"Oh! If I had known that the phone call would come in the morning, I would have been busy this morning and didn't have time."

"It's okay. There's still another week to go."

Xie Li thought about it and decided not to mention the matter again. She then asked, "Is that woman quite well behaved?"

"It seems that nothing is wrong now. I live alone in an old house in the village and plant the land outside my door."

"She farms?"

"yes."

"She has started farming. Does that mean she is staying here permanently?"

Ye Xiaozhen didn't know, so she just said, "Maybe."

Xie Li snorted and said, "How can she be so shameless? What did Lin An say? With Lin An's temper, he probably can't stand her."

"He ignored her now. Lin Li and his friends are about to take an exam. He doesn't want to make a big deal out of it now. He will wait until Lin Li and his friends finish the exam before he makes a fuss."

"Oh, that's good. By the way, Lin Li and the others don't know, right?"

“I didn’t know before, but now I know.”

"Hmm? Got it?"

"Yes, they just responded to this matter today." Ye Xiaozhen told her what had happened.

Xie Li said angrily: "I don't know who has the big mouth to gossip."

"You can't say that they are gossiping. Your family just said that their mother is back, and that's the truth."

"Oh! Forget it, they are just little brats. I guess they don't have any bad intentions. I hope this matter won't affect their exams."

Xie Li chatted with her for a while, asked about her grandfather and Hongxia, and then hung up the phone.

She originally wanted to come back, but there have been a lot of things going on in Haicheng recently, so she decided to wait for some time.

She will come back after a while to arrange for Hongxia's transfer to another school, and when she finishes her exams, she will take her to live in Haicheng.

Everything seemed to be going well, but when Xie Linan came back from sending his two younger brothers back to school, he received a call from a spy in the village.

"It was said that two strangers came to the village, a father and a son. From their accents, they seemed to be from other places. The younger one even called the girl 'mother'."

Ye Xiaozhen frowned slightly, "Is this her friend from outside who came to find her?"

"Well, that should be it. The father and son have settled down in the house in our hometown."

"Ah? Then what are you going to do?"

Xie Linan was very upset. He wanted to let Sun Lan live with him, but she actually brought a strange man back to live with him. She must want to die.

If it were a few years ago, given Xie Linan's personality, he would have killed them right away, and he would have had to personally carry them out and throw them away.

But in recent years he has become much calmer and is not so impulsive in doing things.

I was worried that if the incident got out of hand, some bad words would get to the ears of my two younger brothers, affecting their college entrance examinations, so I had to endure it.

"Forget it, ignore them for now and live wherever you want."

He decided to endure it for a few more days, and when his two younger brothers finished their exams, he would go and settle the score with them.

…

The next morning, Grandma Liu came early. She came so actively that she must have come to pass on a message to them.

Ye Xiaozhen took her directly upstairs.

"Two people came to your house yesterday. They were Sun Lan's current husband and child. Have you heard about this?"

Ye Xiaozhen nodded. "Someone in the village called us yesterday and told us about this. We guessed that the people who came might be Sun Lan's husband and children."

"Don't speculate, this is true. In order to help you get first-hand information, I went to eavesdrop on their conversation last night."

ah?

It's rare that at her age, she still eavesdrops.

"What did you hear?"

"Sun Lan asked them why they came so suddenly, since they said they would wait for her to come back. Then the man said he couldn't wait any longer."

"What can't you wait for?"

"Oh, I was afraid of being discovered by them, so I didn't dare to get too close. I vaguely heard that the child was dropping out of school. Oh, and it seemed that he was sick and needed her to take care of him."

Ye Xiaozhen frowned slightly, "Since you're sick and need her to take care of you, she can't go back to take care of you, why did she bring you here?"

"I don't know. They didn't tell me."

"How old is the child?"

"He's about the same age as Lin Li and Lin Qi. Didn't she say that she gave birth to a son the first year after she was sold? I estimate that this son. If that's the case, he can be two years younger than Lin Li and Lin Qi?"

If it's really that child, then it's almost the same.

"Isn't she already 18 years old? Why do I still need your care?"

"Oh, that kid is very skinny and looks very spoiled. I've said that this kid is a son among four daughters, so he must have been spoiled."

Ye Xiaozhen took a deep breath.

"Anyway, now that the body has been brought here, what are you going to do? That house was left by the Xie family's ancestors. I remember it's under your family Lin An's name, right?"

"Yes, to avoid trouble, Grandpa transferred the name to Xie Linan a few years ago."

"That's right. Since it's your Lin An's house, just let Sun Lan live in it. Now your family of three lives in the house. Do you feel uncomfortable? If it were me, I would be disgusted to death. I would rather burn it down than let them live in it."

It's disgusting, but I can't burn it out with fire.

Not to mention that arson is illegal, it might also burn down Grandma Liu's house next door.

Just to say that destroying one's own property to punish someone is a stupid move.

Of course, Granny Liu didn't mean that she was really burned, she just felt nauseous and said it casually.

Ye Xiaozhen said: "What we mean is that no matter what they do now, we don't care. Lin Li and Lin Qi still have exams in a few days. We are worried that if the commotion gets out of hand, it will affect them. Let's wait until they finish their exams before we talk about it."

"Oh, that's the reason. The college entrance examination is a big deal. I've worked hard for more than ten years. I can't let it be ruined because of others."

Grandma Liu chatted with Ye Xiaozhen for a while, said she would continue to keep an eye on them, and then went back.

Ye Xiaozhen talked about this with Xie Linan in the evening.

"Grandma Liu said she heard from them that the child was sick. Maybe her sudden return was related to this matter. Do you want to find a few people to go to their hometown to check it out?"

"Well, if she comes to us because of illness, it shouldn't take long, she will get better on her own."

"Is it possible? My parents may not tell us the truth. We have to ask them to check it ourselves."

Xie Linan nodded and said, "What kind of illness has to come to us? If it's because they're short of money... I heard from Zhao San and the others that this family doesn't seem to be short of money."

Ye Xiaozhen had some guesses, but they were just guesses.

Forget it, let's not talk about it for now, let's wait for him to find a way to go to Dongcheng and listen to what's going on with this family.

I originally thought that this family would not cause any trouble for the time being, but I didn't expect to hear from the villagers the next day that Sun Lan heard about Xie Linli and Xie Linqi.

The villagers didn't tell her anything about Xie Linan's family. She couldn't even find out the names of the twins, let alone the school they went to.