A charming widow in her 70s married a factory manager and raised his children.

Chapter 151 Her identity is not a problem

There were three children in the family when they left. When they came back, they found two more. What about the third one?

"Donghua is with Teacher Sun," Xiao Qianyue replied.

Lu Congyue felt inexplicably annoyed.

Zhuang Qingxiang had treated Donghua better than Chenglin before, and he could see that she genuinely loved Donghua. But now that she was taking the two children away but not Donghua, it felt like she was trying to completely sever ties with him.

"Uncle Lu, shall we go pick up Donghua now?" Xiao Qianyue asked quickly when she saw that he looked unwell, hoping to cheer him up.

After thinking about it, Lu Congyue decided not to accept the call for the time being.

With Zhuang Qingxiang in trouble, he has a lot of things to deal with right now, and it's not easy to find someone to take care of the children right away. He can't let one child take care of two children.

Lu Congyue decided to go see Sun Yongxian first. If she was willing to come and take care of the three children, he would ask her to come and help. He needed to free up his energy to find out what was going on with Zhuang Qingxiang.

Lu Congyue let Xiao Qianyue and her younger brother rest on the kang (a heated brick bed), then quickly tidied up the house and went to the kitchen to start a fire and cook porridge. Soon, Xiao Chenglin would have food to eat.

Just then, Shi Peiran and Sun Yongxian arrived with Xiao Donghua.

"Director Lu, you're really back! That's wonderful!" Sun Yongxian was overjoyed to see Lu Congyue at home.

"Director Lu, I heard you brought Sister Zhuang's two children back? What happened?" Shi Peiran pressed.

Lu Congyue explained Qian Yue's situation, and Sun Yongxian immediately became anxious. She picked up Xiao Donghua and went into the inner room to check on the little girl Qian Yue's condition.

Shi Peiran was furious when he learned that Xiao Qianyue had been beaten: "Isn't the Qian family going too far? Sister Zhuang said that she would definitely have to give them money when she moved back in. Taking Sister Zhuang's money and then beating the child, they are simply beasts!"

"I guess they thought Zhuang Qingxiang was caught and wouldn't be coming back, so they treated these two children as a burden and didn't want them. They deliberately beat and scolded the children and didn't give them food to force them to leave," Lu Congyue said with a frown.

They did succeed, forcing Xiao Qianyue to carry Cheng Lin back to the factory.

If he hadn't happened to come back, those two kids would have been lost somewhere, or something might have happened to them.

While stirring the rice porridge, Lu Congyue asked, "What exactly is the situation at the factory? How much do you know? Tell me in detail."

Shi Peiran's knowledge was limited; he only knew that after arriving at work today, the technical department discovered that a filing cabinet had been pried open and a stack of documents inside was missing.

"What is Niu Jianzhong good for? Last time he let two thugs scale the wall and break into the factory, and this time he had a filing cabinet stolen!"

Lu Congyue's face darkened. "I think his job as head of the security department is done for!"

Niu Jianzhong, who had just arrived, heard these words as soon as he entered the courtyard. He stumbled and cried out, "Director Lu, I'm innocent! This time it's clearly an inside job!"

Hearing the noise, Lu Congyue and Shi Peiran came out of the kitchen.

"A mole? The mole you're talking about is Zhuang Qingxiang?" Lu Congyue asked coldly.

Niu Jianzhong rubbed his head: "Isn't this still under investigation? Anyone suspected needs to be investigated..."

"Director Lu, you don't know Zhuang Qingxiang's identity..."

Lu Congyue scoffed, "I already knew. There's nothing wrong with her identity. What's wrong with you?"

Niu Jianzhong was taken aback: "You already knew?"

"Do you think I'd let someone of unknown origin stay in my house to look after my child?" Lu Congyue said expressionlessly. "I already obtained her background information from Beijing, and there are no problems. Why are you telling me now that there's a problem with her? Who told you there was a problem with her identity?"

"Huh? This... these are also two comrades from Beijing. They detained her for three days. How come the information you obtained from Beijing is different?" Niu Jianzhong was full of doubts. "Besides, this isn't just a matter of her identity. If it wasn't her, it's too much of a coincidence. She was robbed the night she returned, and left with her child early the next morning. Anyone would find that suspicious, right?"

Niu Jianzhong felt he had done nothing wrong.

Lu Congyue took a deep breath: "If I remember correctly, before I left, I asked you to patrol around my house more often, just in case. So who was responsible for patrolling at night? Did they see her leave home alone and go to the technical department? That's not a short distance, so did she not go out, or were the patrol people not responsible?"

Niu Jianzhong: "But..."

"There aren't that many 'buts'. Go check and see who's in charge of patrol duty!" Lu Congyue said seriously.

Niu Jianzhong touched his nose, turned around and left.

After sending Niu Jianzhong away, Lu Congyue talked to Shi Peiran about taking care of the three children. He must be very busy these days, and he wanted to ask Sun Yongxian for help.

Shi Peiran agreed to help, but looked dejected: "Luckily, Yongxian and I agreed to have children later. Raising children is really not an easy job. We were exhausted after only a few days of taking care of Donghua. I don't know how Sister Zhuang can take care of three children so easily."

Lu Congyue pursed his lips: "She...is indeed capable."

After a moment of silence, Lu Congyue remembered the rice porridge in the pot, so he quickly brought a bowl into the house and asked Sun Yongxian to feed the child.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw that Sun Yongxian's eyes were red and swirling with anger.

"What's wrong?" Shi Peiran asked.

Sun Yongxian stared at Lu Congyue: "Factory Director Lu, the Qian family is abusing their children. This matter must be addressed! If you don't do anything about it, I'll go and smash their house up!"

She was a woman, and as soon as she entered the room, she made Xiao Qianyue take off her clothes for an inspection. Her arms, back, buttocks, legs... all had marks of being whipped and pinched.

She felt pain just looking at it and almost cried, but the little girl comforted her, saying it didn't hurt.

"If the child is naughty, a little discipline is fine. Yueyue is so well-behaved, she would never cause any trouble. Besides, even if she did offend them, a spanking would be enough, but whipping her with a tree branch until she's covered in bruises is unacceptable. Isn't that illegal?"

Sun Yongxian was so angry she wanted to call the police and arrest Qian Dayou and his entire family!

Lu Congyue had seen the little girl's arms and buttocks before and knew she had suffered, but he didn't know that there were also injuries in places he couldn't see.

"Look at the inside of Yueyue's arms and thighs, these bruises are clearly from being pinched!" Sun Yongxian said angrily.

Lu Congyue clenched his fist tightly, his teeth clenched, then relaxed after a moment, reaching out to Xiao Qianyue: "Yueyue, come to Uncle Lu, tell Uncle Lu which members of that family hurt you, okay? Uncle Lu will definitely avenge you!"

Xiao Qianyue really wanted Lu Congyue to help her get revenge, but when she actually heard the promise, the little girl hesitated.

"No, no... that's my mother's family..." Xiao Qianyue knew she wasn't her mother's biological child, and she didn't want to offend her mother's family.

"It's okay, just talk to your uncle. Don't be afraid, your uncle won't make your mother sad," Lu Congyue coaxed softly.