Chapter 352: This Dad Isn’t Very Steady!
Beijing. Peking Union Medical College Hospital!
Outside the emergency room, Ye Jianhua anxiously stared at the tightly closed door while looking at the palm-sized photo in his hand.
His aunt suddenly fainted—this was a serious matter.
Given her health condition, every time she fainted, it was like she’d narrowly escaped death.
So while Ye Jianhua rushed his aunt to the hospital, he had his fiancée, Lin Ying, call the Jiang and Ye families to report the situation.
Realizing that his aunt’s fainting was related to Li Yi’s older sister, he brought Li Na along to the hospital under the pretext of needing her help.
The doctors were currently performing emergency treatment on his aunt, and only then did Ye Jianhua begin to wonder why she had suddenly fainted.
When he took the photo from Li Na’s hands, he was completely stunned.
The young woman in the photo, smiling radiantly, looked exactly like his aunt when she was young.
If it weren’t for the fact that Li Na was standing next to the girl in the photo, he would have genuinely mistaken it for a picture of his aunt.
Immediately, Ye Jianhua asked Li Na about the girl in the photo.
By this point, Li Na was already completely flustered; she answered every question Ye Jianhua asked, including details about Tang Xue’s background.
The more Ye Jianhua asked, the more alarmed he became. The girl in the photo—Li Yi’s wife—was from Yong County in Qin Province and wasn’t even 20 years old yet.
More importantly, she had actually been stolen by her adoptive parents…
Ye Jianhua wasn’t stupid. After hearing what Li Na had to say, he instantly understood why his sister-in-law had fainted.
If all went according to plan, this girl should be his sister-in-law’s child.
In other words, his sister-in-law hadn’t given birth to a stillborn baby all those years ago—she’d given birth to a healthy child who had simply been switched at birth!
At the thought of this truth, Ye Jianhua felt his heart was about to leap out of his throat.
Li Na was also terrified. She never imagined that simply showing her sister-in-law’s photo to that older woman would cause her to faint.
Although she didn’t know the reason, she had a vague feeling that she was in trouble—and it was serious trouble.
She could tell that this woman was no ordinary person.
If anything were to happen to her, her family would tear her to pieces.
With that thought, Li Na looked at Ye Jianhua in a panic and said, “This has nothing to do with me! You can’t pin this on me!”
Ye Jianhua looked at Li Na and replied, “Who says it has nothing to do with you!”
“I just showed her the photo—what’s the big deal…?”
“Exactly—it’s this photo that’s the problem!” Ye Jianhua said.
“You’re talking nonsense. How could two grown women like us scare your aunt into fainting?”
Ye Jianhua sighed and said, “If I’m not mistaken, my aunt is your sister-in-law’s biological mother!”
Hearing this, Li Na froze in shock!
Just then, the sound of hurried footsteps echoed from outside the hospital.
Immediately, a large group of people, escorted by several security guards, hurried toward the emergency room.
Ye Jianhua looked up and saw that his grandfather and the old patriarch of the Jiang family had both rushed over.
In addition, his father, his eldest uncle, and several uncles from the Jiang family had all arrived.
He immediately stood up from the bench and went to meet them.
“Grandpa, Grandpa Jiang, you all…”
Before he could finish, Old Master Ye asked in a grave tone, “Jianhua, how is your aunt?”
“She’s still in the emergency room!”
“What on earth happened? How could she suddenly faint out of the blue?” Old Master Jiang asked, furrowing his brow.
“Exactly. Your wife said on the phone that your aunt fainted after looking at a photo. How could she just collapse out of the blue?” Old Master Ye asked as well.
Ye Jianhua didn’t say much; instead, he simply handed over the photo he was holding.
With a hint of puzzlement, Old Man Ye took the photo.
When he saw the young woman in the photo, he immediately frowned and said, “What are you doing with a photo of your aunt? Who’s that girl next to her? I’ve never seen her before!”
“Grandpa, this isn’t my aunt’s photo—it’s Li Yi’s wife!”
“Huh?”
Seeing the look of shock on his grandfather’s face, Ye Jianhua immediately recounted the information he’d just pried out of Li Na.
After listening to Ye Jianhua, Old Master Ye said in a grave tone, “So you’re saying that back then, Yun’er gave birth to a healthy child, but someone swapped it out for a stillborn baby?”
“That must be it!” said Ye Jianhua.
Meanwhile, Old Man Jiang, standing nearby, slammed his cane hard against the ground and shouted angrily, “What a classic case of swapping the prince for a cat! Investigate—get to the bottom of this!”
The secretary standing nearby hurriedly nodded in response and then rushed out of the hospital.
Then, Jiang Dingfang turned to his eldest son and said, “Shirong, call Shiying immediately and tell him to come back right away!”
“Yes!”
……..
While chaos reigned in the capital, Li Yi and his group had just boarded the train bound for Beijing.
To ensure his wife had a comfortable journey, Li Yi had specially secured three soft-sleeper tickets.
Of course, he’d asked Wang Anguo for help with this; for him, as a captain of the criminal investigation team, securing a few train tickets was no trouble at all.
Besides, if he couldn’t pull it off, there was always Wang Anmin, the deputy director of the regional committee.
In short, by the time Li Yi and his group arrived at Ning City Railway Station, Wang Anguo was already there waiting for them with the tickets in hand.
When Jiang Shiying saw that Li Yi had actually managed to secure three soft-sleeper tickets without her having to pull any strings, her regard for him grew even more.
Don’t let a few train tickets fool you—these days, it’s really tough to pull that off without some solid connections.
After all, sleeper berths—especially soft sleeper berths—were reserved for leading officials and foreign dignitaries; ordinary people couldn’t buy them even if they had the money.
Yet not only had Li Yi managed to get them, but he’d done so with remarkable ease.
Jiang Shiying had seen with her own eyes that he had only made the call to Ning City from Qing Shan County a few hours earlier.
To get things sorted out in such a short time showed that his local connections were far more powerful than he had realized.
With a son-in-law who was young, capable, remarkably resourceful, and kind to his own daughter, what more could he possibly ask for?
His only complaint was that the young man had moved too quickly.
His daughter was barely twenty years old—not even twenty by the lunar calendar—and she’d already married him and was expecting twins.
He hadn’t even been a father for a few days, and now he was about to become a grandfather—how infuriating was that!
If it weren’t for the fact that the young man treated his daughter reasonably well, he’d have wanted to give him a good whipping.
That’s why Jiang Shiying’s feelings were a bit mixed right now.
He both thought Li Yi was a decent guy and felt a bit angry.
These mixed feelings were directly reflected in his attitude toward Li Yi, which was hot and cold.
One moment he’s satisfied with everything, the next he finds fault with everything.
This made Tang Xue a bit nervous. What was wrong with her own father? He seemed… a bit unstable!
Li Yi, however, understood his mindset—it was exactly the feeling of having his own cabbage trampled by a pig.
Consequently, he remained calm throughout the journey, listening to everything Jiang Shiying had to say.
He neither argued nor offered explanations.
He even took the time to carefully go over the details of how to deceive his mother-in-law with Jiang Shiying and Tang Xue, to avoid any slip-ups.
Little did they know, however, that Third Sister Li Na had already completely exposed Tang Xue’s true identity—meaning the plan they’d painstakingly devised was doomed to fail before it even began!