Xu Nianji and his party entered the house with apprehensive hearts.
"Big sister, thank you, thank you for raising the child."
The moment Fang Yue saw Ji Ying, she rushed towards her, grabbed her hands, and kept saying ’thank you’.
While waiting for Ji Ying and the others to return, Fang Yue realized that Xu Qinghe was not very eager to have their daughter acknowledge them.
Fang Yue looked down on them in her heart, the Xu Qinghe family, even if they own a furniture factory and built a new house in the countryside, so what?
They are still country bumpkins, aren’t they?
Fang Yue was worried about Mingzhu, what if Xu Nianhua was unwilling to acknowledge the Gu Family?
Ji Ying was stunned, her suspicions confirmed as she just stared at the noblewoman in front of her. She, was Nianhua’s biological mother?
Would Nianhua leave with her biological mother and disown her?
Ji Ying panicked, stumbled, and almost fell. Xu Nianji, quick to react, caught her and looked at Fang Yue asking, "Auntie, what makes you say my sister is your daughter? My sister was found by my parents, we even filed a report, and now after twenty-one years, you’ve come to look for her?"
Xu Nianji’s tall figure towered there, looking down at Fang Yue.
Discarding a sister and not caring for twenty-one years, and now you want to take her back?
Where in the world is there such a good deal?
"I, I..." Fang Yue, being thus questioned by Xu Nianji, immediately panicked, her guilty conscience leaving her at a loss for words.
The child was not lost by us but was stolen," Gu Hai stood up, started explaining, even though he was dissatisfied with Fang Yue’s behavior today, but in front of strangers, they were still husband and wife, and moreover, they were Xu Nianhua’s foster parents.
Such an excellent child, Gu Hai still wanted good relations for the future. The missed twenty-one years of nurturing were insignificant given the circumstances, as the blood relation didn’t count for much anymore.
Gu Hai’s voice was firm and powerful as he repeated the earlier conversation with Xu Qinghe, including how they learned about the person, clearly explaining all details.
Gu Hai, adept from years in the business world, had no difficulty articulating these points, which were originally spoken by Fang Yue and Jiang Jing. He spoke without any mental burden and even managed to convey his emotions appropriately.
After listening to Gu Hai’s words, Ji Ying sighed deeply, stood up, went into the room, and took out a small box from the back of the cabinet. The box contained the small clothes and blanket that Xu Nianhua had been wearing when found.
It was evident that Xu Nianhua’s family was well-off; the small clothes and blanket were of fine quality, even by the standards of that era.
"It’s this person, these are the clothes and blanket the child was wearing back then." Upon seeing these two items, Fang Yue immediately rushed forward, grabbed them, and held them tightly, tears streaming from her eyes.
When she was pregnant with her, she genuinely looked forward to the child’s arrival. Yet, the expected son did not come; instead, it was a daughter. Despite the child being cute at birth, the thought of having no son to maintain her current life and needing to divorce Gu Hai made Fang Yue hard-hearted enough to send her daughter away.
Over the years, Fang Yue would occasionally dream of this child.
Fang Yue’s emotions also affected Ji Ying, who sighed and said, "It’s all fate playing tricks. When we first found the child, we thought she wouldn’t survive. Ever since then, Nianhua’s health has always been weaker than the others’."