Chapter 374 The Family Photo Hanging in the Stairwell

The surgery is scheduled for two weeks from now.

It has to be said that having connections and money makes things much easier.

The hospital's director, who used to be Yan Xiaoqing's student, met Yan Xiaoqing by chance at the hospital and became even more concerned about Grandma Qiao's illness.

The Qiao family made their decision, and the hospital immediately scheduled the surgery.

Yan Xiaoqing took advantage of the weekend to come to Kyoto. After the two-day holiday, Wang Mingcheng, who had finally found his little sister, was naturally reluctant to go back so soon.

He insisted on staying in Kyoto and even wanted to move from the castle to live with Qiao Changqing.

Yan Xiaoqing was worried about him. Although Wang Mingcheng's bodily functions had returned to normal after bathing in the spiritual spring water, she still dared not be careless, thinking about the illness he suffered from every April.

So he sent his son to teach at the school.

Yan Xiaoqing and Wang Mingcheng only had two sons, the elder son was named Wang Xinghua and the younger son was named Wang Zhenhua.

Both sons are married.

Wang Xinghua is about the same age as Qiao Changqing and is now a university professor. He and Yan Xiaoqing are both biology experts.

He and his wife have two sons. The elder son is named Wang Sheng, who is fifteen years old this year, and the younger son is named Wang Chun, who is ten years old this year.

Wang Zhenhua is about the same age as Qiao Changhong. He has inherited the business that Yan Xiaoqing took with her after she got married. He has only one son, who is nine years old and named Wangwang.

He and his wife fell in love freely and got married passionately. They even named their son after both of their surnames.

However, in previous years, their divorce was quite a mess.

"Woof woof?" When Qiao Qiao heard Wang Mingcheng introduce the names of his grandsons, she was surprised when he introduced the last one. The name sounded like a joke, and it even sounded like a dog's name.

"Yes, his parents named him that; his mother's surname is also Wang." Wang Mingcheng nodded, seemingly unconcerned.

He likes to drink tea.

The tea we're drinking now contains spiritual spring water that Yan Xiaoqing has preliminarily tested and confirmed will not cause any harm to the body.

With each sip, he let out a satisfied sigh, clearly enjoying the drink.

Qiao Qiao didn't know before whether the spiritual spring water was drinkable. Anyway, she didn't drink it herself, and Xiao Yuan used it as bath water. Every night, when they entered the bracelet space to meditate and cultivate, they would each be alone with a tree.

Xiao Yuan always soaks in this sacred spring water.

Previously, she used it on the Qiao and Shen families only for external use, never thinking of using it internally.

Seeing Wang Mingcheng munching away with obvious delight, she felt inexplicably guilty.

I always felt like he was really drinking bathwater!

Grandma Qiao is preparing to be discharged from the hospital in the next few days. The surgery is not a complicated one; she only needs to stay in the hospital the day before the surgery.

Grandma Qiao originally wanted to go back to Qiao Changqing's place, but the house Qiao Changqing prepared was too small, and Wang Mingcheng wanted to live with Grandma Qiao. In the end, after considering everything, only the Shen family's place was the most convenient.

Moreover, with the added connection between Wang Mingcheng and Grandma Qiao, the two families are now not just maintaining their relationship through Qiao Qiao, but are genuine distant relatives.

The day after moving to Yan Liti's castle, Qiao Xiaoyun took out the pile of bright red ribbons that she had been keeping for Qiao Qiao.

Qiao Qiao hadn't dreamed for a while.

Everyone knew it was time to change the ribbon.

Sure enough, Qiao Xiaoyun took out the package of ribbons, avoiding the others.

This time, she didn't even need to open the cloth bag. A ribbon was automatically pulled out of the bag and exchanged with the one Qiao Qiao had been wearing on her head in mid-air before returning to its place.

"..." Qiao Xiaoyun.

I've lived this long, and I'm practically never seen a ghost!

The handover had just finished when there was a loud knocking on the door.

"Xiaoyun, Changdong, what are you doing with the door closed? Is there some secret? Can you bring your uncle along? Your uncle is very tight-lipped and will never tell anyone." It was Wang Mingcheng knocking on the door.

This little old man has the same gossipy heart as Grandpa Tan.

During their stay at the Shen family castle, they uncovered almost everything about Qiao Changdong's adoption of Qiao Qiao, Shen Qingyan's severing of ties with Old Master Shen, and the search for his daughter.

In particular, he was not only a gossip, but also a tattletale.

It's always me telling your aunt this and that...

They're like an old child who never grows up.

This often left Qiao Xiaoyun and Qiao Changdong both amused and exasperated.

However, neither of them disliked the other.

On the fourth day after Grandma Qiao was discharged from the hospital, Yan Liti held a small family reunion banquet for Qiao Qiao on a weekend when she had a holiday.

Although the family reunion banquet was small, Yan Liti organized it very formally.

Besides the Shen family and the Qiao family, she only invited the Tan family of five, Grandpa Chang Zhongjie, and the Wang family.

Before the banquet, Yan Liti had already invited someone to take a family photo of the "family of four". The photo was enlarged in a very serious manner and hung in the corner of the stairwell.

In the photo, Yan Liti, dressed in a cheongsam, is holding Qiao Qiao, who is wearing a custom-made tutu, sitting in front of her.

Shen Qingyan and Qiao Changdong, one in a suit and the other in a military uniform, stood behind each other, smiling at the camera.

Both men were naturally happy to be able to take photos with their daughter.

However, when this photo is enlarged and hung in the corner of the stairwell, it is still directly facing the main entrance.

Both Qiao Changdong and Shen Qingyan seemed strange to me.

The two men both had strange expressions, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.

Yan Liti thought the two were ashamed and didn't want to hang it outside, so she lied and said, "Baby wanted to hang it herself. She said it's the most suitable and best-looking place. If you don't like it, go talk to her. Don't tell me."

"Sigh, my poor baby, he's grown up and has never had a proper family photo taken. Now that we finally have one, both of his dads are complaining about it. Sigh..."

As Yan Liti sighed, she looked very sad and walked away, shaking her head.

But the little girl didn't really know anything about furniture arrangement.

She was simply happy that every day, going up and down the stairs, she could see a photo of herself with her two fathers at the corner.

However, both men were doting fathers to their daughter, and upon hearing that it was Qiao Qiao who wanted to arrange it, they immediately...

Although I felt ashamed, I was too embarrassed to say anything more.

But whenever I pass that spot, I subconsciously quicken my pace.

Later, when Qiao Xiaoyun moved from Qiao Changqing's place and went upstairs, she saw this huge "family photo" and was stunned for several minutes.

When Yan Liti noticed her stunned expression and asked her if the photo was good and if it looked great displayed there, Qiao Xiaoyun didn't say anything, but simply gave a thumbs up.