Chapter 751: Looking For The Bai Family? (4)
Bai Youran cried as she stared at her mother. "Mom, does Mo Beihan have someone that he likes? He finally came back, and I went to Jiang Yingqiu's place this morning to wait for him. I was sure that he would definitely visit his mother after he returned. I saw him indeed, but he brought a girl over... wu wu wu...
"Mom, how could he treat me like that? I have loved him for so many years. It's been about ten years now. Why? How could he do such things to me? Wu wu wu..."
Zheng Min, "..."
So, her daughter was not bullied by Mo Beihan but knew that he was in a relationship?
No, her daughter must have been angry when she saw that. Mo Beihan definitely bullied her that caused her to cry here!
However... Mo Beihan had a girlfriend?
"What kind of person is his girlfriend? Is she a foreigner?"
If that was the case, he was trying to destroy his own future. Under the current situation, as the eldest grandson of the Mo family, if he married a foreign girl, the family business would definitely not end up in his hands.
Bai Youran replied, "No. She's local. Her appearance and the way she spoke prove that she's local."
Zheng Min frowned, "Are you sure? Didn't Mo Beihan travel overseas for three years? When did he have time to find a local girlfriend?"
Bai Youran was taken aback, agreeing.
No one had heard of Mo Beihan having a girlfriend when he was in the capital. He went overseas directly afterwards. Where did he find a girlfriend when he just returned?
Bai Youran felt delighted and surprised, "Mom, do you think I was misled? The girl was not his girlfriend. As the eldest grandson of the Mo family, everyone in the capital would be aware if he had a girlfriend. it would be difficult to pass Old Master Mo's standard. I don't think a random girl would be approved by Old Master Mo."
Bai Youran felt that her logic was absolutely correct. She started smiling and said, "Yes, that must be the truth! Where did he find a girlfriend when he just came back? As the oldest grandson of the Mo family, his girlfriend would not be a mediocre person. I don't recognise the girl's face. I know most of the young ladies of the big families in the capital, and she was not one of them."
She did not tell her mother that the girl had breath-taking beauty. She would be famous if she was born into a renowned family. It was impossible that no one knew about her.
Bai Youran frowned when she suddenly felt that the face seemed familiar.
Zheng Min did not know what to say when her daughter smiled in joy all of a sudden while she was crying a minute ago.
"Daughter, you can't be like this anymore. No one knows if Mo Beihan is going to be the heir of the Mo family. I feel that you should put your focus on Mo Yunhao rather than fall in love with Mo Beihan. Mo Yunhao has a stable identity in the Mo family, and he truly loves you.
"One of them is a person that you like but has never responded to you. The other person has loved you for years, and you have not responded to him, yet he still loves you. Listen to my words, you will be happier if you get married to Mo Yunhao but not Mo Beihan."
Bai Youran could not accept anything her mother said. In her eyes, Mo Yunhao was just an incapable playboy. He would never be good enough for her even though he had a good background.
"Okay, that's enough, Mom. I'm not an idiot!"
Zheng Min, "..."
'If you're not an idiot, who else is?'
Zheng Min was almost speechless to her daughter. She did not improve at all after years of education. How could she give birth to such a daughter?
Chapter 752: Looking For The Bai Family? (5)
Zheng Min was just about to reprimand her when she saw Bai Youran's expression suddenly change.
"Youran, what's the matter?"
Bai Youran was wincing. "Mother, my leg hurts again!"
Zheng Min's heart constricted. "What... it hurts again? Oh, it's about time. I'll go to the kitchen to see if your medicine is ready. Wait here!"
Zheng Min hurried to the kitchen as she spoke. She soon emerged with a bowl of black medicine.
"Here, daughter, drink your medicine. You must keep taking this medicine. Listen to me next time! Take your medicine regularly so that your condition doesn't flare up so frequently. You're always so disobedient."
Bai Youran sat on the sofa and looked distastefully at the black medicine her mother was carrying. She could smell the strong, bitter scent even from a distance.
"Mother, I've drunk this stuff for six years. I really don't want to drink it anymore. It's too bitter. I can feel the bitterness spreading through my body when I drink this stuff."
This was the medicine that Jiang Yiru had prescribed for her. She said that it would alleviate the symptoms until medical science improved and they could find a better treatment method. Jiang Yiru also said that the medicine would not affect her health, and her condition would not worsen, so it would not affect any future treatment.
When she first started drinking it, it really alleviated her symptoms significantly. But then she grew reliant on the medicine. The pain had been intolerable at first. After it lessened, she found that she really could not stand such pain any more.
She would drink the medicine the moment her leg hurt. As time passed, she really could not give up this medicine any longer.
But it was just too bitter. After drinking so much of it, she felt that the bitterness had spread throughout her body. It felt as though the bitterness had sunk into her flesh, and she increasingly disliked it.
She had stopped for just a short while, but now she was in unbearable pain again!
Zheng Min could only console her. "No! If you stop drinking it, you will be in terrible pain. Daughter, listen to me and drink it! Once you drink it, it won't hurt so much. You must drink it regularly next time. You've already taken this for six years, aren't you used to it by now? Anyway, your condition has not worsened, and it hasn't affected your health. When we find a doctor who can heal you, you won't need to suffer any longer."
Bai Youran had no choice. She really could not bear such pain, so she drank it obediently.
Zheng Min continued to console her. "Don't worry. Look at how medical science is advancing. Now many doctors who have studied overseas are returning. I'll ask around and bring you to see one of them. If we have no other choice, we can consult a doctor overseas."
...
Now that Gu Qingyao was back, it was natural that she would visit her former teachers. She prepared presents and visited them one by one.
Especially her former teacher, Zhou Bingsheng. He was truly her teacher because she had formally become his disciple.
Zhou Bingsheng held a distinguished position in the art world. Now that she was back in the capital, Gu Qingyao went to visit him. Zhou Bingsheng was delighted to see the girl return after six years overseas. He was very strict towards this last disciple of his. He wanted to test her even though she had just returned.
But the results were beyond Zhou Bingsheng's expectations!
Zhou Bingsheng was astonished when he looked at Gu Qingyao's work. This girl was a genius!
A few years ago, he had realized that this girl was unusually talented. He had felt a twinge of regret when she had gone overseas to study. After all, she was studying another subject and would undoubtedly neglect her drawing. Also, he would not be by her side to guide her. She would certainly have fallen behind after a few years.
But to his surprise!
Not only had she not fallen behind, but she had also improved greatly!
Chapter 753: Looking For The Bai Family? (6)
Her drawing skills had reached their peak!
"Wonderful! Amazing! Although it has my style, most of it is your own artistic concept. You have your own unique style. Great! How wonderful, hahahaha!"
Of course, Zhou Bingsheng was delighted to have a student like that!
"Just leave your drawings here. When I have the time, I will show it to my old friends, so they can see what a wonderful disciple I have taught, hahahaha!"
Zhou Bingsheng was very smug!
Gu Qingyao laughed. "Teacher, I'm still young! How can I compare to you and those elders!"
Zhou Bingsheng waved her aside. "You're not inferior to them. Just these drawings alone prove it. You're a genius! Those old fogeys are only superior to you in terms of life experience and stronger artistic concept."
Zhou Bingsheng was over the moon. He insisted on keeping Gu Qingyao's drawings to show off to his old friends. Because of this, Gu Qingyao became very famous in artistic circles, but that was later on.
Just visiting all these old folks in the capital took nearly ten days. Ten days later, Gu Jinhang placed a folder of information in front of Gu Qingyao.
Gu Qingyao was a little stunned, "So fast?"
Gu Jinhang said, "This mother-daughter pair is not complicated. Investigating them was easy."
His master was doing so well, as his successor, he would have no standing if he could not even perform such a simple task.
"Open it and take a look. You'll be shocked by how dramatic it is!"
Gu Qingyao: "..."
Gu Qingyao had a bad feeling as she looked at her Second Cousin's expression.
She flipped it open. Sure enough, the first page almost blinded her!
Wow!
The contents did not surprise Gu Qingyao. In these times, two women like Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing, who did not have many survival skills, must surely have depended on a man to survive.
The facts proved that Gu Qingyao had guessed correctly.
But the process was truly fascinating.
When Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing fled, they had not gone far. They had not even left the province before they met an old bachelor. The old bachelor had no children and lived by himself. But he had relatives in the city and was about to visit them.
Then he ran into Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing. After being a bachelor for so many years, of course he consented when a woman was willing to be with him. So he brought Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing with him.
Along the way, the old bachelor had accidentally fallen to his death.
In that way, Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing had become his family. His money, property, food and food coupons had all ended up with Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing. By then, they were near Jiangchong City, so they simply moved on to the city.
The person they met next seemed to be right out of a TV script. The first person they met in the city was Zhou Hong's man.
Zhou Hong, Wang Guozhu's former wife. Wang Guozhu had divorced Zhou Hong in order to marry Zhang Xiaohui.
At that time, Zhou Hong was already prepared to divorce Wang Guozhu, so she had gone to the city to look for her lover.
When Zhou Xiaoyu and Gu Ruoqing ran into the man, Zhou Hong had not yet officially married him. But the man was very rich. In order to gain his favor, Zhang Xiaohui, Gu Ruoqing, Zhou Hong and Zhou Xiaoyu had one furious battle after another. In the end, the mother and daughter caught the eye of the man's superior. So Zhou Hong's lover handed them over.
Chapter 754: Is It Really Bai Youran? (1)
The mother and daughter were with the superior for a very long time. He was in poor health and had never had children, but he was a very capable man.
Around the time the man's wife was about to drive them away, Gu Ruoqing unexpectedly became pregnant and had a son, who certainly belonged to that man.
The man was delighted. But his wife was no ordinary woman either. In the end, she retained the child but gave Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing a sum of money and drove them away.
They had money and food coupons, but the man did not want them anymore. They reluctantly continued north and met another man. This time, it was a very old man.
This old man had a son, but he could not have any children. The family line was about to die out when they met Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing. In the end, Zhang Xiaohui gave the old man a son, and the two of them remained with that family for a few years.
In the end, the old man died, and the son's wife was unwilling to support Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing. The child was registered under the old man's son's name when he was born, and the old man treated the baby as his grandson. In the end, the son and his wife drove Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing away.
Gu Qingyao read all this in shock. "What happened after that?"
Gu Jinhang sipped his hot tea. "After that? Then restrictions were lifted! These two are marvelous. Every man they meet is exceptional. The last old man had some money. The two of them lived with him for a few years, and they certainly got something out of it.
"Also, when they were driven out, the old man's son was afraid they would cause trouble, so he also gave them some money. At that time, restrictions were relaxed, and Zhang Xiaohui and Gu Ruoqing continued on to the capital to look for their target."
Gu Qingyao: "..."
At that point, Gu Jinhang suddenly raised his brows and smiled. "Guess... who they're looking for?"
Gu Qingyao was startled. "Have you found that out too? That can't be right! When I met them, Gu Qingyao asked Zhang Xiaohui several times, but Zhang Xiaohui refused to divulge it!"
Gu Jinhang laughed. "Although she did not say exactly who she was looking for, she must surely have a goal? When she swapped the children, she must have known the family and where they lived. How can she be sure they haven't moved after so many years? Zhang Xiaohui only knows they are in the capital. But she thinks they must be an important family. They certainly would not casually move from such a good position in the capital."
That was true. At the moment, it was rare for an entire family to move, unless there were extraordinary circumstances.
After all, life was hard enough. They did not have that much choice.
Gu Qingyao: "Who are they looking for?"
Gu Jinhang laughed meaningfully. "The Bai family!"
Gu Qingyao's eyes immediately widened!
"Bai- Bai family?"
Gu Jinhang said, "That's right, the Bai family. I specially went to investigate. The Bai family currently has a very famous young lady, Bai Youran. The same one who is eyeing your Mo Beihan. When she was born, her mother gave birth at the provincial capital near our hometown, at the same place as Zhang Xiaohui."
Gu Qingyao: "..."
This news was a complete shock to Gu Qingyao!
If that was true, if Bai Youran was not the Bai family's daughter, but Zhang Xiaohui's daughter, then...
She truly had been very pitiful in her previous life!
Chapter 755: Is It Really Bai Youran? (2)
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The Bai Youran in her previous life really had no saving graces.
Besides her looks, her greatest advantage was her status as the Bai family's daughter. This had ensured that she had sailed smoothly through life.
Gu Qingyao could not bring herself to rejoice at this piece of news.
She had been too sheltered in her previous life. Bai Youran was the one who had hurt her the most, but she had not investigated Bai Youran properly... she had brought it on herself!
Gu Qingyao suddenly gave a dreary chuckle!
Gu Jinhang was shocked by her expression!
"Younger Cousin, what's the matter?"
"Ah? Nothing..." Gu Qingyao recovered. "Nothing much, I'm just... surprised! The Bai family dotes on Bai Youran. She's the only girl in the entire family! To think that she might be Zhang Xiaohui's daughter is really... absurd. If it really is Bai Youran, then... where has the Bai family's real daughter gone?"
Gu Jinhang laughed coldly. "You'll have to ask Zhang Xiaohui that. But that's not the main point that I want to discuss with you."
Gu Qingyao was startled. "What is it then?"
"The crucial point is that if Bai Youran is really Zhang Xiaohui's daughter, and she was swapped by Zhang Xiaohui in the past, how do you think the Bai family will react when they find out ?'
Gu Qingyao suddenly fell silent!
After a long pause, Gu Qingyao finally said, "Second Brother, are you trying to say that if the Bai family's child cannot be found, or if the girl is dead, then Bai Youran will still be the young lady of the Bai family? Is that right?"
Gu Jinhang smiled sardonically. "At least, I think that's most likely. I've been in the capital for a few years, and I've interacted with the Bai family. I think that the family is selfish and thinks only of its own profit. If the original girl is dead, and they have raised Bai Youran for so many years, they will not abandon her so casually. They must use her for a marriage alliance to make it worth their while."
Gu Qingyao did not say anything. She knew that what her Second Cousin had said made sense.
She suddenly wondered whether Zhang Xiaohui had looked for Bai Youran in the capital in their previous life?
In their previous life, had Bai Youran known that she was not the Bai family's daughter?
Or perhaps in her previous life, the Bai family had not known that Bai Youran was not their daughter?
Gu Qingyao was silent. She suddenly did not know what to say.
Gu Jinhang frowned when he saw that she was quiet for such a long time. "Yao Yao? Younger Cousin? What's the matter?"
Gu Qingyao glanced up at him. "Nothing, I'm... I'm just shocked!
"But Second Cousin, I think that this matter will affect our Gu family. In the future, we must be wary of this. After all, the Bai family raised Bai Youran as their daughter for so many years. If she makes a good marriage, it will be very advantageous to the Bai family. Bai Youran has liked Mo Beihan for so long, I think the Bai family must certainly know about it, but they have pretended ignorance. They are probably waiting to see who will be the Mo family's successor.
"I've been away and not many in the capital know that I'm Mo Beihan's fiancée. Now that I'm back, others will certainly find out sooner or later. Mo Beihan's talent will slowly become apparent, and our family business will grow, especially when my mother brings Qiao's Jewelry to the capital. Cousin, others may not simply watch as our Gu family grows so powerful so quickly."
Gu Jinhang immediately frowned.
His younger cousin was right.