Mrs. Huo was also extremely excited. She shed tears as she finished saying this.
"Don't even think about it. Sooner or later, I'll get the other child back too. The child must be raised in the Huo family. What about Huo Cheng? Does he think he can go against the Huo family? Sooner or later, he'll have to leave that woman!"
Mr. Huo blew his beard and glared. When it came to this issue, he refused to compromise even a single step.
"Do you still want to lock me up again? You can't be like this!" Mrs. Huo quarreled loudly with Mr. Huo.
"Don't you even think about sending the child to them again. There's no room for discussion on this matter. You don't need to visit them from now on. I'll naturally find someone to take care of them. Just do your own thing and stop meddling in how I handle Huo Cheng's affairs."
Mr. Huo, who had been gentle and amiable when consoling his wife just now, seemed to be a completely different person when this matter was mentioned. He was as stubborn as a mule and refused to yield.
Mrs. Huo could only sigh helplessly. Seeing Mr. Huo like this, there was really no possibility of a turnaround. She didn't dare to say anything more on Huo Cheng's behalf.
The next day, Mrs. Huo came to Huo Cheng's room. Seeing Mrs. Huo, the two people guarding the door naturally didn't dare to stop her.
"Huo Cheng, my grandson. How's he doing?"
"Very well. He's chubby and loves to smile." In response to his mother's question, Huo Cheng answered truthfully.
Mrs. Huo slowly walked to the window and looked out, saying,
"Back then, I was pregnant with you for ten months. I suffered a great deal just during the pregnancy. You saw how hard it was for Gu Sisi during her pregnancy, and you felt so bad for her. But back then, when I was pregnant with you, it was just the same."
"It was strange back then. Even though it wasn't my first pregnancy, I was so uncomfortable that I could hardly bear it. I couldn't eat anything all day long. Even when I managed to eat a few mouthfuls, all the nutrition went to you. When I saw Gu Sisi back then, I just thought of myself in the past."
"When I was pregnant with you, I thought it was going to be a daughter."
"At that time, I really wanted a daughter. I bought a whole bunch of clothes for girls. But who would have thought that it would turn out to be a boy! The whole family was overjoyed. It was another son. I just stared blankly at all those pink and red clothes for a long time, daydreaming about having a daughter."
"Do you still remember when you were little, you ran away by yourself and hid in a small mountain village. You just refused to come back. The whole family went out to look for you."
"Your eldest sister, second brother, third brother, your father and I all went out to look for you. We searched everywhere but couldn't find you. Do you remember your third brother's leg... That's how he lost it."
Recalling the past, there were glistening tears in Mrs. Huo's eyes.
"When you were little, you were extremely smart. You could understand things with just a little explanation. You could learn many things quickly. Everyone said you were a genius. Since childhood..."
"What... What did you just say?!"
The conversation was suddenly interrupted. Mrs. Huo slowly turned her head and looked at Huo Cheng. She saw a complex expression on Huo Cheng's face, a mixture of disbelief, surprise, and panic. All kinds of expressions that you wouldn't normally expect to see on Huo Cheng's face were there.
"Do you mean that third brother lost his leg because of me?" Huo Cheng was rarely flustered. After saying this, his voice was clearly trembling. Huo Cheng only knew that his third brother was mysterious. Since he could remember, his third brother had always stayed in his own building and refused to come out.
He originally thought that his third brother was a loner because of his leg. He never thought that it was because of himself!
"Yes, that's right. It was because of you. Because you ran away from home back then, your father and I were so worried that we sent everyone out to look for you."
Mrs. Huo sighed silently. No one could have predicted the outcome. Who would have thought that Huo Cheng would run so far by himself, and it just so happened that Huo Zhen found his trail.
As a result, an accident happened on the way to find him. Since then, his leg had been crippled.
Thinking about this incident, Mrs. Huo felt quite guilty. Huo Zhen wasn't very old at that time. He shouldn't have gone out to look for Huo Cheng with them. It was all because they were too anxious at that time.
They had harmed a child. Mrs. Huo felt very bad about it. But they never mentioned it again later, thinking that the past should be left in the past and they shouldn't bring up sad memories again.
Seeing Huo Cheng looking so completely surprised now, Mrs. Huo was a little confused. Hadn't anyone ever told Huo Cheng that Huo Zhen lost his leg because of him?
Just as she was wondering, Huo Cheng wanted to ask Mrs. Huo more questions.
Suddenly, the door was opened from the outside. A group of people rushed in. At the head was Mr. Huo, followed by the eldest sister and second brother of the Huo family. Both of them looked extremely smug.
They looked as if Huo Cheng was about to be finished.
"You unfilial son! What have you done?!" Mr. Huo seemed extremely angry. He roared directly at Huo Cheng.
"What are you talking about? You scold your child as an unfilial son at every turn. Where is there a father like you? Can't you talk nicely!" Mrs. Huo stepped forward first and stood in front of Huo Cheng to protect him.
"You're still protecting him. Do you know what this unfilial son has done?" Mr. Huo covered his chest and roared. He looked as if Huo Cheng had committed a heinous crime. In fact, in Mr. Huo's eyes, it was indeed so.
At this time, he brought a group of people directly to Huo Cheng's room to arrest him because he was convinced that it was Huo Cheng who had stolen the precious relic of the Huo family. If it weren't for Huo Xin insisting that Huo Cheng wouldn't do such a thing, Huo Xin would surely be here with them now.
As for Huo Zhen, because of his gloomy personality, everyone automatically ignored him.
"What evidence do you have to say it was Huo Cheng? Huo Cheng is also your child. How can you wrong him like this!" Facing Mr. Huo, Mrs. Huo wasn't the least bit intimidated. She was determined to protect Huo Cheng.
Feeling his mother's protection, Huo Cheng put his hand on his mother's shoulder and stepped forward, protecting his mother behind him.
It was a good thing to have his mother's protection, but Huo Cheng wasn't the kind of person who relied on a woman to protect him.
"Father says I stole it. Then, Father, please show me the evidence."
"Humph. You want evidence? Fine! I'll show you the evidence so you won't say I've wronged you." Mr. Huo snorted coldly and told the people behind him to bring a laptop.
Mr. Huo opened a video. It was the surveillance footage from the fourth floor of the Huo family. First, it was the surveillance outside the door. You could see a figure sneaking in. Judging from the figure, it was indeed very similar to Huo Cheng.
Then, the person took out a key and did something to the door. The door that was said to be impossible for one person to open was opened just like that.
After going in, naturally, it triggered the trap on the fourth floor. You could see the person deftly avoiding the trap, finding the source, and disabling all the traps. The whole process took less than five minutes.
Next, it seemed that the person didn't know what his target was. He kept rummaging around, looking for something among a pile of antique calligraphy and paintings. He threw the treasures on the ground. In no time, it was in a complete mess, exactly the way everyone saw it when they went in that day.