After the divorce, my ex-husband and son lined up to pursue me.

Chapter 48 She's still a bit short.

The next day, due to a sudden car accident, the old man decisively canceled his birthday banquet.

With his grandson and granddaughter-in-law both injured, he had no heart to celebrate his birthday. So he took the whole family into the mountains early in the morning to pay respects to his late wife.

Unfortunately, the weather wasn't cooperating; it started drizzling early in the morning.

The Ruan family ancestral graves, with their imposing tombstones, stand like departed elders, silently expressing their sorrow, as if returning to the world to see their loved ones one last time through the rain.

Ruan Chengzong and Xi Yuehua arrived yesterday. The couple went straight to the ancestral home. As the sons, after their maternal uncles and aunts finished their ancestral worship, they immediately stepped forward and led a group of their peers to kowtow, offer incense, and present flowers.

Uncle De, along with several servants, was also burning yellow paper money and gold ingots on the side.

The raging flames and billowing smoke couldn't shield the viewer from the rain, and brought tears to many eyes.

When it was the grandchildren's turn, Ruan Muhuai should have taken the lead, but considering that he had just been in a car accident, the old man had told him on the phone not to come, and that he could come to see his grandmother once he recovered.

result……

Ruan Muhuai arrived just in time, rushing as fast as he could.

"grandmother……"

"I've brought your great-grandson to see you..."

As soon as he spoke, Ruan Muhuai's voice trembled.

He closed his eyes, suppressing his emotions, and pulled Ruan Yuanchao, gesturing for him to kneel before the tombstone. Ruan Yuanchao had been kneeling for almost the entire day yesterday, and no one came to his rescue. He was feeling extremely frustrated and burst into tears, but he stubbornly refused to kneel.

"Great-grandmother! They're all bullying me..."

Ruan Yuanchao broke free from her father in one swift step, ran straight to the tombstone, touched the old lady's photo on it, and burst into tears: "Great-Grandma, come back! Come back and see me... They bullied me, and you didn't care..."

"You've only been gone a short while, and they're already treating me like this..."

Those few words deepened the old man's grief, and his eyes instantly reddened. He sat trembling before the grave, saying, "My dear wife, how could you bear to leave me like this..."

In an instant, the atmosphere of mourning reached its peak of sorrow.

The elders persuaded the old man, and Ruan Muhuai, no longer in the mood to care about his rebellious son, led his peers to kowtow in respect.

One group of people knelt down and then stood up, and the ceremony was basically over. Uncle De and a few servants stayed to continue burning paper money, and the family members could leave.

But the old man sat in front of the grave and refused to leave, his eyes filled with sorrow as he stroked the photo on the tombstone, tears streaming down his face.

……

After finally persuading the old man to leave, on the way back to the ancestral home, the gloomy sky suddenly cleared up, the rain stopped, and the distant mountains, rejuvenated, stood majestically. Birds flew through the forest, and a brilliant rainbow appeared in the mountain stream.

"Grandpa, the sun is out..."

Ruan Muhuai closed the umbrella and turned to help the old man walk slowly: "You see, it's like Grandma doesn't want you to be too sad."

"Yes." The old man sighed deeply, unconsciously tightening his grip on Ruan Muhuai's hand: "She's watching over me from heaven, waiting for me too."

The old man promised the old lady that he wouldn't commit suicide or take his own life. He was to live a long and healthy life until his death, otherwise the old lady wouldn't come to pick him up, and would get angry and ignore him.

The old man smiled bitterly, suppressing his sorrow. "Young couples grow old together, Mu Huai, you still don't understand the deeper meaning. Grandpa knows you resent me, and you also resent your grandmother and second grandfather for insisting on making you marry Jiang Xia..."

Ruan Muhuai paused slightly, but quickly and without any qualms, he comforted her, "No, I know you're all doing this for my own good."

The old man shook his head and sighed softly, continuing to walk slowly along the mountain path towards the ancestral home. "I raised you. Don't your grandmother and I know your personality and character? I know what kind of woman you like."

When Ruan Muhuai was very young, around the same age as Ruan Yuanchao, his grandfather took him to the grasslands to train horses, originally intending to buy a few to bring back and enrich the family's horse farm.

I happened to see a large herd of wild horses galloping across the grassland...

"I want the black one!"

"It's so beautiful! And it runs so fast..."

Ruan Muhuai immediately took a liking to a fine horse behind the lead horse; it was jet black and valiant and handsome.

But that horse was too proud and wild. Many horse trainers at the horse farms tried to tame it but failed every time. How could Ruan Muhuai, a child of only a few years old, possibly succeed?

After repeated setbacks, the old man thought it would dampen Ruan Muhuai's fighting spirit, since he was still just a child. Unexpectedly, Ruan Muhuai went to ask those experienced horse trainers for help and worked hard to learn from them. He even begged the old man and the old lady not to leave yet and to stay on the grassland for a few more days.

That year, they lived on the grassland for three months. Ruan Muhuai kept trying, but he was constantly thrown off his horse and fell to the ground. In the end, his leg was broken. The old lady felt sorry for him and forced him to return to Haicheng, but he still refused to give up.

A year later, I went to the grasslands again...

He went every year until he was ten years old. He saw with his own eyes that the black horse became the leader of the wild horse herd, and he knew that it was impossible to tame it and take it away, but he still couldn't help but yearn for it.

The old man asked, "Why? You have so many horses at home, all of them purebred, and you like them very much. Why do you insist on having this one?"

Ruan Muhuai frowned and fell silent.

A long time passed, so long that the old man and some local friends had forgotten about it while drinking tea and chatting. But then Ruan Muhuai suddenly came up to him and said, "Grandpa, I love the process of conquering!"

"I love rebellious types! They have backbone and character, that's what I like!"

At that moment, the joy that danced in ten-year-old Ruan Muhuai's eyes revealed the eagerness of someone in a position of power to control and conquer everything, a feeling that the old man could never forget.

He doesn't just like a horse; he likes people like that too.

Just like his rivals, they were evenly matched in the business world, but they had a good relationship in private because they admired each other and appreciated each other.

Ruan Muhuai makes friends in this way, and the same applies to the women he desires.

"Grandpa knows you like Xin Rou..." The old man spoke earnestly without blaming or scolding her, only speaking frankly: "She has an indomitable spirit in her bones, and she perseveres in everything she does, but this spirit can't overcome the family behind her, and... she's also a bit lacking."

The old man didn't say exactly what was missing.

But as a grandfather, and an outsider who watched his grandson experience relationships, the old man had a keen eye and saw things more clearly than anyone else.

"If you could be a little more clear-headed, you'd understand." The old man's words were brief, then he looked at Ruan Muhuai with a profound expression: "And Jiang Xia, do you really understand her?"

(End of this chapter)