Su Hai’s hands clenched fiercely into fists. Such an outcome was something the Su Family could not bear, nor could Ningning!
Su Yun was committing sins, and they, the Su Family, were also burdened with an indelible debt.
"Where’s the child?" he asked, gritting his teeth and enunciating every word.
"The child?" Sheng Laosan wiped his tears with the sleeve of his clothes, but the surging tears had already drenched the cloth. Su Hai quietly offered a handkerchief, but it was pushed away by Sheng Laosan.
"We country folks aren’t destined for such luxuries."
Su Hai’s brow furrowed in agony as he silently withdrew the handkerchief.
"Yumin had just been laid to rest, and Ningning was thrown away by Second Aunt Qin!"
This sentence made Su Hai’s entire body shake, tense with immense pain and anger.
"When Yumin was alive, there were subsidies, and he could earn his keep—everyone at the Qin Family depended on him. After his death, how could the Qin Family possibly support the child he left behind? It was supposed to be Qin Youde who went to war, but in the end..." Sheng Laosan didn’t say too much about the events of the past. He’d been bottling it up for many years and needed to vent.
"My current wife is my only wife; all those rumors were nothing but Second Aunt Qin’s fabrications." Sheng Laosan truly despised Second Aunt Qin to his core, having never detested someone to such a degree.
He was a man, a kind and honest man. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to tolerate such a person spreading gossip everywhere.
In such cold weather, she was capable of stealthily abandoning Ningning in a stack of grass—she could commit such an atrocity.
"I’m sorry! I’m so sorry..." Aside from constantly apologizing, Su Hai truly didn’t know what else to say in front of Sheng Laosan.
"If you really feel sorry, let Su Yun kneel at Yumin’s grave. If you truly feel sorry, stay as far away from our family as you can!"
"Ningning is my niece, and our Su Family can give her the best!"
Sheng Laosan suddenly looked at Su Hai, his eyes showing a wisdom honed by life’s hardships. "What’s best according to you, might not be what she wants. Are you certain she can bear knowing that she was abandoned by her birth mother and that her biological father died because of her mother?"
Su Hai had nothing to say! He finally understood why Ningning was so repulsive towards them.
She didn’t yet know these truths, and if she did, it wouldn’t just be repulsion—it would be hatred!
"Our family might be poor, but we can give her both fatherly and motherly love. Please, leave!" Because of Su Yun, Sheng Laosan felt deep-rooted disgust for the Su Family members from the bottom of his heart.
If it wasn’t for Ningning’s sake, he would have never allowed Su Hai through the door.
"Thank you!" Su Hai rose silently, wanting to say something, but not a single word came out as he reached his lips.
He felt ashamed on his sister’s behalf.
There was also the Qin Family, who not only abandoned Ningning, but also had the shameless audacity to substitute their own.
Who gave them such courage? Had their conscience been eaten by dogs?
Leaving Shixi Town, Su Hai sat in the car back to the county without uttering a word. When he arrived at the county office and got off at the guest house, Su Yun rushed out to meet him eagerly.
"Xiao Hai, you’re back? I heard you arranged for Cuifen’s foster parents to be brought here? Are they coming back with us?"
Su Hai gave Su Yun a cold look, and her excited mood was as if doused by a bucket of cold water.
Chilled from head to toe.