Chapter 150: He Couldn’t Do This Kind of Thing

Leng Qing Yu was a bit flustered when asked this question.

“I… I don’t know.”

She grabbed her son’s hand as if seeking help. “If it weren’t for you bringing me here today, I wouldn’t have known that my daughter has been living in such a place.”

“Does father know?”

Lu Chang Qing suddenly asked.

“Father?”

Leng Qing Yu froze for a moment. “He probably doesn’t know. How could he know? You were so young back then, how would he know that you were swapped?”

“But he always liked Lu Zhi Yi, didn’t he?”

In the past few days, Lu Chang Qing had thought a lot.

At first, he thought it must have been an accident.

But when he recalled all these years of experience, it was hard for him not to suspect that his father, Lu Ting En, knew something.

Leng Qing Yu quickly explained for her husband, “I know what you’re thinking. You think your father treated you badly all these years.”

“But Chang Qing, you have to understand the difficulties of being a parent. Your father wanted you to stand on your own sooner, that’s why he was so strict with you.”

Looking at Leng Qing Yu’s panicked expression, Lu Chang Qing couldn’t bear to say more.

Over the years, his father had been his mother’s emotional support. No matter who saw it, it was obvious that his father had put in a lot of effort for his mother. Even though that man was not good to him, at least he was good to her.

“I don’t want to argue about this.”

He said, “What should we do now? Are you going to acknowledge your real daughter?”

“Of course!” Madam Lu said. “Whether she is willing or not, I want her to be my daughter again. I want to make up for the years of wronging her. It’s all my fault!”

“Then let’s not disturb sister today.”

Lu Chang Qing looked at the lively scene in the courtyard. “Today is a happy day for sister, we’ll come back another time.”

After saying that, he instructed the driver to turn the carriage around, and the two of them returned to the Wei residence.

“However, today is their family’s big day, and Chang Qing said not to disturb them. We’ll go tomorrow instead.”

“Then what about Lord Hou…?”

Leng Qing Xin seemed worried.

Everyone knew that Lord Hou’s most beloved daughter was Lu Zhi Yi.

Since she was young, he had hired famous teachers for her, trained her in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. As she grew older, he even took her out to social events. Even Consort Rong was very fond of her.

If it were revealed that this daughter wasn’t his biological one, could Lord Hou accept it?

“I’ve already thought about it,” Leng Qing Yu said. “After acknowledging Xin Ran, Zhi Yi will still be our daughter. It’s like having one more daughter in the family. Isn’t that great?”

“Mother, have you thought about it? What will we say to outsiders about having another daughter? Will we say that Lu Zhi Yi isn’t your biological daughter? Or will we say my sister isn’t your biological daughter? Can you guarantee that you’ll treat both my sister and Lu Zhi Yi the same way?”

Lu Chang Qing was speaking up for Ye Xin Ran.

“This…”

Leng Qing Yu clearly hadn’t thought that far ahead. When she heard her son’s question, she suddenly froze.

Leng Qing Xin noticed her sister’s hesitation and quickly intervened, saying, “Xin Ran is definitely your biological daughter. There’s no doubt about it. As for what to tell others, we’ll figure that out. We don’t need to rush.”

Leng Qing Yu had never felt so conflicted.

One was her daughter whom she had raised for eighteen years, and the other was her biological daughter who had been lost for many years. Both were good children, and she couldn’t bear to hurt either of them.

And the root cause of all this was definitely Ye Da Cheng and his wife.

It was hard to imagine what kind of mindset they had when they swapped the children of the two families.

She had been so kind to them all these years, yet they had the audacity to do such a thing!

Although the children were innocent, they were unforgivable.

“Where is Ye Da Cheng now? I need to find him and get to the bottom of this! The Leng family has given him a lot of benefits over the years, and I’m going to make him pay all of it back!”

“He’s dead!”

Lu Chang Qing’s words shocked Leng Qing Yu.

“How could he be dead? Didn’t he just send a letter to the capital?”

“He really is dead, just not long ago.”

Leng Qing Xin added.

This matter involved Ye Xin Ran, and she had been following it closely, so she knew very well.

“To be precise, Ye Da Cheng’s death is still unclear, but his wife and daughter are both dead. The murderer has not yet been found.”

“There’s one more thing.”

Lu Chang Qing said, “Not long ago, there was a fire at my sister’s neighbor’s house.

Although the magistrate ruled it as a crime of passion, if the fire had been a little bigger, my sister could have been in grave danger.”

How could this be!

Leng Qing Yu was at a loss for words, overwhelmed by shock.

“It sounds like someone targeted the Ye family, even not sparing Xin Ran!” she said.

Lu Chang Qing nodded. “That’s indeed the case.”

“It’s possible that Ye Da Cheng offended someone in the business world!”

Leng Qing Yu said.

Over the years, she had seen all sorts of dirty dealings in the business world while running her fabric store.

Ye Da Cheng’s greed could have led him to offend someone, but it was hard to say who.

“This is just one possibility,” Lu Chang Qing coldly continued.

“There’s another possibility that someone wanted to silence them.

For someone to go to such extremes, it must have been over something major.

Maybe it was a family disgrace, or perhaps a secret about the child’s origins. That person likely didn’t want the Ye family to ruin his prospects…”

“Impossible! He would never do such a thing!”

Leng Qing Yu’s legs went weak, and she collapsed onto the chair.

She understood the implication in Lu Chang Qing’s words.

But she just couldn’t accept such a possibility.

If what Lu Chang Qing was saying was true, then it meant that from over a decade ago, or even from when they first got married, Lu Ting En had been lying to her.

But people’s hearts are made of flesh.

Even if he wanted to deceive her, he couldn’t have done it flawlessly for so many years.

If he had intended to deceive her, why go this far?

Was his care all fake? Were the years of affection between them also fake?

Thinking of this, Leng Qing Yu felt as if her heart was being tightly squeezed by a hand.

It hurt so much that she almost fainted.

“Lu Chang Qing, I don’t care what you’re thinking, but from now on, you are not allowed to suspect your father in this matter.”

Leng Qing Yu looked at her son sternly and said,

“No matter what, he’s your father, he’s my husband. I’ve lived with him for all these years, and I know his character. He would never do something like this!”