Chapter 60 Uncovering the Secret
In fact, Yan Songyu was not indifferent to the death of Jiang's father. After spending half a day with Feng Yu, she stayed at home and acted coquettishly with Yan Binghua for several days.
She will definitely protect herself, safeguard Feifei and her father, and let him enjoy his later years in peace!
With his beloved granddaughter in his left hand and his precious little granddaughter in his right, Yan Binghua felt like he was melting from the warmth of these two adorable little girls these past few days.
"Dad, come quick, come and try the Longjing tea pastries that Feifei and I made!"
Yan Songyu learned this from Aunt Liu. Feifei added a few spoonfuls of flour and Longjing tea powder, and later pressed it into a mold, so she also participated.
"Why have you become interested in cooking lately?" Yan Binghua chuckled, picking up a piece of Longjing tea pastry with flower petals and praising it with a smile, "It's quite exquisite!"
Feifei said proudly, "Grandpa, I made all the molds."
"My dear granddaughter is so wonderful!" Yan Binghua was amused, hugged Feifei, took a bite, and continued to praise her, "This is the best pastry I've ever eaten in my life!"
The Yan family was enjoying their time together.
The Jiang family in Xiaoxigou was solemn as they buried Jiang's father.
After everyone left, Jiang's mother threw Jiang Chengli's suitcase at the door. "Go away. Don't come back. Your father is gone. My life, old age, sickness and death are none of your business anymore."
Jiang Chengli, who hadn't spoken for days, was extremely hoarse. "Mom, what do you mean by this?"
With tears in her eyes, Jiang's mother spoke without a trace of softness, "It's what you heard, second son. I've always known you're smart, and I know you look down on us, but your father and I have done everything we can to provide you with these conditions. We've raised you, sent you to school, and we've done everything we could. We owe you nothing."
“You don’t owe us anything anymore. You paid for this house, but your older brother and younger brother also contributed to the money you spent on college. So consider this house as your repayment. Anyway, you don’t like this place. That’s it. Go now and don’t come back.”
The gate to the Jiang family's house was closed, and Jiang Chengli stood alone in the courtyard. He wanted to say no, he wanted to say no, and he wanted to say sorry, but his voice seemed to have really gone hoarse.
Dark clouds gathered in the sky, and the whole world dimmed.
Rumble—
Crack—
Thunder rumbled, lightning flashed across the sky, and a light drizzle began to fall.
Jiang Chengli stood in the rain for a long time without the door opening. He picked up the mud-covered box and trudged away from the creek.
Jiang Chengli's sister-in-law nudged her eldest brother, Jiang Chengming, several times, "If you don't go and tell him soon, your second brother will really leave. What will happen to Pearl then?"
The older brother sat silently in his chair, smoking his pipe, turning his head away, seemingly ignoring her. But his sister-in-law persisted, asking, "Are you going or not?"
“My second brother is already in this state, who knows how he will be in Haishi? Otherwise, why wouldn’t Xiaoyu have stayed to attend Dad’s funeral? Sending Pearl to Haishi is just adding trouble for him, isn’t it?”
The eldest brother slapped away his sister-in-law's hand, took big gulps of his pipe, and looked helpless on his wrinkled face. "Besides, it's obvious that Mom wants to sever ties with my second brother. If I chase after him and ask him to take the pearl to the sea market, Mom will kick me out of the house too."
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The Zhou family.
On a crippled old table sat a pitiful dish of dried pickled vegetables, a plate of greens, and three bowls of sweet potato rice. Zhou Mu and Zhou Chenglong were already waiting at the table, while Zhou Yue, with a pale face, was preparing to leave at mealtime.
Zhou Mu habitually ignored it and picked up a bowl of sweet potato rice to eat, but Zhou Chenglong called out to her, "Third Sister, aren't you going to eat?"
Zhou Yue ignored him and kept walking.
After Zhou Yue's figure completely disappeared, Zhou Chenglong quietly said to Zhou Mu, "Did your mother hide some money? Is she going out to treat herself and abandoning us?"
"I don't know, Uncle. If you don't eat, I'll finish it all by myself."
Zhou Mu took a bite with his chopsticks, and half of the vegetables were gone. Zhou Chenglong quickly picked up the bowl and said, "Leave some for me. I'm your elder, and I'm a patient."
Zhou Yue wasn't going there for a treat. After leaving Wei'anli, she took a taxi straight to the hospital, but there was a traffic jam on the road in front of the hospital today, so she couldn't wait and got out of the car across the street.
She walked too fast, and the cold wind rushed into her mouth, choking her and making her cough incessantly. It also aggravated her surgical wound, causing her to be in so much pain that she couldn't straighten up and could only barely stand by leaning against the wall at the alley entrance.
Suddenly, the voices coming from the alley caught her attention.
"Any news about that?"
"No, it's not that easy to find. Money is nothing compared to life. Who wants to be missing something?"
"They said we can raise the price to 500,000, and they'll give you a 50,000 commission per person. You should take advantage of that."
"Huh! 500,000! That much?"
"You're interested? Then will you sell your own?"
"No, no, no, although I can live without one of those things, it will still affect my health. I still want to live a few more years. Besides, if I can't live without one, my wife will despise me. That won't do. I still want to have a son."
The two stepped on their cigarette butts and came out laughing. Zhou Yue quickly hid behind a trash can. Her heart pounded as she was caught in their secret.
For safety's sake, she should have stayed away, as far away as possible, but her legs followed the two men uncontrollably until one of them blended into the crowd and the other went into Osmanthus Lane behind the hospital, at which point she stopped.
Zhou Yue didn't know why she remembered Osmanthus Lane, or even wanted to know which house that person had entered. She also didn't know why her heart was beating so fast; perhaps it was because she was about to see the results of the paternity test.
She couldn't wait for Jiang Chengli's results, especially after meeting Yan Songyu and her daughter at the hospital entrance that day. So she had a paternity test done on herself and Zhou Mu, and today was the day to pick up the results.
She was so eager that she couldn't even wait for Jiang Chengli to give her an answer, but now that the result was in her hands, she hesitated to open it.
Zhou Yue clutched the file folder tightly until she reached the corner where she had last spoken with Jiang Chengli. Only then did she pull out the file with trembling hands and quickly flip to the last page.
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