jdhmnovel Chapter 249 What Happened 1 Years Ago
Chapter 249 What Happened 1 Years Ago
"Hey, Sweetie!"
That clear, childlike voice completely melted the hearts of the two elderly people.
Jiang Qin was also charmed by her daughter's cuteness. Zhou Fu, carrying a gift bag, walked up behind her. Jiang Qin looked at the old lady and said...
"These are gifts that Tian Tian and I prepared for Grandma and Grandpa. They're some homemade cookies and snacks. Grandma and Grandpa, would you like to open them and have a taste?"
Upon hearing this, Qiu Huilan and Huo Wu were overjoyed, and Zhou Fu quickly handed the gift bag to the two elderly people.
Qiu Huilan quickly took it, her joy visibly evident.
"Our little sweetheart is so amazing! Qinqin, thank you so much."
Qiu Huilan loves snacks, just like Jiang Qin, especially Chinese snacks.
As soon as she took the bag, she smelled the aroma inside. Qiu Huilan said, "Why don't you try it?"
She added, "Have you had breakfast? Qinqin and Tiantian, let's have something else to eat together?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Sister Wu, who immediately understood. A moment later, she contacted the kitchen to relay the instructions she had given in advance, and the breakfast that had been prepared was brought up.
Actually, both of them had already eaten and weren't very hungry, but when the fragrant food was served, Tian Tian blinked her eyes and was clearly attracted.
"Mommy, that, that little butterfly! Sweetie wants to eat it."
After staring at a butterfly-shaped pastry for a while, Tian Tian asked Jiang Qin, who was sitting next to her, for help.
Just as Jiang Qin was about to pick up the pastry, Huo Wu, who was usually imposing without being angry, smiled kindly and gently picked up the pastry that his great-grandson had chosen with the serving chopsticks and put it on the sweet plate.
Her beautiful, dark eyes lit up, and she wasn't shy at all, thanking him generously.
"Thank you, Grandpa!"
Huo Wu's eyes crinkled with joy. "You're welcome, have some sweets."
"Hmm!" It's a bit difficult for a child to control the force when eating pastries with chopsticks.
Sweetie tried it and found it didn't work. After a slight pause, she slowly picked up the children's fork that the kitchen had specially prepared for her, stuck it into the pastry, and obediently tasted it. Her eyes lit up, and then she ate more heartily.
Having spent a long time in the military, Huo Wu developed a habit of observing people whenever he saw them; it was mostly an unconscious behavior.
He had also witnessed everything that Tian Tian did while eating the pastries.
The old man's lips curled up slightly, and his eyes immediately showed even more affection for Tian Tian.
You can tell what a person will be like at three years old. This little boy is only two and a half years old, but he is calm and organized. He also spoke very confidently and generously. He will definitely have a bright future.
Jiang Qin was sitting next to Tian Tian, and naturally noticed the old man's gaze as he looked at Tian Tian.
Despite the loving care she received from her elders, she still keenly sensed other intentions.
However, there are some things that are best left unsaid, at least not in front of children.
Just then, Mrs. Huo took out a small tin box from the gift bag that smelled very sweet.
The little tin box is printed with cartoon patterns; it's quite cute.
Jiang Qin caught a glimpse of this out of the corner of her eye and whispered a reminder. Old Mrs. Huo's eyes widened slightly, and then she smiled indulgently.
He also whispered, "It's okay, I'll try it."
Sweetie was focused on eating the butterfly pastry and didn't pay attention to anything else.
The old lady tasted the sweet cookies and took a big sip of herbal tea.
Even without added sugar, the flower tea tasted exceptionally sweet.
Jiang Qin's expression turned complicated for a moment. The old lady smiled and forced a smile, praising, "Delicious, delicious!"
Jiang Qin: "..."
Just as the old man next to me was about to say he wanted to try it too, suddenly, the elevator door opened from behind the curtain.
Upon hearing a familiar footstep, everyone present, except for Sweetie who was eating pastries, tensed up instantly.
The old lady Qiu Huilan, who was looking towards the entrance of the curtain, frowned even more.
This child, didn't we agree that she would finish speaking first, send him a message, and then he would come down?
The curtain was lifted, revealing a man dressed in a way that was noticeably different from his usual attire.
Suddenly, the old lady's brows stopped furrowing, and her face was filled with shock.
The man dressed like a young man in his early twenties at the entrance behind the curtain is... her troublesome grandson?
Look at that hairstyle, and what's that hanging around his neck?
Unfortunately, upon hearing the footsteps, Jiang Qin did not immediately look towards the entrance through the curtain like the others.
Instead, she was focused on eating, just like her daughter.
He made a brief appearance but didn't get much attention, but Horsley didn't give up.
From a distance, he first gave the old lady a pleading look.
Qiu Huilan: "..."
I really don't want to talk to him!
Huo Sili kept his gaze fixed on Qiu Huilan.
Qiu Huilan glanced at the ceiling, feeling helpless. She thought that this person was her only grandson, and she had already agreed to help him, so she could only do so.
But before I got busy, I couldn't help but curse in my heart—I said I would listen to her instructions, couldn't I wait a bit before going downstairs?
Then she looked at Jiang Qin and said, "Qinqin, Grandma wants to talk to you alone."
Jiang Qin paused in her eating.
Qiu Huilan's face flushed slightly. She cursed inwardly that her grandson was truly useless, but when she spoke again, she was very gentle.
"May I?"
The old lady was a great benefactor to her, so Jiang Qin naturally couldn't refuse.
After all, although she could roughly guess who the old lady was going to talk to her about, Qiu Huilan didn't say so at this moment.
If she were to be direct, the atmosphere would definitely become tense.
Jiang Qin glanced at Tian Tian, who was happily eating pastries, and felt a little unhappy, but she had no choice but to nod.
"Okay, shall we talk over there?"
The premise for discussing the matter is that the daughter will not be harmed in any way.
Qiu Huilan naturally understood, and immediately felt even more guilty.
“Hey, let’s talk in the study,” Qiu Huilan said.
Jiang Qin greeted Tian Tian. Qiu Huilan asked Sister Wu to stay. Sister Wu brought over the gifts that Qiu Huilan had prepared in advance. Tian Tian didn't want to stay here any longer and wanted to stay with her mother.
But then she remembered that Jiang Qin had said she would be back soon, and she looked at her great-grandfather who had just served her some pastries, and the strange uncle who came over and claimed to be her dad.
Also, she was carrying a lot of beautiful gifts and looked very kind, a bit like Aunt Zhou's aunt.
The unease that arose quickly subsided.
On the other side, in the small study, Qiu Huilan let Jiang Qin go in first, and then closed the door after she came in herself.
Since Tian Tian wasn't there, Jiang Qin didn't sit on the sofa and went straight to the point: "Grandma, do you want to talk to me about Huo Sili?"
As Qiu Huilan was walking inside, she paused. For the first time, Jiang Qin saw an awkward smile appear on Qiu Huilan's face.
"I'm sorry, Qinqin."
Jiang Qin didn't say it was nothing, because she quickly remembered the phone call Wu Jie had made the day before yesterday, hoping that she would come to the old house soon, saying that the two old people missed her and Tian Tian very much.
She found it strange at the time, but now it seems that the emotions she felt back then were not strange at all.
However, Jiang Qin naturally also realized that it was highly likely that Huo Sili had asked Qiu Huilan for help.
After all, he's her only grandson, so it's only natural for her to help.
However, the discomfort Jiang Qin felt at this moment was real.
Seeing Jiang Qin's expression, Qiu Huilan knew what Jiang Qin was thinking. She sighed, hesitated for a moment, and then decided to get straight to the point, "Qinqin, I want to be honest with you about some things."
"Perhaps after you know these things, you won't hate Sli so much. As for the rest, Grandma will never force you to do anything else."
Jiang Qin came to her senses. Although she was still unhappy, she sat down after hearing what the old man said.
Qiu Huilan sat down opposite Jiang Qin, sighed again, and began to talk about what happened eleven years ago.
"At that time, Huo Chishen somehow discovered that he wasn't Cheng Zheng and Yuan Lianqing's biological son. Anyway, after finding out, he started planning how to stay in our Huo family—"
"Knowing that Yuan Lianqing loved him, he staged his own heroic act to save his mother, but in the end, his real enemies infiltrated his ranks, causing him to break his own leg."
"But, despite her broken leg, Yuan Lianqing was truly deceived by him."
"However, it was because of his cleverness that we found out he wasn't our biological grandson. He had a severe hemorrhage and needed a blood transfusion. When we checked his blood type, we found out he wasn't type O."
"Cheng Zheng and Yuan Lianqing are both blood type O, so they can only have children with blood type O, unless there is a genetic mutation during pregnancy, but the probability of that is extremely low. Later, a paternity test was done, which confirmed that he is not a child of our Huo family."
At this point, Mrs. Huo sighed heavily again.
Jiang Qin was also shocked when she heard this.
She never imagined that it would all start like this.
Tea had already been prepared in the small study. Old Mrs. Huo poured herself a cup of tea, drank it, and continued talking.
"So we started looking for the real child of our Huo family. Fortunately, we found him soon enough, but..."
Qiu Huilan suddenly felt tears welling up in her eyes as she thought of something, and she raised her hand to wipe them away.
"Back then, Sili wasn't called Sili, but Chi Shen. Those damned human traffickers passed the name down the chain of command, mispronouncing his name and dropping his surname. It just so happens that the buyer's surname was Chi, and he was the leader of their group."
"The year we found him, Sili had stopped going to school. Later we found out that he had gone to university to escape the human traffickers' surveillance, but dropped out of school in secret and went all the way north to Kyoto to do business, thinking that he would expose the human traffickers when he had the ability."
“He was only twenty years old that year. Although he had been abducted for twenty years and lived the life of an ordinary person, he was bound to be very successful in the future.”
“That’s probably what he was thinking back then, which is why he didn’t want to come back to our home. He said that wealthy families are heartless and not a place he liked to be. No matter how we tried to persuade him, we couldn’t convince him.”
"later……"
Jiang Qin could roughly guess what happened next, but she didn't know the specific reasons.
However, at this moment, a certain possibility occurred to her, and her pupils trembled instantly.