The only one who dares to deal with a big shot like Wu Dongfang with this kind of attitude is probably only Luo Liansheng.
Luo Liansheng treated Wu Dongfang with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude, and toward Yang Yunlin, Ling Mingrui, and even Ling Jinhua, he all had a look of indifference.
His nonchalant attitude toward these big shots, compared with Luo Ziling’s, carried a completely different meaning.
Those people could treat Luo Ziling as a child and not bother arguing with him.
But they couldn’t possibly look at Luo Liansheng the same way.
Luo Liansheng simply wasn’t willing to give them any face!
This naturally made Luo Ziling admire him a lot.
"For this matter, don’t get nervous yet, and don’t be in a rush to do anything. Whatever you want to do must be done covertly, don’t leave any handle for others to grab. We have to respond with stillness to their moves; only then can we extract more benefits." After saying this, Luo Liansheng asked Luo Ziling again, "Your mom isn’t planning to rush back right away, is she?"
"Right, I told her not to hurry back, to just continue her honeymoon trip." Luo Ziling nodded.
Luo Liansheng smiled. "I believe she’s even clearer on how to handle this matter."
"In a bit I’ll tell Mom what Grandpa said!"
"All right!" Luo Liansheng nodded. "Once you tell her, she should understand what’s going on!"
"I’ll call her to explain everything after I go back later!" Luo Ziling didn’t want to leave immediately; he still wanted to ask Luo Liansheng some things.
Luo Ziling grinned and said, "Grandpa, are you hungry? How about we have some late-night snacks together? I still have some things I want to verify with you."
"I haven’t had a late-night snack in a long time. Eating a little is fine, but we need something easy to digest." Luo Liansheng didn’t refuse Luo Ziling’s arrangement.
Luo Ziling immediately went out, called over Dong Xiaowan, and asked her to help prepare some late-night snacks for the grandfather and grandson, preferably porridge or similar food.
Dong Xiaowan readily agreed and went to prepare it for them right away.
"Grandpa, did Grandma like you back then as well?"
Luo Ziling abruptly asked this question, and just as Luo Liansheng was lifting his teacup to drink, he was choked on the spot and started coughing violently.
"What nonsense are you spouting?" He glared at Luo Ziling unkindly. "How can you just casually say something like that?"
It was rare for Luo Liansheng to show this kind of expression, and Luo Ziling couldn’t help feeling a chill inside, but he also became certain that this was true, that Chen Qiaoyu hadn’t lied to him.
Back when she was young, Xie Enhua had liked Luo Liansheng. In the end there must not have been any major scandal; it didn’t make Ling Mingrui furious, or perhaps Ling Mingrui had long let it go, or maybe never knew.
Xie Enhua was very fond of Luo Xusheng and hoped Ling Ruonan would marry Luo Xusheng; this likely had that kind of feeling mixed in.
Generally speaking, mothers usually treat sons better than daughters, since daughters will eventually marry out.
But Xie Enhua went against the norm; she treated Ling Ruonan better than she treated Ling Zhengping, and by extension she treated her grandson Luo Ziling better than her own grandsons.
Once he figured this out, Luo Ziling suddenly felt relieved.
He chuckled and teased the somewhat irritated Luo Liansheng, "Grandpa, when you were young, there must have been a lot of girls who were in love with you, right?"
"When I was young?" Luo Liansheng was stunned for a moment, then chuckled. "What I was like when I was young—I’ve long forgotten. It’s been over fifty years! No matter what it is, after fifty years, it loses its original flavor."
"The stories on Grandpa’s side must be even more exciting than the ones about me and Dad. It’s just that, Grandpa, why don’t you tell me those stories of yours?" Luo Ziling sighed. "You haven’t told me much even about Grandma; I still don’t really know what exactly her situation was."
"Your grandma was an abandoned daughter of the Chen Family. She never received forgiveness from the Chen Family until the day she died. In the Chen Family, the only one who treated her well was Chen Rushan; the others all treated her poorly." Luo Liansheng sounded a bit emotional.
Seeing Luo Liansheng looking so wistful, Luo Ziling felt a bit bad, but after thinking for a moment, he still voiced his own opinion. "Grandpa, I think Chen Rushan wasn’t a good person either, and his two sons are even worse than beasts."
"Why do you say that?" Luo Liansheng furrowed his brows again.
Luo Ziling told Luo Liansheng some of the things Chen Qiaoyu had told him.
After he finished, he asked Luo Liansheng again, "So Chen Qiaoyu really isn’t Chen Rushan’s biological daughter?"
"That’s right!" Luo Liansheng hesitated for a moment, then still nodded. "Actually, you can’t really blame Chen Rushan for how he treated Chen Qiaoyu. Anyone faced with this kind of thing couldn’t possibly be forgiving! What man can tolerate his wife’s infidelity?"
"That’s true!" Luo Ziling nodded. "It’s just that the way they handled it was too cruel. Especially Chen Ruchang—he’s worse than an animal. After all, Chen Qiaoyu’s mother only did something wrong when she was drunk; it wasn’t intentional."
"Maybe that woman deliberately seduced Chen Ruchang, wanting to use this matter to sow discord between Chen Ruchang and his brother Chen Rushan?"
What Luo Liansheng said shocked Luo Ziling quite a bit.
After thinking about it, he felt that what Luo Liansheng said did make some sense.
Didn’t Chen Qiaoyu say that later on her mother drifted between the two brothers, Chen Ruchang and Chen Rushan, trying to make them turn against each other?
She even wanted to stir up internal strife within the Chen Family, only she didn’t succeed.
It seemed that Chen Qiaoyu hadn’t revealed the bad side of her mother, and only mentioned those things that could win people’s sympathy.
Chen Qiaoyu’s mother was definitely a formidable woman; Luo Ziling had no doubt about this.
Chen Qiaoyu was also a formidable woman; Luo Ziling could see that clearly.
"If what Chen Qiaoyu told you is really the truth, then the Chen Brothers truly are a bit despicable. But from a man’s standpoint, their behavior is also understandable, especially Chen Rushan. You really can’t blame him for what he did. From another angle, the fact that he didn’t get rid of Chen Qiaoyu and her mother was already not bad. You have to know, back then the Chen Brothers were very bold in the way they did things." Luo Liansheng wore a bitter smile. "Also, your grandma had a good relationship with Chen Rushan, and he took great care of her. He and I also had a good relationship."
At this point, Luo Liansheng reminded Luo Ziling of something else: "Your grandma and Chen Ruchang, Chen Rushan weren’t full siblings; she was their cousin. So even if Chen Qiaoyu were really Chen Rushan’s daughter, you and Yang Qingyin wouldn’t be collateral relatives within three generations by blood; it would be at least four generations, the same as with Chen Xiaoyi. How did you get that wrong? If there is a blood relation between Chen Qiaoyu and Chen Rushan, then Yang Qingyin and Chen Xiaoyi’s relationship to you is equally close."
"Grandpa, I really did get it wrong," Luo Ziling looked as if he’d suddenly seen the light, but then immediately added, "But I seem to remember that Chen Qiaoyu once said that Chen Rushan and my grandma were real brother and sister."
"Back then there were rumors that your grandma was born from an affair between her mother and her own eldest uncle," Luo Liansheng said with a bitter smile. "So many people believed that your grandma and Chen Ruchang, Chen Rushan were full siblings. What Chen Qiaoyu said probably came from that rumor! But your grandma clearly told me that it wasn’t like that; her mother was very sure of this."
After saying all this, Luo Liansheng looked at Luo Ziling with a bitter smile and asked, "Isn’t it all a mess?"