Chapter 805: He is the one who benefited from this, so naturally he should be the one to step up and fix it

Liu Shangang was so angry he could barely speak, and just as he was about to say something, the Party Secretary squeezed forward: "Shangang, don't act on impulse. Your parents were in the wrong here to begin with. Shan—no, Changsheng—is the victim. You brothers came at him right away, pressuring him with filial duty and conscience. That was never right."

"Party Secretary, my good Third Uncle, tell me what we should do now? My parents are still locked up, aren't they?"

"Now it's not Changsheng who wants to hold them accountable—it's the old patriarch of the Xiao family. After all, if they hadn't acted so underhandedly, his son wouldn't have had to suffer so much. Even though he didn't grow up by his side, he was living a perfectly good life over in Hai City."

Those words were indeed faultless, and they made the two Liu brothers hate that second brother who had been sent away even more.

But they hadn't even met the man; even if they wanted to settle the score, they couldn't even find him.

Liu Ruhua, who had been standing behind the crowd, squeezed forward now and quietly took her place behind her own father: "Dad, since going after them is useless, let's go after my real Second Uncle. He's the one who benefited from this, so naturally he should be the one to step up and fix it. After all, we have no power and no money—we can't rescue Grandpa and Grandma."

The moment his little daughter said this, Liu Shangang felt the idea had merit too: "If the baby-swap is true, then it really is my parents who wronged you. Fine then—tell us what it would take for you to forgive them. Put it on the table, and we'll do our best to meet it."

Liu Shanling was about to argue back when he heard his elder brother continue: "But since this also involves the one who was swapped out, we want to know his contact address, or his work address will do too. After all, he's the one directly involved."

Xiao Changsheng had long since received his daughter's instructions; without the slightest hesitation, he went inside, fetched a piece of paper, and came back out: "This is his work unit and home address. I'm handing it over to you. From now on, don't come bothering our lives over nothing."

Liu Chuxue had previously instructed Xiao Changsheng that this whole matter had been set in motion by the old patriarch of the Xiao family, and not to take it onto himself.

If the Party Secretary and the clan elder came to him in person to plead, then he'd give them face—consider it repaying the bond of affection between their family and Liu Family Village—but conditions still had to be set.

Liu Shangang got the address and didn't want to linger here any longer. After all, he could see it too: this second brother of his, now renamed Xiao Changsheng, was no longer the Liu Shanliang of old who could be bullied at will. "Let's go. We'll talk about it back home."

Once the Liu family had left, the Party Secretary told the villagers gathered around watching: "All right, everyone, disperse."

The Party Secretary and the village head were invited by Xiao Changsheng into the courtyard, and he also mentioned the matter of hosting a dinner that evening.

The two men didn't refuse. Whether Xiao Changsheng went to live in the city from now on or stayed in the village, this relationship had to be kept in good shape.

Seeing the Party Secretary try several times to speak, Xiao Changsheng guessed what he wanted to ask: "Party Secretary, you want to ask about the second Liu brother's situation, don't you?"

The Party Secretary was a little embarrassed, but he still nodded: "Yes, I do want to know a bit about how he's doing."

Xiao Changsheng got up and fetched a piece of paper: "This is Han Huaiming—the second Liu brother's work unit address and current home address. But the house he's living in now belongs to my maternal grandmother. Both my uncle and he himself have said that once they return to Hai City, they'll return the house to me. If you ever need to find him in the future, you'd best look for him at his work unit."

The Party Secretary looked at the work unit address on it: "You met him in person this time?"

Xiao Changsheng nodded: "Yes, I met him. You can tell at a glance that he's really a Liu—he looks a lot like the eldest brother."