Chapter 769


    He was stunned for a moment and nodded silently.


    Anne looked up at me and then at Pedro, "Sir, what holiday is it today?"


    Pedro looked at her with gentle eyes, "It''s New Year''s Eve. It''s thest day of each year."


    Anne looked like she understood him and mumbled, "Does it mean that the whole family has to be together?"


    Pedro nodded.


    After thinking for a while, Anne looked at me. "Mommy, why isn''t Grandpa and Uncle Aaron here?"


    | smiled, surprised at her question. "Grandpa and Uncle Aaron are busy. Aunt Yana has just given birth to a baby, so she can''t


    come out and has to stay home.”


    "When are we going to see the baby then?" Anne was talkative and liked to ask a lot of questions. Once she started, it was hard


    for her to stop.


    Pedro answered each of her questions patiently. | got up and went to the kitchen. Nerissa was kneading dough and Hendrix was


    making dumplings while Valerie was washing vegetables.This is the property of N?-velDrama.Org.


    When he saw me, Hendrix smiled. "Do you know how to do this?"


    | nodded, walked to him and washed my hands before | started helping him make the dumplings. "Grandma taught me once


    when | was little."


    Nerissa looked at me, "I thought you grew up in the south? Very few girls in the south know how to. Even the older generation


    there have no idea how to make dumplings. | remembered that when | was little, my mother didn''t know how to either."


    “Perhaps my grandma had been to many ces. She would make a lot of dumplings and bread every New Year. Besides, she


    liked hot pot. She wasn''t a fan of the southern dishes, so she ate most of the stewed dishes from the north."


    Nerissa smiled and said, "Your grandmother sounds like she was a true northerner."


    | smiled and looked down at my dumplings. "She never told me stories about her younger days, so | only remember the time we


    spent living in Hovell together."


    Valerie heard our conversation and came over. She looked at me and said, "Arianna, have you ever thought about how an old


    lady like your grandmother, who didn''t have any rtives or friends in Hovell, somehow knew Dalton, the richest man in


    Ucrebury? She even trusted him and handed you to him. Did your Grandpa tell you how they met?"


    | hesitated for a moment before shaking my head. "No." | never really did think about this seriously before.


    Grandma did not have her rtives or friends in Hovell, but she was very close to the neighbors in the alley.


    When | was little, | heard from Monique''s mother that my grandmother came to Hovell in her fifties. She bought a small yard in


    Hovell and lived there on her own. Later, she identally found me and decided to raise me. Hovell residents weren''t curious or


    nosy people, so no one ever asked her where she was originally from!