"Are you elders trying to make our Chen Family repay kindness with ingratitude?"
"Do you intend to defy our ancestor's words?"
"Do not forget that if not for Master, our ancestor would have been nothing more than an abandoned child."
"There would not even be the Chen Family of today."
"You are all elders of the clan, and I have always held you in great respect."
"But if you wish to discuss this matter with me, then do not blame me for being disrespectful!"
"Did those two brats of mine go to you and say something?"
"Do you not understand what they are thinking?"
"A few words of provocation from him, and you were swayed?"
"Or have you lived in peace for so long that you have already fallen into decay?"
Chen Shouzheng's words left the elders looking awkward. They hurriedly said, "Shouzheng, you have misunderstood what we mean."
"We are not trying to repay kindness with ingratitude. You are right—the Chen Family's ancestor truly gained the chance to cultivate, gained a future, and even founded the Chen Family because of the Young Master's father."
"But how long ago was that? In all the years since, has it not been the Chen Family that fought and struggled forward step by step?"
"We respect Master, and we will not deny the Young Master's identity either."
"But the Chen Family of today is no longer the Chen Family of the past. We can acknowledge the Young Master, but we absolutely cannot allow him to stand above the Chen Family."
"That is right. We must also consider the Chen Family."
"Who knows what kind of person this Young Master is? We cannot stake the Chen Family's future on him."
Chen Shouzheng calmly listened as the elders voiced their thoughts, without interrupting them.
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