Chapter 175 The Ridiculous and Stupid Things Both Old Men Had Done

Qiao Changdong kowtowed to Grandma Qiao before leaving the room. When he came out, he heard the sound of weeping inside, and his eyes also welled up with tears.

But his steps did not slow down.

The next morning.

"I want to do a paternity test. Can my uncle help me with it?"

The little girl, who had just finished eating crab porridge, sat in Qiao Changdong's lap, nibbling on small pieces of apple. Her pretty little mouth was glistening with juice, and she looked incredibly adorable.

The apple was peeled by Shen Qingyan.

He has excellent knife skills; he can peel an apple without breaking the peel at all.

Under Long Yijun's training, he even cut the apple into four small pieces and handed one to the little guy first.

Seeing the other person take it with their small hands and nibble on it, Shen Qingyan's heart was melting when she heard Qiao Qiao say something like this.

Like Yan Liti, Shen Qingyan knew from the moment he saw Qiao Qiao that she was his daughter.

He never considered doing a paternity test.

But.

He didn't expect the girl to bring it up on her own initiative.

Shen Qingyan felt very upset. How could she not understand that she still had doubts in her heart and did not completely trust him?

Even though they had revealed everything they both knew, she still harbored some doubts about them.

"Okay." After a long while, Shen Qingyan nodded with a smile.

“We won’t interfere at all as you search for people,” he said.

Qiao Qiao's eyes lit up, and she looked up at Qiao Changdong, who was holding her.

Qiao Changdong patted her little head: "Okay, I'll call your uncle later and ask him to make the arrangements."

With this matter resolved, Qiao Qiao was completely relieved.

Nestled in Qiao Changdong's arms, her short legs dangled idly as she watched the morning news on the TV in the living room.

Yan Liti came over from the other suite, muttering and cursing under her breath: "That old man, he's really getting worse as he gets older!"

“Son, from now on, whenever he calls you, no matter what he asks, just say you don’t know.”

"Don't know what?" Shen Qingyan asked, frowning.

The Qiao family members, who were watching TV and eating apple slices peeled by Shen Qingyan in the living room, also looked over.

Yan Lidi then realized that her son really didn't know about this.

He said, "It's nothing, it's just that I had someone beat up Shen Qingrong the night before last, and he's in the hospital now. He's been whispering in your dad's ear, and I bet your dad is going to come after you again."

After hearing this, Grandma Qiao asked, "Doesn't your relationship with your grandpa, Bao Bao?"

Moreover, judging from the tone of that conversation, it seemed that she actually had a better relationship with Shen Qingrong.

This inevitably caused concern for the Qiao family.

"Sigh, this happened many years ago."

Yan Liti walked over and briefly recounted their relationship with Shen Qingrong over the years.

Finally, she sighed.

"That old man must have lost his mind. He insists that during those difficult times, his cousin Shen Guan treated him so well, and he can't be ungrateful, so he's protecting Shen Qingrong as a way of repaying that kindness."

"I broke up with him because I couldn't stand that he valued other people's sons more."

After Yan Liti finished complaining, she turned to Grandma Qiao and asked, seeking agreement, "Sister Qiao, do you think I'm right? What's the use of being loyal and righteous if you don't even care about your own son?"

"To be honest, I'm especially grateful that I had a son, and that our families are related in some way."

"Otherwise, I would suspect that the old man is trying to do something like the dramas, like arranging a marriage between the two families' younger generations, to repay some stupid favor."

"..." Grandma Qiao.

"..." The rest of the Qiao family.

I feel inexplicably ashamed.

Because, that old geezer of the Qiao family actually did something ridiculous and stupid—he made Qiao Changdong marry the other party's daughter to repay a debt of gratitude.

After he finished speaking, he noticed that the Qiao family members had strange expressions.

Yan Liti looked at them in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"Ahem..." Qiao Xiaoyun coughed, not wanting to recount the stupid things her family had done in the past, and asked Yan Liti, "So, Auntie, what are your plans next? If Grandpa is obedient..."

"Don't worry, if this matter really develops to the point where he doesn't even acknowledge his own granddaughter, Qingyan and I will also put righteousness before family."

“We have already made it clear to him that if his stance is Shen Qingrong, we will immediately contact newspapers and television stations to make it public and sever our father-son relationship with him.”

When Yan Liti said this, her expression was unambiguous, and her eyes were full of determination.

It was as simple and casual as severing the father-son relationship, just like skipping breakfast this morning.

The Qiao family fell silent.

His expression showed both shock and contemplation.

Especially Grandma Qiao, thinking about her selfish motives because of Chen Yulian, and what Qiao Changdong said in her room last night, and comparing it with Yan Liti's decisiveness now, felt guilty, ashamed and complicated again, her chest filled with guilt.

His expression also turned somewhat unpleasant.

Qiao Xiaoyun sensed that something was wrong with her mood, so she reached out and shook her hand.

Last night, when Qiao Changdong was talking to Grandma Qiao, she didn't hear it because she was out, but when she came back in, she could guess what her brother had said based on Grandma Qiao's reaction.

Grandma Qiao did handle Chen Yulian's matter somewhat inappropriately.

But Qiao Xiaoyun was not surprised.

Because Grandma Qiao had four sons and one daughter.

The three older brothers and she knew very well from a young age that their mother favored this youngest son—not in a subtle way, but openly.

Therefore, it's perfectly normal for her to value the child in Chen Yulian's belly.

When Chen Yulian married into the Qiao family, Grandma Qiao gave her the green light from the moment she announced her pregnancy.

Just from the fact that she fed Chen Yulian from a dried-up mummy into a big fat woman with a triple chin, you can see how much she valued the child in Chen Yulian's belly.

She even heard from her sisters-in-law that after Chen Yulian married into the family, she kept all the living expenses that Qiao Changdong had given her, and all the expenses were borne by Grandma Qiao.

This is evident.

Grandma Qiao was really looking forward to this child.

She was looking forward to this child for no other reason than because she favored Qiao Changdong, and by extension, she also valued the child in Chen Yulian's belly.

They never expected that the child in Chen Yulian's belly was not her brother's.

She never imagined that her brother would go to such lengths for Qiao Qiao.

She sighed softly to herself.

Qiao Qiao already knew about this, so she wasn't surprised to hear it now.

However, it must be said that Yan Liti's absolute favoritism made Qiao Qiao particularly happy.