After I left home with a broken heart, my whole family begged me to come back

Chapter 33 The beam is not straight
They have been away from home for so many years, and it is Xie Ming who has been taking care of him and enjoying his company by Xie's father's side.

Even if Xie Yuan used to favor Xie Huaishan a little more, times have changed. In all these years, they have not fulfilled their filial duties in order to find their son. The balance in Xie's father's heart must have tilted a long time ago.

"You two have been looking for the child for so many years. Did you find him when you came back this time?" Xie Yuan changed the subject.

"No." Xie Huaishan looked a little depressed.

When his eldest grandson was lost, Xie Yuan suffered a great blow.

But as Su Yurao gave birth to her second grandson, Xie Yuan slowly recovered from his grief, and even advised Xie Huaishan and Mu Wanting to have another child while they were still young.

They can continue to look for the child, and they cannot let a child delay the continuation of the Xie family's bloodline.

Xie Yuan frowned, "I advised you at the beginning to have another one while you are still young, but you didn't listen."

Now, Xie Huaishan and Mu Wanting are both over fifty years old, and they have no other children except the lost child.

Compared with Xie Ming, the Xie family's main house seemed particularly deserted.

"Dad." Xie Huaishan frowned, obviously not wanting Xie Yuan to bring up their sad story again.

Xie Yuan sighed, "I'm not nagging you, but you two are getting old now. Without a child, who can you count on when you get old?"

Xie Huaishan remained silent, and Mu Wanting looked unhappy.

"Dad, we already have some news about Qiu'er. It's not impossible to find the child." Xie Huaishan was silent for a while, but decided to tell Xie Yuan some clues they had found recently.

"It's been so many years, who knows whether the child is alive or dead, whether he is healthy, and whether he has been well educated." Xie Yuan frowned slightly, but he did not have such a big fantasy about finding his child like Xie Huaishan and his wife.

On the contrary, he is very realistic.

If the child had been lost and become a waste during the eighteen years he had been away, he would rather the child had never been found.

Just like the child who was taken away by mistake in Xie Ming's family. He was raised in the countryside for so many years and had a lot of bad habits brought back from the countryside.

In front of his grandfather, he is timid and submissive, without any manliness at all. He is worse than the one who was mistakenly taken away and raised in the Xie family for eighteen years.

"Dad, no matter what, Tingting and I will find the child back. No matter what he looks like now, he is our most beloved son." Xie Huaishan looked directly at Xie Yuan and spoke word by word.

A hint of dissatisfaction flashed across Xie Yuan's eyes, but he didn't say anything more.

Get it back?
It's been lost for eighteen years. If it could have been found, it would have been found long ago.

This boss might be an idiot.

"Now that you're back this time, you won't leave, right?" Xie Yuan's expression eased a little.

Xie Huaishan hummed, "I'm not leaving."

The most recent clue they got was that the child had appeared in the mountain village where Xie Chen had lived before.

Xie Chen had lived there for eighteen years, and he had never heard of any child his age.

I'm afraid that clue is also false.

This time they came back, they didn't plan to look for it in person again.

A lot of money has been spent on finding their children over the years, and they have to come back to continue running their own business.

Otherwise, if the child is found one day and they have nothing to leave for the child, they will still feel guilty towards the child.

"Well, it's better not to leave. Yu Rao has been supporting the Xie family's business alone. She has worked hard over the years." Xie Yuan said softly, "In the future, you should help her more." Xie Yuan said earnestly. Mu Wanting frowned slightly and turned her head to look at Xie Huaishan.

At the beginning, when Xie Yuan split up his family, he also divided up the Xie family's assets.

Xie Huaishan and Xie Ming divided the Xie family's assets equally, but over the years, Xie Huaishan and Mu Wanting were focused on finding their child, and all the assets were managed under Xie Ming's name.

Now, from what Xie Yuan said, he doesn't plan to return those properties?

Xie Huaishan frowned, "Dad, you are being polite. My sister-in-law has been helping us take care of the company for so long. It's really hard work. From now on, we can do it ourselves and don't need to bother my brother and sister-in-law anymore."

Xie Yuan was silent for a while. "Of course it would be best if you could come by yourselves. However, you have been busy looking for your children these years, and you are afraid that you have become unfamiliar with running a company."

Xie Huaishan slowly put the teacup in his hand back on the tea table. "Dad is right. Wanting and I have been busy looking for children these years. We are indeed unfamiliar with the management of the company. During this period, we need to learn more from my brother and sister-in-law. We should try to get started as soon as possible to reduce their burden."

Xie Huaishan seemed not to understand what Xie Yuan said, and continued to practice Tai Chi with Xie Yuan without any expression.

Xie Yuan glanced out the window with a deep gaze and said nothing more.

At the beginning, he divided the property between his two sons. Xie Huaishan had no intention of taking care of it, so he entrusted the property to the second son, Xie Ming.

Over the years, his businesses have made considerable profits, but Xie Huaishan has never asked Xie Ming for any money.

From this point of view, Xie Ming was actually a bit unfair.

……

It was the weekend again. Xie Chen got up from bed early in the morning, intending to complete his plan to purchase a farmhouse.

The college entrance examination is just two weeks away. The school is filled with a tense atmosphere and everyone wishes they could split one minute into eight parts to use it effectively.

Bai Ji, Zhou Huimin and Xu Lang ran to the classroom to review desperately at around four o'clock, before the sun came up. Xie Chen summarized a lot of review notes for them, and they had to make full use of them to try to get a few more points in the college entrance examination.

Xie Chen walked out of the school gate carrying a canvas bag.

There is less than half a year left before the news of the relocation is exposed, so he must act quickly.

Xie Chen took a taxi and headed straight to his destination.

It took forty minutes for the taxi to drive from Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School to the relatively desolate village in the west of the city.

Xie Chen paid the fare with his mobile phone and walked towards the village with his bag on his back.

It was around 7:30 when he left school, and now it's past 8 o'clock.

It’s past eight o’clock in the summer, the sun has risen high, and the people in the village have begun their busy day.

Xie Chen was walking on the village road with his bag on his back. He bought a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of expensive wine at the supermarket at the entrance of the village. Then he put the cigarettes and wine in his backpack and asked someone where the village chief's house was.

Xie Chen knew very well that if he wanted to buy a yard here, it would definitely alarm the village chief.

In that case, it would be better for him to bother the village chief right from the start and see which house in the village is for sale, rather than him running around like a headless fly.

The young man who was stopped by Xie Chen took a look at Xie Chen. Seeing that Xie Chen was well-mannered and did not look like a bad person, he pointed to the most imposing courtyard in the east of the village and said, "Look, that's the village chief's house!"

Xie Chen thanked the other party and strode towards the village chief’s house.

(End of this chapter)