Chapter 258 - 259: The Path You’ve Taken (12)
After Lou Xi left, Qin Mobai stood in the center of the main room, looking at the relentless Yang Lihua and the silent Lou Jian Country.
"I know, Lou Xi is not your biological daughter." Qin Mobai spoke, with one sentence severing the relationship between Lou Xi and them.
"Even if she’s not our biological daughter, we have raised Lou Xi for so many years and spent so much money." Yang Lihua immediately said.
Qin Mobai knew that 99% of the world’s problems could be solved with money, and the remaining 1% required even more money to solve.
So, Yang Lihua probably wanted money, what else could be in her eyes besides money?
This was the reason Qin Mobai just asked Lou Xi to leave; he didn’t want Lou Xi to see firsthand the discussion between her foster parents and her future husband about how much money it would take for him to take her away.
It was a very realistic and cruel issue, and Qin Mobai only hoped to shield Lou Xi from all darkness and let her live in an ivory tower.
"How much money do you want, what do you think is enough to repay the kindness of raising Lou Xi all those years?" When kindness gets equated with money, everything becomes brutal.
Yang Lihua looked at Qin Mobai, seeming generous, calculating how much money would be worthwhile.
Although she hadn’t worried much about Lou Xi since she was a child, offering her a place to live and allowing her to go to school, if it weren’t for them, Lou Xi might have starved to death long ago.
"How about...fifty thousand?" Yang Lihua hadn’t been to a big city and thought fifty thousand was already a lot.
Lou Jian Country heard Yang Lihua say this, his brows suddenly furrowed, and said to Yang Lihua, "Lou Xi is, after all, our daughter; how can you measure that with money? As long as she marries well, everything will be fine! Don’t say anymore!"
Lou Jian Country could no longer hold back, a feeling called guilt surged in his heart.
"What do you mean by marrying well and everything will be fine? If he can’t even come up with fifty thousand, how can he give Lou Xi a good life? I’m thinking about Lou Xi here!" Yang Lihua spoke sanctimoniously.
She herself felt there was no problem.
However, the fact that she saw no problem was the biggest problem.
Lou Jian Country wanted to say something more, but Yang Lihua cut him off with a shout: "If you didn’t take the money meant for my treatment and gave it to Lou Xi for her college, would I still be sick today? Tell me, is Lou Xi the child you secretly had with some woman? Huh?"
The topic seemed to have shifted at this point.
Qin Mobai probably had no interest in listening further and just wanted to resolve the matter quickly.
"Father and mother, I am very grateful that you raised Lou Xi into adulthood, at least when she appeared before me, she was a lively girl. To me, Lou Xi is priceless, and fifty thousand is far from enough to measure her value. But if you insist on measuring it with money, I’ll give you five hundred thousand, to thank you for taking care of Lou Xi."
When Qin Mobai mentioned five hundred thousand, Yang Lihua’s eyes sparkled, she had never seen so much money in her life, nor thought she would earn so much, it was like a pie falling from the sky!
Even Lou Jian Country was a bit taken aback; would he really give five hundred thousand?
Qin Mobai had already taken out a checkbook, ready to write a check for five hundred thousand.
But at this moment, Lou Xi came in from outside, her eyes red as she looked at the three people inside the room.