Reborn back to the time before I sold my blood to support my scumbag boyfriend's college educat

Grandma Zhou and Xia Yichu chatted as they ate, while Grandpa Zhou and Pei Shizhou occasionally chimed in. Lin Qiujuan also ate with them. She didn't interrupt, but quietly listened while eating.

"Xiao Chu, how is it? Is the food to your liking?"

Forty minutes later, Grandma Zhou finished eating, put down her chopsticks, and asked a question.

"Grandma Zhou, I'm already stuffed."

Xia Yichu wasn't lying; all the food was delicious. She thought they wouldn't be able to finish seven dishes and a soup, but the five of them ate everything.

"That's good. Come with me to the yard to digest our food, and we'll have tea when we get back. Your Grandpa Zhou has a lot of good tea. Come with me to look at them later, and take whichever one you like."

"Yes, take whatever you like."

Grandpa Zhou, unusually generous, said that the tea was bought for him by Pei Shizhou, as he really enjoys drinking tea.

"Okay, then I'll thank Grandpa Zhou first. My uncle also likes to drink tea."

"I know, last year your grandfather took half of my tea and said he wanted to give it to your uncle. A year has passed in the blink of an eye. Time flies. Xiaohui has been gone for almost twenty years."

Grandpa Zhou said sadly, while Grandma Zhou seemed dazed. Yes! Her daughter was so young and died so tragically. If it weren't for A-Zhou, she and her husband definitely wouldn't have made it through.

Xia Yichu looked pitifully at the two elderly people in the Zhou family. If they knew that Zhou Wenhui's car accident was not an accident, but that Pei Shizhou's father had someone run her over, she wondered if they could bear it.

She thought it was probably impossible. In her previous life, when Pei Shizhou's uncle, Zhou Wenbin, found out, the first thing he did was to find a way to kill Pei Feng's family.

Xia Yichu noticed Pei Shizhou's unpredictable expression; he was probably the one who couldn't get over it the most. When he was six years old, he watched helplessly as his mother was hit by a truck. His mother pushed him away with all her might, but she couldn't avoid it herself.

That's right, the truck was coming for Zhou Wenhui, how could she possibly have a chance to escape? What she couldn't understand the most was, wasn't Pei Feng afraid that his son, Pei Shizhou, would also be hit by the truck? He actually attacked them when they were out together.

The TV show in my past life said that Pei Shizhou often had nightmares and his temper became increasingly volatile. Especially when his uncle killed Pei Feng's family and was arrested, everyone speculated that Pei Shizhou would do everything he could to save his uncle.

But his uncle, perhaps fearing he would be implicated, didn't give him a chance to save the person. He suddenly died in court, reportedly from poisoning. He was locked up in jail for so many days; no one knows how he was poisoned, and the news didn't mention it.

Seeing that the atmosphere was tense, Xia Yichu pulled Grandma Zhou aside and said, "Grandma Zhou, didn't you say you wanted to go to the yard to digest your food? Let's go!"

"Okay, A-Zhou, talk to your grandpa for a while."

Pei Shizhou nodded, and only then did Grandma Zhou feel relieved enough to go out with Xia Yichu.

They ate quite early; it was not yet six o'clock, and the sky was still bright. The flowers and plants in the yard looked especially vibrant in the afterglow. Grandma Zhou held Xia Yichu's hand as they walked slowly.

"Grandma Zhou, how did you and Grandpa Zhou know that my uncle was drugged? My grandparents didn't know."

What intrigued Xia Yichu was that even Pei Shizhou knew about this, yet the Xia family was unaware.

"It's a long story. Your grandparents received news that someone was going to report on the Xia family. In those days, you could easily get into trouble if you weren't careful, so they didn't dare to make a fuss. Your grandfather immediately applied to go to the Northwest."

You spent a whole day making arrangements for your aunt, but you didn't dare come to us, afraid of implicating us.

Your Grandpa Zhou and I only found out about their departure the day they left. Your grandfather wrote us two letters, telling us not to contact them, not to inquire about their whereabouts, and not to do anything else.

For many years afterward, the two of them indeed lost contact with them. It wasn't until they returned to Kyoto that they learned how much suffering the two had endured. When they first came back, they were dark-skinned and thin, looking more than ten years older than them, and they almost didn't recognize them.

"Grandma Zhou, do you know now who wanted to report the Xia family?"

"I don't know. It took a lot of effort for everyone to get your grandparents transferred back. We didn't dare to ask about what happened back then at first, and after so many years, we still couldn't find out."

Reporting and whistleblowing was all too common in that era; people would report others to avoid being implicated. It could also be used to attack rivals, or simply to vent their anger.

Students reported teachers, and similar incidents occurred between colleagues and relatives. Anyway, things were very chaotic back then; your grandparents only heard rumors, and it's possible that the person was still gathering evidence and hadn't had a chance to report them.

Your Xia family has a relative who is more than five degrees of kinship living abroad. Before that person went abroad, he had a good relationship with your grandparents.

Actually, your grandparents were worried that others would use this to their advantage, but then they thought that very few people knew about it, only the Xia family. So they didn't take it to heart and didn't know where those people found out about it.

Xia Yichu wondered if it was Wang Fengxian, but she denied it. Even if Wang Fengxian knew about this, she would only use it to threaten the Xia family for benefits. Besides, if the report was investigated and problems were found, she, as a relative by marriage to the Xia family, would not have an easy time either.

"When your uncle received the news and came back, your grandparents had been gone for several days. They were afraid that your uncle would worry, so they kept it from him. I don't know how he found out, but he rushed home in a hurry."

He came to my house in the middle of the night to ask about the situation. Your Grandpa Zhou resented him for abandoning A-Zhou's mother and said he didn't know how to send him away. He just wanted to make things difficult for Guo-Hua and get revenge for Xiao-Hui.

Later, I heard from others that before your uncle came to my house, he visited all of the Xia family's relatives, and without exception, they all refused to see him.

They only came to my house out of desperation. Actually, your grandparents left a letter at my house, saying that if Guohua came back, give him the letter; if he didn't, they shouldn't worry about him. It was only then that I found out that Guohua had been tricked by that old hag Wang Fengxian.

"Grandma Zhou, do you mean my uncle said it himself?"

"That's right. Your Grandpa Zhou scolded him for being a heartless man who had ruined Xiao Hui's life and wanted to kick him out. Guo Hua heard that Xiao Hui was having a hard time and wanted to know how she was doing, so he begged us to tell him. Only then did he tell us the truth."

"Grandma Zhou, here's what my uncle said to you back then."

"He didn't go into the specific details, only that he drank the water Wang Fengxian gave him, and then somehow ended up sleeping with Yang Yunxia."

Her daughter, who had been married to Xia Guohua for a month, heard the news of Yang Yunxia's pregnancy. Devastated, she drank too much and got drunk, then slept with Pei Feng, who had been pursuing her, and a month later became pregnant with A Zhou.

The two had just gotten married, and they didn't like Pei Feng. Grandma Zhou had seen too many people like Pei Feng, and she could see the ambition in his eyes clearly.

She told her daughter not to be foolish, and that they would figure out a way to secretly give birth somewhere, and that Pei Feng couldn't marry him. Her daughter said she wanted to give the child a home, and didn't want others to have a father while he didn't.

Despite the tense atmosphere, the two still got married. Grandpa and Grandma Zhou were wary of Pei Feng. They only gave their daughter a small apartment with two rooms and a kitchen, which was enough for the two of them.