Chapter 353: Chapter 353: Assessment Report

Principal Cheng immediately called the Cheng Family about Cheng Yijin’s issue, and it was the family’s housemaid who answered. Remembering the words from Old Master Cheng, she relayed the old master’s intentions without asking questions.

"Principal Cheng, the old master is currently busy in the study entertaining important guests. Once he’s free, I will inform him about your call."

Principal Cheng was a bit surprised and emphasized again, "It’s about Yijin. She encountered some issues at school..."

"Principal Cheng, this is what the old master instructed just before he entered the study. I can’t just intrude recklessly." The housemaid replied tactfully.

"Alright, goodbye then. Let’s discuss once Old Master Cheng is free." Principal Cheng smiled and ended the call.

"What did my grandpa say?" Cheng Yijin impatiently asked.

"Old Master Cheng is currently entertaining guests, so he didn’t take the call."

Cheng Yijin was extremely surprised, "What kind of guest is more important than me? Could it be the maid took matters into her own hands? I’ll have to have a talk with Grandpa and Mom and Dad when I get home."

At the Cheng Family residence, the guest Old Master Cheng was entertaining was Xu Zongyin, who came in person. The two sat face to face, with a file bag on the desk between them.

"Zong Yin, why are you here at this time? You just mentioned urgent matters. What is it?" Old Master Cheng asked Xu Zongyin kindly.

"Old Master, Mr. Chu accompanied me today and is waiting in the living room. Initially, this was a family matter of the Cheng Family, and I was worried it might be too much for you. But as you know, I finally found my son, got a daughter-in-law, and have a grandchild, life should be harmonious."

"But someone bullied my daughter-in-law for being from a small place, again and again. Even a clay figure would have temper eventually. That child is very well-behaved and sensible. If we hadn’t heard about it, she would have swallowed it all herself."

"That’s why I came today, to stand up for that child. Since it concerns the Cheng Family, I wanted to let you decide." Xu Zongyin said seriously.

Old Master Cheng seemed to understand, "Zong Yin, are you saying that my family’s child bullied your daughter-in-law?"

"Yes, it’s not just childish squabbles. Someone has reported it. You know better than I do what intentions lie behind trying to ruin a child’s reputation and dragging someone into the mire." Xu Zongyin had a stern expression. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"Is it Yimo, or..."

"It’s Cheng Yijin." Xu Zongyin clarified directly.

Old Master Cheng felt uneasy, "Zong Yin, Yijin is such a well-behaved and understanding child; she’s not in good health either. How could she do such a thing?"

"Cheng Yijin didn’t lead; it was the younger generation from the Deng Family who took the lead."

Old Master Cheng was somewhat helpless, "Zong Yin, the children don’t understand..."

"Old Master, you underestimate Cheng Yijin; she understands very well." Xu Zongyin smiled wryly. "What you don’t know, Old Master, is that when our Ancheng accompanied Roujing to Jing University for registration, they encountered someone."

"Who?"

"Your own granddaughter." Xu Zongyin stated truthfully.

Old Master Cheng suddenly felt confused, "Yijin is from Jing University, meeting isn’t unusual, right?"

"Old Master, please take a look at this appraisal first, then we can discuss it in detail." Xu Zongyin suggested, "Please keep your emotions in check."

Old Master Cheng inexplicably felt his mood sink, sensing that opening the file bag before him would lead to some major event.

"If the Old Master doesn’t look, life remains peaceful. Seeing it might bring disappointment and anger but also great revelations."

Old Master Cheng never doubted Xu Zongyin’s words. After some hesitation, he opened the file bag himself.

DNA identification, something Old Master Cheng was quite unfamiliar with.

"It’s a familial relationship identification," Xu Zongyin replied. "The newest scientific approach, with almost an 80% accuracy rate. To ensure accuracy, I specially sought out two places for identification, and the results were consistent."

"If the Old Master has any doubts after seeing the results, you can personally bring people for on-site sampling and appraisal."

Upon seeing Cheng Yijin’s name appear in the identification report, along with his own eldest son, daughter-in-law, and the Deng Family members, Old Master Cheng recognized them all except for one name, Ren Xuejuan, which was unfamiliar.

Upon reaching the final line of Ren Xuejuan’s identification report with his eldest son, stating a 99.99% probability of a parent-child relationship, Old Master Cheng was stunned.

"What, what does this mean?"

"Old Master, the higher the probability, the more likely it is a parent-child relationship."

"My eldest son isn’t like this." Old Master Cheng’s first reaction was that his eldest son had someone outside. Xu Zongyin heard it and smiled helplessly.

"Old Master, please look further down."

Seeing that this Ren Xuejuan also had a 99.99% parent-child relationship probability with his eldest daughter-in-law, Old Master Cheng was dumbfounded. He was experienced, not a fool, and recalling Xu Zongyin’s previous words about meeting his granddaughter at Jing University, Xu Zongyin was referring to this Ren Xuejuan.

Old Master Cheng couldn’t believe it, hurriedly checking all the reports on the table, revealing the parent-child relationship probabilities with Cheng Yijin and his eldest son were 20.33%, and with his eldest daughter-in-law, 0%.

Whereas Cheng Yijin’s connection with the Deng Family, with Sir Deng, was 30.19%.

"What, what does this mean?" Old Master Cheng’s hands were shaking.

"Old Master, this is a report I had someone investigate, please take a look." Xu Zongyin handed over a report, completely handwritten but with a red seal, indicating it’s recognized and validated.

The report described matters about the third-oldest of the Deng Family, related to Old Master Cheng’s younger sister, the Deng Family’s adoption of people with special blood types, as well as the issue concerning Ren Xuejuan.

As Old Master Cheng read, his face turned paler, eventually clutching his chest as he lay back in the chair. Xu Zongyin quickly called in Mr. Chu to administer first aid to Old Master Cheng, who after taking medicine and receiving injections, gradually recovered, yet remained utterly dazed.

"Zong Yin, I want to be alone." After a long silence, Old Master Cheng told Xu Zongyin.

"Old Master, then I will head back, but Mr. Chu will stay." Only after getting Old Master Cheng’s nod did Xu Zongyin leave the study.

Xu Zongyin knew that with Old Master Cheng’s decisiveness, the Deng Family was bound to undergo drastic changes.

For Cheng Yijin, no matter how much the Cheng Family cherished her, and no matter how much they missed Old Master Cheng’s own sister, touching upon the Deng Family matters, particularly under the premise of the sister’s passing and Yijin knowing the truth, any additional affection and guilt would be greatly diminished.

The uproar over the posting of the complaint letter at Jing University was everywhere, and the person who posted it couldn’t be found. Although the school wanted to suppress the revelation, the scope was too wide, and everyone, whether supposed to know or not supposed to know, knew about it. Mending the situation was now too late, and they could only come forward and announce that they would conduct a thorough investigation into the matter, capturing those behind the malicious slander.

Zhang Mengdi was a bit panicked. However, seeing Yi Roujing attentively attending class alongside her, seemingly unaffected, Zhang Mengdi inexplicably calmed down. Even when Deng Yiyi approached her to inquire about the situation, she could answer fluently and confidently, without arousing Deng Yiyi’s suspicion, also managing to extract twenty more yuan from Deng Yiyi, who was about to be punished.