The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

Everyone looked up at the sound and saw Du Mingxian standing at the courtyard gate; it was she who had spoken.

Lin Guixiang kept crying and stopped responding.

Ling Silang asked, "Where is Sun Tao? Let him report to the authorities. He has official rank, so it will be easier for him to handle the matter."

“He went out on business and said he wouldn’t be back for three days. What should we do?”

Du Mingxian really couldn't stand Lin Guixiang's behavior. The Sun family had grandparents, and Sun Chengbao, a child, didn't need to come to the capital with them. But Lin Guixiang brought the child to the capital and sold him. This was not something a human being could do.

"Then we'll all go with you."

Lin Guixiang shook her head, "I'll go find my husband. The imperial examination is coming up soon, and everyone is busy studying. We can't let our family's affairs delay everyone. I'll go find him now."

Lin Guixiang left as she spoke, and Liu Ya watched her leave anxiously. "Why doesn't she seem to be in a hurry? The child is missing. The most important thing is to report it to the authorities as soon as possible."

Du Mingxian stepped forward, pulled Liu Ya aside, and whispered in a corner, "I saw her sell her child on the street."

Liu Ya was so startled she couldn't stop herself from asking, "Sold?"

"Yes, it's sold." Du Mingxian was certain. "After she left, I went to ask the buyer, and the buyer said that Lin Guixiang sold it herself. I even followed her for a while afterward."

Liu Ya's heart pounded. "What kind of thing is this? They just sold a perfectly good child like that."

"I don't know what she's thinking. I always thought she was just a little opportunist, but I never expected... she's not a good person." Du Mingxian didn't know how to evaluate Lin Guixiang.

Liu Ya also felt sorry for the child, "Forget it, since she herself is not in a hurry, then there is no need for us to be in a hurry either."

"Yes, Sun Tao wasn't here, so she sold the child. When Sun Tao comes back, there will be even more chaos." Du Mingxian could already imagine how chaotic life would be after Sun Tao returned.

"The most innocent person in this matter is that child."

“Sun Tao doesn’t necessarily care about the child. If he really cared, he would have taken action to take care of the child long ago. As long as Sun Tao cared about the child, Lin Guixiang wouldn’t dare to do anything to the child. Now that Sun Tao doesn’t care, Lin Guixiang dared to secretly sell the child.”

Liu Ya sighed deeply, thinking of her two children, "That child is so pitiful."

"Who says it isn't?"

The two whispered for a while longer before Du Mingxian went straight back to her room. Ling Silang was reading a book, and when he saw her come home, he wasn't in a good mood. "What happened that upset you?"

“I saw Lin Guixiang sell the child on the road. The child didn’t just get lost.”

“I guessed it,” Ling Silang said. “That child looks timid. Sun Tao and his wife never really cared about the child. How could the child run around like that? Children who run around are usually spoiled. The Sun family’s child wouldn’t do that.”

Du Mingxian was very puzzled. "Where did Sun Tao go? The exam is so close, why is he still away for three days? Is he really that confident that he can pass the exam? They don't seem to have any relatives in the capital."

"No, so I'm wondering where they went."

Du Mingxian shared the same sentiment as Liu Ya: "It's just that the child is suffering. She was sold, and we don't know what kind of buyer she'll get. If the buyer is bad, the child will suffer in the future."

"There are many injustices in the world." This was the only way Ling Silang could comfort Du Mingxian.

After a moment of contemplation, Du Mingxian said, "If we had encountered that child, we would have felt sorry for him."

"Do you have an idea?"

“The people in the village have also bought orphans. I’m thinking about whether to buy that child back to our village.”

Ling Silang shook his head. "That child is pitiful, but Sun Tao, as the father, also bears responsibility. Also, the child is not an orphan. Sun Tao might look for the child in the future, and if it gets involved with us, it won't be good."

Du Mingxian also realized she had acted impulsively. "Forget it, let's leave it at that."

"Let it be. There are too many pitiful children in the world, and it's impossible to help every single one of them."

"you're right."

The two chatted for quite a while before Du Mingxian remembered Guo Chen next door. "How's Guo Chen doing? I'm cooking this afternoon, should I bring him some too?"

"Yes, he's quite ill. If he hadn't had the strength to smash the wall yesterday, he might have gotten hard today."

Du Mingxian nodded gently, "I'll pack some for him when I cook later. The exams are coming up soon, so he needs to get his health back as soon as possible."

"That's true, but Guo Chen's situation is probably better than Jiang Liting's."

Du Mingxian thought of how kind Liu Ya was to Jiang Liting, and how Jiang Liting knew nothing. Although the weather in February was nice, it was still a bit cold. The exam would last for nine days, and no one knew if Jiang Liting could make it to the end.

No one was paying attention to what was going on with Lin Guixiang. Du Mingxian cooked dinner and brought some food out for Jiang Liting, which was still delivered by Ling Silang.

I even brewed some medicine for him that night and sent it over.

She slept well that night, but the next morning, Du Mingxian had only been up for a short while when she heard arguing. This time, she didn't go outside, but she could hear the two arguing in the yard.

Lin Guixiang's voice was shrill and tearful, "Sun Tao, you're not human! How could someone be like you?"

"Am I not human? If I'm not human, then you are? Where's my son? I only went out for one day, and my son is gone. Lin Guixiang, you say he's just gone? How can I believe you?"

"If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do. I just took him out to buy something, and who knew he would run off like that."

"I don't believe you. If you don't find my child, I'll divorce you."

"Divorce me? I think you've been wanting to divorce me for a long time, but you just haven't said it. Now you've finally said it." Lin Guixiang was truly heartbroken.

Sun Tao is a widower, and she is a young woman getting married for the first time. If it weren't for the fact that she was too old to find a husband and was too picky, she wouldn't have been willing to become someone else's stepmother.

Being a stepmother is tough.

After she entered the house, that brat never called her "Mom" again.

When she came to Beijing, she originally intended to cultivate her relationship with Sun Tao. It was Sun Tao's mother who repeatedly suggested that she bring the child along to cultivate their relationship as well.

On the way to Beijing, she had to take care of Sun Tao and the child, but Sun Tao still complained about this and that, as if nothing she did was right.

And so, that bastard Sun Tao actually used her money to find another woman outside. Is he even human?

I work hard from dawn till dusk every day, just to earn some money so that they can live a good life, but this person never cares about me and even squanders my money.

How could she accept this? How could she accept this?

Sun Tao glared at Lin Guixiang, "You're really a scoundrel, completely ungrateful. Why did I divorce you? How could the child be missing? How could I have gone out? Don't you really have any thoughts about this?"

"What have you done as a woman? I'm a man, a normal man."