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With both of them not needing to go to work, Zhuang Nainai and Si Jingyu returned home and began doing household chores here and there.
After a busy afternoon, and by the time Si Zhengting returned home, they had managed to prepare dinner.
The three of them ate dinner together, and Si Jingyu talked about what had transpired that afternoon when they had met Hua Mianao at the shopping mall.
As Si Zhengting listened, his expression began to darken. Even though Si Jingyu was putting things across lightly, it wasn’t hard for him to imagine how bone-chilling the scenes had been!
If Li Yufeng hadn’t felt the prick in her conscience and hadn’t stopped the heavy object from falling onto Nainai, if there had been someone who had knocked into Nainai during the fracas…
The more he thought along these lines, the scarier he felt it was.
Si Zhengting furrowed his brows. “Don’t leave the house in the future unless there’s something for you to do.”
Zhuang Nainai didn’t retort, but Si Jingyu was already speaking on her behalf. “You can’t do this. Don’t tell me you’re never going to drive cars just because you’re afraid of getting into a car accident? Also, you could possibly choke from drinking water. Are you trying to say that we shouldn’t drink water anymore?”
Si Zhengting was speechless.
There were so many pregnant women in the world, and it was rare for them to actually experience miscarriages just because they were knocked about. In fact, if Zhuang Nainai were to be confined to the house, she would feel uncomfortable.
Sister had said everything that Zhuang Nainai wanted to say, so she closed her mouth instantly and decided to bat her eyelids and play the good child.
She didn’t protest, so Si Zhengting turned his head to look at her. “What do you think?”
Zhuang Nainai blinked innocently once more. In a very obedient tone, she said, “I’ll just listen to whatever Sister says~”
Si Zhengting was speechless.
Deciding to change the subject, Si Jingyu said, “Right, didn’t you get someone to investigate Li Yufeng? Have you found anything? What actually happened between her and Nainai’s mother?”
At the mention of this, Zhuang Nainai immediately raised her head and stared at Si Zhengting.
Seeing that both of them were now looking at him, Si Zhengting gave a cough, then replied, “Coincidentally, I went to look for a private investigator today, and I found out a bit about Li Yufeng’s past.”
Huh!
What a coincidence!
Zhuang Nainai pricked her ears and made herself look attentive.
Si Zhengting kept quiet for a moment, then picked up his phone. After making a call to Ji Chen, he turned on hands-free mode and ordered, “Report to Nainai what you managed to find today.”
Ji Chen replied, “Yes.”
With that, Ji Chen began. “Li Yufeng’s original name was Li Guichun, and she was indeed from a small mountain village in Hebei province. The village being quite backward and poor, she was actually the first person to graduate from university in her village. The place that the private investigator visited had a few old people who confirmed that they knew a person by the name of Li Guichun.”
“In fact, Li Guichun was somewhat of a legend in their village. Her sister-in-law was stingy and mean, but she still managed to grow up haughty and pampered. She never spoke much, but once she did, whatever she said was always impressive and worth the words of ten people put together. For example, her mother died early, and her father also died shortly after her sister-in-law married into the family. The moment her sister-in-law came into the family, she was made to do the housework. But who knows what she said to her sister-in-law — she was suddenly treated like nobility and propped up. Her sister-in-law, behaving as if under a spell, allowed her to go to school. Her grades in school were excellent, and all the teachers who had ever taught her always praised her for being academic. However, when she was in middle school, the family didn’t have enough money to pay for her school fees, and she nearly quit school because of that. Later on, she managed to talk to her sister-in-law about it, and she was eventually able to return to school and study up ’til high school. Then, she stole her dowry and ran away from the family.”
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Having spoken up until here, Ji Chen gave a small sigh. “Actually, she’s quite a genius. After she ran away, everyone in the village went to ask her sister-in-law about it, and they found out that she had always baited her sister-in-law — she had told her sister-in-law that being in middle school meant that she was going to be the only one who went to middle school in their village and that her dowry in the future would surely be worth a lot! After finishing middle school, she told her sister-in-law once more that if she were to go to high school, that would be one step higher, and she wouldn’t even need to marry the village chief’s son anymore — there would be people from the town coming to ask for her hand! Her sister-in-law believed every word she said, and she essentially deceived her sister-in-law year after year. When she finished high school, she sat in the house quietly preparing, her demeanor bashful. Who would have thought that she had always been waiting for a chance to escape? So, when she saw her chance, she grabbed it; she stole money and left!”
At this point in time, there was an air of regret.
In awe at Li Yufeng’s scheming mind since her youth, Zhuang Nainai couldn’t help but ask, “Then, what happened to her after that?”
Ji Chen replied, “Madam, don’t be anxious. Let me tell you about her bit by bit. I promise that I’ll tell you all about Li Yufeng’s past clearly!”
“Quick, continue.”
“Li Yufeng, having run away from her village, came immediately to the big city of Beijing. She studied in the university and worked at the same time, and she had a determined, ruthless air about her. She knew how hard it was for her to have an education, so she was consistently working hard all the way until her third year in university. By that point in time, the workload at school began to become lighter, and she went to work at the Gu Corporation as a full-time intern. She was then spotted by Gu Deshou and immediately became his secretary. Apparently, Gu Deshou had a girlfriend at the time, but nobody really knew what her name was. Anyway, they never got married, and there was something about that girlfriend not being able to give birth. They had been together for some time, but they never had any children. Later on, when Gu Deshou got to meet Li Yufeng, Li Yufeng got pregnant, and Gu Deshou’s girlfriend stole the child and disappeared in a fit of anger. Gu Deshou owed Li Yufeng in this sense, and so he married her. Afterward, the two of them got along well, and she followed Gu Deshou in whatever he did. They then slowly developed the Gu Corporation into the sizeable scale we know it to be now.”
Upon hearing this, Zhuang Nainai raised her brows.
They had gotten a private investigator to check up on Li Yufeng, but they were somehow unable to find out about the girlfriend that Gu Deshou had in the past?
But even if they didn’t tell her, she was sure that the person with Gu Deshou had been Mother Zhuang!
And so…
Mother Zhuang hadn’t been the third party; Li Yufeng had been the third party who had stuck her foot into their relationship!
At the thought of this, she suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction grow in her.
Even though all the evidence at the present pointed to Li Yufeng being her biological mother, she was still happy for Mother Zhuang that Mother Zhuang wasn’t a home-wrecker.
She knew it — she knew that her mother hadn’t done anything wrong.
The Mother Zhuang that she had always relied on since she was young surely wasn’t a bad person.
There must surely have been something going on in the background with regards to the child-stealing, but even that was out of the private investigator’s reach. After all, this was reality, and there was no such thing as having a Sherlock Homes or Detective Conan to decode the mystery for her. The truth of the matter, unfortunately, lay only in the hands of the people involved at that point in time.
In any case, all of these things that Ji Chen had found out was Li Yufeng’s big secret.
Without a shadow of a doubt, she was concealing even more secrets, but that was okay — they were going to dig them out one by one.
