Creation’s Grace

The Chi family's villa is in the east of the city, quiet in the midst of the hustle and bustle. It was the residence that my sister personally chose.

The last time I came back late was the Lunar New Year this year.

The villa is still well-maintained, the plants in the yard are meticulously manicured, and it is not defeated by the crowded mourning hall and mourning music in the lobby.

Chi Yu's black clothes and black trousers do not need to be changed, and directly entering the mourning hall can quickly integrate into this depressing and sad atmosphere.

The room was full of relatives and friends who came to pay their respects.

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 that my sister is very satisfied with.

In Chi Yu's first year abroad, Chi Li couldn't bear the thoughts of her sister, so she flew with Ran Ban to find her.

This photo was taken by Chi Yu at school for my sister.

The two sisters look very similar, and once a pair of beautiful eyes bring a smile, they are full of passion and splendor.

He touched the photo reluctantly.

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

There is no coffin, only the dark urn placed in front of the portrait.

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

Looking at these things full of sister's breath, the past that depended on each other was like a galloping train, smashing through her heart.

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

"Sister, I'm late." Chi Yu knelt on the cushion and offered incense to her sister. After bending over and bowing, she put 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, stood under an old banyan tree in the yard, and answered the call from Lu Siyu.

"You haven't slept yet?"

"I heard the music in the mourning hall, and you still 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? Isn't her sister back? Leave it all to her. Is your sister not handling it well?"

Ran Jin said: "Xiaoyu just came back and flew for more than ten hours. It is estimated that the jet lag has not been reversed. All the relatives of the Chi family are here, and she must be too busy with the people in the yard. And she is still young and can't handle this. She doesn't know much about family and company affairs, so she may not be able to cope with this kind of situation."

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

Ran Jin smiled lightly and said, "Okay, let's go to bed. I'll go back to the apartment after I've dealt with things here in a while."

Lu Sima was so angry that he didn't choose to say anything, and he left the phone "too lazy to talk to you" and hung up the phone.

He was pulled back by Ran Jin and told her: "I broke up with Chi Li, don't tell her for the time being."

"Do you think it's up to me to tell you? The whole world knows it." Lu Sima said, "Okay, I'm going to sleep, because I have to avoid suspicion of your case. I have a business trip tomorrow, and I will be tortured by the plane at 8 o'clock. Who is it? Hey, hang up."

"Good night."

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

At this time, I met Haoxiang late, and she touched a few pieces of incense ash with Mars seeds on the back of her hand.

Ran Jin, standing 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 scalded red, she didn't care, and she didn't wipe away the two tears at the moment. This situation made a wave in her still eyes.

"Meow."

With a soft cat meow, Lulu quietly walked to Chi Yu's feet, sniffed her scent, determined that it was an old acquaintance and stood up, and rubbed her trousers with her front paws.

This is the signal Lulu wants her to hold.

Seeing Lu Lu, Chi Yu couldn't help crying.

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

Chi Li knew that she should take on everything that a sister should take on. She gave up her ideals, sold her studio, and took over the dilapidated Chi family. While taking care of her sister, she worked hard to carry forward the property left by her parents. It's about keeping family members.

Back then, the two sisters were extremely poor, and with so many relatives in the family, only the aunt and uncle, who were not very wealthy at all, saved their lives to help them both. Originally, they had no extra money to support 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 was dying by the roadside. The meat floss bread stayed with it.

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

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

"Maybe he's dead."

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

It was probably the words Chi Yu said at that time that touched Chi Li, Chi Li hugged Lu Lu, did not let it continue to sleep outside, gave it a shelter from the wind and rain, and saved a small life.

Having said that, my sister has always been very sympathetic, no matter to Lulu or Ran Jin, who almost died in the alley back then.

The name "Lulu" came up late.

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

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

There are too many people around, and cats are very sensitive animals. If they hear a little hurried footsteps, they will be startled and run away immediately.

Lulu has lived in this house for many years, and is familiar with all the moving lines here. It jumps up on the back of the sofa, swipes past, nimbly burrows into the middle of the bookcase and the ceiling, and hides silently. .

When Lulu came to Chi's house back then, he took him for a check-up. The doctor saw his teeth and estimated that he should be two years old. By the time Lulu is eighteen this year, he is already very old according to the age of a cat, and his skills are still strong. No real age.

Chi Yu's sluggish eyes followed Lu Lu for a while, and she rushed back. She had not yet adapted to the jet lag, and her mind was blank for a while, and she only looked at her sister's last photo through a layer of glass.

It wasn't until the increasingly noisy conversation behind her squeezed into her ears that she gradually regained her senses and looked behind her.

At the entrance of the mourning hall, a group of distant relatives from the Chi family surrounded Ran Jin, not allowing her to advance or retreat.

Ran Jin held a pack of tissues in his hand and looked forward with a frosty face. From Chi Yu's perspective, he could just find that Ran Jin was not looking at anyone in the Chi family.

"Since the little sister is back, it's time for you to leave. Everyone is a decent person, and you don't want to embarrass each other in front of the big sister, right?" It was the uncle who was late.

He was smoking a cigarette, taking a sip from time to time. His broad and dark face was full of traces of time.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Chi Yu has seen this uncle in four years.

The aunt who was standing by the side took the uncle's words: "Yes, Miss Ran, thanks to you these two days, our Chi family will remember your heart. I heard that you and our Xiaoli Didn't you cut off the relationship? Why did you still become the chairman of the Chi Group? Hey, I said that you are a young girl. It's too dangerous to have so many intrigues in the mall. You can't control a group as big as the Chi Group. Since you're here today, I don't have to go back and find you again. You broke up with Xiaoli. Whether it's a matter of fact or reason, the chairman's position can't be yours. I think it will be given to the oldest brother in the family. suitable."

After listening to the uncle, he raised his chin and showed a natural smile.

The aunt said, "I don't know much about your company's affairs. Miss Ran has to worry about the handover. We will go to the company to take care of it when Xiao Li is sent away."

The relatives around agreed: "Yes, yes, eldest brother can do it, whether it is age or vision is the most suitable."

The uncle sucked the **** of the cigarette hard, threw the cigarette **** on the floor, stepped on it and rubbed it back and forth.

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

The uncle waved his hand and said, "I'm not in a hurry, it's more important to send Xiaoli. Who is that, Miss Ran? You've been very busy these days. Now it's all Chi's family here, so you can't say anything. Go back. The day after tomorrow, I'll go to the company to find you the day after tomorrow..."

"Impossible." Ran Jin coldly interrupted the uncle's words, and opened his mouth in stunned eyes, his voice was calm but unbearable, "The Chi Group can't be handed over to you."

"What did you say?" The uncle and the two sons beside him walked up to Ran Jin and looked down at the thin woman, "I'll listen to you again."

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

But she had no intention of retreating.

"The Chi Group can't be handed over to you." Ran Jin repeated in a steady tone.

"What kind of **** are you? Your **** surname is Chi? The Chi family's business has nothing to do with you! Shame on your face?!" The uncle's eldest son burst out suddenly, like a broken silver bottle in the quiet mourning hall , piercing the eardrums of everyone present.

Ran Jin calmly said, "I'm not Chi, but I've been with Chi Li for so many years. Except for her, only I can take over all the business of Chi's family. Give it to any of you, you can understand?"

Seeing that the scene was about to get out of control, the late aunt who was standing by the side let out an "Oops", came up to hold Ran Jin, and wanted to take her aside to say a few words of "self-consciousness".

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

"Why are you so stubborn? You can't get in the oil and salt." The aunt didn't pull it, so she said angrily, "I'm doing it all for your own good, why don't you know good people? You said that you and Chi Li are together. After so many years together, oh, what is a woman and a woman together? No name, no distinction, except for those gossip news, who else recognizes you? Even if you are with her for the rest of your life, you can't change your surname, it can't be too late. Even if you I admit this death reason, but you also broke up with Chi Li, didn't you? Why are you still occupying the Chi family's property and not handing it over?"

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

Chi Yu was facing her back, not knowing whether he heard it or not, and 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 came forward to hold the uncle while coughing: "Brother, how much Xiaoran has helped Xiaoli over the years, I am looking at it. In your eyes. You live far less often, but things are not what you think..."

The uncle's second son pointed at Ran Jin: "Don't talk nonsense, whether my cousin committed suicide or homicide I don't know yet. Seeing that she is holding her cousin's inheritance and not letting go, she must have been eyeing her cousin's money. Fuck, she's not the murderer, is she?"

A group of people gathered around Ran Jin, wanting to tear her apart and break her into pieces, and question her one by one when she turned her into powder.

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

I thought I could help a little by staying, but I didn't expect to cause trouble.

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

Ran Jin intends to leave temporarily.

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

A figure swayed 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 arguing were frightened by this frightening thing to silence for a moment.

Chi Yu pushed the crowd away with a golf club and said to his uncle, "Long time no see Uncle, it's been four years. I remember the last time you came to our house, I was a high school student. You came to my sister. I borrowed money. Did you pay back the 200,000 yuan to my sister?"

The uncle was choked up when she said that.

"Also, Auntie, you come very diligently. Every three days, you bring your friends to my sister and let my sister introduce you to work. That is to say, my sister is nostalgic and can tolerate you. If you change it, I will clean it up a long time ago. It's rubbish. Saying that my sister-in-law is not Chi, why, aunt, when did you change your surname Chi?"

My aunt was stunned, and after drafting the word "you", she couldn't read the next text for a long time.

Chi Yu will count the benefits that everyone present has received from the Chi family over the years, and no one has fallen behind.

"Chi's family was created by my sister and my sister-in-law, and I see all the days and nights that I have survived. Among you, only aunt and uncle see our sisters as pitiful and take care of them in winter and summer. Besides, uncle, aunt, what have you done? My sister is still alive, but everyone is thinking about her family property. It's just the same surname. If you are not in the country, you may not know my temper. If you are here to pick up my sister for the last ride today, I welcome you. If you want to have trouble..."

Chi Yu raised her hand and danced, and the golf club in her hand swiped at her cousin's head with a hoot.

The cousin was so frightened that he immediately hugged his head and squatted down with a loud bang, and Chi Yu smashed the vase beside him.

"Then I will let you know me well."

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

Ruthless words, gloomy smiles, and heavy strikes finally restored the solemnity and quietness of the mourning hall.