Chapter 36: Adoptive Father and Adoptive Mother
Seeing that the woman was about to pounce on them, Ji Xueqing took Ji Chenxing's hand and took a few steps back with her, staying much farther away from the woman.

The woman was just crying at first, but when she saw that Ji Chenxing had no intention of paying attention to her, she howled even louder.

"Ji Chenxing, Ji Chenxing, you are such an ungrateful bastard. Have you forgotten that our family has raised you for eighteen years? This is your attitude when I come to see you?"

People were coming and going around, all of them were going home after the charity party. They had nothing to do and wanted to eat some melon to fill their stomachs.

Fortunately, Lu Yuzhou was standing here, so even if those people saw it, they only dared to point and talk from a distance and did not dare to come over.

"Li Cuihua, Mr. Ji gave you a lot of money before he left, right?" Ji Chenxing stood beside Ji Xueqing and asked with a sneer, "Did you spend it all so quickly?"

The original owner's memory is sometimes clear and sometimes fuzzy. Ji Chenxing has no way of knowing the complete past of this body, but it is not difficult to infer that the adoptive parents treated the original owner very badly.

Adoptive mother Li Cuihua loves to play mahjong. She plays with her friends whenever she has time, and even gambles some money from time to time.

My adoptive father Ji Xi had a broken leg and a bad temper. Not only did he have no job or income, he also often drank and beat people.

The original owner was beaten to death by Ji Xi several times.

The adoptive parents had a younger brother named Ji Jiajin. He was short, ugly, mentally retarded, and not good at school. He learned to beat people very quickly from Ji Xi.

The original owner's memory was intermittent, but it was not difficult to see that she was very afraid of this family.

Hearing Ji Chenxing's words, Li Cuihua showed a greedy smile on her bronze face.

"Chen Xing, when will your madness and stupidity be cured? Alas, it's better to be from a wealthy family, with good feng shui, so you don't need any treatment.

"When are you going to bring your brother over and let him stay at your house for a few days? Hehe, it would be even better if you could find him a wife from the city."

Ji Chenxing felt sick after hearing this.

Ji Jiajin is seventeen years old this year, which is far from the marriageable age according to modern laws.

However, people in rural areas get married early, and Ji Jiajin's brain is not very good, his family does not have much money, and no girls in the surrounding villages are willing to marry him, so Li Cuihua and Ji Xi became even more anxious.

Ji Xi and Li Cuihua thought of two plans. One was to sell Ji Chenxing to a 40-year-old man at the head of the village who had not yet found a wife, and use the money to give to Ji Jiajin as a betrothal gift.
The other one was much simpler. Just clean Ji Chenxing and send him to the Ji family's room. This not only saved a lot of trouble, but also saved the car fee, room fee, and five gold coins for the betrothal gift. It was really a great profit.

Unfortunately, Li Cuihua's first plan was only half implemented. Just after she took 300,000 yuan from the old man, Ji Huaiyu took Ji Chenxing back to the Ji family.

Who is Ji Huaiyu? He could not hide what Ji Xi and his family of three did to Ji Chenxing.

He thought that the two families had taken the wrong child. If that was the case, then what should Ji Xueqing do next was another question.

Fortunately, Ji Huaiyu was completely relieved when he found out that Ji Chenxing was just a baby girl that Ji Xi picked up at the door eighteen years ago.

Some places are naturally hostile to women. He didn't want to push another daughter into the tiger's den just after rescuing one daughter from the wolf's den.

This is also the reason why Ji Huaiyu has not yet found Ji Xueqing's biological parents.

Ji Huaiyu gave Ji Xi's family 200,000 yuan as a way to buy out the 18-year relationship between Ji Chenxing and their family.

But Ji Huaiyu's 200,000 is not as good as the old man's 300,000. Ji Xi and Li Cuihua became angrier and angrier as they thought about it. They felt that it would be more cost-effective to sell Ji Chenxing than to return him to the Ji family.

So they came all the way to the imperial capital, thinking that the Ji family would not be short of this little money. Since their family was big and powerful, they would definitely take advantage of it as much as possible, and they would deduct hundreds of thousands from Ji Huaiyu.

If Ji Huaiyu doesn't give it to them, they will make a big deal out of it and kidnap Ji Chenxing back.

"Ji Chenxing, why don't you say anything?" Li Cuihua was very angry, with an ugly expression on her face, "Now that you've found a rich man, you no longer recognize your mother who has adopted you for 18 years, and you don't care about your brother who grew up with you!"

It's useless to get entangled with such people. The more you entangle them, the greedier they become. It's better to ignore them from the beginning.

Ji Chenxing rubbed his temples, "Xueqing, Mr. Lu, don't worry about her. It's late, let's go back." Uncle Xu's car was flashing its lights not far away. Ji Xueqing nodded and was about to leave when Qi Ziyan grabbed her hand.

"Xueqing, we can't leave like this. It's almost twelve o'clock. Auntie has come all the way here, and I guess she doesn't even have a place to stay overnight."

There were a bunch of people in the distance pointing fingers at them. Qi Ziyan didn't know how much they could hear, but he always tried to establish himself as a kind and upright person.

Hearing Qi Ziyan's words, Li Cuihua nodded vigorously and cried, "This young man is a good person, unlike my ungrateful daughter who I raised for eighteen years and just said she didn't want her mother."

Ji Xueqing blinked her eyes, "But Brother Zi Yan, listen to what she said, she is going too far!"

"She must be too tired and too anxious, so she spoke without thinking." Qi Ziyan smiled very gently, "We just came out of the charity party, how can we turn a blind eye to such a woman who needs help?"

Ji Xueqing was silent.

Because Qi Ziyan appeared on the family variety show, she has always respected Qi Ziyan.

This respect is not because of Qi Ziyan's performance on the family variety show, but because he has very strict requirements for his "family".

In order to prevent some artists from cheating, artists who want to appear on variety shows must provide a paternity test. Even if there is no paternity test, they must have a household registration book as supporting documentation.

This paternity test was so incredible that Ji Huaiyu's hands were shaking when he held Ji Xueqing's test form. Ji Xueqing had no blood relationship with himself, Wen Ya, or Ji Yunfan.

Directly and indirectly, Qi Ziyan became the benefactor who brought Ji Chenxing back to the Ji family.

Ji Huaiyu never openly opposed Ji Xueqing and Qi Ziyan's relationship. In addition to doting on Ji Xueqing, this incident was also the reason.

Ji Xueqing was not an unreasonable person. The Ji family had done her a favor, and Ji Chenxing was a member of the Ji family. This relationship made her regard Qi Ziyan as someone who could bring her luck.

At this moment, Qi Ziyan said that he wanted to settle Li Cuihua, so how could Ji Xueqing say no?

"Why don't you go back first, sister? Brother Zi Yan and I will find a place for her to stay and then we'll go home."

Ji Xueqing shook Ji Chenxing's hand, fearing that Ji Chenxing would disagree, "Don't worry, sister, with Brother Ziyan here, there will be no problem."

"No." Ji Chenxing refused without even thinking. She knew too well what kind of person Li Cuihua was.

Even though she is the only one sitting here pretending to be pitiful, Ji Xi and Ji Jiajin might be waiting for her there.

If any conflict occurred, or if they blackmailed him, Qi Ziyan's small body would make it hard for him to stand up to both of them, let alone protect Ji Xueqing.

Ji Chenxing took out a few hundred yuan in cash and threw it to Li Cuihua, "Go back wherever you need to go. We can talk about it later if there is anything else."

Seeing the pink banknotes, Li Cuihua smiled happily, and the wrinkles on her face twisted into an extremely ugly flower.

"Okay, okay, I'll go back today. When do you mean after? Is there a specific time?"

Ji Chenxing clenched his fists irritably, "I'm busy these two days, I'll let you know when I have time."

Li Cuihua nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, then you go ahead and I'll wait for you in the capital... Well, can you give me some more money? Your capital is really a place for rich people. Hotels are really expensive. One night costs several hundred..."

Veins had begun to appear on Ji Chenxing's fists. He had already given Li Cuihua several hundred yuan, but she was still not satisfied.

"Take Xueqing away, I'll make arrangements." Lu Yuzhou's voice fell lightly into Ji Chenxing's ears.

"Don't worry." Lu Yuzhou completely lost his lazy look, "Since they are your former family, I will definitely let them experience the hospitality of the people of the imperial capital."

(End of this chapter)