Old Xiong's silent confirmation implied that what Linfeng said likely happened in the past.
Zhou Min's heart trembled. So it was like that...
Their family should have been freed since the early times, yet for the sake of the Xiong's family interest, they were used like bulls to toil the field. He, who had studied the joint family history, truly felt indebted to the Xiong's ancestors for saving his entire family from becoming homeless and scattered slaves during the ancient times.
Without their help, the Zhou family would not exist as one now. They would lose their identity, and the Zhou family surname would disappear.
But that was all in the past. Their ancestors had paid their debts more than enough during the first hundred years of hard work under the Xiong family.
Gratitude did not mean sacrificing everything for all eternity.