220 A Family’s Happiness, A Family’s Worry 5yr

Translator: MangoCatEditor: DarkGem

They're here.
Hearing Old Lady Fang's words, Fang Yuxiu's hand gripped the back of the chair, and her heart constricted. She stared, wide-eyed, outside.
Was it good news or bad news?
Was he alive or dead?
"Red! Red!" cried Old Lady Fang. "Nineteen years, nineteen years."
She was pressed against the window, shouting what sounded like incoherent and completely unrelated words.
But Fang Yuxiu understood.
Nineteen years, they had waited so many times for news of their loved ones.
Waited for the news of Grandfather losing his life.
Waited for news of Father losing his life.
Waiting for the news of Little Brother losing his life.
The piles of white cloth[1] at home were already gathered, since everyone believed that they would not see the red of hope.
Now, what they waited for was here. Finally, there was a change.
"Finally, they're here," she murmured, and she, who was always calm, exposing neither joy nor anger, could no longer suppress her tears.
To be honest, she was really scared when she accompanied Grandmother. She really was not brave enough to come. She did not know what she would do if she heard news of death.
In this, she truly was inferior to Grandmother.
Gran