Chapter 25 Mother Finally Met You

Thank you, his mother...

Isn’t that Xie Song’s original wife who abandoned his children?

"Grandma Liu, is my mother really back?" Xie Chen was overjoyed. He kept circling around Aunt Liu and asking repeatedly, "Who did she come back with? Is she coming back to live with us?"

In comparison, Xie Cuicui is much more stable.

She sat blankly on the stone bench, staring at Su Cheng with her big eyes, without blinking, as if she would never recognize anyone else except Su Cheng.

Su Cheng smiled at her, and a warm feeling surged in his heart.

It’s worth loving this girl.

"Brother Chen?"

A strange woman's voice came from outside the yard. The smile on Xie Chen's face froze. He turned around slowly and saw the woman walking towards him quickly.

The woman looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old. Unlike the simple and honest mother in Xie Chen's memory, the woman was adorned with gold and silver, and jewels. The ring on her hand alone was enough to buy three courtyards as big as the Xie family's.

"...Mother?" Seeing that familiar yet unfamiliar face, Xie Chen spoke hesitantly.

"Chen'er! Mother finally sees you!" Sun Panpan covered her red lips, tears welling up in her eyes. She quickly stepped forward and hugged Xie Chen tightly, crying uncontrollably, "Son, mother misses you so much."

Two years later, Xie Chen returned to his mother's arms, but he was not as happy as he had imagined.

A pungent smell of powder penetrated his nose, and Xie Chen subconsciously looked at Su Cheng like a child who had done something wrong.

He never thought that his mother would become like this...

Su Cheng looked at him with a smile, his expression gentle, without any sign of anger at all.

Xie Suzhou stood side by side with her, his handsome face gloomy, his cold eyes fell on Xie Chen, his silence was more powerful than words.

Xie Chen's little body shuddered as he met his uncle's gaze. He hurriedly withdrew from Sun Panpan's embrace and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Mom, where have you been these past two years? My uncle and the others said you had your own things to do. Are you... done with your work now?"

Hearing this, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Sun Panpan's face. She caught a glimpse of the two men in the courtyard from the corner of her eyes. Feeling guilty, she dared not look up. She could only smile at Xie Chen and agreed, "That's right, mother finished her own work and had enough money, so she rushed back to see Brother Chen."

Xie Chen pursed his lips and smiled, feeling a little strange in his heart, but he couldn't put his finger on it. "I knew Mother would never abandon Cuicui and me."

"Cui... Cuicui?" Sun Panpan was startled when she heard the name suddenly. Then she reacted and leaned forward to look towards the Xie family courtyard. "Where is your sister? Why didn't she come out to greet me?"

Xie Chen also turned around and waved to Xie Cuicui who was sitting at the stone table, "Sister, mother is calling you."

Xie Cuicui said nothing, and obediently jumped down from the stone bench. She ran to Su Cheng's side, tightly grasped her fingertips with her little hands, and called out crisply, "Mom."

Su Cheng was stunned for a moment, then after reacting, he gently held her hand and coaxed her in a gentle voice, "Be good, Cuicui."

Sun Panpan seemed to have just discovered that there was a new woman in the Xie family. She slowly stood up and looked at Su Cheng with hostility in her eyes. "Chen brother, who is this? Why is she in the Xie family?"

Xie Chen opened his mouth, but didn't know how to introduce Su Cheng.

After mother left, did you know that father remarried?

"Hello, senior. My name is Su Cheng."

Su Cheng raised the corners of his lips slightly, and took Xie Cuicui's small body into his arms, "She is the mother of this child."

"You are her mother?" Sun Panpan couldn't help but sneer and pointed at herself, "Then who am I?"

"You're a bad person who abandoned your own children." Xie Cuicui hid behind Su Cheng, her face surprisingly calm, no emotion visible. "You tricked me into going to the back mountain, saying you'd take me rabbit hunting. Then you ran away, leaving me waiting there alone until midnight. If Second Uncle hadn't disregarded his own health and went up the mountain to look for me, I would have been eaten by the beast long ago."

"Since then, I've had nightmares every night. All I see in my dreams is you leaving me." Xie Cuicui leaned against her stepmother, holding back tears as she asked with a cold face, "You left so decisively back then, why are you back now?"

"I..." Sun Panpan's eyes flashed with disgust for a moment, and she frowned and cried, "Cuicui, mother had her own reasons back then. Otherwise, who would abandon their own children?"

"What's your problem?"

Xie Suzhou, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, catching Sun Panpan off guard.

Xie Suzhou's eyebrows were cold, and the coldness in his eyes made people dare not look directly at him. "What you call bitterness is..."

"Suzhou." Su Cheng pulled the corner of his clothes, shook his head gently at him, and said lightly, "The children are here, be careful with your words."

Xie Suzhou closed his eyes, as if he was trying hard to suppress his anger.

Seeing this, Sun Panpan took advantage of his unwillingness to expose himself in front of the children and seemed to gain confidence. "I just came back to see the children. I have nothing to say to you. Where is Xie Song? Ask him to come out and see me."

When the word "Xie Song" was mentioned, there was a moment of silence in the courtyard.

"Oh."

After a while, Xie Jinyu's chuckle was heard.

"Want to see my big brother?" Xie Jinyu raised the corners of her lips slightly, her eyes half-closed. Although she was smiling, she looked very dangerous. "Okay, I'll personally send you down."

"Jinyu." Xie Suzhou called him in a low voice, lowered his eyes, his face calm.

Xie Jinyu pursed her thin lips, and stared at Sun Panpan with her beautiful eyes sinisterly, but she smiled without saying a word.

"Hey, Panpan, the eldest son of the Xie family drowned in a ditch a year ago." Aunt Liu looked embarrassed and reminded her softly, "You may not be able to see him anymore. Xie Song's body has not been found. If you really want to see it, you can only go to the cenotaph."

"Xie Song... is dead?" Sun Panpan looked dazed and fell to the ground, her eyes filled with shock. "How could a healthy person just die?"

But it was only a moment of shock, and the panic in his eyes was replaced by surprise.

"It's better to be dead... It's better to be dead..." Sun Panpan muttered softly. After coming to her senses, she immediately stood up and hugged Xie Chen's shoulders tightly, with an expression almost crazy. "Chen'er, since your father is gone, you should go with mother, so as not to cause trouble for your uncles."

Hearing this, Xie Chen was stunned at first, and then stood there at a loss, allowing her to hug him.

Sun Panpan was afraid that he would be unwilling, so she glanced at Xie Cuicui who was not far away and said as if giving alms, "If you are afraid, mother will take your sister away as well."

"Sun, do you know what you're saying?" Xie Suzhou's face was heavy, his eyes gloomy. "I didn't expose your dirty deeds only to save your face in front of the children. Don't lose face yourself."

"Xie Suzhou, it's not your place to interfere in our mother-son relationship. Chen'er is my biological son. His father is gone, but I'm still alive. What can he achieve by following you three brothers?" Sun Panpan curled her lips, her face revealing disdain. "I'm afraid he can't even afford the tuition for his studies, right?"

"I can send Chen Ge'er to the best academy in Ganping County, where he can eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day. Can you do that?"

Sun Panpan snorted coldly towards the courtyard, then turned around and looked at Xie Chen expectantly, saying softly, "Son, come with me. I won't treat you badly."

After he finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on Xie Chen, waiting for his answer.

Xie Chen scratched his hands helplessly, hesitant, "I..."