Suddenly, the living room fell silent.

Sheng Weixia looked at the mother and daughter’s enigmatic expressions and wanted to laugh. She glanced at them calmly: “Entered my room?”

Aunt Zhao felt a chill in that glance, but she couldn’t say why, her heart skipped a beat: “Entered… entered.”

“Opened my closet?” Her smile was also faint.

“Ah, I took a few hangers.” Aunt Zhao felt her tongue stiffen, “Wh, what’s wrong?”

Sheng Weixia looked at everyone with different expressions, her expression calm.

Actually, in her previous life, she was used to live-in maids, except for her bedroom and study, she didn’t mind the maids entering her dressing room.

But the Gu family’s villa had an old layout, the closet was built into the bedroom, and everything in the room was in plain sight, there was no privacy at all.

Gu Qingwei probably didn’t want Aunt Zhao to enter her room because of this.

Jiang Xiuhou forced a smile that was worse than crying: “Aunt Zhao, Old Gu said the third floor is all for Xia, it’s not a storage room, be careful in the future.”

“Ai.” Aunt Zhao’s face darkened, “I thought she didn’t mind since she asked me to scrub the bathtub…”

Sheng Weixia calmly said: “I won’t mind after I go to school, but I still mind now.”

She would soon have her own house, and she might only live here during winter and summer vacations, there was nothing to pick on.

See, as long as you set your position right, there will be no worries.

Sheng Weixia didn’t dwell on these details like she did when she first arrived, which made Jiang Xiuhou breathe a sigh of relief, she instead scolded Aunt Zhao with a stern face: “Be careful in the future!”

Gu Desheng, however, said with a click of his tongue: “Alright, alright, Xia is generous and didn’t say anything, why are you still making a fuss about it!”

Aunt Zhao’s husband was a retired village official, he helped him manage a mine, he was very useful, how could a boss let his wife suffer this kind of grievance?

Then, he changed the subject, “Xia, I said I would move your household registration back, I’ll go to Tianzhao Village with your uncle when we’re free to get the household registration booklet from the Sheng family. We’ll also hold a banquet to announce to the world that you’ve returned to our family! Think about who you want to invite, okay?”

Finally, he glared at his wife: You’re not doing things right, you just said you’d have a “party” for Qingwei, what would your daughter think?

Sheng Weixia saw through his thoughts and showed a naive smile: “Thank you, Mom and Dad.”

Seeing the couple finally relieved, she turned and went upstairs, she glanced at the new clothes with the price tags still on them.

Sheng Weixia was satisfied, she folded the brand bags together and put them in the Crown nylon suitcase that Jiang Xiuhou had just bought today.

Quite a lot of money.

The couple downstairs looked at each other, they both saw helplessness in each other’s eyes, it was hard to treat everyone equally, it made their hearts tremble.

But reality was always harsher than ideals, just when the couple was full of confidence and ready to go to the countryside, Aunt Zhao’s husband called from the mine, he panted and said loudly: “Mr. Gu, come and take a look! Someone is making a fuss at the mine, saying… saying you stole their daughter!”

Usually, Accountant Zhao could handle anything that happened at the mine, like petty theft, hooliganism, most villagers would give face to this old village official, but he couldn’t handle this kind of dirty business.

If he didn’t handle it well, those old people who obeyed him would stop listening to him, which would be a huge loss.

So he called the boss immediately: “Come quickly! The man brought a few people, there are big character posters everywhere!”

“What do you mean stealing their daughter?! What’s going on?” Gu Desheng shouted in annoyance when he heard this.

Jiang Xiuhou’s face turned ugly when she heard the word “steal”, she stared at him in disbelief.

Since he started making money by secretly burning charcoal, he had always wanted a son, at that time, they hadn’t started planning for family planning yet, but he didn’t know what was wrong, no matter how hard they tried, they didn’t conceive another boy or girl.

Many coal bosses had children outside, and she was afraid that Gu Desheng would have children outside after he got rich.

So she had always used Gu Qingwei as a bargaining chip, reminding him over and over again how precious and lucky this daughter was:

“Qingwei is your lucky star, you see, if it hadn’t been for her surgery, we wouldn’t have owed so much money to others, and we wouldn’t have gone bankrupt and thought of burning charcoal, which is like pushing us forward!”

“The other people’s mines either don’t produce good coal, or they have accidents every three days, look at our mine, although the coal isn’t the best, but hasn’t it always been safe and sound? It’s all because our family has Qingwei, our lucky star!”

“Besides, my brother, Qingwei is so good at coaxing him! Otherwise, how could he help us with everything?”

Business is all about time, place, and people.

When to do it, including whether the business is going well, all of this matters a lot.

Few coal bosses don’t believe in these things.

Gu Desheng was no exception.

He was able to get the mine smoothly thanks to his brother-in-law’s connections.

So, all these years, even though he had been fooling around outside, surrounded by beautiful women, he hadn’t really had any children.

Of course, Gu Qingwei was also very capable and sensible.

Other people’s daughters are little cotton jackets, Gu Qingwei is a little cotton jacket with far-infrared self-heating, she can always coax him into submission.

He was also lucky, the beautiful words she said, all of them came true:

The nearby collapsed coal mine didn’t affect his mine at all, it was still producing steadily.

He said that the mine, which was already very expensive, would definitely make money after he bought it, and it started making profits the following year.

The words he heard on the phone made Jiang Xiuhou instantly imagine a modern Chen Shimei, who was sorry for the man who had worked so hard for this family.

“You… what have you been doing outside?!” She didn’t care that Gu Qingwei was still sitting there, she rushed over and twisted his ear.

Gu Desheng slapped her away: “What the hell are you talking about! I haven’t done anything, look at what nonsense you’re saying in front of your daughter! I’m going to see what’s going on, don’t cause trouble!”

Jiang Xiuhou didn’t believe he was innocent, she had heard a lot of rumors about messed-up families in the same industry, she followed him: “No, I’m going with you!”

The couple pushed and shoved each other, arguing all the way to the garage to start the car.

Gu Qingwei had no audience, she curled her lips and her expression turned indifferent.

When they arrived at the mine, Zhao Dangjia hadn’t exaggerated, outside the barbed wire fence at the entrance of the mine, white paper was pasted everywhere, with crooked writing that said “Gu Desheng, return my daughter!”, there were torn pieces of white paper piled up next to it, it seemed that it had been pasted more than once.

The local villagers and workers from the neighboring mine gathered in groups of three or five, pointing and whispering.

“Damn it!” Gu Desheng slammed the car door, pointing at the big character poster and asking, “Who posted it?”

“I did!” A rough voice, louder than his, came from behind.

The couple turned their heads and saw a skinny, shifty-eyed man, holding a sickle with a gleaming blade, he walked towards them casually.

The whispers around them grew louder, everyone gathered around, some workers who recognized the boss went to the office to call Accountant Zhao.

The man spat on the ground, he gave them a malicious smile: “You’re Gu Desheng? You’re living a good life, huh? When are you going to return my daughter to me?”

“Your daughter? Who are you?” Gu Desheng wasn’t afraid, there were dozens of workers at this mine, they wouldn’t lose in a fight.

“My daughter? How would I know what name you gave her? All I know is that you took my daughter, who I raised for eighteen years, so shouldn’t you return my daughter to me?” Sheng Dalian raised his sickle.

It was him!

As expected, his brother-in-law was right, this man was now biting back and asking him for Gu Qingwei.

Gu Desheng and his wife looked at each other, they were so angry they cursed: “Your wife switched my daughter, if it hadn’t been for the fact that she was sick to death, I would have sued her and she would have spent the rest of her life in prison, you have the nerve to ask me for her?”

“One thing at a time. It was my dead wife who did it, she’s dead and gone, I don’t owe you anything! I’m only asking one thing, where’s my daughter?!”

“The child is an adult, she doesn’t want to come back to you, don’t even think about it!” Gu Desheng’s mind was in a mess, his voice was a little weak.

Jiang Xiuhou rushed forward, her voice was choked with tears: “Do you have the right to be parents? What kind of life did you make our daughter live? You dare to ask Qingwei to go back!”

Gu Qingwei, the daughter she had carefully raised for eighteen years!

And her own daughter, who had been raised by this man for eighteen years!

Jiang Xiuhou finally had a little first-hand experience of the life Sheng Weixia had lived before.

Sheng Dalian looked fierce, he roared: “It’s none of your business whether we have the right! That’s my seed! I’ve even asked the police station, this is called human trafficking!”

This was not far from Tianzhao Village, the incident hadn’t happened long ago, most of the villagers who were watching had heard a few things, and they started whispering:

“This is the family from Tianzhao Village that had a cleft lip, his wife was afraid of being scolded by him, so she switched the baby with the woman in the next bed. Look, the one crying is the one who was switched…”

“What a sin, they’re so bold, they’ll be struck by lightning!”

“Right? This Sheng family’s third son is said to be a lazy bum, he just dreams of getting rich, his wife was sick and he didn’t have money to treat her…”

“But they can’t both belong to them, what about the Sheng family’s child?”

“What he said makes sense, the daughter is an adult, she’s used to a good life, why would she want to go back?”

“…”

The couple confronted Sheng Dalian for a while, but they didn’t reach a conclusion.

Gu Desheng threw out a sentence: “If you keep making a fuss, we’ll see you in court!”

Then he pulled Jiang Xiuhou home angrily.

The car had been driving for a long time before Jiang Xiuhou sighed: “What should we do? Xia’s household registration is still in that man’s book, what about our Qingwei…”

“What should we do, just let it be!” Gu Desheng held the steering wheel, he pondered, “We can’t worry about the household registration now! Arrange for Qingwei to go abroad quickly, what can he do if he can’t find her?”

“But… isn’t it more expensive if she goes earlier?”