Chapter 314: Bringing Someone Home for the New Year

Uncle Qiu chuckled, “She’s got you on her mind, Miss.”

“As if she’d think of me, who knows where she’s run off to, acting crazy!”

Elder Nan’s anger subsided quite a bit; he stared intently at Nan Jiaojiao, growing more and more pleased, his smile uncontrollable, flashing a big white grin at her.

“Really coming back for the New Year?”

Nan Jiaojiao nodded, “For real, coming back to keep you company.”

“You’d better stick to your word, no accidents this year, if the Ye Family dares to keep you, I’ll send someone over to knock them out cold,” Elder Nan grumbled, not feeling the least bit domineering.

Nan Jiaojiao couldn’t help but laugh, “I’ll come back and bake sweet potatoes for you.”

Elder Nan mockingly scoffed, his disdain not for the sweet potatoes but for her cooking skills.

“Don’t ruin the sweet potatoes,” said Elder Nan, his mouth curling up and his voice suddenly much softer, “What about your master, how is she?”

With a laugh, Nan Jiaojiao teased, “Grandpa, prying about your ex-wife from me isn’t quite proper, is it?”

“Who, who cares about her, I was just asking!” his gaze shifted evasively, and whenever Jiang Yu came up, it was teeth-gnashingly irritating for him, “One after another, saying they want to chase dreams, not wanting to be tied down by marriage; didn’t even leave me a child, and she’s had the nerve to frolic for half a lifetime.

Has she ever considered other people’s feelings?

So all this while, I’ve been an obstacle to your breathing, have I?!”

“Oh, ‘other people’,” Nan Jiaojiao elongated the last word with profound implications.

“If you really want to know, go ask her yourself, I can’t take sides, it wouldn’t be right,” she said.

Elder Nan shot her a glance, her usual low EQ rose to the occasion for once and she kept quiet.

“Alright, I have to go to class now, so I’m hanging up.

I’ll bring someone with me during the New Year for you to meet.”

Elder Nan was huffy, “You hang up!”

Though he said that, his rebellious little pinky swiftly moved to the end call button, hanging up first, and only then did it dawn on him, leaving him bewildered as he asked Uncle Qiu, “What did she mean?

‘Bring someone’?”

Uncle Qiu understood perfectly, Miss was no longer young, and it was time for dating, but that wasn’t something he could bluntly tell Elder Nan, for fear of ruffling his feathers.

Since she hadn’t mentioned it on video, Uncle Qiu also kept it to himself.

He placated, “Perhaps a friend, isn’t the Miss from the Lu Family a very close friend of hers?”

Elder Nan heaved a sigh, “That child had a tough childhood, didn’t have many friends.

No matter who she brings back, we should welcome them warmly, can’t have Jiaojiao losing face.”

Uncle Qiu replied, “I will instruct the kitchen to draft a menu, focusing on the Miss’s favorite flavors.”

Elder Nan nodded and leaned back in the recliner, about to close his eyes when suddenly he sat bolt upright.

“My fish!”

He hastily got up and, together with Uncle Qiu, they pulled at the fishing rod, only to find the bait gone and the fish escaped.

This incident directly infuriated the old man.

On the other end, Nan Jiaojiao wasn’t surprised at all to be hung up on and calmly pocketed her phone.

Stepping out of the small garden, she came face-to-face with Ye Shiqing, who was surrounded by several female classmates, including Chen Chen’s girlfriend, Kang Xin.

Before anything else could happen, seeing Nan Jiaojiao, Ye Shiqing instinctively stepped back, fear coloring her previously smiling face with pallor and panic.

A classmate, unable to bear it, stood in front of Ye Shiqing and yelled at Nan Jiaojiao, “Who are you glaring at?

Isn’t the slander you’ve thrown on Shiqing enough?

Are you fit to be her sister, forcing her into a corner like that!”