With such a secret as a foundation, Su Yin will never be able to shake off Xia Tianxiu again.

Now, she and Su Yin are in the same boat; in other words, she has firmly clung to the powerful man!

Xia Tianxiu concealed her joy, covered her face and head, hugged the bundle, turned and went out the door. The sounds of Xiao Bao struggling inside the bundle were already very weak.

Su Yin didn't sit idle either. She turned around, grabbed a short shovel, and jumped into Wang Bo's yard.

He jumped directly into the cellar from the entrance of the side room and started digging frantically in the spot where the wooden box from his previous life had appeared.

Based on Su Yin's observations over the past few days, Wang Bo should not have obtained the wooden box.

If he gets his hands on the box, he'll definitely use his past connections to show it to the old man on the black market.

Su Yin had already met with the old gentleman and, after some indirect questioning, came to this conclusion.

Furthermore, if the old gentleman saw this box, he would definitely pay a high price of a thousand or eight hundred to buy it.

With this sum of money, Wang Bo's life would never be the same as it is now—he has to give away even the smallest piece of meat at the dinner table.

Su Yin pondered as he dug furiously.

The soil in the cellar was very soft, and without realizing it, he dug a large pit that was at least 50 centimeters deep.

However, the shovel did not detect any hard object.

Undeterred, Su Yin explored in all four directions a little further, but still found no wooden box.

Fearing there wouldn't be enough time, he quickly filled the excavated soil back in.

He climbed out of the cellar again and rearranged the entrance exactly as it was.

He then took a running start and jumped over the wall, returning to his own yard.

Just as Su Yin had a chance to brush the dirt off her clothes, there was a commotion at Wang Bo's door.

First came the sound of a bicycle falling over, followed by Wang Bo's exclamation: "Aunt Zhu! Aunt Zhu! What's wrong? What happened to you?"

He shouted several times.

Su Yin peeked through the crack and saw him rush into the yard, heading straight for his bedroom: "Xiao Bao..."

Then, his mournful voice rang out: "Xiao Bao, Xiao Bao, where did you go?"

Then, Wang Bo rushed out again and knocked on the doors of several houses in their alley.

A number of people came out and hurriedly took Aunt Zhu to the hospital.

Wang Bo checked his courtyard several times but couldn't find Xiao Bao.

So he pushed his bicycle and rode off in a flash.

Su Yin pursed her lips. If it wasn't in the cellar, then it had already been dug out!

...

Su Ruyi, who was far away in Beijing, once again approached Qi Yasheng: "Teacher Qi, I need to go on a long trip."

"Ah, where are you going?" Qi Yasheng exclaimed in surprise. "Aren't you in Beijing? Don't you have important business to attend to?"

Su Ruyi smiled: "My task in Beijing is to find the real Qiao Tianyue, which your grandfather entrusted to me. But right now, I don't have any leads. So, I need to go find my third brother. I must find him as soon as possible!"

Qi Yasheng was taken aback: "Then, what about Yue'er?"

Indeed, Qiao Tianyue is Qi Yasheng's older sister Qi Yaqin's child, not his child.

In this matter, it was a favor if he helped, and it was also his right not to help.

Moreover, he hadn't spent much time with Qiao Tianyue, and they didn't have any deep feelings for each other.

But from Qiao Tianyue's perspective, this trip to Beijing was incredibly heartbreaking—

Upon arrival, they were first told that there was an imposter in the house and that they needed to get rid of her before they could take her home.

As a result, her mother passed away that very day.

And so I've been hiding in Su Ruyi's courtyard ever since.

She only saw two members of the Qi family—her maternal uncle Qi Yasheng, who was nice to her but couldn't help her much, and her other maternal uncle Qi Zhao, whose attitude was undeniably terrible.

Oh, and there's also her biological father, Qiao Renhai, who's always thinking about threatening, blackmailing, and extorting her!

Su Ruyi never expected that Qiao Tianyue's early return to the Qiao family in this life would lead to such a scene.

Recalling her previous life, when Qiao Tianyue returned to the Qiao family in glory, Su Ruyi couldn't help but sigh at the family reunion ceremony that cost hundreds of millions.

It's clear that in this life, Qiao Tianyue and Qi Zhao will never be able to establish such a close relationship.

But now that Xia Tianxiu is gone... Su Ruyi is a little relieved.

She looked directly into Qi Yasheng's eyes: "Yue'er is, after all, your family's child. When have you decided to take her back?"

Qi Yasheng hesitated and said, "My father is gone, and my second uncle said... he doesn't recognize this Yue'er, nor that Yue'er—he doesn't recognize Xia Tianxiu and Zhang Ruyi either. He said... they are all liars, and that... since Sister Yaqin is gone, it's meaningless for them to go back to the family."

Su Ruyi suddenly said, "Teacher Qi, don't you have a classmate who does genetic research in the United States? I heard that there's a new technology in the US that can determine if someone is a true relative just by sending them a blood sample!"

Qi Yasheng frowned and asked, "Is that so?"

Su Ruyi nodded: "Yes."

Qi Yasheng scratched her head: "Strange, how did you know I have classmates in America?"

Su Ruyi was taken aback for a moment, then said, "This is what Master Ba told me!"

"Oh, that's possible." Qi Yasheng scratched her head again. "Then... I'll write a letter to my classmate and ask?"

Su Ruyi said, "It's not easy to send letters these days, why don't you just send the blood sample along with it?"

Qi Yasheng hesitated and said, "But... whose blood sample should we send? And where can we get a blood sample?"

Su Ruyi said, "If there is no blood sample, I heard that hair is also acceptable."

Qi Yasheng's eyes lit up: "That's great! I just happened to have saved a few strands of her mother's hair for Yue'er, so that she would have something to remember her by."

Qi Yaqin did not hold a memorial service. Her body was kept in the Qi family's old house for three days before she was buried.

Because of Xia Tianxiu's involvement, Qiao Tianyue was not invited to the funeral—thinking about this, Qi Yasheng felt as if her heart was being torn apart.

He sighed:

"Our Qi family... is probably doomed!"

My dad and sister are both gone, and my brother-in-law is only slightly better than a pig or a dog.

Now that the beautiful moon has returned, but I'm not staying at home, I'm afraid... I won't be able to protect her.

Qiao Renhai has his eye on our old house and is always trying to sabotage it.

Dr. Su, I really have to thank you for getting Qiao Renhai into jail!

Otherwise, with this troublemaker wandering around outside, I'm really worried about him even when I'm at work; I'm always thinking about home.

They were afraid that one day he might suddenly have a fit and set fire to the Qi family's old house.

Su Ruyi thought for a moment and said, "It's really not good for Yue'er to live alone in the Qi family's old house."

Qi Yasheng immediately agreed, "Who says otherwise?!"