The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 502 Visit
Liu Feifei immediately knew who Mr. Guan was—the founder of the Beijing Qinshu (a type of storytelling with musical accompaniment). Liu Hua also knew that Rosamund Kwan had visited Mr. Guan before and discussed their family genealogy; Rosamund Kwan was a generation younger than Mr. Guan.

Over time, the two families became acquainted, and Liu Feifei would occasionally visit the Guan family. As the old Manchu saying goes, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected.

"Nonsense! This child is only three or four years old. Why did you bring him out? Aren't you afraid something might happen to him?"

The child was very well-behaved in Liu Xiaotong's hands. Liu Hua looked at this future superstar and national sweetheart and went up to tease her with a smile.

“Today I went to visit my brother and sister-in-law, but they happened to be out, so I volunteered to help them take care of their child.”

Rosamund Kwan had no experience taking care of children, so Liu Feifei took the child away without hesitation. To everyone's surprise, the little girl immediately became lively in Liu Feifei's hands and was not shy at all.

"Sister, this child seems to click with you."

"That's right. Who's like you, so careless? Do you even know how to take care of a child? Her parents are also incredibly bold to let you take care of her."

"I'm not as bad as you say. Didn't I take care of Qiaotong when she was little?"

"She's tough and resilient, you can do whatever you want to her. Look at this child, she's like a porcelain doll."

The joy on Liu Qiaotong's face collapsed at a visible speed. So love can disappear. I used to be the little princess of the family, but now I've become thick-skinned.

Liu Feifei carried the child around the alley. The child looked excited. The neighbors around her saw the child and joked, "Hey, is this Liu's third son? How come we didn't hear about him at all? He just showed up like that."

"Nonsense, this is a relative's child." Liu Feifei said with a smile, "My parents have something to do, so they left him here with me for a while."

After wandering around outside for a while, Liu Feifei returned with the child in her arms.

“People have money now,” Liu Feifei said with a smile. “There are crowds of people outside, they’re obviously tourists from other places. What’s so fun about Nanluoguxiang? If you want to have fun, go to the Forbidden City or the Great Wall. What’s the point of squeezing into the hutongs?”

"Isn't hutong culture also part of Beijing culture? I heard that the higher-ups are considering designating this area as a tourist attraction." Liu Hua explained with a smile, "If it's officially designated as a tourist attraction, there will be even more people from outside, even more crowds."

"How about we move to the Asian Games Village?" Liu Feifei suggested. "If this place becomes a tourist attraction, with people coming and going all day long, there will never be any peace and quiet. If this continues, I'll definitely develop a nervous breakdown."

Liu Hua nodded: "That works too."

They bought the villa in the Asian Games Village a long time ago. They occasionally go back to stay there when they have nothing to do, to change their environment, but most of the time they still live in the courtyard house.

That evening, the Guan family's little baby was picked up and taken away, and the family's nanny began packing her luggage, preparing to move.

Liu Hua's move was much simpler. At that time, there weren't many professional moving companies, so Liu Hua directly arranged for several trucks and thirty or forty movers from his company.

The family's nanny was in charge of cleaning, and the workers were in charge of moving things. In just half a day, the huge courtyard house was cleaned up again.

If their whole family were to move to the Asian Games Village, Rosamund Kwan would be the happiest.

She also has a villa in the Asian Games Village. When she doesn't live at Liu Hua's house, she lives alone in the Asian Games Village. Her relationship with her neighbors isn't very good, so she sometimes feels empty inside.

"That's great, sister. Now that you're moving in, I'll have company, and I won't feel so empty at night." Liu Feifei said irritably, "You should get married soon and find a reliable husband, then you won't feel so empty."

Rosamund Kwan was indifferent to this topic. Her early romantic experiences were colorful. Although she later toned it down, since becoming an entrepreneur, her standards have become much higher, and ordinary men really don't meet her standards.

"I also want to get married, but there's no suitable one."

Liu Feifei was speechless about her younger sister. She didn't care about her own sister this much. She thought that Guan Zhilin had come from Hong Kong to the mainland to make a living, far from home and helpless, so she had to take good care of him.

It's a pity that all her care and love have been ignored by this younger sister. It's not that Rosamund Kwan is ungrateful, but she lacks stability and is not suitable for family life. In the past two years, she has rarely urged Rosamund Kwan to get married.

Liu Qiaotong wasn't really happy about it. The snacks she liked were in Nanluoguxiang, just a few steps from her home.

Now that I've moved to an upscale community, surrounded by fine restaurants, I don't feel as happy and carefree as before.

So, after much pleading and cajoling, Liu Hua made him a small electric scooter, not the kind sold on the market, but one with the highest safety standards. So he could ride this small electric scooter around everywhere, much easier than his previous imported road bike that cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Liu Hua's move into the Asian Games Village villa area did not cause much of a stir because he acted very discreetly, but he was never one to be discreet.

These past two days he's been drawing at home, and when he gets tired he takes a walk in the villa area.

This public appearance immediately attracted a lot of attention, as most of the residents in this villa area are either very wealthy or powerful.

Although they did not know Liu Hua personally, they knew of him from various sources.

"So it turns out that Academician Liu lives in the penthouse of our villa complex." A wealthy businessman chatted with a friend over tea: "I said, when I wanted to buy the penthouse, the salesperson said it was already taken. I asked them to help me make contact, but they refused. It turns out this guy is someone important."

“We’re in luck! That guy is involved in the production and design of the most advanced technologies in our country.” His friend excitedly took a sip of tea. “If we can get along well with him, we won’t have to worry about business in the future. Maybe we can even switch to high technology. These days, you can’t survive without some technical skills.”

"That's exactly what I was thinking. I plan to visit you at a suitable time."

As the saying goes, action speaks louder than words. While the two of them were still planning and choosing a suitable time, someone had already come to visit them.

"Ding dong."

The nanny opened the door and saw an unfamiliar person standing outside. She cautiously asked, "Hello, who are you looking for?"

"Hello, I'm your neighbor. I noticed that someone has moved in, so I came over to pay a visit."

As the saying goes, "everyone who enters the door is a guest," and since the man was carrying a gift, the nanny had no choice but to let him in and even made him a cup of tea.

"Please wait a moment, my husband is working, I'll go tell him."

(End of this chapter)