Chapter 196 Recognition 2
A short, dark-skinned man of unknown age, wearing ragged clothes full of patches and with dishevelled hair, was sitting on the ground, rolling around and swearing.

On a chair nearby, there was a white-haired old woman sitting uneasily. She was also wearing patched clothes and a pair of tattered cloth shoes with a hole in the front, revealing two black toes.

Li Lanchun, who was sitting at the top, was stroking his forehead with his hand, looking helpless.

"Grandma——"

It was not until Qin Xiaoning called out that Li Lanchun raised her head: "A Ning, you're back."

Qin Xiaoning glanced at the mother and son, walked into the hall, bowed slightly to Li Lanchun, and then sat down on the chair at the bottom.

Only then did she take a closer look at the man who claimed to be her biological father.

The man was extremely rude and was throwing a tantrum on the ground when he suddenly saw a fairy-like beautiful girl looking at him. He felt a little uncomfortable for a moment. He rubbed his dark red nose with his dirty hands and grinned at the girl, revealing two rows of uneven yellow teeth.

I have never seen such an ugly and dirty person.

Li Lanchun looked at Qin Xiaoning, with an indescribable expression on his face. He sighed and said, "This mother and son came to your house, claiming to be your father and grandmother."

Before Li Lanchun could finish, the man rushed to say, "How can this be false? Don't look at me as ugly, but this doesn't mean I can't give birth to a pretty girl. Besides, although I am ugly, the woman I lived with was very beautiful." As he spoke, he pointed at Qin Xiaoning with his dirty black finger and said, "My daughter takes after my wife."

"Shut up!"

Li Lanchun couldn't stand it anymore and stopped the man. Then she picked up a painting and handed it to Qin Xiaoning: "A Ning, this person brought this. He said the person in the painting is your mother. Take a look. Is that right?"

Qin Xiaoning took the portrait and the person in the painting was undoubtedly her mother.

She nodded to Li Lanchun, then looked up at the man on the ground and asked him, "You keep saying he's my father, so let me ask you, what's my mother's name and where is her hometown?"

The man grinned when he heard that, and answered Qin Xiaoning's questions in a rush, and surprisingly, all of them were correct.

Li Lanchun glanced at Qin Xiaoning's expression and said to the man again, "This doesn't mean that Ning is your child."

"How could this be fake!" The man stood up, put his hands on his hips, and stretched out his thick black neck, looking so ugly that it was unbearable to look at.

"Jiang Yuan lived with me for two or three years. She ran away secretly after giving birth to this girl. I have her mother's portrait as evidence. It can't be false."

Li Lanchun replied: "How would I know if you heard what you said? There are many people who have seen Ah Ning's biological mother. It would not be difficult to create a portrait."

"How can you be so cruel, woman? I am the biological father of the girl, but you don't allow me to acknowledge her. I will go to the government office and sue your Lu family."

The man jumped three feet high and yelled at the top of his voice.

The old woman who was sitting there also started to make a scene, crying and slapping her thighs: "Oh, my poor son, he finally married a woman but she is unfaithful and gave birth to a daughter like this and secretly took her away. I finally found my son but this rich family took advantage of their power to bully us and prevent us from reuniting."

"The world is so unfair, and God is blind. I might as well just crash to death."

She cried and cursed, and then she bumped into the large white marble pillar in the hall. Seeing this, the man became even more arrogant: "If you don't return my daughter to me today, my mother and I will die in your house."

The troublemakers were difficult to deal with, and the mother and son were in a mess. This ugly scene was out of place in the living room of the Lu Mansion with carved corridors and painted buildings. Li Lanchun was busy directing the servants to hold the mother and son down. In the chaos, Wang Fengyi, Xia Yun, the fifth lady, the sixth lady and others came to the hall after hearing the news.

Everyone was shocked when they saw this crude mother and son.

Wang Fengyi walked in the front. After seeing the mother and son, he turned to look at the people behind him, frowned, and muttered, "How could this be?"

The girl has a face as beautiful as a flower, a temperament as gentle as water, and she is so beautiful and graceful, but her biological father is so crude and vulgar.

Who wouldn't be surprised?

Seeing another distinguished person coming in, the throwing tantrum mother and son finally calmed down.

Wang Fengyi led the way and slowly entered with a few others. Everyone sat down on the chairs and glanced at the vulgar mother and son, with expressions of extreme surprise on their faces.

Facing the crowd, Li Lanchun glanced at Qin Xiaoning who was sitting beside her in silence. She cleared her throat again and explained to them, "This guy is a scoundrel who just wants to extort some money."

When the man heard this, he immediately shouted back, "Although we are poor, we are not going to sell our daughter for money. I am the biological father of this girl, and I must take her back today. No matter how much money you give me, it won't work."

Li Lanchun had no choice but to bite the bullet and interrogate the man again.

"Aning's biological mother is a woman from an official family. Although her whole family was convicted, I heard that she also served in a high-ranking family and was later pardoned. How could she marry a rough man like you?"

Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

The man heard this and shouted back, "Although Jiang Yuan is the wife of an official family, she is not a woman of virtue. She seduced the master of the family and was driven out. With nowhere else to go, I took her in and made her my wife. I saved her life, but she was restless. After marrying me, she hooked up with other wild men. I was so angry that I beat her up. She then stole all the money in the house and ran away with my daughter."

Before the man could finish his rambling, Qin Xiaoning stopped him and said, "Shut up! You are not allowed to insult my mother."

Her mother was definitely not the kind of person that the man described. In order to support herself, she had been working hard to earn money by doing embroidery or washing clothes for wealthy families. Her mother was a diligent, kind and honest person.

When they lived in the countryside, all the neighbors praised her mother's character.

Hearing the man disparaging her biological mother in this way, Qin Xiaoning became so angry that her face turned pale and her thin shoulders trembled like leaves in the wind.

The man argued with Qin Xiaoning with a red face: "Your mother is such a person, and you, an unfilial daughter, are still protecting her."

Seeing this, the Sixth Miss stepped forward to protect Qin Xiaoning, pointing at the man and saying, "Stop making such a fuss here. Do you think my Lu family is easy to bully? Tell me the truth. Who ordered you to make random accusations? Do you want to extort money? Or do you want to slander my sister Qin's reputation?"

The man jumped up again: "I said, I'm not after money, and no one is instructing me. I just want to recognize my daughter. If you don't give it to me, I will go to the government to sue."

Having said that, he turned around and was about to leave. Li Lanchun hurriedly ordered the servant to stop him.

I don't know the origin of this scoundrel. If I let him make trouble in the government office, it will not be a big deal for the Lu family, but it will be bad for Qin Xiaoning.

Before Qin Xiaoning came back, Li Lanchun had already interrogated her. This man had the marriage certificate with Jiang Yuan in his hand, and he also knew Jiang Yuan's details. If he reported to the government, Qin Xiaoning would most likely be judged to be his daughter. Of course, with the power of the Lu family, the government would definitely side with the government, but the government would not force the Lu family to hand over the person. Although the Lu family could keep the person, it would also be bad for Qin Xiaoning's reputation if they let this scoundrel go out and make things worse.

It is not a glorious thing for anyone to have such a scoundrel father.