Ruling the Historical Romance Novel as the Female Supporting Character-Chapter 105: She Refuses to Acknowledge a Deadbeat Father

Su Yijia closed the written statement and casually handed it back to Ke Zeming. Then she rolled her eyes in a disdainful manner, saying, "My main thoughts are that marriages should be conducted with proper legal procedures, so as not to harm oneself and others. Additionally, financial affairs should be kept confidential; otherwise, you end up surrounded by a pack of wolves."

The contents of that written statement were even more elegant than her singing.

Twenty-one years ago, who would have taken in someone like her mother? Not only did they have a lot of relatives to feed, but they couldn’t even provide enough food for their own children. The Su family was willing to take such a risk in accommodating her mother, a complete outsider, only because there was a significant amount of money offered to them. Furthermore, they had already discovered that the Su and Lin families, along with her adoptive parents, all the siblings and even the spouses they had married were relocated to Hu City from the village, where they had found jobs. A job in Hu City more than twenty years ago would have cost at least a couple of hundred yuan. With nearly a dozen people, that’s almost three thousand yuan. Plus, the cost of moving, renting a place, and buying new items, the total expenses would be at least five thousand yuan. Nowadays, five thousand yuan was already a significant sum, let alone over twenty years ago. If they had truly acted out of kindness, all they would do was just keep her alive instead of drowning her in a chamber pot.

"You’re right," Gao Huabin chimed in, nodding vigorously.

Ke Zeming shot him a glare to signal him not to interfere and then continued asking, "Do you still want to talk to your eldest uncle?"

"No, I just want to meet the person who delivered me back then," Su Yijia replied with a solemn expression.

"Do you suspect that there might be hidden secrets in your mother’s death?" Ke Zeming quickly guessed her thoughts.

This silent understanding earned him a few more glances from Gao Huabin. Even though they said that if you had a clear conscience, you wouldn’t fear the shadow, he still felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.

Silently, Ke Zeming inched away to create more distance from Su Yijia.

"Do you have thorns on your butt?" Su Yijia couldn’t help but ask because he suddenly seemed odd, and his use of the word "butt" made his ears turn red. While they had heard plenty of similar language among the men in the military team, it was quite different when a woman used it. The last woman who spoke of his butt was his mother.

"No! Sister-in-law, are you planning to inquire the midwife?" Ke Zeming quickly redirected the conversation to the matter at hand. He was worried that this off-topic discussion might cause further embarrassment.

"Yes, I’m definitely going to question the midwife, but that’s my personal matter, and I can handle it myself," Su Yijia replied. She didn’t think it was necessary to involve her comrades in this kind of investigation since it wasn’t part of their usual work. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"You’ll probably start the investigation from the county to find out who my deadbeat father is, right?" she asked.

"That’s right! Your father’s departure at the time was indeed peculiar, so we will look into him," Ke Zeming nodded. While it was confidential information, they couldn’t conceal it from Su Yijia, so they chose to provide her with some details.

"In any case, you can investigate my matters as you please, but I have one request: don’t let that scumbag know of my existence. He hastily married, clearly harboring intentions of a fraudulent marriage. He abandoned his wife and child immediately after the wedding, which led to the downfall and death of my grandparents. He also caused me to be treated as a servant, subject to years of abuse and exploitation. So, I don’t want him to know about me to avoid any attempts to reconnect with me once he learns of some of my situation or finds out about Uncle Xia and Kaize’s identities. I don’t want him to come and harass me."

Although she phrased it as a request, her tone was serious and resolute. Ke Zeming understood that if they botched this task, his sister-in-law would be genuinely displeased.

"Sister-in-law, rest assured, we will absolutely not make such a mistake," he quickly assured her. In fact, they wouldn’t have made such an error even without her request.

These questions were all asked and felt that there was nothing more they could obtain from the Lin family, so they released Lin Jiayao. As for Lin Cuifen, she was sentenced to three years for attempting to commit a sexual offense against Su Yijia but failing to succeed.

On the other hand, since Lin Cuifen took the blame for everything, Su Xinyue claimed that she was cornered and threatened by her mother not to report her to the police, which led to a detention for merely seven days. However, this incident was recorded on her file, and it would pose a significant hurdle in the future when dealing with matters requiring identity verification. In those times, people rarely reported such incidents, so being detained for seven days was already a significant matter.

On the day the verdict was issued, the members of the Su and Lin families were angry and frustrated, but aside from the elderly, none of them dared to confront Su Yijia or seek justice from her. Each person had their own secrets and didn’t want to face Su Yijia directly, as it would expose their own wrongdoings.

"Look at how pitiful you all look now. You can’t even manage with a little girl! The two uncles, eating so much every day, acting like ornaments," Grandpa Su complained, using the brass head of his tobacco pipe to hit Su’s father’s back, causing him to wince in pain.

"Dad, I’m a grown man now. Please don’t resort to violence against me. If someone sees this, they’ll make fun of me," Su’s father said in a low voice, his patience wearing thin.

In the past, being hit a couple of times wouldn’t hurt too much, but now that his wife was facing a prison sentence, he wasn’t in the mood to appease his father. He realized that it wouldn’t be long before everyone found out that Lin Cuifen had been arrested and would be branded as a prisoner. Not only their neighbors but the colleagues in the factory would know. He didn’t want to care about anything anymore. All he wanted to do was return home and sleep without seeing anyone.

"A man beating his son is completely justified! If you don’t want to be laughed at, why doesn’t your family handle things more gracefully?" Grandpa Su spoke in an angry tone and hammered Su’s father’s back twice more with his brass tobacco pipe. It was a solid brass pipe, and being struck with it was more painful than getting hit with a brick.

Su’s father was about to lose his temper, but Grandma Su suddenly asked, "What should we do about Lin Cuifen’s job? She’s in prison now, and there’s no one to take care of her work at the factory. Whom do you plan to assign her job to?"

"Assign her job? Do you think, with things having escalated to this point, Lin Cuifen’s job can still be kept? She’s committed a crime and is going to prison! The factory will definitely fire her. It may even affect my job," Su’s father grumbled in frustration.

Although his attitude was poor, this time even Grandpa Su stopped hitting him.

"What should we do then? We invested a lot of money in this job. How can they take our money and still fire us? We bought the job, so it’s ours. Anyone who dares to take our job, I will fight with them," Grandma Su glared with intense, dark eyes, her teeth clenched as she snarled.