Qiao Ran sat on the sofa and thought for a long time.
In her hands, she was helping Qiao Zean peel oranges. New varieties of oranges can be peeled directly by hand. The flesh is fresh and tender and has sufficient moisture. The oranges need to be kneaded until soft first, and then the orange peels are peeled.
She unconsciously rubbed the orange, rubbing it vigorously, replaying the past like a revolving door in her mind.
Qiao Ze'an is too smart and has clear logic.
I just gave her a good reminder.
Start with the most unrelated people and things, find out the inevitable connections, and everything else can be easily solved.
Therefore, when the Xia family came to look for relatives, Dean Li once mentioned that the Xia family was looking for a token of life, a silver pendant.
Because it was so long ago, neither she nor Dean Li thought of it at the time.
Everyone is thinking that they can do a paternity test anyway, and it doesn't matter whether they have a token or not.
After many years, Dean Li suddenly found the pendant she wore as a child.
And he traveled thousands of miles and came to the capital specifically to hand it over to Zuo Chenye as a souvenir.
The most important thing is that Dean Li died later.
The cause of death is unknown.
One has to wonder what the reason is.
Who attacked Dean Li, and what did they want to cover up?
Qin Ninzhen obviously recognized the pendant around her neck and was persistently looking for its owner.
Zuo Chenye risked being discovered by himself and insisted on letting her wear the pendant.
And he deliberately planned to go to the Beijing Opera House so that Qin Ninzhen could see him wearing this pendant.
Intermediate connections.
Could it be? Qin Nianzhen was looking for tokens related to the Xia family's life experience.
Is it the silver pendant he wears around his neck?
And the owner of this pendant, she, is the person the Xia family is looking for?
When this clear logic formed in her mind.
She couldn't help but shiver all over.
Myself, it's a bit too whimsical.
At that time, after all, a paternity test was done, could it be wrong?
"Mommy, the oranges haven't been peeled yet." Qiao Ze'an stood beside him and suddenly spoke, interrupting Qiao Ran's tangled thoughts.
"Oh. I'll be ready soon." Qiao Ran immediately came to her senses and realized that the orange in her hand had been crushed to pieces.
As soon as she opened a small opening, orange juice immediately poured out.
The entire emotional orange was turned into water by her.
She quickly fetched a cup, squeezed it hard, and squeezed the whole orange into orange juice.
"Wow, that's great." Qiao Ze'an clapped his hands aside.
Then, he picked up the orange juice, opened his big eyes, and drank it in one gulp.
Qiao Ran looked at An An tenderly, with full of love in his eyes.
She rolled her eyes and continued to think while wiping her fingers with a napkin.
When Dean Li called her at night, she left first, and An Yunxi left last.
That's why An Yunxi saw the whole process of saving Zuo Chenye and then replaced her.
Zuo Chenye has always mistakenly believed that An Yunxi sacrificed his life to save him when he was attacked and his life was hanging by a thread. Therefore, he always insisted on marrying An Yunxi.
An Yunxi faked life-saving grace.
I remember that a few days later, she and An Yunxi went to the orphanage again and provided their hair and nails respectively.
What if their samples were deliberately exchanged by An Yunxi?
She recalled that she was in a hurry to go to the hospital to take care of Gu Qingyan, so she left first.
An Yunxi left later.
An Yunxi has a vicious mind, will he find out the clues, and once again have a wrong idea, pretend to be someone else, and occupy the magpie's nest?
After all, this is not the first time An Yunxi has done something like this.
If you can do it once, why not do it twice?
The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.
I couldn't believe it at first.
Now, the more I think about it, the more reasonable it becomes.
Zuo Chen returned to K City a while ago. What did he do? Was it related to his own affairs?
She stretched out her hand, and her cold fingers couldn't help but cover her lips. She was so shocked that she couldn't be more shocked.
She never imagined that the truth would be like this,
Looking at the lovely Qiao Ze'an beside her, her eyes tightened. In the past, she no longer cared about her own life experience. After all, it had been so long that in her memory, she no longer needed the presence of her relatives at all.
But now, the longing for her relatives suddenly surged in her heart again.
Obsession with biological parents.
For An An and herself, she must find the truth.
Although her hypothesis was too bold and she had no intention of clinging to power, she could not ignore this possibility.
We cannot let An Yunxi succeed again and again.
The sky outside has darkened.
The warm yellow light inside the house makes the night outside the window darker.
Aunt Wang walked out of the kitchen and asked with a smile, "Mr. Qiao, it's already half an hour late. Do you want to have dinner now?"
Qiao Ran glanced at the door thoughtfully, "Wait a minute. Let's eat together when Young Master Zuo comes back."
Qiao Ze'an looked up from his phone, "Mommy, didn't you say he won't come back for dinner?"
Qiao Ran reached out and touched his head, "If you wait another half hour, maybe he will?"
For some reason, she had a hunch that Zuo Chenye would rush back in a hurry.
"There's still half an hour, so I'll make you another steak Wellington with extra vegetables." After that, she stood up.
"Oh, okay!" Qiao Ze'an was even happier. The steak Wellington cooked by mommy was excellent.
Qiao Ran came to the kitchen, took out the refrigerated fermented dough that had been prepared last night, took out the steak, rolled out the dough and kneaded it into a nice shape, then put it in the oven and adjusted the baking time to twenty minutes.
As time passes, the aroma gradually wafts out of the oven.
The bread gradually takes on a golden and buttery color.
The inside is wrapped with steak, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Just imagining it makes your mouth water with the aroma.
Along with the oven, there was a "ding" sound.
Steak Wellington comes out on time.
The door of Blue Ocean Apartment also opened.
Zuo Chenye walked in from outside and saw An An sitting on the sofa.
His handsome face was filled with tenderness.
"Wow, you are really back. Come on, let's have dinner together. I've been waiting for you for a long time. I'm almost starving." Qiao Ze'an ran forward happily, took Zuo Chenye's arm and pulled him in.
Zuo Chenye threw his coat on the sofa.
Watching Aunt Wang serving dishes one after another on the table, Qiao Ran was wearing thick gloves and taking out the freshly baked Wellington steak from the oven and placing it in the middle of the dining table.
Warm atmosphere, delicious food.
He asked in surprise, "Are you all waiting for me to have dinner?"