For a young man who has just reached adulthood, who has been separated from his biological parents since childhood, suffered a lot of hardships that he should not have suffered, and has little social experience, Chu Jiancheng’s words are like stabbing him in the heart.

Even if he didn’t originally think that his parents favored the adopted son who replaced him, after hearing these words, he couldn’t help but wonder whether it was fair for him, the victim, that his parents kept the adopted son at home and treated him as their own son.

Once suspicion arises, it is easy to look at things with prejudice.

Moreover, even if the children are both their own, it is difficult for parents to be truly fair and just all the time, and there will always be times when they are biased towards one child.

Lin Qingluo knows that the so-called equal treatment does not mean not being biased at all, but making each child feel that they are the one who is favored.

This is how she handled the relationship between Chu Huaijin and Chu Heyan before.

However, Chu Lingyu and Chu Heyan are in a special situation, and she has been extremely careful these days, just for fear that the child will feel that he is not loved.

Now, Chu Jiancheng’s words not only made all her efforts fall through, but also directly planted a thorn in Chu Lingyu’s heart, which may not be removed for a lifetime.

Lin Qingluo was almost mad with anger. She let go of Chu Yecheng’s hand, took a step forward, and said regardless: “Chu Jiancheng, I call you brother to give face to my husband, not because I, Lin Qingluo, am afraid of you! I, as a mother, am not dead yet, and you bully my son in front of me, right? Are these words what an elder should say? How can you provoke relations between our family like this? I’m saying this today. No matter which one of my children, as long as I have a breath left, I will never let them go to someone else’s home!”

Not only Chu Jiancheng was scolded, but Chu Yecheng didn’t run away either: “And you, you let the child choose for himself, do you want to push him out? Is there any father like you?”

Chu Yecheng hurriedly explained: “That’s not what I meant. Don’t be angry, calm down…”

Lin Qingluo was so angry that her eyes turned red. She shook off his hand and looked at him sharply: “I tell you, Chu Yecheng, if you dare to let Ling Yu be adopted by your brother, we will get a divorce tomorrow!”

Chu Yecheng continued to explain in a panic, “I was wrong. I should have made it clear that I have no intention of giving the child away. Whether it’s Ling Yu or Yanyan, we are all flesh and blood. As parents, we will neither favor one nor give up on one.”

Chu Huaijin found the right time to stand up and said, “Grandpa, you can see that my mother has a bad temper, but what uncle said is really too much. Not only has it hurt the relationship between Ling Yu and our family, but it also made it impossible for my parents to properly handle the relationship between my two younger brothers in the future. My mother is so angry because she loves the child. Ling Yu just said that he wants to live with us. Even if my uncle is eager to have a child, he can’t force my parents to divorce in order to snatch the child, right? How will outsiders see it? What do you think, Grandpa?”

Chu Jiancheng wanted to say something, but Old Man Chu sighed and interrupted him, “Okay, since Ling Yu doesn’t want to, you can ask other families.”

With so many people with the surname Chu in the side branches, it is impossible not to find a boy who can be adopted.

As expected, upon hearing what the old man said, the smart people began to recommend their own young people to Chu Jiancheng.

Chu Jiancheng’s heart sank. Although the child of the side branch also had the surname Chu, he was not the old man’s grandson, and his weight was different.

Since the old man Chu had made a decision, there was no reason for him to regret it.

He cleared his throat and looked at the old lady of the Zhou family and the mother and son, “These things in our family have made everyone laugh.”

The old lady of the Zhou family said tactfully, “What are you talking about, old man? As elders, how can we not worry about the young people? It’s getting late, so we won’t bother you anymore.”

The old man said a few polite words, and after having them sent away, he continued, “I’m sure everyone has guessed the second thing. I don’t know how long my old bones can last. I have to admit that I’m old. These hard works should be handed over to the young people to worry about.”

Everyone realized that this was going to be the official announcement of the heir, and they all looked at the two brothers Chu Jiancheng and Chu Yecheng.

The old man waved at Chu Yecheng, and Chu Yecheng stepped forward immediately.

“Yecheng, from now on, the Chu family will be handed over to you.”

Chu Jiancheng’s face was extremely ugly, but Chu Yecheng seemed more stable, at least he didn’t show his joy.

Old Master Chu looked at the people from the side branches: “When my second child was young, he was stubborn and insisted on learning to have a free love relationship from others. Over the years, there has been no wife’s family who can help him. I hope you can help him more in the future.”

Everyone exchanged glances with each other. The clan leader was about to take the lead in responding, but Chu Jiancheng suddenly said: “Dad, my second brother is not only without the help of the wife’s family, I have heard that his brother-in-law is now in jail and is suspected of drug trafficking! If this gets out, others may think that it was our Chu family who instructed or even controlled it from behind! In this way, the reputation of the Chu family will be ruined! Dad, are you really confident in handing the Chu family over to him? Uncles and brothers, don’t you worry that some people will implicate our Chu family?”

Lin Qingluo’s eyes turned cold. It turned out that he was waiting for her here!

No wonder she didn’t find anything wrong before. Most likely, Chu Jiancheng had dug a trap early to guard against her.

This old sly guy! He really has no bottom line at all!

Her brother is stupid, but if no one guides him, he would not have come to this point today.

The police still don’t know when they can find solid evidence to prove that this matter is related to Chu Jiancheng. Chu Jiancheng chose to attack at this time, and they can’t explain it even if they have a mouth.

Chu Yecheng didn’t expect that this matter was actually a trap set by his eldest brother. Before he could come up with a countermeasure, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

[Uncle is suspected of drug trafficking, but weren’t these things planned by the eldest uncle?]

Everyone present held their breath instantly. Chu Jiancheng designed his brother’s brother-in-law to sell drugs?

This matter was too unbelievable. Many people suspected that they had auditory hallucinations. Even Mr. Chu didn’t call Chu Heyan out for questioning at the first time.

Chu Heyan’s inner voice continued to reveal: [First find a beautiful woman to lure uncle to gamble, gamble until he loses everything and is heavily in debt, and then coerce and lure uncle to help them sell drugs. How did the eldest uncle come up with such a vicious plan? Uncle is not very smart, but it is a chain of events. Even if it were someone else, it would be hard not to be calculated, right?]

Everyone felt a chill on their backs. Yes, if these things were true, Chu Jiancheng could plot against Lin Qingluo’s brother from her mother’s side, and he could also plot against any of them.

Who can guarantee that they will not offend Chu Jiancheng for the rest of their lives? This man is not a magnanimous person. On the contrary, everyone knows that he is narrow-minded and loves to bear grudges.

[In my uncle’s original plan, he was actually going to let my uncle use drugs to destroy my eldest brother! In this way, his son can come to the fore. But plans cannot keep up with changes, and his son is not his own.]

Chu Huaijin’s heart skipped a beat. If they hadn’t discovered that something was wrong with his uncle, and Lin Yiwei was being controlled by someone, he was not sure if he could escape this.

Although he was usually alert enough outside, who would doubt the food or drinks handed over by his own uncle at home?

The more he thought about this matter, the more scared he felt.

[Uncle wouldn’t think that all the evidence has been destroyed, and there will be no evidence when uncle is sentenced to death, right? The woman who was instructed by uncle to seduce uncle, uncle wanted to silence her, but she is still alive and well, and has the complete evidence in her hands. ]

Chu Jiancheng couldn’t hold back after hearing this. With a sullen face, he approached Chu Heyan in the corner and asked harshly: “What nonsense are you talking about again?”

Chu Heyan raised his head and pretended to be stupid with an innocent face: “Uncle, what are you talking about? I didn’t say anything.”

[The police have caught the woman, and they should come to summon uncle soon, right? ]

[Uncle has really taken great pains to compete with my father for the position of heir. Isn’t he afraid that he will really drag the entire Chu family down with him? ]

The last sentence was really heartbreaking, and it hit Chu Jiancheng like a boomerang.

Chu Jiancheng was furious and wanted to cover Chu Heyan’s mouth, but Chu Lingyu raised his hand to stop him and put Chu Heyan behind him.

Just at this moment, the housekeeper came in and reported: “Master, the police are here.”

Chu Jiancheng saw a group of people in police uniforms walking towards him, and he was immediately confused and instinctively wanted to escape.

If Chu Heyan hadn’t revealed those materials, he might have been able to maintain a trace of rationality and deal with the police, but now he was scared and just wanted to avoid the police’s pursuit first.

He couldn’t go to jail! He couldn’t accept being sentenced to death!

In a hurry, he quickly grabbed a hostage, pressed the sharp blade on the other’s carotid artery, and said to the police while backing away: “Don’t come over! Otherwise I will kill him!”

The incident happened suddenly, and Chu Heyan only felt that he was pushed out by someone. He looked up and saw Chu Lingyu being held hostage by Chu Jiancheng instead of him, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

Lin Qingluo stared at Chu Jiancheng with bloodshot eyes: “Are you crazy? Let him go!”

Chu Yecheng also panicked, his voice trembling: “Brother, let’s talk it over, can you let the child go first?”

Chu Huaijin said directly: “Uncle, if you let him go, I will be your hostage.”

The police had already drawn their guns, and the black muzzles were pointed at Chu Jiancheng.

Chu Jiancheng clearly felt the threat of death, his legs went weak, and his hand holding the knife trembled uncontrollably. The sharp blade cut Chu Lingyu’s skin, oozing a bright red line of blood.

Lin Qingluo wanted to save people, but Chu Yecheng held her tightly, fearing that she would irritate Chu Jiancheng if she rushed forward so recklessly.

The police surrounded Chu Jiancheng, trying to dissuade him from hurting the hostages.

Chu Jiancheng looked crazy: “Don’t come over! Don’t come over! Let me go, or I will kill him now!”

He actually regretted it a little. The information revealed by that little bastard might not be true. Maybe he just wanted to deceive him. The police might not really have the key evidence.

He should be calmer. Even if he was called to the interrogation room, it was not impossible for him to be released intact. His lawyers were not paid for nothing.

But now it’s too late.

It’s all Chu Heyan’s fault!

It’s all this monster who misleads people and ruined his plan!

Chu Jiancheng held Chu Lingyu as hostage, turned his head and glared at Chu Heyan with vicious eyes, wishing to kill him immediately.

At this moment, Chu Lingyu suddenly exerted force, snatched the knife and counterattacked in one go. The police also saw the opportunity and quickly pounced on Chu Jiancheng to control him.

Chu Heyan quickly pulled Chu Lingyu over, checking the wound on his neck while scolding him fiercely: “What are you doing? Who asked you to save me?”

The system alarm was raised to the highest level, making his head hurt so much that it was about to explode.

According to the system, if something happened to the protagonist, everyone would be doomed.

Why didn’t anyone tell him that Chu Lingyu loved to be a hero?

Chu Heyan’s tone was very bad, and it sounded like a cold sarcasm.

Chu Lingyu was not angry, but smiled and said, “I’m fine, don’t be afraid.”

Lin Qingluo and Chu Yecheng also came to check on Chu Lingyu in a hurry. Chu Huaijin found the first aid kit from somewhere, took out gauze and iodine, and treated Chu Lingyu’s wound on the spot.

The whole Chu family was in chaos. It was not until Chu Jiancheng was taken away by the police that everyone slowly recovered from the shock they had just received. Some of the older people almost fainted.

Old Master Chu wasn’t much better either. The nurse who was taking care of him saw that he looked not right, so she quickly fed him a quick-acting heart pill and helped him sit down. It took a long time for him to recover.

Everyone huddled together, recalling the scene just now with lingering fear, and no one dared to speak first.

The old man seemed to have aged a lot in an instant. He waved his hand weakly: “Everyone go back, the second son’s family stay.”

Others didn’t dare to say a word and left the old house quickly.

After everyone who had nothing to do had left, Old Master Chu confirmed that Chu Lingyu was fine, and called Chu Heyan over to ask: “How do you know all this?”

Chu Heyan also looked scared: “Grandpa, what do you mean?”

Old Master Chu glanced at him, “Don’t play dumb with me, I heard it all.”

The system was still sounding the alarm, and Chu Heyan didn’t have time to care about it at the moment. He endured the headache and sorted out his thoughts.

He looked frightened and stammered, “So… So you can hear it? Grandpa, it’s not that I want to hide it, it’s just that I can’t explain it clearly. I don’t know why, but one day there was a voice in my head, claiming to be a system. It would tell me something, but I didn’t know if it was true or not, so I didn’t dare tell anyone. I didn’t expect you to be able to hear what I was thinking, how could this happen?”

There was not a single lie in his words, he just concealed some information.

Grandpa Chu was silent, Chu Heyan turned around and looked at the other people in the family: “Mom, Dad, Big Brother, Lingyu, did you hear it before? Why didn’t anyone tell me?”

Before the others could figure out how to start, Chu Lingyu took the lead and said, “I can’t hear it.”

He didn’t lie either, he really couldn’t hear Chu Heyan’s voice.

But he could hear the inner thoughts of everyone else, including the thoughtful Grandpa Chu.

Except for Chu Heyan, no one had any secrets in front of him.

Even if Chu Heyan hadn’t revealed the information just now, he would have revealed all of Chu Jiancheng’s conspiracies and tricks.

Chu Huaijin looked at Chu Heyan and explained, “Hearing other people’s inner thoughts is too fantastic. I wasn’t sure whether it was true or I was hallucinating. After all, your inner voice can’t always be heard. Now I don’t know what you are thinking.”

Chu Yecheng and Lin Qingluo also echoed, “Yes, we haven’t figured out the situation, and we are afraid that telling you will scare you.”

Chu Heyan’s expression was still very uneasy. He looked at the old man again and asked helplessly, “Grandpa, what do you say we should do now? I won’t be caught as a monster, right?”

Old Man Chu was obviously thinking about something. Chu Yecheng couldn’t help but said, “Dad, I don’t know if you still remember that when Yanyan was a child, a fortune teller said that his fate was peculiar, as if it had been modified, and he might have adventures in the future. I wonder if the adventure the fortune teller talked about referred to this?”

Chu Huaijin’s approach was another aspect: “Grandpa, if it weren’t for Yanyan’s voice, Huaiyu’s identity might still be concealed, and my uncle’s affairs might not have been discovered in advance. If the information Yanyan got was true, according to that situation, even I might have been ruined by drugs. To put it inappropriately, even if uncle took over the Chu family as he wished, our family’s accumulation over the years might really be destroyed because of uncle alone.”

How could Grandpa Chu not know what his eldest grandson said? He re-examined this child who had no blood relationship with their family but was indeed destined to their family, and sighed: “Forget it, these things are not your turn to worry about. I have my old bones to bear for you.”

He has lived to this age, of course he knows how to minimize the losses.

The eldest son is already useless, and he now only has one son and two grandsons left. Seeing how Chu Lingyu just risked his own safety to save Chu Heyan, coupled with his stubborn daughter-in-law, his son who loves his wife dearly, and his eldest grandson who is excellent in all aspects but too sentimental, if he doesn’t protect Chu Heyan, who knows what will happen to these younger generations in the family.

Moreover, Chu Heyan had this adventure, and as long as he used it properly, it would not be a bad thing for the Chu family.

Hearing the old man’s words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Chu Heyan hurriedly said: “Thank you, Grandpa!”

This level was finally passed.

Before, he asked the system whether it was possible for supernatural powers such as mind reading to exist in this world. The system said it was impossible, but he did not completely dispel his doubts.

In the past few days, he has been trying to verify it in various ways, and he has some guesses in his mind.

Originally, he didn’t think of showing his cards so soon, but he couldn’t just watch Chu Jiancheng bully their whole family.

This is a bit risky, but from the results, it seems that he made a good bet.

Chu Heyan hooked his lips in pleasure. It was worth spending more than a hundred points to buy a lot of gossip tabloids. Fortunately, he found the information he wanted in time.