Haitong nodded, “It’s good that it’s over, and even better that everyone’s safe.”
With the matter resolved, it felt like a weight had been lifted from her mind.
Haitong asked, “So, Sis, you’ll be back next week? When will Aunt and the others return?”
“Probably when I take my annual leave, Grandpa Zhong wants to stay longer. After all, he lived in Jiangcheng for decades, Jiangcheng is practically his hometown too.”
The old man was advanced in years and in poor health, the divine doctor had said he had at most two or three years left, possibly as little as next year.
This time, returning to Jiangcheng, he might not come back alive, if he did return, it could be as a soul laid to rest.
The old gentleman had also expressed a wish, after his death, he hoped Madam Shang would bring his ashes back to Jiangcheng, he wanted to be buried in the cemetery beside the Feng family’s private graveyard, so he could eternally watch over his family head.
“Zhan Yin and Wuhen should be back in a couple of days, both families have businesses in Jiangcheng, so they’re taking the chance to inspect their subsidiaries or hotels here.”
Haitong smiled, “Now that I know it’s over, I’m not anxious about when he’ll return.”
“Oh, how’s Feng Qing doing? Is she okay?”
Hai Ling paused before answering, “Her mom just died, how could she be okay? No matter how vile Feng Yue was, she was still Feng Qing’s birth mother, Feng Yue expected a fierce battle and was constantly worried about Feng Qing getting caught in the crossfire, she tried multiple times to send her away.”
“Her feelings for Feng Qing were genuine.”
A biological mother and daughter, they might not have had a deep bond, but there was still affection.
No matter how upright Feng Qing’s values were, she’d still grieve after her mother took her own life to atone.
With the dead, debts are settled, Feng Qing’s only hope now was that her cousin and the others could let go of their hatred toward her mother.
If atonement was still needed, she was willing to bear it in her mother’s place.
“Feng Qing’s biological father took a gunshot but isn’t in critical condition, he’s still in the hospital. No one else was hurt, oh, except Feng Yue’s assistant, who also took her own life, following Feng Yue in death.”
One had to admit, the family head’s assistant truly lived up to the saying, in life, she belonged to the family head, in death, she became the family head’s ghost.
Back then, Grandpa Zhong hadn’t followed Hai Ling’s grandmother into death because he knew she’d been killed by a conspiracy, he stayed alive to seek vengeance for her.
He’d survived until now.
With Feng Yue’s death, their grandmother’s great grudge had finally been avenged.
The Feng family should now return to their branch’s hands.
Without that spiritual anchor, Grandpa Zhong could easily collapse, that was the main reason the divine doctor predicted his time was short.
Though he was nearly a hundred years old, their reunion had been so brief that no one wanted to lose this kind elder, they all wished he could live to a hundred, or even a hundred and twenty.
“Once Feng Qing’s emotions settle, I’ll visit her at her company,” Hai Ling said.
She and Feng Qing shared a mutual respect.
Without the previous generation’s grudges standing between them, they’d surely get along well.
Though Feng Qing was technically her elder, Hai Ling was a bit older and felt like the big sister.
Haitong noddeddiameter, “Check on her, what did Aunt say?”
“Aunt said we’ll arrange it after the New Year, it’s too close to the holidays now, time’s tight, and there’s no rush.”
After all, Feng Yue was already dead.
