After a while, the sound of low-pitched arguments came from the door. Gu Xiaofan pricked up his ears but couldn't hear clearly. Xu Ruobei's voice was higher, and she seemed a little unhappy. Li Hua's voice was lower, and it was unclear what they were saying, but it seemed that they were patiently persuading.
After a while, there was no sound in the bedroom, and then there were footsteps. The bedroom door opened, Xu Ruobei was in front, and Li Hua was behind. Two people walked out. Xu Ruobei looked ugly, and Li Hua looked helpless. When he faced Zhong Han, he smiled helplessly at him and shook his head."Why did you come to my house?" Xu Ruobei looked at the two people, and she didn't frown on the spot, but she was not very happy. The tone of greeting was inevitably a little stiff.Li Hua secretly pinched her elbow behind her. Xu Ruobei curled her lips in dissatisfaction and gestured to the sofa: "Sit down.""You sit down and chat first, I'll go get you some tea." Li Hua was always polite. He nodded to Zhong Han and the others and went straight to the kitchen. After a while, there was the sound of the cabinet door opening and the sound of glasses gently colliding."It may be a bit presumptuous to come to my house like this," Zhong Han seemed not to be annoyed at all after Xu Ruobei had taken a long walk. He smiled and said to her, "But after visiting Ren Xuefeng's company and factory, we think it's safer to wait and see. Now it seems that we realized it too late. It's true that all is fair in war."Xu Ruobei's face showed an embarrassed expression after being exposed. She covered her mouth with her hand and cleared her throat. She said, "I just want to be quiet and don't want to be disturbed anymore.""If possible, we don't want to always play the unpopular role, but sometimes in order to dig out the truth, we always do things that go against our wishes." Zhong Han spread his hands helplessly."Then let's make a quick decision. What do you want to see me for today?" Xu Ruobei sat on the sofa, her back straight, her hands folded in front of her chest. She looked at Zhong Han and Gu Xiaofan with her face slightly tilted.Zhong Han smiled: "In fact, you don't have to be so defensive. We are not enemies, nor are we standing on the opposite side of interests. We can understand your feelings, and you are also very clear about our purpose. Cooperation is obviously wiser than resistance."Xu Ruobei did not respond. But after listening to Zhong Han's words, she adjusted her sitting posture slightly. The arms that were originally folded in front of her chest also relaxed a little."Pack up and prepare to move?" Gu Xiaofan felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, so he asked Xu Ruobei, trying to ease the atmosphere before getting to the point.Xu Ruobei nodded and glanced in the direction of the bedroom: "Yes, Xuefeng's shadow is everywhere in this house. After he got into trouble, I haven't felt good here for a day. I'm almost overwhelmed. I want to change the environment. Adjust it, otherwise I might collapse before things are handled.""Where are you going to move to?""We have a single-family house in the suburbs, and I plan to move there for a while.""Are you alone? Living in a single-family house? Aren't you afraid?" Gu Xiaofan asked instinctively. In her concept, a single-family house is big and remote. Not to mention one person, even if there are three or two people, she would not dare to live there with her courage. It's okay during the day, but at night, thinking about the empty big house and the dark window outside, she couldn't help but shudder.Xu Ruobei did not understand Gu Xiaofan's kindness, but misunderstood her words into another meaning, so she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "What do you mean by that? I'm not going to live alone, or with two or three people? Be careful with your words! My husband just passed away, don't be so impatient to throw dirty water on me!""I didn't mean that, you think too much! I'm just worried that you might feel scared by yourself!" Gu Xiaofan hurriedly clarified."You don't need to worry about that useless thing, just do your job well." Xu Ruobei found that she had misunderstood Gu Xiaofan, and felt a little embarrassed, but she couldn't let go of her face, and said something to Gu Xiaofan with a stiff expression.Gu Xiaofan felt a little wronged, pursed his lips, and didn't say anything."You're right, let's do our part," Zhong Han patted Gu Xiaofan's back gently, looking at Xu Ruobei with his eyes still on comfort, and asked, "In that case, let's get straight to the point and don't talk about things that are irrelevant to the center. We came here today to confirm a few things. First of all, you and Ren Xuefeng have been married for many years, but you have no children. What is the reason behind this?"While speaking, Li Hua slowly walked out of the kitchen with a tray with four cups of tea on it. As soon as he walked into the living room, he heard Zhong Han's question and stopped. He stood there and looked at Xu Ruobei uncomfortably, then at Zhong Han and the others, not knowing whether he should distribute the tea to other people or just turn around and hide back in the kitchen."Xiaohua, put down the tea and go to my room to watch TV for a while. I'll call you later." Xu Ruobei got up and took the tray from Li Hua's hand and put it on the coffee table, and nodded towards the bedroom.Li Hua nodded, and looked at Xu Ruobei with some concern. Xu Ruobei waved her hand to signal him to go into the house. He then nodded to Zhong Han and Gu Xiaofan, walked into the bedroom, and closed the door.After Li Hua left, Xu Ruobei took a cup of tea from the tray on the coffee table, and gestured to Zhong Han and Gu Xiaofan to help themselves. She drank a sip slowly to moisten her throat, raised her eyes and looked directly at Zhong Han, and said: "There is no special reason. A man and a woman are together, and they don't have children. In addition to not wanting, one of the two must be unable to have children.""Do you mind telling me specifically whether it is you or Ren Haifeng who can't have children?""It's me." When Xu Ruobei answered this sentence, she sat up straighter, as if she wanted to cheer herself up with this attitude, "Xuefeng knew this problem before he died, and we didn't think there was any problem.""Do you know that Ren Xuefeng has other children besides Ren Yumeng?" Gu Xiaofan felt a little more at ease when he saw that Xu Ruobei didn't get angry when Zhong Han asked about fertility.Xu Ruobei lowered her eyelids, hesitated for a moment, and nodded: "I know.""Can you tell us about the child?" Zhong Han continued to ask the topic brought up by Gu Xiaofan.Xu Ruobei rolled her eyelids: "Shouldn't you have investigated everything before coming here? Why ask questions when you know the answer?""Our understanding is also very limited. The clues about the child were cut off halfway through the investigation, so we had no choice but to come here to find you as a last resort. I want to see if you know anything and whether you can provide us with some clues." Gu Xiaofan said to her sincerely."Sorry, I'm afraid I can't help you. I don't know anything about the child. Maybe I don't know more details than you do. You can only think of another way!" After listening to Gu Xiaofan's words, Xu Ruobei gave a negative answer without thinking."Since you knew that Gu Xuefeng had a child outside, how could you be completely unaware of the child's situation?" Zhong Han immediately questioned this, "Even if we put aside other things for the time being, the gender of the child, whether it is a boy or a girl, you can't be so unclear, right?""How is it possible? Of course I know this," Xu Ruobei said with a serious face, "It's a boy. Xuefeng said that he only has a daughter, Ren Yumeng, and no son. It's a pity. When we first got together, he also said that he wanted me to give him a son, but I had a physical problem, so I thought we would break up for a while, but in the end we were still together. Later, he confessed to me that a woman outside gave him a son. I knew that I couldn't fulfill his dream of having a son, so I accepted this matter. This is all I can tell you.""Since you said you know and accept this matter, why don't you know about the child?" Zhong Han still has doubts about this.Xu Ruobei sneered and said, "You keep saying that you understand my situation. If you put yourself in my shoes and think about it, you will understand, right? It's not that I don't want to have my own child, but it's not allowed by the objective situation. So I agreed to accept the child born by the woman outside to Xuefeng out of helplessness. It is definitely not something that makes people happy. If I can have a child myself, I can't accept this kind of thing. So I understand Xuefeng's desire for a child, but it doesn't mean that I like to know some details about him and the woman outside. Knowing too much about those things will only make myself upset. I would rather know nothing. As long as the woman outside doesn't come to my door to cause trouble for me, when Xuefeng brings the child back to me, I will definitely do my duty and help him take care of the child, as if it were my own child. Before that, I won't ask anything and don't want to know.""Since it's so difficult, why do you have to wrong yourself? Was there any difficulty in agreeing at the beginning?" Zhong Han askedXu Ruobei sighed quietly: "You don't understand. Although I was still young when I married Xuefeng, there were many people younger than me. He could have given up on me because of my flaws, so... I feel that I owe him something from the bottom of my heart. This is my way of compensating him."