Chapter 223 - 36: The Thief Leaves No Trace
"Previously, when my sister had only Shouxin as her son, I didn’t dare to mention it, but since Shoulu doesn’t need to inherit the family business, why not let him be my son? Would I ever mistreat my sister’s son?" Gu Xinseng spoke calmly, his words logical and orderly.
Han Kuang’s hesitation was brief. He shook his head and said, "It still won’t work. The country is implementing family planning now. Shouxin has only the daughter Nuonuo; I can’t just look at the immediate situation." As for Shouyi, even if he hasn’t changed his surname to Liu, Han Kuang had never thought of handing over the Han Family to him.
"Are you sure Shoulu would agree to recognize his ancestors and return to the clan?" Gu Xinseng pointedly asked, "Considering the temperaments of you and your sister, whoever Shoulu takes after, he would not want to return to the Han Family." Otherwise, he wouldn’t have brought it up.
"Right now, he harbors resentment, but given time, he’ll come to see things differently," Han Kuang said, though his words lacked conviction.
Gu Xinseng shook his head, "Putting other things aside, Shouxin has no sons while Shoulu has a son. When the time comes, to which one do you plan to hand over the family business?"
What he referred to as the family business was not the Han Family’s properties, but the family’s network of relationships.
"You better not let the brothers come into conflict."
He was genuinely worried; his cousin-in-law had always been a bit naive about such matters. Take the matter of Shouzhen for example. When Xu Qian was wrongly killed, it wasn’t that Han Kuang wasn’t angry or truly believed Liu Yuzhi was innocent, but he thought that the dead could not be brought back to life. The key was not to let Shouzhen and Liu Yuzhi have a greater conflict, thus revealing clues to outsiders and causing the already precarious Han Family to be criticized. Thus, he incredibly appeared to trust Liu Yuzhi, aside from punishing her severely in secret. For three years, he didn’t write a letter or send anything to Han Shouyi, who was sent to Yunnan to do forced rural labor as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement, and he even told his daughter that Liu Yuzhi had merely made an unintentional mistake.
Look at how he handled things. Others cure the symptoms but not the disease; he didn’t cure either and even added fuel to the fire.