Chapter 352: The Person Who Goes Back on Their Word

The director glanced at the children surrounding her, and pointing to a little girl, she said, "This is Guoguo, two and a half years old; she is the youngest child in our Fuliyuan."

Si Rong and Ming Zi exchanged a look; there was no need for Director Zhang to hide anything from them. Could it be that the child had already been picked up by Li Xuan?

"Two and a half?" Ming Zi was already in character, acting as if she were truly looking to adopt a child, and she scrutinized the girl with a critical eye. "But I feel two years old is still a bit too old."

She pulled the director aside and whispered, "It would be best if it were one that was just born; the younger they are, the more attached they will be to whoever raises them."

"Oh, then you've come too late," Director Zhang said, appearing to feel regret on her behalf. "Our Fuliyuan previously had a pair of twins who were quite cute, but they have already been adopted by someone."

"Ah?" Ming Zi sighed. "Then I suppose it wasn't meant to be."

After leaving the Fuliyuan, Ming Zi looked at Si Rong and found her lost in thought.

"What are you thinking about?"

Si Rong shook her head. "Nothing. Do you think Li Xuan had someone adopt those two children?"

"I don't think so. I just beat her up yesterday; would she really go to pick up children while injured?"

"I don't think so either," Si Rong thought of Shen Lan still being locked up in the station. "Given Li Xuan's temperament, isn't the most urgent thing right now to get Shen Lan out of the station so they can continue plotting against me? She doesn't have time to worry about those two brats right now, so those two brats must have been adopted by someone else."

Ming Zi suddenly became happy and gloated, "Serves them right! When those two remember the children and find out they're gone, it'll definitely be hilarious!"

It wasn't just hilarious; Si Rong felt the most important thing was that those two would be searching for the children all over the country.

Once they were busy, they wouldn't have the time to do evil deeds.

She was still thinking about the mysterious concept of 'fate'. Could it be that Li Xuan and Shen Lan were naturally destined to have children but not raise them?

In her past life, she, the sucker, raised the children the couple had, and in this life, now that she had undergone Rebirth and stopped raising them, another sucker had popped up.

"I wonder who adopted them."

When Ming Zi asked Director Zhang at the Fuliyuan, Director Zhang said she had to keep it confidential.

That was fine too; if they couldn't ask, it meant Shen Lan and Li Xuan couldn't ask either.

Li Xuan was indeed too busy these past few days to think about those two children.

Shen Lan hadn't been released from the station yet, and her mother had somehow managed to find her.

Didn't Si Rong say that her second brother had already had people deal with these people?

How could she still have been found?

Si Rong, that person who goes back on her word!

"Li Jianmei!"

Mother Li shouted angrily, her rough voice sounding like it could roar a cow to death at any moment.

"You little slut!" She grabbed Li Xuan by the hair and dragged her over. "Trying to hide from your mother, are you? If I had known I would give birth to such an unfilial thing, I should have just drowned you in a chamber pot back then!"

"You should have drowned me in the first place!" Li Xuan knew that once this woman found her, her future life would never be peaceful again. The good life she had planned for so long was over.

"Who cares that you gave birth to me?" Perhaps out of sheer desperation, Li Xuan threw caution to the wind. "You gave birth to me but favored boys over girls. An old woman like you deserves to be abandoned by everyone!"

Slap—

The slaps rained down on Li Xuan's face.

The mother and daughter of the Shen family returned just at that moment. Although they had grown up in the village, they had rarely seen such a fierce woman even in the village.

"We... we should go out and hide for a while." Mother Shen felt her own face ache just watching, so she pulled her daughter out first.

But after waiting for a while, the people inside showed no signs of leaving after the slapping stopped.

"Could those people be Li Xuan's enemies?" Shen Yun was worried about the safety of continuing to live there.

Mother Shen recalled the woman's features. "I think it might be her mother."

"But, how can there be such a mother in the world?" Shen Yun found it hard to believe.

Mother Shen, however, was not surprised. Sighing as if remembering something, she said, "There are more women who favor boys over girls than men. You don't understand."

Shen Yun thought of Nainai's favoritism toward her brother and stopped talking.

She remembered going with her brother to see their paralyzed Nainai when she was little; Nainai would send her away to play, then take brown sugar out from under the mattress for her brother to eat.

To this day, she still didn't like eating brown sugar.

In any case, Mother Li just moved in like that.

The Shen mother and daughter dared not live with such a fierce person, so they had no choice but to return to the countryside first.

When the villagers asked, they just said they were back for a short stay.

Shen Lan was released from prison a week later; after his release, he went crazy upon learning he had lost his job.

Then, after learning that Li Xuan's family had come looking for them and that the Shen family had nowhere to stay, he went crazy again.

"What should we do?" Li Xuan had been able to think calmly before, but ever since her family arrived, she had been tortured until she was neither human nor ghost. "It seems Si Rong really doesn't intend to let us go!"

"No, she must be trying to force me to draw a line between myself and you three!"

Shen Lan insisted on this thought. He looked into Li Xuan's eyes, helpless, and squatted down, clutching his head. "What should I do?"

Li Xuan was silent.

Her intuition told her that Shen Lan wanted her to prioritize the big picture and take the initiative to suggest that Shen Lan draw a line between himself and her and the children.

But in the current situation, if Shen Lan didn't take care of them, what would she and the two children do?

"Shen Lan, there's no need for us to test each other; I know everything you're thinking."

Shen Lan didn't dare look into her eyes. Li Xuan smiled. "I understand you better than you think. But, Shen Lan, we still have two children. I can raise them alone in the future, but before that, can you accompany me to the Fuliyuan to see them?"

After all, she was his woman, and the ones in the Fuliyuan were his own biological children. Shen Lan nodded. "A-Xuan, I've wronged you."

With Li Xuan stating it for the sake of the big picture, the guilt in his heart would be a little less.

In the end, he was still too indecisive.

If he had given Si Rong the promise she wanted earlier, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out like this.

But it was just a director's position; once he became the son-in-law of the Si Family, there would naturally be a bright future ahead.

But now was not the time to think about those things, so Shen Lan went to the Fuliyuan together with Li Xuan.

However, after looking around, Li Xuan did not see her child, and she suddenly felt a panic in her heart, asking, "Director Zhang, where are the two little babies that were previously in the Fuliyuan?"