Chapter 912: The Truth Comes Out

The child she had obtained with such difficulty was as precious to her as the pupils of her eyes; there could absolutely be no mishaps.

Ji Yingjie instructed her subordinates: "Go to the Medical Room and bring Jian Yining here."

……

Jian Yining was brought over, looking very dissatisfied: "Couldn't you have just said something? Why did you have to make me come over? There are a ton of things to take care of at the Medical Room."

Ji Yingjie: "Stop putting on an act in front of me. Now that the children's illnesses are all cured, what else do you need to be busy with?"

"Jian Yining, I warn you not to play tricks in front of me. I can see through those little schemes of yours at a glance."

If he could be scared off by these two sentences, he wouldn't be Jian Yining.

Jian Yining said indignantly: "The children's illnesses are cured, but are you not going to care about the cause? This time it was lucky that I was here; what if it happens again next time and I'm not around?"

"Are you going to watch the children get sick, or drag me here from thousands of miles away to treat them? I'm not willing to run over here when I have nothing better to do. Do you think your Ji Family is some kind of wonderful place?"

Ji Yingjie's expression softened slightly.

"We'll investigate the cause later; there's no rush for this moment. I had you come because I have a question to ask you."

"Ask, hurry up."

He wore an indifferent expression.

"Besides drinking the parents' blood, is there any other way for the child you just saw?"

"Yes."

"What way?"

"I take the child back to Jiangzhou for treatment."

Ji Yingjie: ……

"Impossible. You're talking in your sleep. Don't even think about it. I will absolutely not let you do that."

Jian Yining: "There is another way, but it's very troublesome."

"Speak quickly."

"It requires using a special technique to massage the child's head to clear the meridians, and then combining it with a Pill; perhaps it can be cured."

Ji Yingjie: "What does 'perhaps it can be cured' mean?"

"It means it's not certain."

Ji Yingjie: ……

He did not make any solemn guarantees, only using a casual tone and an indifferent attitude.

The more he was like this, the more authentic it seemed.

Ji Yingjie hesitated, seeking Nianyin's opinion: "Nianyin, what do you think?"

Nianyin said: "Mother makes the decision; I have no opinion."

Ji Yingjie was helpless; ever since she made that decision, Nianyin had worn this expression.

She always kept a poker face; no matter what she said or wanted to do, she agreed, but she never smiled again.

"Fine, you come and massage the child."

Ji Yingjie decided to take another step back so that Meiyin could get better sooner.

"I can't do it alone; I need Wan'er to assist me."

"Let Nianci assist you."

"Wan'er is familiar with my technique, but Nianci is not. If it's massaged incorrectly, who will take the blame?"

No one wanted to take this risk.

Wan'er was invited over, and the couple saw the child's little face openly.

It was indeed the same child they had seen that day, no mistake.

The two cooperated tacitly, and Wan'er's ten fingers gently pressed and kneaded the child's little face as if playing the piano!

In fact, this set of techniques was just a routine health massage that could help children get sick less often and improve their immunity, but it could not cure illnesses at all.

But Ji Yingjie and the others did not know this.

Having been well-primed by Jian Yining just now, who had thrown in a bunch of medical terminology to make it sound mysterious, they believed whatever Wan'er did now.

"Done."

Jian Yining had someone bring warm water and fed the child the Pill.

……

The child quickly recovered and was jumping around.

Ji Yingjie issued an order to evict the guests, telling Shi Youxuan and the others to go back.

Shi Youxuan did not agree: "Lao Qi is still locked in the Dungeon; we won't leave."

Ji Yingjie had Nianci go to the Dungeon to release the person, but Lao Qi would not come out, stating: "I want to see my daughter. If you don't let me see the child, I won't leave."

A joke?

There was no way the Ji Family would ever let a man call the shots.

Thus, Lao Qi was kicked out of the Dungeon. See the child?

We just won't let you see her.

Everyone was also "kicked" out of the Ji Family, for fear that they would snatch the child.

Back in Jiangzhou.

The first thing was to send Meiyin's hair to a paternity testing center to conduct a paternity test with Shi Yuke and Gu Zhihao.

At the same time, Lao Qi also had a paternity test done with Gu Yulong.

The test results came out, and as expected, the boy was Lao Qi's biological flesh and blood, while Meiyin, who was thousands of miles away, was the child of Shi Yuke and Gu Zhihao.

The truth was revealed, but no one was happy.

The Shi Family.

Except for Yuke chattering away, no one spoke.

"Isn't Yulong my son? Why? Will he leave me? I don't want him to leave me, I like him."

"Did I give birth to a girl? Girls are quite good too."

"I want to braid her hair very beautifully, just as beautiful as my braids."

"A girl can play with me, play house, and then I won't have to worry about other people's moms calling them home for dinner, and not playing with me until I'm happy..."

Yuke still did not understand how serious this matter was.

She thought that since she had given birth to a girl, she would have one more child to play with in the future, but she did not know how difficult it would be to get this child back!

"Shut up, don't say any more." Shi Yucheng, his brain aching from his daughter's noise, scolded.

"Oh."

Yuke shut her mouth.

No one spoke anymore; the deathly silence in the air made people feel even more oppressed.

"Sister, go play in the residential complex for a while, don't run too far," Shi Youxuan said.

She was immediately happy again, looking at her father with innocent, wide eyes, and asked cautiously: "Can I?"

"You can, go ahead, but you are not allowed to leave the complex."

"Mm."

She went out happily, and everyone began to discuss the serious matter.

Shi Yucheng asked his son-in-law: "Zhihao, how do you want to handle this?"

Gu Zhihao pulled at his hair, feeling very conflicted: "Dad, my mind is very chaotic right now, and I don't know what I should do either. I have never experienced something like this before..."

And who has?

When he learned that Gu Yulong was not his biological son, and that his biological child was thousands of miles away, his first reaction was to swap them back!

But after that first reaction, he thought about a great many things.

The person on the other side who swapped the children is hateful, truly hateful.

He was furious, but he also felt a trace of regret; his biological child was a girl.

When he first learned that his wife was pregnant with a boy, he was overjoyed, and the child would even carry his surname.

The first thing Gu Zhihao did after Yulong's full-month celebration was to take his wife and son to pay respects at his parents' graves and show them off around the village.

Among the relatives, friends, and childhood companions who grew up with him in the village, there was not one who did not envy him.

Gu Zhihao had grown up to this age, and it was the first time he had felt the taste of holding his head high; if the children were to be swapped back, this matter would definitely be exposed, and he would surely become the laughingstock of the village!

At this moment, he was hesitant—hesitating over whether to expose this matter?

Gu Zhihao grew up in the countryside, and the ideology of valuing boys over girls was already carved into his bones; it was not something that could be easily changed.

But he did not express this.

Shi Yucheng was very agitated: "Ji Yingjie has gone too far. If she wanted a girl, she should have given birth to one herself. What is the meaning of going to such great lengths to swap my granddaughter? No, this matter cannot just end like this; we must swap the children back."