Zhang Yandong had said he wouldn't cooperate with Shen Shixun on the Mancheng Farm matter, but upon learning that Shen Shixun had run into trouble, he still immediately found a way to anonymously send a sum of money, which was directly transferred to the farm's public account.
Shen Shixun then solved the immediate problem.
Zhang Yandong asked him, "The Xiang family is frantically looking for you right now. Don't contact anyone in the ancient city except me."
"If I hadn't transferred the money to you right away last time, who were you planning to turn to?"
"Li Qingyuan."
Zhang Yandong was puzzled, "Why him?"
"He's a bastard who lied to my mother."
Zhang Yandong belatedly realized what was happening and was shocked after learning the details: "You actually kept such a big thing from me."
"It's not something to be proud of."
Whether he acknowledges it or not makes little difference, but it's still been exposed. It's highly likely that Li Qingyuan will give him a huge sum of hush money to help him through his difficulties because of his three wives.
It was somewhat despicable, but compared to what he did, it wasn't so despicable.
Does your mom know?
"Nobody knows except me."
How did you find out?
"Buddha statue..."
It's not just the Buddha statues, but also Li Luchuan.
When Li Gao, who was with Li Luchuan at the mine, was looking for Li Luchuan, he mistook him for someone else.
His skin tone is different from Li Luchuan's, but his figure is very similar when he wears a black suit.
He didn't take it seriously at the time.
He later learned about the Buddha statue from Xiang Nanzhi. He also confirmed that the knuckles between his and Li Luchuan's fingers both protrude slightly outwards. It wasn't obvious, but you could see it if you looked closely.
Genes are really powerful; even half-siblings inherit more genes from their fathers.
"That's too far-fetched, just based on a Buddha statue."
“Brother Dong… When my mother has an attack, she also mentions the name A Yuan.”
Shen Shixun closed his eyes, still having a vague impression of his father in his mind. He was very young then, probably just able to run, walk, and laugh. He remembered the profile of a Han Chinese man sitting on the grassland smoking.
The face was initially blurry, but after meeting Li Qingyuan, it perfectly overlapped with Li Qingyuan's face.
"I shouldn't have helped you. You should have gone to find Li Qingyuan. Do you even know what Li Ran is?"
"I won't interfere with Li Ran's affairs even if you don't help me. At most, I'll ask for hush money."
"How much is hush money worth? How much are Li Ran's shares worth? If you were Li Qingyuan's son, he could give you far more than you can imagine."
"Really? For that money, I'll have to bow my head to him and live by his whims from now on. What about my mother? What about Gila?"
That is to forgive everything that happened in the days without him, which would make Li Qingyuan feel no guilt and would also make him feel a sense of pride as a man.
This whole family benefited from his fame.
"Will he give my mother a proper title? His third wife is even younger than Xiang Nanzhi..."
"A man can bend and stretch!"
"But a person can't always live a life of hiding. The worst-case scenario I've considered is just getting hush money. I don't want to have anything to do with the Li family."
"Sehun, calm down and think about it..."
“If we do that, we will lose our dignity and our mother.”
It's better for Mom to remain unclear about Dad's whereabouts than to tell her that Dad is having many women outside, has children, and is living a very carefree life.
Wouldn't that be tantamount to forcing her to die?
Zhang Yandong fell silent, unsure how to persuade him. Shen Shixun had smoked the end of his cigarette, which was a little burnt. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and stubbed it out with his hand.
"Brother Dong, I will also weigh the options. This is the best solution. I will pay you back as soon as possible."
"Don't worry about the money. Don't let the Xiang family find us. If we're going to hide, we'll hide until the very end."
Being found by the Xiang family means certain death.
Zhang Yandong was about to hang up the phone when he heard, "Brother Dong..."
"Is there anything else? If so, then say so."
“Zhizhi…”
"Take care of yourself, she's fine."
Little Tangyuan had been suffering from altitude sickness and was quite fussy in the early stages. At that time, Shen Shixun was at his busiest, so he had to leave her with Jira to take care of.
Originally, Shen's mother was mentally unstable, but since Xiao Tangyuan came, she has had something to do and is more lucid than usual. She often mistakes Xiao Tangyuan for Shen Shixun when he was a child and takes very good care of him, with a happy expression on her face.
Several tents were set up near the farm. When Shen Shixun arrived, Jira had just come out. "Grandma has put Tangyuan to sleep."
"We can't call it Tangyuan anymore, let's change the name."
"What's your name?"
"Deji?"
"Hello, Deji!"
Deji means peace and happiness in the Gong language, and Jila thought it was a good omen. "Brother, why didn't you say so sooner? We've gotten used to calling you that."
Shen Shixun glanced at the bright sun overhead. "Jila, this is my first time being a father, and I didn't think things through. I didn't expect that children from the grasslands would also experience altitude sickness."
"He's much better now. Tangyuan, no, Deji, he's drinking more milk now and sleeping better. He just needs to get more sunshine."
These days, the fair-skinned little dumpling has been sunbathing a lot, and his skin has become a bit tanned, making him look like a child from the grassland. When Shen Shixun entered the tent, his mother made a "shh" gesture to him.
The child was sleeping soundly and had grown quite a bit. Even if Xiang Nanzhi were to place the child in front of her now, she might not recognize that the child was hers.
"Big brother, are we really not going back?"
Gila, heavily pregnant, operated a machine to produce jerky, looking at him with curiosity. "Although this place has everything, it feels like something's missing. It's not as free as where we are."
"I'm not going back, and I can't go back anyway."
"I miss Sister Alan, and I miss the people of our grasslands."
“It’s the same for us as a family, no matter where we go. We’ll take you back later when my older brother makes money.”
Once you have money and power, you won't be afraid of the Xiang family anymore. You can appear openly in front of everyone without having to hide.
He knew that for a rich person, killing his family members was as easy as crushing an ant.
Upon receiving the call, Xiang Nanzhi immediately drove to a city near the ancient city.
"Brother, I must go and see, maybe it's tangyuan."
"That's impossible. Tangyuan is in Saigon and wouldn't appear on the mainland. Those children are probably abandoned babies."
"What if... what if it's our tangyuan?"
Xiang Nanzhi gets completely flustered whenever she hears any news about her child.
A spy discovered that several children in another city had been abducted from human traffickers by the police and were now waiting for people to come and identify them. Xiang Nanzhi dropped everything he was doing and just wanted to get there as soon as possible.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
