Uncle Feng’s words shocked me. I subconsciously looked at Lu Zhiyuan and suddenly understood why he was so familiar with Qinglin Town.

It turns out that he had been here many times without my knowledge.

To help me find out the truth of what happened back then.

Uncle Feng looked at Lu Zhiyuan meaningfully, but Lu Zhiyuan did not explain our relationship, but politely changed the subject.

"Uncle Feng, she was a little anxious just now. Please tell her the truth."

Uncle Feng nodded and took the group photo from me.

He pointed at Song Yue and Cheng Xi and said slowly, "Song Yue and Cheng Xi are childhood friends who grew up together, but I only met Cheng Xi once when you were adopted."

Uncle Feng recalled: "In fact, when the Lan family adopted you, you did not meet the adoption requirements."

I was shocked and asked anxiously, "Then why did you approve it?"

Lu Zhiyuan put his hand on my shoulder to calm me down.

"Come to think of it, Cheng Xi was in a very strange state at the time. She seemed to be very eager for you to be adopted by the Lan family."

Uncle Feng continued slowly, "When I told her that the Lan family didn't meet the adoption requirements, Cheng Xi became very emotional and begged me to make some concessions. She even knelt down in front of me, saying she couldn't bear to see you become an orphan. She had cancer and didn't have much time left, so she just hoped that before she died, I could find a good family to adopt you, which would be a way for her to accumulate some good karma."

Speaking of these things, Uncle Feng looked helpless and sighed softly.

"Logically, I shouldn't have applied for an adoption certificate for them. But Cheng Xi's expression really softened my heart. Seeing her like that, I guessed that maybe she had a child out of wedlock and didn't want the child to be left unattended after her death, so she lied and said she found you, and then entrusted you to an old friend. Otherwise, who would kneel down and beg so humbly for a child they found?"

Uncle Feng couldn't bear it, so he later found a backdoor for them to get an adoption certificate, and I was officially adopted by the Lan family.

After hearing the whole story, my mind was filled with confusion.

What on earth has Cheng Xi been through? What she did was completely nonsensical.

She said she was a good person, but she took me away from Mingsi, separating us from each other.

Although people say she is vicious, she took great pains to arrange for me to be adopted by the Lan family so that I would not be left on the streets.

Is it really because he found out that he had cancer and didn't have much time left that he felt temporarily guilty?

But if she really had a guilty conscience, why did she take me away from Mingsi in the first place?

Uncle Feng also asked us curiously: "Now it's your turn to answer me, why are you investigating this matter?"

This was what Lu Zhiyuan had promised him. He promised that as long as he told the truth of that year, he would tell him the reason for our investigation.

Moreover, Lu Zhiyuan also promised that he would not hold Uncle Feng accountable for his violations back then.

Now that Uncle Feng asked, Lu Zhiyuan should fulfill his promise.

Lu Zhiyuan subconsciously looked at me and asked for my opinion.

I nodded and agreed that he should explain the situation to Uncle Feng.

Uncle Feng was confused by our eye contact and asked speculatively, "Could it be that you are really Cheng Xi's daughter?"

"Not really." Lu Zhiyuan denied it, explaining in a low voice, "Cheng Xi was just her nanny. He deliberately took her away, separating her from her biological mother for over twenty years."