Reborn as a Tough Army Wife-Chapter 792 - 787: Not Living Well

As she spoke, Mrs. Liu told Mr. Liu about Xiutao’s series of unusual reactions while at the Fang Family today. It seemed Mr. Liu was also quite knowledgeable about the past events, and when he heard Luo Zhiyong’s name, he felt that things might indeed be as they seemed.

However, when it came to this topic, Mr. Liu still didn’t think too much about it and merely said, "But even if it’s as you say, what does it matter? Back then, Xiutao abandoned the child so decisively. People today have everything they want. They certainly won’t be looking forward to acknowledging Xiutao as a mother fallen into destitution."

"You’re so foolish. If there’s really this connection, then what’s our relationship with the Luo Family?" Mrs. Liu quickly analyzed the familial ties thoroughly. "You’re Luo Zhiyong’s uncle, I’m the aunt, and Fengsheng is his cousin. Such close relations—are we really afraid his wife won’t help us?"

Mr. Liu understood Mrs. Liu’s meaning now; she intended to use the pressure of family ties to coerce them into investing in their supermarket. This kind of tactic seemed somewhat unscrupulous to Mr. Liu, making him hesitate, "I fear this might not be quite right?"

Mrs. Liu pursed her lips, speaking in a matter-of-fact manner, "What’s not right? We’ve helped take care of his birth mother for so long. Now, he’s unwilling to do this little thing?"

"Besides, it’s not like we’re forcing anything. If he really doesn’t want to acknowledge, then so be it." Though Mrs. Liu said this, her heart held a different sentiment. With such a relationship in her grasp, if Luo Zhiyong dared to deny it, she’d use his disgraceful identity to tarnish his reputation.

Moreover, Mrs. Liu’s intentions were not as benign as they sounded. She wasn’t foolish enough to directly confront Luo Zhiyong and Fang Pingying again and hit a brick wall, but she did have a very useful pawn.

And that pawn was her sister-in-law, Xiutao.

Mrs. Liu thought that, regardless, a mother is a mother. Even if she made mistakes back then, she is still Luo Zhiyong’s mother. As the saying goes, there’s no bad parent under the sun; there’s no son on earth who would hold a grudge against his own birth mother.

In Mr. Liu’s view, though he acts as an upright and unbiased leader in front of outsiders, he is actually a sanctimonious and thoroughly selfish person.

Especially in situations like this, if there’s someone who can lend him a hand to overcome this hurdle, he’d try any means. Especially as Mrs. Liu said, this was a great opportunity, so he’d naturally go along with his wife’s arrangements without hindrance.

Therefore, he did not obstruct anything, only casually instructing, "If you believe it works then proceed, but be careful not to draw too much attention, lest our Liu family becomes the subject of gossip."

Hearing Mr. Liu agree with her, Mrs. Liu immediately smiled, "Don’t worry, I will definitely be prudent about this."

On this side, Mrs. Liu began thinking of ways to make Xiutao and Luo Zhiyong recognize each other, while on the other side, Fang Pingying also sent someone to secretly investigate Xiutao’s background.

However, because too much time had passed, coupled with changes in population registration over the years, the investigator could only gather information on Xiutao’s life in recent years, without clearly uncovering past events.

Yet, when Fang Pingying looked at the information about Xiutao brought back by the investigator, she found it somewhat puzzling.

The records clearly stated that after returning to the city, Xiutao studied for several years, attended a vocational school, and then was assigned to a well-developing mechanical factory as an accountant.

At that time, being an accountant was considered a good job, providing government wages, decent salary, and coupled with Xiutao’s good looks, she should have been the object of admiration for many men.

It was expected that Xiutao would marry a highly educated man and lead a happy life.

However, Xiutao’s days had not been good over the years; her husband was a drunkard, abusing her for over a decade. It wasn’t until a few years ago when her husband was hit by a car while intoxicated and became disabled that Xiutao’s life became somewhat better.

Yet, the twenty-year-old son at home was unruly, to put it bluntly, a delinquent, engaging in theft, deception, promiscuity, causing Xiutao considerable distress.

Fortunately, in these years, thanks to the Liu family’s help, Xiutao’s family managed to barely get by.

But the information also enlightened Fang Pingying as to why Xiutao was so obedient to Mrs. Liu at their house the other day; it seemed like a matter of indebtedness forcing her to appease.

Still, Fang Pingying couldn’t comprehend why Xiutao had gone to such lengths to leave Luojia Village, leave Luo Dashan, and even abandon her own son back then. Perhaps everyone, including herself, thought going back to the city meant a great life, yet it turned out this way.

Fang Pingying felt that her life over the years was not as good as Zhou Yunmei’s, at least Luo Dashan had always indulged Zhou Yunmei all these years.

However, after all is said and done, although the investigation revealed many things, it still didn’t directly point out that Xiutao was Luo Zhiyong’s biological mother, nor was there any evidence confirming her hypothesis.

Hence, Fang Pingying considered that perhaps only Luo Dashan could verify if this Xiutao was indeed the same Xiutao.

Thus, Fang Pingying placed the investigated information into her bag and asked Sister Li to take care of the kids before heading to Luo Dashan’s place herself; she was determined to uncover the truth.

When Fang Pingying reached Luo Dashan’s place, Zhou Yunmei was playing with Zhuzhu in the hallway. Seeing Fang Pingying approach, Zhou Yunmei was initially slightly stunned because ever since she and Luo Dashan moved in together, Fang Pingying and Luo Zhiyong had been indifferent and never visited them. She hadn’t expected them to come today.

Once over the surprise, Zhou Yunmei was quite pleased, assuming that enough time had passed for Fang Pingying to finally accept her. She quickly smiled and approached Fang Pingying, "Oh, Pingying is here. This is truly..."

Halfway through her sentence, she noticed Fang Pingying didn’t bear much of an expression, felt a bit awkward, and promptly changed the topic, "You should’ve informed me earlier. I could have bought more groceries. I just bought enough for the three of us today."

Fang Pingying didn’t pay attention to Zhou Yunmei, just reaching out to tease Zhuzhu for a bit, handing over some snacks for the child, then looked inside the house, "No need, I just came to ask my dad some questions. Once I’m done, I’ll leave; I won’t be having dinner here."

"Alright then." Zhou Yunmei, unsure how to respond, merely invited Fang Pingying inside. However, afterward, she took another glance and hurriedly added, "Oh, Pingying, why didn’t you bring Haohao and the others today? I’d love to see them."