Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 281 - 281 278 Strange Incoming Call

Chapter 281: Chapter 278: Strange Incoming Call Chapter 281: Chapter 278: Strange Incoming Call “You said last time that you would consider it, so why are you backing out now?”

“I’m not backing out, but consideration doesn’t mean getting married instantly. We haven’t even been together for half a year, don’t you think getting married now is a bit hasty?”

“I don’t think so. We’re not young twenty-somethings who need to date for years before thinking about marriage. I’m already twenty-eight, and you’re thirty. Isn’t it reasonable to consider after a few months if we get along well? Besides, we’ve already done what couples do.”

Yu Heng deflected the issue, “What’s wrong with being thirty? It’s still young.”

“Yu Heng, what do you mean… Do you really want to date for several more years? By then, how old would I be…”

“That’s not what I mean, but I also don’t want to rush it… Alright, alright, it’s getting late, let me take you home.”

“You always do this, diverting the topic whenever we talk about it…”

“Luo Xiao…”

“…”

Footsteps gradually faded away as Mu Jiawen, who had been standing in the corner of the courtyard with a watering can, got up on tiptoes to watch the receding figures under the streetlamp and muttered quietly, “My brother wants to be a player…”

Last time Mu Chenyan told Yu Heng to consider it, he really did, at the very least he had never thought about marriage before, but now he was. However, Luo Xiao’s family pushed him so hard it annoyed him greatly.

After watering the plants, Mu Jiawen went back to sleep. The next morning, she got up early to make breakfast with Jiang Yan. Neither of them had the habit of sleeping in, and their morning runs were only from Monday to Friday evenings at school, while the weekends were usually for rest.

But actually, for Jiang Yan, the weekends were the busiest. After breakfast, he had to go to the electronics factory and wouldn’t be back until evening.

Recently, Mu Jiawen was following Mu Chenyan to the gallery, painting several pieces a week to display there.

Boosted by her mother’s fame, her painting now priced at twenty thousand a piece, had never been left unsold. They were selling as soon as they were hung, extremely popular.

“The night before last, I got a strange phone call in the dorm, asking if I was Song Jiawen.”

Although it had almost been four months since she changed her surname, her teachers and classmates occasionally still got it wrong, which wasn’t a big deal. But what the call said next was, “You’re Xie Jingying’s daughter, aren’t you?”

Jiang Yan had just placed a scallion pancake into the pan when he turned his head in surprise, “What do you mean? Why would they bring up Xie Jingying specifically?”

Mu Jiawen shrugged, “I don’t know. When he asked that, I told him I wasn’t and then I hung up.” She really didn’t want to hear the name “Xie Jingying.”

Feeling there was something amiss, Jiang Yan said to her, “Call your uncle and ask about it. You’ve been studying in Beijing for almost a year now, how could someone suddenly ask if you’re the daughter of Xie Jingying out of the blue?”

“Alright, I’ll ask him now.”

She didn’t take it seriously and feared she might forget if she waited.

Mu Jiawen called Xie Yanhai almost every week, or would chat with Xie Lin for a bit, so Xie Yanhai didn’t think much of it when he received an early morning call from her. However, when she mentioned the stranger’s call, Xie Yanhai fell silent for a while.

“What’s the matter, Uncle? Is there a problem?”

“There is a little problem, but it has nothing to do with you. If he calls again, just hang up right away; don’t entertain it.”

“Okay, I got it.”

Mu Jiawen didn’t ask any further questions, and after hanging up the phone, Xie Yanhai sitting opposite the telephone had a face full of anger.

Li Yun came over to call him for breakfast and, seeing him like this, expressed her surprise, “Wasn’t that a call from Jiajia? Why the look?”

Xie Yanhai glanced up at her and said through clenched teeth, “That person didn’t just look for Xiaoxi; he even called Jiajia and asked if she’s my sister’s daughter.”

The matter with Mu Jiawen hadn’t become public knowledge, and besides their own family, hardly anyone knew she wasn’t biologically related to Old Song the Third and Xie Jingying.

Li Yun sneered lightly, “It’s really karma, isn’t it? Engaging in too many misdeeds leads to the loss of descendants. After all his own passed away, he finally remembers to look for those outside. But did you ask your sister? She wouldn’t listen to that man and go back with him to acknowledge her ancestry, would she?”

Xie Yanhai shook his head, “She wouldn’t. She’s already over fifty, a person with one foot in the grave. She finds the sudden appearance of her biological father embarrassing enough, let alone acknowledging her ancestry.”

It’s just…

“There shouldn’t be any issues with Xiaoxi’s side, but I’m afraid that man might set his sights on Haohao. No, I need to instruct Youming a bit, to make sure he takes good care of Haohao.”

As he spoke, Xie Yanhai immediately picked up the phone to call Zhou Youming. The two had a falling out over divorce a while ago, but eventually, it was Zhou Youming’s mother who intervened and resolved the situation.

Speaking of Xiaoxi’s mother-in-law, Xie Yanhai felt he truly had nothing to say. She considered everything for the sake of them and the child, never causing any trouble for the couple. In contrast, Xiaoxi wasn’t even willing to let her spend a few extra days with her grandson. Zhou Youming used to indulge her, but his stance was firm now.

Song Xiwen didn’t want a divorce, so she let him take the child to his mother’s place.

Once the call connected, Xie Yanhai first talked about the matter of the man contacting Jiajia, then he instructed him to ensure his parents took good care of Haohao.

After speaking for a while, he noticed Zhou Youming wasn’t responding and Xie Yanhai was puzzled, “Youming, did you hear what I said?”

“I heard you, uncle, but…”

“But what?”

“Xiaoxi has been meeting with that man quite frequently lately.”

Xie Yanhai was stunned and after a long moment asked, “What do you mean? What is Xiaoxi trying to do?”

What Song Xiwen was trying to do was something Zhou Youming wasn’t very clear about either. Ever since their last conflict, the two had been in a cold war state. He lived at the school and hardly went home, and Song Xiwen didn’t call him. He only found out about her frequent meetings with the old man because he and his colleagues liked to eat at a noodle shop in that area.

It might have been a coincidence, but he went there three times in a week, and each time he happened to see Song Xiwen having a meal with the old man at the Western restaurant across the street. Due to the distance and the reflection of the glass, it was impossible to tell if she was happy or not.

If it weren’t for uncle failing to get through to Song Xiwen and coming to him to talk about Xie Jingying’s origins… Although he didn’t suspect Song Xiwen of having an affair, after all, she wouldn’t choose an old man who could be her grandfather even if she did.

But meeting an old man for a meal three times in a week at a Western restaurant, no matter how one looked at it, seemed odd.

The old man who came to find Xie Jingying was kicked out of her home. She had no idea when the darned old man had taken her hair to perform a paternity test. As she looked at the last page which read “Parent-child relationship established,” Xie Jingying felt nothing but absurdity!

After chasing the old man away, she immediately went to Xie Yanhai’s house.

To be honest, she didn’t believe the paternity test presented by the old man. After all, her dad had been no worse to her than Xie Yanhai; sometimes he was even better to her than her mother. If it hadn’t been for her lack of interest in studying, and her absolute refusal to take the college entrance exam the year it was reinstated, her father definitely wouldn’t have let her marry into the countryside to become a farmer’s wife.

So with such a father, how could he not be her biological one?