Chapter 173: One Life, One Pair

However, this plan could not be told to Li Xuan, his foolish mother.

Being looked at by her son with such a gaze, Li Xuan felt very hurt at once.

Deep in her heart, she secretly made a decision: she must help her son deal with Si Rong.

She could not bear to see Si Rong happy.

But she had to help in secret; once the matter was done, she would tell her son, and then her son would surely never despise her for being foolish again.

Aside from serving Kong Yue at night, Li Xuan's attention was entirely focused on her son.

Unfortunately, Shen Chi was on guard against her, but fortunately, at this time, Lin Meixi came knocking again.

At this moment, she was close to giving birth; she had originally intended to give the child away since Shen Chi and his mother were so spineless, but she hadn't expected that fate would take a turn for the better—her middle-aged mother-in-law had actually turned around and hooked up with a retired Commander.

After a bout of weeping, Shen Chi finally accepted her and even coaxed Kong Yue into letting Lin Meixi move in as well.

It was just that what surprised Lin Meixi was that, after not seeing him for a period of time, her husband had actually changed his surname to Kong Chi.

Lin Meixi was a bit confused; then, should her child be surnamed Shen or Kong when born?

Before she could figure out this problem, she was called over by her mother-in-law and assigned the task of probing Shen Chi for information.

"Shen Chi still wants to deal with Si Rong?"

Lin Meixi was somewhat puzzled. In the past, they only wanted to harm her children because they coveted Si Rong's good things; now that they had climbed the big tree that was the Kong Family, couldn't they just live a good life?

In her view, properly leveraging the Kong Family tree to develop their own careers was the real priority.

Seeing how much Kong Yue liked Shen Chi, it wasn't impossible for him to invest and help him start a business.

Why bother going to such lengths to harm Si Rong?

"Mom, let's just live a good life in the Kong Family!"

Lin Meixi told Li Xuan her thoughts. In her opinion, given her mother-in-law's looks, finding someone like the Kong Family for a second marriage was already quite good, and she should cherish it.

But after listening, Li Xuan just glared at her fiercely.

"Do what you're told, and stop talking nonsense!"

Realizing that she was carrying her own grandson in her belly, Li Xuan's tone softened slightly, "The relationship between me and Si Rong is already one of life and death. If her things can be plotted for, won't they all be yours and Xiao Chi's in the future?"

This sentence tempted Lin Meixi.

So she decided to listen to her mother-in-law and probe for news from Shen Chi every day.

The two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were scurrying around the human traffickers Shen Chi was in contact with, which soon attracted Si Han's attention.

Ever since Li Xuan remarried into the Junshuyuan, Si Han had been uneasy. After discussing it with his brother-in-law Jiang Cheng, he arranged for people in the Junshuyuan to monitor Li Xuan and her children in real-time.

After discovering something was wrong, Si Han immediately notified his younger sister.

"They are indeed coming for you," Si Han's gaze was deep, "Let Second Brother teach them a lesson!"

"No need, Second Brother, I'll do it myself."

Right now, all of this was just speculation; Shen Chi had not yet done anything substantial.

If Second Brother took action, it would only be to teach them a lesson and make them suffer some physical pain.

Moreover, they were not in the right legally.

This time, she wanted to go with the flow and give Shen Chi and his mother a bitter lesson.

"Second Brother, trust me. If I can't handle it, I'll come to you again."

She alone was enough.

Rumors of human traffickers were intensifying in Huaiyang.

When Si Rong brought her two children back to the Jiang Family, Mother Jiang brought up the matter of them moving back to the Family Quarters again.

"Your Nainai is getting on in years now and sleeps a lot in the spring, so she doesn't like to meddle in other people's business as much. If you bring the children back to live here, we have many people, so we can feel at ease wherever we go."

Mother Jiang held her grandson and granddaughter, not daring to think about the child-snatching incidents by traffickers reported in the news.

Furthermore, she had also heard that the woman who used to have a bad relationship with her daughter-in-law had remarried into the Junshuyuan.

Worried that Si Rong wouldn't be tempted, she added, "If you come back, we can play mahjong every day."

Si Rong:...

She was actually tempted.

Now her mother-in-law even knew how to use mahjong to manipulate her.

"Mom, let's wait a while longer."

After Jiang Nainai left, she could move back.

At noon, Wu Ma made her signature mutton hot pot, and the family sat around eating happily.

Xu Yan sat with Si Rong; the two sisters-in-law were much closer now.

Jiang You had also gone to university in Haishi, and the two began chatting about topics concerning Jiang Zhi and Jiang You.

Jiang Cheng, meanwhile, talked to his younger brother about the current human trafficking situation.

"Does the government have any good solutions?"

Jiang Yu shook his head, "Preliminary investigations show that these people are not locals of Huaiyang; they are itinerant criminals who strike and move on, and their counter-reconnaissance capabilities are very strong. The police are under a lot of pressure too!"

"Brother, during this time, have sister-in-law take the nephew and niece out less!"

This was the only way.

Jiang Cheng nodded, "Mm, don't worry, I'll accompany them whenever they go out."

"Not bad!" Jiang Yu teased, "Now that you're a father, you're getting better and better at doting on your wife."

He stretched out his leather shoes to show his brother, "Yanyan just bought them for me!"

He had thought he would see his brother's frustrated expression as he wished.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Cheng acted as if he had been waiting for this moment, stretching out his hand to let Jiang Yu see the diamond ring on his ring finger.

"These are a couple's diamond rings; your sister-in-law bought them for me, saying they were a Valentine's Day gift. She probably wants to be with me as a pair for a lifetime, women are just troublesome!"

Jiang Yu:...

Was it really a gift from his sister-in-law? He didn't believe it; based on his understanding of his older brother, it was more likely that his brother had begged for them.

However, his brother's many years of bachelorhood hadn't been easy, so he would reluctantly pretend to believe it.

After the family finished their meal, the young people played mahjong together, while Jiang's father and mother doted on their grandchildren, happier than they had ever been playing mahjong before.

Nainai specifically skipped her afternoon nap, intending to tell her two grandsons about something she had been pondering for some time.

"Rongrong, how has your recovery been since giving birth? Do you have any free time?"

Si Rong's heart skipped a beat, and she pinched Jiang Cheng under the table.

"Nainai, if you have something to say, just say it; don't go prying. At your age, worrying about everything will only harm yourself."

Nainai:...

Another day of wanting to take her cane and beat her grandson to death.

She adjusted her breathing before stating what she had been pondering, "Yanyan hasn't been able to conceive for so many years; I suspect she can't give birth. Since Rongrong can still have children, and even gave birth to twins, why not have two more children for your younger brother and his wife?"

Only by having more children would their Jiang Family become increasingly prosperous.

This high-minded opinion of hers shocked the entire family.

Jiang's mother had thought that because she had been eating and sleeping all day, she had learned to behave as she aged, but she hadn't expected her to be pondering such things every day.

In other families, having an elder is like having a treasure.

In their family, having an elder is worse than having none at all.