The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1534 leave

Chapter 1534: 1534 leave

He shouldn’t have made wild guesses after witnessing just one scene and misunderstood Yue’er.

Xiao Yishan wished he could slap himself as he ran toward the Xiao Mansion.

"Second brother..." Xiao Qinghe was puzzled by his actions, but as he too was about to return to the Mansion, he had the servant Liu Sheng push his wheelchair and follow.

When Xiao Yishan arrived at the Xiao Mansion, the main gate was tightly shut. He knocked on the door, but no one responded.

Qinghe caught up later and, looking at the closed main gate, suddenly thought of Qingyue’s instruction to take care of himself and a bad premonition rose in his heart, "Second brother, is there no one in the Mansion?"

"It seems not." Xiao Yishan also found it odd, "Where is the gatekeeper? Could it be that there’s not a single person in the Mansion?"

At that moment, a boy about ten years old approached Xiao Qinghe and asked politely, "Are you the physician Xiao Qinghe?"

"I am." Qinghe nodded.

"This is from a young lady who looks like a fairy, she asked me to give it to you." The boy pulled out a letter and a set of keys and handed them to Xiao Qinghe.

Qinghe anxiously tore open the letter and collapsed into his wheelchair.

"Fourth brother, what’s wrong?" Xiao Yishan snatched the letter from his hand, read through it, and his eyes flashed with disbelief, "How could Yue’er just leave like this!"

In the letter, Su Qingyue wrote that she had sold the forty three-storey shops with courtyards, including the New Moon Medicine Hall, New Moon Cake House, and New Moon Restaurant, leaving only a Xiao Mansion, which she transferred to Xiao Qinghe.

That set of keys was for the gate of the Xiao Mansion and the keys of each room and courtyard. She also placed the property deed of the Xiao Mansion for him in the Elegant Garden room.

"Hehehe..." Xiao Qinghe let out a mournful laugh, "How could she not leave? Does she have a responsibility to you, Xiao Yishan, or to me, Xiao Qinghe?"

"That’s not what I meant." Xiao Yishan gritted his teeth, "I haven’t apologized to her yet, she... she at least should have said goodbye before leaving."

"What would it matter if she had?" Qinghe’s pale face shed two lines of tears, "Third brother went to the capital, she wanted to leave, and in the end, I couldn’t keep her. I also had no right to keep her, saying goodbye would only increase the sorrow."

"Fourth brother, are you okay?" Xiao Yishan looked at Xiao Qinghe with concern.

"I’m fine." He smiled bitterly, "Actually, she did say goodbye to me. She told me to take care of myself, and I didn’t realize at the time that she had already decided to leave."

He took the letter from second brother’s hand in a daze; it was written by Qingyue for him, and he wanted to preserve it carefully.

With the key, he opened the gate and wheeled himself into the yard.

Nothing had changed in the yard since he left.

The wheelchair rolled across the ground as he looked around; all the furniture was still in place.

Xiao Yishan followed behind him, looking at every plant and tree in the Mansion with a heavy heart.

This home... ultimately had... dispersed.

Nothing in the Mansion was missing, except for the servants. The letter said that all the servants had been dismissed.

"Master Chang and his servants are also gone." Xiao Yishan went around the Elegant Garden, "Their luggage is gone too. Yue’er and Maid Yinzhu’s clothes are no longer in their rooms. It seems they have truly left."

Xiao Qinghe glanced at the young servant Liu Sheng beside him, "You should go too."

Kneeling, Liu Sheng said, "Master, I won’t leave! Master, you don’t know, I swore in front of the young lady that I would protect you to the death, please don’t send me away."

"So Qingyue had you make a vow." Xiao Qinghe pulled at his lip, "She really did think of everything."