How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 380 - 382: Clinging to the High Branch_1

Li Qiao and Hu Xiufang found a double seat and sat down, with the former craning her neck to look at the child in Hu Xiufang’s arms.

"This child is really good-looking," said Hu Xiufang. "The parents must be good-looking too. You said she wasn’t abandoned, so why aren’t her parents looking for her?"

"How would I know?" Li Qiao now felt a bit of regret, for acting impulsively.

Bringing a child home, would Qin Jin scold her?

After the bus stopped, Hu Xiufang was planning to get off with her, but Li Qiao said, "I can go back by myself."

"That’s fine." Hu Xiufang left.

The child also woke up.

Seemingly hungry, she began to cry.

Li Qiao thought to herself, did she wet herself?

She reached in to check, and sure enough, she had. But how should she change it?

She looked around and spotted a grass hut not too far away.

Carrying the child over, she managed to change her into a new diaper.

After tidying up, she prepared to go home.

She came face to face with Qin Jin on her way.

Qin Jin: "Whose child is that?"

"I found her."

Qin Jin: "......Are you addicted to picking up children? You just sent one away, and now you’ve picked up another. Where did you find her? I’ll throw her back."

Li Qiao twisted her body away: "This child has parents. I plan to look for them."

"Find them my foot! You can tell she’s a girl, her parents obviously didn’t want to raise her and that’s why they abandoned her," Qin Jin swore in anger.

Li Qiao disagreed: "Look at what she’s wearing, it doesn’t seem like she comes from a family that values boys over girls."

"Then you tell me, why was she abandoned?"

Li Qiao couldn’t answer, so Qin Jin snatched the child away, ready to throw her by the side of the road.

After chasing for two steps, Li Qiao couldn’t catch up and a sudden discomfort in her stomach made her squat down involuntarily.

Qin Jin turned his head after walking about ten steps away and saw her squatting on the ground, her face suddenly pale.

Nan Chuyi said that pregnant women can easily become agitated, which can harm the baby.

He seemed to have been a bit harsh just now.

Could he have upset her to the point of harming the baby?

He immediately returned: "Why are you squatting there?"

Li Qiao: "I just felt a bit uncomfortable."

Qin Jin grew anxious: "What’s uncomfortable? Are you tired from holding the child? Why did you bring this thing home?"

Li Qiao: "I just thought she was pitiful. Being so pretty, if she doesn’t have the protection of a good family background, her fate won’t be good."

Qin Jin looked down. She really was pretty, and why did she seem so familiar?

It’s as if he had seen her somewhere before.

Seeing that Qin Jin wasn’t saying anything, Li Qiao continued with her plan: "I was thinking of placing an ad first to look for her parents. If we can find them, that would be great. If not, then she can be an older sister to our child, and when it’s time to register the household, we’ll make them twins."

Qin Jin came to his senses and disagreed: "Don’t even think about it." Twins? He could have his own children.

Li Qiao: "Can I raise her myself?"

"You won’t take care of your own child but someone else’s?"

"I’ll hire someone to take care of her," Li Qiao said.

Qin Jin wanted to swear, but he didn’t know how. If because of someone else’s child, his wife and child got hurt, that would be a great loss, "You can place the ad, but if no one acknowledges her after a month, take her back to where you found her and leave her there."

Li Qiao could only agree.

The two of them carried the child back to the village. Along the way, everyone asked them whose child they were holding.

Li Qiao made an excuse: "A colleague’s. The couple is on a business trip and is too busy to take care of her, so I brought her to take care of for a few days."

"Don’t they have elders at home?"

"They are elderly and can’t take care of her," Li Qiao quickly dispelled everyone’s curiosity with a few words.

Old Mrs. Qin was chatting with someone at the doorway and couldn’t help asking more questions upon seeing Qin Jin holding a child.

The neighbors followed suit.

Li Qiao stuck to the same explanation and reason.

But she could fool others, not Old Mrs. Qin. After entering the room and closing the door, Old Mrs. Qin said, "Is it really your colleague’s child? She’s dressed quite shabbily."

Qin Jin replied, "She’s an abandoned baby found at the police station; she brought her here."

Old Mrs. Qin: "....."

Li Qiao dared not speak.

Old Mrs. Qin looked at her and without saying anything else, her gaze returned to the child: "The little one’s appearance is quite handsome, and this fabric...." Old Mrs. Qin felt the child’s swaddling clothes and paused, "So soft and fluffy, it’s new cotton, and the clothes are also made with newly produced fabric."

Li Qiao said, "That’s exactly why I brought the child back. Someone willing to spend money on the child certainly wouldn’t favor boys over girls and abandon the child."

Qin Jin said, "But the child was abandoned."

Li Qiao fell silent.

Old Mrs. Qin said, "Now that you’ve brought her back, we’ll take care of her for now. Jin, go to Fugui’s place and get some children’s clothes, so we can change this child into something else."

Li Qiao’s anxious heart suddenly settled.

Grandma has accepted the situation.

Qin Jin, feeling helpless, went to get a couple of old garments.

Li Qiao and Old Mrs. Qin worked together to change the child, putting the dirty clothes aside.

With an additional child in the house, things became much livelier.

Old Mrs. Qin ordered Qin Jin to wash the child’s clothes and diapers, while she herself held the child at the door to play.

Qin Jin washed with irritation, grumbling as he went about his tasks. "If it was my own kid, I wouldn’t mind washing everyday, but dealing with some kid of unknown origin...." He complained as he scrubbed the clothes and, when he washed the swaddling clothes, the stains began to fade, revealing something unexpected.

He discovered writing in one of the corners.

In the same color as the swaddling cloth, it was hard to notice without careful attention.

Shangguan Jiayue.

His dark pupils contracted.

No wonder the child looked a bit familiar.

The reason he was able to secure a huge loan was thanks to an endorsement from a Beijing grandee named Shangguan Qingfeng.

At that time, in order to meet the man, he even pulled strings with Sir Xue, barely getting an audience with the secretary by his side. It took a lot of effort to finally arrange a meeting. At the meal where they met, Shangguan Qingfeng was accompanied by a little boy who resembled this little girl considerably.

During their conversation, in an attempt to get on the grandee’s good side, he asked about the little boy’s name and age.

The man said the child was his third son, named Zichun, a name taken from an alternative moniker for the months.

The eldest son was born in January, named Shouyang.

The second son was April, named Huai Xu.

Zichun was born in October.

He also revealed that his wife was pregnant with their fourth child and was due in a couple of months.

Grandma said, the little girl cannot even lift her head yet, she must be no more than three months old.

And Jiayue, the alternative name for November, is about the same age as Shangguan Qingfeng’s unborn child.

As far as he knew, Shangguan Qingfeng’s hometown was several hundred miles away from the county – how could the child have ended up here?

No matter, they’d raise her for now.

If in the future they could successfully climb the Shangguan Family’s branches by leveraging the child, his business dealings would probably be even smoother than with Sir Xue as a backer.

He whistled happily.

It’s good to follow a wife who’s educated. From a name alone, she could tell if a person would be of use to him.

Li Qiao stood by the door, thinking to herself, could he be driven mad with excitement?

Alas.

She really went crazy back then; everyone has their own destiny. Why did she interfere?

Moreover, Qin Jin only allowed her to raise the child for one month. When the time came to part with the child after the family had grown attached, wouldn’t the ones left heartbroken be her and Grandma?

"This child is really handsome; kids from the city just don’t look the same as those from the village. Look how fair and clean."

Old Mrs. Qin replied, "Indeed, with big round eyes and especially the nose – so small, yet so tall and straight."

"Qiaoqiao and Jin’s future children will probably look the same."

The neighbors’ conversation with Old Mrs. Qin pulled Li Qiao back to reality, and she smiled, "Being good-looking is one thing, but what’s inside is even more important."

"Good looks are what matter. Girls won’t worry about marriage, and boys won’t have trouble finding a bride."

"....."

.......