Father Yuan was startled by Grandpa Yan spitting out his tea. He quickly pulled out a tissue and handed it over. Grandpa Yan said, "Cough, it's okay. I got scalded by the tea."
Bullshit! How can this kid be such a smooth talker? Does he dare to tell the Yuans the truth? Compensate for losses? Who should compensate whom?
Mother Yuan beside Father Yuan came back to her senses from the shock. She hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Mr. Yan San, have you seen Xiaoxi? Where is she? How is she doing now?"
But these words made Yan Yincheng frown. Because of that dream, he had no good feelings for the Yuans at all. He would never forget a single word Mother Yuan had said to her when she was forced to marry that scumbag.
"You're no longer pure. Do you still expect to enter the Yan family like this? You're so unchaste. You've let down my eighteen years of upbringing. Don't you know you've embarrassed me? A woman has to get married in her life. Who to marry doesn't matter. Mr. Guan was your first man. He will surely cherish you well!"
In Mother Yuan's eyes, she was like a disgrace. So what answer did she want to get by asking this question now? Did she hope she was doing well or badly? Did they still plan to capture her and force her to marry someone she didn't like after they found out her location, since they held her household registration?
He wouldn't give them this chance.
Since they had never regarded her as a daughter of the Yuan family, she might as well stop being one.
"I'm blind. How would I know how she's doing? I only have one thing to say. Exchange her household registration for a batch of the most advanced equipment for free. Brother Yuan, are you willing to make this deal? If you're not and insist on protecting her, then I'll have to take out my grudges against her on the Yuan family."
Each piece of this batch of Yan's equipment was worth tens of millions in the market. If he could get them for free, he would save hundreds of millions of funds. Father Yuan was of course willing! The Yuan family's strength was only at the middle level among the wealthy families in Fengcheng. They could marry into the Yan family only because of the previous generation's friendship. He dared to make such a request to the Yan family because he saw that Grandpa Yan wanted to advance the wedding, so he used it as a bargaining chip. But if he offended Yan Yincheng because of a household registration certificate and cut off this cooperation project, it would definitely be a big blow to the Yuan family.
He did some calculations, then turned to Mother Yuan and said, "Go and get Xiaoxi's household registration certificate."
Mother Yuan still wanted to get more information from Yan Yincheng, but seeing Father Yuan's expression, she had no choice but to get up, go back to the room, rummage out the deeply hidden household registration certificate, and then come back to the living room to hand it to Yan Yincheng.
He firmly held the small square notebook in his hand. His floating heart finally settled down. But at the other end of the certificate, he felt another pulling force.
Mother Yuan was reluctant to let go.
Yan Yincheng sneered and forcefully snatched it away.
As if realizing that once this thing was given away, the girl who had lived with them for eighteen years would completely disappear from her life, Mother Yuan said in a flurry, "Mr. Yan San, could you please not make things too difficult for her? She... she's also a poor girl."
Yan Yincheng said indifferently, "Not make things difficult for her? Sure. Then I'll make things difficult for the Yuan family. It's all the same anyway."
Father Yuan quickly said, "She's not our Yuan family's daughter. We took the wrong baby in the hospital back then. We only have Ya'er as our daughter in the Yuan family. Her real surname should be Xu, the one with two 'people' characters. If you want to settle scores, go find her biological parents."
Look, these were the parents who had raised her for eighteen years. He just threatened them a little, and they were eager to distance themselves from her. He was really glad that he had come here in person this time. If she had seen their faces, she would probably be sad again.
Yan Yincheng came here just for the household registration. Now that he had got what he wanted, there was no need for him to stay any longer. He got up and was about to leave. Yan Haikun also didn't want to stay any longer. After saying goodbye to Father and Mother Yuan, he left with Yan Yincheng.
All these happened when Yan Zhen and Yuan Ya'er had left.
Father Yuan didn't tell Yuan Ya'er that Yan Yincheng had taken away Yuan Xiaoxi's household registration. Although Yuan Ya'er was a bit dissatisfied with her father's attitude, the fact that she had once again confirmed her position in her parents' hearts still made her feel proud.
Back in her room, she thought for a while, then took out her phone and called her best friend, Ji Xinyue. She said in a nervous tone:
"Xinyue, where did you see the video you sent me? Has this video... spread everywhere?"
"This video was sent to me by my cousin in Haicheng. She's good friends with Pei Weiwei, the daughter of the Pei family in Haicheng. This video was taken by Pei Weiwei. Since it involves Yan Zhen, I sent it to you as soon as I received it. Besides us, no one else should know about it yet."
"Xinyue, could you please ask your cousin and Miss Pei to delete the video?" Yuan Ya'er seemed very down, "I'm going to marry Yan Zhen next month. I don't want people to know that Yan Zhen, who is going to be my husband, still misses my sister."
These words were really from her heart. Yuan Xiaoxi had been the laughingstock after dinner in Fengcheng for these years and was the negative example for all the young ladies. Yan Zhen was hers. She would never let outsiders know that her fiancé still missed such a disgraced woman!
"What?! You're getting married next month? Really, Ya'er?! That's great!" Ji Xinyue first jumped up happily on the other end of the phone. After calming down for a while, she gritted her teeth and said to Yuan Ya'er:
"Don't worry, Ya'er. Even if you didn't say anything, I wouldn't let this video spread. I'll never let others know that Mr. Yan San, who is as perfect as a god, was actually touched by a low - born woman like Yuan Xiaoxi, and they even had a child! How could she be worthy of Mr. Yan San? How could she be worthy of giving birth to Mr. Yan San's child?!"
Yuan Ya'er curled her lips. She knew that her best friend had the same thoughts as her.
"I only dare to tell you these things, Xinyue. I feel so mean. I... I don't want Sister Xiaoxi to be my aunt. Yan Zhen could go to Haicheng behind my back for her. If she comes back to Fengcheng with Mr. Yan San, I'm so scared... so scared that Yan Zhen will abandon me."
Ji Xinyue said indifferently, "What are you afraid of? Isn't she still engaged to that Mr. Guan? Tell Mr. Guan about her whereabouts in Haicheng. He'll know what to do. I won't let her come back to Fengcheng, and there's no way she'll be Mrs. Yan San. Mrs. Yan San can only be me."
"Thank you, Xinyue. It's so good to have you." Yuan Ya'er's voice regained its vitality, "If you really marry Uncle Yan San, then you'll be my aunt in the future~ Xinyue, I'm going to be a bride next month. You have to work hard too!"