Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 1496: Chapter 1498: Scared

However, even though Deng Qingjiang had moved his household registration, on his household register, he and Deng Qingjiang were still legally father and son. I heard that this is legally valid. Moreover, Deng Qingjiang was still recorded under his name in the family genealogy. Therefore, in the village and among the clansmen, Deng Qingjiang would also receive support!

In their local customs, everything, including houses and money, should be left to sons; daughters who are married off do not get a share, let alone Chiang Xiao as a granddaughter from outside the family.

Thinking of this made Chiang Songhai break into a cold sweat.

Every time he thought about how he might not be able to return these things to Chiang Xiao in the future, he felt waves of panic and anger.

Yes, he felt that all these belonged to Chiang Xiao, and having them under his own name was merely a temporary custody.

These were originally earned by Chiang Xiao.

But if it really came to telling the truth at that time, it would also cause trouble for Chiang Xiao. How old was she when she bought this house?

A fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl from a mountain village capable of earning enough to buy one house, no, two houses – who would believe that if it were told?

Wouldn’t others be desperate to unearth the truth?

Although Chiang Songhai didn’t say it, in fact, over these years, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Chiang Xiao had been very different since she fell into the water at the age of thirteen and awoke from a fever – it’s not to say that she wasn’t Chiang Xiao anymore, but the knowledge she possessed and the clever intelligence she displayed were astonishing.

Take, for example, her paintings.

Chiang Xiao used to say she taught herself with a book provided by Doctor Min, but Chiang Songhai had also seen her previous art homework. Although it was quite good, it wasn’t shockingly so.

But her paintings afterwards improved by more than just leaps and bounds.

Also, those lingzhi mushrooms and ginseng, was it really just good luck?

Later, he and Ge Dejun had ventured into the mountains countless times but never again found ginseng or lingzhi.

Alright, even if those were really lucky finds, could such ginseng and lingzhi, which cured Xue Liujin, and later, I heard, led to improvements in Meng Chaojun’s illness in Capital City, lead others not to keep a close eye on her?

When that time comes and Chiang Xiao says she has used them all up, who would believe it?

If people dig deeper, remember that she sold a painting for a thousand yuan very early on, her paintings treated Old Bai, and the confections made from the water she provided were so delightful that once tasted, people couldn’t get enough.

All these, for now, have not been connected, and no one has delved further into them; for now, there are his parents standing in front, but what if it were to explode out that all these were done by Chiang Xiao?

Chiang Songhai once heard a saying, ”The tree that stands out in the forest is the one that gets winded down.”

He was extremely afraid of Chiang Xiao becoming such a tree.

At the very least, at least until she had truly grown up, married Meng Xinian, and possessed better self-protection capabilities, then revealing these things might be safer.

But Chiang Xiao had not yet turned eighteen, she had just started university. Though her relationship with Meng Xinian was stable, they were not yet married.

No matter what, he was just afraid.

So, as soon as the house came under scrutiny, he became somewhat panicked.

With his heart in turmoil, Chiang Songhai’s mind raced faster than it ever had before.

”This house, we bought it,” he admitted directly, and then said, ”However, the money wasn’t from us.”

”Ah?”

Chen Kaijin and Chiang Yuequn were both momentarily stunned.