Chapter 1698 - 1697: Luo Xinseng

Chapter 1698: Chapter 1697: Luo Xinseng

Chapter 1697 Luo Xinseng

Le Shui said respectfully, "It seems that Qin Chaowen has taken Qing Wen away!"

Mengyu was stunned, "Which Qin Chaowen?"

"How could the Eldest Lady forget? It’s the one who claimed to be Qin Wenju’s father, Qin Chaowen. However, he is actually Luo Xinseng, Qin Chaowen’s half-brother!"

Mengyu immediately remembered. She once wanted to buy a three-entry Siheyuan identified by Le Shui. The master of the courtyard, Qin Chaowen, held it while searching for his "son" Qin Wenju. Qin Wenju’s distinctive feature was Congtong (double pupils).

At that time, Mengyu thought of the child Gougou from Tiger Valley, who often helped her in the past and eventually enabled her to escape Tiger Valley. Hence, she entered Tiger Valley, rescued Gougou, and dismantled the human trafficker’s lair in the process.

Because Gougou had the same Single Wood Spiritual Root as Mengyu, she accepted him as her disciple and named him Qing Wen.

However, when she brought Qing Wen to find Qin Chaowen, she encountered someone impersonating Qin Wenju to meet Qin Chaowen. Mengyu discovered that Qin Chaowen and Qing Wen were not father and son, but uncle and nephew.

Moreover, she noticed that when Qin Chaowen saw the boy with Congtong, he was indeed delighted. However, this happiness was not like a father’s joy upon seeing his son. She didn’t see any affection towards that boy in Qin Chaowen’s eyes. It was more as if he saw a valuable commodity.

Qin Chaowen looked at the boy with full calculation in his eyes. Clearly, his search for his nephew was intended for exploitation.

Mengyu speculated at the time that the Qin Family possibly left a substantial inheritance for Qing Wen. Qin Chaowen sold Qing Wen to a human trafficker to monopolize it but later found that the inheritance could only be claimed by Qing Wen, thus seeking to reclaim his nephew to obtain it.

Therefore, with Qing Wen’s consent, they did not intervene and let Qin Chaowen take the impostor boy away.

Although Mengyu didn’t let Qing Wen acknowledge Qin Chaowen, she secretly had Le Shui investigate Qin Chaowen.

The person’s real name was Qin Chaosheng, not Qin Chaowen. Qin Chaowen was the name of his half-brother.

The Qin Family once had an ancestor who served as an Assistant Minister. Though they declined over time, a thin camel is greater than a horse; the Qin Family still retained some assets.

Before liberation, Qiu Chaosheng’s mother, Ah Qiu, worked as a servant for the Qin Family. Relying on her charm, she climbed into the master’s bed, giving birth to Qin Chaosheng, becoming his father’s concubine, which angered the Matriarch into illness.

They enjoyed only a few years before liberation when the Qin Family’s status plummeted. Ah Qiu quickly shifted and claimed she was merely enslaved, asserting her child wasn’t fathered by the Qin Family, changed her son’s name to Luo Xinseng, embezzled the Qin Family’s assets, and left with her son.

Due to receiving a good education since childhood, Qin Chaowen became a high-level intellectual but only married in his thirties because of his origins, and then had Qin Wenju.

During the major political movements, he went to the Five-Seventh Dry School, leading to his wife’s divorce and remarriage, leaving behind his old mother and son. The son, missing his parents too much, secretly climbed onto a train to find them but disappeared on the way.

The grandson’s disappearance naturally worried the grandmother, who succumbed to a heart attack and passed away.

Upon returning from the Five-Seventh Dry School, Qin Chaowen discovered his mother dead and his son missing, leading him on the path of searching for his son, never to return.