Chapter 120: Bringing Up The Past 2_1

Upon hearing Zhang Lin's words, Lu Chen's mother's expression turned quite unsightly.

"How did you answer her?" she asked.

"What could I say? Tell her that your family's Niu Niu was adopted? What kind of person would that make me? I just said there was no such thing, that both children were born to you." People of their age had an unwritten rule, whether in the city or the countryside, nobody would reveal in front of someone else's child that they were adopted; doing so was considered utterly immoral, worthy of being struck by lightning.

In the staff residential area where they lived, the fact that Qingqing was adopted was not a secret, since she was brought home by Lu Chen's mother several days after the birth of Lu Chen.

Though they told others that their daughter was sick and sought treatment elsewhere, bringing her back only after she was healed, they couldn't fool close relatives and friends.