Chapter 1329: Could Ma Ling'er be the next Lady Jian?

The words left unsaid were: "They are in a strange place where they don't know anyone, and they have money on them; what if they run into bad people?"

"What if they get kidnapped?"

"If anything happens to them, I won't go on living..."

Shi Youxuan has lost count of how many times she has heard the same or similar words over the past two days.

Her ears have practically grown calluses from it.

She is still in her postpartum recovery period; who did she offend to deserve this?

But she cannot keep Ma Ling'er from coming over.

After all, the reason Shi Ran and her husband "ran away from home" was not entirely due to Ma Ling'er; her own husband had a hand in it too.

But the "culprit" has taken their youngest daughter and hidden away, leaving her with nowhere to hide.

"I'm sorry, Xuanxuan. You're still in your postpartum recovery, and I really shouldn't be bothering you at a time like this. I'm sorry, I'll go."

She stood up pitifully, ready to leave, her tears still flowing.

Shi Youxuan's heart softened: "Alright, don't go. I'll help you think of a way to get in touch with them."

"Really?"

Ma Ling'er immediately perked up, her eyes shining.

For some reason, Shi Youxuan had a very bad premonition.

She thought of Lady Jian.

When Lady Jian was going through menopause years ago, she caused trouble for several years.

She made several families' lives miserable, and Ma Ling'er's current age... My god!

It was just right.

"Bring me my computer."

"I brought one, use mine."

Shi Youxuan:...

This person had been prepared; she had brought a computer over.

Today's society is an information society; you can't go anywhere without being online.

Even if others couldn't find Shi Ran, Shi Youxuan, a computer expert, would surely have a way.

Shi Youxuan opened the computer, her ten fingers flying across the keyboard as the webpage flickered rapidly with blue screens and white text.

There were numbers and English letters that made no sense at all, but Ma Ling'er stared at it with total concentration.

"Snap!"

Suddenly, the computer screen went black; there was nothing left.

"What happened?" Ma Ling'er asked in surprise.

Shi Youxuan said with annoyance: "Don't ask. That brat set up anti-tracking against me. Not only can I not find her location, but the computer is also fried."

"Did you have anything important on your computer? If you did, it's gone too; it can't be recovered."

"No." Ma Ling'er replied weakly.

The most important things to her were her son, and that included her daughter-in-law.

Unable to find them, she felt as if her soul had been drained, and she collapsed instantly.

Seeing her like this, Shi Youxuan felt very sorry for her.

In truth, she hadn't been tracking her own daughter; what kind of bad habit was that?

Did she still need to keep adults under her control?

Shi Youxuan did not approve of it from the bottom of her heart.

But if she didn't do it, there was no way to send her daughter-in-law's mother away, so she just went through the motions to fool her.

However, Ma Ling'er's computer was truly broken.

The computer had high specifications, but it was new and hadn't been used.

Shi Youxuan knew the gravity of the situation; if there had been anything on the computer, she wouldn't have broken it.

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have pressured them..." A new round of nagging began.

Shi Youxuan had a headache.

But what gave her an even bigger headache was yet to come.

"Ring-a-ling—"

The phone rang, and the name displayed was: Ranran.

Her phone was lying on the table, and Ma Ling'er caught a glimpse of it, her eyes instantly regaining their luster.

Shi Youxuan tried to grab the phone, but she was a step too slow!

Ma Ling'er snatched the phone first and answered: "Ranran, is that you? It's Mom. Where are you now? Are you eating well, are you staying somewhere nice, and are you getting used to life out there?"

"Mom was wrong, Mom was truly wrong. I beg you and Qi Tian to come back, will you come back?"

Shi Ran never expected that her mother's phone would be answered by her mother-in-law.

She expected even less that her mother-in-law would speak to her in such a humble tone!

"Mom—are, are you at my mom's house?"

"Yes, yes, I'm thinking of ways with your mother to find you. If I still can't find you, I'm going to call the police, sob..."

Shi Ran held the phone up to her husband's ear.

Yun Qitian grabbed it and hung up.

"What are you doing? Mom thought it was me who hung up, how could you do that?" Shi Ran said, furious.

The relationship between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is very delicate; maintaining a facade of warmth is the best state possible.

It must be carefully nurtured; one cannot act recklessly.

No matter how a son treats his own mother, she will never hold a grudge, but a daughter-in-law is different.

Shi Ran was annoyed that her husband, usually such a smart person, did not understand this principle.

Yun Qitian felt that his mother was definitely doing it on purpose, deliberately putting on an act to play the victim, forcing the two of them to go back!

Shi Ran took the initiative to call back, and this time it was her mother-in-law who answered.

She wanted to explain what had just happened and was prepared to say the signal was bad, but her mother-in-law didn't give her a chance at all, instead pleading for them to return in an even more humble tone.

Having finally found a gap to speak, Shi Ran said, "Mom, we will listen to you and come home."

"But not right now. We have found a project and are preparing to start a business, but we promise to call you often. Does that sound okay to you?"

"No, how about this: tell me where you are, and I will come find you."

Is she keeping tabs on them now?

And she won't let it go.

Yun Qitian wished he could bang his head against the wall.

In the end, the two of them couldn't win the argument, so they had no choice but to go back.

……

Sheng Jiang and his wife returned.

Gu Zhihao drove them back in a pickup truck, bringing a car full of gifts.

High-priced, old-fashioned millet, free-range eggs, and free-range chickens!

They were alive.

It wasn't just the chickens; there were also ducks that had grown up freely in the river and a Dabai goose that guarded the house!

It was just that the truck wasn't big enough; if it had been, he probably would have moved the pigs raised at home over too.

In addition, there were dried mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms.

Fresh vegetables and fruits from their own vegetable garden that hadn't been treated with chemical fertilizers...

Almost every fresh item that couldn't be seen in the city had been hauled over.

The Sheng Family kitchen was not small, and there was also a very large storage room, both of which were filled to the brim.

The sounds of chickens, ducks, and geese in the courtyard rose and fell, calling incessantly as if they were competing; they weren't used to the new place and needed to find a sense of presence through their cries.

This was a residential complex; if one or two were kept, others wouldn't say anything.

But with so many poultry suddenly in the courtyard, the noise would disturb the neighbors.

It didn't just disturb the neighbors, it also disturbed Sheng Yue!

The little girl needed to sleep twenty hours a day to ensure she was well-rested; if she slept less, she would be fussy.

Shi Yuke took the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the child, as her younger sister was in her postpartum confinement and her arms would ache if she held the baby for too long.

But no matter how she coaxed her, it was useless!

The little girl cried harder and harder, tears falling in pairs, looking incredibly aggrieved.

"Zhang Ma, go and take all those poultry to the Villa in the suburbs to be raised, and bring one back to be slaughtered every day."

"Yes, Madam."

Zhang Ma went out.

Shi Youxuan could not leave her room while in postpartum confinement, but she was curious and leaned on the windowsill to look down.

"Goodness, why is brother-in-law so generous? Did you bring all the poultry from your house?"

"You bet?"

Shi Yuke was a bit proud: "Your brother-in-law said that although your family has money and lacks nothing to eat, what we are sending is our sincerity, which is something that cannot be bought with any amount of money."