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He was angry and puzzled. The eldest brother was a scholar whom he had worked so hard to train, and now he had become an official. How could he become like this? How could he just abandon them? After a while, he reached out and picked up the teacup on the table. After taking a sip, he immediately started coughing violently.

Sheng Xuan quickly raised his head and saw that the old man's face was red from coughing, so he hurriedly massaged the old man's back, while Xiao Lan hurriedly changed the old man's cup of tea.

"I'm fine, don't make a fuss." Old Master Sheng waved Sheng Xuan away and said hurriedly.

Seeing that the old man's coughing gradually stopped, Sheng Xuan stopped.

The room fell silent again. Cui was unusually quiet today. Except for crying when she just came back, she was sitting quietly with Chunhua now. She was indifferent to the old man's coughing just now.

"Third brother, let's go back to Shengjia Village tomorrow. As for your eldest brother abandoning us, don't let anyone know for now." Grandpa Sheng finally spoke, but he bombarded us with words, "Third brother, you have to understand our feelings as parents. Your eldest brother has finally gotten an official position. If he abandons us and the news that we were abducted by the Black Tiger Village spreads to Hejian County, your eldest brother's future will be over."

"I'm old now, and after this ordeal, my mind is still a little confused. If there's anything I haven't thought through, you should bear with me."

"The city is big and it's not easy to live here. Let's go back to Shengjia Village early and save some money. We are both old and half buried in the earth, so it doesn't matter where we live."

After saying this, Mr. Sheng's eyes turned red again.

Xiao Lan thought to herself, it seems that he suffered a very big blow this time. After all, it was the first time she saw him crying so frequently.

"Dad and Mom, you two have suffered a lot." Sheng Xuan said.

"I have lived a clean life, but in the end, I was sent to prison..." As he spoke, Mr. Sheng choked up and couldn't continue.

"Chunhua, my poor Chunhua." Cui suddenly howled and hugged Chunhua and cried, "You were harmed by your elder brother, that damned brother. Ever since he married that evil woman Wang, you have never been well."

"My poor Chunhua, what are you going to do in the future? Those heartless bastards just abandoned us like this. My Chunhua, you must be heartbroken."

"No one wants things to turn out like this." Mr. Sheng sighed.

In fact, from Cui's curses in prison, Xiao Lan roughly figured out the whole story.

Generally speaking, the eldest and second oldest brothers were selfish. When they encountered bandits, in order to save their own lives, they abandoned their elderly parents and fled alone.

Chunhua was also very unlucky. She had been in the same car with the old couple all the way, so she was naturally the one who was left behind. Then came the very clichéd plot. The head of the Black Tiger Mountain took a fancy to Chunhua, prayed to heaven and earth, and married her.

This is why Shen Liu used this as a threat and refused to release Old Master Sheng, Cui, and Chunhua from prison. Because everyone on Black Tiger Mountain could prove that Chunhua was the daughter-in-law of the big boss, and that the Sheng family was married to Black Tiger Mountain, so they were all in the same boat. Even if they had a lot of mouths, they couldn't explain it clearly. This also explains why the other hostages were able to be brought out quickly, but it took Xiao Lan a lot of work to get the three of them out of prison.

There is a saying in the officialdom that money can be used to atone for sins. Xiao Lan wondered if her behavior of asking Shen Liu to give her the green light was also a way of atonement. After all, the money-making plan she provided was to be followed to the end. If everything went well, the first business activity would bring Shen Liu a huge profit.

"Grandpa and grandma, when we return to Shengjia Village, you can stay at my house. We will support you two." Xiao Lan said.

Old Master Sheng didn't say anything. When Cui saw that Xiao Lan and Sheng Xuan ignored her, she slowly stopped crying.

"My eldest and second uncles are disobedient and unfilial. When we go back, we will ask the head of the village and the elders to expel them from the Sheng family. From now on, you two elders will live with my family." Xiao Lan said, "We are nearly 2,000 miles away from Hejian County. Since my grandfather is reluctant to see my eldest uncle lose his job, we will not spread the news that he abandoned the two elders and fled alone. But we can't let him ruin the reputation of our Sheng family. With his character, I can't guarantee what beastly things he will do in the future."

The reason why Xiao Lan wanted Mr. Sheng and Mrs. Cui to stay in her house to live out their old age was that she wanted to completely cut them off from Sheng Nuo and Sheng Kai's families, and even wanted to expel them from the Sheng family. She was really scared. She couldn't imagine what a son who didn't even observe filial piety could do two thousand miles away. She was really afraid that their own family would be implicated.

After listening to Xiao Lan's words, Mr. Sheng secretly groaned in his heart. Even if the eldest son had a thousand and ten thousand faults, he was still his beloved eldest son. But Xiao Lan's words were full of righteousness and filial piety, and they were flawless, so he couldn't find any fault with them.

Xiao Lan's words were very clear. If they wanted to stay at the third brother's house, they would have to cut off contact with the first and second brothers and expel them from the Sheng family. Could he stay? Would he have the nerve to stay?

How the third brother divided the family was still vivid in his mind, and what happened at home before they went to Hejian Prefecture seemed like it was just yesterday. He had never forgotten these things, and he remembered clearly that the Sheng family was pointed at by the villagers for a while.

If he stayed at the third brother's house, the villagers would probably praise him for his good fortune in front of him, but would poke holes in his spine behind his back.

"I'm not going to live in your house. I'm going to live in my own house." Cui made the decision before Mr. Sheng. "You all have lost your conscience. You can't rely on any of you."

"I regret it. I shouldn't have taken Chunhua away from home. If we had stayed in Shengjia Village, we wouldn't have encountered such a thing." Cui started crying again.

"Your mother is ill." Old Master Sheng changed the subject and said, "Third brother, Xiao Lan, I know you are filial, but as the old saying goes, we are all made of flesh and blood. Although the eldest and second brothers... made mistakes, they are still my sons after all, and they are blood relatives to you. You can't write two Sheng characters with one stroke. If the news that I broke off relations with them spreads to Hejian Prefecture, then his official career will be over..."

"According to the rules in our village, we have to live with the eldest brother. After all, we are a family. As long as they sincerely repent, we will still give them a chance."