"Zhou Hong, let me ask you something, do you know medicine?" Zhou Guang Sheng asked hurriedly.
"Yes, and my medical skills are very high. Teacher Yang Xi's mother had kidney failure, and I cured her," Zhou Hong admitted directly without hiding anything, as they already knew.
Hearing Zhou Hong admit it with their own ears, Zhou Guang Sheng and his wife were shocked again.
"Hong'er, how do you know medicine? Since you know medicine, why haven't we seen you use it before?" Zhou Hong's mother asked with great confusion.
"Heh, it's a long story. For various reasons, I didn't reveal it before. From childhood to adulthood, in your eyes, I was always a useless child. What a pity, that was just me pretending," Zhou Hong said with a laugh.
Zhou Guang Sheng and his wife looked at him with disbelief. Pretending to be useless from childhood to adulthood, this was too preposterous.
"Hong'er, why did you pretend?" Zhou Hong's mother asked, completely confused.
"I just wanted to give everyone a surprise. By the way, I don't only have medical skills, I also have martial arts."
"Ah, you mean those legendary cultivators with great prospects?" When Zhou Guang Sheng heard that Zhou Hong also had martial arts, he was even more shocked.
"Yes," Zhou Hong nodded with a smile, looking at his parents. His emotions were complex, unsure of how to treat them in the future.
If he didn't know the truth, it would be fine to be a filial son to his adoptive parents. But now that Zhou Hong knew the truth, even though this body wasn't his own, he still felt a bit uncomfortable.
Human trafficking is illegal, and as buyers, they naturally deserved the same punishment.
"Hoo!" Zhou Hong took a deep breath, his face filled with an unreadable expression. Fortunately, this body wasn't his; otherwise, he would be even more flustered.
"Hong'er, since you're so capable, why are you still going to be a live-in son-in-law for someone else? You have both medical skills and martial arts. You could have come home, married a beautiful wife, and carried on the family line," Zhou Hong's mother asked.
"Heh, what family line is there to inherit in this poor and empty home?"
"Zhou Hong, how can you talk to your mother like that?" Zhou Guang Sheng rebuked.
"Whether you are my mother or not is still uncertain," Zhou Hong retorted, somewhat angered.
"What do you mean by that?" Zhou Guang Sheng and his wife were stunned. Their bodies trembled slightly, suspecting that Zhou Hong had overheard something.
"You just said that I'm not your biological son, that you bought me from human traffickers, right?"
"Ah...!" Zhou Guang Sheng and his wife were dumbfounded. Zhou Hong had indeed overheard them.
"Heh, it's fine. I was just asking. I'm not interested in finding my biological parents right now," Zhou Hong said with a laugh. He wasn't lying. If they were his real biological parents, Zhou Hong would have found them. But these were the biological parents of this body's original owner, and his soul had no connection to them. Why would he look for them? Sudan Novel Network.
"Zhou Hong, since you've heard everything, I'll tell you the truth. You are indeed not our biological son. We bought you twenty years ago from a distant relative. At that time, you were about five or six months old, and we didn't know your origin. My distant relative happened to have a connection, and we couldn't have children, so we bought you."
"I understand," Zhou Hong nodded, his heart filled with mixed emotions. However, his impression of the couple in front of him had further diminished. It was already good that Zhou Hong wasn't reporting them and sending them to jail.
"Hong'er, if you want to find your biological parents, we won't object."
"Even if you wanted to object, you couldn't," Zhou Hong scoffed.
Seeing that Zhou Hong had spoken like this, Zhou Guang Sheng and his wife suddenly felt a sense of panic.
"I'm leaving now," Zhou Hong turned and walked out. He had originally planned to stay there tonight, but now that they were no longer his biological parents, Zhou Hong naturally had no reason to be filial to them. Although there was the kindness of upbringing, this body wasn't Zhou Hong's in the first place, so what did the kindness of upbringing have to do with him?
"Boo hoo! It's all your fault, why were you talking about that topic? He heard it." As Zhou Hong left, his mother cried and cursed.
"Alright, alright, stop crying. He wasn't our child to begin with. We used to tell people on the road that we picked him up as an abandoned infant to avoid suspicion. We were always worried about being found out that we bought him. Now it's fine, and we don't have to carry that burden anymore. If he really never comes back, we'll just pretend we never raised this ungrateful wretch," Zhou Guang Sheng cursed angrily, even calling Zhou Hong an ungrateful wretch.
Zhou Hong walked alone through the alleys of the shantytown, lost in thought, his mind a jumble of complex emotions.
"Hey, do you know how to get to Yang Xi's house?" Just then, two youths walked up to him, one of whom asked Zhou Hong.
Zhou Hong looked up at the two youths. Judging by their attire, they were very wealthy, seemingly not ordinary people.
"What are you going to Yang Xi's house for?" Zhou Hong asked back with some confusion.
"Cut the nonsense. It's your fortune that our Young Master Huo would ask a poor person from the shantytown for directions," the other youth said with a cold snort.
"If you're going to Yang Xi's house, you should at least let me know your purpose, and who you are."
"Our Young Master Huo is Yang Xi's university classmate. We heard she lives here, so can't we pay her a visit?"
"Then you should have said so earlier. Go straight, turn left, and walk a hundred meters."
The two youths didn't bother to respond to Zhou Hong and quickly walked away.
Zhou Hong watched the two youths, thinking to himself that they were definitely not good people.
So, Zhou Hong immediately followed them. Zhou Hong wanted to see what they were up to at Teacher Yang Xi's house.
Ten minutes later, they found Teacher Yang Xi's house. They saw Yang Xi feeding a large white goose in the yard.
"Yang Xi, you were so hard to find. It's been years, are you well?" the man called Young Master Huo asked, walking in with a loud laugh.
"Ah," Yang Xi trembled slightly when she saw the Young Master Huo suddenly appear at her house.
"Huo Hao Ran, why... why are you at my house?" Yang Xi seemed a little nervous.
"It's nothing, I just want to rekindle our old flame. I told you, I must win you over in this lifetime and make you my girlfriend, even if it's just for one day," the man called Young Master Huo said with obsession in his eyes.