Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 2987: Chapter 2923: Dare Not Hope

Ding Haijing felt that this really wasn’t his biological father.

”Aren’t you afraid that if I delay too long, you won’t get to hold your grandson in the future?”

”No worries, you’ve always been in good health. Now that I’m with the Sixth Young Master, I’m quite content and feel I can live to a ripe old age, seventies or eighties, no worries at all.”

Hehe.

Ding Haijing wanted to overturn this boat.

In the small room, Jiang Xiao also told Jiang Shiheng about Deng Qingjiang and that Chun Hong.

”I feel that as long as we find this Chun Hong, we will definitely find out the whereabouts of Shi Xiaoching... my mother.” Jiang Xiao still felt a bit awkward calling her mom.

”Actually, I recently asked Yue Yang to find Xiao Qing’s old family’s relatives, but found that those relatives she mentioned had all moved away ten years ago, including the one suspected to be her biological father, who has also disappeared.”

Jiang Xiao was taken aback.

”Everyone moved away?”

”Yes, everyone, everyone related to her.”

Jiang Xiao couldn’t help but exchange glances with Meng Xinian.

This matter really was strange.

Logically, wasn’t Shi Xiaoching just an ordinary person?

Even though her mother had told her she was an illegitimate daughter of the Lu Family and even went through the motions of taking her back to recognize her roots, and Shi Xiaoching had even been the Second Miss Lu for half a year, didn’t the Lu Family already verify it wasn’t true?

So, Shi Xiaoching was likely just a village girl from a small village.

What’s so special about her?

Why would everyone related to her move away?

”Is she really a blood relative of the Lu Family?” Jiang Xiao couldn’t help but ask.

”We’ve also been looking into that.” Jiang Shiheng sighed. ”Now the Jiang Family and Lu Family have completely fallen out, and the Lu Family has been constantly hitting our seafood business. It’s not easy for us to go to Pingzhou to investigate this matter.”

Jiang Xiao thought of someone and said, ”There’s someone in Pingzhou, I can ask him to investigate.”

”Are you talking about Zhu Shun?” Meng Xinian asked.

Jiang Xiao nodded.

”Then please ask him for help.”

Jiang Xiao looked at Jiang Shiheng and hesitantly asked, ”Dad, do you still like her now?”

”Xiao Qing?” Jiang Shiheng’s gaze became a bit vacant, as the image of the flute-playing girl from years ago surfaced in his mind. ”The Xiao Qing in my memory, I still like, naturally. But, Little, you know, time is an unpredictable thing. I don’t know what Xiao Qing is like now, so if you ask me this question, I can only say I like the Xiao Qing from my memories.”

As for the Shi Xiaoching of today, nobody knows what she’s like now.

It’s not about appearance.

Rather, it’s about her personality, her interests and hobbies, her current state.

To love someone is to love everything about them, to love them at any time—this saying is too unrealistic to expect.

Falling in love with someone definitely means there’s something about the other person that aligns with your own preferences.

Otherwise, can it really be said the Matchmaker Yue forcibly tied you together?

It’s just that some people are very clear about what they like about the other, while some haven’t figured it out themselves.

Jiang Shiheng has weathered two decades of storms, tasted the warmth and coldness of the human experience, and though he still holds a part of his heart pure, he’s no longer that innocent young man.

If Shi Xiaoching is no longer the girl she was, how could he still speak of liking her?

Furthermore, if she would hurt his Little, how could he be an accomplice?

Jiang Xiao didn’t ask further.

Given the past with Chen Zhu, she dared not hold out hope for Shi Xiaoching.