[Xu Fangfang doesn’t like the Xu family at all, otherwise she wouldn’t have immediately asked to change her name to Lin Wangshu after returning to the city.]

Xu Jinning felt that it was fortunate that she was insensitive and not the original owner, otherwise, facing the clothes left by Xu Fangfang and the words of her biological mother, any biological daughter, if she was sensitive, would be very sad and upset.

At this moment, listening to her little daughter's voice, Zhang Ailian was stunned where she was.

Her eyes fell on her youngest daughter.

He was skinny, without any flesh on his body, with dry and yellow hair, and his skin was darker than theirs.

With this look on their faces, how could they have thought that Ningning was living a wealthy life in the city?

Thinking back to Xu Fangfang, she was brought up in pampering by them and even had a plump figure which was rare in the village.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ailian's eyes suddenly turned red.

Unable to bear it any longer, he put down his bowl and chopsticks and ran back into the house.

"Ai Lian, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" Xu Aiguo didn't bother to eat and chased his wife into the house.

Xu Fanghua glared at Xu Jinning and said, "It's all your fault. You must have pissed me off and made me sad. What's wrong with wearing Fangfang's clothes? They're much better than what you're wearing. You don't know what's good for you."

Xu Jinning listened to the words in his ears with an indifferent expression and said nothing.

As for Xu Xiangbei, he didn't say a word the whole time, as if everything in front of him had nothing to do with him.

At this time, Zhang Ailian returned to the house and finally couldn't help crying.

When Xu Aiguo saw his wife crying, he was frightened. "What's wrong? Why are you crying? Did Ningning's words just now make you angry? That girl doesn't know what's good for her. Just ignore her and let her do whatever she wants."

"Why, wearing Fangfang's clothes is unfair to her? Don't bother her, let her wear whatever she wants. Okay, stop crying."

Xu Aiguo hugged his wife and patted her back.

Zhang Ailian shook her head, her eyes blurred with tears, and she choked up, "No, it was us who made Ningning suffer, we are sorry for Ningning..."

Then, Zhang Ailian changed what she heard from Xu Jinning's thoughts into her own guesses and told her husband.

"...Tell me, if Ningning had spent the past ten years in the countryside, what kind of life would she have lived?"

"Look at her, she's so thin, just a bag of bones. You can tell from the looks of it that she doesn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes."

"As for Fangfang, we sent her to school. She didn't have to do any housework or farm work. She wore new clothes every time. I dare say that we raised Fangfang very well. But as for Ningning, while we were carefully raising other people's daughters, our own daughter was suffering somewhere else, but we didn't know it yet. Aiguo, that's Ningning. Ningning is our own daughter. We owe her too much."

"I even doubt whether the wrong baby incident more than a decade ago was really just an accident."

“…”

Every word from his wife gave Xu Aiguo an epiphany.

It was as if he had been living in a fog, and now, his wife's words had cleared away the fog before his eyes, making him suddenly enlightened, and making him feel that his rusty brain had begun to function normally.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that what his wife said made sense.

"Ai Lian, you make sense..." Xu Aiguo was stunned, but the facts were clearly right in front of him, why didn't he notice it before?

When I took a look at Ningning's appearance, I saw that she was pale and thin, just like those orphans whose parents were away.

Moreover, if the wrong baby was not an accident, then the whole thing was a conspiracy.

Xu Fangfang's biological parents planned a good first half of their daughter's life, but deliberately took his daughter, Xu Aiguo, to suffer.

But why? The reason why he loves Xu Fangfang so much is because Xu Fangfang is his and Ailian’s biological daughter.

But in the past ten years or so, they loved the wrong person, while their biological daughter Ningning was suffering somewhere else.

"Ailian, I will investigate this matter and find out the truth. If the facts are really as you guessed, I will not give up easily."

Xu Aiguo does have some connections.

In the Xu family today, Xu Aiguo is a workshop worker in a textile factory and one of the few workers in the Qinghe production team.

In this era, being a worker who can get paid every month is an honor and a pride.

But it is very difficult for country people to go to the city to work as workers.

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The reason why Xu Aiguo was able to go to the city to work as a worker was because he saved someone. That person's identity was not ordinary, so Xu Aiguo, who graduated from junior high school, got a chance to take the textile factory recruitment exam. It was also because of his hard work that he finally passed the exam and stayed in the textile factory.

Xu Aiguo is an upright, enthusiastic and sociable person. Having worked in a textile factory for many years, he has also accumulated some connections.

Now, it can be used.

"Okay, Aiguo, you must check it out."

"I will. As for Ningning, you should take good care of her and pay more attention to her. We will make it up to her together. Although she has not been with us for more than ten years, she is our biological daughter after all."

"I know, I will, I will." - Conversation between Xu Aiguo and Zhang Ailian, which Xu Jinning didn't know.

After lunch, she went back to her room to rest. The original owner's health was not very good, and her health would not suddenly get better if she took over. She still needed more rest.

Just as I was taking a rest, Zhang Ailian came in.

Somehow, Xu Jinning felt that Zhang Ailian's eyes seemed a little red, and the look in her eyes when she looked at her was very gentle, really like a mother looking at her poor, suffering child, full of pity and guilt.

To be honest, when he first saw this look, Xu Jinning, who had never received maternal love in his two lifetimes, almost fell into it.

But she soon came to her senses.

It's an illusion. This must be my own illusion.

This is the world set by the author. The author set up that cannon fodder is just an NPC who follows the plot and has no emotions. Both Zhang Ailian and the original owner are cannon fodder. In the setting, even if Xu Jinning is her biological daughter, no matter how well Xu Jinning does, Zhang Ailian still only likes Xu Fangfang and not Xu Jinning.

[Xu Jinning, wake up. Your mother only likes Xu Fangfang, not you.]

On this side, Zhang Ailian saw Xu Jinning's evasive eyes after he was stunned, and then heard these words, and her heart ached.

She really wanted to say, no, you are my biological daughter, how could I not like you? But when the words came to her lips, Zhang Ailian couldn't say them.

(End of this chapter)