Xing Jiaqi left Xing Zhiqiang's house, fuming with anger. She had decided to take Zhan Jinhua's hair for identification. If Zhan Jinhua was confirmed to be her biological mother, it would prove that Xing Zhiqiang and his wife were not her biological parents.

According to Zhan Jinhua, Xing Zhiqiang and his wife should belong to the buyers. If things fall out, she can directly sue them as victims. This way, she will not only get satisfactory compensation, but also avoid having to fulfill her support obligations in the future, killing two birds with one stone.

Xing Jiaqi thought about this and came up with an idea in her mind, and her mood improved a little.

After Zhan Jinhua parted ways with Xing Jiaqi, she took Sun Xiaohao to the delicatessen that Qin Xingzhou remembered.

Qin Xingzhou was a skilled craftsman, and since divorcing Zhan Tiehua and remarrying, his life had become much more comfortable. He and his second wife had two more children, a son and a daughter. His son was ten years old, and his daughter was only three.

His delicatessen has a good reputation. After making more money, he moved to a bigger store, renovated it carefully, and now has two branches.

The house they had divided up during their divorce had been demolished, so he used the compensation to buy a house in a new neighborhood with a larger area and better layout.

Qin Xingzhou's grandfather who suffered from Alzheimer's disease passed away in the second year after his divorce. He was left without any relatives in his own family. Now he bought a small apartment in the same community for his parents-in-law to live in during their retirement, and it is also convenient for the elderly couple to help them take care of the children.

After more than a decade of development, Jiangyuan City was very different from what Zhan Jinhua had remembered. The residential complex where Qin Xingzhou and Zhan Tiehua had lived had been demolished, and Qin Xingzhou's delicatessen had also been relocated, leaving her in the dark.

Fortunately, the house that Zhan Tiehua got in her divorce is still there. The housing complex is about twenty years old and is now considered one of the oldest in the city.

But when she knocked on the door, it was a stranger who opened it. He said the house was rented. Zhan Jinhua asked him for the landlord's information, but he refused to tell her.

Zhan Jinhua did not give up and asked other residents in the community about Zhan Tiehua's situation. Only then did she learn about what her sister had experienced over the years.

It turned out that Zhan Tiehua, overworked raising her two idle sons, had become ill and passed away the previous year. Zhan Jinhua remembered her two nephews as bright and likable. However, many family misfortunes had occurred over the years, forcing both children to drop out of school early.

Zhan Tiehua felt guilty towards her two sons and doted on them, which ultimately harmed her and caused a fight between them over her inheritance, resulting in one son being killed and the other being sentenced to death. The house, Zhan Tiehua's funeral expenses, and her pension all fell into Qin Xingzhou's hands.

Having let Qin Xingzhou get such a great advantage, Zhan Jinhua would not let it go.

After some inquiries, Zhan Jinhua finally found Qin Xingzhou's delicatessen. When she and Sun Xiaohao appeared at the main store of Qin Xingzhou's delicatessen, Qin Xingzhou was so scared that his legs went weak.

Having been a son-in-law of the Zhan family for many years, he understood their methods. Zhan Yinhua and Zhan Tiehua, both college graduates, were more concerned with their image and appeared to have some integrity. However, his former sister-in-law, Zhan Jinhua, was a true hard-core slacker.

In the past, Zhan Jinhua was the main force in the Zhan family's "business". She would do anything to achieve her goals and would do anything if pushed to the limit.

He now has a family to support, while Zhan Jinhua and Sun Xiaohao have nothing. Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes...

Zhan Jinhua saw Qin Xingzhou and spoke first: "Brother-in-law, I haven't seen you for so long. I hope you are living a good life!"

Qin Xingzhou's eyes twitched unconsciously, and he smiled awkwardly and asked her, "What are you doing...?"

Zhan Jinhua didn't think her time in prison was a big shame, and responded directly: "I just finished my reformation and got out. The first thing I did after getting out was to come to you. It's nothing serious, I just wanted to borrow some money!"

Sun Xiaohao hadn't expected Zhan Jinhua to have such wealthy relatives. Delicatessens made considerable profits. Qin Xingzhou's shop was quite large and well-decorated. Within moments of entering, several customers came in to buy their food.

This store alone has a lot of sales every day, not to mention that they have three other stores.

He knew Zhan Tiehua was dead because he had seen the news, where one of her sons had stabbed another to death. He hadn't known that Zhan Tiehua's ex-husband was a craftsman. It seemed like he had made the right choice by following Zhan Jinhua, and he could live a life of free food and drink again.

Zhan Jinhua's words made Qin Xingzhou's heart beat fast. He explained to the clerk and then discussed with Zhan Jinhua: "How about we find a place to talk?"

Zhan Jinhua had no objection. Seeing that it was lunchtime, Qin Xingzhou took Zhan Jinhua and Sun Xiaohao to a restaurant and asked for a small private room.

Zhan Jinhua and her son were not polite when ordering. They ordered whatever was expensive. They ordered ten dishes. Qin Xingzhou roughly estimated that the whole table of dishes would cost at least two thousand. He felt a pang of pain just thinking about it.

Even if he took his wife, children, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law's family of three out to eat, a meal wouldn't cost so much!

After ordering the dishes, Qin Xingzhou cautiously asked Zhan Jinhua, "My life isn't that rich either. How much do you want? Tell me a realistic number..."

Zhan Jinhua rolled her eyes a few times and replied, "I'm not an unreasonable person..."

She held up a short, thick finger and continued, "One million, and we're even..."

When Qin Xingzhou heard this number, the muscles on his face jumped twice: "I don't owe you anything. I also spent money to buy a safe life. It's boring if you play like this..."

Zhan Jinhua, however, had no attitude to negotiate. Instead, she started to bring up old scores with Qin Xingzhou: "Look, the house that Tiehua left behind, even if it's old and run-down, can probably be sold for four or five hundred thousand, right? And her funeral expenses, pensions, and other miscellaneous things added together, it should be around two or three hundred thousand, right?

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