Old Yang smiled, a bitter smile. "That's right, their family is powerful and influential now, and your brother is even a prince... It's better for you to stay here than with us..."

"Old man, what are you saying? Yaozu must come back with us, otherwise..." Old Mrs. Yang became anxious upon hearing this and reached out to grab Lu Yancai.

Lu Yancai quickly took a step back, looking at them warily, "You can go back now, I'll pretend you were never here."

In fact, the two were from Hongye Village, which is a bit far from Dingshui Village. They came here to go to the market and saw Lu Yancai's appearance, so they went back to question their daughters and learned about Lu Yancai's background.

However, fearing Lu Yanzheng's reputation, the two did not dare to openly visit him to acknowledge their relationship, but instead went to Lu Yancai in private to discuss the matter.

By the way, Lu Yancai had only been home for two or three days when his parents happened to see him and had already bothered him twice.

Suddenly the courtyard gate was pushed open, and Chen and Old Man Lu stood outside the gate, both looking at Lu Yancai and the other two with complicated expressions.

“Second son, they might really be your biological parents.” Finally, Madam Chen spoke first.

She saw it clearly; Lu Yancai looked very much like the old man they had found, and their features clearly indicated they were from the same family.

Lu Yancai saw them, and then saw Jiang Qinyu and the others behind them. He immediately panicked. "Father, Mother, Sister-in-law... please let me explain, I don't know them..."

The identities of the Yang family members are still uncertain, so we mustn't let our parents and sister-in-law think that he has already sided with outsiders.

Chen shook her head. "Second son, you've always asked me if you're my biological son. Today I'll tell you the truth: yes, neither you nor the eldest son are my biological sons."

Everyone: "..."

Everyone was stunned by these words, including those who were passing by Lu Yancai's yard during their off-work hours.

Village Chief Li happened to walk by and overheard these words, leaving him completely dumbfounded.

What's going on? Neither A-Zheng nor Lu Yancai are the biological sons of the Lu family?

Jiang Qinyu was even more surprised. She never expected that the Chen family would admit to Lu Yancai and Lu Yanzheng's background under such circumstances.

After Chen finished speaking, she seemed to have finally put down a heavy burden. She looked at the elderly couple from the Yang family, but this time her eyes became serious. "Although you are not my biological children, I do not know who your biological parents are."

This means that not just anyone can come up and claim to be the parents of Lu Yanzheng and his brother.

Old Lu stepped forward and looked at the Yang family couple, saying, "We don't object to you coming to acknowledge your son, but you must tell us what was on your second son's body back then, and whether he had any birthmarks or anything like that. The more detailed and consistent your account of his situation back then, the more we can believe that you are truly his parents."

"Father...Mother..." Lu Yan looked at Old Man Lu, then at Madam Chen, his nose stinging with tears, and he knelt down before the two elders, "Son doesn't want to leave you..."

He wasn't being pretentious, nor was he coveting his elder brother's current power; he genuinely didn't want to leave Old Man Lu and Madam Chen, who had raised him from hardship.

Although he used to be a reckless and unruly man, he clearly remembered how good Chen Shi and Old Man Lu had been to him.

He was the second son in the family, so the responsibility of supporting the family didn't fall on him, but he lived a more comfortable and carefree life than his older brother, Lu Yanzheng.

Whenever there was something good in the house, Chen would think of him and his older brother. Because he was the youngest, she would always save more for him. This habit continued until his older brother earned enough money to build a large courtyard for the family.

The eldest brother said at the time, "If our parents continue to spoil our second brother, he will definitely cause a big disaster in the future."

It was from that time that he went from being the youngest son favored by his parents to being treated fairly, which caused him to harbor resentment and always go against his family. This led to him being seduced by Madam Ma and getting married in a daze, and then doing many things that wronged his sister-in-law.

"Second son, I know what you're thinking, but the debt of life is greater than heaven. If they really are your biological parents, we won't blame you. Just go with them without worry." Old Man Lu patted his shoulder and pulled him up.

Tears streamed down Lu Yancai's face as he tightly gripped the hands of Old Man Lu and Madam Chen, sobbing uncontrollably.

When Grandma Yang heard what Grandpa Lu had just said, she immediately became excited and blurted out everything that her eldest daughter had asked her.

“Brother Lu, sister, when my Yaozu was abandoned, he had a red rope tied around his neck. My old man bought it from the cloth shop for one copper coin. There were three ropes for one copper coin, and I still have two at home!”

"Besides the red string, Yaozu has a bluish-purple birthmark on his buttocks, on the right side, shaped a bit like a broom. When he was born, the midwife even muttered about it, saying that he might be a jinx reincarnated..."

"And also, what he was wearing that day was..."

As Grandma Yang spoke, she cried, while the expressions on Madam Chen's and Old Man Lu's faces grew increasingly complicated, and the two kept exchanging glances.

Well, these two really are Lu Yancai's biological parents.

What Old Mrs. Yang said was exactly the same as what Chen said when she found Lu Yancai, including where Lu Yancai had a mole.

Lu Yancai could tell from their expressions that they were his biological parents, and he felt a wave of confusion.

Does he really want to go back to Red Leaf Village?

"Older sister, look, am I right?" Old Mrs. Yang looked at Chen expectantly, her eyes glancing at Lu Yancai again and again.

Chen remained silent.

Old Man Lu looked at Lu Yancai and said, "Second son, they are your parents. Tell me what you think now."

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