Creation's grace

The Chi family's villa is in the east of the city, a quiet place amidst the hustle and bustle, and it was the residence chosen by my sister herself.

The last time I came back from a late encounter was this year's Lunar New Year.

This villa is still well taken care of, the plants in the yard are meticulously pruned, and it has not been weakened by the crowded mourning hall and the sound of mourning music in the lobby.

Chi Yu didn't need to change out of his black clothes and trousers. He could quickly blend into the oppressive and sad atmosphere as soon as he entered the mourning hall.

The house was full of relatives and friends who came to express their condolences.

Seeing Chi Yu's return, everyone stopped talking and looked at her.

She didn't look at anyone, and went straight to the portrait of her sister.

The portrait may have been chosen by Ran Jin. This is a photo my sister is very satisfied with.

In Chi Yu's first year abroad, Chi Li couldn't bear to miss his sister, so he flew to find her with Ran Jin.

This photo was taken by Chi Yu at school to help her sister.

The two sisters look very similar. Once a pair of beautiful eyes are smiling, they will be full of passion and beauty.

Chi Yu reluctantly touched the photo.

What I touched was no longer my sister's warm skin, but a cold touch.

There is no coffin, and indeed there is only a dark urn placed in front of the portrait.

On both sides of the urn are items that my sister often used during her lifetime, such as golf clubs, umbrellas, necklaces...

Looking at these things full of elder sister's breath, the past of each other was like a galloping train, running over her heart fiercely.

She held a corner of the portrait and pinched her knuckles white, her eyes were already blurred.

"Sister, I'm late." Chi Yu knelt on the cushion and offered incense to her sister. After bending over and bowing, she inserted the incense on the edge of the incense burner that was already filled with incense.

Ran Jin didn't follow Chi Yu into the house, but stood under an old banyan tree in the yard, and answered the call from Lu Siqing.

"You haven't slept yet?"

"I heard the music in the mourning hall, and you really went to Chi's house. I said, you have already broken up with Chi Li, why do you continue to take care of their family's affairs? Didn't her sister come back? Leave it to her Is my sister handling it well?"

Ran Jin said: "Xiaoyu has just come back. She has flown for more than ten hours. I guess the jet lag has not come over yet. All the relatives of Chi's family have come, and she must not be able to keep up with the whole yard. Besides, she is too young to handle the situation. She doesn't know much about family and company affairs, so she may not be able to handle this kind of situation."

Lu Siqing: "...Aren't you afraid of sudden death?"

Ran Jin smiled lightly and said, "Okay, go to bed quickly. I'll go back to the apartment after I finish dealing with things here."

Lu Siqing was so angry that he couldn't choose what to say, leaving a sentence of "I don't want to talk to you" and was about to hang up the phone.

Pulled back by Ran Jin, he told her: "Don't tell her about the breakup between Chi Li and I."

"Do you think it's my turn to say it? The whole world knows it." Lu Siqing said, "Okay, I'm going to sleep, because I have to avoid suspicion because of your case, I have a business trip tomorrow, and the plane at eight o'clock will torture you." Who is it? Hey, I hung up."

"Good night."

Ran Jin hung up the phone and returned to the crowd.

At this time, Chi Yuhao Xiang, she knocked down some incense ashes that still had sparks on them, and landed on the back of her hand.

Ran Jin, who stood behind the crowd, has always been like a silent shadow, minimizing his sense of existence.But when she saw that the back of Chi Yu's hand was scorched red, she didn't care at all, and she didn't wipe off the two tear stains. This situation caused a ripple in her still eyes.

"Meow."

With a soft cat meow, Lulu quietly walked to Chiyu's feet, sniffed her, and after confirming that it was an old acquaintance, she stood up and used her front paws to grab her trousers.

This is Lulu's signal to hug her.

Seeing Lulu, Chi Yu couldn't help crying.

Sixteen years ago, my mother passed away from a serious illness, and my father was too worried to go with her in less than half a year, leaving behind Chi Li, who was only in his early twenties, and Chi Yu, who was six years old.

Chi Li knew that she should bear everything that a sister should bear. She gave up her ideals, sold the studio, and took over the dilapidated Chi family. While taking care of her sister, she tried her best to carry forward the property left by her parents, and It is a thought to keep the family.

Back then, the two sisters were extremely poor. There were so many relatives in the family, and only their aunt and uncle, who were not too rich, used to help them. They didn't have extra money to raise the little wild cats on the roadside.

That day my sister came to pick up Chi Yu from school. Chi Yu saw Lulu, who was drenched by the heavy rain and dying, lying on the side of the road waiting to die. The meat floss bread stayed beside it.

When Chi Li saw it, he asked her, "Why, do you like that cat?"

Xiao Chiyu didn't answer, but took her sister's hand and asked, "Where are its parents?"

"Probably dead."

"No wonder." Chi Yu said, "Then it will never see its parents again, just like us."

Probably Chi Li was touched by Chi Yu's words at that time, Chi Li hugged Lu Lu, and did not let her continue to eat and sleep outside, but gave her a shelter from the wind and rain, and saved her life.

Speaking of which, my sister has always been very sympathetic, no matter for Lulu, or Ran Jin who almost died in the alley back then.

The name "Lulu" was invented by Chi Yu.

Gently stroking Lulu, Lulu lay obediently in her arms as always, seeing her cry, seemed to understand human nature, and gently licked her tears away.

The barb on Lulu's tongue made Chi Yu feel a little painful from scratching, and Chi Yu put it down after adjusting his mood.

There are too many people around, and cats are very sensitive animals. They will be frightened by the slightest hurried footsteps and run away immediately.

Lulu has lived in this house for many years and is familiar with all the moving lines here. She jumped onto the back of the sofa, swept past, nimbly got into the middle of the bookcase and the ceiling, and hid silently .

Back then when Lulu came to Chi’s house, he took it for a check-up. The doctor looked at its teeth and estimated that it should be two years old. By this year, Lulu was already old according to the age of a cat, and his skills were still too strong to be true. age.

Chi Yu followed Lulu for a while with her dull eyes, and rushed back. She hadn't adjusted to the jet lag because she was tired, and her mind was blank for a while, and she only looked at the photo of her sister through a layer of glass.

It wasn't until the louder and louder conversations behind her squeezed into her ears that she gradually recovered and looked behind her.

At the gate of the mourning hall, a group of distant relatives from the Chi family surrounded Ran Jin, not letting her go forward or back.

Ran Jin held a pack of tissues in his hand, and looked forward with a frosty face. From Chi Yu's perspective, he could see that Ran Jin didn't look at anyone in Chi's family.

"Since the younger sister is back, you should go too. We are all decent people, and you don't want to embarrass each other in front of the older sister, right?" It was the late uncle who spoke.

He had a cigarette in his mouth and took a puff from time to time. His broad and swarthy face was full of marks left by the years, his bony hair had turned gray a lot, and his throat had been damaged by the smoke long ago, making it extremely hoarse.

Speaking of which, this is the first time I have seen this uncle since I met him four years ago.

The aunt who stood aside took the uncle's words: "Yes, Miss Ran, thanks to you for the past two days, we have been busy, and our Chi family will remember your heart. I heard that you and our Xiaoli Haven't you already broken off the relationship? Why are you still the chairman of Chi's Group? Hey, I said you are a young girl, so many intrigues in the mall are too dangerous, and you can't control a group as big as Chi's .Since you are here today, you won’t have to go back and I’ll look for you again. You broke up with Xiaoli. Whether it’s love or logic, the position of chairman can’t be yours. I think it’s up to the oldest brother in the family. suitable."

After hearing this, the uncle raised his chin and showed a natural smile.

The aunt said: "I don't know much about those things in your company, and Ms. Ran has to take care of the handover. We will go to the company to handle it after we send Xiao Li away."

The relatives around echoed: "Yes, yes, big brother can do it, no matter his age or vision is the most suitable."

The uncle sucked hard on the cigarette butt, threw the cigarette butt on the floor, stepped on it and rubbed it back and forth, and the crushed cigarette butt and unburned tobacco leaves were immediately crushed to pieces.

Chi Yu saw an ugly mark left on the floor of her sister's favorite red sandalwood.

The uncle waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this matter, it's more important to send Xiaoli off. Who, Miss Ran, you seem to be busy these days. Now here are Chi's family members, and you can't talk, you go first Go back. The day after tomorrow, I will go directly to the company to find you the day after tomorrow..."

"Impossible." Ran Jin interrupted the uncle coldly, and said in a stunned gaze, his voice was calm but undeniable, "It is impossible for the Chi Group to be handed over to you."

"What did you say?" The uncle and his two sons walked up to Ran Jin, looked down at the frail woman, "I'll hear what you say again."

Ran Jin raised her head, and the shadow fell on her eyes with blades, almost covering her whole body.

But she didn't intend to back down.

"It is impossible for the Chi Group to be handed over to you." Ran Jin repeated it in a steady tone.

"What the hell are you? Your fucking surname is Chi? The matter of the Chi family is none of your business! Shame on you?!" The eldest son of the uncle suddenly burst into laughter, like a broken silver bottle in the quiet mourning hall , piercing the eardrums of everyone present.

Ran Jin was calm and composed, and spoke sharply: "It is true that my surname is not Chi, but Chi Li and I have been together for so many years. Except for her, I am the only one who can take over all the business of the Chi family. If you leave it to any of you, you can do it. Do you understand?"

Seeing that the scene was about to get out of control, the aunt who was standing aside and met late said "Aiya", came up to hold Ran Jin, and wanted to take her aside to say a few words of "self-sufficiency".

But Ran Jin didn't move for half a step.

"Why are you so stubborn? Oil and salt don't get in." The auntie stopped pulling if she couldn't move, and said angrily, "I'm doing it for your own good, why don't you know good people? You said you and Chili were together We've been together for so many years, hey, what's the matter with a woman and a woman? No name, no distinction, except for those gossip news, who else recognizes you? Even if you spend your whole life with her, you can't change your surname. It won't be too late. Even if you I admit this deadly truth, but you also broke up with Chi Li, didn't you? Why are you still occupying the property of the Chi family and not handing it over?"

When my aunt talked about her breaking up with Chi Li, Ran Jin subconsciously looked at Chi Yu.

Chi Yu was facing her back, not knowing if she heard it, she was groping for something in front of her sister's mourning hall.

The aunt who stayed up for two nights was not in good health. Seeing that the uncle's family was going to make trouble in the mourning hall, she coughed and came forward to hold the uncle: "Brother, how much Xiao Ran has helped Xiao Li these years, I just want to see In my eyes. You live far away and come here less often, but things are not what you think..."

The uncle's second son pointed at Ran Jin: "Stop talking nonsense, I don't know whether my cousin committed suicide or committed suicide. Seeing how she is holding on to her cousin's inheritance, she probably has her eyes on her money. Fuck, she can't be the murderer, can she?"

A group of people chattered around Ran Jin, wishing to tear her apart and break her into pieces, even turning her into powder and questioning her one by one.

Ran Jin didn't want to talk to them any more.

I thought I could help out by staying, but I didn't expect to add to the chaos.

The noisy mourning hall was not her original intention, and it must be disrespectful to Chi Li.

Ran Jin intends to leave temporarily.

But these people surrounded her, and unless she was willing to hand over the Chi Group immediately, they would definitely not let her leave.

A figure came from not far away, and Ran Jin's lowered eyes were attracted by a silver object.

Chi Li's golf club came in between the faces of the uncle's two sons, and the two who were still fighting each other were frightened into silence for a moment by this gleaming thing.

Chi Yu pushed the crowd away with a golf club, faced the uncle and said, "Long time no see, uncle, it's been four years. I remember that I was a high school student when you came to our house last time. You came to ask my sister I borrowed money. Did you pay back the 20 to my sister?"

Uncle choked up when she said that.

"Also, auntie, you come here quite frequently. You bring your cronies and friends to my sister every three days, and ask my sister to introduce you to work. That is to say, my sister is nostalgic and can accommodate you. If it were me, I would have cleaned up Rubbish. Say my sister-in-law is not late, why, auntie, when did you change your surname too late?"

My aunt was tongue-tied, and after drafting the word "you", she couldn't finish the text for a long time.

Chi Yu counted the benefits that everyone present here has received from the Chi family over the years, and no one was left behind.

"The Chi family was created by my sister and my sister-in-law. I can see how many days and nights I have survived. Among you, only my aunt and uncle see our sisters and take care of them. Besides, Besides, uncle, aunt, what have you done? My sister’s bones are not cold, but everyone is thinking about her family property. It’s just that they have the same surname. If you are not in China, you may not know my temper very well. If you are sincerely here to pick up my sister for the last journey, then I welcome you. If you want to make trouble..."

Chi Yu raised her hand and swung the golf club at her cousin's head with a "huh".

The cousin was so frightened that he immediately squatted down with his head in his arms, and there was a loud "pop", and Chi Yu smashed the vase beside him to pieces.

"Then I will let you get to know me well."

A few strands of Chi Yu's long hair were messy in front of her face because of her movements.

The harsh words, the gloomy smile, and the seriousness of the attack finally restored the solemnity and quietness that the mourning hall should have.