Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 389 Why keep each other around for the New Year?
With Cui Jueyan as a living example, Du Anrao had long anticipated the personality and character of the couple who could raise someone like him, but hearing their bizarre remarks still made him question life.

"Sister, did I hear that right? Our aunt is taking in a son-in-law, not getting married, right?"

"You heard right, and you understood right. In fact, our aunt did take in a son-in-law back then, otherwise Xiu Yuan and Yun Ni wouldn't both have her surname."

"Good heavens, I wasn't mistaken after all. Judging from the way she was giving me charity just now, anyone who didn't know better would think my aunt had received a huge favor from them."

Du Yuxi smoothly replied, "The favor of almost being devoured without leaving a trace?"

"Pfft..." Du Anrao couldn't help but laugh out loud. How come she never noticed before that her fourth sister had such a sharp tongue, every word of hers could hit someone's weak spot.

"Who says otherwise? Back in the day, our aunt was a wealthy and beautiful woman with considerable assets, and she was also the only daughter in her family. Countless rich and handsome men were chasing after her. As for this guy, he's just a wild phoenix that flew out of the mountains. Let me clarify, I don't look down on people from the mountains, because I myself came from the mountains. But we have to face up to the difference in family conditions between the man and woman and respect the facts."

Having learned from his recent confrontation with Li Qianxi, Du Anrao immediately donned a full suit of armor to prevent himself from being morally blackmailed by the sophistry of "looking down on the lower class" and "I am weak, therefore I am right" in some people's arguments.

"Back when they got married, my aunt's family's circumstances were worlds apart from his, and they still are. If it weren't for my aunt's honesty and integrity, she wouldn't have been able to marry someone as well-off as my aunt, a true heiress from the provincial capital. But if he were really honest, why wouldn't he tell my aunt the truth, and instead lie and say that his previous wife and children were his own sister and nephew? Otherwise, given my aunt's circumstances, why would she want a hypocritical divorced man? Oh wait..."

Du Anrao clapped his hands, correcting his somewhat careless words: "He's a married man who hasn't divorced yet, a conman who tricked his wife into marriage."

Du Anrao's words quickly gained the approval of many parents who came to pick up their children.

"What the young lady said makes sense. The purpose of taking a son-in-law as a wife is to ensure the continuation of the family line. Isn't it only natural that the child takes the mother's surname?"

"It's only natural, but it seems like the man's side wants to keep the family line... is that okay too?"

"Oh dear, I have such a bad temper. According to your logic, if a woman gets married and wants to continue the family line, she can just find any man outside and have a child with her own surname, and let the man outside help raise the child. The legal husband should understand that, since you said there's no problem with it."

"...This is different, isn't it?"

"How is it different? Just switch the genders and there are over ten thousand comments. Did this accidentally hit a nerve with you grown men? You really don't know the pain until you've stabbed yourself in the back."

"That's right. It's because these scoundrels are always scheming to kill off young girls who have no offspring that many wealthy families with only one daughter would rather let the father go and keep the daughter than bring a troublesome, deadly man into their home."

"..."

"Leave the father and keep the son?" Du Yuxi listened to the discussions around her, stroking her chin thoughtfully.

Du Anrao did not notice his sister's unusual behavior. He was very satisfied with the reaction of the onlookers and even added fuel to the fire with great interest.

"He talks about earning money to support the family, as if your son has worked incredibly hard since getting married. But in reality, the company he works for is owned by his father-in-law, my aunt's father. He works from his own time every day, and still gets paid much more than people doing the same job." Du Anrao said with great distress, "And yet, three-quarters of the money he paid for the house he bought for his parents (the two people in front of me) and his other wife and children, which they've lived in for over ten years, was paid for by my aunt. Isn't this treating my aunt like a sucker? If we don't divorce him, get all the money back, and send him to jail, are we just going to wait to be drained of all our value and die in an accident?"

At this moment, the emotions of the onlookers had been completely stirred up, and upon hearing Du Anrao's words, they immediately expressed their righteous indignation and loudly voiced their support.

"We should get a divorce!"

"Why keep this scoundrel around if you're not going to leave him?"

The Cui family elders never expected that the advantage they had accumulated in the past few days would be reversed in just over ten minutes.

In their minds, they are the grandparents of these two little bastards, the most authoritative elders in their family, and naturally hold the moral high ground. As long as they show a little weakness or play the victim, someone will stand up for them and defend them.

Instead of enduring so much criticism and ridicule as we are now.

This old woman Cui was a bully who preyed on the weak. Seeing that the onlookers no longer seemed to be on their side and had begun to criticize them, her eyes darted around nervously, and she was already having second thoughts.

But when they thought of their precious grandson waiting at home for them to bring money back for treatment, they really couldn't bear to give up these two money-grubbing gems, so they gritted their teeth and continued to hold on stubbornly.

"No matter what, that bitch got our Yan Yan into jail, so she has to take responsibility. She's not a member of the Cui family, so we don't care whether she lives or dies, but these two children have the blood of the Cui family, so they have to support us in our old age!"

Du Yunni and her brother blushed, once again resenting the Cui family bloodline in their bodies. The last time they felt this disgusted was when they learned that Cui Jueyan had concealed the existence of another wife and child and had carried out those despicable and hypocritical schemes.

Du Anrao rolled her eyes, both amused and annoyed: "Didn't you just say that they both have the surname Du and are descendants of my aunt's family? To prevent your Cui family from dying out, you hid another child with the surname Cui. That's the real descendant of your Cui family. If I remember correctly, that child is a few years older than my younger siblings. Why don't you ask him to take care of you in your old age, but instead try to rely on my aunt's two children?"

I know the answer to that question.

Du An raised an eyebrow slightly, looking at his fourth sister with interest: "Oh? What is it?"

"Because before the child's affair was exposed, he was still being raised by our aunt. Now that he has lost his aunt's financial support, he can barely take care of himself, let alone support these two."

"I see."

The old woman and her husband blushed with embarrassment under Du Anrao's meaningful gaze, but they still gritted their teeth and used their trump card of relentless pestering.

“We don’t care about all that. Whether it’s marriage or son-in-law, whether their surname is Du or Cui, they still have to call us grandpa and grandma. This young lady just said it herself: my son is currently unable to support us, so they have to pay for our upbringing. Otherwise, we’ll come looking for them every day, and we’ll… we’ll sue them!”