Chapter 173: Are you coaxing me?

Wu Lanfeng was slightly silent: “If the Lin family learns about this child before the merger, I am also going to take it away. It’s just that this will inevitably tear the family apart, which isn’t a good thing for our businessman’s family.

“If they don’t know about the child, then our dockyard is in Dagu anyway, and mother and I have already planned to move there. And I’ll raise the child in the inner mansion for a few months, and when the child is born, we’ll just say to the public that it’s just an adoption. Dagu is hundreds of miles away from Cangzhou, so there won’t be any problems.”

“That child thinks he’s adopted, will he have some thoughts he shouldn’t have when he grows up?”

Thanks to the developed modern internet, Zhao Su hadn’t heard many tragic stories of adopted families. “The point is that in the future you will probably have to remarry and have another child, won’t this child’s heart choke when he sees that you have given birth to your own child?”

Wu Lanfeng’s expression grew heavy at her words. She sighed after a long time, “With a child, why would I still want to remarry? If it’s just to beg for a child, and then go from being familiar to becoming a couple by a stranger, and have another child, wouldn’t that be too much of a hassle?”

Zhao Su looked at her like this and knew that she couldn’t wriggle out of it for a while. So he changed the topic, “Between you and Lin Xie, why did the love affair change?”

Wu Lanfeng stared out of the window in silence for a long time, then took a quiet breath, “Do you remember, I once told you that when I was young, I often traveled outside with my parents? After my younger brother was born, my mother took me to settle down in Cangzhou, going out less, and some local rich family’s interactions are also more up, my marriage with him, is in such socializing both parents settled down.

“Although he and I are not childhood sweethearts, but also in the entertainment far from meeting, about because he and I are merchants from the family, can talk a lot of words, to each other’s ideas also have a tacit understanding, so I married him since the age of seventeen, and he married for eight years, the first four years is still very good.

“He also read books and won the Xiu Cai, not exactly a roughneck. Based on the fact that our families were of comparable lineage, he was kind and considerate to me during those years, and he discussed with me all the big and small matters in the family, so I don’t think that was false.

“Not long after the marriage my brother died, my father was always on the road, his health was not good, and the heir was also difficult. At that time, my mother’s family was all Lin Xie was helping me to help, I was heartbroken, but our love also quickly deepened during this period.

“He promised me that when we had children, the first one would be passed on to the Wu family as a fragrance for my brother, so that the Wu family would not be cut off.

“I was pregnant in the third year of my marriage, and he treated me with nothing but the utmost care, not leaving Cangzhou for a single step from the time I became pregnant. And he didn’t go back on his word, from the very beginning he explained to people that when another child is born, then that child must be passed on to the Wu family.

“From the heart, with such a deeply righteous husband, I am also content. But who would have thought that in the seventh month of my pregnancy, I would collide with a crazy carriage on my way to my mother’s house, and I would lose the fetus that was almost seven months old in my womb.

“The carriage on the other side belonged to the son of another rich family in the city, the Zhang family… Speaking of which, our Wu family is still somewhat related to the Zhang family. Lin Xie went to the Zhang family to make a fuss, to make them pay with their lives.

“He also stayed with me during that time, seeing that I was sad, and hand-feeding me soup and medicine whenever he could. He was so considerate that I thought I would soon have a second child and quickly hit the ground running.

“After my body healed I went back to the Wu family from time to time to help my mother to take care of the dockyard, and it seemed that the days were just like the old days, but soon I noticed something different, he gradually stayed out at night and didn’t allow anyone to ask him when he came back, and to ask him was just being nosy, saying that my mind was all focused on my mother’s family, so why should I care about him?

“I thought he just blame me for leaving him alone, and I couldn’t help but appease and please. But the situation did not improve. The estrangement and coldness toward me was like a flood that had opened up and could no longer be stopped.

“That night I waited for him until the early hours of the morning, he cloaked in the smell of lipstick and alcohol came back, I couldn’t bear to ask him what he wanted? Again he told me to stay out of it. But I was his wife, so why shouldn’t I care? Besides, he had sworn an oath to me.

“He then lashed out at me, saying that I was obviously not a good wife and mother, and that I was obviously vicious in my methods, but I pretended to act as if I was how much I defended the Lin family. I never thought he would accuse me like this, so I asked him to make it clear, and he said ……”

The carriage had stopped at some point, and the scenery outside the window hinted that they had returned to the post house.

Wu Lan’s phoenix eyes looking out the window did not move, Zhao Su also did not move: “What did he say?”

“He said that the child in my belly was deliberately lost by me.”

“Why did he say that? Obviously you are the mother of a child who was pregnant for seven months!”

“Because the doctor diagnosed it as a girl, and apparently the child passed on to the Wu family had to be a boy to be useful. He thought I wasn’t satisfied with his promise and thought I was waiting until a boy was born to inherit back. And the reason I did that was because I didn’t trust the Lin family to treat me well, he thought I was wary of the Lin family, afraid that the Lin family would swallow and merge with my Wu family’s estate.”

Zhao Su was shocked, “He said that you killed the child without any evidence?”

“It’s not without evidence, the Zhang family’s children called my mother a cousin aunt, they are also considered my distant cousins, I guess, and a few days before the accident, Zhang Er happened to have been to the Wu family, and I also happened to be there. This was a very common coincidence, but in his eyes it became one of the proofs.

“But he didn’t know that I had planned long ago that even if it was a girl who passed over, I would still have her recruited in the Wu family. You have to know that my daughter recruiting a family member is different from me and Lei going back to recruit a family member, she at least has me and the Lin family to back her up, the son-in-law at the door wouldn’t dare to play tricks. Unlike me, if I recruit a family member in the future, there is no one to back me up.”

“So it’s a misunderstanding between you two.” Zhao Su stared, “Is it that he doesn’t believe you even after you said it?”

“Even Zhang Er himself admitted that I instructed him, how could he believe it?” Wu Lanfeng looked at her and smiled bitterly. “This is evidence number two, even the murderer is accusing me.”

“How could Zhang Er be like this?”

“I don’t know. Maybe it’s because Lin Xie’s door-to-door debt collection was too strong, and the Zhang family, in order to put the matter to rest, thought about it and then felt that it couldn’t be collected, so they pushed it to me, or because of some other reason. Anyway, that night, it was Lin Xie himself who said that Zhang Er found him and identified it as my idea. And I didn’t look at him like he was deliberately holding me responsible.”

“Did you go to the Zhang family?”

“By that time, things had already passed for most of the year, and the Zhang family had offended the Lin Wu two families, and their business had long since ceased, and they had already moved away.”

“…… That means you can’t find him even if you look for him to confront him.”

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