The Found Stepmother, Your Dowry Is a Bit Too Much

Chapter 441

If Jiang Yuanrang was truly not a child of the Jiang family, that would be wonderful.Back then, in order to avoid the reputation of bullying his widowed sister-in-law, he had held back from making a move. He never expected that his desire for a good reputation would allow that little brat to fully fledge his wings.

Now, it was no longer someone he could touch just because he wanted to.

At this moment, Jiang Huaishan felt an unspeakable regret in his heart.

The Capital, the Li Family

Li Zhiwei sat in front of Li Tianyou and Lady Yao.

"Father, Mother, I heard everything you said." Li Zhiwei looked at the two of them. Just now, she actually hadn't heard much.

However, she did catch the name Zhou'er.

But she just wanted to bluff them a little.

She also wanted to know exactly what connection that person in Lucheng had to her.

"What? Wei'er, listen to Mother—" Lady Yao panicked slightly upon hearing this.

She was afraid her daughter would misunderstand her, thinking she was an irresponsible mother.

And even more so, she feared she would blame herself for not taking good care of her older brother.

Thinking of this, Lady Yao felt deeply remorseful. If it hadn't been for her, would Zhou'er have avoided his tragic accident?

At this thought, Lady Yao didn't even wait for her daughter's next words before she started sobbing again.

Li Zhiwei looked helplessly at Lady Yao, then glanced at Li Tianyou beside her.

She signaled him to quickly comfort Lady Yao.

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"Alright, Madam, please stop crying." Li Tianyou was also somewhat awkward. For a moment, he didn't know how to tell his daughter about their eldest son, who had caused them so much grief.

Upon hearing this, Lady Yao couldn't stop even if she wanted to.

After all, for all these years, she hadn't dared to bring up the child who brought her endless sorrow.

Now, it seemed she wanted to vent all the grievances of the past nineteen years.

"Father, Mother, shouldn't you give me an explanation? Who is Zhou'er?" Seeing the two of them absorbed in their own grief, Li Zhiwei sighed and asked again.

After all, at their current pace, she wouldn't get any answers even if she dragged it out for a few more days.

Li Tianyou and Lady Yao looked at each other in dismay. However, they both knew that they could no longer hide this matter.

Thinking of this, Li Tianyou sighed and finally looked at his daughter.

"Zhou'er was your older brother. The year you were born, he fell into the river and drowned."

After saying this, Li Tianyou seemed to age several years.

This incident was the lifelong pain of him and his wife.

Li Zhiwei gasped. She never expected this to be the truth. From childhood, the pampering her parents gave her was exclusive; they had never mentioned that she had an older brother.

He was gone the very year she was born.

"Father, Mother, are you sure that my eldest brother fell into the river and died?" Li Zhiwei suddenly remembered the portrait Xu Heming had sent back.

He looked exactly like her father.

Could that be her brother who fell into the water?

What if her brother hadn't actually died, but had been saved by someone?

"At the time, we had people search for three days. Your mother, who had just given birth to you, waited there for three days. When we finally found your brother, the body had already decomposed." Li Tianyou's eyes turned red as he spoke.

His eldest son was just gone like that.

"Father, Mother, are you sure that was really my eldest brother?" Li Zhiwei frowned, thinking, if the body was decomposed, could it be that it wasn't her brother?

Li Tianyou didn't understand why his daughter was asking this, but given the situation at the time, there shouldn't have been any mistake.

After all, they had searched everywhere the river could have washed him down to.

Although that child looked slightly different from their son, it was normal to look a bit different after soaking in the water for three days.

"Father, Mother, take a look at this." Li Zhiwei had just sent Qingyue back to fetch the portrait.

Originally, she had planned to go to Lucheng to look for the person.

But now, she decided to hear her parents' opinions first.

What exactly was that person's relationship to them?

Li Tianyou unrolled the portrait with a puzzled expression. When he clearly saw the person in the portrait, he was completely stunned.

Why did this person look so familiar?

However, Li Tianyou couldn't immediately recall where he had seen this person.

Seeing Li Tianyou staring at the portrait and remaining silent for a long time, Lady Yao couldn't help but feel curious and quickly leaned over.

When Lady Yao saw the person in the portrait, she was absolutely dumbfounded.

Wasn't this face exactly what Li Tianyou looked like in his youth?

"Weiwei, why do you have a portrait of your father?" Lady Yao asked in confusion.

"Mother, look closely. Is this really my father?" Li Zhiwei looked at Li Tianyou. Although the person in the portrait looked very much like her father, a closer look revealed subtle differences.

In fact, the eyes and brows looked more like Lady Yao.

Especially the teardrop mole at the corner of the eye, which Li Tianyou did not have.

"This—" Lady Yao suddenly noticed the teardrop mole at the corner of the eye; it was in the exact same spot as Li Tingzhou's.

"Wei'er, where did you get this portrait?" Lady Yao suddenly thought of something. She quickly grabbed her daughter's hand and asked nervously.

Li Tianyou just stared at the portrait for a long time. Seeing his wife so agitated, he was somewhat puzzled for a moment.

"Mother, you're hurting me." Li Zhiwei's hand hurt a bit from Lady Yao's grip.

"I'm sorry, Weiwei, Mother was just too anxious." Lady Yao was a bit at a loss. After all, the man in the portrait looked too much like Zhou'er. She couldn't believe it—could her Zhou'er really still be alive?

If Zhou'er was truly still alive, how much suffering must he have endured over these nineteen years?

Thinking of this, Lady Yao looked eagerly at Li Zhiwei.

Li Zhiwei sighed, handed the letter Xu Heming gave her to Lady Yao, and said, "This portrait was sent by Prince An. This person is the eldest young master of the Jiang family in Lucheng."

Li Zhiwei didn't say anything else, because Xu Heming's letter had only mentioned this much.

Li Tianyou took the letter and also read it carefully.

Wasn't Lucheng located exactly downstream of Qujing?

Back then, their Zhou'er was lost in Qujing, and they had been looking for him in the opposite direction.

The clothes on the corpse they found back then didn't belong to Zhou'er, but over those three days, that was the only body found. Moreover, the corpse was so decomposed that its true appearance could no longer be discerned. At the time, they assumed it had to be Zhou'er.

Now, it seemed that it really wasn't their Zhou'er?

"Master!" Lady Yao looked at Li Tianyou with a face full of hope and eyes brimming with excitement. Could that be their child?

"Weiwei, Father wants to go to Lucheng personally." Li Tianyou put down the letter in his hand and looked at Li Zhiwei.

He wanted to see for himself whether that child was his Zhou'er.

"Master, I will go with you," Lady Yao quickly said upon hearing this.

"Madam, Weiwei's wedding is approaching. You need to stay behind and manage her wedding preparations. I will rush back as quickly as possible regarding this matter." Li Tianyou knew what Lady Yao was worried about.

However, he still maintained a shred of rationality. They still had a daughter, and they couldn't let Li Zhiwei feel neglected.