Xia Wan pretended to be riding her bike with great effort, only returning to normal after turning a corner.
Xia Jianguo laughed as he watched: "What kind of trouble are you up to now, you little girl?"
Xia Wan sorted out the information she had before speaking: "Dad, does Grandma Xia have a child in Beijing?"
"Children in Beijing? What children in Beijing?" Xia Jianguo looked puzzled, not understanding what she meant, or rather, he didn't know that Old Lady Xia had children in Beijing.
Xia Wan recounted in detail the information she had just obtained from Sister Zhao to her father.
In addition, what the two of them overheard was that Old Lady Xia did indeed claim to be the person on the other end of the phone as their biological mother.
Xia Jianguo fell into deep thought. After all, it had been more than ten years in his mind. It took him a while to remember that they did indeed have a brother.
“Your grandparents did have another son named Xia Jianlin, but I don’t really know if he lives in Beijing. They only said that he was adopted by relatives in the city shortly before I broke my leg. After that, your grandparents never mentioned him at home again…”
Next, Xia Jianguo recalled and recounted the story of Xia Jianlin.
Xia Jianguo and Xia Jianlin are twins, but they don't look alike at all, and their positions in the hearts of Grandma Xia and the others are also very different.
For example, when they were in school, Xia Jianguo was a good student and clearly got into university, but Old Man Xia wouldn't let him go to university because the family didn't have money.
Xia Jianlin was different. He barely made it into university, but Old Man Xia happily paid for his tuition.
In his previous life, Xia Jianguo was an honest and kind man. Although he felt uncomfortable, he still listened to Old Man Xia and ultimately did not go to university.
At that time, Xia Jianlin was the only college student in the entire village, and the Xia family enjoyed a period of great success in the village for several years.
However, he was rather lazy and had unrealistic ambitions, wanting to become a leader right away, so he couldn't find a job after graduating and returning home.
Even so, after the college entrance examination was abolished, college students like Xia Jianlin were still in high demand.
So when the relative that Grandma Xia and the others mentioned wanted to adopt a son, they chose Xia Jianlin, who was a college student.
Of course, they only knew about that relative from Old Man Xia and Old Woman Xia; they had never actually met him.
However, the villagers knew that Xia Jianlin had gone to the city to live a better life, after all, the vehicle that came to pick him up was a military jeep, and the driver was a soldier in uniform.
Looking back now, Xia Jianguo also finds it suspicious that Old Mrs. Xia and Old Mr. Xia didn't tell them the details back then.
Moreover, Old Lady Xia, who was extremely concerned about her reputation and loved to show off, actually stopped bragging about Xia Jianlin in the village after he was taken away, and never even mentioned him at home.
After listening to her father's account, Xia Wan felt that everything about the Xia family was very suspicious, as if the elderly couple were avoiding something.
“Old Xia, I feel something’s not right about this. Since it was an adoption, and it’s not illegal, there’s no need to hide it. But why did Old Mrs. Xia sneak out to make a phone call? And you said it yourself, they never mention this at home.”
Sitting on the back of the bicycle, Xia Jianguo nodded in deep agreement: "It is indeed very suspicious. Perhaps we can test it out when we get back."
As Xia Wan rode her bicycle, she couldn't help but mutter about the suspicious things that had been going on lately: "They wanted to confiscate your household registration book, and you have a nervous, secretive son. The Xia family has quite a few secrets. Old Xia, do you think you might have some other identity?"
Xia Wan couldn't help but let her imagination run wild. Based on the plots of so many novels and TV dramas she had read, her father must have some extraordinary identity, and it was possible that Xia Jianlin was impersonating him.
It has to be said that Xia Wan unintentionally guessed pretty accurately, but he seemed to be just saying it casually and didn't take such a ridiculous thing to heart.
Xia Wan seemed to have forgotten that both her own and Qiao Qiao's true and false heiresses, as well as her and Xia Jianguo's rebirth, were extraordinary.
Hearing her soft murmur, Xia Jianguo simply smiled and shook his head, not taking it to heart. What kind of status could he possibly have? If he really had any extraordinary status, he wouldn't have lived such a miserable life in his past life.
"We'll deal with whatever comes our way. Things will eventually come to light. But we should keep an eye on their movements these next few days. If my household registration is really that important, they'll eventually slip up."
Xia Jianguo suddenly remembered that when he mentioned dividing the family property last time, Old Man Xia was also quite excited.
There must be something fishy about this. After his tragic death in his previous life and more than ten years of living in this world, he no longer had any feelings for the Xia family.
The son can still be kept after some more cleaning. As for the others, well, let them be as they are.
“I asked Sister Zhao at the post office to keep an eye on Grandma Xia. She’ll keep an eye on her whenever she makes a phone call.” Xia Wan nodded. “I’ll see when I get home if I can get any more information from other people.”
She felt that since this matter concerned her own father, it needed to be investigated.
Xia Wan wasn't sure if the system store's search function would be able to find this information. She thought that she had already used up all the search opportunities she had drawn last time, but she still had enough points, so she decided to check it when she got back.
The two chatted as they slowly returned to Huaihua Brigade. Because Xia Jianguo had difficulty walking, they didn't eat at the state-run restaurant.
Fortunately, I saw a butcher while passing by the steel factory's residential compound.
That man must have been a reseller himself. If Xia Wan hadn't been sharp-eyed and noticed the aunt in the corner taking a piece of meat from the man's basket and paying him, she wouldn't have known that the two were making a deal.
Xia Wan settled her father in, then walked towards the man in the corner. He stood aside and waited for the woman buying meat to leave before taking a few more steps forward and saying:
"Er Gouzi! You've got quite a wide range of business dealings, huh?"
That's right, this is Wang Ergou, the leader of the thugs Xia Shitou found a few days ago. Xia Wan only recognized him when she got closer.
Wang Ergou turned around when he heard the voice, and when he saw Xia Wan, he visibly trembled: "Aunt...Grandma...it's you! Would you like some meat? Just...just consider it my way of showing respect to you, Grandma!"
Wang Ergou's voice trembled slightly as he took a piece of meat with alternating layers of fat and lean meat from his basket and was about to hand it to Xia Wan.
The main reason was that Xia Wan had left a deep impression on him last time, and he dared not provoke her again.
Xia Wan chuckled, and without any hesitation, took the meat and glanced around: "Then I won't be polite. When did you get out here? You're already running your own business?"
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