Spring River Chasing the Moon

After Luo Youyou closed the door of the studio, Chen Ze and Li Muzhi also got up and went into their bedrooms.

Both of them were silent for a long time.

"Luchuan, what are you thinking about?"

Li Muzhi looked at Chen Ze sitting there thinking, and finally spoke.

In fact, they both knew what the other was thinking at the moment, but they just didn't know how to express it.

"You feel……"

Chen hesitated to speak...

"Don't you think what Youyou said is not right?"

Chen Ze spoke after careful consideration.

"Actually, if Ah Zhong's mother hadn't done those things, I wouldn't have doubted it. On the contrary, I would have thought it was a coincidence. But his mother did those things. Do those things seem like something a biological mother would do? Don't you think it's very abnormal?"

"She's doted on her other two children, endlessly indulging them, but she's incredibly critical of Zhong, treating him like a mere tool to earn money and support the family. As for Youyou, I'm too lazy to even describe her. I can't help but wonder if there's something fishy going on here."

Chen Ze blurted out everything that was in his mind.

"Don't even mention now. Even in Haicheng, I've long suspected that Zhong was an adopted child of the Luo family. How could they be so partial to him?"

Chen Ze became angrier and angrier as he spoke, feeling sorry for his son-in-law and granddaughter.

"Yes, I thought about what we have. I felt sorry for that child and how much he had suffered. That's why he came to us."

Li Muzhi felt particularly uncomfortable when she thought of how Luo Youyou looked when she came home that day and how she wolfed down a bowl of ordinary noodles.

"But... we can't draw any conclusions yet. This one coincidence doesn't prove anything. This is just our guess."

Chen Ze couldn't think of any way to figure it out for a moment.

Li Muzhi thought of Luo Youyou, and she inexplicably felt that Luo Youyou knew something.

"Luchuan, do you think Youyou knows something? Look at what she said today, is she hinting at us?"

Li Muzhi knew Luo Youyou. His granddaughter was really smart and more sensitive than other children of the same age. What she said today seemed to be guiding them in that direction of suspicion.

"Do you think she knew something or heard something, so she came to us earlier?"

Li Muzhi raised reasonable doubts.

After all, Luo Youyou's personality and communication with them were very different from now before.

"Is the child afraid that we won't believe him, so he doesn't dare to tell us?"

Chen Ze felt very complicated, because he seemed to agree with his wife's guess that his granddaughter must have heard something, so she became different from before.

Assuming all this is true, how scared would Luo Youyou be? The grandmother she lived with every day suddenly turned into a person with no blood relationship, and such a person was not nice to her at all.

"Let's not ask yet. Let's wait until Li Li gets off work this afternoon and discuss it together. Then we'll see if we should ask You You if she knows anything."

Chen Ze said softly.

This is not a small matter, so I still have to discuss it with my daughter first. Moreover, now it’s all just their suspicions and guesses. There is no substantial evidence, so they can’t say it out loud. What’s more, this matter involves the Nan family, which makes it even more difficult.

The Nan family's child was taken away by mistake. This is a huge matter. Even Chen Ze and Li Muzhi would not rashly disclose it directly.

Li Muzhi nodded and agreed to Chen Ze's arrangement.

I still have to tell my daughter about this first. Maybe after being married to Luo Zhong for so long, she must have noticed something unusual, but she just didn't think about it in this direction at the time.

Luo Youyou waited in the studio for almost two hours before Chen Ze and Li Muzhi pushed the door open.

For a moment, the three of them looked at each other and said nothing.

"Grandpa, look at the bamboo I just drew. What do you think?"

Luo Youyou felt that the atmosphere was not right and immediately found a topic to break the silence.

Chen Ze and Li Muzhi also realized that they were being too abnormal and cleared their throats.

"I'll go cut some fruit for you." Li Muzhi said with a smile, turned around and left the studio, leaving Chen Ze and Luo Youyou alone.

Chen Ze took Luo Youyou's painting and had to say that his granddaughter was really talented. He had only taught her twice, but she could already draw bamboo with the unique style of ambition, integrity, elegance and uprightness.

"Good, good drawing."

Seeing Luo Youyou's painting, Chen Ze seemed to have forgotten the complicated things just now. He took Luo Youyou to immerse himself in the green bamboo sea and didn't even notice Li Muzhi pushing the door in.

Seeing that the grandfather and grandson were concentrating on painting, Li Muzhi did not disturb them. He put the fruit aside and left the studio.

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evening.

Chen Lili comes home from get off work.

As soon as she entered the house, she found that the atmosphere at home was not right. Her parents kept looking at her without saying anything.

"Mom and Dad, what's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

"Youyou is practicing calligraphy in the studio." Li Muzhi replied.

Hearing that her daughter was in the studio, Chen Lili did not disturb her. She put down her handbag and asked Li Muzhi softly.

"Mom, what's wrong? Did you have a fight with Dad?"

Chen Lili thought about it and felt that it was unlikely. Over the years, the number of times her parents had quarreled could be counted on one hand, and it was not like now. It seemed that both of them were very awkward and wanted to talk but didn't.

Li Muzhi shook his head and took Chen Lili's hand.

"No, your dad and I have something to tell you. After dinner, when Youyou falls asleep, come to our room."

Li Muzhi spoke softly, afraid that Luo Youyou would hear it.

Chen Lili felt very strange. What was going on? Why was it so mysterious?

At the same time, I had a bad feeling in my heart, feeling that something big had happened at home, otherwise my parents, who were always calm, would not be like this and even do it behind Youyou's back.

After dinner, Chen Lili first gave Luo Youyou a bath and coaxed her to sleep, then she tiptoed to Chen Ze and their room.

"Mom and Dad, I'm coming in."

Chen Lili knocked on the door before opening it and going in.

Only then did he realize that it was almost nine o'clock. Chen Ze and Li Muzhi had not yet washed up and were sitting on a chair beside him waiting for him.

"Mom and Dad, what's wrong? Did something happen at home?"

Chen Lili's voice trembled.

"There's one thing we haven't confirmed yet, we just suspect it, but it concerns Luo Zhong, so I want to discuss with you what to do."

Chen Ze spoke.

Li Muzhi then recounted what had happened over the past two days.

"Do you still remember the two Professor Zhus who examined Youyou?"

Chen Lili nodded.

"That retired Professor Zhu Yuying was my good friend for many years. Yesterday, I took Youyou to their home to thank her and her sister for helping Youyou this time."

Chen Lili nodded. She knew about this. If the school hadn't been too busy because of the upcoming holidays, she would have planned to go with them.

"Professor Zhu invited us to her youngest son's birthday party, and we learned that Ah Zhong and her son were not only born in the same year, but also on the same day of the same month."

Chen Lili was also surprised when she heard this.

"Really? This is such a coincidence!"

Looking at his daughter's innocent look, Chen Ze couldn't help but continue talking.

"There's an even bigger coincidence. Professor Zhu went to Haicheng with her lover that year, and unexpectedly, her due date was advanced. She gave birth to the child in the Haicheng hospital. Coincidentally, Ah Zhong was also born in the same hospital, even in the same ward."

Chen Lili's brain was a little frozen, she didn't understand what her parents meant by this.

"Li Li, I hope we're wrong, but think about what Ah Zhong's mother did. Don't you think there's something wrong?"

Li Muzhi looked at Chen Lili's dazed expression, thought for a long time, and finally said what he had always wanted to say today.

"Yesterday, Youyou and I looked at photos of their family. Now that I think about it, Sister Yuying's youngest son doesn't look like Sister Yuying at all, let alone her husband. I think he does look a bit like Luo Zhong's mother."