"My aunt called me and asked for 30,000 yuan, but when I asked her what she wanted to do with it, she refused to tell me." Ning Xi said after putting down the phone.

Hearing that it was related to Ning Lan, Qin Yan frowned.

Putting the Chinese medicine bag on the table beside him, Qin Yan thought about it and decided to tell Ning Lan about selling the house.

"Ning Xi, there's something I want to tell you about your aunt."

"What?"

Qin Yan walked over to her and sat down next to her: "Your aunt wants to sell the house and has already found several agents, but I asked the agents to hold it back and not list it."

Ning Xi was stunned for a moment, then her expression darkened.

"Is it because of Zhao Kailin?"

"Yeah." Qin Yan explained to her, "I was worried that Zhao Kailin would bring you any danger, so after your aunt was discharged from the hospital, I asked someone to follow her all the time, and then I found out that she was planning to sell the house. Although she didn't explain it, I think it was probably because of Zhao Kailin.

In fact, the police had already found Zhao Kailin's whereabouts. She did appear near the hospital that day, but then she suddenly disappeared.

The police are still investigating, but as long as they haven't caught the person, it's a dangerous factor, and I don't want you to be in danger."

Ning Xi looked up at him, unable to tell how she felt about Ning Lan's actions. She felt extremely disappointed and helpless, but then calmed down.

Qin Yan raised his hand and gently held her face, "Don't worry, I won't let her hurt you."

Ning Xi curled her lips slightly, "I'm not worried about that, I just don't know whether I should stop my aunt from doing that."

Ning Xi rubbed his warm palm subconsciously.

She was as well-behaved as a kitten, which made Qin Yan's heart beat fast.

He reached out and pulled her towards him, picking her up and placing her on his lap.

Ning Xi froze for a moment, then her face turned red again. She said quickly, "No, colds are really contagious!"

Qin Yan looked at her shy and anxious look and smiled again, "Don't worry, I won't kiss you!"

Ning Xi: "..." (#=???#) His old face turned red~

"Well, I have something else to tell you."

Looking at her little face which looked like a ripe apple, making one want to take a bite, Qin Yan quickly looked away and continued.

Ning Xi looked at him, waiting for what to say next.

"I've looked into some things about your aunt before, and found out that she bought this house with the money left by your mother, and the resettlement fee she paid was about 50,000 yuan." Qin Yan said.

Ning Xi was stunned for a moment. She really didn't know about this.

When she was adopted by Ning Lan, she was only five or six years old and was still an ignorant little girl, but her sister was already in her teens and understood a lot.

"Also, all these years, including the tuition for you and your sister's schooling, were all inherited from your mother. Your aunt... simply took care of you and provided you with a roof over your head."

Qin Yan knew that telling her these things would undoubtedly be like stabbing a knife into her heart, making her feel even more uncomfortable.

However, he didn't want Ning Lan to continue using the grace of raising her to threaten her and morally blackmail her.

Sometimes, a short pain is worse than a long pain.

Ning Xi moved her lips, but her blocked throat prevented her from saying a word.

She lowered her eyes, feeling uncomfortable and stuffy in her heart.

She didn't blame Qin Yan for telling her these things, but she found that the more she knew, the more it proved that her previous guess was correct.

Ning Lan was not really sincere towards them, and her kindness did not come from her genuine love for the two sisters.

Yes, in fact, if you think about it carefully, Ning Lan seemed to be very good to them during those years. She even left the Zhao family for them and abandoned her two children. But every time the Zhao family made trouble for them, they scolded them for being a burden and said such vicious words as "they deserved to die for their parents".

Ning Lan would just cry on the side, and then apologize to them afterwards, saying that she was useless and failed to protect them, and then hugged them and cried together.

It is also because this kind of thing happened so often that she and her sister felt that their aunt was very weak and pitiful and they wanted to protect her.

So, she secretly learned Muay Thai, and then, whenever Zhao Haicheng caused trouble for her aunt, she would stand up for her aunt. At first, she couldn't beat him, and she would be beaten all over by Zhao Haicheng every time. At that time, her aunt would only hug her and cry, and could do nothing else.

In order not to cause trouble and burden to my aunt, my sister started working after graduating from high school. Later, in order to make more money, she married my brother-in-law who drove a truck.

Otherwise, with my sister's grades, she would definitely be able to get into a good university and have a completely different life.

Now, when she realized that this might all be a scam, she suddenly didn't know how to accept this fact.

Tears fell one by one and landed on Qin Yan's arms around her waist.

Qin Yan's heart tightened, and he quickly hugged her tightly and said, "Ning Xi... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said this to you, I'm sorry."

He hurriedly helped her wipe the tears from her face, but her tears were like a dam bursting, and he couldn't stop them.

"Ning Xi..."

"I, I..." She choked, not knowing how to describe her feelings at the moment.

Sad? Grief? Angry?

In the end, everything turned into powerlessness and confusion.

She was powerless to change what had happened in the past, powerless to change her sister's life, and powerless to change the fact that she had already left!

Even more puzzling, if Ning Lan didn't like them, why did she adopt them? Why did she lie to them for so many years?!

Qin Yan was heartbroken, and in the end he could only kiss her tear-soaked face and eyes, saying over and over again: "Ning Xi, you have me in the future, I am here for you..."

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