Chen Zhixiu was completely stunned.

Bai Haotian pursed his lips and sighed: "My third aunt was jealous of your favor and wanted to get rid of you and let her daughter take your place, but how could Father and Mother agree to that? However, the Bai family did not want to lose the Emperor's reward or the title of Princess Lexin, so they forced Father and Mother to agree, and Father and Mother then asked to leave the family."

“Our parents and we have never given up looking for you, especially our eldest brother.”

“It was your third aunt and eldest brother who took you out together. After losing you, your eldest brother felt extremely guilty and it took him a whole year to recover. In the following years, he made many contributions, and every favor he asked for resulted in the emperor sending people to find you.”

"It's a pity that every time we were about to find you, the clues would be lost. Of course, there were traitors within the manor, but more often it was because someone was trying to confuse us and prevent us from finding you."

Bai Haotian frowned: "If it were before, I might have thought it was the work of an enemy, but after seeing the family that adopted you, I think it might be because they were afraid that someone would harm you, so they deliberately prevented anyone from finding you."

“That’s right,” Chen Xiaoran replied. “When we found Xiu’er, she was covered in wounds and on the verge of death. Clearly, someone wanted to kill her, so we had to be extremely careful. In addition, given our own identities, we didn’t have time to distinguish whether the person we were investigating was good or bad, so we could only treat them all as bad people.”

"But after things stabilized, we investigated Xiu'er's identity, but some people blocked us from searching for her."

“The Bai family’s foundation was unstable for a few years, so…” Bai Haotian said helplessly, “in the end, we missed the opportunity.”

Chen Xiaoran nodded: "Later we thought that since no one came looking for Xiu'er, then Xiu'er was our parents' biological daughter and our own sister, so we stopped trying to find her biological parents."

"The past is the past, Xiu'er. Now that you know your identity, would you be willing to return to the capital with me?"

"Are you sure I'm your biological sister?" Chen Zhixiu took a deep breath and looked at Bai Haotian. "Are you sure you haven't made a mistake?"

"How could there be a mistake? Putting aside the birthmark on your body, the jade pendant you always carry belongs only to the Bai family."

Upon hearing this, Chen Zhixiu thought of the jade pendant that Feng Yue had made her wear all the time, and immediately understood.

Xiao Tuantuan sighed inwardly. If it had been earlier, when the Bai family found her mother in her previous life, her mother wouldn't have suffered so much...

“I don’t want to go back,” Chen Zhixiu said slowly. “The Bai family is now a prominent family in the capital, and every word they say is under scrutiny. I grew up in the countryside and don’t understand the ways of a wealthy family’s daughters…”

"Don't worry!" Rong Ping said quickly. "No one in the Bai family dares to offend you now. If you go back, Miss, people will only fawn over you, no one will laugh at you!"

Chen Zhixiu shook her head, a relieved smile on her face: "It's not that simple. The capital is a place where every move is scrutinized. If you say the wrong thing, it could implicate your family and even lead to the extermination of your entire clan. Besides, even if others don't laugh at me to my face, who knows what they'll say about me behind my back, which might even affect the Bai family."

"This..." Rong Ping didn't know what to say for a moment, and quickly looked at Bai Haotian.

Bai Haotian's hand clenched slightly: "Fine, since you don't want to go back, we won't force you."

Upon hearing this, Rong Ping cried out, "General! How could you agree to this! Master and Madam have been looking for the eldest young lady! And the eldest young master and the others, this... how could this happen..."

Seeing Rong Ping's anxious appearance, Xiao Tuantuan's eyes were blurry. She stepped forward and grabbed Rong Ping's sleeve: "Don't spin, Uncle, don't spin, I'm getting dizzy."

Her soft voice carried a hint of helplessness. Rong Ping's eyes lit up, and she quickly picked up Xiao Tuantuan: "Tuantuan, do you want to go to the capital?"

"I don't want to go." Xiao Tuantuan immediately shook her head.

Rong Ping panicked and was about to say something when Xiao Tuantuan quickly said, "My mother only said she wouldn't go to the capital, she didn't say she wouldn't acknowledge her relatives!"

Upon hearing this, Rong Ping and Bai Haotian both looked up at the same time!

"Xiu'er, you..."

Chen Zhixiu smiled gently: "My family doesn't want to abandon me. They've just been harmed by villains. How could I not recognize my family? I just want to stay in Fenghua Town. If there's an opportunity in the future, it won't be too late to go to the capital."

“That’s right, we should wait until we’ve learned the rules before we go. We don’t want to embarrass our family!” Xiao Tuantuan said with a smile. “General Bai, oh no, Uncle, do you know anyone who can teach me and my mother?”

Upon hearing the word "uncle," Bai Haotian was overjoyed, his eyes beaming with delight: "Alright, alright, uncle understands, uncle will go find him right away!"

"General, don't worry, let the eldest son go look for them. The eldest son definitely has connections!"

Rong Ping was overjoyed, looking at Chen Zhixiu with a silly smile.

Bai Haotian nodded hurriedly, then looked at Chen Luo and the others and bowed deeply: "Thank you very much, Uncle and Aunt. We are deeply grateful. From now on, the Chen family and the Bai family will be one family!"

"Father, Mother." Chen Zhixiu walked to Chen Luo and Feng Yue's side, smiling slightly. "You are my parents. Even if I find my biological parents, you cannot disown me."

Feng Yue wiped her eyes: "Of course, you are the youngest daughter of our Chen family."

Nan Nian sighed, "Who would have thought that Xiu'er is actually a princess? If Xiao Guangyuan knew this, he would probably regret it to the core."

Mentioning Xiao Guangyuan made everyone's expressions very unpleasant.

Rong Manli snorted coldly: "He's not worthy!"

"Xiao Guangyuan was recently appointed as a Hanlin Academy scholar, a fourth-rank official, making him a close advisor to the emperor. However..." Bai Haotian sneered, "My elder brother is a Hanlin Academy academician, a second-rank official, who happens to be his superior!"

“I have already written to my family. Xiao Guangyuan must pay the price for what he has done!”

Xiao Tuantuan's mouth dropped open. Good heavens, she hadn't even made a move yet, and her scumbag father was about to be dealt with?

"Brother," Chen Zhixiu said softly, "Don't alert him. I want to ask him the reason myself."

Chen Zhixiu raised her head, her face full of seriousness: "This is between him and me, and I want to resolve it myself."

Xiao Tuantuan tilted her head. Was this still her gentle but somewhat weak mother?

I don't know when it started, but my mother seems to have changed...

"Okay, I promise you, but you also have to promise your brother that if you encounter difficulties, don't bear them alone. You still have us."

Chen Zhixiu nodded.

Xiao Tuantuan asked, "Uncle, can you tell us about the Bai family? For example, how many uncles do I have in the Bai family?"

"There are four. Your eldest uncle is an academician of the Hanlin Academy and holds the second rank. Your second uncle doesn't like to study and runs around everywhere. Your third uncle is me, a mighty general and holds the third rank. Your fourth uncle is an unreliable person who always likes to study all sorts of nonsense."

Xiao Tuantuan suddenly realized something: "How old is your uncle? Is he married?"

Bai Haotian laughed and said with a smile, "No, your eldest uncle is twenty-five this year, your second uncle is twenty-three, and my fourth brother and I are twins, both twenty-one this year."

"Wow!" Xiao Tuantuan climbed off Rong Ping and clapped her hands. "That's wrong, that's wrong! My eldest uncle is Chen Xiaoran! My second uncle is Chen Yijun! My third uncle is Chen Wenxiu! My fourth uncle is a scholar of the Hanlin Academy! My fifth uncle doesn't like to study and runs around everywhere. My sixth uncle is a mighty general. My seventh uncle studies fun things!"

Chen Xiaoran, Chen Yijun, and Chen Wenxiu suppressed their laughter: "Sixth Brother."

Bai Haotian: ? ? ? I suddenly have three more brothers?!