frightfiction Chapter 1277: My Daughter Grows Up
Chapter 1277: My Daughter Grows Up
"The property management also checked the surveillance. It was a middle-aged woman who left the child at the apartment entrance. In the surveillance video, the woman bent down and squatted for a while in front of the door, her actions clearly showing she was placing something."
So, the purpose of that envelope was to connect the child with Tang Li.
Feng Qi informed Tang Li again, "That child looks about four months old."
It was fortunate for Tang Li to be a woman, and she had just given birth a month ago, plus the identity of the child’s father is not ordinary. Otherwise, just the name on the envelope would bring endless trouble to Tang Li.
"The property management at Huafu No.1 also reported it to the police."
The woman who abandoned the child did it with premeditation.
Whether before or after entering the community, she never showed her face.
The name and cellphone number registered at the security guard’s post were also fake.
By this time, the child had been taken away by the police.
Feng Qi called Tang Li to ask if she had any clues.
Tang Li had rented a place at Huafu No.1 before, which was not a secret. Her current residence at Tan Palace was also widely known, yet the person still left the child at the apartment entrance. Clearly, it was done deliberately.
Tang Li asked, "Are there pictures of the child?"
A few minutes later, Feng Qi sent two frontal photos of the baby boy.
They were faxed from the property management.
Tang Li saw the child’s appearance and stood frozen, the bridge of the nose, identical to Lai Wenyan’s, was highly distinctive, clearly Lai Wenyan’s offspring.
Holding her cellphone, Tang Li felt a vague suspicion arise in her heart.
She just couldn’t tell Feng Qi about this suspicion.
She retrieved last year’s chat records with Jiang Yiniing, which contained a prenatal check-up report.
The report stated the pregnancy weeks.
If Jiang Yiniing indeed gave birth to that child, it should be over three months old by now.
When this child arrived, Lai Wenyan was already entrenched in public opinion and was about to fall. If Jiang Yiniing had any sense at all, unless it was true love, she should have gone to the hospital for surgery long ago.
Tang Li thought about Jiang Yiniing’s troublesome mother again.
It can only be said that cleverness can backfire.
Despite just being a suspicion, Tang Li still sent a message to Jiang Yiniing.
—asking her to go to the city bureau to claim the child.
Half an hour later, Jiang Yiniing replied, "I don’t know what you’re talking about, Ah Li."
Tang Li didn’t waste words with her, sending over the child’s photos.
This time, Jiang Yiniing didn’t reply to the message.
[If you expect me to raise your son, I can answer you right now, it’s impossible.]
At noon, Jiang Yiniing received another message from Tang Li.
While hesitating whether to reply, the sound of the security door opening came from outside. Jiang Yiniing, holding her cellphone, left the room—it was Jiang Feng who had returned, changing her shoes at the entrance.
Jiang Feng took off her mask, "This weather is killing me with heat!"
Saying this, she reached to pluck straw roots from her clothes.
"Did you make sure to avoid all the cameras?" Jiang Yiniing went up to ask.
Jiang Feng rolled her eyes, sat down in front of the greasy dining table, and poured herself a glass of overnight water, "If it weren’t for dodging those surveillance cameras, do you think I’d be home this late?"
God knows, she nearly ended up in a ditch, rider and all, when she drove an unlicensed electric bike over the Third Ring Bridge and then the Fourth Ring Bridge, bypassing a large paddy field. In the end, she abandoned the bike, changed clothes in a cornfield, and only felt safe to hail a taxi two miles away.
Since they didn’t want to keep raising that little brat, they couldn’t leave any trace for people to find.
"That little kid is really lucky," Jiang Feng couldn’t hide the envy in her tone. "His real dad is in prison, his real sister became the First Lady, and the heir to the Li Family, the wealthiest in Siam. In the future, just a little spillover from her fingers will be enough for him to win at the starting line."
As she spoke, Jiang Feng glanced sideways at her daughter and smiled, "It’s also because my daughter is talented, giving me such a great grandchild. In the future, when the kid succeeds, you, as the mother, will also enjoy a good life."
Facing her mother, Jiang Yiniing showed no pleasant demeanor.
If it weren’t for Jiang Feng, she would have terminated the pregnancy long ago.
It was Jiang Feng’s greed that reduced her to an unwed mother.
At that time, she had already scheduled an appointment for the surgery.
Who would have thought, Tang Li was suddenly exposed as the heir to the wealthiest in Siam, and shortly after, Tang Li announced her marriage with His Excellency.
It was Jiang Feng who persuaded her again, encouraging her to take a gamble, betting that Tang Li wouldn’t really ignore her blood brother.
Jiang Feng’s exact words were, "Bitter hardships teach one to grow stronger."
—They would raise the child until fourteen or fifteen, then seek out Tang Li to recognize kin. By then, the child would have developed independent thinking and, even faced with greater temptations, would unlikely abandon his mother and grandmother.
However, after giving birth, Jiang Yiniing realized how unrealistic Jiang Feng’s plans were.
Firstly—
Just breastfeeding a newborn nearly exhausted all her energy.
Jiang Feng was not a competent mother, nor was she a good grandmother.
On the day her water broke, Jiang Feng was still playing Pai Gow with others.
During her postpartum recovery, she hired a nanny herself.
While Jiang Feng took advantage of her hospital stay, she rummaged through the apartment property certificate given to her by Lai Wenyan and found a so-called acquaintance to loan three million, partnering with someone to start a foreign trade business.
Jiang Yiniing had thought about breaking up with this mother.
At the beginning of the month, Jiang Feng demanded money from her, asking for fifty thousand to pay off the interest.
It was also at this time that Jiang Yiniing discovered her property was stolen.
Once Jiang Feng couldn’t pay the three million interest, this apartment would be forcibly seized.
Three million, for ordinary families, is nothing less than a fortune.
Even though she was still with Chairman Liang, she couldn’t come up with so much money.
The current plan was to resurrect that foreign trade company that keeps spending without any gain.
With the company’s name, it would be easier to apply for a bank loan.
Although it was like borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, at least it temporarily secured this apartment.
Also, because of this incident, Jiang Yiniing had even more resolute thoughts of not wanting to raise the child anymore.
Without money for a nanny, she herself had been taking care of the child for the past two months.
She had enough of the child’s cries and the smell of urine and feces!
She was only 21, yet living in disarray. This kind of life revolving around the child was not what she wanted!
She worked so hard just to achieve social mobility.
But now, life was backtracking.
By the time the child turns fifteen, her youth would be wasted—what future would there be then?
Seeing her wanting to throw her money tree into the welfare home, Jiang Feng didn’t agree, and after a mother-daughter quarrel, they decided to have Tang Li raise the child.
"Don’t you want to be above others? Let this child grow up in Tan Palace, accompanying the presidential brother-in-law, and surely receive elite education in the future."
"You leave him at the welfare home entrance, not knowing which scavenger will raise him—you want him to come asking you for money in the future, or watch him succeed, letting him support you in old age?"
Jiang Yiniing admitted, at that moment she was tempted.
Thus, she let Jiang Feng sabotage and sent the child to Huafu No.1.
According to Jiang Feng’s plan, no matter who asked, they could not admit any relation to the child.
Once admitted, the child would surely be sent back.
Jiang Yiniing didn’t hide from her own mother: "Tang Li guessed it was my child."
If Jiang Feng initially harbored luck, after seeing the message from Tang Li on Jiang Yiniing’s cellphone, she realized she had met her match.
"It’s unsuitable to stay in the Capital these months."
They had to leave.
And they must leave immediately.
Definitely couldn’t let the police come knocking.
Jiang Feng made a decisive decision, got up, returned to her room, opened the wardrobe, and took out a pile of moldy clothes, and also pulled out a Mickey woven bag from under the TV cabinet.
As for her foreign trade business...
Jiang Feng picked up a small tin box on the TV cabinet, found the business card with ’Export-Import Bank General Manager Yu Guofeng’ written on it, and stuffed it along with the clothes into the woven bag.
As long as connections were maintained, sending a gift in the future could revive the company.
At two in the afternoon, Tang Li called Jiang Yiniing, but her phone was already turned off.
Handing her daughter to the nanny, Tang Li went straight to the first floor.
On the stairs corner, she ran into Guo Li.
Guo Li had come looking for Tang Li.
"A foundling was discovered at Huafu No.1, the city bureau just called Tan Palace, saying it might be related to Madam, His Excellency asked that I bring you over."
Tang Li entered the office and immediately expressed her suspicion about the child’s background.
"Jiang Yiniing hasn’t replied to my messages, and just ten minutes ago, her phone was unreachable."
This attitude only strengthened her suspicion.
"I suspect she’s already on the run."
Song Baiyan smiled lightly, observing Tang Li’s furrowed look, picked up the desk phone: "I’ll ask Guo Li to call below and have them check your classmate’s whereabouts."
Seeing Song Baiyan ready to dial the internal line, Tang Li reached out and covered the numeric keypad, "Her running away is her business. Since this is a foundling, proceed according to normal procedures, if truly no parents can be found, then find a family wanting to adopt the child."
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Good night!