Chapter 418: She Has Gone Missing

Fang Ting thought about this question seriously, "Then I reckon I would give her a beating."

After saying this, she laughed out loud first, "Her mother here can spar with men in the army; how could my daughter score last?"

"My bottom line is second to last."

Jiang Siyu tilted her head and laughed to herself, "Then Auntie Ting is still a good mother!"

On the other side, the Shen family was not nearly as harmonious.

Li Xuan had also prepared a table full of dishes, but because their family didn't dare to run a street stall anymore, Shen Mu was looking at her with disdain because she had bought so many groceries today.

"Are we not living anymore?"

Shen Mu eyed Li Xuan askance, "My son must have been blind to marry a wife like you!"

"Would you die of craving if you didn't eat meat for a few days? Buying chicken, buying meat—I see that the hard times are still ahead for you all!"

Li Xuan heard these words every single day.

At first, she would feel very uncomfortable inside, after all, more than half of the food she cooked every day went into the stomachs of the Shen mother and daughter.

But whenever she complained to Shen Lan, Shen Lan would talk about how hard it was for his mother to raise him and his sister, how much she had suffered, and in short, insisted that she must yield to her mother-in-law.

So, she had become accustomed to this nagging.

"Mom, I made these dishes to celebrate your granddaughter scoring first in the whole class!"

Hearing that her granddaughter had scored first in the class, Shen Mu felt a bit better inside.

"Who said my granddaughter isn't a Child Prodigy? Could she score first if she weren't a Child Prodigy?"

Then, her tone shifted, and she said to Li Xuan, "The genes of our Shen family are just good; you marrying our Shen Lan was climbing high."

Originally, her standard for a daughter-in-law should have been someone like Si Rong.

Now that she had agreed to let Li Xuan enter the family, Li Xuan should be grateful to her, this mother-in-law.

Li Xuan didn't want to pay her any mind, and just then, Shen Yuan returned.

"My girl is back! Mom is stewing chicken soup for you to eat today!"

Shen Yuan, however, had no joy on her face; she knew the true colors of this family too well.

"I didn't score first place."

Three, two, one.

Clatter, the spatula in Li Xuan's hand fell to the floor, "What?"

How could that be?

If Shen Yuan carried the memories of her past life, how could she possibly fail to outscore a kindergarten child?

She frowned in dissatisfaction, "What happened? Was it carelessness? Mom serves you food and clothes every day; how could you let Mom down like this?"

Originally, she had thought she had finally seen the end of her suffering, but she hadn't expected that this daughter would also be someone she couldn't rely on.

"Useless thing!" Shen Mu didn't even bother to pretend anymore and sneered, "Child Prodigy? No wonder others laugh at our family; it is indeed laughable!"

"You pretended to be a Child Prodigy, and now look, the whole family has become a laughingstock!"

Shen Lan walked out of the room, drunk, and raised his hand to slap Shen Yuan hard across the face.

"If you can't score first, how do you still have the face to come back? Go die! Go die for me!"

Seeing that he was truly going too far, Li Xuan helped him back to the bed.

"Enough, stop talking, let's eat first."

Shen Yuan watched this family with cold eyes—hypocritical, selfish, and disgusting.

They had forgotten that their good life now was earned for them by her, this 'Child Prodigy'.

In the past, they had pampered her everywhere.

Now that they couldn't live that kind of life anymore, they all started complaining about her.

It was as if they had completely forgotten what they were like before she arrived.

These people deserved to be poor and destitute for the rest of their lives!

"Was it Si Rong's two children who scored first?" After finishing the meal, Li Xuan asked another question she cared more about.

Shen Yuan shook her head.

Li Xuan finally let out a sigh of relief; that was good.

As long as it wasn't her children who took first place, Li Xuan was happy. So what if she had money? Her children still couldn't score first.

She took Shen Yuan's hand and said earnestly, "Your father's and my hopes are all on you; you must strive to do better."

Shen Yuan pulled her hand away, then silently sat at the desk to read.

At this moment, she suddenly missed her adoptive parents from her previous life.

The Bai Jia Fumu were truly good to her.

Unfortunately, her luck in this life was not that good.

Because there had been no income in the house, Shen Mu was a bit anxious; she had previously been the old woman everyone on this street envied, and now the disparity was just too great.

She urged Li Xuan, "You should still go out and find a job; who are you waiting to support you while you stay at home all the time?"

Li Xuan glanced at Shen Lan lying on the bed, "You should be saying that to your son."

"Besides, although Xiao Yuan is in school, doesn't someone have to do the housework at home?"

She knew just how lazy this mother and daughter of the Shen family were.

"What woman doesn't do housework?" Shen Mu glared at her, putting on the airs of a mother-in-law, "Can't you do the housework after you come back from work?"

Li Xuan didn't speak.

"Jobs aren't easy to find."

Although she was a Dance Teacher, there weren't many children learning dance now, and some schools didn't have dance classes at all; even if they did, they only wanted one Dance Teacher.

But because the job was light, those with family backgrounds were usually prioritized, and it would never be her turn.

"That's because you're lazy and don't want to look!" Shen Mu pulled a job recruitment flyer from her pocket, "Rongzi Clothing Factory is hiring female workers, can't you go there?"

Li Xuan's face turned dark the moment she heard the name of the clothing factory.

She knew that old hag was doing it on purpose!

Deliberately using those two people to provoke her.

Even if she starved to death, she would never go to work at that Rongzi Clothing Factory.

It was clear that at the very beginning, the three of them were classmates, living in the same dormitory.

Why should those two be bosses now, while she could only go to their factory to be a female worker?

She, Li Xuan, was not that base!

"Aren't you classmates?" Shen Mu was intentionally trying to anger her, "Look at how capable they are! Maybe if you beg them, they might even pay you a higher wage."

Whenever she thought about how Si Rong was a big boss now, with no telling how much cash flowing into her pockets every day, she felt terribly uncomfortable.

If it weren't for that little slut Li Xuan meddling, she would be Si Rong's mother-in-law right now, and there's no telling how much she would be enjoying life!

Li Xuan returned to her bed, pouting in anger.

She hugged the drunken Shen Lan and comforted herself; no matter how successful Si Rong became, Shen Lan was, after all, hers alone right now.

At this moment, Si Rong had no idea that even though she had no contact with the Shen family, she was making them miserable every single moment.

She was holding little Jiang Zhi, gently rocking her.

The little beauty was sleeping soundly.

"Why hasn't your sister come back yet?" Hu Qian didn't know what was going on, but she suddenly felt a bit panicked.

Si Rong comforted her, "Didn't she say she was going to buy some things? She'll probably be back in a while."

"Then you and Yanyan watch Xiao Zhi first, I'm going to look for her," Hu Qian said.

"Alright, if you want to go, then go."

Si Rong also felt it was a bit strange; Jiang Qi had indeed been gone for a long time.

By noon, Jiang Qi still hadn't returned, and Hu Qian said breathlessly, "Your sister has gone missing!"

Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yu had both returned.

The group discussed the matter of calling the police.

Jiang Cheng and Si Rong exchanged a glance, and Si Rong handed the child to Xu Yan first.

Once the two of them were in the hallway, she asked Jiang Cheng in a low voice, "Do you know something?"

Jiang Cheng didn't say much, "Let's go look in the room where my sister was staying first."

As soon as they entered, they saw a conspicuous letter on the table.