Chapter 150: Lineage (2)

  "But they have their reasons..."

  "What reason? What reason is that? Alright, I'll say it: the child you're talking about is me. You just said their family is very influential, so if they had used a bit of their influence back then when I was kidnapped and sold, wouldn't they have been able to find me? And yet I've been stuck outside for all these years?"

  "Chu Ge, calm down and listen to me finish speaking, okay? I've already done many wrong things before, please let me finish speaking. Otherwise, I really won't be able to face Dad and Mom!" Chu Yulan said with a pleading expression, her voice trembling as she spoke, on the verge of tears.

  Although Chu Chen's emotions were still very agitated, seeing Chu Yulan's pitiful and pleading appearance, he couldn't help but feel some sympathy, so he said in a stiff tone: "Speak!"

  "At that time, it was the most critical moment for our family. Both sides were eyeing us with ill intentions. Our family suspected that your disappearance was orchestrated by political enemies. If they had discovered Grandfather's abuse of power to search for you, even if it was a normal human reaction, they might have also seized upon it and the consequences would be unbearable."

  "Grandfather, considering the others in our household and those who followed our family line, ultimately had no choice but to decide to search on his own first. By the time it was later discovered that it wasn't done by a political enemy, the opportunity had already been missed. Moreover, at that time, my maternal grandfather was still working in the south and couldn't reach us in time. When he finally found old comrades to help, it was already too late."

  After listening to Chu Yulan's words, Chu Chen felt a sense of desperation, because of these things, can you abandon your loved ones like abandoned children? The spirit of forgetting oneself for the public is indeed great, but what was forgotten was himself, which made Chu Chen unacceptable in his heart. Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and said expressionlessly:

  "What happened in the past was right or wrong, I don't want to comment on it anymore. But since they abandoned me back then, what's the point of me going back now?"

  "Brother Chu, it wasn't Dad and Mom who made this decision! All these years, they've endured so much pain and pressure. Mom got seriously ill because of this matter back then, and her body has never fully recovered since. Every time she sees your photo, she bursts into tears. Brother Chu, can you really bear to let them continue suffering like this?"

  At this time, Chu Chen, due to the anger in his heart, had somewhat lost his rationality. He said indignantly: "If they love me so much, why haven't they sent someone to find me all these years?"

  "Chu Ge, even until now, Dad and Mom have not given up their efforts to find you. In those years, they also sent people to search for you in this mountainous area, but for some reason, there was no news of you at all."

  It may be that Chu Chen was destined to be so, the place where that person took Chu Chen back then was not near Lüjiacun, but a mountainous area more than 100 miles southwest of here. At that time, although Chu Chen was dull, he still knew that his home was in Beijing and should head north, and after walking for several days, he met Liu Guomin who had visited his family and returned home, and was taken back by him.

  When Chu Chen's parents sent someone to track down the lead, they found out that although the person in question admitted it was true, at the time it was too chaotic and the child might have been taken away by a human trafficker again. The person in charge then urgently went after the human trafficker, so no one paid much attention to the surrounding area.

  However, the human trafficker was also unlucky and got beaten up. At that time, he didn't feel anything, but after a while, he started to show symptoms. When people found him, the human trafficker was already on his last breath, so of course, they couldn't get any clues out of him.

  Although the man had accomplices, they were clearly divided in their work, and only he was responsible for the transaction. At that time, his accomplices asked about the child, but at that time, the man's head injury caused a great change in his temperament, becoming extremely irritable, and under such circumstances, his accomplices couldn't get any explanation out of him.

  In fact, if the person in charge of finding Chu Xuan at that time had not gone to find the human trafficker and directly searched around, they would have found traces of Chu Xuan. By the time they went back to search the area because they didn't get any useful clues from the human trafficker, Chu Xuan was already over 100 miles away in Liu Guomin's home.

  Moreover, at that time, Chu Quan was ill again, and Liu Guomin's report was delayed for several days. At that time, the police station received a notice to assist in the investigation, but such things were not uncommon at that time, and communication was not well developed, so no one knew that the child was the offspring of which leader, so it did not receive much attention.

  In addition, the police officer who received Liu Guomin at that time was a newcomer and did not know about the notification, so he simply asked a few questions and went through the motions.

  Moreover, he strongly persuaded Liu Guomin that if the parents were not found, let Liu Guomin adopt Chu Chen, which would be better for the child's future life and also alleviate the government's burden.

  Although Chu Chen knew that what Chu Yulan said should be true, he couldn't accept it all at once. The key is that when he heard that he was abandoned as a discarded son due to political struggles back then, his heart couldn't muster up any good feelings towards this family now.

  The two fell silent for a long time. Chu Yulan spoke cautiously: "Chu Ge, just agree with me and meet Dad and Mom?"

  Chu Chen silently shook his head, and after a while, he said: "For the time being, I don't have such thoughts, and most importantly, how do you know that I am the child your parents lost all those years ago? Maybe you're mistaken."

  "Chu Ge, it's possible that you're not, but the bigger possibility is that you are the child my parents lost all those years ago. Your appearance resembles my father's when he was young, and I also noticed that there are two moles on the back of your left ear, these two points are strong evidence."

  "Plus your name, I guess it should come from a jade plaque, on which is recorded the name and birthday of you, Brother Chu. These three points added together..."

  "Don't say anymore..."

  Chu Chen shouted loudly, and as Chu Yulan spoke, he became more and more indignant. The negative emotions that had been suppressed deep within him for many years suddenly erupted.

  At this moment, Chu Chen's eyes kept flashing back to the scenes of his childhood when others insulted him. At that time, he was depressed, anxious and inferior. The sunshine in front of him was no longer bright, and the whole person seemed to be shrouded in dark clouds all the time, as if there were cold winds blowing around him at all times.

  At that time, he felt like a floating duckweed, without roots, without support, not knowing what tomorrow would be like, as if living forever in the unknown darkness. Those days, those feelings, even thinking about them now, make him feel chilled to the bone.

  And who can you blame for all this? Blame your parents? This is not their intention. Blame that ruthless grandfather? He had a righteous reason, he needed to protect his family and those who followed him at the time!

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