Chapter 72
The three of them walked back in. Lan Shuqing walked to the bedside, while Lan Zhaoting and Li Liyue stood at the foot of the bed.
Lan Zhaoting looked at Lan Shuqing and Jiang Bai and said, "I've already sent people to the community to take everyone away, but I found this on them."
He pulled out his phone, pulled up the photos, and handed them to Lan Shuqing. "Also, I had someone trick Jiang Xiaofu into saying something. He was planning to post these things online."
Fortunately, the property management called Jiang Bai, otherwise they would have been in a passive position.
Lan Shuqing took the phone and took a quick look at it. She frowned and handed the phone to Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai took it. There was a banner on the photo, which basically said that an unscrupulous girl was dating a rich man, only caring about herself, not fulfilling her obligation to support her parents, and engaging in lesbianism to cheat money.
It's basically a rumor.
Jiang Bai almost laughed. They really could come up with such an idea. She handed the phone to Lan Shuqing and looked up and said, "They have no evidence for these things."
Li Liyue looked at her and said, "Once they post something online and create some momentum, we'll be the ones in the back."
"And what if they took a picture of you and Shuqing? Have you ever thought about that?"
"Mom!" Lan Shuqing frowned slightly, "This is not Jiang Bai's fault."
Li Liyue glanced at her and said, "I'm telling the truth."
Jiang Bai pulled Lan Shuqing's hand, then looked at Li Liyue. "Auntie, I know everything you said. I can handle my family's side, but the Ye family's side, I need you..." She looked at Lan Zhaoting and said, "Handle it with uncle."
Lan Zhaoting nodded, "I've already sent someone to the Ye family. I believe they wouldn't dare to send such a message."
Li Liyue's face still didn't look good. She asked Jiang Bai, "How are you going to deal with your family?"
You know, once you are targeted by a reckless gambler, it is impossible to avoid getting hurt.
Hearing her ask this, Lan Shuqing wanted to speak, but Jiang Bai took the initiative to hold her hand. Lan Shuqing lowered her head to look at her. Jiang Bai smiled, but there was not much smile in her eyes. "Lan Shuqing, I can do it, don't worry."
The woman's gaze was firm. Lan Shu softened his expression and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Jiang Bai pursed his lips, looked at her and said, "Please take me back to where I live. I need to go back and get something."
"But your injury..."
"It's okay."
Lan Shuqing was unable to persuade Jiang Bai, so she could only push Jiang Bai in a wheelchair and take him back to where she lived.
Li Liyue's emotions were mixed again. She didn't understand why her daughter listened to Jiang Bai so much, but couldn't listen to her?
So Li Liyue followed the two of them to Jiang Bai's residence, and Lan Zhaoting had no choice but to follow.
Before leaving, Lan Shuqing called Aunt Yao and asked her to deliver the meal later.
It gets dark early in winter. When they arrived at the community, it was already completely dark. Jiang Bai was wearing a hospital gown and a light down jacket. He let out a sigh of relief after entering the room.
Li Liyue didn't expect that Jiang Bai was still sharing the apartment, and neither did Lan Zhaoting.
The four of them squeezed into Jiang Bai's small rental house. Li Liyue and Lan Zhaoting stood on the balcony and looked at each other. For some reason, Li Liyue suddenly felt some reality about Jiang Bai's situation. Lan Zhaoting also started from scratch. When they had no children, she and Lan Zhaoting had lived in an even worse house.
To be honest, although the house is small, it is tidy and does not look messy. However, no one has been back for several days, and the tables and chairs on the balcony are visibly covered with a layer of dust.
Li Liyue withdrew her gaze and looked at the two people beside the bed.
Jiang Bai sat in the wheelchair, still holding Lan Shuqing's hand, and blinked, "Lan Shuqing, can you help me hold it?"
Lan Shuqing was still a little angry, but looking into Jiang Bai's eyes, her heart softened, her tone still a little stiff, "Alright..."
Jiang Bai smiled.
It was a file bag, which Jiang Bai put inside a white T-shirt and placed in the middle layer of the wardrobe.
Lan Shuqing found it in the closet, took out the file bag, handed it to Jiang Bai, and then pushed the wheelchair to the desk on the balcony. There were tissues next to the desk. Jiang Bai took two of them, wiped the table, and then put the file bag on it.
The contents of the white file bag were very thin, just two pieces of paper and a USB flash drive. Three pairs of eyes stared at Jiang Bai as he took the things out.
The paper is a little yellowed, indicating that it is very old.
Jiang Bai was inexplicably nervous. She hadn't opened this file bag for a long time. She took the two pieces of paper, glanced at Lan Shuqing on the left, then glanced at Li Liyue and Lan Zhaoting on the right, and finally handed it to Lan Shuqing.
Lan Shuqing took it doubtfully, then looked down and saw a few large words on the top page: Voluntary Gift Agreement.
The agreement simply stated that Sun Mei and Jiang Tongguo each voluntarily donated 100,000 yuan to Jiang Bai as study and living expenses. Jiang Bai would handle the donated funds on his own and no one else was allowed to interfere.
Last signature: Eleven years ago.
Eleven years ago, Jiang Bai was seventeen years old.
Lan Shuqing couldn't help but glance at Jiang Bai. She suppressed her doubts and continued to look at the next one. This one was different from the previous one: an agreement to sever ties.
The agreement states that Sun Mei and Jiang Tongguo have severed their father-daughter and mother-daughter relationships with their daughter Jiang Bai, and Jiang Bai is not required to fulfill her support obligations in the future. The signing time is the same as the previous one, but this one has no legal effect. On the contrary, the previous one has legal effect.
But no matter what, these two agreements hit Lan Shuqing like a huge wave.
Although she knew that Jiang Bai's parents were divorced and had never cared about her, Lan Shuqing never thought it would happen in this way.
The more Lan Shuqing thought about it, the more frightened she became. She looked up at Jiang Bai, and the two thin pieces of paper in her hands seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
Seeing that Lan Shuqing's face looked a little off, Li Liyue and Lan Zhaoting were a little confused. Li Liyue asked, "Shuqing, what's wrong?"
Lan Shuqing did not respond to Li Liyue's words, but looked at Jiang Bai silently. Jiang Bai smiled. She had never told Lan Shuqing about her past. Firstly, she felt it was unnecessary as it had happened a long time ago and there was no need to bring it up again. Secondly, there was no opportunity, and if she spoke out of thin air, it would inevitably give people the suspicion of trying to gain sympathy.
So these things can only be kept secret.
Now, I have to turn it over again.
The heartache in the little girl's eyes was about to overflow, and Jiang Bai felt sour in her heart. She coughed lightly, suppressing the inexplicable impulse in her heart, then pulled Lan Shuqing's sleeve, indicating that Li Liyue and the others were still there.
Lan Shuqing looked up at Li Liyue and Lan Zhaoting, and suddenly said, "Dad, Mom, can you go wait downstairs?"
Why do you want to kick someone out just after looking at the documents?
Li Liyue was a little confused, but seeing that Lan Shuqing's expression was indeed a little wrong, she really didn't want to leave.
Seeing this, Lan Zhaoting put his arm around Li Liyue's shoulders and said, "Okay, let's go wait outside."
Then he forcibly dragged Li Liyue out.
When they reached the door, Li Liyue glared at Lan Zhaoting. Lan Zhaoting smiled and said, "Shu Qing must have something to say to Jiang Bai alone. Let's wait a moment."
"You're the only one who's smart!"
Li Liyue was a little angry and helpless. Couldn't she see that the two people had something to say?
After the two left, Lan Shuqing placed the two agreements on the desk, then squatted in front of Jiang Bai, held her hand, and looked up at her, "Jiang Bai, are you hiding something from me?"
She knew Lan Shuqing would ask.
Once you open your mouth, there is no turning back.
Jiang Bai suddenly felt timid, so she could only look at Lan Shuqing, and she checked her throat but couldn't say a word.
People cannot stand being cared for by others. Once they are cared for by others, their vulnerability will emerge.
Lan Shu gently stroked Jiang Bai's cheek, looking at Jiang Bai's slightly red eyes, full of heartache, "Jiang Bai, I want to know, tell me, okay?"
As Lan Shuqing finished speaking, a tear slid down from the corner of Jiang Bai's eye. She pursed her lips tightly and still didn't speak.
Lan Shu sighed softly. She stood up and carefully held Jiang Bai in her arms. Jiang Bai buried his face in Lan Shu's lower abdomen and cried silently.
When Jiang Bai went to school as a child, no one came to pick her up, so she walked a long way home alone.
The road was too long at that time. When she grew up and walked it again, she found that the road was not that long. But in her childhood memory, the road was really too long, so long that she would be scared whenever she thought about it.
In Jiang Bai's current memory, the past is buried deep in the past. Once she thinks of it, she will suppress it. Sometimes she will wonder why no one loves her since she was born?
Later she realized that not everyone is loved, and not everyone has the ability to love.
Jiang Bai actually didn't have the ability to love. Most of the time, it was Lan Shuqing who taught her to speak out, it was Lan Shuqing who wanted to hear it, and it was Lan Shuqing who gave her the courage, so she would only tell it to Lan Shuqing.
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