Chapter 289 Dreaming Back to One and a Half Years Old 2

She buried her head in the other person's chest, sobbing softly, "Grandma, I'm scared, where am I?"

From Yan Liti's perspective, all she could see were the little one's tear-soaked eyelashes, her red little nose, and the unclear, babyish words she was saying. She couldn't quite make out what the other words were, but she did clearly hear the word "grandma."

I was both excited and heartbroken.

He held that tiny body in his arms, wishing he could meld it into his very bones.

"Baby can say 'Grandma' now, that's great!" she praised proudly.

Unable to resist, he bent down and kissed the little guy's rosy, fair face.

I coaxed her, "Baby, call out 'Grandma' a couple more times, okay?"

Qiao Qiao blinked her big, wet eyes at Yan Liti. Although she was puzzled by her current situation, she still obediently satisfied Yan Liti: "Grandma, Grandma."

"Hey, baby, be good!"

Yan Liti was overjoyed and kissed the little girl's face repeatedly.

After admiring the little one in her arms for a while, Yan Liti instructed the two maids beside her: "Xiaoyu, Xiaofeng, go outside and bring Master Chen and her apprentice in."

When the two maids saw that Qiao Qiao had stopped crying and Yan Liti did not scold them for it, they breathed a sigh of relief, nodded with a smile, and then went out.

Before long, Qiao Qiao saw a man and a woman carrying black leather suitcases enter.

“Baby, this is the image consultant Master Xu that Grandma hired for you.”

"Our baby will be making her debut in Kyoto next month. Master Xu is the best at making dresses. When our baby wears the little dress made by Master Xu, she will definitely amaze everyone and become the most beautiful little princess in all of Kyoto!"

Seeing the man and woman enter, Yan Liti didn't care whether the little Qiao Qiao could understand, and enthusiastically introduced them to her.

"Daddy, Daddy! I want Daddy!" But Qiao Qiao didn't care about the dress or anything, she just wanted to know if her father was there.

What exactly is going on now?

How did she shrink? How did she end up here?

"Daddy, does Baby mean Comrade Qiao?" Yan Lidi asked.

Qiao Qiao nodded vigorously.

"Baby, have you forgotten? Your dad told you this morning when he left that he was going out to earn money to buy you delicious food. He said he would come back when it got dark. Do you remember, baby?"

As Yan Liti spoke, she pointed to the sky outside, gesturing for Qiao Qiao to look.

"Look, baby, it's not dark outside yet. Daddy has to wait a little longer before he can come back. You're such a good baby, aren't you?"

"..." Qiao Qiao.

Qiao Qiao blinked, looking at the sky outside the door with a blank expression, because some fragments seemed to really flash through her mind.

It seems there really was such a scene: before Qiao Changdong left, he hugged her and kissed her, then coaxed her, telling her to stay home and wait for him to come back with money, and that he would return when it got dark.

For the rest of the time, Qiao Qiao felt like a rag doll, being manipulated by several women.

While being manipulated, Qiao Qiao overheard Yan Liti's conversation with the designer, Master Xu, and managed to piece together a little of her current predicament.

She is now one year and three months old.

She had only been brought back from Qiaojia Village by her biological father, Shen Qingyan, for less than a month.

On the 8th of next month, her grandmother Yan Liti will hold a grand banquet for her to announce to the entire Kyoto elite circle that her granddaughter has been found!

She will be the Shen family's only little princess!

Now, we need to prepare princess dresses and cocktail dresses for her to wear to the banquet.

Qiao Qiao felt like her brain was made of mush.

Because of what clearly didn't happen, now that Yan Liti mentioned it, she felt as if she had really experienced it.

This caused a brief period of confusion in her memory.

...

After being rejected by Shen Qingyan, Old Master Shen watched Shen Qingyan's figure gradually walk away with his granddaughter in his arms. After a flash of sadness and disappointment in his eyes, only a clear and cold expression remained.

"Xiao Wei, book tickets to go back tomorrow morning," he coldly ordered the guard behind him.

Old Master Shen was never a coward or someone who dared not face reality.

After learning those shocking truths from Shen Qingyan, he naturally wanted to verify whether they were true.

Simply avoiding the issue is not his style.

However, Grandpa Shen originally planned to stay here until the end of the third year of junior high school before leaving.

But now, he knows that at this moment, no one—not the Qiao family, nor Shen Qingyan, nor Yan Liti—would welcome him.

Grandpa Shen looked at the small red envelope in his hand with some regret.

This is a small red envelope that he specially prepared a few days ago according to the local custom of Hongfeng Town. Inside are red strings made of gold beads representing the little girl's zodiac sign, which is a custom of the Shen family.

There are ten in total.

From age one to four, one more stone was added for each year of age, until now there are a total of ten stones.

He wasn't sure if the little girl could stay up until dawn on New Year's Eve, so he took this opportunity to give it to her, thinking that she was young and coaxing her to accept it.

Unexpectedly, Shen Qingyan rejected him so bluntly.

Grandpa Shen was very disappointed.

Even though Grandpa Shen was reluctant and wanted to stay in Hongfeng Town and Qiaojia Village to see and spend more time with his children, he had no choice but to leave when everyone rejected him.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Shen went to Baoyi City overnight and boarded the train back to Beijing.

He needs to find out the truth of all this in the shortest possible time.

The passing of Old Master Shen did not cause any disturbance in the Qiao family.

After waking up from her afternoon nap, Qiao Qiao pulled Yan Liti aside and asked, "Grandma, do we have a castle? A big castle with a really, really big fountain."

Yan Liti looked at her in surprise: "Baby, how did you know? Our house is indeed a castle, left by Grandma's mother, and there is indeed a fountain inside."

Qiao Qiao pursed her lips: "I had a dream, I dreamt that I was in that castle."

She paused for a moment, then continued, "I was only a little over a year old in the castle. My grandma said she would throw me a banquet to celebrate my return home, and she even hired a craftsman named Xu to make me a beautiful dress."

"!!!" Yan Liti.

She looked at Qiao Qiao in disbelief.

"Really? What's Master Xu's real name?"

Holding a banquet or something like that is indeed Yan Liti's style of doing things.

Yan Liti had previously told Qiao Qiao that if she was willing to return to Kyoto with her in the future, she would throw her a grand banquet and introduce her to everyone in Kyoto as her precious granddaughter.

So Yan Liti wasn't surprised that Qiao Qiao would dream about it.

But another thing terrified her.