Chapter 232 We Are Not Your Biological Parents

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Dad, Mom, what's so serious?"

Xia Shuangshan glanced at Xia Juanjuan, coughed twice, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Seeing Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei doing their homework in the house, Lin Yuru said, "Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei, take your brothers out to play for a while. Go to the front door and look at the lotus flowers and fish. Don't run too far!"

Xiaowen and his two siblings obediently pushed the stroller and took Yanyan and his friends to the gate to play.

Xia Juanjuan couldn't help but sigh. What on earth was going on? Sending all the children away?

There were only three people in the house. After a long silence, Xia Shuangshan took a deep breath and said, "Juan'er, there is something that your mother and I have been hiding from you. Today, we are going to tell you. You should be mentally prepared..."

Lin Yuru didn't say anything before she started wiping her tears.

Xia Shuangshan felt a little uncomfortable, but he continued, "Juan'er, you are not our biological child. We picked you up 22 years ago..."

He went to Liujia Village in Fen County to inquire, and came back last night. After discussing it with Lin Yuru all night, he decided to tell Xia Juanjuan the truth and let the girl decide for herself whether to recognize her biological parents.

If they kept the fact a secret for their entire lives because they were afraid that the daughter would no longer acknowledge them as her adoptive parents after she recognized the father's relationship, they would feel guilty for the rest of their lives.

In the past twenty years, they have been very bad to their daughter. Now, they can no longer be so selfish.

Xia Juanjuan was stunned.

This... why did my biological parents show up out of nowhere?

Lin Yuru wiped her tears and told the story of how she was picked up when she was still a baby, and how a few days ago a woman came to the town to inquire about things and brought a piece of cloth with a broken corner.

Xia Juanjuan listened and then said, "So, Mom, you were restless the past two days not because you were worried about my dad going away, but because of this?"

Lin Yuru nodded.

Xia Shuangshan continued, "I went to Liujia Village in Fen County two days ago to ask around. I guess the people who came here are a widow named Wang. But she is not your biological parents. Your biological parents are probably a couple from that village. The man is Liu Yuliang and the woman is Li Erni. There is also a son in his twenties who should be your brother. He is not married yet. There are also three younger brothers and two younger sisters. They live... and they seem to be living in poverty."

Xia Shuangshan paused and continued, "Juan'er, given the situation at your biological parents' house, if you become relatives with them, then they... will definitely drag you and Lizhan down. Your mother and I thought about not telling you. But then we thought about it and realized that you are already grown up, and we were afraid that when they really come looking for you in the future, you won't be mentally prepared, and you won't blame us for hiding it from you. So we decided to tell you after all. Your mother and I, selfishly, don't want you to become relatives with them. You married Lizhan and finally had a good life for two years. I don't think that family is much better than the Xia family. If you become relatives with them, it will be a bottomless pit in the future..."

Xia Juanjuan listened to these words as if she were listening to someone else's affairs, then analyzed calmly and asked: "Dad, you said it was that widow Wang who came? Since my biological parents are from the same village, why didn't they come here themselves? Why did they let a woman who has nothing to do with them come here?"

Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru looked at each other.

Xia Shuangshan said with some embarrassment: "I asked around in the village, and they said that the widow Wang has a bad reputation. The villagers say that she sometimes does things to mess with children. If anyone in the village has a child and can't afford to raise it, they will ask her to find a way to get rid of it and send it away..."

After hearing this, Xia Juanjuan understood.

"So, it's possible that my biological parents couldn't afford to raise me after I was born, so they asked Widow Wang to give me away. But I don't know what happened, but the family that adopted me didn't want to raise me anymore, so they just threw me on the street, and then you, Dad and Mom, picked me up?"

It sounds good to say that she is giving her away. Maybe her biological parents are taking advantage of her! It is just selling their own child in disguise!

Lin Yuru said quickly: "Juan'er, it's not necessarily the case. Maybe there was some hidden secret back then, for example, your parents came here to visit relatives and accidentally lost you. They may not have abandoned you on purpose..."

Just now, Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru didn't mention the matter of Widow Wang because they were afraid that Xia Juanjuan would know that she was abandoned and would be sad.

I didn't expect their daughter to be so smart and answered the question right away.

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Mom, you don't have to comfort me. I'm not a child anymore. I won't be sad for people who have nothing to do with me."

Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan looked at each other again, hesitant to speak, but finally asked: "Then Juan'er... did you... recognize them?"

Xia Juanjuan didn't hesitate at all and said calmly, "I don't recognize it."

She is not a sucker. Even if Liu Yuliang and Li Erni from Liujia Village are really her biological parents and gave her away when she was born, why do they come to her now that she is so old and want to be recognized as her biological parent?

They just give birth to children but don't raise them. Then when the children grow up, they show up to pretend to be their parents and let the children take care of them until they die?

Where in the world can such a good thing happen?

Xia Juanjuan looked at Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru solemnly and said, "Dad, Mom, don't worry. To me, the grace of raising you is much more important than the grace of giving birth to you. You will always be my father and mother, and no one else, even if they gave birth to me, can ever replace you!"

Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru were both stunned for a moment.

They discussed it all night last night and had already made up their minds for the worst case scenario, which was that the daughter would recognize her biological parents and bring her biological mother over to take care of the family, while Lin Yuru would go back to the Xia family. In the future, she might gradually become estranged from them, the incompetent adoptive parents.

I never thought that this would be the best ending.

Even though their daughters knew that they were not their biological parents, they still had no grudges and still treated them as their parents!

"Oh! Good! Good!"

There was nothing else they could say except "OK!" while raising their sleeves to wipe their tears.

Xia Juanjuan was also helpless.

Forget Lin Yuru. She will cry when something happens anyway.

Xia Shuangshan, a dull man, is now crying. This...

It made her nose feel sore.

"Look at you, what's there to cry about? We are a family, and I didn't say anything. The kids will be scared when they come back later..."

Just as they were talking, Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei really came back pushing the three little ones, shouting, "Mom, the brothers are hungry..."

Seeing the adults coaxing the children in front of them, Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei were dumbfounded and stared at them blankly.

Xia Juanjuan quickly smiled, went over to push the cart into the house, and said with a smile: "I'll go feed them."

Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan also felt embarrassed after hearing this, so they quickly wiped their tears and went about their business.

This is a very serious matter. She is already quite old and her grandchildren saw her crying...

Xia Shuangshan was indeed not lying. What he found out in Liujia Village was that Liu Yuliang and Li Erni were the biological parents of the baby girl.

It turned out that Liu Yuliang and Li Erni were also afraid that if the news of asking Widow Wang to look for the baby girl spread in the village, they would not be able to explain the origin of the baby girl clearly, so they simply said that Li Erni gave birth to her. When the time came, the baby girl was found, and they took her to the capital to recognize her as a relative, and then came back to say that it was a mistake and let it go.

To the Beijing side, it can also be explained that when he was looking for his biological daughter, he happened to find the daughter of the Fu family.

Otherwise, rumors would spread in the village first, and if the Fu family found out that they were the ones who stole the child, then not only would they not be compensated, but both the couple would be sent to labor reform!

This caused a wreck.

However, what Xia Shuangshan had secretly come to inquire about soon reached the ears of Liu Yuliang and Li Erni.

Originally, Widow Wang had gone there and cheated them out of a lot of money for travel, food and lodging, but she hadn't gotten to the bottom of the matter. Now, because Xia Shuangshan came to inquire, they suddenly got some clues, and both of them couldn't help but be overjoyed!

Liu Yuliang and Li Erni went to the village to get a letter of introduction, intending to come here in person to look for a girl. However, the village did not give them a letter of introduction. The harvest season was about to begin, and they were afraid that they were just using it as an excuse to go out and look for a girl.

Although each household now earns a share of the labor, it is still a big pot of rice, and some second-rate scoundrels and scoundrels who take advantage of the situation still receive food from the government. This couple has done this a lot, and the village is on guard against them, letting them go out and look for trouble during the winter.