Favoring the concubine and killing the wife? She divorced the concubine and lived with her concubine

Only after seeing Lin Rui and Lin Yao board the carriage prepared by the Xiao family and leave did Xiao Zongshan and Xiao Lan stop smiling.

After closing the door behind them, the two went to Xiao Zongshan's study.

"Tell me..." Xiao Zongshan picked up a bowl of sobering soup and drank it spoonful by spoonful.

Xiao Lan looked at the alcohol-free soup and picked up a bowl. It was neither tasty nor difficult to drink. In order to get Lin Rui to drink more today, she also drank a lot.

"The information I found out is that Xiao Zongwen is related to Fan Zhixing, the owner of Miweixuan, and they are related to Liu Shoubei of the City Defense Army. This time, Sun Shaohua is gone, and Sun Jiye was kidnapped. It should be related to them."

Xiao Zongshan put down the bowl and looked up at Xiao Lan. The name Fan Zhixing sounded familiar to him.

"anything else?"

"I wonder if Lin Rui has any relationship with them..." Xiao Lan was still unsure about this matter.

"So you want me to take all his herbs and see if he's really a herbal medicine merchant?"

"Um……"

Xiao Lan also put down the bowl. She felt that there was nothing to hide about this matter, at least not from Xiao Zongshan. No matter what, they were on the same side. After all, she was his only daughter.

"This man is very shrewd. He was just pretending to be drunk just now, but eyes can't deceive people. But as a traveling businessman, this is normal."

Xiao Zongshan felt that this could not be considered a suspicious point for the time being, but he had many questions about this matter.

"I just don't understand. If so many people were involved and so much effort was put into it, why didn't they kill Sun Jiye as well? Why keep him alive?"

"I don't know... maybe it's a bargaining chip for Lin Rui to get close to us." Xiao Lan gave his analysis.

Xiao Zongshan felt that what Xiao Lan said made sense, but was too superficial.

"Why are you approaching us? To cheat us in business? What can a herbal medicine merchant do? Even if you cheat us out of some money, it won't shake my foundation. It would be better to ask Xiao Xuan to use more tricks in the future."

"What if they want to take advantage of Sun Shaohua's death to get involved with me and then attack me?"

In fact, Xiao Lan felt that she was not stupid and would not fall for this trick, but she now wanted to hear what the old fox Xiao Zongshan thought about this speculation.

"A beauty trap?" Xiao Zongshan sneered. "If it were a few years ago, I might have been able to deceive you, but how could I deceive you now? You've already suffered such a great loss."

Of course Xiao Lan knew what Xiao Zongshan meant. After all, she had been deeply in love with Sun Shaohua and devoted her whole heart to him. She had never said a bad word about him to her family even when she was forced to death.

"Hey... it's okay to play around." Xiao Lan leaned back in the chair pretending to be nonchalant, but her eyes never left Xiao Zongshan.

"Play around? I've never seen many men being played around by women in this world." Xiao Zongshan was not very interested in his daughter's private life. After all, he had found out about the entanglement between Xiao Lan and the bandit leader.

There was nothing in this city that Xiao Zongshan wanted to find out but couldn't. After all, five out of ten shops here belonged to him, and his network of contacts in other areas was even wider.

"So what do they want to do?"

"It's nothing but these family properties. I don't know what possessed my second uncle that he dared to go against the ancestral teachings and bring in a concubine. What's even more strange is that even my second aunt agreed to recognize Xiao Zongwen." Xiao Zongshan found it ridiculous when he thought about it. Back then, the matter had caused a huge uproar with the old lady, and now Xiao Li was coming to recognize the concubine?

"Isn't it normal to recognize a son? What's so strange about it?" Xiao Lan didn't know the hidden story of that year.

"Back then, my second uncle raised Xiao Wen until he was about fifteen or sixteen years old. That person was just called Xiao Wen, and no one gave him the character 'Zong'." Xiao Zongshan was very taboo about this generation. He felt that it was the greatest kindness for a concubine's son to have the surname 'Xiao', and he had the nerve to occupy the generation.

"At that time, the Xiao family had no male descendants besides me, and even this old lady was not allowed to marry into the family. Second Aunt also tortured the mother and son every day, and from time to time she would send people to beat and scold them. Later, I heard that Second Aunt's personal mother went to cause trouble for the concubine and Xiao Wen again, and was actually beaten to death with a brick. The mother and son fled, and no one knew where they went. Second Aunt refused to give up and made a fuss at the old lady's house for a long time. It was Second Uncle who tried his best to protect her and did not report it to the police."

Xiao Lan couldn't imagine that there were such inside stories, so it should have been impossible for her to recognize Xiao Zongwen.

"My second aunt raised my mother since she was a child. It is said that she died in a very tragic way." Xiao Zongshan shook his head. He still remembered clearly how chaotic the family was at that time.

"It's okay for them to sacrifice some of their personal feelings for the sake of the Xiao family's huge industry." Xiao Lan felt that some people would go against their own will and do things that others couldn't understand in order to achieve their goals.

Xiao Zongshan looked at Xiao Lan, his face full of disbelief. "Are you really my daughter? You're so stupid! Xiao Wen and his mother suffered so much, all thanks to Second Aunt. Can he come back and kowtow to her and call her mother now? If he had the ability to endure this, he wouldn't have smashed that mother to death back then!"

Xiao Lan was speechless after being scolded by Xiao Zongwen. She had not expected this.

"What's more, if Second Aunt brings someone in, wouldn't that be like inviting a wolf into the house? If this person returns to the Second House and takes over the Xiao family, how can she give her a good life?"

Xiao Zongshan stood up from his chair, walked to Xiao Lan, and looked down at her.

"So, the problem between them is not that simple."

Xiao Lan felt oppressed when Xiao Zongshan looked at her like this. For the first time, she felt that Xiao Zongshan's ability to hold the Xiao family firmly in his hands was not due to his acting skills.

"To be honest with you, I didn't think much of you before. I thought if things really didn't work out, I'd find someone to give birth to another son and bring him back. Your mother wouldn't disown him anyway. But now I feel like I underestimated you before, so Lan'er..." Xiao Zongshan placed his hand on Xiao Lan's shoulder, "From now on, the Xiao family will be yours. When the time comes, all you have to do is find a man to marry into your wife's family and give birth to a son of your own. Then the Xiao family will always be in the hands of our third branch!"

"..."

"Now that Sun Shaohua is dead, it's a good opportunity to get rid of that waste with a clean slate."

"What opportunity?"

"Change a man and give birth to a son of your own. Although Jiye is well-behaved and sensible, he is not of the Xiao family blood after all. I was also anxious at the time."

"But I don't want to marry again."

Xiao Lan didn't want to jump from one pit of fire to another. These ancient men were all feudal-minded. Remarrying wouldn't do any good, it would only cause her trouble.

"Then hurry up and find a man to have a baby. Sun Shaohua just died, so it's not surprising that you're pregnant with one!"

Xiao Lan stared at Xiao Zongshan with wide eyes. She began to wonder which era Xiao Zongshan came from and why he was so open-minded?