Chapter 85: Kidnapping The Baby A Huge Success
The family reunion banquet that the Jiang family held for Nan Yuanman this time gave Feng Yuli a weird sense of incongruity.
He couldn’t figure out why Jiang Tianzong would go so far as to tell a colossal lie to erase Bai Wenyin’s existence just to recognize Yuanman.
But his intuition told him that Yuanman could not continue staying at the Jiang family.
Feng Yuli’s words touched Jiang Lixuan’s sensitive nerves. He suddenly snapped back to attention and said vigilantly, “On what basis? Yuanman isn’t one of the Feng family members! On what basis do you want to take her back to the Feng family!”
Meng Qinian shielded Nan Yuanman behind him and said to Jiang Lixuan smugly, “What a coincidence, Yuanman really is one of the Feng family members.”
Jiang Lixuan was stunned: “What?!”
Meng Qinian pointed at Jiang Tianzong: “The information is in your old man’s hands. If you don’t believe it, go see for yourself!”
Jiang Lixuan strode forward and pulled the document from the sullen-faced Jiang Tianzong’s hand. He quickly scanned it, and when he saw the parent-child relationship at 99.99% at the end, it was as if a bolt from the blue struck him, leaving him completely dazed.
Jiang Hengzhi also impatiently stepped forward to look. He looked at Nan Yuanman in utter disbelief.
Nan Yuanman’s birth father… was actually the Feng family patriarch in Shangjing?!
How did Bai Wenyin hook up with him?!
Jiang Junsheng’s face darkened. He wheeled his wheelchair forward, took the document and glanced at it. He too found it hard to believe. He couldn’t help asking, “Could this report be wrong?”
For someone like Bai Wenyin, how could she possibly be qualified to bear a child for the Feng family patriarch?
How could an ill-mannered child like Nan Yuanman possibly be a child of the Feng family in Shangjing?
“No. If you don’t believe it, you can do another test. We will fully cooperate.” Feng Yuli smiled faintly, not panicked at all.
Jiang Junsheng pursed his lips, unable to speak. He understood that if Feng Yuli said this, then the test result was undoubtedly real.
Apart from shock in his heart, a wave of regret and realization surged up. No wonder Feng Yuli had spoken up to help Nan Yuanman at the hospital back then…
If he had known, he should have built a good relationship with her.
Feng Yuli’s smile did not fade: “Of course, all the expenses for Yuanman’s stay at the Jiang family during this time will be paid by the Feng family at ten times the amount.”
Jiang Tianzong’s heart sank. He refused in a deep voice: “Young Master Feng, I must decline. Yuanman cannot go back to the Feng family with you.”
“Even if Yuanman’s birth father is one of the Feng family members, he was never married to my daughter. Yuanman was born by my daughter at the cost of her life. As A-Yin’s father, I have the responsibility to raise the child she left behind.”
“What’s more…” Jiang Tianzong looked at Nan Yuanman: “I believe Yuanman would also prefer to stay where her mother once lived.”
“Yuanman, isn’t that right?”
Before Nan Yuanman could speak, Feng Langqing let out a cold laugh. His eyes were full of sarcasm: “Now Mr. Jiang admits he has a daughter.”
“This person is getting more and more shameless with age!”
Jiang Tianzong’s expression stiffened slightly. He suppressed the displeasure in his heart and smiled helplessly: “No matter how much I wanted to erase her existence, Yuanman is her child. That’s a fact.”
“She is my granddaughter. That’s also a fact.”
So the Feng family wanting to take Yuanman away wouldn’t be that easy.
Jiang Yunjing, who had been quietly watching, suddenly spoke up: “After talking so much, have you ever thought to ask Yuanman herself?”
As soon as he spoke, all the adults in the room looked at the little bun who had been quiet and silent since entering the room.
Feng Yuli’s eyes narrowed slightly, masking the sharpness in them. He asked gently, “Yuanman, what is your opinion?”
Feng Langqing’s heart was in his throat. He nervously kept glancing at Nan Yuanman, dying to speak up and agree on her behalf, but afraid of leaving a bad impression, he could only hold his breath and glance at her from time to time.
Jiang Lixuan looked nervous, his lips slightly parted as if to speak but stopping. In the end, he had no face to speak up and try to keep her.
Nan Yuanman hugged her small shoulder bag tightly and looked around at everyone in the room. Her delicate and cute steamed bun face was full of confusion: “I…”
Jiang Tianzong suddenly interrupted her warmly: “Yuanman, what you took out earlier was your mother’s spirit tablet, right?”
“As long as you stay at the Jiang family, I will place your mother’s spirit tablet in the Jiang family ancestral hall and let her be recognized as an ancestor.”
Feng Yuli and Feng Langqing’s expressions instantly turned cold. Meng Qinian exclaimed, “How despicable!”
Wasn’t this indirectly threatening Nan Yuanman? If she left the Jiang family, her mother could never be recognized as an ancestor?
What a vile old man!
For Nan Yuanman, having Bai Wenyin formally return to the Jiang family was indeed one of her current wishes.
So upon hearing this, the little girl showed some hesitation on her face.
Feng Langqing, afraid that Nan Yuanman would really agree to stay at the Jiang family, blurted out: “Yuanman, let’s not join the Jiang family! Join the Feng family! The Feng family ancestral hall is bigger than the Jiang family’s! I’ll go burn incense for our mom every day!”
Nan Yuanman’s eyes brightened slightly. She carefully asked Feng Langqing: “Is that okay?”
“Of course. Look, your mom gave birth to you with my dad, so your mom is my mom, your dad is my dad. We have a blood relation. So by adult marriage relations, when our mom dies, she should go into our dad’s side’s ancestral graveyard, right?”
Feng Langqing nodded without hesitation, using that tongue twister to successfully confuse Nan Yuanman.
She subconsciously thought along the lines of what Feng Langqing said. In that case, mom really should go into dad’s side’s ancestral hall.
Nan Yuanman fiddled with the floral pattern on her small shoulder bag and pursed her lips. In a small voice, she said: “Then… then I’ll go back with you.”
In her heart, she was actually a little expectant to meet her birth father. More than that, this family reunion banquet had let her see the shamelessness of the Jiang family members.
She was still just a child and couldn’t deal with shameless adults. Weighing the pros and cons, it was naturally safer to leave the Jiang family.
Jiang Tianzong’s face instantly became extremely ugly. He never imagined that the Feng family would go so far for a little girl, even willing to say they would let Bai Wenyin into the Feng family ancestral graveyard.
He was unwilling and asked in a deep voice: “Yuanman, have you thought it through? Are you sure you want to go back to the Feng family?”
“If you go back to the Feng family, you won’t see Grandmother and Grandfather anymore, nor your little uncle. Do you want to leave your little uncle?”
“Hey! Mr. Jiang, what you’re saying—we’re taking Yuanman back for a good life, not to imprison her. She can see him whenever she wants.” Feng Langqing tsked, unhappily saying: “Making us sound like child traffickers or something.”
“Besides, doesn’t Jiang Lixuan have legs? If he wants to see Yuanman, he can come see her himself.”
“In that case, Mr. Jiang, we’ll take Yuanman back first.” Feng Yuli looked at Jiang Tianzong’s ugly expression and smiled as he spoke.
With that, he didn’t give the Jiang family members any chance to react and led Nan Yuanman out.
Nan Yuanman didn’t move, but Ge Peiyao, who had been dazed, suddenly stood up and stumbled toward her, grabbing her skirt: “W-Wait.”
Her face was pale, her eyes somewhat red. Her voice trembled: “Let me see the spirit tablet you took out earlier again…”
