Chapter 56: If you want to see the child, just pay!
But the play still has to be performed.
The next morning, Lin Wanqing woke up from bed. With sleepy eyes still hazy, she replayed the scene she was going to perform that day in her mind, and then she slowly got up.
She walked to Zhang Zhijie's room and saw that he was gone.
Now that he left, it would be difficult to enter the Lin Mansion again in the future. Lin Wanqing directly locked Zhang Zhijie's door.
What followed was a fake battle to snatch the child, which was a physically demanding task. Lin Wanqing even ate breakfast for fear of suffering from hypoglycemia from hunger, scratched her hair, and then pushed the door open and ran out of the Lin Mansion in panic.
"Zhijie! Zhijie, where are you? Don't scare your mother, come out quickly!"
Lin Wanqing, still in her pajamas and with disheveled hair and a dirty face, ran out onto the street. She grabbed anyone and asked anxiously, "Have you seen my Zhijie?"
"He, he was sleeping next to me, but when I woke up, I found the child was gone!"
"How come it disappeared?" Lin Wanqing tried her best to act, making herself look particularly scared and helpless.
Those who were stopped by Lin Wanqing shook their heads and said they had never seen the child. Seeing that Lin Wanqing was anxious, they comforted her with a few words and then kindly began to help Lin Wanqing find the child.
The Zhang family's junk was still piled up not far from the gate of the Lin Mansion. Mother Zhang was huddled in the junk, looking at the panicked Lin Wanqing and felt very relieved.
"Mom! Mom!" Lin Wanqing finally stumbled over to Zhang Ma and said, "Did you see Zhijie? You've been sleeping outside the whole time. Did you see when Zhijie left the house?"
Aunt Zhang said calmly, "I slept so soundly last night that I didn't have time to look after the child for you. I don't know. I don't know anything."
She tilted her head back, rolled her eyes and looked up at the sky, as if her tail was about to reach the sky.
"The child is lost, why aren't you worried at all?" Lin Wanqing wiped the tears from her face. "Oh, I know. Did you steal the child?"
Lin Wanqing glanced around and said, "Where's Yang Aihua? Did she hide with the child?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? We're not hiding a child." Aunt Zhang was still sitting comfortably on her bedding, pointing her finger at Lin Wanqing again and again. "You, you just don't know how to take care of a child. Maybe the child doesn't like you and runs away from home on his own?"
"Okay, you better not know anything." Lin Wanqing gritted her teeth, "Just wait, I'm going to call the police and say you stole the child!"
Zhang Ma then stood up and yelled, "Go ahead, go ahead! What evidence do you have to accuse us of stealing the child?"
"Besides, Zhijie is my grandson, how could that be considered stealing?"
Lin Wanqing glanced over sharply, "So, you admit that the child is in your hands!"
"Yes, I'm telling you, Lin Wanqing! Zhang Zhijie is my grandson, and he has the blood of the Zhang family. I can't let him live with an outsider! Go call the police, go ahead! I can't find any law that says a grandmother can't see her eldest grandson!"
Aunt Zhang wasn't afraid at all. This was a family matter, and at most they could just persuade each other. The police were too lazy to care.
"Give me the child!" Lin Wanqing went crazy, tearing at Zhang Ma, "That's my child! My child!"
"Ouch, ouch, you still want to hit me!" Aunt Zhang stepped back repeatedly, but clapped her hands arrogantly at Lin Wanqing.
Lin Wanqing wanted to rush up and hit someone, but the people around her quickly grabbed her and said, "Wanqing, Wanqing, calm down!"
"They are the child's relatives after all. They won't do anything to Zhijie. Don't worry!"
Lin Wanqing collapsed to the ground, wailing. "They won't give me the child! How am I going to live without Zhijie?"
"Zhijie and I have a good relationship, and he doesn't like her as a mother." Aunt Zhang raised her eyebrows and said to the villagers beside her, "The child ran away secretly. As soon as he came out, he said he missed his grandmother and didn't want to be with his mother. What can I do? Of course I agree. I can't let the child suffer."
"But she's also the child's biological mother." Someone defended Lin Wanqing, "We can't let the child not see his mother."
"Doesn't she want to break up with us?" Aunt Zhang sneered. "Then let's do it. We'll take the child with us so it won't affect her future search! I understand that she's young and I'm thinking about her future."
The reasons are very sufficient and the attitude is very arrogant.
Seeing this, Lin Wanqing burst into tears and begged, "Just give Zhijie back to me!"
"That's my child, my child! How could you do this to me!"
Lin Wanqing looked so miserable, with her hair disheveled and her heart broken by tears. Anyone who passed by would shed bitter tears along with her.
"That's the offspring of my Zhang family! The flesh and blood of my Zhang family! Don't even think about letting Zhang Zhijie follow you!"
Mother Zhang felt relieved when she saw Lin Wanqing's collapse. She said arrogantly, "Didn't you say you wanted to split up the family? Humph, then we'll split up. You'll never see your child again!"
It would be best if you could hold on and not send Zhang Zhijie back to me after a few days when you can no longer support him.
Lin Wanqing complained in her heart, but pretended to be angry and helpless.
"You are unreasonable and shameless! That's my child!"
She was sobbing and twitching, her body shaking. As a mother, this is the worst thing to see.
The few people watching the fun all felt sorry for Lin Wanqing and sympathized with her from the bottom of their hearts, but they also knew that they could not help in this matter.
Every family has its own problems. Life is already a mess. Whoever says something is right is right. After all, Zhang Zhijie's surname is Zhang and she is a member of the Zhang family. She is the child's grandmother and has the right to have her own grandson.
So they also comforted her, saying, "Wanqing, you should be more open-minded. This year, spend more time with the Zhang family. Don't be so extreme. Then you can still be a family, and you can see your children all the time, right?"
This person's suggestion was exactly what Zhang Ma wanted, so she immediately jumped on the bandwagon: "If we were a family, everything would be fine. But if we split up, don't blame me if Zhijie doesn't recognize you as his mother in the future!"
"I know you want to use the child to blackmail me!" Lin Wanqing gritted her teeth, her whole body trembling, and said viciously: "Dream on! I will definitely get the child back, but you will never enter my Lin family again!"
This made Zhang Ma jump three feet high as if she had been hit by a firecracker. "Okay, okay, then you just wait. From now on, if Zhijie can call you mom again, I will take your last name!"
She pointed at Lin Wanqing and raised her eyelids confidently, "Sooner or later, I'll make you beg us to move back!"
"Let's wait and see!"
Lin Wanqing stood up from the ground, shaky and almost unable to hold on, as if she was about to faint.
It was so pitiful and miserable, but she said nothing and walked slowly towards home. She wanted to leave this impression on everyone.
It’s not that she doesn’t want the child, so you can’t say she’s heartless, right?
As soon as they entered the Lin family's gate and closed it, Lin Wanqing laughed out loud.
From now on, the Lin family will say goodbye to the ungrateful bastards!
She is such a good actress!
Aunt Zhang, however, was guarding the shabby house outside, thinking complacently, "Let's see when Lin Wanqing will come and ask them to move back."
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