Dong Yunyue, who was sitting in the living room counting the gifts, smiled immediately when she saw Zhou Xiang coming back. "What's wrong? Are you reluctant to leave your aunt?"
Zhou Xiang also laughed, "Yes! I couldn't bear to leave, so I left and came back."
Dong Yunyue was just joking, and Zhou Xiang responded jokingly as well, "Is there something wrong?"
"I need to ask my aunt about something, so it's better to keep it secret."
"Okay, come with me to the east room, Yongan, you two should check the numbers carefully."
"good."
Zhou Xiang smiled politely at his uncle and followed his aunt into the tidied east room.
Dong Yunyue sat on the edge of the bed and patted the side, "Sit down!"
Ling Ran took a stool for his wife to sit on. How could his wife sit on a bed that another man had slept on?
Zhou Xiang took a stool and sat down next to his aunt. "Aunt, do you know that classmate of mine? What's going on with her? Before, I was busy studying and really didn't pay much attention to her."
Dong Yunyue sighed deeply. "I guessed you were here to ask about Xiaolian. This poor child is so pitiful! Her mother beats and scolds her three times a day. Many of us don't understand. Is there any mother like that? If you ask her to do housework, she should do it! And why does she beat and scold her every day?"
"Was it like this before? I mean when Tang Xiaolian was studying."
"It's the same. I moved in from their house and it's like this. There's not a single day without beatings and scolding."
"So, where did they live before?"
"I don't know about that. After the family compound here was built, everyone moved here from all over."
"You all should be employees of the department store here, right? Which unit did Tang Xiaolian's father work for before?"
Dong Yunyue thought for a moment and said, "I heard they were transferred from below. There are no department stores in towns and villages, only supply and marketing cooperatives. I remember hearing someone say they were transferred from the supply and marketing cooperative in Zhuding Township."
"Aunt, do you know where her former fiancé was from? Who did she marry?"
Dong Yunyue clapped her hands, "I actually know this. That young man is the son of the purchasing director of our department store. His father asked him to work at the Tobacco Bureau, which is a good company!
I don't know how he fell in love with Xiaolian, and they soon got engaged. The young man bought a new motorcycle and said he would take Xiaolian for a ride. That time, Xiaolian's face was ruined.
Then, the young man refused to accept it and insisted on canceling the engagement. The director personally came to cancel the engagement and gave him 50,000 yuan.
It's only been two or three months since the engagement was called off, and I heard they're getting married again. They don't even have an engagement, they just get married straight away.
We are more familiar with the person we are going to marry. She is also the child of an employee of our unit. Her mother was an educated youth from Shanghai. Now that she can return to the city, she gave her household registration to her daughter.
I just don’t know why this girl returned to Huai County.”
"Ma?"
"Yes, yes, yes, her surname is Ma. She's the daughter of Accountant Ma from our company. We all think this is a marriage of equal status. The previous one with the Tang family was totally incompatible!"
Zhou Xiang felt a chill emanating from his body. Was Ma Shasha afraid to retaliate against Tang Xiaolian instead of him? Was she blaming Tang Xiaolian for tipping him off about her during the competition?
I hope that Tang Xiaolian’s face was not designed by her, otherwise, she would be disfigured for life.
Ling Ran put his hand on his wife's shoulder, and Zhou wanted to retract his coldness.
Dong Yunyue breathed a sigh of relief. The sinister Zhou Xiang just now was very scary.
"Thank you, Auntie. Please don't tell anyone about what I said today. I still have some things to investigate."
Dong Yunyue nodded vigorously, "Don't worry! You've told me, even if I'm about to burst my stomach, I won't tell anyone."
When Zhou Xiang and Lu Zhaochong returned to the car, they were already there.
"Did you ask anything?"
"The neighbors all say that their family is like this all the time. And when Tang Xiaolian's mother, Jin Guizhi, scolds her daughter, they can't stand it. The words she uses are totally unbecoming of a mother."
"Where's her dad?"
"She said her father, Tang Peisheng, loved her very much. Even when she was in elementary school, he still held her in his arms and coaxed her."
"Lu Zhaochong, you are the only one with free time. Please investigate some things for me."
"Just give your orders, sister-in-law."
"Go to the Zhuding Township Supply and Marketing Cooperative to investigate Tang Peisheng and Jin Guizhi. Most importantly, investigate Tang Xiaolian's background. I suspect Tang Xiaolian is not their biological daughter. A biological mother would never scold her biological daughter like that. If she is not their stepmother, then she must be their adoptive mother.
But I think it must be the adoptive mother. Something is wrong with his father. We need to hurry up and make sure that silly girl doesn’t get hurt.”
"yes."
Lu Zhaochong got out of the car and left. Ling Ran got in the driver's seat and drove away. The car was silent and no one was in the mood to talk.
Zhou Xiang’s words were very clear. If Tang Xiaolian was not her biological daughter, and her mother spoke of her father like that, it must mean that her father was having some problems.
It would be easy for an adoptive father to extend his evil claws to his timid and cowardly adopted daughter.
When we got back to the town, it was already past four o'clock. The car stopped and the three babies woke up, so we put them directly on the bed on the first floor.
Having not seen them for quite some time, they missed Grandpa Chu and Grandpa-in-law terribly. The two old men lay beside the bed and talked endlessly to Sanbao, who gave them big smiles.
Zhou Niao also teased the three treasures, only to realize that one person was missing. "Where's Lu Zhaochong?"
"I sent him to do something."
"Oh, it doesn't matter anyway. It'll be nice to give him something to do."
Zhou Hua even asked his sister why she was so late. He had sent plums and sat at Xiao's house for a long time, returning earlier than his sister.
"If something happens, you'll know when Lu Zhaochong comes back."
During dinner, Zhou Kai emphasized that he had to work overtime because there were too many customers buying New Year's goods recently, and it was time for them, the hourly workers, to show their skills.
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