Chapter 146 Why did you kneel down as soon as you entered the door?
When Xu Junjun saw Zhizhi and then looked around the Wen family's living room, where neither Xu Shanshan nor Wen Qianqian were present, she knew something was wrong.
The immoral things she did against her conscience back then have finally been discovered.
Xu Junjun stood there, covering her face and weeping.
Without Zhizhi and the others needing to trick her or press her for answers, she had already shown signs of defeat.
Tears soaked through her fingers, and she kept murmuring, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."
At this moment, she was not the only one who was defeated and collapsed.
Her behavior confirmed Zhizhi's suspicions, indicating that it wasn't an accidental loss, but rather that Xu Shanshan deliberately lost it...
When this truth was laid bare before the Wen family, none of them could accept it.
The one who found it most unacceptable was Wen Changyu.
After all, she's his own daughter, and Xu Shanshan is his wife.
His wife deliberately abandoned their biological daughter...
Wen Changyu's tall figure swayed slightly, and Wen Jinshu reached out to support him.
"What do you mean by that, Aunt?" Wen Jinshu was still able to calmly press for an answer.
He should have kept quiet until he forced her to answer. After he did, Xu Junjun knelt down in front of Wen Changyu with a thud.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." She knelt there, grabbing Wen Changyu's trouser leg, crying and apologizing.
"...So, it really was you all who threw Zhizhi away together?" Wen Changyu asked in a hoarse voice.
Upon hearing this, Xu Junjun immediately shook her head, "No, no, it wasn't me, I didn't, I... am..."
What was it? She lowered her head, bit her lip, and refused to utter a sound.
He Yuzhi suddenly grabbed her clothes, shook her, and demanded, "Who is that? Who is it? Tell me!"
She cried, but He Yuzhi cried even harder, hitting her as she cried, "What have we, the Wen family, ever done to wrong you?"
"Tell me, what exactly has our family done to wrong you?"
“In the past, when you came to our house, we thought that you had many children and that you two didn’t have any elderly relatives to help you. Every time you came, we would prepare delicious food and drinks for you. When you left, we would always try to give you some food and clothes. What have we done to wrong you?” He Yuzhi grabbed Xu Junjun’s clothes and collapsed into her arms, crying.
"What have we done to wrong you? Why are you doing this to our family?"
"Do you...do you have any conscience?" He Yuzhi cried, hitting and questioning.
Xu Junjun knelt there, crying and not daring to raise her head.
She was indeed ashamed to face He Yuzhi and the others, because she knew about Wen Qianqian's background.
As for the fact that Wen Zhizhi was abandoned, Xu Junjun really didn't know. When Xu Shanshan called her over, the Zhizhi from back then had already been abandoned.
Just because of Wen Qianqian, Xu Junjun guessed that perhaps the child's disappearance was not so simple.
But Xu Shanshan didn't reveal a word about how complicated it was to her, and she didn't dare to ask casually.
The matter of Wen Qianqian alone had terrified her over the years.
She had advised Xu Shanshan back then that Wen Qianqian should tell her brother-in-law about her background, otherwise it might be discovered one day...
Because of this incident, Xu Shanshan also distanced herself from her, gave her some hard-earned money, and told her not to come to Beijing unless necessary, and to call her only if she needed help.
She didn't dare take that hard-earned money; instead, she gave Wang Jinghui the money the Wen family had given to the children and their families.
After that, she really didn't visit the Wen family much, unless they called.
Because she felt uneasy about her conscience, she dared not see the Wen family.
She knew this was like a guillotine hanging over her head, and that guillotine would fall sooner or later.
For years, she had been wondering when the guillotine would fall. Twenty years had passed, and she thought she would take the matter to her grave, but unexpectedly…
"Slap, slap..." Xu Junjun raised her hand and quickly slapped herself, her face turning bright red. "It's my fault for being heartless, it's my fault for being heartless, I'm so sorry, so sorry..."
She cried, regretting her mistakes from back then.
"So, whose child is Wen Qianqian?" Wen Zhizhi asked the crucial question.
Xu Junjun stopped crying, looked up and glanced around at the Wen family members, and finally lowered her head, sobbing as she said, "She...she is the child of one of Shanshan's friends, a friend our family has known for many years."
“Before our parents had the accident, his parents and our parents were friends. Our two families had a good relationship, and Shanshan also had a good relationship with him.”
"What's his name?" Zhizhi asked again.
"Wang... Wang Jinghui."
"A man?" Zhizhi asked.
Xu Junjun hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Mm!"
"Qianqian's mother died during childbirth."
"So it wasn't because you couldn't afford to raise all your children that you adopted them?" Zhizhi asked again.
Xu Junjun nodded again, "Your mother said... that Qianqian is a pitiful child. Her father, a man, can't take good care of her. And since you've been lost, it's a good opportunity to bring her here. That way, Qianqian can keep her company in your place, and Qianqian will also have someone to take care of her. It's a win-win situation."
"So my mom deliberately abandoned me because of Wen Qianqian?" Zhizhi asked the most crucial question.
This question made Xu Junjun's face turn pale with fright. She subconsciously shook her head, shaking it desperately, her face very pale.
He Yuzhi questioned, "Is it true or not?"
Xu Junjun shook her head, tears streaming down her face, "I don't know!"
She wasn't lying about this, because Xu Shanshan really hadn't told her about Zhizhi's disappearance.
As for the possibility that Xu Shanshan lost her biological daughter because of Wen Qianqian, that's just her speculation.
He Yuzhi didn't believe her. "You didn't know?"
Xu Junjun immediately knelt down, raised her hands to the sky and swore, "I swear, if I knew anything, may I die a horrible death, and may my whole family die a horrible death."
After she made the vow, tears streamed down her face again. "Auntie, I really didn't lie to you about this. I know how you've treated me. I... no matter how much of a scoundrel I am, I can't help someone lose their own niece, can I?"
"Auntie, I really can't do something so beastly!"
He Yuzhi dared not easily believe her words: "You are her own sister, how could you not know anything about what she did?"
Xu Junjun quickly said, "I...I do have a guess, but...but I don't think Shanshan would be that confused. Maybe it's because Jinci lost her child that she thought of adopting Qianqian."
"After all, she thought that Qianqian was the child of an acquaintance, someone she knew well."
"Then why did you kneel down as soon as you entered?" Zhizhi suddenly asked.
Xu Junjun "..."
“You actually had a suspicion in your heart, right?” Zhizhi said.
Xu Junjun knelt there, struggling.
She had her suspicions at first, but now that she's saying it out loud, not only is she inhuman, but how is her sister supposed to live?
"Otherwise, even if you helped cover up Wen Qianqian's background, you wouldn't be so scared. It's just adopting a child, after all. Who adopts a child doesn't matter?"
"Would Dad really turn against Mom, whom he's been with for decades, over something like this?"
"It's even less likely that they would make things difficult for your own sister over something like this, unless..."
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