Chapter 249: Not His Seed At All

Li Xuan gave a perfunctory response, then asked him, "Where are your mom and dad?"

"They're still sleeping in the room." Kong Nuo hadn't even eaten breakfast yet.

He sighed; his parents wanted him to compare himself to Jiang Sinian in everything, without even looking at how vast the difference was between their family conditions.

Jiang Sinian's family had a nanny and endless delicacies; he was only one year younger than Jiang Sinian, yet there was a significant difference in their heights.

Not to mention clothes and such.

His parents still hadn't bought the sneakers he had asked them to get for him last time.

Li Xuan frowned; this son and daughter-in-law were truly lazy to the bone.

She walked straight into the bedroom and asked Lin Meixi for money.

Lin Meixi's own money had to support their family of three, which was already very tight; she truly could not endure Li Xuan coming to sponge off them like this from time to time.

"No money!"

Don't even think about threatening her again!

If Li Xuan wanted to tell Shen Chi about that matter, then let her tell Shen Chi; in any case, it wasn't just her own fault.

The mastermind was her, Li Xuan.

Moreover, she had gone to the Fuliyuan to look for her daughter after the fact, but it was a pity that someone had already adopted her first.

All these years, it wasn't that she didn't miss her daughter in her heart, but she could only pray in her heart that her daughter was doing well; besides that, what else could a woman like her do?

Li Xuan was a bit stunned; she had thought she could use this matter to threaten Lin Meixi for a lifetime.

"Come out with me, I have something to tell you."

Lin Meixi looked at Shen Chi's puzzled expression, but in the end, she was still a bit worried, so she got up, threw on a dress, and followed Li Xuan into the courtyard.

"On the way here just now, I ran into a girl who looks very much like Xiao Yuan. The old saying always goes that a niece resembles her aunt; do you think it's possible that the girl..."

"It's not possible!" Lin Meixi interrupted her, "Since that child was already sent away back then, all we can do in the future is pretend she doesn't exist."

"Think about it, even if it really is her, are we supposed to acknowledge her? Abandoned at such a young age by you, her own grandmother—do you think she will be filial to you or hate you and take revenge on you!"

When Li Xuan heard her say this, she thought about it carefully and realized it was true.

"Don't you think about using this matter to ask me for money again. If you want to tell Shen Chi, then we'll tell him; in any case, you, the biological grandmother, are the mastermind!"

She understood this foolish mother-in-law; Li Xuan simply didn't have the courage to tell Shen Chi.

But as soon as Lin Meixi turned around, she was shocked.

She saw Shen Chi standing right behind the two of them, and there was no telling how long he had been listening.

"What are you both hiding from me?"

In fact, ever since he was released from prison, Shen Chi had noticed that there seemed to be some little secret between this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

But he hadn't thought much of it; after all, what could possibly be more important than him, the son?

But hearing this today, it seemed it really wasn't a small matter.

"N-nothing," Li Xuan felt that Lin Meixi was right; if she told Shen Chi, perhaps Shen Chi would hate her because of that child.

Shen Yuan already ignored her, and now she was counting on her son Shen Chi to support her in her old age; she couldn't let her son hate her.

Li Xuan hurriedly tried to leave, but was grabbed by the arm by Shen Chi.

The son's voice sounded somewhat gloomy, "I'll say it one last time: tell me what you've been hiding from me."

His gaze was practically murderous, and Li Xuan was terrified.

She said to her son, "Meixi knows too, let her tell you."

Lin Meixi:...

To be saddled with such a mother-in-law, she really had the worst luck imaginable.

Seeing that it could no longer be hidden, the two women had no choice but to confess everything.

"So that's how it is," Shen Chi didn't fly into a rage as they had expected; instead, he began to laugh wildly.

Kong Nuo was not his son.

His own biological daughter had been sent away by these two foolish women the moment she was born, and now her whereabouts were unknown.

Yet he had cherished someone else's son for so many years.

He was stupider than everyone else; he was simply a complete fool.

Shen Chi picked up a chair and smashed the house to pieces.

Li Xuan and her daughter-in-law huddled together, and after exchanging a fearful glance, Li Xuan advised, "Son, this can't be blamed on us; if you want to blame someone, blame that Si Rong!"

"Back then, after she framed you and got you sent to prison, she started forcing us both, and even wanted to drive me out of the Family Quarters. I'm the child's own grandmother; could I possibly harm her?"

"It was precisely because I knew she would suffer if she stayed with us that I thought to send her to the Fuliyuan, hoping the child would have good fate and meet parents who would cherish her."

"And you don't know, that child had a health problem; at the time, neither of us had the money to get her treated, and it would have been a burden in our home."

Shen Chi finally stopped smashing the furniture.

He certainly hated Si Rong, but he also had to wait for an opportunity.

For now, he wanted to see that child.

"Find her. You two sent my daughter away, so you must find her and bring her back to me!"

His gloomy gaze landed on Kong Nuo; no wonder he had always felt there was a barrier between him and this child.

It turned out he wasn't his seed at all.

Lin Meixi, that damned bitch.

"Okay, okay, Mom and I will definitely find a way to bring our daughter back," Lin Meixi said hurriedly before Shen Chi could go crazy again.

Li Xuan, shocked:...

Find her? The world was vast; were they supposed to look for a needle in an ocean?

After Shen Chi calmed down, the two women huddled together again, and Li Xuan asked anxiously, "How are we going to find that child? Where are we supposed to look?"

"Even if you can't find her, you have to say you're looking, otherwise, who knows if the next thing your son smashes with a stool will be us instead of the furniture."

"Didn't you say you saw a girl on the way here who looked a lot like Xiao Yuan? Maybe that's her," Lin Meixi said casually, "Anyway, let's look."

Li Xuan slumped in her chair; her life was truly bitter.

"My life is as bitter as coptis root!" Sun Chanjuan said while chatting with Si Rong in the courtyard.

Si Rong only sat to the side, offering a polite smile.

They had not seen this so-called senior schoolmate for many years.

If she hadn't seen the name Lu Fei in her daughter's diary last time, she probably wouldn't have even remembered this person.

And she certainly wouldn't have expected Sun Chanjuan to come over to visit her.

Lu Fei had been brought here forcefully by his mother, but thinking he could play with Jiang Sinian for a while, he came along.

Jiang Sinian was watching television.

Usually, the scene of the siblings fighting over the remote control was about the same as a world war.

But today, because Lu Fei was there, his younger sister was very well-behaved, and Jiang Sinian was very satisfied, watching his favorite show, Naruto.

He even said to Lu Fei, "Come over to see me more often on weekends!"

Lu Fei thought their friendship had progressed rapidly, so he agreed quite naturally.

Jiang Siyu's ears were red.

Although she appeared to be watching television, in reality, she had no idea what she was watching.

She could, however, hear Sun Chanjuan's loud voice in the courtyard, which was quite different from Lu Fei's personality.

"I really like your child Siyu so much!" Sun Chanjuan said, slapping her own thigh, "If she could be my daughter-in-law, I think I'd wake up laughing even in my dreams!"