Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

Chen Lang was silent for a long time.

Chen Laosi stared at him, tears streaming down his face.

"Forget it." Chen Lang sighed: "Then let's go and take a look."

"Xiao Qi, go to the village and look for Xiao Huihui. Don't let him hurt anyone."

Xiao Qi nodded: "Okay, boss."

Following Chen Laosi back to the Chen family, all that was left were broken walls and ruins.

Old man Chen sat on a chair, sucking on his pipe.

But no smoke came out of the pipe.

He didn't even have a single cigarette left now, so he could only suck on it dryly to satisfy his craving.

Chen Laosan squatted at the door, looking at the dilapidated yard with lifeless eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

As for Qin, she didn't see it.

"Dad, second brother is back." Chen Laosi shouted loudly.

Old man Chen slowly raised his head, looked at Chen Lang coldly and said, "What are you doing here? Are you here to laugh at me?"

Chen Laosi hurriedly said: "Dad, don't say that, my second brother came back to help..."

Chen Lang said indifferently: "I never asked for help, so don't talk nonsense."

"I just came to take a look, nothing else."

Old Man Chen let out a long breath and said, "Let's go now that you've seen enough."

Chen Lang turned around and walked out.

Seeing this, Chen Laosi immediately knelt on the ground, grabbed Chen Lang's trouser legs, and said, "Second brother, don't go."

Then he turned around and yelled at Old Man Chen: "Dad, I finally invited my second brother back, what are you doing?"

"Do you think you will be happy only if this family is completely destroyed?"

Chen Laosan, who was sitting at the door, chuckled foolishly, "It's all good, it's all good!"

Old Man Chen glanced at his foolish third son, then at his fourth son kneeling on the ground. His heart ached as he asked, "Will it be of any use asking him to come back?"

"Separate the family, sever ties, we have nothing to do with him!"

"Will he be willing to spend money on medical treatment for your mother and your third brother? And to build a house for our family?"

Chen Laosi bit his cheek tightly and said, "Even though we're no longer related, it doesn't mean we're not a family."

"And I think my second brother wouldn't be so heartless...our family is already in this state, he would at least help a little."

Chen Lang said with a half-smile: "Then you are wrong. I have no relationship with you, why should I help you?"

The last string in Chen Laosi's heart completely broke because of these words.

He slumped to the ground, gave a meaningless wry laugh, and said, "I'm such an idiot. Let me go crazy too."

Old man Chen slowly walked up to Chen Lang and said, "Second Brother... Oh, no, I should call you Chen Lang now."

"Our family has indeed done you a disservice, but even if we have done many evil things to you, it cannot erase the credit for saving your life."

"If we hadn't taken such a huge risk to take your mother in, you wouldn't have been born into this world."

"Think of the evil we inflicted on you over the past few years as saving your mother and your reward."

"Now you and our family owe each other nothing."

"Go away and don't come back."

Chen Lang frowned and said, "Old man Chen, if you want to explain what happened back then, I might consider helping you."

Old Man Chen snorted, "You beg me?"

Chen Lang said calmly: "You think too much."

"I'm just curious. Knowing or not knowing who my biological parents are will not affect my future life."

"I'm giving you a chance to continue running this family."

"If you don't want it, then just wait for your whole family to become crazy."

After saying that, he turned and left again.

Old man Chen gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead twitching constantly. After Chen Lang walked seven or eight meters, he shouted, "Come back."

Chen Lang turned around: "Are you willing to tell me?"

"Ten taels!" Old man Chen gritted his teeth.

Chen Lang narrowed his eyes: "Okay, deal."

Old man Chen sat back in his chair and started sucking on his pipe again.

"Twenty-three years ago, late at night in winter, two women collapsed at our doorstep. One of them was heavily pregnant and about to give birth."

"The younger one, probably a maid, brought five taels of silver and begged us to take her in."

"At that time, the war had just ended and every household was extremely poor. Five taels of silver was too tempting for us."

"We took these two women in, and three days later, you were born."

"My first son was born at the same time."

"After your mother gave birth to you, her health was very bad. She had to see a doctor, otherwise she would die."

"So her maid made a pact with us."

"She gave us fifty ounces of silver and a pair of gold bracelets, and asked us to raise you. She also wanted to announce to everyone that you were our child, a twin of my eldest son."

"She said she would come and take you away when you were seven or eight years old."

"But if you're not at our house when she comes to pick you up, or if you're dead, she won't let us go."

"Who would refuse such a thing? Fifty taels plus a pair of gold bracelets. Not only can we support you until you are seven or eight, but even until you reach adulthood, that's no problem. So we agreed without hesitation."

"Then she took your mother out to find a doctor and never came back."

"Chen Lang, if you still have any memories before the age of five, you can think carefully about it. We were very good to you back then and treated you like our own son."

"Why did it change? Because you killed my eldest son."

"If it hadn't been for saving you, he wouldn't have drowned."

"From that time on, we realized that you were not a member of our family after all, so our attitude towards you became even worse."

"I admit that what we did was not right. After all, we took the money and should have taken good care of you. But please understand us. The pain of losing a child is unbearable for anyone."

"And the maid said she would come to pick you up, but she didn't come."

When Old Man Chen said this, his eyes turned red and he laughed at himself. He said, "The youngest son was kidnapped, the third son's wife ran away with her two grandchildren, and the old woman went crazy. Is this retribution?"

Chen Lang only believed 70% of the story told by Old Man Chen.

Because when anyone talks about the mistakes they have made, they will subconsciously embellish them.

Chen Lang even suspected that his biological mother was not taken away by the maid, but was quietly killed by the Chen family.

It is not impossible. After all, the two women are powerless, and one of them has just given birth and is in an extremely weak state. It would be easy to kill them.

But Chen Lang is not crazy. There is no evidence to prove that his mother was killed by the Chen family. He will not kill this family to avenge his mother.

Besides, given the current situation of the Chen family, even if I don’t take action, they won’t be able to hold on for long.

"A question." Chen Lang raised his index finger.

Old Man Chen asked, "What?"

"I'm twenty-five this year...but you just said that you took my mother in twenty-three years ago."

"Why two years older?"