Father Lu quickly added, "There's no need to thank me. You've taken such good care of my grandchildren. They're so smart, well - behaved and sensible. You must have put in a great deal of effort."
"You've really gone through a lot."
Hearing Father Lu's praise, Xu Qingqing felt a sense of pride well up in her heart.
The two children's personalities were inborn. Being so smart and well - behaved, Xu Qingqing had suffered almost half as much as other pregnant women while taking care of them.
Because these two children were just so obedient.
"Thank you for your praise, Uncle Lu. Go to bed early." Xu Qingqing smiled as she helped Father Lu close the door of his room and then returned to the bedroom.
Lu Chuanbai was sitting on the bed using his computer. His face was extremely solemn. "Keep investigating this matter. I must get to the bottom of it!"
Seeing Lu Chuanbai being so serious and earnest for a rare time, Xu Qingqing waited until he finished his phone call before getting closer.
"What's going on? Is it something about the company?"
Lu Chuanbai shook his head. His tone was flat, showing no emotion.
"The wheat seedlings in the company's wasteland have germinated, so it has nothing to do with them."
"I've found a clue about the person who murdered my biological mother back then."
Saying this, Lu Chuanbai's hands clenched into tight fists. The veins on his forehead bulged, looking like he had been suppressing his emotions for a long time.
Hearing this, Xu Qingqing quickly got in front of Lu Chuanbai and looked at him worriedly, trying to share his stress.
"What on earth happened? Tell me quickly!"
Lu Chuanbai began to tell the story. "I hired a detective abroad to follow Wang Chengxiang, and he found something astonishing..."
The detective he sent to follow Wang Chengxiang found that Wang Chengxiang had acquaintances in a foreign hospital and could obtain any kind of drugs.
And he had obtained a drug that could make people fall into a coma and have hallucinations.
This kind of drug was not allowed to be sold in their own country because its harm outweighed its benefits. It was a favorite among lawbreakers.
Hearing Lu Chuanbai's explanation, Xu Qingqing's heart skipped a beat. She thought, "Could this have something to do with your mother's death..."
Could it be that Wang Chengxiang had used the same kind of poison on Lu Chuanbai's mother!
How vicious!
Lu Chuanbai nodded. After learning this piece of news, he felt as if his heart was being cut open cruelly by a dull file, grinding his flesh into mince bit by bit.
He felt both pain and suffocation, unable to catch his breath.
"Before my mother passed away, she often had hallucinations. My gentle mother even hit me."
"I always thought that my mother couldn't accept my father's affair and had developed mental problems. I took her to the psychiatric department for examinations many times, but they found nothing wrong with her."
"So I suspect that Wang Chengxiang used this drug on my mother back then, making her have hallucinations and making me think that she was a mental patient..."
Hearing Lu Chuanbai grit his teeth and say these words, Xu Qingqing covered her mouth in horror, her face full of disbelief.
"If that's the case, then Auntie didn't have a mental illness at all. It was because of the drug..."
"It's all my fault!" Lu Chuanbai was extremely remorseful. The sorrow in his heart was about to burst out.
"If I had believed her, I wouldn't have killed her!"
Lu Chuanbai covered his head painfully, his tone full of self - blame.
Xu Qingqing couldn't bear it and hugged him in her arms, gently patting his back.
"Don't be sad. You can't be completely blamed for this. You've done a great job at your age."
"But if I could have done better, I could have saved my mother."
Lu Chuanbai was trapped in a stubborn circle, believing that his mother's death was all his fault and that he needed to atone for it.
"No."
Xu Qingqing held Lu Chuanbai's face as if it were a precious treasure and comforted him seriously.
"Lu Chuanbai, believe me!"
"If your mother's spirit in heaven saw you blaming yourself for her death, she would be sad!"
"She would be more pained than when she was alive. She would hope that you could live a good life!"
As a mother, Xu Qingqing understood a mother's wishes very well.
Before she became a mother, she always thought that her mother had too many restrictions on her.
But only after becoming a mother did she understand that all she wanted was to keep her children safer and away from harm.
"So don't blame yourself. You've done enough."
Facing Xu Qingqing's sincere and gentle gaze, Lu Chuanbai seemed to see his mother's face again, comforting him that everything would be okay.
"You're right. I shouldn't be blamed for all this. It's all his fault..."
Lu Chuanbai's mind was in a daze. He frantically raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the guest room.
"If he hadn't had an affair back then, this wouldn't have happened!"
As he spoke, the corners of Lu Chuanbai's eyes turned red. His eyes were full of fierceness, and his whole body exuded an aura of hatred.
The emotions that Lu Chuanbai had finally calmed down with Xu Qingqing's comfort flared up again.
Xu Qingqing reached out and pulled Lu Chuanbai's hand back, like a guiding light for a lost ship in the vast ocean.
Xu Qingqing looked into Lu Chuanbai's eyes seriously. "Lu Chuanbai, I believe Uncle Lu isn't such a person. There must be some misunderstanding!"
"If there's a misunderstanding, why doesn't he say so?"
Lu Chuanbai pounded his head with his hand. He felt his heart ache and suffocate. He wanted to hurt himself to vent his depression.
"Don't do this. Why are you hitting yourself?"
Xu Qingqing grabbed Lu Chuanbai's hand.
Her hands were small but warm and strong enough to wrap around Lu Chuanbai's fist, as if gathering the thorns on Lu Chuanbai's body.
"You're blaming yourself for Auntie's death, let alone Uncle Lu. He must also blame himself for Auntie's death."
"What you two need to do is have a good talk and clear up the misunderstanding from back then. Only in this way can you avoid hurting each other."
"How can we talk..." Lu Chuanbai looked at Xu Qingqing with tear - filled eyes.
"Uncle Lu is just next door. I'll go with you to find him. Maybe things will take a turn for the better."
Xu Qingqing promised Lu Chuanbai.
By observing Father Lu's eyes and seeing how good he was to the two children, she was sure that Father Lu was definitely not a bad person.
"I don't want to."
At this crucial moment, Lu Chuanbai backed down instead.
"Let's just forget it..."
To prevent Lu Chuanbai from being a coward, Xu Qingqing directly reached out and pulled him up.
"If there's a misunderstanding, it has to be cleared up. Have you forgotten what the two children told you?"
"If you keep acting like this, how can you be a good example for the two children in the future?"
Xu Qingqing didn't allow Lu Chuanbai to escape. Lu Chuanbai was half - resisting and half - compliant as Xu Qingqing pulled him in front of the guest room where Father Lu was staying.
Xu Qingqing knocked on the door of the guest room politely. "Uncle Lu, are you asleep?"