With this in mind, Fang Su decided to try to meet Jiang Boya and Kang Li by herself first.
Unexpectedly, in the following week, she appeared outside the Jiang family old house twice, but not to mention seeing Jiang Boya, she didn’t even step into the main gate of the Jiang family old house.
Speaking of which, the reason Fang Su found the Jiang family old house was that she heard that in recent years, many people had received returned assets from the state one after another. Based on this, she thought that the Jiang family might also be on the list, in which case, Jiang Boya’s chances of living in the Jiang family old house should be high.
Who knew the truth was indeed as she imagined, which made Fang Su overjoyed. No one knew better than her how large the Jiang family old house was, especially seeing that it had clearly been renovated. At that moment, Fang Su couldn’t help but recall the scenes of her living in the Jiang family old house during her youth.
Though she was born a maid, her parents were both trusted confidants in the residence; her father was the steward, and her mother was the housekeeper madam, considered a confidant of the lady of the house.
Because of this, even though she was a maid, she had some prestige in the residence. Regardless of whether they were the young servants or maidservants, they would call her "Maid Sumei" when they saw her.
In short, Fang Su felt that her days in the Jiang Residence were better than those of ladies in ordinary merchant families.
However, many years later, she couldn’t even step into the gate of the Jiang family old house.
Feeling very downcast, Fang Su thought of her father, Fang Huai.
Since the masters had returned to the country, the servants who served them would surely follow. However, the disappointing thing for Fang Su was that when she finally waited for someone to e out from the Jiang family old house and inquired, she received the response that there was no steward named Fang there.
Fang Su found it impossible and wanted to ask a few more questions, but the person simply ignored her and went on with their business.
In this way, appearing twice in front of the Jiang family old house gate was undoubtedly in vain for Fang Su.
However, for Fang Su to give up trying to meet Jiang Boya was very difficult.
"Jiang Boya! Jiang Boya..."
Several days after the second appearance at the Jiang family old house gate, Fang Su appeared once again. She saw a black sedan slowly driving out of the Jiang family old house. Without much thought, she hurriedly ran forward, intending to stop the car.
She appeared too abruptly, blocking the car, forcing the driver to stop.
Seeing this, Fang Su quickly walked to the rear car door, tapping on the window, repeatedly calling out Jiang Boya’s name.
The window slowly rolled down, and when Fang Su saw clearly who was inside, her face instantly turned ashen.
"Have you forgotten what you did before?"
This was the voice of Jiang Hongfa. That’s right, sitting in the car was not Jiang Boya, but Jiang Hongfa. There was no trace of anger or joy on his face; his gaze was calm without any emotional fluctuations, yet gave off an oppressive feeling of having seen through everything.
"Mas... Master..."
Fang Su uncontrollably called out the title "Master," not daring to meet Jiang Hongfa’s eyes. She wanted to flee quickly, but her legs wouldn’t cooperate, so she could only stand frozen in place.
"If you have any shame, do not appear in front of my son and granddaughter." Jiang Hongfa’s expression remained unchanged. He withdrew his gaze from Fang Su and instructed the driver, "Drive."
The driver responded, got out of the car, and asked Fang Su to step away from the car. Hearing this, Fang Su took two steps back.
Sitting back in the driver’s seat, the driver shut the car door, started the vehicle, and drove off while Fang Su stood there in a daze.
Time passed unknowingly, and Fang Su, in a befuddled state, got on the bus and found herself outside the research institute courtyard.
Unable to meet Jiang Boya, she could only try to approach Kang Li, thinking she might be able to contact Jiang Boya through him.
"Hello, who are you looking for?"
Hearing the landline phone ring, Kang Li picked up the handset. After a while, she said, "I don’t know; no, I don’t know the woman you’re talking about... I have only one mother, there’s no birth mother or adoptive mother. Okay, that’s it, goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Kang Li naturally said to both Captain Kang and Cai Xiufen without hiding anything, "A crazy woman called me, claiming she’s my birth mother and wants to meet me."
"Is she really your birth mother?"
Cai Xiufen asked Kang Li.
"Mom, you heard it, I have only you as my mom, there’s no such thing as a birth mother or adoptive mother."
Kang Li reiterated what she had said to the yard gate security officer in front of Cai Xiufen, then she talked about the situation between Fang Su and Jiang Boya, as well as issues related to the Feng family, leaving both Cai Xiufen and Captain Kang momentarily stunned.
Recovering, Cai Xiufen confirmed, "Feng Yi’s mother is the woman who gave birth to you?"
Kang Li responded with a "yes."
Cai Xiufen was full of surprise, "How could it be such a coincidence?!"
"Pretty incredible, right?" Kang Li said nonchalantly with a smile. "I also find it quite unbelievable. I randomly recognized a brother, and it turns out his mother is the woman who gave birth to me. And this woman is also the stepmother of Ruirui’s biological mother. It’s not just a coincidence in my view; it’s rather melodramatic."
Captain Kang asked, "Are you sure you don’t want to meet her?"
"Dad, why should I meet her?" To meet an unrelated woman, does she need to? Besides, she wasn’t unaware of the woman’s purpose in seeking her out. Since she knew, there was even less reason to meet.
Kang Li curved her lips, her tone tinged with sarcasm, "Her intention in meeting me is nothing more than to use me as a link to connect with my dad. Yet, she knows she is a married woman and still wants entanglements with my dad. Dad, to put it bluntly, such a woman is disgraceful."
"If Li Bao says not to meet, then don’t. Though the woman gave birth to our Li Bao, she abandoned Li Bao. Although it’s been many years, what she did back then was cruel, and I don’t want our Li Bao to have any ties with her at all!"
If it wasn’t for me being at the health clinic giving birth and casually going to the toilet, who knows whether my precious daughter Li Bao would be dead or alive!
Thinking of the appearance of picking up Kang Li for the first time, Cai Xiufen couldn’t help but feel a wave of heartache.
Carelessly wrapped up and tossed in the garbage bin at the corner of the toilet wall, tiny and frail, crying weaker than a newborn kitten. The moment she was held in Cai Xiufen’s arms, she clung on tightly to the shirt on her chest, causing Cai Xiufen’s eyes to well up.
Later, after bringing her home and nurturing her carefully for a good while, her Li Bao finally seemed to regain strength, like a normal baby who could eat and drink.
"Let’s consider this matter resolved."
Kang Li smiled and nodded, then changed the topic, "The closer it gets to the New Year, my third brother and fourth brother’s family should probably embark on their journey to North City in four or five days. I’ll take Ruirui and the others over to the courtyard house to tidy up, so that when my third brother and his family arrive, they can move in directly."
"Your sister-in-law is quite diligent. Every two or three days, she will clean every room; there’s no need for you to worry about it."
"The hotpot restaurant is busy these days. I’m afraid my sister-in-law won’t have the time to clean. I’ll go over to the courtyard house to see if there’s anything in need of tidying, so she won’t have to juggle between managing the hotpot restaurant and sprucing up the home."
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