As he listened, Xu Qiguang suddenly heard the final question. He knew exactly what Mr. Cheng, his newly-revealed biological father, was trying to find out.
He simply couldn't ask his son directly how he had been treated as a child, so he was beating around the bush, trying to find out about his childhood by asking about his mother.
If his mother hadn't dared to dote on him more even when she had her own private funds, it was obvious his life hadn't been as good as he claimed.
"That's not true. My mother really doted on me. I heard that before I was three, she would even take me with her when she went to the river to do laundry. No one could convince her otherwise."
"When I got a little older, she never let me play in the river before I was ten, let alone go into the mountains to pick wild fruit. She got scolded by her mother-in-law a lot over it."
