Hua Qingqing was born to Hua Dingzong's original wife Liu.
Due to Liu's frailty and sickness, she passed away in the second year after giving birth to the child.
Later, Hua Dingzong continued to marry Mr. He, who gave birth to two sons and a daughter for him.
The daughter is Hua Manman, and the other two sons are studying in Taixue, and they only go home on holidays.
He was born in a family of generals, far less delicate and delicate than Liu's, and she is more straightforward in speaking and doing things, so the old lady, the second wife, and the third lady don't like her very much.
For the daughter left by her original partner Liu, He doesn't hate her, but she definitely doesn't like her too much.
The He family will never miss anything that should be given to Hua Qingqing.
But don't think about the extra.
He's behavior made the old lady disliked even more.
The old lady felt that Mrs. He did not treat Hua Qingqing as her own daughter, and that Mrs. He's stepmother was incompetent, so she took Hua Qingqing to her side and took care of her personally.
Therefore, among the grandchildren, the old lady's favorite is the eldest granddaughter Hua Qingqing.
The old lady wanted to reduce Hua Manman's dowry in order to leave more dowry for Hua Qingqing.
But He and Hua Dingzong refused to give in, and did not let the old lady get what she wanted, which made the old lady hold her breath all the time.
Time passed quickly, and it was the second day of junior high school in a blink of an eye.
Tomorrow, Hua Manman will have to marry to Prince Zhao's Mansion. According to the rules, she has to say goodbye to her grandmother and parents today.
She went to Changshengyuan early in the morning.
The old lady didn't like Mrs. He, and she didn't like to see Mrs. He's children very much.
In the past, every time Hua Manman came to the Changshengyuan, she could not get a good face from the old lady. If she made a slight mistake, she would be severely reprimanded by the old lady, so that Hua Manman hated coming to the Changshengyuan even more.
Occasionally, she was forced to come here, and she felt restless as if she had a needle stick under her buttocks.
The maid told Hua Manman.
"The old lady has just woken up and is still washing up. Second Miss, please wait a moment."
Hua Manman had no choice but to stand outside the door and wait. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a little white cat coming out of the flowers.
Her eyes lit up, she immediately squatted down, beckoned to the little white cat, and let out a cat meow.
The little white cat tilted its head and glanced at her, as if it sensed that she was not malicious, so it walked in front of Hua Manman with light catwalks.
Hua Manman picked up the little white cat, stroked its head, scratched its chin, and smoothed its fur.
The little white cat was very comfortable being touched, and couldn't help purring, flicking its tail accordingly, very comfortable.
Suddenly came a stern question from behind.
"What are you doing?"
Hua Manman was taken aback, put down the little white cat in a hurry, stood up and turned around, and saw the old lady looking at her expressionlessly.
She quickly bowed her knees and performed a Wanfu salute.
"grandmother."
The old lady's gaze was like a knife, and she swept Hua Manman from head to toe, her eyes were full of criticism.
Seeing that Hua Manman's clothes were stained with white cat hair, the old lady was about to reprimand her, but the little white cat walked up to the old lady and rubbed against her feet, very affectionately.
The old lady swallowed the reprimand abruptly.
She whispered to the maid who was following her.
"Send Xiaobai to the eldest girl, and tell her that since you want to keep a cat, you have to take good care of it, and don't let it run around again."
"Here."
The servant girl bent down and picked up the cat, then turned and left.
Only then did Hua Manman know that the little white cat was raised by Hua Qingqing.
The original text did not mention Hua Qingqing raising a cat.
Hua Manman guessed that it was probably because this matter was not important, so he didn't write it on purpose.
(end of this chapter)