Chapter 174: Chapter 167: Blood Gauge Depleted
Yin Shixiu shook his head innocently.
Zhou Mengqin raised her hand and slapped Yin Shixiu’s butt, "You’re pretending!"
Yin Shixiu clenched his butt, cleared his throat, "Mom, I really don’t get what you mean."
"Even if Mr. Bai didn’t come to make a scene today, there will always be a day when he does! Yin the Fourth, you’re really playing a good hand! Calculating against the parents who gave birth to you!"
Yin Shaohui now also understood the meaning behind Zhou Mengqin’s words.
Yin Shixiu couldn’t bear to let Su Xiaomeng suffer grievances in front of them, nor did he want to hurt his parents’ feelings by defending Su Xiaomeng himself...
He knew that he respected Brother Bai and that Brother Bai cherished his daughter and granddaughter, so he wouldn’t let Su Xiaomeng suffer, and thus let Mr. Bai come and argue with them.
A pair of sharp eyes glared at Yin Shixiu.
Yin Shixiu quickly waved his hand, "Scheming against my parents, such a rebellious crime, I cannot bear. Dad, Mom, you can’t be so unreasonable, I did nothing."
He shrugged his shoulders, still with an innocent face.
This indifferent expression seemed overly exaggerated to Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin.
Yes, he did nothing and said nothing!!
Yin Shaohui felt his blood pressure rising continuously, he hurriedly took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and adjusted his breathing.
Can’t get angry, can’t get angry, the son was born by himself, raised by himself, turned out like this... also his own indulgence.
Just because of this, he could only suffer in silence.
"So what are you going to do?"
Zhou Mengqin looked at Yin Shixiu and asked.
"Do what?"
Yin Shixiu asked back.
Zhou Mengqin frowned, "The child just went to the Bai Family like this? Not on our Yin Family Tree?"
"This..."
Yin Shixiu sighed lightly, "Recognizing ancestors and returning to the family is naturally important, but it cannot be denied that Mr. Bai’s family... are also Huaiyu and Jinxi’s ancestors."
"Yin the Fourth!"
Yin Shaohui’s just lowered blood pressure suddenly spiked again upon hearing this! Almost to the point of bursting through his head like a fountain.
Yin Shixiu looked at Yin Shaohui, remained silent, as if waiting for Yin Shaohui’s reply.
But damn it, Yin Shaohui found he couldn’t find a logical flaw in Yin Shixiu’s reasoning, finally replied, stammering with anger, "Then, then what, what does it mean to let my grandson and granddaughter acknowledge the Bai, Bai Family’s ancestors?"
"Well... not necessarily."
Yin Shixiu said.
Yin Shaohui frowned, "What do you mean not necessarily?"
"After all, the Bai Family are the ancestors on Mother-in-law’s side. I remember Father-in-law was not married into the family, so... it could also be going back to Chengdu to recognize the Su Family’s ancestors."
Yin Shaohui’s eyes widened, "Su, Su Su’s family?! That old countryside?!"
Yin Shixiu nodded, somewhat helplessly, "If Xiaomeng can’t be accepted into the Yin Family, if you are unwilling to acknowledge her, then the child would naturally only recognize the Bai or Su Family’s ancestors..."
Yin Shixiu said with an air of inevitability.
Zhou Mengqin "plopped" back onto the sofa.
Yin Shixiu saw his mother’s face turn pale, her eye sockets appearing particularly sunken today.
After some thought, he continued, "... Dad, Mom, and not only that..."
Yin Shaohui’s heart lifted again, at this point a bit afraid of Yin the Fourth speaking...
"If Xiaomeng and the children go to the Bai Family ancestors... or their father’s Su Family ancestors in Chengdu, I’m afraid... I’ll have to follow."
Yin family dad and mom, completely drained.
"What the heck, already at such an old age, still interfering with young people dating, interfering with the younger generation’s marriage..."
Bai Fengmao kept rambling on the way.
Bai Zhengxiang followed behind Bai Fengmao, his heart mixed with emotions.
And Bai Fengmao, saying this, also had mixed feelings surging inside.
If time turned back twenty years, wasn’t he the same as the Yin family’s old couple now?
No... he was even worse, he even drove his daughter away.
Having been through it once, he became clear, having been through it once, he suddenly understood, what is... not worth the loss.
But to make him understand the Yin family’s old couple because of this? Or to lose face and bring up his own foolish actions to persuade them?
The old man said... it can’t be done!
"Dad, don’t be angry, don’t be angry."
Bai Zhengxiang said.
Bai Fengmao looked at the slightly frowning and restless Huang Huang in his arms...
Suddenly raised his brows, and smilingly said, "The little guy is really pretty! Just like my granddaughter."
Shan Minglang was originally walking in front, then turned back to walk beside Mr. Bai, "Grandpa Bai... are you really the grandfather of my little aunt?"
"Don’t you think I look a lot like your little aunt?"
Bai Fengmao raised his brow and said.
Shan Minglang looked at Bai Fengmao for a while, didn’t say anything, silently holding the little girl and walked straight ahead.
Returned to Yijing Manor.
It was already almost four o’clock.
Xiao Meng was playing catch with Ah Bu in the yard.
Hearing a knock, she went to open the door and saw Shan Minglang standing outside, couldn’t help but smile, "Why are you here?"
"Little aunt, I also brought Shuangshuang over!"
Su Xiaomeng didn’t think much, only assuming Shan Minglang came for a visit, took Shuangshuang from Shan Minglang’s arms, "Ahah!"
Shuangshuang seemed a bit unhappy being taken from Shan Minglang’s arms, but when she saw it was her mom, she immediately smiled.
Crying out "Ahah!"
"Oh my little Shuangshuang, didn’t give grandpa and grandma any trouble, did you?"
Su Xiaomeng kissed the little one’s forehead.
Shuangshuang pouted her lips. Kissing the forehead wasn’t enough; she wanted a kiss on the lips too.
Su Xiaomeng gave her a little nudge, and Shuangshuang giggled again.
"Hey, where’s your little uncle?"
Just as Su Xiaomeng finished asking, she saw Grandpa carrying Huang Huang, coming back with his uncle...
"The child was looking for his mom, so I brought him back."
Bai Fengmao said without getting flustered.
Su Xiaomeng responded with an "Oh" and glanced behind her uncle...
Bai Fengmao noticed and said indifferently, "Yin Shixiu didn’t come."
In Mr. Yin’s study, the atmosphere was still oppressively frightening.
Yin Shaohui stood by the window with a cane, his deep eyes looking out...
The sun set on the western mountaintop, casting a shimmering light in hues of pale red and yellow.
Zhou Mengqin sat on the sofa, slightly closing her eyes and breathing lightly.
Yin Shixiu leaned against the bookshelf, holding a book he took from the old master’s shelf, gently flipping through it.
No one expected Su Xiaomeng to be Bai Fengmao’s granddaughter, so when such a background was exposed, it was like a bomb dropped unexpectedly before the two elders of the Yin Family.
Yin Shixiu wasn’t too shocked.
From the beginning, he knew Bai Sixian was not a simple person.
He hadn’t thoroughly investigated earlier and hadn’t proactively told his parents today...
He didn’t deny there was a certain calculation, but the bigger reason was that he had confidence in his young wife.
Believe that Su Xiaomeng wasn’t a girl who needed family background recognition from her parents.
However, at this moment, Yin Shixiu wasn’t sure if the medicine wasn’t too intense...
He closed the book and put it back on the shelf, then walked outside.
Solving the problem wasn’t difficult, but the focal point was still on the two elders of the Yin Family.
His hand hadn’t reached the door handle yet, when suddenly there was a hurried knock on the door.
"Brother!"
Outside the door was his third uncle, Yin Shaoting.
Yin Shaohui turned around, motioning for Yin Shixiu to open the door.
Yin Shaoting walked in, his face looking grim, his expression both solemn and slightly flustered.
"What’s wrong?"
Yin Shaohui asked.
Yin Shaoting glanced at his brother, then at his sister-in-law and Yin Shixiu, sighed, and handed the USB drive to Yin Shaohui, "Brother, take a look yourself."
If Yin Shaoting hadn’t taken out the USB drive, Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin would have almost forgotten about it.
Recalling the moment the old master threw down the USB drive, he was furious.
The USB drive was handed to Yin Shixiu, "There’s a laptop on the table."
Yin Shixiu placed the laptop on the coffee table in front of the two elders, while Yin Shaoting continued to furrow his brows.
Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin felt a wave of unease at the sight of their brother’s expression.
There was only one file on the USB drive, named with a string of numbers.
Yin Shaohui immediately recognized it as a date and time, overlapping with today’s date, with a time just past eleven o’clock.
This is... surveillance footage.
The old master realized this as the video was opened...
Within a short seven or eight minutes...
Yin Shaohui’s face turned ashen, and Zhou Mengqin’s hand holding the teacup trembled uncontrollably.
The video ended with Zhu Lan throwing money at Su Xiaomeng’s face, captured very... cleverly.
"No wonder Mr. Bai was so angry..."
Yin Shaoting said.
He was impulsive, and when Mr. Bai threw down the USB drive, his curiosity stayed on the USB drive, while others went out to see the commotion, he went back to see the USB drive.
Who would have thought...
Scratching his head, a bit irritated, "This is really a bit tricky!"
Zhou Mengqin felt as if she’d been stabbed in the heart!
This was the eldest grandson and granddaughter-in-law of the Yin Family...
Unexpectedly, in places where elders couldn’t see, they were so arrogant, so disrespectful!
...That granddaughter-in-law always acted so sweet, so sensible in front of her.
That grandson, always so filial, so respectful towards her and her husband.
"Go, go and call Bowen and Zhu Lan in."
Zhou Mengqin’s eyes were slightly bloodshot from anger.
The voice she spoke with wasn’t loud, but it carried a calm and oppressive anticipation of a storm.
Yin Shixiu didn’t move, while Yin Shaoting looked up at his little nephew, and that look caused the usually laid-back, unconcerned elderly man to feel heavy at heart.
The short black hair cast a shadow over his forehead.
Standing silently, under the shadow, his hawk-like eyes faintly reflected the frozen image.
Yin Shaoting got up on his own, seeming like only he could call Yin Bowen and Zhu Lan over.
"Shaoting, ask Shi Qing to come in as well."
Yin Shaohui said.
"Oh."
Yin Shaohui closed his eyes, and as soon as that happened, the moment filled with danger that could make the heart jump into the throat flashed before his eyes.
Su Xiaomeng, as the daughter-in-law of the Yin Family, though she didn’t satisfy him and his wife...
But as a twenty-year-old girl, she’s kind-hearted, pleasant-looking, respectful of elders, a renowned university student; he couldn’t find any flaws.
Even if she’s not the daughter-in-law of the Yin Family, but an unfamiliar girl he’s never met, witnessing such a scene would cause shock purely as an elder.