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Published at 29th of March 2023 08:36:04 AM


Chapter 43

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Assistant Xiao Chen is very capable. He obtained the school curriculum and many phone numbers from the housekeeper, including school counselors, professors, and some classmates. Adhering to the concept of “no investigation, no right to speak”, he telephoned and harassed them all, asking their opinions on An Meijun.

First of all, the old professor in the outdoor sketching class this morning. He has gray hair, but he is still conscientiously standing in the teaching position. After receiving the call, he glanced at the group of young kids in the back, and found that there were many familiar figures missing in the crowd, including An Meijun. He spoke objectively, “This child often doesn’t come to my classes, maybe it’s this old man who doesn’t have charm in his classes.”

 

The old professor even laughed at himself. After all, on a sunny Sunday morning, who would like to travel all the way to the lake or deep in the forest to sketch? Especially, the leader of the team is not a young and handsome teacher, but an old man over 60. And now many young girls feel bitter and tired when they go outdoors one by one, and they have to smear all kinds of things when they go out, thinking that their skin is tanned. He has led the team many times this year, so he has been complained a lot.

The class monitor was very close to the old professor. Hearing this, he looked at his tutor very unhappy, and said, “What nonsense are you talking about? You are the top painter in China, and the existence of outdoor sketching courses is meant to make art teaching more exciting. Ms. An Meijun, it’s her loss that she didn’t come to class!”

Moreover, he did not see An Meijun skip outdoor sketching classes alone. She skipped almost any class, completely depending on her mood. Anyway, he did not like this kind of student who did not have much artistic talent and painting foundation, but did not work hard. What’s more, classmate An Meijun often wears gold and silver clothes, which brings a  touch of impetuosity to the art department that “does not eat the fireworks” and “focuses on the studio”, which he is not used to.

So on Xiao Chen’s phone call, he told all his impressions frankly. Xiao Chen nodded and carefully recorded all the content told by these classmates.

Other female students have different opinions, “Student An Meijun? I envy her very much. I heard that her family is rich, and she is also very kind. She often gives us discount coupons for beauty salons, as well as some cosmetics that she is not used to.”

“I heard that An Meijun has a baby at home, and she often doesn’t come to class, perhaps because she has to take care of the children. After all, girls always have to take care of their families, and academic negligence is inevitable.”

“I don’t like her very much. She always shows off in class how good her husband is to her, and shares some photos of trips to Paris and Sicily with us. What’s so great about it? Relying on a man is better than relying on yourself?”

The young counselor knew that An Meijun was coming through the back door, so he had a relatively friendly attitude and reserved his words. Unfortunately, Assistant Xiao Chen asked about An Meijun’s attendance rate, and he could only truthfully answer, “The attendance rate is not ideal.” To put it bluntly, she often doesn’t come.

Assistant Xiao Chen said, “Do you have any forms?” It is not ideal to be ambiguous. It’s better to print the data directly and show it to the boss, which may be more convincing.

The counselor said, “Yes, I have.” So he had to directly send the files on his computer to Xiao Chen.

 

Assistant Xiao Chen investigated the behavior and academic performance of An Meijun in the university, and then retrieved An Meijun’s credit card status and monthly statement from the bank, including detailed records of transfer and remittance, as well as payment for such large items as car and house purchases. Each transaction was amazing.

In order to investigate whether the situation is true, Assistant Xiao Chen also made a special visit to An Meijun’s mother’s house and found out that An Meijun’s family had recently added a lot of furniture, their parents had also purchased a new house, and even their brother-in-law An Jun, who had just grown up this year, had bought a sports car.

Hearing that the assistant Xiao Chen belonged to Yin Yunqiu, the An family’s attitude was almost obsequious. When the other party asked what An Meijun bought for them, they waved their hands repeatedly, saying that they bought it themselves with a loan from the bank, and they had nothing to do with An Meijun. An Meijun did not spend her husband’s money to subsidize her natal family.

An Jun even jumped out and said that his car was borrowed from his good brother and was temporarily parked in his garage. It was really just a few days.

Xiao Chen: “…” wondered if he had the words “stupid” and “easy to fool” written on his face?

Before his investigation, he first visited the neighborhood around An family. Those people were all envious, jealous, and resentful of the good daughter An family had given birth to. What An family had recently added, they couldn’t hide it from their piercing eyes. As soon as Assistant Xiao Chen asked, they told him all in detail.

An Meijun’s family does have a distant niece, who is white, fat, and cute. It makes sense to buy clothes and toys for girls.

But he still pretended to be foolish and nodded.

 

After the investigation was completed, Assistant Xiao Chen sorted out and printed out the information and handed it directly to the boss. After browsing all the information, Yin Yunqiu’s face became darker and darker, with a hint of gloom added to his eyebrows.

It also includes the whereabouts of An Meijun for a week, such as going to a beauty salon two or three times, visiting a large shopping mall four or five times, and so on. Each bill starts at 10.000 yuan. The single consumption is not surprising, but the cumulative amount is shocking enough. Yin Yunqiu was not fond of enjoying himself, so he didn’t expect women’s ability to spend money to be so amazing.

In particular, Yin Yunqiu took over An Meijun’s mother and son, and did not intend to raise the whole family of the woman from then on. After all, it was the wealth accumulated by several generations of the Yin family. He was essentially a businessman, and the enterprise did not mean to share this cake with that woman and the her family from now on but to marry a beautiful wife for his son.

What did he see on the information!? The year before, An’s father and mother retired at home, just after An Meijun entered the Yin family. Obviously, the couple had just reached the age of 45 this year, and there was still some time before the legal retirement age, but they had already been idle at home. And An Meijun’s brother, An Jun, also idled around the streets all day, and after graduating from vocational college, when he were 18 years old and  did not seek a job.

It seems obvious who can support such a large family, that has no source of income at all, but lives a safe and stable life.

It seems that he usually really pampered An Meijun too much, and before becoming a hostess, he had already been so extravagant. If he had become a hostess, it would have been enough. Yin Yunqiu rubbed his temples with a headache.

Obviously, he had already seen that An Meijun was extravagant, vain, and even abusive of children at home. She was not a good candidate for marriage, let alone a representative of a good wife and mother. If he continued to hand over the baby to the other party for support, perhaps she would cultivate the child into something that Yin Yunqiu could not imagine.

But it would be too cruel to let a child leave their biological mother.

He was silently sighing in his heart, and when he was caught in a dilemma, he saw his little son’s small white face in front of him, his fleshy little hands grasping his suit and spontaneously crawling into his arms. Yin Yunqiu stiffened for a moment and then recovered as usual, adjusting his posture to allow the small children to crawl more smoothly on him.

Climbing to the top, the child’s two small arms, as tender as lotus root knots, were clinging to his father, holding a small biscuit for grinding his teeth.

 

After the child finished eating, Yin Yunqiu took out another piece from the biscuit box and handed it to his mouth. The little guy seemed to be very used to being fed by others, and opened his mouth with a whine like a small animal. His eating posture was very cute, and his small feet also followed him everywhere.

Yin Yunqiu’s heart soon calmed down, but unfortunately, as he continued to pass the biscuits after feeding the small half box, the child’s small face began to hide and his small mouth slightly pouted, expressing his intention not to eat any more.

He could only put down the biscuit regretfully, and then the little guy said softly, “Dad, I’m thirsty~'”

Yin Yunqiu’s mood brightened slightly again. He hugged the child, took out a bottle of milk from the milk box, and handed it to the child. Feeling the aroma of milk on the child’s body, he seemed to have made up his mind completely and suddenly said, “Minglu, do you like father or mother?”

“Dad!” Yin Minglu said without hesitation.

“So if father and mother are separated, do you want to be with father or mother?” Yin Yunqiu slowed down his tone.

“Dad!” Needless to say! Yin Minglu couldn’t wait to step on his small feet to show his determination.

But Yin Yunqiu didn’t believe in the casual promises of a three-year-old child. He knew that children were blank sheets of paper. He liked whoever was good to him, and whoever was in his eyes was colorful. This kind of love could not be counted in the long years.

He only believed in the agreement in black and white, so he took out a printed statement stating that the baby, that is, Yin Minglu himself, voluntarily lived with his father and he would not regret it in the future. However, this agreement has a lot of room for operation. It only says that the child will live with the father, but it does not completely sever the connection between the child and his mother. Moreover, if the child is unwilling to abide by this agreement when he grows up, he can completely tear it up on his own, which has already been considered the biggest concession of a business family with clear interests.

Yin Yunqiu believes that he is not a good person, and he is tender towards his children who are connected by flesh and blood. However, the way he treats love, women, and even his wife is more inclined to give material things. He can guarantee the long-term relationship between his family members, but he cannot guarantee love. However, he can still pay money to his marriage partner in his limited assets to ensure fairness to the young years of the woman. So even if he doesn’t marry An Meijun, he can guarantee that he will always give An Meijun money, ensure that she has no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life, and won’t completely prevent her from contacting her child Minglu.

This being the case, Yin Minglu was dumbfounded and stared at the agreement with his small face, initiating a daze. Only then did Yin Yunqiu realize that the child probably didn’t recognize characters, so he took his little fleshy hand and explained it word by word, and finally handed him a pen.

He admitted that this was an act of deceiving ignorant children, but he did not care. An Meijun would beat the child, and was not a suitable mother at all. The baby would not be happy with the other person, and even more, if the child grew up in the atmosphere of An family, he will be like An Jun who dropped out of school at a young age and is glib, and Yin Yunqiu would not naturally allow it.

The pen was too heavy, Yin Minglu held the pen in his little hand, and dropped it to the ground with a “snap”, Yin Yunqiu then remembered that maybe Minglu couldn’t even write his own name, let alone write, and the word” Lu “had a particularly large number of strokes.

Just when he was thinking about whether to “sign on behalf of” despicably, the child seemed to be different from what he had imagined. He suddenly got up on the spot, ran back to the study, took out a piece of red mud under the seal, excitedly Said: “Dad, I don’t know how to write, let me draw and mark!”

As he said, he picked his thumb in the red mud, and with a sound of “paw”, he pressed several red handprints in one breath.

Yin Yunqiu: “…” His child is really smart.

After solving the problem with the child, Yin Yunqiu’s heart sank and he picked up An Meijun’s information again to browse it carefully. Yin Minglu, who had achieved the effect he wanted, was also very satisfied, holding the milk bottle in his hand, overjoyed. He just glanced at An Meijun’s information, and it turns out that in addition to showing off and acting in a high profile, An Meijun is very cautious about her daughter’s work. Not only does she not casually talk about changing her son, but she also finds a distant niece as a shield.

He didn’t expect An Meijun to reveal anything. After all, the fact of changing children is reckless, involving two families. Ordinary people can’t even think about it, and it’s normal not to be able to find out for a while. However, as long as Yin Yunqiu knew that the child’s real mother beat the child and could separate him from his nominal mother, Yin Minglu’s wish would also be half completed.

Because he was happy, he drank an extra bottle of milk!

At four or five o’clock in the afternoon, An Meijun came back, but the housekeeper and maids didn’t dare to wink at her, they all lowered their heads and worked in silence.

An Meijun has always been big-hearted, so naturally she didn’t notice anything unusual. After looking at the time, she quickly went upstairs to change her clothes, remove her makeup, and take off her jewelry. Soon in the mirror, she returned to a young woman in a sky blue home dress, without makeup, and with a plain face. She slowly ironed her curly hair flat, pretending to have not been outside all day.

Just outside the door, there was a sound of the car entering the warehouse. An Meijun thought it was her husband who had come back, so she quickened her steps to straighten herself out, and then walked down the stairs with her skirt around.

The little guy who was playing with a piece of paper was taken out of the room, ignoring the other person’s confused expression, and directly hugged him into the living room. Then he quickly walked into the kitchen. In a few words, he drove the maid who was cooking out and took over the final cooking job.

The maid whispered, “Madam, be careful.” She has already tipped off. She hoped the lady could understand her meaning.

An Meijun mistakenly thought that the other party was reminding her to be careful of burning. After all, it was an important place in the kitchen. She impatiently waved her hand and told the other party to hurry away. She gently spooned a large bowl of corn pumpkin sweet Congee for children, poured it into a large bowl, and put a small spoon on it.

When Yin Yunqiu happened to enter the door, she also pretended to have just washed her hands and made soup. She came out of the kitchen and saw her husband with a surprise on her face, saying, “Yunqiu, you’re back?”

Yin Yunqiu nodded coldly in response. In fact, the one who just drove home was his assistant Xiao Chen, who was sent by him to collect An Meijun’s itinerary for the day and just came back, but since An Meijun misunderstood, he didn’t want to explain.

An Meijun held a small bowl in her hand. She looked guilty and said softly, “I didn’t know you were coming back, so I only made the baby’s favorite corn and pumpkin Congee.”

After all, Yin Yunqiu is used to going out early and returning late, and his home is more like a hotel where he lives rather than the company. However, she still knows that Yin Yunqiu likes her gentle and kind manner towards her children, so she walks up to the baby with a small bowl and softly coaxs, “Baby, open your mouth, Mom will feed you.”

Even if you want to put on a show, at least help me blow on the little spoon? Such hot porridge, even I, who should cooperate with you in the performance, can’t turn a blind eye. Yin Minglu blinked his eyes and lowered his head to play with his fingers, completely refusing to open his mouth.

“You said you did it yourself?” Yin Yunqiu suddenly asked back, looking at An Meijun with a cold look.

The cold and unemotional gaze made An Meijun’s wrist tremble slightly, and the Congee in the spoon fell down directly, dirtying her skirt. The skirt fabric was too thin, and the porridge directly burned her thighs.

“The scalding temperature made An Meijun scream. She quickly grabbed the cloth on the table and brushed away the rice grains on her skirt. After a moment of relief, her eyes turned and she changed her heart in a guilty tone, saying, ‘I told the kitchen to make it. After all, the baby likes to eat.”

Regardless of whether she made it herself or handed it over to the kitchen, she had a share of the credit, and the starting point was that the children liked to eat, which reflected her selfless kindness and maternal love.

But in fact, Yan Yunqiu ordered the kitchen to make this Congee this afternoon. Later, he found that the maid cut the pumpkin too big, and the corn was thin and broken. He frowned and cut it himself. He made it by hand according to the children’s home recipe. Even rock sugar was strictly in accordance with the recipe. He was afraid that if he put too much, baby would be greedy for sweets.

The maid just took over the action of cooking porridge, and when the congee would be ready in a few minutes, she was driven out by An Meijun, who claimed that she had made it for the baby.

Even in order to show off in front of him, she pretended to feed the baby, but she didn’t even notice that Congee was hot. Such a woman was able to hide it from him for more than two years and he handed the child to her with confidence. Yin Yunqiu closed his eyes in disappointment. There was regret in his heart, but he didn’t bother to blame her, and handed her the piece of information in his hand.

This is the entire process of An Meijun from going out at 8 am to returning home at 4 or 5 pm. After reading it, An Meijun trembled with fear and kept thinking in her mind why Yunqiu wanted to investigate her? The more she thought, the more afraid she became.

Yin Yunqiu said, “You clearly had an outdoor sketching class this morning, why didn’t you go?” He spent money to send this woman to college, not only for the need to build a high degree, but also because the other party previously said that she regretted that she didn’t work hard in high school, so she missed her ideal university.

So he gave the other party the opportunity to go to college, but the other party didn’t cherish it, and what she did was completely contrary to the tone she had promised before.

At the command of Yin Yunqiu, housekeeper went to An Meijun’s room and picked up all the dozens of bags that the other party had obtained from her shopping today.

An Meijun stretched out her hand without thinking to stop it, but the housekeeper was tall and bulky, so he dodged it cleanly, and brought all the bags in front of Yin Yunqiu without omission.

He didn’t talk about the piles of luxury clothes inside, but when Yin Yunqiu found two bags of clothes and toys for little girls, his eyes flickered, An Meijun’s face was completely drained of color, and her mind went blank for an instant.





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