Chapter 2072 - 2070: Intersecting Time and Space, Transformed Lives (18)
Chapter 2072: Chapter 2070: Intersecting Time and Space, Transformed Lives (18)
The Qin Family Old Residence had been sold long ago, back in the year 1989 when the incident occurred, it was sold to someone else.
Qin Xuan moved to another neighborhood with his wife and daughter, along with Grandma Qin’s portrait.
Shen Manru had long since stopped working, taking unpaid leave to focus on caring for her daughter, Qin Xiaoyu. Meanwhile, Qin Yize had been busy these years collecting evidence and striving for his career, rarely at home. The only thing he could do was send them money.
But these years, under Second Uncle Qin’s oppression, the Qin family’s main branch had fallen into decline.
Third Uncle Qin was a selfish person, one who only cared for his own troubles and not others’, especially after Old Grand Master Qin’s passing.
After the deaths of Old Grand Master Qin and Grandma Qin, the Qin Family suddenly became scattered like loose sand, even with Qin Yize’s extraordinary capabilities, he struggled to handle it. Managing to maintain things as they are now is already quite good.
Thinking of this, Gu Qiaoqiao felt pangs of heartache.
She was different from that other her. That other her, despite having affection for Qin Yize, managed to suppress it intensely. Yet, the current her and Qin Yize were a loving couple like enviable mandarin ducks, only envying being together, not immortality.
So, she couldn’t do anything.
And Gu Qiaoqiao also knew that the other her wouldn’t do anything either; even Qin Yize who returned to that lifetime, knows everything in his heart.
Though this talk is somewhat confusing.
But, even though they are the same her, they are ultimately not the same her.
It’s as if now, she cannot be carefree and raise children with Qin Yize, and the other her also couldn’t treat the children she bore as her own.
It’s a very marvelous feeling.
The parties involved understand, but others will never comprehend, nor can it be articulated. So even if it’s a messy account, a tangled mess, it still needs to be unraveled bit by bit. After untangling, it’ll return to normalcy one day, hoping that day isn’t too far away.
At this moment, it was already afternoon.
Gu Qiaoqiao entered the space again, cleared her mind and practiced the fourth layer of the Heaven-reaching Talisman Incantation for a while. She felt a bit of enlightenment, seemingly a barrier had been opened.
So her speed of enlightenment was a bit faster than in the other world. Gu Qiaoqiao didn’t know why, but she welcomed it, although she still had many things to do now.
An hour later, Gu Qiaoqiao came out of the space.
Chang Qing didn’t know when he would return, but guessed it should be within the month.
As for her little uncle, almost three months later, which means in December, she wondered if she could find a way to let him come out early because the wheel of fate had returned to its starting point again, she couldn’t let her little uncle and Chang Qing pay such a great price because of it.
Gu Qiaoqiao dressed carefully, locked the door, and left this neighborhood. This neighborhood was very close to the Lijing Ho Hotel, five minutes by bus.
Every day she left early and returned late, not familiar with the neighbors here.
Especially like her profession, most are up early and work late, so a few uncles and aunties walking towards her were curious to look at her, yet didn’t know she’d been living here for years.
Gu Qiaoqiao had no time to greet them and quickly brushed past them.
But at this moment, an aunt recognized Gu Qiaoqiao. She lived in the same building but didn’t have much interaction, just a nodding acquaintance.
The aunt’s surname was Jiang, everyone called her Auntie Jiang.
She vigorously waved at Gu Qiaoqiao’s back.
Still shouting, "Gu Qiaoqiao, Gu Qiaoqiao, wait a moment."
Gu Qiaoqiao heard the aunt’s shout too and stopped abruptly, turned to look at her, pondering in her mind, then remembered it was Auntie Jiang living downstairs from her.
Gu Qiaoqiao couldn’t let Auntie Jiang walk over, she quickly turned back, reached her, curled her lips into a slight, forced smile, and used her gaze to ask what the matter was.
"Oh Qiaoqiao, just now I heard Old Loo, the doorkeeper, say someone delivered a letter for you. Since you haven’t been seen these days, that letter’s been with Old Loo."
A letter?
Gu Qiaoqiao frowned, opened her mouth but couldn’t speak, pointed at herself. Auntie Jiang naturally knew she was mute, so also roughly guessed what Gu Qiaoqiao wanted to say, shaking her head, "How could I know, go see the doorkeeper."
Gu Qiaoqiao gratefully smiled at Auntie Jiang, turned, and walked away.
In the autumn breeze came Auntie Jiang’s sigh along with an old friend, "Ah, such a pity, such a pretty girl, why can’t she speak..."
Gu Qiaoqiao’s lips curled into a bitter smile, then she reached to touch her throat. Presumably, in a few days, she would be able to speak again.
When Gu Qiaoqiao arrived at the doorkeeper’s, another person was on duty.
The neighborhood’s security was pretty good; though entry and exit wasn’t registered, the doorkeepers roughly had an idea, but apparently, there hadn’t been one before she moved in and the doorkeeper’s room was established afterwards.
Uncle Loo was the head of the reception room here.
A retired worker from some unit, straightforward personality, always took a big thermos to drink water, liked to use a magnifying glass to read newspaper, Gu Qiaoqiao received a warm smile from him whenever she came and went, though she hadn’t seen him since returning.
At the moment, Uncle Loo was still away.
Gu Qiaoqiao looked at the other person, she didn’t know this person’s name, Gu Qiaoqiao blinked, she didn’t know sign language because she rarely communicated with others, it wasn’t needed.
But she scanned the doorkeeper’s room, then pointed at Uncle Loo’s photo on the wall, her eyes full of doubt as she looked at this person.
Unexpectedly, the guard understood, he knew Gu Qiaoqiao too, they just hadn’t spoken, but he knew she was mute.
People generally have a special sympathy and patience for such people.
He quickly said, "Uncle Loo has matters at home, took a two-day leave, should be back tomorrow."
Gu Qiaoqiao wished she could use her hands to ask him if he knew about the letter because she was also puzzled who would send her a letter and not mail it to Lijing Ho.
Was it Qin Yize?
After glancing at this guard, Gu Qiaoqiao decided not to exert herself to make this effort, firstly whether the guard could understand, but secondly, Gu Qiaoqiao felt Uncle Loo was a cautious person, if the letter were with him, he would definitely deliver it personally, not through unrelated people, so she’d wait for Uncle Loo to return to discuss it.
Gu Qiaoqiao politely nodded to him, then turned and left the neighborhood’s gate, stood for a while at the entrance, beneath the Heaven-reaching Talisman Incantation everything nearby was under her control.