Sifos patted his daughter's back gently, giving her silent comfort.

The result of the Zhou ceremony was very clear without even looking at it, but how to announce it was a problem. After all, even the old man was just guessing about the specific purpose of that thing.

But this does not pose a problem for butler Neil.

Connecting his own microphone, the butler said, "My eldest daughter has made her choice of life path. Let us congratulate her for being able to shine and soar in the things she loves!"

This statement did not point to anything, but it contained everything. The guests in the audience applauded.

Sifos continued, "The Zhuazhou ceremony is over. Please return to your seats. We have prepared a rich lunch for you at noon today. Please enjoy it."

The chefs and maids came out in an orderly manner, serving dishes one after another on the table. People's attention shifted away from Xu Weiwei and they began to sit down and eat.

Meilin and another maid packed up the things for the one-year-old celebration and took them back and put them away properly. They couldn't just leave them here like that.

The old man and the old lady stayed to greet the guests and chat with old friends, while the Sivers took the children back to the bedroom upstairs to wait for Xu Weiwei to calm down.

About ten minutes later, Xu Weiwei's tears slowly stopped. The moment the scale appeared, the memories of her past life suddenly came to her mind, and Xu Weiwei recalled every detail of her life with her grandfather.

Suddenly she realized that she hadn't dreamed of or thought about her grandfather for a long time.

Grandpa passed away when she was in her senior year of high school, which was also the time when she was the busiest and most stressful in her studies. The Chinese medicine shop could only barely make ends meet for the two of them. Grandpa Xu couldn't bear to see his granddaughter working in the cafeteria during such a busy time. He would take time to carve some wood carvings, and after the medicine shop closed, he would take them to the busiest place in town to set up a stall and sell them.

Moreover, his granddaughter has such good grades that she will definitely go to college in the future, so he wants to save some tuition for her in advance.

Xu Weiwei didn't know about this until she was packing up her grandfather's belongings. Her high school was a boarding school, and she only went home once every two weeks. She clearly remembered that it was Friday, and she would be able to go home in the next night. She still had 300 yuan in her pocket from the school, which was the reward for being the first in the grade in the fourth model test.

She was happy when she thought of this, but she didn't expect that the head teacher suddenly called her out during class. Seeing the head teacher's sympathetic and embarrassed expression, a bad premonition came to her mind.

"Your grandfather...passed away."

Not being able to see grandpa for the last time, and receiving the news that he had passed away, Xu Weiwei felt that all the blood in her body had drained away. It was summer, but she shivered with cold.

"Your fellow villagers are here to pick you up. Just write a note and come with me."

The head teacher took Xu Weiwei out of the school gate, and finally comforted her with concern, telling her not to be too sad and not to fail at the last moment.

Xu Weiwei nodded mechanically. With the help of the villagers, she took care of her grandfather's funeral, and it was during this period that she discovered the wood carvings made by her grandfather. The villagers told her that her grandfather had been doing this all along, and he must have saved some money, so they asked her to find out where he kept it.

That was the only place where Grandpa kept his money. Xu Weiwei opened the kitchen cabinet and found another jar of the same size behind the rice jar. Xu Weiwei took it out and found a pile of scattered cash inside, which added up to more than 3,000 yuan.

It was unknown how long it took her grandfather to carve this scale. No wonder she always squinted to look at the scale when dispensing medicine. She thought it was because her grandfather was old.

Xu Weiwei disappeared for a week, and when she returned to school, she listened to the class as seriously as before, as if nothing had happened, but she worked harder than before. That enthusiasm seemed like a demon, making every student in the class worried and scared.

The head teacher also talked to her twice, and Xu Weiwei calmly said that she was fine, she just knew her goal.

Later, Xu Weiwei was admitted to the top medical university in the country as she wished, became a student of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and then pursued a master's degree in the same university.

As time went by, Xu Weiwei felt that she had accepted this reality and could calmly look at her grandfather's death. She could face it calmly even if she thought about it again, because her tears had already dried up in the week after her grandfather passed away.

But today, when I saw that familiar old object, my emotions suddenly came up again.

She felt sorry for grandpa.

Grandpa was buried deep in another land of time and space. But she had a new family and a new "grandfather" and lived a very happy life, so happy that she had not thought about him who had grown up with her for a long time. This fact made Xu Weiwei feel guilty.

Only then did she realize that the death of a loved one was not as painful as the loss of an arm, but rather like the bitter taste of brucea frutescens. It tasted bitter at first, and the aftertaste was even more bitter. Over time, the toxicity would slowly accumulate in the body, and explode after reaching a certain level.

"Oh~oh~baby, be good, mommy is here, don't cry, don't cry..."

"Don't cry, sister. Don't be sad."

"Sister, look at me, 喪!"

The family members were all coaxing her softly and making faces to make her laugh, without any sign of impatience.

The overwhelming emotions slowly faded away. Although the aftereffects were still there and she had not completely gotten over it, Xu Weiwei had slowly regained her composure.

Mrs. Seaforth gently wiped the wetness off her face with a handkerchief: "Mom will take you to wash your face, okay? Let's change into a pretty little dress and go downstairs to eat delicious food, ok?"

Xu Weiwei obediently let go of her father's neck, and then let her mother hold her to wash her face.

When Xu Weiwei came down again, she had already changed into the black feather dress that Sifos had picked out for her in the dress shop. Combined with the depressed atmosphere surrounding her, it unexpectedly matched her.

They sat at a large main table with the Wolfhard family. When Finn saw Xu Weiwei, he couldn't help but look over, with a concern in his eyes that he didn't even notice.

Why does she still look unhappy? Didn't her uncle and aunt comfort her? Did they try candy and dolls? Children should be easy to comfort. If it's him...

Wait, what does she have to do with me? She's not my sister, why should I think about how to please her?

Finn quickened the pace of cutting the beef on the plate, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it hard.

Mrs. Wolfhard asked with concern, "Is Wei'er okay? She cried so hard just now, and now she looks listless, with a droopy face. I feel so sorry for her."

"It's okay. Children are always weird. Maybe they have their own thoughts that we don't know about." Mrs. Seaforth said.

Mrs. Wolfhard nodded thoughtfully. "It's very possible. When Finn was a child, he was angry with me because I hugged Alpha first when I got home and left him waiting. So he got mad. Wei'er is a girl, so she must be more thoughtful. You have to pay more attention to her."

Xu Weiwei just glanced at him lightly, then lowered her head to accept the food from her mother. However, Finn felt uncomfortable all over, as if his hair had exploded.

Mom, why do you like to expose his shortcomings in front of others? It will make others laugh!

Finn decided to go back and have a serious "negotiation" with his mother.

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