Compared to Old Master Nie's restrained excitement and disbelief, Nie Fantian remained calm: "Old Master, you personally took Du Jinying away. Didn't you ever suspect where the wet nurse's child was?"
The wet nurse was Xu Shi, and Old Master Nie knew this.
This woman treated her granddaughter Jin Ying as her own daughter. Although she was the stepmother, she never let the child suffer any injustice, which made the old man very satisfied.
At this moment, when Nie Fantian mentioned the wet nurse's child, Old Master Nie's heart pounded, but he still managed to defend himself, saying, "Xu's child was said to have been sent back to her parents' home to be cared for."
Nie Fantian pointed at Jiang Zhi: "Then do you know why I call her aunt? Because I was the child who was sent back to my mother's home by my wet nurse, but my wet nurse was not my biological mother."
Jiang Zhi's heart skipped a beat; the truth was about to be revealed.
One lie requires ten more to cover it up. Xu Xiaolan switched the child with another woman, and now she has to pay the price.
Grandpa Nie's face had begun to turn pale.
He's just old, not stupid. He's already said this much; even a guess could figure it out.
He shook his head vigorously: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
The old lady beside her was already dumbfounded, muttering, "No, I raised Jin Ying myself, she is my granddaughter. You are Xu's child, you are trying to lie."
The belief that kept the two elderly people alive was that their bloodline was still intact, but now someone came to tell them they were wrong!
How could a twenty-year relationship be negated by a few words from a complete stranger?
Faced with the two elderly people's questions, Nie Fantian did not continue to explain. He was obviously prepared and turned to Jiang Zhi, saying, "I'll leave the rest to you, Aunt."
Male-oriented content creators might handle these kinds of things in a simple and crude way.
Since he could kidnap the elders of the Nie family, Nie Fantian could naturally capture Du Baolin and Xu Xiaolan as well!
How was he arrested? Where was he arrested in broad daylight? What should be the consequences?
Jiang Zhi knew nothing about these things and admired the male protagonist's clean and efficient methods. He didn't need to think things through before taking action.
Just as Jiang Zhi had set up his stance outside the teahouse, the man and woman were covered with cloths and dragged over.
Xu Xiaolan and Du Baolin were tied up and gagged, then thrown onto the blue brick ground without any pity, groaning as they fell.
Qin already knew that the person they had captured was Xu Xiaolan. She quickly went over and ripped the cloth off Xu Xiaolan's head and the gag from her mouth. She squatted down and looked at her carefully: "There's no mistake, it's her!"
As he spoke, he pulled off Du Baolin's hood and looked at him: "Is this all? Pi said that double eyelids are pretty."
I said it's pretty average! It doesn't look like a winter melon, it's not like a gourd, it looks like a damn he shou wu (Polygonum multiflorum), it's nowhere near as good as honest ones!
Du Baolin considered himself to be a man of great manners; otherwise, he wouldn't have asked the Nie family to find a son-in-law.
In Qin's eyes, he wasn't even as good as one of Li Laoshi's toes.
At this moment, Xu Xiaolan and Du Baolin were still in a daze, unaware of where they were or who had captured them. Only when they heard Qin Shi speak did they look up.
Du Baolin didn't recognize anyone in the room, but Xu Xiaolan did.
She spotted Jiang Zhi sitting under the eaves drinking tea at a glance, and immediately felt a surge of anger: "It's you, you slut, causing trouble again! I've already given you money, and you still won't let me go!"
At this moment, Xu Xiaolan was both angry and furious, showing none of the fear she felt when she encountered her sister-in-law from her maternal family in Pingchuan County.
Jiang Zhi glanced at her: "You think you can buy me silence with fifty taels of silver? That's too little!"
Xu Xiaolan sat up abruptly, glared at Jiang Zhi and said sternly, "This is Jincheng Prefecture, not Pingchuan County where you can run wild."
Jiang Zhi chuckled lightly: "I didn't come for the money. Xiao Tian came back to find his biological mother, so I brought him along! You, as his biological mother, should meet him!"
Xu Xiaolan panicked immediately: "I won't see her!"
Jiang Zhi ignored what Xu Xiaolan was saying and continued, "When that child was brought back, he was only two days old. His body was still covered in red fetal blood. His parents insisted that you were the one who couldn't take care of him and left him at his parents' house to be raised like a cat or dog."
"You've been gone for nineteen years. Whether you're dead or alive, your own mother has never heard from you since you left, not even once."
Xu Xiaolan, after her initial panic subsided, regained her composure and continued to avoid mentioning the child's condition. Looking at Xiaoman, Qin Shi, and Li Laoshi in the courtyard, she coldly said, "Tell me, how much silver do you want before you'll stop?"
Jiang Zhi didn't need Xu Xiaolan to admit it; she just needed to say these things to let the Nie family know that she knew Xu Xiaolan and that sending the child home was a fact. Now, Xu Xiaolan even wanted to use money to keep quiet.
The more Xu Xiaolan avoided speaking, the more suspicious Nie's parents became, believing that what she came up with herself was much more sincere than what others said voluntarily.
Jiang Zhi didn't ask, but that didn't mean others wouldn't. Qin Shi, who had been holding back for a while, rushed over and said, "Xu Xiaolan, just tell me directly, is that child really yours?"
A two-day-old baby had no milk to drink and cried every day from hunger. Errui's grandparents begged the wives in the village to feed the baby. Even I fed the baby.
You, as a mother, have absolutely no love for your child. Your heart is harder than a rock in a riverbank. Even an animal has more humanity than you!
Whether or not Qin actually fed the baby, nobody knew; she just said she did, so it must have been.
When Xu Xiaolan got angry at the scolding, she retorted with her neck stiff, "Whether I gave birth to her or not is none of your business. You're just saying these things because you want money."
By this time, she was convinced that her sister-in-law from her maternal family had kidnapped her because she had tasted the benefits of giving her money last time and had come here to extort money from her.
He couldn't help but feel resentful, thinking that as long as he got away, he would make sure they couldn't leave Jincheng Prefecture.
"Pah! You're blinded by greed, just wait and see..."
Qin raised her hand, but then heard Jiang Zhi cough. She remembered that she had agreed not to hit anyone, so she could only slap herself on the thigh, wincing as she did so: "I wish I could beat you to death, you shameless thing."
"How could the Xu family have produced such a troublemaker like you, ruining one family after another?"
While Qin was cursing, Jiang Zhi kept staring at the person next to her who had already sat up.
At this moment, Du Baolin's eyes were slightly narrowed, and he looked as if he was terrified.
Jiang Zhi knew this was just an illusion.
Xu Xiaolan is simple-minded, while Du Baolin is a cunning and ruthless wolf.
He had a firm grip on the Nie family and had long since handled things in Jincheng Prefecture flawlessly. Even the neighborhood leaders praised his integrity.
Nie Fantian's straightforward approach was still the best. No matter how many spiderwebs you have or how many little devils follow you, I will only catch myself.
Jiang Zhi said to Du Baolin, "You should know why I've come here."
Du Baolin slowly sat up straight. He didn't recognize Jiang Zhi, but he knew from Xu Xiaolan's words just now. Looking at Jiang Zhi, he asked instead of answering, "What exactly do you want?"
Jiang Zhi said in a deep voice, "I just want to know who gave birth to that child. Why did you hide him and send him to Xujia Village?"
You two, one desperately trying to pay to keep quiet, the other plotting murder—what shameful secret does that child hold?
Du Baolin's face darkened: "Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask. How much money do you want? Is five hundred taels of silver enough?"
Everything can be solved with money; if something can't be solved with money, it's because you haven't received enough money!
"Slap! Slap! Slap!"
The door to the tea room opened, and Nie Fantian walked out, clapping softly.
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