Chapter 101 Thank You, I Love You_1
Wu Qiyi’s eyes had always been sharp, and with her strong powers of observation, it didn’t take her long to see through the old lady’s character. After previous conversations with the elderly woman, she believed that this old lady must be someone with a very stubborn temperament and an incredibly strong heart.
She felt the same way about herself; thus, Wu Qiyi believed that the letters had not been destroyed but rather kept hidden away.
To your surprise, the old lady actually nodded in agreement and invited you inside.
The house had no special decorations and was the most ordinary of homes. The furniture inside seemed to have seen many years, simple and unadorned yet conveying the unique charm of that era.
When the old lady held a cookie tin you often saw in your childhood, the ghost beside her couldn’t help but exclaim, "Old woman, you actually kept it, these letters weren’t burned?"
The old lady placed the cookie tin on the spotted solid wood table with a flaking red paint, and with her wrinkled hands, she gently caressed the tin, her eyes filled with endless nostalgia, "As one grows old, one does like to reminisce about the past. This cookie tin was given to me by that messy old man on my twentieth birthday. That old codger wasn’t romantic at all, not even knowing what I liked. He roamed around Eastern Sea City and in the end, he only bought me a box of cookies, claiming they were imported from Belgium."
Despite saying this, the old lady’s eyes were already turning red.
"The cookies were too sweet, and I don’t like sweet things. I gave them all to the kids next door, which made that old man so angry he didn’t talk to me for a month." As she spoke, the old lady couldn’t help but laugh.
This laugh was tinged with bitterness, but it was mostly filled with sweetness.
The sweetness was like wine; it required time to accumulate, to settle. The older it got, the richer it became, and the more fragrant.