Please Love Me, Mr. George novel Chapter 412

He stared and nodded, but said nothing more.

Clariana looked up at me, then at Samuel Lewis, “Grandpa, what festival is today?”

Samuel Lewis looked at her, his eyes soft, “Today is the last day of the year.”

Clariana said vaguely, “Does that mean the whole family has to be together?”

Samuel Lewis nodded.

Clariana looked at me, thought for a moment, and then said, “Mom, why aren’t grandpa and uncle here?”

I paused and smiled, “Grandpa and uncle have something to do. Your aunt has a baby and can’t go out, so they have to stay at home.”

“So when are we going to see the baby?” Clariana talked a lot and asked a lot of questions.

Samuel Lewis patiently answered her questions, and I got up and went to the kitchen. Yara was preparing dough, Dennis was making dumplings and Luna was washing vegetables.

Dennis smiled when he saw me, “Can you do it?”

I nodded, walked over to him, washed my hands, and made dumplings with him, “Grandma used to teach me that when I was a kid.”

Yara looked at me, “Didn’t you grow up in the South? Few girls in the south know how to make dumplings. The same goes for the older generation. Not many of them can make dumplings. I remember when I was a kid my mom couldn’t either.”

“Maybe my grandmother had been to many places, she would make dumplings by herself every New Year, and she always made a lot. And she also liked stews, she didn’t really like typical southern dishes, so we had mostly northern stews.”

Yara smiled, “It sounds like your grandmother is a real northerner!”

I smiled and looked down to make dumplings. “It seemed that she had never told me the story of her youth, and all I remember is the time when she took me to live in HL Area.”

Luna overheard our conversation, then she walked over, looked at me and said, “Clara, have you ever thought about it? Your grandmother is an old lady who has no relatives or friends in HL Area, but she knew the richest man in Newton Town, the Old Mr. George, and she trusted you to him. Did the Old Mr. George tell you how they met?”

I hesitated for a moment, then shook my head slightly. “No.” I’d never really thought about these things.

Indeed, my grandmother had no family or friends in HL Area, and seldom approached the neighbors in the alley.

When I was young, I heard from Diana’s mother that my grandmother came to HL Area in her fifties. As a middle-aged woman, she bought a small yard in HL Area and lived there by herself. Then she picked me up by accident and raised me. After a long time, the people in the alley had no curiosity, and no one had asked her where her home was!

“Do you know your grandmother’s name?” Yara asked with some curiosity.

I thought about it and said “Violet Kennedy. I’ve been using her last name.”

When I thought of this, I thought of Leo. Why did Leo’s father entrust Leo to an old man?

Of all the rich families in HL Area, why did he choose my grandmother?

Luna paused and looked at me, “In that sandalwood box, your grandmother left you a fine piece of jade. Have you opened it?”

I shook my head and looked at Dennis unconsciously, “I can’t open that box.”

Dennis paused slightly, “We’ll open it tonight.”

I nodded, a little curious.

After lunch, Luna and Yara somehow agreed to have a barbecue in the courtyard that afternoon, since it was New Year’s Eve.

Dennis and I just picked up a lot of groceries at the supermarket, and we had enough food.