Ye Tiancheng did not believe that anything affecting Ye Wuji could be something else.
He also did not think that Ye Wuji was illiterate.
Although Ye Wuji had been trapped in the previous tomb for a very long time, due to the passage of so much time, Ye Wuji had learned to recognize characters through his own exploration. Therefore, Ye Wuji definitely recognized what the characters written on the memorial tablets in this ancestral hall were.
Ye Tiancheng did not deliberately test him.
Because there was no need.
Ye Tiancheng could also feel that despite having gone through so many things, Ye Wuji's heart was generally quite pure and he did not have many malicious intentions, which was a rare thing.
Therefore, there was no need to use roundabout methods to test someone.
Because if the person discovered this, it would lead to bad results, which Ye Tiancheng did not want.
So, Ye Tiancheng spoke to Ye Wuji very directly.
Ye Tiancheng said to Ye Wuji, "I just remembered something that I overlooked earlier. I recall you mentioning that your family's original surname was Zeng."
"When Xiao Huli and I came in here, we found this ancestral hall, and discovered that the family in this ancestral hall were all surnamed Zeng, but beyond that, we didn't know anything else."
"And later, when we entered the previous place, we spent quite some time there, so I didn't recall this matter immediately."
"Now it seems like a coincidence. Your surname is Zeng, and this ancestral hall is the Zeng family's ancestral hall. I just don't know if you have any connection to this place. However, I remember you saying that your family used to be from a village, so perhaps you have no relation to the people here, or perhaps you do."
"The large houses we passed earlier all belonged to the Zeng family, and they looked like they belonged to a living person."
After hearing Ye Tiancheng's words, Ye Wuji stared intently at the pile of memorial tablets.
At first, Ye Wuji did not speak. Ye Tiancheng and Xiao Huli waited for a while before noticing that Ye Wuji was looking in a certain direction, where there seemed to be a memorial tablet.
Ye Wuji was staring precisely at the position of a memorial tablet.
Could it be that Ye Wuji knew who the name on that memorial tablet corresponded to?
After a long while, Ye Tiancheng and the others finally heard Ye Wuji speak.
Ye Wuji, who had originally maintained his avian form, suddenly transformed back into the appearance of a child. At this moment, he was already able to stand on his own, so when he transformed, he landed directly on the ground without causing Ye Tiancheng and the others to scramble to catch him.
He instinctively did not want to cause too much trouble for Ye Tiancheng and the others.
Ye Wuji suddenly said, "I don't know about the others, but it's a coincidence. Perhaps it's a common name. After all, the probability of having the same name with the same surname is quite high. That name over there is very familiar to me. My father used to have that name."
Ye Tiancheng was slightly stunned.
Could this be a coincidence?
He asked Ye Wuji, "Are you sure?"
Ye Wuji once again stated, "I said, I just find the name familiar. My father was called that. However, it's also possible that it's just a common name."
After thinking for a moment, Ye Tiancheng asked Ye Wuji, "Wuji, do you know what your biological father's identity was? Were they really ordinary villagers?"
Ye Wuji slowly shook his head.
He expressed with some helplessness, "Although I really want to remember things about my past, I was too young at the time. So, apart from my unfortunate experiences that left a deep impression on me, I can barely remember many things from before."
Ye Tiancheng remained persistent. He did not believe that there were so many coincidences in the world.
Too many coincidences, when combined, would become inevitable.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Tiancheng recalled that he could find the family genealogy in the Zeng family's ancestral hall. He had seen it before. When he first saw it, he couldn't quite match the people in the genealogy to anything, nor could he tell if they were related to what they wanted to know.
Therefore, even though he had looked at the genealogy, it was basically useless because Ye Tiancheng and the others couldn't figure out who was who, let alone dig up any information.
Now that Ye Tiancheng and the others knew the name, it was a simple matter to retrieve the genealogy and compare it.
After confirming the name of Ye Wuji's father with Ye Wuji, Ye Tiancheng found the Zeng family's genealogy in the ancestral hall and flipped through it one by one until he found the name of Ye Wuji's father.
He discovered that the genealogy recorded that the owner of this name, in his youth, had rebelled and left home, married a woman of a different surname, and later finally changed his mind. Knowing the hardships outside and earning a lot of money, the Zeng family accepted him back because he was willing to repent.
However, that person did not live very long.
After returning to the Zeng family, this man only lived into his forties before passing away due to a serious illness.
The genealogy also stated that after this man's death, he had no descendants. It was heard that he had a child with that woman of a different surname outside, but the child died young and was not recorded in the genealogy.
However, this man was someone of status.
His own abilities were sufficient to be ambitious, and on the other hand, he was the legitimate second son of the Zeng family's eldest branch. Such a status was undoubtedly qualified to be included in the genealogy.
From the content recorded in the genealogy, they were quite satisfied with this young master who had returned to his senses, but it was a great pity that he died at a young age and left no descendants.
After returning to the family, he did not remarry.
Ye Tiancheng looked at this information and pondered for a while. He felt that perhaps this was not a coincidence at all, and he even vaguely pieced together something in his heart.
Perhaps Ye Wuji's biological father, in his youth, was impulsive and deeply emotional. He had a beloved woman, but she was not accepted by the family. Therefore, he chose to elope with his beloved, live in seclusion in some unknown small village, and marry and have children with her.
Then, they had the crystallization of their love, which was Ye Wuji.
However, some things happened later. Ye Wuji almost died in a fire and was then tricked away. However, to be precise, Ye Wuji's parents at the time might not have known that he was tricked away, so to them, Ye Wuji was bought off.
For some reason, these parents sold their child.
Ye Wuji himself had said that when the villagers wanted to sacrifice virgin boys and girls and put Ye Wuji in a fire, his parents were unwilling, but they were simply unable to resist the villagers' intentions.
In any case, after that series of events, something happened, and Ye Wuji's biological father returned to his former family alone.
At this time, Ye Wuji's biological father was also different from before.
At the very least, no one could tell that he had been a genuine villager in the village. Instead, he was successful in business, became a capable and wealthy person, and earned it all through his own strength and hands.
Therefore, when facing this man who had rebelled and left home, even when facing his past mistakes, they were quite satisfied and accepted him back.
Ye Tiancheng felt that the information he saw might contain something important.
What exactly happened back then, how Ye Wuji was sold, what happened to Ye Wuji's biological mother, why Ye Wuji's biological father returned to the Zeng family alone, how he became successful in business, where the money came from, and what business he did?
There might be a lot of important information hidden within.
Ye Tiancheng speculated a lot in his heart, but he did not directly voice it. Some of his speculations were quite cruel, and Ye Tiancheng was not sure if Ye Wuji could accept them if he knew.
Therefore, he preferred not to say anything for now.
Ye Tiancheng asked Ye Wuji, "Do you think this person could be your father?"
Ye Wuji looked at the content on the genealogy and shook his head blankly.
He still knew too little about the outside world. Ye Wuji's misfortune was that he was too young, and then he was imprisoned in a dark and sunless place until Ye Tiancheng and the others released him.
Even though Ye Wuji worked hard and learned many things, there were still many things that he could not understand and lacked imagination for.
In short, Ye Wuji might not be able to think of the things Ye Tiancheng speculated.
Ye Wuji said, "I don't feel like he's like my dad, but their names are the same... Our family was so poor. My dad shouldn't be this capable. If Dad could make money, Mom wouldn't have to work so hard."
Ye Tiancheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he did not express any opinion.
He simply said, "Since that's the case, let's remember this for now. If we have the opportunity later, we will help you verify it."
Ye Wuji seemed to still have something hidden in his heart, but in the end, he said nothing and remained silent.
He just nodded slightly at Ye Tiancheng.
Regardless, Ye Wuji still cared somewhat about his biological parents.
Moreover, after being trapped for so long, Ye Wuji understood some things. Although he might have wondered why his parents didn't come to save him at first, Ye Wuji later understood.
His parents might not have been able to do it.
These people were so powerful, and his parents were just ordinary people.
Regarding being sold, Ye Wuji did not think much about it. In fact, the matter of being sold was also inferred by Ye Tiancheng and the others based on Ye Wuji's account. After all, the young man who took Ye Wuji away, according to Ye Wuji's words, resolved the problem with money.
It was most likely due to buying and selling. At that time, such things were not cracked down upon, and buying and selling children was a very normal thing.
It wasn't that it was completely not investigated, but in that era, it was very difficult to investigate such matters, especially since many people actively sold their own children, which was also the sorrow of a backward society.
But now, the outside world was completely different, and such barbaric and sorrowful things would not happen.
This was definitely a good thing.
However, Ye Wuji did not feel that he was sold. He did not have a strong concept of this and did not understand these things.
Therefore, Ye Wuji now had no resentment towards his biological parents and still cared about them, but he also thought that they were likely no longer alive, which made him sad.