"Does Grandpa Xue have no relatives?" Xia Xiao asked.
"Yes, he has a daughter, but she was from a wife his family arranged for him after his first wife died. When that wife died, Old Man Xue was still on the battlefield and couldn't come back. It took him six months to return, and by that time, the daughter had grown to hate him fiercely. When she left home, she got married and had children, and rarely came back to see Old Man Xue. I heard a few years ago that Old Man Xue went to visit his daughter, but after he returned, he didn't want to talk about it, obviously, their relationship hadn't improved."
Mrs. Xia sighed and said, "And his nephews and such are only after his house, always coveting it. Old Man Xue isn't willing to adopt any of them, so he lives alone."
