Chapter 181: Disbelief
“Who exactly let her have the accident and sent her to the hospital? Younger Brother was definitely born without any breath?”
“Why didn’t you wait for me and Maternal Grandfather to come before cremating them first? Where exactly did you scatter my mom and younger brother’s ashes?”
Since it was so simple, why until Maternal Grandfather passed away had none of them been verified?
They turned the area within a hundred li around the site of the accident upside down but still couldn’t find that person; the doctor and nurse on duty for the surgery that day all left in a hurry and couldn’t be found anywhere afterward?
And what he said about following Mother’s dying words to scatter her and younger brother’s ashes in that bay, she didn’t believe any of it now!
“Is this all the sincerity you have?”
“Su Ning, I don’t know what your Maternal Grandfather told you, but I can swear to heaven that your mom’s death has absolutely nothing to do with me!”
“Whether there is or not, you know clearly in your heart. Hmph~ Swearing to heaven? I wouldn’t believe that even if you told me when I was three or four years old.”
She straightened her bag, and Su Ning turned around without hesitation. “Since you’re willing to take the secret to the grave with your treasure son, what good would it do me to accommodate you?”
“Su Ning, stop right there!”
Xu Zixin’s breathing was rapid, his chest heaving violently, clearly having endured to the extreme.
A pair of scarlet eyes like a beast ready to devour someone.
“Your mom really just had an accident back then. I don’t know who the person who hit her was either. The one who sent her to the hospital was called Qu Zi’ang.”
“Where is he from?”
“I don’t know. He wasn’t a local but a J person passing by on a mission.”
“Maternal Grandfather asked you back then why you didn’t say it and you deliberately gave wrong guidance.”
“I promised him I would keep confidential what I saw of him because he was carrying out a very important mission. The guidance was also for Benefactor’s safety. What’s wrong with that?”
Qu Zi’ang, Qu…
Is this definitely his real name?
It wasn’t that Su Ning was naturally suspicious, but the words spit out by Xu Zixin, that old fox, simply couldn’t be fully believed.
“Seven alive, eight not alive. Your younger brother was only eight months in the womb and it was premature birth caused by violent impact. I’m very sure the doctor said it was a stillborn with no breathing from birth!”
“As for the cremation, you were in Beijing City at the time while we were far away in Jilin Province. By the time we rushed over, your mom and younger brother were already rotting. I followed her dying words to cremate and scatter them in the bay where we first fell in love. What’s wrong with that?”
Xu Zixin spoke with conviction. Whether it was a hundred lies turned true that he himself believed or his psychological defenses were too strong, except for subconsciously emphasizing the word “cremation,” there was no other flaw.
He let out a long breath before continuing in a cold, hard voice, “What else do you want to know?”
“Oh, that’s a lot.”
Her neatly trimmed nails pressed several white crescent marks into her palm. Su Ning turned back around and looked at him without retreating a single step.
“Knowing Mom was heavily pregnant and inconvenient, why choose to take her on a trip down memory lane right before she was due?”
“I’m not your favorite little princess anymore? Why leave me behind and not take me along?”
“You were still young at the time, probably don’t remember that your mother was anxious in mind near term, couldn’t eat or sleep well. I followed the doctor’s advice to take her out to relax, and it was all approved by your good Maternal Grandfather.”
“As for you, I did want to take you, but your Maternal Grandfather, my father-in-law, stubbornly disagreed, saying your health was poor and you needed careful recuperation and couldn’t travel far. What could I do?!”
If they had taken her along back then, heh…
Xu Zixin lowered his eyes, his face showing humiliation and indignation at being all but pointed in the face by his own biological daughter as a beast who killed his wife and son. It was all because his temper was good enough that he hadn’t exploded on the spot.
“Director Xu, isn’t this eldest daughter a bit…”
“Just quietly eat the melon. Don’t say more!”
“Oh oh…”
In and around the wide-open hospital room, besides families of other children, there were quite a few people who heard the news and quietly slipped over to eat the melon.
“Ning Ning.”
Zhang Ze glanced at the increasingly gathering crowd around and couldn’t help but remind her softly.
She nodded imperceptibly, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened them again, she had already regained her calm, turned, and strode away.
“Su Ning! Stop!”
“Su Ning, you promised…”
Seeing her not following the script again, the anxious Xu Zixin and Qian Huiru hurriedly spoke up.
“What did I promise?”
“You said… you, you tricked us?!”
Hearing this, Su Ning pulled a smile at the corner of her mouth, but when she turned back, she immediately switched to a pitiful expression on the verge of tears.
“You’ve always known my health has been poor since I was little. Losing a kidney would cost me my life. Dad, even if you have a son now… just pamper me one last time, okay?”
With that, she covered her face in tears and ran off like flying.
“This little girl looks all skinny and gaunt, her face even pale in an unnatural way. Her health must be bad. From what she said, her dad is insisting she donate a kidney, which is no different from taking her life!”
“This son is life, but a daughter’s life is life too!”
“I heard this son is from the wife after remarriage, and this one is probably left from the previous one…”
“Once there’s a stepmom, there’s a stepdad.”
“What do you know? That son is definitely important! A daughter might not die without a kidney, but that son without a transplant is definitely gone! Any man would choose that way!”
“Heh, what you said is really interesting. If you want to save the son, why don’t you cut out one of your own to save him?”
Listening to the surrounding gossip growing louder and more heated, Xu Zixin and the other’s expressions turned extremely ugly.
When Xu Shanshan returned from buying food, she told her to watch younger brother, then quickly left together.
“Brother Xin, what now? That dead girl Su Ning has decided not to save our little treasure!”
“Should’ve known not to tell her any of those things she wanted to know!”
“Knowing forty-six percent is useless.”
Xu Zixin sneered coldly. Sure enough, she and Su Ting that old dog thing were blood-related grandparents and granddaughter.
Since she wouldn’t listen no matter how he tried to persuade her, don’t blame him for being ruthless!
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Beijing City, Qinghe Lane.
“Brother Zhang, how much of what he said do you think can be believed?”
“Fifty-fifty at most.”
“I think so too.”
Zhang Ze carried the luggage and had her walk leaning against the alley wall, while he walked on the outside, always watching the surroundings.
After the sudden incident with Fu Ying, he had to stay alert in such unmanned, long alleys.
“What do you plan to do?”
“First check if there’s really a person named Qu Zi’ang.”
After turning a corner and seeing the familiar vermilion gate in front of her, Su Ning stopped. “Brother Zhang, let’s book the train to Jilin City tomorrow night.”
“Okay, but Old Commander he…”
The person they finally waited for had returned, but before they could get enough kisses, she was gone again. With his temper, he wouldn’t explode on the spot?
“Don’t say anything yet. I’ll tell Grandpa Fu about this tomorrow.”
“Alright, got it.”
……
“Speak.”
Putting down the enamel cup in his hand, Fu Chenggong didn’t even bother lifting his eyes. “From the moment you came back, your butt’s been like it’s got nails in it. What stupid thing did you do behind my back again!”
“Dad, I didn’t…”
The rebuttal that usually came smoothly to his mouth and slid out automatically today instead burned his tongue.
Fu Xingguo thought of Su Ning who had already returned and might be almost at the door, and knelt down with a thud.
“See, it really is! You really are my good eldest son. Speak, what exactly did you do!”
“I, I called Ning Ning.”
“You called Ning Ning? When? What for… Did you tell Ning Yatou about that bastard dog thing?”
As his volume suddenly rose, Fu Xingguo shuddered hard, grinning more ugly than crying. “Dad, hear me out…”
“Hear your hammer!”
Without even putting on his slippers properly, Fu Chenggong stormed furiously to under the eaves and expertly drew out a vine from that pile still with thorns.
Turning back, he lashed him fiercely head to toe. “I’ll beat to death you brainless little bastard!”
“Why is Dad getting beaten again?”
“How would I know what itch he scratched in Grandpa’s heart this time.”
Fu Ying, supporting Li Hehua, glared irritably at her own little brother. With that schadenfreude tone, it would soon be his turn.
“Hey, never mind your dad. You two, listen, is that our front gate ringing?”
“Mm, who would come at this time? Someone from Dad’s unit?”
