Chapter 2030: Passing of Grandma Ruan

Chapter 2030: Passing of Grandma Ruan

Grandma Ruan has passed away.

This news was brought by a cousin of the Ruan family.

Due to the strained relationship between the Lu family and the Ruan family's village, except for specific individuals like Ah Xiang, anyone trying to enter the Ruan family's village would be stopped at the outskirts.

So this cousin went to Liufang Lane and found Ruan Shi at the tailoring workshop.

After learning about it, Ruan Shi couldn't concentrate on anything else. When she came home for dinner that evening, she seemed absent-minded.

Shu Yu glanced at her several times during dinner, but Ruan Shi didn't notice.

Shu Yu planned to ask Ruan Shi what was bothering her after dinner, but to her surprise, Ruan Shi went straight to Grandma Lu's courtyard after they finished eating.

Naturally, Grandma Lu sensed that something was wrong with Ruan Shi and asked her, "What's the matter? Is there something you need my advice on?"

It had to be said that the person who understood Ruan Shi the most was Grandma Lu.

Ruan Shi didn't easily seek her out unless she encountered something difficult to decide, and when she did, she was secretive.

Ruan Shi took a deep breath and told Grandma Lu about Grandma Ruan's passing.

Grandma Lu was taking a sip of tea when she heard it and choked on it. "What did you say? That old woman is dead?"

"Yes," Ruan Shi replied softly, "It happened this morning."

Grandma Lu suddenly slapped her thigh and burst into laughter. "Good, I always said that evil begets evil, and now Heaven has finally taken her. She..."

She paused halfway through her sentence, realizing that Ruan Shi, who was sitting in front of her, was Grandma Ruan's daughter. She fell silent.

Looking at Ruan Shi, who seemed quite calm, she finally relaxed.

She cleared her throat awkwardly. "Um, so, what do you think? Are you going to observe the mourning period and attend her funeral?"

Ruan Shi's fingers tightened, and she bit her lip slightly.

After a long while, she raised her head to look at Grandma Lu and said, "Mother, I... I don't know."

Ruan Shi's mother-daughter relationship with Grandma Ruan had already become quite indifferent long before she got married. Grandma Ruan had separated her from her daughter and sold her to make a living, which had caused Ruan Shi more than a decade of self-blame and regret.

At one point, she had even considered running to the Ruan family with a knife and ending it all.

During her most difficult and desperate times, it was Lu Erbai and Grandma Lu who had placed their eldest daughter in her arms, helping her calm down gradually.

But Grandma Ruan had shown no remorse or regret for her actions. In recent years, she had even set her sights on Ruan Shi's twins.

Since then, Ruan Shi had lost any affection she had for Grandma Ruan. In fact, she felt less attached to Grandma Ruan than to strangers. If a stranger passed away, she might still sigh a few words. But when she heard the news of Grandma Ruan's death, she felt a sense of relief, as if the shackles on her had suddenly loosened.

So, Ruan Shi initially had no intention of attending Grandma Ruan's funeral.

However, later on, she became somewhat indecisive. She didn't care about Grandma Ruan, but there were several children to consider.

Ah Yu was now the county princess, Ah Rui would pursue his studies and participate in the imperial examinations in the future, and there was also her future son-in-law, who had just completed the autumn emperial examination.

If rumors spread that the Lu family didn't even attend Grandma Ruan's funeral, those who didn't know the full story would think the Lu family was looking down on their poor relatives."