Chapter 18 Please Don't Call the Police
Looking at her son and daughter-in-law who were filled with disbelief, Zhang Yayu sighed, "I couldn't have been wrong. When I first saw the child, I vaguely thought I saw Xiao Ling when he was three years old, but his eyebrows and eyes are more like Meng Meng's."
As she spoke, the couple couldn't help but imagine what the child looked like even though they thought it was too ridiculous.
Then, Xu Meng tilted her head to look at Cheng Qian'an who was playing with Lego blocks not far away. She didn't know what she was thinking of. She subconsciously reached out and grasped her husband's sleeve tightly with her white knuckles. She said in a trembling voice: "Yuling... a few days ago, I took An'an to my eldest brother's house, and my eldest sister-in-law said... she felt that An'an didn't look like either of us."
Cheng Yuling's body stiffened.
He breathed heavily and said in a deep voice: "It is not possible to immediately determine based on appearance alone..."
"So, I have already made an appointment for a paternity test." Zhang Yayu interrupted her son's pale defense and said to the two calmly: "I have sent Xingxing's hair follicles to the hospital. The hospital has your blood and hair follicle samples. The test results will be out soon. What you need to think about now is, if Xingxing is really our Cheng family's child, what do you want to do?"
"...Of course I will take him back!" Xu Meng clenched her husband's fingers. Her trembling voice showed her inner restlessness. She had to be very restrained to answer rationally: "If, if that child is really my son, no matter what you think, I will definitely take him back. He is a piece of flesh that grew out of my belly, and he is the child I have been thinking about for ten months!"
Her emotions were finally a little broken. She didn't care about her husband's reaction. She just stared at her mother-in-law with red eyes, asking her where her child named Xingxing was and how he was doing.
"Mengmeng, calm down." Cheng Yuling reached out and hugged his wife's trembling body. After wiping away her tears, he said in a hoarse voice: "The reason why mom asked us what to do is not only about the child, but also about An An..."
And now there is this child who they have raised like a treasure for three years.
Xu Meng was stunned and broke free from the surging emotions.
She looked at An An, who was oblivious to all this and was happily building with building blocks. Tears blurred her vision, but she blinked them away hard.
"Cheng Qi'an... is the name I gave to my son." She said in a daze, "I hope he will be healthy and safe, and everything will go well for him. This is the name we thought about for a long time before finally deciding on it."
"But if all this is true, then my child was replaced and abandoned, living an unimaginable hard life, and the love of his original parents and relatives, including his name, was all given to another child who replaced him. Do you think the two children can still live in peace?"
Without waiting for Cheng Yuling to answer, Xu Meng said coldly: "It's impossible. Even if the two children are still young, as long as I see him, as long as he still calls the name that belongs to the other child, I can't forgive myself for being soft-hearted."
It’s still the unpleasant saying of China: If you raise a dog for a long time, you will develop feelings for it, let alone a person?
But what is the keynote of this relationship? It is her love for her own child!
If even the tone is destroyed, the emotions floating on the surface become like a sad joke.
"Moreover, if my child was really maliciously swapped and abandoned, then is An An innocent? Who swapped him?"
Xu Meng's eyes turned completely cold. She looked at her husband, then at her mother-in-law, and said calmly, "Call the police. I will never let go of the murderer who is hiding behind and maliciously harming me and my child."
If that child had not been picked up and raised, her child would have most likely died quietly in some corner, while she would have been holding another child and foolishly giving her all to love him under the malicious gazes of others.
"Okay, call the police." Zhang Yayu nodded.
Cheng Yuling: “…”
He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he saw his mother and wife's red eyes and reluctantly held them back.
Forget it, just call the police. As for the child... we’ll talk about it later.
Subconsciously, he was no longer willing to call Cheng Qian'an "An An".
However, just as Zhang Yayu finished speaking, the nanny, who was already pale and trembling all over, finally ran over with Cheng Qian'an in her arms and knelt down in front of them, crying.
"Please don't call the police, ma'am, Master and Madam, please..."
Cheng Qian looked blankly at Grandma Chen who was kneeling beside him, kowtowing with tears streaming down her face, a small building block in her hand. He thought for a moment, got up from the ground, and ran towards his mother with a smile on his face, holding the building block in his hand.
"Mom, here~" Cheng Qian stood in front of his mother and raised his little hand holding the building blocks high.
However, the mother who would gently bend down and hold him in her arms in the past, today just looked at him with complicated eyes.
Cheng Qian held up the building blocks for a long time, but his mother didn't take them. However, his hands were a little sore, so he pursed his lips in grievance, tears gathering quickly, and he was about to cry.
But even so, he didn't get his mother's smile and hug.
"Take him upstairs to play." Xu Meng called another nanny.
Cheng Qian'an finally cried, but all the people who had the final say in the hall cast their cold eyes on the woman who was kowtowing hard.
Until this moment, what else is there that cannot be understood?
"So he's really not my An'an." Xu Meng gritted her teeth and chuckled, staring at Chen Guixia who was still banging her head, and asked her slowly: "In the past three years, watching me dote on that child, you must have been very proud, right? You must have scolded me in your heart for being a brainless idiot who didn't even recognize my own child?!"
Her voice was sharp, and every word was full of tears. She could no longer hide the tears in her eyes, and she asked hoarsely, "How dare you?! Who gave you the courage? You swapped my child. Have you ever thought about what would happen if he died? Our family has never treated you unfairly, but where is your conscience? When you did these things, didn't you ever think that one day you would die a miserable death?!"
Chen Guixia, who had hit her head on the ground, broke down and cried. The fear that had been buried deep in her heart since the day the baby was exchanged was finally triggered today by the two words "call the police". All her guilt and anxiety were swept out in a roar. She cried very loudly, tremblingly saying that she was guilty, but every word she said was a plea for mercy and excuses.
"Madam! Please believe me! I was forced to do it. I really had no choice. I didn't do it on purpose. I'm not proud or mocking. I was forced to do it..."
"Please, please don't call the police. I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again, I will kowtow to the young master, I will beg the young master to forgive me, please let me go!"
She begged for mercy over and over again incoherently; in the huge hall, the only sounds were of her kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Cheng Yuling held his over-emotional wife in his arms to comfort her. He looked coldly at Chen Guixia kneeling on the ground and said in a deep voice, "You said you were forced to do this? Did you force yourself? Who was the one who led the child swap? As long as you tell me, I will not hold you responsible for the sake of the child."
The next second, Cheng Yuling felt a sudden pain in his waist. He couldn't help but take a breath. After meeting his wife's eyes filled with hatred, he shook his head silently at her.
Only then did Xu Meng loosen his hands that were twisting his soft flesh.
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