On the second day of the first lunar month, Jiang Qiuyu was going to take Xue Jiayu back to her parents' home.

Xue Wangjun sent the mother and daughter to Jiang's house in the morning, and took Xu Suzhen and Ying Huanyu back to his hometown in the afternoon.

Xu Suzhen hasn't been back for more than half a year. This time she came back mainly to burn incense for Xue Wangjun's father.

It was inconvenient for Ying Huanyu to go to Jiang's house, so he was also brought back.

"Huanyu, you stay home. Grandma and I will go up the mountain. Don't run around. Be careful at home."

Xue Wangjun gave a brief explanation and left. Ying Huanyu agreed readily, but only showed some impatience after they left.

Taking her back to her hometown but not taking her to visit the graves of Xue family ancestors, doesn't this mean he doesn't treat her as a member of the Xue family!

Li Minxue's words often got into Ying Huanyu's mind, and even if she didn't want to, it was difficult to get rid of them.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

Ying Huanyu dragged his feet to open the door, and his back stiffened after seeing who was outside.

Outside the door is Li Minxue.

"Xiaoyu, mom finally sees you again."

Li Minxue caressed her baby daughter's face lovingly, but Ying Huanyu took several steps back and looked at her with disgust.

"Don't come over here, who are you?"

"Didn't I tell you that I'm your mother?"

Li Minxue went into the Xue family and closed the door. "I waited until Xue Wangjun and the old woman left before coming here. Isn't mom very smart?"

"You're not my mother."

Ying Huanyu said very seriously, "My mother's name is Jiang Qiuyi. I have told you once, and I can tell you again."

"Pooh!"

Li Minxue hated Jiang Qiuyi so much, "She is not worthy of being your mother."

"Are you worthy of it?" Ying Huanyu couldn't help but ask back.

Li Minxue was stumped by this question, but had no way to refute it, so she had to repeat the question over and over again what gift she wanted.

"I already have a New Year's present. I have a new princess dress."

"That's great. Mommy really wants to see you in a princess dress."

Li Minxue was lost in fantasy. It was too dark on New Year's Eve and she couldn't see clearly what Ying Huanyu was wearing.

Ying Huanyu was always worried that Xue Wangjun would turn back halfway, and kept urging Li Minxue to leave.

"If you don't leave, I'm going to call the police. My dad will be back soon. He loves me very much."

"Hurt?" Li Minxue laughed crazily, "How much can they love you? You are not their biological child after all!"

"That hurts, too."

Ying Huanyu pushed Li Minxue out, and Li Minxue suddenly held her head and said, "Mom has already thought about giving you a New Year's gift."

"What gift..."

After asking Ying Huanyu, she regretted it. Asking this made it seem like she was very interested!

"You'll know when you get back." Li Minxue smiled cruelly and left before Xue Wangjun and Xu Suzhen came back.

Not long after Xue Wangjun became rich, he renovated his father Xue's tomb. He had planned to renovate it again in the next two years, but Xu Suzhen said that if the tomb was renovated too well, it would be targeted by tomb robbers, so Xue Wangjun gave up the idea.

The last time he came to burn incense and sweep the graves was during the Qingming Festival. Xue Wangjun felt that he was too unfilial and a little sad. While burning paper money, he reported his recent situation to his father Xue from time to time.

"Dad, I haven't come to see you for half a year. How are you doing?"

"Jiayu entered primary school. She was originally going to go to kindergarten, but she worked hard and skipped a grade to go to primary school."

"Since Jiayu came into being, Qiuyi and I have become more and more close, and my business has grown bigger and bigger. Do you think Jiayu is a treasure given to me by God?"

"Dad, Jiayu is still young and weak. I will wait until she is older and bring her to you."

Before Xu Suzhen finished burning what she was holding, she used a shovel to shovel away the ashes and hurriedly stopped Xue Wangjun.

"You can't say that right now. If some kid who can understand takes her away, we won't even have anywhere to cry!"

Xu Suzhen spoke so seriously that Xue Wangjun didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Mom, let's talk about science now." Xue Wangjun helped Xu Suzhen up and went down the mountain with her.

"I don't know what scientific superstition is, but I just know that I can't say that here."

Xue Jiayu is the apple of Xu Suzhen's eye and she must prevent anything that is harmful to Xue Jiayu.

Xue Wangjun coaxed the old lady down the mountain, and when they returned home, they were surprised to see that the door was open.

"Huanyu, did someone come to our house just now?"

"No." Ying Huanyu clenched his hands, sat on the sofa nervously, and smiled harmlessly, "I was at home the whole time, I didn't even notice anyone coming."

"But the door is open."

Xue Wangjun frowned. Could it be that he didn't close the door properly when he went out?

But he clearly remembered checking it!

Xu Suzhen glanced at the gate and suddenly said, "Come back later. I'll go to Li Minxue's house to see if there's any news."

Xu Suzhen has always been thinking about sending Ying Huanyu back. Now that the two children are getting older, Ying Huanyu's temper is getting worse and worse, and he always bullies Xue Jiayu intentionally or unintentionally.

Xu Suzhen saw all of this. After all, they were not from the same family, so they would never be able to get acquainted with each other by raising them like this.

So she wanted to take this opportunity to come back and check on Li Minxue's situation, and it would be best if she could return Ying Huanyu to Li Minxue and let her raise him herself.

But Li Minxue's house was quiet, and Xu Suzhen knocked on the door for a long time but no one came to open it.

But it did knock out the neighbors.

"What are you doing? Are you looking for bad luck on the second day of the first lunar month?"

An old man came out wrapped in a coat, and when he saw it was Xu Suzhen, he immediately became sarcastic.

"Oh, isn't this the old lady from the Xue family? You still remembered to come back. I thought you had become rich and forgotten your fellow villagers."

Xu Suzhen's face changed slightly, but she didn't want to quarrel with others in the first month of the year and bring bad luck, so she just asked: "Brother, has Li Minxue come back these days?"

"No! I don't know! No one is watching her house."

The villagers looked Xu Suzhen up and down and immediately understood what she was planning.

"Why, your family doesn't want to raise her child anymore and want to send her back, right?"

"No, I didn't say I won't raise it." Xu Suzhen explained hurriedly, "I just changed the way I raise it. Hey, you don't understand."

The villager snorted coldly and said in a loud voice like a broadcaster: "I don't understand. I just know that you promised Li Minxue that you would raise her child. Now you regret it halfway. Are you planning to let the child fend for himself here? You have no sense of responsibility at all!"

"It's not our child in the first place! We have children at home, so why bother raising another one? Besides, you saw the situation at that time. If we didn't raise the child, they wouldn't let us leave!"

Xu Suzhen burst out with years of frustration. She pointed at the villagers who were watching the fun and said, "It's you who are gossiping about how rich our family is. Even if we are rich, it's because we worked hard. We didn't do anything sneaky, so how can our wealth bother anyone?"

The villagers were so overwhelmed by what she said that they couldn't even raise their heads. The one or two who occasionally made eye contact with her quickly turned their eyes away and dared not look any further.