Chapter 73: A baby abandoned in the snow

Huo Lanci and Yu Wanqing walked side by side back to the educated youth center. Huo Lanci asked, "He is your second brother."

Yu Wanqing looked at Huo Lanci: "Is it so obvious?"

"I just guessed it." He said as he walked, "Your father is a famous cavalry regiment commander, and your mother is as capable as any man. A child raised by such a couple should be like you."

"Your second brother is obviously the most eccentric person in the family. Now that I see someone who looks so similar to you, I will make a bold guess."

Yu Wanqing nodded: "It's most likely my biological second brother, I just need to confirm it with him himself." She just noticed the way Zhou Chengye looked at her, with curiosity and exploration, as if he wanted to see another person through her.

Yu Wanqing guessed that Zhou Chengye probably wanted to see a home through her, and was wondering what kind of family had abandoned him.

"Then just go and ask him directly." Huo Lanci felt that when encountering such a thing, the most direct way to know the truth was to ask the person involved.

If they don't tell me, then find out.

"I'll ask tomorrow." My biological second brother is here. If my parents go back to their hometown, they will definitely not be able to find him.

Thinking of this, she felt a little worried, afraid that something might happen.

After returning from the meeting, Secretary Zhou and Zhou Chengye sat in the yard. Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was a bit solemn.

After a long time, Secretary Zhou couldn't help but look at his cousin. He didn't expect that his cousin could be so calm. Then he looked at his own angry face. He was really incomparable. He sighed and said, "Chengye, what are you thinking?"

When he first saw Yu Wanqing, he felt that this young educated youth looked familiar. He thought all good-looking people looked like this. He hadn't seen Cheng Ye for nearly two years, otherwise he would have associated the two of them together.

If he had known this would happen, he would have selfishly wanted to stop Cheng Ye from returning to the team.

Zhou Chengye smiled faintly: "What are you afraid of, second brother?"

"I'm afraid you'll abandon your parents without saying a word." Secretary Zhou directly expressed his worries: "When my uncle picked you up, you were seriously ill with a high fever and were abandoned on the roadside. If my uncle and aunt hadn't passed by, you would have died."

"They kept you in the hospital for several days before you were saved. You were only a few months old when they brought you back. They raised you as their own son and showed their true love to you. I don't want to see my uncle and aunt be sad."

Zhou Chengye glanced at his worried cousin and couldn't help but sigh: "I just want to find my roots, not to leave this home."

"I was raised by my parents, and I will always be their son." He was not stolen by his parents, but picked up by his parents in the snow.

He will never forget the grace of raising him and the love he received. It is as if his parents and elder brother are engraved in his bones and soul, and are an inseparable part of his life.

Zhou Chengye looked at the twinkling stars in the distance and smiled: "I don't look like my parents at all. Since I was a child, people have said that I am not their biological son. I didn't believe it before."

"But my face became more and more beautiful as it grew older. It was completely different from the Zhou family's appearance, and there was not a trace of my maternal grandparents' at all. In the end, I couldn't help crying and asked my parents whose child I was."

He retracted his gaze and looked at Secretary Zhou: "It was then that I learned the truth. As a twelve-year-old boy, what I thought about most was why my biological parents abandoned me? Was it because I was not well behaved when I was a child? Was it because I was too difficult to raise? Did they not love me?"

"Many, many questions lingered in my mind, and over time they became an obsession. I wanted to find them and ask them why they abandoned me." Speaking of this, his eyes also became red: "Cousin, it was the winter of 1944. A sick baby who was only a few months old was abandoned on the roadside in the snow. He would die."

"I kept thinking about how much my biological parents hated me."

Secretary Zhou thought about how after Yu Wanqing went to the countryside, her family would often send her things and money every month.

You can tell from her appearance that she is very pampered at home.

He couldn't help but say, "Maybe it wasn't your biological parents who abandoned you, but there were other reasons."

"You also saw Yu Zhiqing today. She was educated to be generous, sensible, and confident. You can tell at a glance that she is a child that has been educated with great effort." Secretary Zhou patted Zhou Chengye on the shoulder and said, "I support you in searching for your roots, but I also implore you not to abandon your adoptive parents."

“They really love you.”

"You were in poor health because of a severe fever when you were a child. Your mother asked someone to teach you how to make medicinal food to help you recover. Since you were two years old, your father and older brother have been accompanying you in exercise. No matter how busy they were at work, he and your older brother never missed a single day of your growing life."

"It took them ten years to get your health back on track." Not to mention how much money they spent, just the heart they put into it is priceless.

Seeing his cousin giving him such serious advice, Zhou Chengye smiled unkindly: "Cousin, you really don't have to worry so much. I said I won't abandon my parents, and I won't abandon this family."

His adoptive parents, his eldest brother, and the entire family were all very kind to him.

He had no reason to give up his loved ones who loved him so much.

"I just want an answer." Zhou Chengye reminded me calmly, "I'm already in my twenties and have my own job."

Zhou Chengye feels that he is already an independent adult and does not need to stick to his parents all day, so his cousin really shouldn’t look at him as a nemesis.

It made his hair stand on end.

Secretary Zhou glared at him and said, "If you want to know the answer, go ask Yu Zhiqing. I see that she didn't come with Guo Hongying to exchange eggs tonight, but to see you."

"That sister is very cunning. You have to be careful and don't fall into the trap she sets." Thinking about the last time he was tricked by Yu Wanqing and was punished to cook, wash dishes, feed chickens and do laundry when he got home at night, he let it go.

It was really frustrating to be kicked out of the room by my own wife at night.

Looking at his cousin like this, Zhou Chengye really wanted to ask: Have you been cheated?

After thinking about it, I decided to give it a try and give my cousin some face.

He nodded: "Okay."

Zhou Chengye has never been a man who procrastinates. The next morning, he was waiting at the path that Yu Wanqing and Huo Lanci would take to go down the mountain.

Seeing the two people appear, Zhou Chengye walked up to Yu Wanqing and said, "Yu Zhiqing, let's talk."

Yu Wanqing and Huo Lanci were a little surprised that Zhou Chengye would appear here. She nodded: "Okay."

Huo Lanci pointed to the left and said, "There is a lawn over there. Go talk there. I'll wait for you here."