Shangguan Grandma said with a smile, "Your Sister Ni Yang is right, Goudan, don’t be overly polite, take whatever you want to eat."
"Thank you, Grandma."
Shangguan Grandma continued, "Yangyang, didn’t your mom, your dad, and Little Yunyun come with you?"
It was then that Ni Yang remembered the matter at hand and replied, "Grandma, I came to take you back with us to live together."
"To live with you all?" Shangguan Grandma was taken aback.
"Yes." Ni Yang nodded and added, "Grandma, now both my maternal grandparents have moved with us to Jinghua Village, so my parents asked me to bring you over as well. It will be livelier with more people living together."
Shangguan Grandma hesitated, "Yangyang, I’m quite comfortable living here. Moving over to your place, wouldn’t it be a bit inconvenient?" She really didn’t want to trouble the younger generation.
Ni Yang said with a smile, "There’s no inconvenience at all, that’s your home too! It’s much livelier when everyone lives together! The cement road in our village is already fixed. Whenever you miss home, you can just take a car back to visit. It’s very convenient."
Shangguan Grandma still hesitated.
Ni Yang continued, "Grandma, Yunyun has been talking about you these past days. If you move over, you’ll be able to see Yunyun every day. Also, you don’t have to worry about my brother and Sister Xiaoxi at all. There are so many rooms at home, when my brother and Sister Xiaoxi come back for holidays, they can choose whichever room they want to stay in."
Ni Yun was the youngest child in the family and the granddaughter Shangguan Grandma loved the most. After hearing what Ni Yang said, Shangguan Grandma immediately replied, "Alright alright! Then I’ll move over! I’m going to make a call right now to inform Xiaoxu and Xiaoxi, oh right, and I need to tell your aunt too..."
As she spoke, Shangguan Grandma excitedly went off to make the calls to everyone.
Not only did Shangguan Grandma inform Shangguan Xu and Shangguan Xi, but she also called all her relatives, unable to stop smiling, "Oh, the kids are so filial. I said I wouldn’t go, but they insisted I come, it seems I really have to go..."
Though Shangguan Grandma was hesitant before going, she was very happy in the end.
There isn’t an elderly person who doesn’t want to live with their own children.
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