Chapter 1433: Others Will Point Fingers at You

“Hey!” Uncle Qiu responded, suddenly pausing, “Just the three of us?”

Nan Jiaojiao smiled, “Yes, just the three of us.

You should sit down and eat with us.”

Uncle Qiu’s face was kind, and he looked at her indulgently.

He waved his hand, “I won’t sit, little miss.

It’s against the rules.”

“What rules?

The Qing Dynasty is long gone.

Why stick to those outdated customs?

She asked you to sit, so you should,” Elder Nan scolded with a stern face.

Uncle Qiu laughed, his eyes curving, and sat down as instructed.

Elder Nan scoffed, “We often eat together, and now that the girl is back, you’re being all formal.”

Nan Jiaojiao handed a green dumpling to Uncle Qiu, “Grandpa is right, Uncle Qiu.

You’re family too; you should sit here.”

Uncle Qiu used both hands to take the dumpling and took a bite.

Nan Jiaojiao had given him the traditional filling, catering to Elder Nan’s preference for mild tastes, just right.

Just as they started eating, Ye Congwen called.

Nan Jiaojiao didn’t plan to answer, but she didn’t hang up either.

The screen was placed low, and Elder Nan saw it.

He frowned, “Answer it.”

Nan Jiaojiao glanced at him and put the phone to her ear, “Dad.”

“Jiaojiao, have you eaten?”

“I’m eating now, what’s up?”

“Why didn’t you come home for dinner today?

Your mom made a lot of delicious food.”

Nan Jiaojiao was surprised, though her emotions were laced with sarcasm.

Lin Shuyun always disapproved of her.

Whatever Nan Jiaojiao did, in Lin Shuyun’s eyes, it was either inadequate or embarrassing.

Nothing compared to her adoptive daughter, who fled abroad after siphoning off two hundred million.

Nan Jiaojiao didn’t believe that Lin Shuyun, due to Ye Shiqing’s disappearance, would suddenly remember the biological daughter she never favored.

She didn’t play along with Ye Congwen’s charade of father-daughter affection.

She asked directly, “Is there something you need?”

Ye Congwen felt awkward, hesitated for a moment, “The Ye Family is going back home to pay respects to the ancestors tomorrow.

Can you come over in the morning?”

“I’m not in Rongcheng, I’m in Green City.”

“Green City?” Ye Congwen’s tone grew heavy, “With the rural family that adopted you?”

Nan Jiaojiao frowned; she disliked this term.

But her grandfather did live in the countryside, just not in the kind of impoverished rural area the Ye family imagined.

“Yes.”

“Can you get back?

There are flights at this time, a three-hour trip.

Rest well tonight, and I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning…”

“I can’t make it back.” Nan Jiaojiao refused flatly.

Ye Congwen was repeatedly snubbed, his tone no longer pleasant, with a hint of reproach, “The whole family is going.

Even your big brother will put aside his work to join us.

You’re the only child in our branch; what would it look like if you don’t go?”

Nan Jiaojiao felt like laughing, “Didn’t I also skip it the previous years?”

“That’s different!

Back then, Shiqing was around, so you didn’t have to go, just having one child to represent was enough.

But you are the biological one, and if you don’t go during Qingming to pay respects, others will gossip!”

Ridiculous!

This year included, it’s only been three years since she was acknowledged.

The first year she stayed in Rongcheng on purpose, but no one from the Ye Family informed her.

She was afraid of missing it, called Ye Congwen and Lin Shuyun, but no one answered.

She eventually found out from Ye Jun that they had already gone to the countryside.

The entire Ye Family.

Only she was excluded.

Three years, and she doesn’t even know which direction the Ye Family’s ancestral graves face.

When she wanted to be filial, she was treated as an outsider.

When she stopped trying, she was criticized.

They always had something to say.