Luo Minjuan said with a flickering expression, "We did bring the baby back, but who knows if we gave her the wrong baby back then? Look at how this brat looks, how does she resemble either of us? Even grandchildren don't look alike. Tell me, did we give her the wrong baby when we went back to bring her back that year?"
Sheng Li found it absurd: "Just because she doesn't look like her doesn't mean she's not our daughter. Maybe this brat looks like her great-grandmother."
“I’ve never met the child’s great-grandmother, but she certainly won’t be like your biased mother,” Luo Minjuan said, frowning. “Your mother will definitely come and make a scene tomorrow. She’ll throw a tantrum and make you miserable over Sheng Muchen’s matter. I’m telling you, you can’t give in to her if she comes to make a scene again.”
Luo Minjuan's words reignited Sheng Li's irritation: "I understand."
"You agree with that verbally, but when the person comes begging to you, you'll soften your heart again."
Luo Minjuan had known Shengli for a while now.
Sheng Li became even more agitated and walked out with his hands behind his back.
He stepped outside, touched his injured spot, and the pain made him stop abruptly. Recalling what Luo Minjuan had just said, he snapped back to reality, turned around, and strode back into the kitchen, his face ashen, and asked, "What did you mean by what you just said?"
Luo Minjuan was tending the fire when she suddenly saw him return. She abruptly asked the question, paused for a moment, and then said with a shifty look in her eyes, "It doesn't mean anything."
"It doesn't mean you'd suddenly say something so strange."
Shengli's problem lies in his thinking, not his intelligence.
They could discern the underlying meaning in Luo Minjuan's words.
"I was just saying it offhand."
"Did you remember something that proves this girl isn't ours? Tell me, did you do something behind our backs?" Sheng Li slammed his fist on the table in anger.
"Shh!"
Luo Minjuan was so frightened that she ran over and covered Sheng Li's mouth, pointing outside, "Don't let Guan Hua know about this. I'll talk, I'll talk, okay?"
Sheng Li looked at her with a gloomy face, "Speak quickly."
Luo Minjuan walked to the door and looked outside. Sheng Guanhua had already turned on the light and was doing his homework inside; he hadn't come over.
Luo Minjuan turned around and whispered to Sheng Li, "I suspect that our daughter died that year, and this one was switched and placed there, or it was just a coincidence that she was wearing the same clothes and placed in the same spot, and we just happened to bring her back."
Sheng Li's face turned ugly upon hearing this.
“How is that possible? This is absurd. We were the only ones abandoning children in that place at that time. How could there be another child exactly the same as us?” Sheng Li said, somewhat agitated.
If Sheng Qian isn't their child, wouldn't they have raised an outsider's child for nothing? Now that Sheng Qian is so successful, if she knew she wasn't their biological daughter, she might run far away and abandon them.
no.
Sheng Qian must never find out about this.
They raised her for so many years, and the family couldn't help her at all; how could they let her leave so easily?
Sheng Li clenched his fist and said to Luo Minjuan in a deep voice, "Don't tell anyone about this except you and me."
"Of course I know that. That brat has suddenly become so heartless. If she knew we weren't her biological parents, who knows what cruel things she would do." Luo Minjuan didn't want Sheng Qian to find out before she severed ties with them.
"That brat's really made something of herself, but she neglects her family. Next time you call, mention to her that the family needs to repair the house and ask her to contribute. Also, we need to buy a house in the county town so that Guanhua can marry a city girl once he moves there." If not now, when?
Luo Minjuan thought the same thing, "Okay, I will definitely bring it up with her. If she dares not to give it to us, we will make a scene."
Sheng Li thought for a moment and said, "How about this, we don't need to say anything, let Guan Hua bring it up. This brat listens to Guan Hua now, she'll definitely give him what he asks for."
"Won't this put Guanhua in a difficult position?" Luo Minjuan felt sorry for her son and couldn't bear to see Sheng Guanhua in a difficult situation.
"This is all for his future. If he doesn't speak up, who will?" Sheng Li gritted his teeth and said, "If we can't use force, we'll use gentleness."
As long as they feign pitifulness and beg Sheng Guanhua, he will definitely soften his heart.
*
Sheng Qian knew nothing about her own background.
They have already arrived in Province C with Jiang Jinqiao.
On their first day in the municipality of C province, Sheng Qian took a stroll around with them.
They headed to the towns below on the second day.
"As long as we can persuade Elder Xu, there's no need to say anything else; everyone else will definitely follow you."
Upon arriving in Yu County, Jiang Jinqiao began to tell Sheng Qian about Xu Guangqian.
In the future, Sheng Qian is certain that there was no such person as Xu Guangqian. After her rebirth, some people and things will change.
What about your family?
Will things change because she returns to this era?
"It should be that place up ahead."
Jiang Jinqiao, relying on the address Xu Guangqian had given him, asked around and found his way there.
Xu Guangqian lived with his son, daughter-in-law, and several children and grandchildren. Over the years, life had been peaceful and uneventful.
However, whenever I think about how my ideals and ambitions cannot be realized, I feel somewhat depressed.
Xu Guangqian looked at the children playing in the yard, his eyes softened, and a smile appeared on his face.
A ball was kicked to his feet, and Xu Guangqian bent down to pick it up.
Xu Guangqian was only fifty years old at this time, and he still had a lot of time to spend with his family.
He picked up the ball and threw it towards the children, who happily ran over and pulled him to join them.
Xu Guangqian's smile deepened.
The arrival of Sheng Qian and Jiang Jinqiao interrupted the pleasant merriment of the old and young in the courtyard.
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