A person's past will always leave some traces.
It would be fine if no one got to the bottom of it, but if they really wanted to use manpower and resources to investigate deeper, few people could stop it.
Neither Political Commissar Hao nor Zheng Tiansen revealed much about the details of the letter.
It's no problem that Political Commissar Hao is attracted to Linglong, but he has a lot to consider and can't just ignore other things because of personal feelings.
That letter not only mentioned that there was something wrong with Linglong's background, but also mentioned where Linglong's real hometown was and her father's background.
As Zheng Tiansen expected, this letter was of course written by Liu Baogen, and the source of the information was also provided by his relatives.
However, considering that the family had adopted Linglong, the letter was still a bit ambiguous. It was only vague and there was no specific content.
But even so, the troops cannot ignore it.
The person sent to investigate went directly to Linglong's hometown as mentioned in the letter.
In fact, it is the provincial capital where the Liu family is located.
Linglong was not mistaken about her former name. This was her real name. Following these clues, as well as her age and paternity background, she was able to identify the real name.
In just two days, the truth was revealed.
The information was not much different from what Liu Qi told his son Liu Baogen in the letter.
Linglong's biological father was named Zhong Huaimin. The Zhong family was actually a scholarly family, but they were good at business. They did have a lot of properties and land at the time. In the eyes of ordinary people, they were considered to be a great landlord.
Linglong's biological cousin, named Wei Qingyin, is the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Hai City.
In the fifth year of his life, Wei Qingyin went abroad.
The domestic situation worsened step by step. By the time of Zhong Huaimin's generation, the Zhong family had already dwindled in number, and there were not many people left in this branch.
Because of his wife, Zhong Huaimin was targeted by some people who wanted to seize the Zhong family's property. Realizing that something was wrong, he gradually dismissed his family members.
Later on, he was the only one left in the Zhong family.
Not long after, he also died in an accident.
At that time, someone did investigate the whereabouts of his only daughter, but they probably thought that a young orphan girl posed no threat, so the matter was later dropped.
This is the truth behind what Liu Qi said in the letter: Linglong's father and daughter were a big landlord and a capitalist's daughter respectively.
Not only that, the investigators also went to Liu's house.
Liu Qi was probably prepared for this long ago, he cried out for justice and kept on crying.
"How could I know so much? I was originally a servant of the Zhong family, an old man with a surname who was exploited. I took care of Hongdou and Miss Linglong for several years. I was worried about leaving a little girl like her out there. She might die any day."
"I had no choice. The Zhong family's master and mistress had disappeared, so I had no choice but to bring her back home. I hid her situation for the sake of my family's lives. I was doing this out of kindness. The government can't punish me."
The people who came to investigate and the accompanying local government staff were all helpless.
"Zhi, we didn't say we were going to deal with you. We just came to understand the situation."
"Oh, I just know that the Zhong family is a big landlord and a capitalist. I don't know anything else."
Unable to get any more information from her, the investigators left, but they still visited the village to verify the time Linglong arrived in the village and some daily situations.
As soon as these people left, Liujia Village was in an uproar, and everyone rushed to Liu Baogen's house to ask what was going on.
Of course Liu Qi would not admit his faults. He only cried about how kind he was and how he took a huge risk to adopt Linglong, and how ungrateful he was to Linglong.
The villagers are no longer focused on these things.
Everyone was talking about it.
"I still remember how Linglong looked when she first arrived in our village. She was completely different from the other children in the village."
"That's right! There's no girl as pretty as her anywhere in this town. So she's the eldest daughter."
"Linglong is growing well now."
"Oh, didn't Baogen almost marry the daughter of a wealthy landowner?"
"Yeah, I don't know if Baogen will regret it later."
"What are you regretting? I haven't heard that Linglong's biological mother went abroad. Who would dare to marry her?"
"Alas, what a pity! Linglong is a good child."
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The three members of the Liu family sat together and started talking.
Father Liu stared at his wife and asked, "Why do you say that about Linglong?"
"Then why should I say anything to her? She treated our family like that, and I praised her. Besides, it wasn't me who said it first. It was the government that came to investigate. I can't possibly ruin our family for her."
Liu Baoqin had experienced this and was now wiser. "Mom, did you get the things in your box from the Zhong family?"
"You stupid girl, who told you to rummage through my box!" Liu Qi immediately became nervous and hurried to check his own box.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that the things inside were still there.
Behind her, Liu Baoqin and Liu's father finally saw all the things she had hidden.
In fact, Liu Baoqin didn't look through it. She just thought about the abnormalities in the family over the years, and the last time her cousin took something out and she saw it.
And later, every letter I wrote to my brother had to go through her. She was not a fool.
Liu's father knew that his wife had hidden some valuables, but he didn't expect there were so many.
"Damn it, you didn't really take it from the Zhong family, did you?" he said fearfully.
He knew that the family had never encountered any difficulties in life over the years, and it was all thanks to his wife's efforts.
But when he asked about it, his wife just said that she had saved the money during those years working outside.
But what he just saw, what kind of work can he do to save up?
There were gold bars, jewelry, and some objects that he couldn't understand.
"Why take it? I deserve it. Oh, and both of you keep your mouths shut. Don't tell anyone about it."
Only after she had driven her husband and daughter out did she open the box and look at her treasures again.
The scenes of that year also emerged in my mind.
The servants and drivers of the Zhong family were all dismissed and left. She felt that something big had happened in the Zhong family, so she thought of secretly taking some things from the house when everyone was gone.
Having worked as a servant in the Zhong family for several years, she knew how wealthy the Zhong family was, especially the lady who married into the family with a large dowry. At that time, the servants often discussed her envy in private.
Unexpectedly, she overheard the conversation between Zhong Huaimin and the Zhong family's old housekeeper.
Zhong Huaimin asked the old housekeeper to take Zhong Linglong away and gave the old housekeeper a bag.
When the old housekeeper led the little girl out, she couldn't help but follow.
When Jie Yu was leaving the city, he encountered an accident. The old housekeeper had a conflict with someone and was beaten with a bloody head. The person who injured him panicked and ran away.
When she walked over, the little girl Zhong Linglong was crying and trying to save people.
When she shows up, quickly ask her to save the old housekeeper.
She saw the package dropped aside, quickly opened it and took a look, and a bold idea came to her mind.
The girl "lied" to him and said that she had sent the old housekeeper to the hospital and she would take him home to wait.
In fact, the old housekeeper was thrown out by her.
She took Linglong away in order to keep a trump card. Before returning home, she scared Linglong and asked her to pretend to be dumb and not say anything.
After returning home and calming down, she was still worried about how she and Linglong had kept the secret from the old housekeeper. After all, the girl showed a level of intelligence that was different from that of ordinary children at that time.
Unexpectedly, the girl developed a high fever as soon as she returned to their home.
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