Aunt Zhang covered her scratched face and said angrily, "You've been slandering Miss Qianmo's reputation everywhere. Don't think I, a nanny, don't know. You even have the audacity to say that you've raised Miss Qianmo for twenty years. Put your hand on your conscience, did you really raise her?"
"Hmph, now that Miss Qianmo is doing better and better, she's eagerly coming to claim kinship. She's really showing her weak and greedy face to the fullest extent."
Zhang Cuiyan glared at Zhang Sao with sharp eyes after being mocked.
“Qianmo has been treated well in our family, and I have never mistreated her. If I hadn’t raised her, would she be alive now? Heh, how capable is your Bai family? You bully others and look down on us country folk, right? Let me tell you, since I, Zhang Cuiyan, am here today, I have no intention of leaving. If you don’t let me see Qianmo, I’m sitting here and not going anywhere today.”
Aunt Zhang's face turned red with anger: "They're really shameless."
Xu Hualan winked at Zhang Sao, who then turned to look at Bai Yitang.
"Go call Qianmo."
Bai Yitang was also seeing a shrew like Zhang Cuiyan for the first time, and he was a little stunned.
He nodded blankly, then turned and went back to his room to make a phone call.
Old Bai carried a birdcage and hummed a Peking Opera tune.
"The Yang family generals are renowned for their integrity and righteousness, even sacrificing their own children. Loyal ministers throughout history are like them..."
Upon seeing the scene in the courtyard, Old Bai was slightly taken aback, his powerful eyes sweeping lightly across Zhang Cuiyan and Bai Xinrou's faces.
"What happened?"
Aunt Zhang spoke first.
"Old Bai, you're finally back."
"What happened to your face?" Old Bai didn't ask Zhang Cuiyan immediately, but stared at the scratches on Zhang's face.
Aunt Zhang's eyes were red and swollen, and the tear stains on her face had not yet dried, clearly indicating that she had been wronged.
Xu Hualan, who was standing to the side, spoke up: "It was this lady who made the arrest."
Old Bai's brows furrowed into a deep frown, and he let out a cold snort.
"They came to my house and caused trouble! How dare they!"
Zhang Cuiyan was arrogant, but when she saw Old Bai, she couldn't help but feel a little intimidated by the old man.
"Grandpa, I am Qianmo's adoptive mother. I'm here to find my daughter."
"Daughter? Isn't your daughter Bai Xiruo?"
Old Bai walked over slowly, carrying a birdcage in one hand and toying with a walnut in his other.
"I don't like what you're saying. Xi Ruo is my biological daughter, but Qian Mo is my adopted daughter. I raised her, and now I don't even have the right to come and see her?"
"Ms. Zhang, to be honest, did you come to my house to see Qianmo?"
When questioned by Bai Lao, Zhang Cuiyan was momentarily speechless.
She certainly didn't come to see that brat.
Hmph, Bai Qianmo thinks she can't do anything to her just because she can't find her? Luckily, the Bai family left this address when they came looking for Bai Qianmo.
Once she finds this place, she won't have to worry about Bai Qianmo not showing up.
“Qianmo refuses to see me. My daughter and I are unfamiliar with the capital city and only know the Bai family.”
Old Bai walked to the pear tree and hung the birdcage on a branch.
He used a bird-teasing stick to tease the two little birds inside for a while.
"Now that the two girls have returned to their rightful places, and the mother-daughter bond between you and Qianmo is over, if you came to the capital to find her because of Bai Xiruo, I advise you to give up that idea. If Bai Xiruo committed murder, her crime cannot be cleared."
Zhang Cuiyan was so anxious that she couldn't pretend anymore.
He roared, "You say Xi Ruo intentionally killed someone? I think you deliberately set a trap to lure her into committing the crime, didn't you? She's just a twenty-year-old child, how could she be so vicious?"
"Smack!"
Old Bai tossed the small stick in his hand into the bird feeder beside him, making a crisp tapping sound.
"First, she is already twenty years old, an adult, and has her own independent thinking ability. Second, during the twenty years that Bai Xiruo lived in the Bai family, I can guarantee with my hand on my chest that none of us in the Bai family have ever mistreated her in the slightest. Her adoptive parents even insisted on keeping her after they found out that she was not their biological daughter. Because of this, Qianmo suffered a lot of grievances in the past six months. The moment Bai Xiruo pushed her adoptive mother down the stairs, she had already lost her humanity."
"I won't listen to your grand principles. I, Zhang Cuiyan, am here today and I won't leave until I get an explanation. Either Bai Qianmo comes to see me, or you find a way to get Xi Ruo out safely. Otherwise, from this day forward, unless I die, I will never leave this gate."
After uttering these unreasonable words, Zhang Cuiyan walked to the stone bench and plopped down on it.
With his legs crossed, he swept his gaze fiercely over Old Bai, Bai Kangcheng, Xu Hualan, and Bai Yitang.
Old Bai's face turned ashen, and Bai Kangcheng angrily rebuked him.
"You're being unreasonable and domineering. If you continue to stay here, I'll call the police."
Zhang Cuiyan showed no fear and gave a dismissive snort.
“I, Zhang Cuiyan, am not easily intimidated. If you have the guts, call the police now. I’d like to have a discussion with the police about whether my daughter, whom I’ve raised for twenty years, has any obligation to support me in my old age.”
Old Bai's eyes were deep and unfathomable, and he let out a cold snort.
"Trying to nitpick, huh? Then let me ask you, when our Bai family brought Qianmo back, did you accept a check for two million?"
Zhang Cuiyan immediately fell silent.
Old Bai sneered: "Back then, our Bai family made it very clear to you and your husband that the two million was compensation for raising Qianmo. However, the upbringing and expenses of your daughter Bai Xiruo in our Bai family over the past twenty years have amounted to more than just two million. Now, these ungrateful wretches have even caused her adoptive mother to fall into a coma. If we really want to calculate it, it should be us who are seeking compensation from your family."
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