V4C218 – I Saw Nothing (2/2)

“Haha, of course, there’s no issue! Adoptive father, you can rest assured and give Xiyuan to me, no need to worry about anything,” I knew that He Dali was only talking like this to save face for his daughter. As for what’s going on, it’s impossible that he won’t know.

I chatted with them about He Xiyuan’s family’s matters for a while. When I looked at the time, it was already getting late and many bigger stalls were also starting to pack up to go back. So, I said to them, “Adoptive father, Xiyuan, it’s getting late, we should now go back. I will send you back home.”

“This…” He Dali suddenly hesitated.

“What’s wrong? Is there any inconvenience?” I felt strange and asked.

“No… nothing.” He Dali vigorously shook his head.

I was feeling a bit strange over He Dali’s strong reaction but didn’t care too much about it. However, just when we had walked some distance, I realized that something was wrong!

“Adoptive father, I remember that the house I bought for you wasn’t in this direction!” I said with a strange feeling. I had bought a house for them in B City in order to let He Xiyuan study without issues. But it was certainly not in this direction!

“This…” He Dali had an unnatural expression.

“What the hell is going on? What happened?” I asked with a strong tone.

“Big Brother Liu, let me tell you!” He Xiyuan sighed, “I’m sorry, my father sold the house you bought for us!”

“Sold? Why sell it? Did you have some difficulties?” I asked.

“No, it was because of my father’s good intentions! My distantly related uncle somehow found out that we had moved to B City and got ourselves a big house, he came knocking, asking to borrow money from my father!” He Xiyuan said.

“But what does this have to do with selling the house! Don’t tell me you sold the house to give money to that distant relative?” I looked at He Xiyuan in disbelief.

“Indeed, the matter was like that!” He Xiyuan shook her head helplessly and said, “That uncle came to my father and asked 200,000 from him; he thought that our family had become very rich… My father asked him why he needed that much money, to which he said that his mother had gotten ill, that she had Uremia, and the surgery would cost 200,000!”

“And you believed him?” I shook my head as it was clear that he had lied to them!

“My dad also had some doubts, but he still believed him. On top of that, who knows from where that uncle also brought hospital files. After my father saw those, he was even more convinced!” He Xiyuan continued, “In order to save his mother’s life, my father sold the house and gave that uncle more than 400,000 so that he could get better treatment for his mother!”

“What happened later?” I asked her to continue.

“The distant relative disappeared after that. My dad was still worried about that uncle’s mother, so he asked someone to inquire about them. The uncle’s mother indeed had Uremia, but she had died three years ago!” As she said till here, He Xiyuan looked at her father with a look of injustice, “I told you at that time that we should inquire about the matter first, but you didn’t listen…”