Chapter 474 The Child Stays
"The second son... has something to do these days and has no time to come over, so he asked me to come and visit you." Sang Luo shamelessly found an excuse for his second son.
You Huai looked at her and suddenly smiled. "Thank you for your kindness, ma'am. But I may disappoint you. The child I'm carrying in my belly is not his. It's the child I'm carrying with another male."
"But didn't you say..."
"I was momentarily misguided and wanted to gain some advantage from you, so I deliberately deceived you."
Sang Luo was speechless, "Are you telling the truth?"
"I know very well who the father of this child is. Madam has made this trip in vain. If Madam and the city lord want to blame me, I will accept it." You Huai was in a panic.
Sang Luo looked at her with complicated eyes, "In that case, I won't ask any more questions. You can use these supplements first."
"Thank you, ma'am. I have other things to do, so I won't accompany you any longer."
"Well, if there are any other difficulties, you can also send someone to notify the City Lord's Mansion of Broken Ice City."
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After Sang Luo returned to the city, he told his second son about this.
Zhui Zhui was obviously relieved. "I was saying, how could it be my child?"
"Stop hanging out with those bad friends in the future. If something like this happens again, your father will kick you out of the house."
"Mom, I told you, that day was really just an accident. I was drunk and recognized the wrong person. If she hadn't insisted on appearing in front of me and there was no one else around at the time, I wouldn't have..."
"Who did you mistake her for?"
Zhui Zhui's face darkened. "The granddaughter of the city's great elder, Fu Rao."
Sang Luo thought for a moment and said, "I know this girl. She pursued Xiao Shitou back then, but Xiao Shitou wasn't interested in her."
Zhui Zhui's expression turned even uglier. "Yes, she likes Big Brother. When she slept with me, she called out Big Brother's name... I gave her my first time, but she only let me be her second concubine! Why? How can I be inferior to Big Brother?"
Sang Luo smiled bitterly, "There are so many things you can't compare to Shitou. You've been studying like him since you were little, and you don't have his talent, nor his diligence and perseverance."
"Mom—you!" Zhui Zhui's face turned red with anger. He didn't expect that even his mother had always thought so.
"And the most important thing is, if it was Shitou who encountered this today, he would definitely take on the responsibility of being a father instead of shirking it and running away." Sang Luo looked at her son with mixed feelings, not knowing what to say. "...Mother always feels that you haven't grown up yet, you're like a child."
The boy was no fool, so he naturally understood the hidden meaning behind his mother's words. His face flushed with shame, and he clenched his fists. "If it's really my child, I will definitely raise it. But she herself admitted that it's not mine! Let's just forget about it. I won't do this again."
"Remember what you said today. If you act so carelessly again in the future, mother won't be able to help you."
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I thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly, a few months later, Sang Luo received a piece of news.
——You Huai committed suicide by jumping into the lake.
She committed suicide a few days after giving birth. Rumors spread that she was abandoned by a male and committed suicide due to emotional pain.
After hearing the news, Zhui Zhui was stunned, "I... I didn't want her to..."
He didn't mean to hurt her.
He hurried to the Muta tribe that day, but did not see You Huai's body. He heard that the body was bitten to pieces by lake fish, and the tribesmen only hurriedly salvaged some broken limbs and cremated them.
She left behind only one child.
The child was found by the lake. She might have wanted to take the child with her to die, but later she couldn't bear it and left the child behind.
Zhui Zhui went to the old village chief's house and met the child.
An extremely skinny little wolf cub, with dry yellow-gray fur. He was so thin that his skeleton was faintly visible, and his head looked very big.
It lost its mother a few days after it was born and had no breast milk to feed it.
You Huai was an orphan, with no family or relatives to care for him. The old village chief, feeling sorry for the child, gave him some leftover meat from his family. However, the child's energy needs far exceeded those of ordinary cubs in the tribe, and he simply couldn't be fed enough, resulting in malnutrition.
The first time Zhui Zhui saw the child, a shudder rose from the depths of his soul. This was the feeling of blood inheritance! He was absolutely certain that this was his biological child!
He felt dizzy, his blood was flowing backwards and his whole body was cold. There seemed to be a loud roar in his brain, and he suddenly lost his strength and fell to the ground.
"Young master, is this... your child?" The old village chief came over holding the swaddling baby and looked at him hesitantly.
Zhui Zhui took the child with trembling hands.
The poor little wolf cub stared at him blankly with its extra-large eyes, as if curious about who he was.
"I...I'm your father beast. I'm sorry."
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It rained icy rain that day, and Zhui Zhui came back in a daze, with the child in his arms.
Sang Luo was waiting for him outside the door, his clothes wet with ice and snow.
"Mom, I brought the child back. It's my biological child... It's a little female..." His throat was choked with sobs, and it seemed like he would burst into tears in the next second. "I feel sorry for this child. She was starving and was just skin and bones. I wish I had seen her earlier and taken this child back..."
He couldn't imagine that if he really didn't recognize the child, his own child would probably starve to death.
"Hold it here and let me see it." Sang Luo stretched out his arms.
Zhui Zhui staggered and handed the child to her with a lonely look on his face.
"Poor child, you're so skinny you're almost shapeless. When I gave birth to you, you were all plump and white."
Sang Luo looked at the skinny little wolf cub in the cradle with pity, and her sad tone made Zhui Zhui even more frightened.
He asked fearfully, "Will the child be okay?"
"It's not life-threatening, but this kid's physique is much better than other cubs. He's just too skinny from starvation, so he needs more nutrition." Sang Luo looked at the wolf cub and remembered how the cub's eyes looked a lot like Zhui Zhui's when the children were little. "It's a pity his talent isn't that strong, but he'll definitely achieve a lot in the future. Take good care of him."
"Yeah." Zhui Zhui took the child, looked into the little wolf cub's round eyes, and looked at Sang Luo with determination, "Mom, I plan to move out. You're right, I'm so much worse than my eldest brother. I stay at home all day doing nothing and only doing stupid things. It's time for me to go out and find my own life like my eldest brother and third sister."
He seemed to have grown up overnight.
Sang Luo was both relieved and emotional, "You are moving away too. Your father will really be the only one left at home."
Zhui Zhui looked confused. "My mind is a mess right now. I don't know what to do. I want to go out and have some peace and quiet so I can figure out what I want to do in the future."
"Well, go ahead. Mom and Dad are here. You can come back anytime you want." Sang Luo looked into the house. "Your dad blames you. He's really disappointed in you."
"I'm sorry, Dad, Mom." Zhui Zhui looked at the child in his arms, his throat choking with sobs, "I'm sorry to her too."
"We must look forward to everything. As long as the child is still alive, we must fulfill our responsibilities as a father."
Lan Cang warmed the bottle and came out. He took the crying wolf cub from Zhui Zhui's arms and fed the child skillfully.
As soon as the little wolf cub smelled the aroma of milk, he instinctively bit the pacifier and drank the whole cup of milk powder "gulp gulp" quickly.
Zhui Zhui watched with bated breath, feeling quite at a loss.
Lan Cang looked at the wolf cub, who was smacking his lips and seemed to be unsatisfied, with a surprisingly gentle look in his eyes. "Don't worry, you have no experience in raising children. Let this child stay at home for now. I will help you take care of him."
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