When Li Ying returned home, she told Jing Chi what Tang Feng had said.
What do you think he meant by that?
Jing Chi fell into deep thought. He had also felt that the Jing family's past was strange, but he hadn't had time to investigate. Now that even Tang Feng was asking him to investigate, he had no choice but to do so.
"He probably wanted to tell me that there were loopholes in the Jing family's story back then."
"You mean the Jing family was purged back then because they were framed?" Li Ying frowned slightly, thinking that such a possibility still existed. People were like madmen back then, and wrongful convictions were bound to happen. If someone took advantage of the characteristics of that era to bring down a family, it would be incredibly easy.
"I'll go find someone and ask her first."
Jing Chi thought of someone: Tang Qiao. She must know something.
Li Ying nodded: "Okay, Chenchen and I will go with you to see Aunt Tang."
Jing Chi was very happy that Li Ying was willing to accompany him, and the two took Chenchen to the place where Tang Qiao lived.
Tang Qiao was very happy to see Jing Chi and Li Ying, and even happier to see Chenchen.
"Can I let him play with Dangdang for a while?" Tang Qiao asked.
Dangdang was punished by Ye Wennian for deliberately pushing Chenchen last time, but she is much more obedient now.
Li Ying agreed, but worried that Dangdang would bully Chenchen again, so she got up and pulled Chenchen aside, saying, "You two talk, I'll go out and play with them for a while."
"Alright."
Li Ying took Chenchen to the yard to play with Dangdang.
Dangdang glanced at Li Ying, then fumbled in her pocket for a while before finally pulling out a small card she had made herself.
"Can this be given to Chenchen?"
Li Ying smiled and patted Dangdang's head: "Of course."
The child is still young and doesn't understand anything. It's understandable that he makes mistakes. As long as he knows he's wrong, he can be forgiven.
In the living room, Jing Chi stated directly the purpose of his visit.
"Aunt Tang, can you tell me?"
Tang Qiao put down her teacup and nodded slightly: "Now that things have come to this, there's nothing I can't say. Actually, I was the one who got engaged to the Jing family back then."
Jing Chi was stunned and listened quietly as Tang Qiao recounted the past.
Tang Qiao and Tang Yu are only two years apart in age, and they are the closest of friends.
Tang Yu was rebellious as a child. After studying abroad, she became very avant-garde. She didn't want to marry into the Kang family and even wanted to break off the engagement. She often went to the opera troupe to watch plays and sometimes accompanied Tang Qiao. Tang Qiao, on the other hand, was more conservative and rarely went out.
She didn't know what happened in between, but one day Tang Yu suddenly told Tang Qiao that she was pregnant with the child of the eldest son of the Jing family.
Tang Qiao was furious at the time, but for the sake of the Tang family's reputation and Tang Yu's reputation, she chose to endure it, letting Tang Yu marry into the Jing family, while she herself married Ye Chengyi.
However, not long after Tang Yu gave birth and finished her postpartum confinement, she gave the child to the Jing family in the capital and then disappeared.
During that time, no one knew where Tang Yu had gone until two years later when Tang Yu reappeared in Shanghai.
The eldest son of the Jing family was a very sentimental person and remained very good to Tang Yu. After two years, the Jing family made some mistakes and was reported by Tang Yu. As a result, the young master of the Jing family was arrested, and the elderly couple of the Jing family also passed away one after the other because of their son's arrest.
"The Jing family was reduced to that state overnight. Their property was confiscated, and they were gone. Later, Tang Yu changed her name to Aunt Jing and tried every means to take over all of the Jing family's property."
Jing Chi already knew about the Kang family's situation, but he didn't expect there to be such a entanglement between them.
"Where is my dad? Is he still in prison?"
Tang Qiao shook her head: "I heard he contracted tuberculosis in prison and died on the way to the hospital. But I didn't hear that Tang Yu went to collect his body."
"That's all I know." That's all Tang Qiao knew.
"It's strange, why did she send me to the Jing family in the capital?" Jing Chi still couldn't understand this question.
Logically speaking, if Tang Yu wanted to send her son to her closest sister, she should have sent him to the unrelated Jing family in the capital.
"The Jing family in the capital is a branch of the Jing family in Shanghai. Your mother probably felt that the branch was closer to the family, which is why she did this?"
On the way back, Jing Chi was still pondering what Tang Qiao had said. She only knew that Tang Yu had said she was pregnant, but she didn't know whose child Tang Yu was carrying.
"What did they ask you?"
"I've been asked a question that I can't explain. I don't know who my biological father is." This is Jing Chi's biggest question.
Li Ying exclaimed in surprise, "Really?"
Jing Chi couldn't explain it too clearly because Chenchen was right beside him, and it wasn't good for the child to know some things.
After Chenchen fell asleep that night, Jingchi told her everything Tang Qiao had said.
"You mean you might not be a member of the Jing family?"
This is outrageous!
“Perhaps I am a member of the Jing family, but maybe not the Jing family of Shanghai.” Jing Chi rubbed his temples. He didn’t want things to be so complicated, but it seemed that things were far more complicated than they had imagined.
"Could you be from the Jing family in the capital?"
So, he and Jing Yingyan are the closest people to him.
If you think about it that way, it makes sense that Tang Yu sent Jing Chi to be raised by the Jing family.
Tang Yu never expected that Tang Qiao would take Jing Chi away from the Jing family to cover up her loss of her son, which is why he has lived in the Ye family for so many years.
These things sound like a complete mess.
Now that Aunt Jing's past has been brought to light, I'm afraid the story behind it is even more fascinating than what we're hearing now.
"Li Ying, I want to go back to see her and ask her about all of this."
Li Ying disagreed: "No, you can't go back to the Jing family. Your mother has gone mad. She even dared to poison Leng Yan. She won't let you go if you go back."
“But if I don’t go back, these things won’t be clear up, and my background will remain a mystery.” Jing Chi was very frustrated.
The fact that Ye Jingchi had become Jing Chi was already the most unacceptable fact for him. He never expected that such an unbelievable thing would happen now, leaving him wondering whose son he really was.
He didn't know what Tang Yu had done back then, so he wanted to go back and find out.
"But I think that's too risky."
Li Ying still didn't want Jing Chi to take any risks. She knew these things were bound to happen sooner or later, but she just didn't want them to happen too soon.
“Yingying, these things are unresolved and remain a problem. I must figure out what my surname should be.”
Seeing that she couldn't stop him, Li Ying stopped trying.
Before Jing Chi met his mother, he ran into Nan Shiran.
"Young Master Jing, how have you been?"
Nan Shiran still dressed the same way, her appearance unchanged year after year.
"Sorry, I don't know you." Jing Chi didn't want to pay attention to him.
Nan Shiran laughed: "Ye Jingchi, Commander Ye, this one can't be wrong, right?"
Jing Chi turned to look at Nan Shiran, his eyes deep and unfathomable.
Nan Shiran smiled nonchalantly: "Aren't you disappointed that you didn't catch me red-handed?"
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