you just say you had been working on before the company dissolved?"
"I don't know the specifics, but I know that at that time, the environmental protection of building materials was rising, and the company had not been able to overcome this problem, wasting a lot of money and energy, which was probably the main reason for the collapse of the company."
"But then this project was successfully developed, led by the Jiang family, and it is ...... now."
Xin Yi's expression disappeared suddenly.
She couldn't even hear what Lao Yu said to her later.
"Little ginger?"
Lao Yu's voice came again, and Xin Yi came back to his senses and turned his head to look at him.
"Are you alright? The face is ugly."
Xin Yi wanted to smile back and say he was fine, but after pulling the corners of his mouth, he found that it was extremely stiff.
So, she had no choice but to give up.
"I'm fine." She could only whisper.
Lao Yu frowned.
"Thank you for telling me this." Xin Yi said, "But these words ...... You don't tell me about it, and when people ask you, you say you don't know anything, okay?"
"Walk ......"
Xin Yi didn't say anything more, and turned around and went back to the convenience store.
Yao Wenwen was still sitting at the counter, and he didn't say anything when he saw Xin Yi come back, just looked at her with a worried face.
"I'm fine." Xin Yi took the lead
"Thank you, you're off work."
"You're not right yet."
"Oh."
Xin Yi remembered this incident at this time, lowered his head and began to calculate the number.
Yao Wenwen was standing beside her.
After Xin Yi miscalculated for the third time, she snatched the mouse back, "I'll help you get on this class today, you go back and rest."
Xin Yi originally wanted to insist, but after looking at Yao Wenwen, she still nodded, "Thank you."
"Alright, you go back and have a good rest, and we'll talk about it later."
Xin Yi didn't say anything more, nodded at her, and turned to go out.
Standing at the bus stop, she originally wanted to go back to the rental house.
But when she looked at the high-rise buildings in the distance, she suddenly changed her mind and directly stopped a taxi, "Go to Jiang Bin Road, Jiang Zhai."
"Miss Xinyi?"
When he saw her, the butler was obviously stunned for a moment, and then stepped forward, "Why are you here at this time?"
"I'll take a look...... Father."
The latter two words, Xin Yi gritted his teeth and squeezed them out.
"Sir, he's gone to the company, and he's not here now."
"It's okay, I'll wait for him."
After saying that, Xin Yi had already walked directly to the house.
The housekeeper didn't stop her, and naturally, he didn't dare to stop her.
After entering the living room, Xin Yi first looked around, and then upstairs.
The butler knew what she was looking for and said, "The old lady is over there in the garden."
"Hmm."
Xin Yi lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, "Please go over and ask for me, I want to talk to her, I don't know if it's inconvenient for her."
The butler immediately responded.
Xin Yi didn't sit down on the sofa either, only raised his chin to look at the decoration of the living room.
- The last time she was here, she didn't notice it, but now she realizes that the decoration here has changed a lot.
For example, a painting hanging on the wall, such as a flower pot next to a TV wall......
Xin Yi was looking at it seriously, and the housekeeper had already returned, "Miss Xin Yi, the old lady asked you to come over."
Xin Yi nodded at him and raised his feet forward.
The old lady sat in the gazebo in the garden, with a white porcelain and gold-rimmed teacup at hand—the one that Xin Yi had given her before.
"Hello ma'am."
When he came to her, Xin Yi greeted her seriously.
The old lady frowned for a moment, and then said, "This is a harsh title, but you should call me grandma as before."
Xin Yi straightened up and smiled at her, "Okay."
"How did you get over today?"
Xin Yi glanced at the teacup that was almost empty in her hand, and took the initiative to help her continue to make tea, while saying, "The New Year is coming, I'm afraid that I will be busy then, so I will come over to see you two in advance."
"What else are you busy with right now?" Just your convenience store job? Are you not going to quit?"
"Grandma, I still need that job now."
The old lady pursed her lips, "Your father, he...... Don't you want you back?"
Xin Yi placed the poured tea in front of her, "I know, but I'm not his daughter after all, so I feel guilty to accept his gift like this."