After coming out of the ward, I went to ask the doctor about Wenbei Su’s condition. The doctor told me that Wenbei only had the flu and it was not serious. He could be discharged after observation and treatment in just two days.
Then I was rest relieved. I ordered a car on the Internet and was ready to rush to the airport immediately.
But I saw an extended version of Lincoln drove over and a man got out of it, who turned out to be Jiye Su, which was quite beyond my expectation.
It was too late for me to avoid him, so I had to bite the bullet to say hello to him. Supposedly, I should call him “adopted father”, but as I always could not make it to call him that, I just called him the chairman of the board instead.
“I came to see you after I heard you were coming. Where is Xi Su? She did not give you a hard time, did she?” Jiye should know that Xi would give me a hard time.
I shook my head and said it was fine.
“Let’s go and see Wenbei together, and then we can go home for dinner. I heard you like eating braised tofu, so I’ve asked the kitchen to prepare this dish.” Jiye said.
“No, chairman, I’ve still got a few things to handle. And I need to catch the last flight back, if I’m late, I’ll miss it.” I declined.
“Don’t be in such a hurry. Since you’re home, you have to finish eating dinner before you go. What about I ask someone to take you home first so that you can take a rest? I’ll be right back.” Jiye said.
I actually felt a little moved, since Jiye’s attitude of treating me was completely equal to the way of treating his own family, which made me feel the kind of warmth of my long lost family.
But I still didn’t want to visit the Su family. I didn’t know the rest of the Su family well, except for Wenbei. Besides, now that there was another person of the family, Xi Su, who didn’t like me, my visit to the family would only make me become more awkward, and I didn’t want to humiliate myself.
Seeing my hesitation, Jiye said to me again,”Do you have any concerns? There’s no need for you to have any concerns now that the Su family is also your family. Or what about I ask Aunt Jiang to come to pick you up? If you really have to go back to the Hai City in a hurry, I’ll ask my subordinate to drive you home after dinner. I will get you an RV where you can take a sleep and you will arrive in the Hai City as long as you wake up.”
Now that he was so hospitable to me, I would go too far if I refused him again, so I nodded and said yes.
…
When I arrived at the house of the Su family, Xi had come home long time ago.
When she saw Jiye, she called him daddy sweetly. Not Dad, but Daddy instead. Then she changed her expression immediately after she saw me follow Jiye to walk into the house.
“Xi, this is your sister Nala Yao, my adopted daughter. You should get along well with each other just like blood sisters from now on.” Jiye said.
“I see.” She said very coldly.
Her indifference to me, which I had expected, was not important to me at all. The reason why I nodded to her was just showing respect to Jiye. And I had no interest in becoming intimate with this surly adopted sister at all now that we looked down on each other anyway.
Since Jiye had already given instructions to the kitchen, they began to serve the food as soon as we arrived. But considering my hard journey, Jiye said that I could take a few minutes to have a rest, which was actually just a short time for taking a shower and getting dressed.
I took some clothes to change. And I heard a knock on the door while I was changing my clothes in my room after the shower.
I asked who was it, and nobody said anything, then I said wait a minute please.
I opened the door after I finished changing my clothes, and I saw a person standing there with her hair down on her face and lowering her head. I was so frightened that I shouted at once.
“Hahaha.” The person laughed, and then I found out it was Xi.
Since the light in the hallway was dark, and I was in a relatively unfamiliar environment, I was really frightened to see her hair hanging down over her face in that way.
“You are so boring.” I said coldly.
“So you’re afraid of ghosts? Do you still dare to live in this room now that you are so frightened? This room is the famous haunted room of our house, don’t you know?” Said Xi mysteriously.
The room I lived in was, of course, arranged by Jiye, which was Nan Su’s room initially. And now she should say the room was haunted? So who was she trying to insult exactly?
“Why on earth is it a haunted room?” I became a little angry already.
She pushed the door and entered my room without my permission.”Look at this house. Don’t you feel everywhere is ghostly and sepulchral? The person who used to live here is long dead. But a lot of people still remember her, and her ghost will haunt them all the time. Anyway, everyone will remember Nan Su, but not Xi.”
There was clearly some kind of jealousy in her words. She was jealous because she thought her existence was not as important as Nan, who was dead long time ago.
“You should have respect for the dead, which is essential. Don’t you understand that the dead is the greatest?” I said coldly.
“What do you mean by telling me the dead is the greatest? Now that she’s dead, how could she be the greatest? You are totally insane! Such a person like Nan who has affect on others even after her death should just live in hell forever and never have another life!”
I became furious at once after hearing what she said. I didn’t know why I was so angry, but I felt the urge to slap her again. It did not matter for her to curse the living, but it was too much and went too far for her to curse the dead!
But if I hit Xi in the house of the Su family, then I really went too far. But I had an idea after I glanced at the room and saw the picture of Nan which was hanging on the wall.
I lowered my head and bent my body slightly. I tried hard to hold my breath so that my face would look abnormal. And then, suddenly, I asked her in a very wiry voice,”Xi, now take a good look at who I am?”
I deliberately pronounced the word ‘who’ to make it sound long and wiry, and I also let my upper body sway slowly as I spoke. Then I slowly put out a hand to point at the picture of Nan which was hanging on the wall.
Xi looked at me and then she followed the direction of my finger to look at he picture of Nan, and suddenly she stopped talking.
The first time Wenbei saw me, he thought I looked like Nan because we did look much alike. Although Nan was younger in the picture, her silhouette was still clearly similar to mine. After seeing my look, Xi became scared. Her face was pale white with great fear, and her lips was trembling, “What are you, what are you… going to do?”
I walked slowly towards her, deliberately stiffening my feet and shaking them to make myself look weird. “You must apologize for your vicious talk about me! Apologize now!” I deliberately made the stretched voice of the last word.
Xi looked at me in horror. “Are you a human or a ghost?”
I continued to make a stretched voice,”What do you think…”
“Are you really Nan? Are you a ghost? Sorry, sorry, I was wrong, I was wrong…” Xi said, falling down on her knees, and then kowtowed to me incessantly, daring not to look up at me anymore.
I had thought that she was really strong because she was so arrogant. But I didn’t expect her to be so timid and terrified. It seemed that she was really frightened to death this time.
“Don’t you curse at me, or I will catch you to stay with me!” I said coldly.
“My sister, I dare not, I really dare not to do that.” Xi continued to kowtow.
“What are you doing, Xi?” Then the door opened again, and someone came in, but it was Ling Jiang. She became very surprised after seeing Xi’s constant kowtowing to me. Then she turned to stare at me and asked,”What did you do to her?”