Chapter 152

Chapter 152: Becoming a Dad by Surprise

The atmosphere was a bit awkward when the little girl lying across Du An Rao’s other leg suddenly called out in a crisp voice: “Sister!”

Du An Rao’s attention was caught at once: “Wrong, wrong, you got the generation wrong. You should call me Aunt, not sister.”

The little girl blinked her big round eyes, as if she could not understand why such a young “sister” had to be called Aunt.

But confusion was confusion. In the end, she still changed how she addressed her.

“Aunt, you are so pretty. You are as pretty as Brother Yi Heng’s mama in the class next door.”

Du An Rao froze, and the others in the room were also stunned.

After a brief daze, laughter suddenly exploded in the living room.

“Looks like our little princess is already into good looks! So young and she already knows who is pretty and who is not. But who is this Brother Yi Heng? Is his mama really that pretty?”

Second cousin-in-law looked a bit helpless when she heard Mother Du ask: “He is a little boy in the middle class next door. His name is Li Yi Heng. He has fine brows and bright eyes, very fair and clean, and super good looking. This little flirt got bewitched the first day she saw him at school. Tian Tian kept following behind him calling ‘Brother, Brother’, and as her mom, I almost lost face.”

Second cousin was very nervous and jealous that his little cabbage had not even grown up yet but was already running into someone else’s pigpen: “Who is better looking, Papa or that Brother Yi Heng of yours?”

“Papa is better looking.”

Second cousin’s lips curved up a little.

“Brother Yi Heng is even better looking.”

The smile on second cousin’s face froze, and he turned to stone on the spot.

Second cousin-in-law rolled her eyes at him in disgust: “Why are you arguing with a child? You’re already this old and you are not embarrassed?”

Second cousin still looked like the sky was falling, his whole person gray and lifeless. You could see how much his daughter’s words had hit him.

However, no one noticed that when Du An Rao heard second cousin-in-law’s explanation, she completely stiffened. The apple she had just bitten slipped from her hand with a smack and rolled all the way to Mother Du’s feet.

“An An, you…”

[It can’t be that much of a coincidence, right!]

Everyone’s eyes instantly turned to Du An Rao. She jumped in fright, thinking they were all reacting to the apple that had rolled away. She gave an awkward smile: “Sorry, my hand slipped.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Just wash it and you can still eat it.”

Mother Du asked someone to wash the apple. Du An Rao also calmed down for the moment and asked carefully: “Xiu Xiu, the little boy in the other class is called Li Yi Heng?”

“Yes. ‘Yi’ from ‘single-minded’, and ‘Heng’ from ‘perseverance’.”

“Then, sister-in-law, have you met his mom?”

“I have. When I picked Xiu Xiu up before, she pointed her out to me. She has a baby face, and she was wearing that yellow delivery uniform they wear for food delivery, with two braids. She looked just like a high school student. If Xiu Xiu hadn’t kept telling me over and over that she really is his biological mom, I would have thought she was his sister.”

After second cousin-in-law finished, she tested the waters and asked: “An An, do you know her?”

“…I don’t.”

[We may not know each other, but I’m pretty sure. The Brother Yi Heng in our little princess’s mouth should be the child my fourth sister’s eldest cousin had with his white moonlight first love.]

Everyone: “???”

Wait a minute, let us sort this out. That is a lot of information at once!

[From second cousin-in-law’s description, white moonlight still has to deliver food while picking up her child from school. How many jobs is she working at once? Looking at it this way, Fourth Sister’s big cousin is really scummy. He actually let his white moonlight deliver food to raise their child! Even if he probably does not know the child exists yet.]

Everyone looked at each other: Uh…

Whether to tell Li Zhao Yang about this, Du An Rao was very hesitant.

She could not figure out what was in the heart of this white moonlight first love of his. She did not know if the other party still had feelings for Li Zhao Yang, or whether she was willing to let the child recognize him as a father.

But the reason the two of them broke up back then was purely a misunderstanding carefully set up and guided by others. They both counted as victims. This Miss Lu, taking care of the child alone, must have suffered a lot of gossip and hardship. There was no reason to let this irresponsible father continue to live free and easy.

Thinking of how the Li family had respected Du Yu Xi’s wishes after they found her, Du An Rao only hoped they would extend that same respect to this mother and child.

After hesitating for a moment, Du An Rao finally gritted her teeth and stood up again: “Sorry, I have something I need to deal with. I will leave for a bit. You all keep talking. Xiu Xiu, Aunt will come back and play with you in a while.”

The little one was disappointed, but she behaved and did not cling to her.

Everyone in the room knew that if Du An Rao left now, she was probably going to contact Du Yu Xi to talk about that child. They wanted to follow and eat melon together, but were afraid she would notice, so they could only stare at her back and secretly sigh in regret.

Right after she went upstairs, Du An Rao really did call Du Yu Xi. Before this, Du Yu Xi had already gone to City J several times. She had visited her deceased parents and relatives, but the assets her birth parents left her were many and messy, so for the last few weeks, she had to rush to City J every time she had a break.

When Du An Rao called, Du Yu Xi was sitting in the living room with Uncle Li and Aunt Li, drinking afternoon tea and talking about a gallery Su Ying Rong had left behind before she died.

“This gallery was something your mother bought before she had you. It is in the western suburbs. The foot traffic is not very big, and these years it has basically just broken even. But some time ago, the western suburbs started being developed, and the land prices there shot up. The land this gallery sits on has gone up ten times. After you take over, you can keep running it as a gallery or turn it into some other kind of shop. Your brother already has a renovation crew. Just go to him.”

“Would that be too much trouble for cousin?”

“No, no. It is easy work. He always handles things like this. Helping others is helping, helping family is also helping. Don’t be scared to trouble him. As a brother, he should be helping his sister with this kind of thing.”

The corners of Du Yu Xi’s lips lifted. She nodded and said: “Okay. Then after I go see it with brother, I will decide, is that alright?”

“Of course. These are all things your parents left you. You can do whatever you want with them.”

Du Yu Xi only smiled and did not answer. She was just about to say something else when her phone rang.

She glanced at the caller ID and stopped talking at once: “Excuse me, I need to take this call.”

The Li couple waved their hands and did not think much of it.

They did not expect that after hearing only the start, Du Yu Xi could not help crying out: “What did you say?”

Their attention was instantly drawn. They looked over with concern but, since she was still on the phone, could only wait patiently.

When she finally hung up, they asked: “Did something happen?”

“Uh… Uncle, Aunt, would you two be able to accept that cousin just… became a dad out of nowhere?”

“Oh, I thought it was something serious, it is just…” Aunt Li let out a breath of relief and took a sip of tea. Then, as if realizing something, she suddenly sprayed the tea out and stared wide-eyed: “What did you say?!”