Chapter 974 Bloodline Suppression
After Xia Yixuan fell asleep again, my father also closed his eyes to rest.
I went to the corridor and called my uncle. I thought it was time to tell my mother about what happened between him and my aunt, but before that, I still had to ask my uncle's opinion.
I took out my phone, found my uncle's number, and dialed it. It only rang twice before I picked up.
"Hello, Mengmeng?" came the uncle's voice with a hint of fatigue.
"Uncle," I lowered my voice and leaned against the cold wall, "I want to ask, have you told my mother about my aunt's matter?"
"Not yet." My uncle's voice suddenly became a little weak.
"So...isn't it time to tell her? We can't keep this secret for much longer."
After seven or eight seconds, he sighed and said gloomily, "Yeah, you're right. I'll have to tell your mother about this sooner or later..."
"How about...how about you tell me? I don't know how to tell your mom. I'm afraid she'll be angry." His voice became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a mumble.
I could feel the blood suppression from my mother, the eldest sister, even from such a distance.
"Just thinking about her expression and tone if she knew, I just...ah, I don't even know where to start!"
I was a little amused and confused. My uncle's embarrassed tone was exactly like when I failed an exam as a kid. I only dared to tell my dad secretly, and then let my dad face the challenge first. Only after comforting my mom did I dare to show up.
I didn't expect that my uncle, who has already started a family and is now middle-aged, would behave like this in front of my mother, the eldest sister. It turns out that my mother is not only strict with me, but also with her precious younger brother.
"Okay, I understand." I agreed immediately, "I'll find a chance to tell her later."
"Oh! Okay! Okay! Thank you for your hard work, Mengmeng! Then you go ahead and do your work, I'm hanging up." My uncle agreed repeatedly, looking relieved, and then he hung up the phone in a hurry as if he was afraid that I would regret it.
Not long after, Xiao Shiqiu called. He was already downstairs and was ready to pick us up to have dinner nearby.
There were nurses and caregivers taking care of me in the ward, so I asked my mother to go out for dinner with me.
The restaurant was chosen to be a private restaurant with an elegant environment near the hospital.
After we sat down and ordered the dishes, the atmosphere was a little silent. I knew that what was coming would eventually come.
"Mom," I began carefully, trying to sound calm, "I need to tell you something. Uh, it's about my uncle. He's been in some trouble lately."
My mother paused as she picked up the teacup, then looked up at me with a sharp gaze: "What's the trouble?"
"It's... my uncle was tricked into investing." I deliberately told the whole story in a calm tone.
Even though I tried to downplay it, my mother's face visibly darkened when I mentioned that my aunt was pregnant with someone else's child. The knuckles of her fingers, gripping the teacup, turned slightly white, and her breathing became noticeably heavier.
"So, he just kept silent and took it all on his own? It was such a big deal, but he didn't even say a word to me?!" My mother's voice was not loud, but it was filled with ice, and her eyes were the kind that could poke holes in my aunt.
"Being bullied like this by Zhuang Lizhen's family, I thought he had been living a good life all these years! If I had known this would happen, I would have divorced him earlier and brought the children back!" My mother became more and more angry as she spoke.
"My uncle is also afraid that you will worry..." I tried to say a few good words for my uncle.
"Are you afraid that I'll worry?!" My mother suddenly put down the teacup, and the bottom of the cup hit the table with a crisp sound, attracting the attention of the guests at the next table.
She realized she had lost her composure and suppressed her anger, but her chest was still heaving violently. "He's probably afraid I'll scold him to death! He's in his forties and he doesn't have any brains at all!
Who did he give the money to? How did it work? How big was the risk? Did he ask about it?! How stupid! ! !
The more she spoke, the angrier she became, her eyes frighteningly fierce: "If he wasn't so far away now, I would really drag him home and give him a good beating! He deserved to be punished when he was a child!!" She said the last sentence almost through gritted teeth.
I was stunned when I heard this. It turns out that my uncle was beaten by my mother when he was a child?!
Compared to this, I feel that as a biological child, I still have some advantages. At least I have never been beaten.
Suddenly I felt that my mother's eyes and eyebrows looked much kinder.
Xiao Shiqiu had been listening quietly. At the right moment, he poured my mother a glass of warm water and said gently, "Mom, calm down first. Drink some water."
My mother picked up the water cup and took a big gulp, as if to quench the anger in her heart, but her eyes remained cold and hard.
After I had basically finished telling the 'understated' version and my mother had begun to recover, Xiao Shiqiu took over the conversation and talked about the latest developments.
"Mom, what Mengmeng just said was the situation before. Now things have taken a major turn."
He looked at my mother and said calmly, "We later discovered that this wasn't a failed investment at all, but a carefully planned financial fraud. Zhuang Lizhen and that Xu Shimo conspired to defraud my uncle."
My mother's eyes suddenly fixed: "Fraud?!"
"Yes." Xiao Shiqiu nodded, "That Xu Shimo is not a financial talent at all, he is a complete liar.
Zhuang Lizhen and he teamed up to forge a series of investment documents and loss certificates, with the goal of defrauding all of my uncle's savings and transferring their joint property."
He then explained in detail how we gradually locked down the truth through a chain of evidence including bank statements, communication records, and Xu Shimo's past misdeeds, as well as the strategy after the lawyer intervened.
"According to the lawyer's advice, my uncle has officially reported the case, claiming he was a victim of financial investment fraud.
Because the evidence we prepared in advance was very complete and solid, with a clear direction, the police were able to solve the case extremely quickly after filing it. For them, this was almost an easy-to-solve crime rate." Xiao Shiqiu's tone was calm.
My mother took a deep breath and asked, "Have they arrested everyone?"
Xiao Shiqiu nodded, "Just yesterday, the police took action." He continued, "When the police came to arrest people, Zhuang Lizhen didn't believe that it was her uncle who reported the case.
She probably thought it was an internal family conflict.”
"A family conflict?" My mother couldn't help but raise her voice again. "If this is considered a family conflict, I'll let Shuyi beat her up. That's also a family dispute."
My mother said this with gritted teeth, which showed that she was really angry.
This is the first time I have seen her violent side. I don’t know if it’s because of the things that have happened one after another during this period, but my mother has become so different that I almost don’t recognize her.
Xiao Shiqiu didn't take it seriously and chuckled, saying, "Zhuang Lizhen's explanation is quite interesting."
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