Sweet Chief Secretary - Chapter 460

“What are you doing while surrounding my home?” A woman who seemed to be 40 years old walked over quickly with her loud voice and eyebrows which were risen. There was a shrewd look in his eyes.

“Shu Hong, your nephew, Cheng Xi, has come back.” One of the villagers said.

The woman named Shu Hong turned stiff when she heard the name of Cheng Xi. A look of dislike flashed through her eyes quickly.

This woman was the wife of Cheng Xi’s first uncle. It was their family who bought this house in front of them to raise rabbits. Cheng Xi instantly hid behind Xia Yu and Wanru when he saw that woman was coming up.

Xia Yu’s heart sank when she saw this reaction of Cheng Xi.

“Well, you are the one who is from the city and adopted Cheng Xi, right? Well, our Cheng Xi is so lucky that he can follow you to live a rich life in the future.” The woman said with a fake smile and then went to pull Cheng Xi. She said, “Let’s go! Let’s go to have a meal at your first aunt’s home.”

She caught Cheng Xia’s little hand instantly and pulled him to walk forward.

The kid obviously wanted to reject her and moved his body to show his unwillingness. Xia Yu hurried to come up to stop her and said, “We won’t have a meal here. Xi Xi only wants to see his home. Sister, you should open the door.”

The eyeballs of that woman were rolled several times with a trace of shrewd calculation. “There is nothing to see in the shabby house. If you really want to have a look, wait after the meal.”

Finally, they had to follow his first aunt to her home. It was a quite new house containing two floors and just a few houses away. Xia Yu recollected the words of the dean of the orphanage. He said that the compensation from that hit-and-run driver was divided by the relatives, but they still sent the kid into the orphanage after dividing the money. They were so cruel indeed.

Xia Yu guessed that his first uncle’s family also got a part of the monetary compensation. Meanwhile, his first aunt looked very shrewd and calculated.

After they went into the room, the woman took out several candies first and then intended to give them to Cheng Xi who kept shaking his head to refuse. He pulled the hands of Wanru. He wanted to leave here, and he also pointed at the outside. Xia Yu found that the woman cast a glare at Cheng Xi and reached out her hands, which looked like a gesture of slapping. She thought it was an obscure gesture, but what she had done was all in Xia Yu’s eyes. Xia Yu was observing her all the time.

Cheng Xi was freaked out. His little body shrank, and his head lowered down. He stopped pulling Wanru’s hands. This kid must have suffered a lot of torture from this woman before. Just a gesture of slapping could freak him out, and he did not dare to move at all.

This woman insisted on keeping them here to have a meal here. Xia Yu thought her purpose was not only the meal but something else, which was not pure.

“Xi Xi, don’t be afraid. Your mom is here and won’t let her hurt you.” After the woman entered the kitchen, Wanru comforted the little boy beside her and then took out the biscuit and the chocolate for him from her bag. She put these things into the bag on purpose this morning when she went out. She found the kid loved to eat those snacks.

Cheng Xi finally felt much better when he saw the biscuit and the chocolate.

After about ten minutes, a middle-aged man entered the room. He looked like a faithful and honest farmer with a skinny body. He was stunned for a while and then showed his surprise when he first saw them. Then he babbled his thanks constantly with some sincerity when he knew that Wanru was the adoptive mother of Cheng Xi.

The woman was quick with her hands, and soon she finished cooking the meal. There were four dishes in total, tomato and egg soup, fried bacon with chili, stir-fried potato, and a plate of green vegetables.

“Those vegetables were planted in my vegetable farm on our own. They are fresh and have no pesticides, which are much better than those in the city.” The woman said with passionate while putting some food into Cheng Xi’s plate.

Halfway through the meal, she suddenly said, “You guys from the city are well-educated and have a higher salary than peasants like us. We just get our food from the dirt.”

Wanru didn’t answer. Obviously, she was thinking about the purpose of her words.

Xia Yu raised her eyebrows and slightly said, “We all live by working. We are the same.”

“Ho-ho, you are much better than peasants like us who always face the dirt to work. We can’t earn as much money as you do for the rest of our life. Cheng Xi is so lucky to have an adoptive mother like this sister, and he can enjoy all kinds of pleasure. At first, I was reluctant to send him to an orphanage. But the conditions of my family are not good. And both of my children are there. We lost money on all our previous deals. We are still in debt now.” The woman sighed and said.

Xia Yu looked at her coldly and said, “This two-floor house is quite new, so is the furniture in it.”

The woman’s face turned stiff for a second. She just opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but her husband beside her quickly laughed and said, “Enjoy the dishes.”

After the meal, the woman came to the side of Cheng Xi and touched his head intimately. She said, “Cheng Xi has always been a well-behaved boy since he was born. I had wanted to take him back from the orphanage when our family paid off the debt. But I didn’t expect that he was adopted so soon. I am still half his mother. I feel not good that he is renamed by others. This is the loss of our Cheng Family.”

Xia Yu raised her eyebrows and wondered whether she wanted to take back the wardship of this child. She changed a look with Wanru but didn’t speak, waiting for her to continue to speak.

“It is your luck to adopt Xi Xi but a huge loss of our Cheng Family!” The woman showed a pitiful face, and her look was like she had lost millions of yuan, which made her very distressed.

The man beside her frowned and opened his mouth at this time. “Why did you say that? What do you mean by saying that it was the luck as well as a huge loss?”

“Shut up!” The woman shouted at her man just like a lion. Cheng Xi was so afraid that he tried to hide in the arms of Wanru. And the man was also so freaked out that he shrank his shoulders and didn’t talk anymore.

“Ho-ho!” She laughed awkwardly twice after shouting.

“Sister, could you understand what I mean?” She asked Wanru.

Wanru answered coldly, “I can’t.” Actually, she vaguely understood what she wanted, but she didn’t speak that out. She wanted to see how shameless that woman could be.

“Ah! The loss of our Cheng Family is really very huge. You got a son without any effort, so you should give some compensation to us. We don’t need much, and around one hundred thousand yuan is enough.”

Her husband beside her was shocked with his eyes widened when he heard her words. It could be told from his look that he did not know that his wife planned to ask Wanru for money at all.

“I brought Xi Xi back this time, not only to visit a grave but also for the monetary compensation from the hit-and-run driver after his parents passed away, which includes a part that belongs to Xi Xi. I want to take the money back for him. What’s more, Xi Xi’s house is used for rabbits by you now. I will charge you 3 thousand yuan per year. This is not expensive since you are the relatives of Xi Xi.” Wanru said with a calm face.

The woman’s face changed constantly out of anger. In fact, Wanru was not about to take the money back for Cheng Xi at all today, but the woman was too shameless to the hilt, which provoked her and made her stop enduring it.

Good job! Xia Yu couldn’t help clapping for her. This kind of woman should be seriously taught a lesson.

“We deserve to get the monetary compensation. The house is unused there. If I didn’t use it for rabbits, it would be still unused there. And after a few years, it would be broken.” The woman said righteously with her reasons and didn’t think that she was doing something wrong at all.

Wanru stood up and took the hand of Cheng Xi. She said, “I will ask my lawyer to deal with this issue. Now you take out the key to Xi Xi’s house. He wants to get into it to have a look.”

The woman ran out of the house at once and began to cry while shouting when she heard that Wanru wanted to get a lawyer. “City people are so terrific! They are bullying us! They are bullying the peasants like us who are faithful and honest!”

Soon villagers were all gathered there. The woman shouted even more dramatically. She didn’t mention what Wanru had done to her but kept saying that she was bullied. Repeatedly, she said all the same sentences.

Xia Yu’s head was painful because of the annoying shouting. Cheng Xi was afraid and kept leaning into Wanru’s arms.

“The law will tell you whether I have bullied you. Now you should take out the key to Xi Xi’s house. He wants to go home to have a look.” Wanru said calmly.

Hearing Wanru’s words, villagers all understood that the woman was unreasonable and didn’t want the kid to enter the house to have a look. And she had a bad reputation in the village, so soon the villagers started to gossip.

The first uncle of Cheng Xi had to take out the key and led them to see the house.

After seeing the house, Cheng Xi pulled Wanru and wanted to leave.

“Okay, mom will take you to leave.” Wanru also felt sad for this kid and took him to leave.

Before they left, Xia Yu said to the woman’s husband, “Xi Xi’s parents who have passed away would never rest in peace if they knew that you treated a kid who is only a few years old like this.”

The man lowered his head when he heard Xia Yu’s words, and he also showed a look of guilt. Then he clenched his fists and walked to the front of the woman. He pulled her arm strongly and shouted, “Stop! Don’t you feel ashamed? Go back to the room!”

“Why should I be ashamed? It is the city people who are splenetic! They pretended to be good people and adopted the kid. They actually want to take advantage of him.”

Xia Yu didn’t want to hear what else she said next. They took Cheng Xi and left the village by car. Wanru called the lawyer in the car and told him the whole situation. Then she asked him to deal with this issue. It seemed that she was not just trying to scare the woman.

It was already dark when they came back to the city. Xia Yu advised having dinner outside. So, they took Cheng Xi to KFC. It might be the first time that he had eaten such food. He was so excited that his face turned red.

The child’s world was much simpler. It was not so complicated as that of the adult. They could be happy when they felt happy and cry out loud when they feel unhappy.

Xia Yu ordered a set meal and a cup of drink for Cheng Xi, who was very happy while eating. Wanru looked very satisfied when she served her kid to eat at the side while she ate a little.

After dinner, they met Li Wen when they came out and stood in the intersection to wait for the taxi. He stopped the car and stuck his head out. “Where are you going? I can drive you there.”

They were busy and tired all day long. Xia Yu as an adult wanted to have a good rest, let alone a kid like Cheng Xi. Now there were not too many taxis outside, so Xia Yu said to Wanru, “How about accepting Young Master Li’s ride?”

After saying that, she held the hand of Cheng Xi and walked to Li Wen’s car. Seeing this, Li Wen opened the car door.

Wanru sighed in her heart. Why didn’t Xia Yu want to avoid him? She even got so close to him. Wasn’t she afraid of Shen Yan who would get jealous easily?

But they had already got into the car, so Wanru had to follow them.

He sent them downstairs. Wanru and Cheng Xi got out of the car, and Xia Yu was about to follow them, but Li Wen said, “Xia Yu, wait for a moment. I want to talk to you.”

“Then we go upstairs first.” Wanru took the hand of Cheng Xi and went into the hall.

“What? Young Master Li, make short of long.” Xia Yu was really tired and didn’t want to talk to him.

“Not a big deal. I just want to ask you something since we met.” Li Wen lit a cigarette and took a deep drag on it. He looked at the backs of Wanru and Shen Yan. “If I my guess is right, that kid is your child with Shen Yan. Well, that guy is very amorous, but his child grew faster than anyone else. He was in your belly yesterday but could run around today.”

“Li Wen, can you be serious?” Xia Yu had no energy to make jokes with him. She reached out and wanted to open the door to get out of the car.

“You think I am unserious?” Li Wen turned back and looked at her. “You have a phone, too. Look at it by yourself.”

What happened again? Xia Yu doubtfully took out her phone and looked at the screen. She was shocked and instantly stood up so that her head bumped against the top of the car, which made her head swollen. She looked up at Li Wen and asked, “How could this be?”