Lu Yuan hung up the phone and walked into the Lu family's hall, where she happened to meet Lu Yuchuan who had just walked down the stairs.
For a busy person like Lu Yuchuan, there are only a handful of times at home at this time. Lu Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Dad is back so early today?"
"Yeah." Lu Yuchuan responded, and then asked, "Where are you going?"
Lu Yuan smiled slightly and said, "I went to a friend's house for dinner."
Lu Yuchuan sat on the sofa and reached out to call Lu Yuan over.
Lu Yuan obeyed and quickly walked over and sat down.
"You never have many friends." Lu Yuchuan said, "I see that you go out quite frequently recently."
After hearing this, Lu Yuan paused for a moment, then shrugged and smiled, "Well. I met Huo Jinxi's wife at Tangtang's engagement party last time, and I felt that I was very close to her, so we had a lot of contacts during this period.
"
Lu Yuchuan was not surprised at all, he had obviously known about this for a long time.
He paused for a moment before looking at Lu Yuan again, "You know everything?"
Lu Yuan looked at Lu Yuchuan quietly for a moment, then slowly said: "Dad, you mean... that Mu Qian was born to her mother?"
As soon as these words came out, Lu Yuchuan's eyes darkened slightly. After a few seconds, he responded lightly: "Yeah."
When Lu Yuan saw his reaction, he knew that his previous guess was correct.
All this time, Lu Yuchuan only thought that Mu Qian was the child of Sheng Lin and another man. His concern for Mu Qian was only because of this.
Lu Yuan exhaled slightly and said calmly: "Well, after that meeting, I had a little doubt. It happened that she also had doubts, so... now we all know."
Lu Yuchuan quietly lit a cigarette for himself. After listening to what Lu Yuan said, he looked at her quietly for a moment and then said, "That's fine. Your child has been withdrawn since he was a child. Now he has a younger sister, so he is very happy.
?”
Lu Yuan nodded slowly.
Lu Yuchuan smiled lightly and said nothing more.
Lu Yuan was quiet for a moment, then said again: "Dad, mom betrayed you, will you blame her?"
Lu Yuchuan dusted off the cigarette butts in his hands and said calmly: "When I found out about this, your mother was already gone, so there is no point in talking about it anymore."
"Then when did dad know about Mu Qian's existence?" Lu Yuan asked again.
"It's been a long time." Lu Yuchuan said calmly, "More than ten years ago, I went to Huai City to pay homage to your mother and unexpectedly met her."
"Dad guessed it at that time?"
Lu Yuchuan smiled lightly, "She looked so much like your mother back then that I couldn't help but doubt her."
"Then it was found out that she was actually the child of her mother and another man?" Lu Yuan asked tentatively.
"Yeah." Lu Yuchuan took a puff of cigarette, his expression hidden behind the blue and white smoke, making it blurry and indistinguishable.
Lu Yuan also calmed down for a moment, but his heart was overflowing, sorting out the causes and consequences of the incident.
As Lu Yuchuan said, it was more than ten years before he became aware of Mu Qian's existence.
Because Mu Qian looked similar to his mother, he immediately became suspicious, so he asked someone to investigate Mu Qian's life experience.
The result of the investigation was that Mu Qian was born to her mother and another man.
It was obvious that someone had tampered with the situation, causing the outcome of the whole thing to be skewed.
The only people who would care about Mu Qian's life experience being exposed are those two——
Mu Huaian, a talented painter, raised Mu Qian as his own daughter at the request of his mother. Apart from painting, he only cared about his wife and Mu Qian, his daughter. It is unlikely that such a person could do this.
Such hands and feet.
And the other——
Footsteps were heard again on the stairs. Lu Yuan turned around and saw Cheng Huiru walking down the stairs.
Different from the usually glamorous Mrs. Lu, Cheng Huiru at home is pale, thin, with cold eyes, tortured by years of loveless and hopeless marriage, like a walking zombie.
Seeing Lu Yuchuan and Lu Yuan sitting together, Cheng Huiru sneered, turned and walked into the kitchen.
After a while, she walked out of the kitchen and quietly went upstairs.
From beginning to end, Lu Yuchuan didn't look at her, and she didn't look much at it either.
Lu Yuan watched her back quietly until she disappeared on the second floor.
The answer is already ready to come out.
…
The day after returning to Tongcheng, Mu Qian went to Ye's house.
Since Ye Xi left, she has not been here again, and in the huge Ye family, she has only seen the former aunt of the Ye family.
After seeing Mu Qian, she was obviously a little surprised, "Miss Mu, why are you here?"
"Auntie, I came here to collect some things from Ye Zi." Mu Qian said, "I want to take them back as a souvenir."
As soon as she heard her mention Ye Xi, the aunt's eyes immediately turned slightly red, and she just said: "Okay, Xixi's room has been kept as it was. I haven't touched it. If you want anything, just go up and get it."
The aunt watched Ye Xi grow up, and Mu Qian had been familiar with Ye Xi since childhood. Even if they didn't come here often, they were the people Ye Xi mentioned the most. Therefore, the aunt only regarded Mu Qian as one of her own and did not stop her.
Mu Qian entered the door and immediately noticed the deserted atmosphere in the room.
She suppressed other emotions and turned to ask her aunt: "Brother Ye doesn't come back often?"
"Alas." Auntie sighed, "In the past, when Xixi was here, he would come back occasionally. Since Xixi left, he almost never comes back... A good family breaks up just as soon as it's said to be broken up..."
Mu Qian listened and said nothing for a while.
The aunt seemed to realize that she had said too much, and quickly wiped her eyes and said, "Go to Xixi's room by yourself, and I will make tea for you."
Mu Qian nodded, then went upstairs and pushed open Ye Xi's room.
As the aunt said, the room is the same as before, as if there are still people living here every day and night, unchanged.
Mu Qian stood quietly at the door for a moment, took a deep breath, and then walked into the room.
When the aunt made tea and went upstairs to serve it to Mu Qian, Mu Qian was sitting by Ye Xi's bed and looking through a photo album.
When the aunt saw this, she couldn't help but speak in a low voice: "This is the photo album of Xixi when she was seventeen or eighteen years old. She likes the photos in it the most..."
"Yes." Mu Qian stretched out her hand to touch Ye Xi's smiling face in one of the photos, "At this time, she smiles the most happily."
Then, Mu Qian took out a photo from the album and said, "Auntie, I took this photo with me."
Auntie nodded.
Mu Qian stood up and put the photo album back to its original place, then picked up a bag on the dressing table and said to her aunt: "I also packed some small items, do you want to see them?"
"No, no, no," the aunt said quickly, "You and Xixi have been so close since childhood, what can she not give you? Whatever you want, just take it."
Mu Qian nodded, put down the bag, and then stepped forward to hug her aunt.
"Auntie, don't worry." She said in a low voice, "Ye Zi will rest in peace."