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

After everyone left, only Xiao Lan and Xiao Wu were left.

Xiao Wu brought Xiao Lan to the room where Xiao Zongshan was lying.

The corpse's face had turned gray after a night of weariness. Xiao Lan and Xiao Wu stared at it in silence for a long time before Xiao Wu spoke first.

"I didn't expect you to wake up."

"Hmm... I didn't expect that either." Xiao Lan looked at her, no trace of sadness on her face. "Is it that father can't have children, or that you don't want to have children?"

Xiao Wu didn't look at Xiao Lan, but only stared at Xiao Zongshan.

"Your father has no interest in me. He prefers that handsome young servant. I am merely a tool for him to continue his family line. Even with that role, he rarely comes to my house, and when he does, he's unclear, as if he's drunk."

Xiao Lan had thought of countless possibilities, but she hadn't expected this. She was speechless for a long time, only to see Xiao Wu laugh at herself. "Isn't it ridiculous? Your mother has lived like this for most of her life! That's why I don't like you, and your father doesn't like you either. But I never thought the Xiao family would eventually be handed over to you. You were such a coward, but now you're different." Xiao Wu glanced at her, her lips curled in disdain, "You can act now!"

Xiao Lan didn't feel embarrassed about being seen through. "Yeah, how can we not put on a show in this cannibalistic place? If it weren't for me... I would have died twice..."

Xiao Wu didn't understand what she said, but she didn't care. She just thought it was her crazy talk, "Xiao Xuan is probably Xiao Zongwen's younger brother."

Xiao Lan felt like she was hearing two shocking news stories a day, one after another! She seemed calm, but her heart was pounding, and she only managed to mask her excitement with curse words.

"What..." Xiao Wu was increasingly confused by Xiao Lan's inexplicable words.

Xiao Lan shook her head and rubbed her forehead with her fingers, feeling like she needed to digest the food.

Xiao Wu told Xiao Lan the whole story of how Xiao Li had asked her to find the bandits who had crossed the northern border to do something for him. Xiao Lan listened silently and felt that Fang Feiyan's life was extremely miserable. If he were Xiao Zongwen, it would probably not be as simple as killing someone.

But why didn't he kill Xiao Cheng's second family, but instead targeted his own innocent family members?

Xiao Lan looked at Xiao Zongshan lying on the bed. He looked exactly like her father, but even so, she didn't feel sad about his death. She knew he wasn't her father. His father was on a plane with her, heading north to her fourth grandfather's home.

No matter what, Xiao Wu told me a lot of information, and I understood a lot of things in an instant.

Xiao Lan had heard from Liu Hu that his family had all been bandits on Beidu Mountain, so she felt there must be some connection. But she wasn't sure what the connection was, so she needed to ask Liu Hu.

Liu Hu has been gone for several days and there is no news from the military camp.

Even in this state, he hadn't come out yet. Was he too good an undercover agent, or was he completely unaware of the poisoning? Or had Liu Hu run into another unsolvable problem? Xiao Lan couldn't figure it out for a moment.

"Mother...I may be very busy in the future and will need all your support. Can you give it to me with all your heart?" Xiao Lan turned around and asked Xiao Wu before leaving.

Xiao Wu looked at her, and the two spoke frankly to each other.

"You are my only relative in this South City. No matter how much I dislike you, you are still my flesh and blood. I will not harm you."

Xiao Lan felt that these words were cruel yet sincere.

She nodded with a wry smile, "Can you ask someone to protect a girl named 'Liu Yue' on Beidu Mountain?"

"On the mountain?"

"They're the ones you ordered to find... the ones who bullied Fang Feiyan. Those bandits should have turned over a new leaf by now. One of them, Liu Yue, is Xiao Xuan's crush. Xiao Zongwen must have used that girl to threaten Xiao Xuan, so I need Liu Yue in our hands."

"Do you believe that guy named Xiao Xuan?" Xiao Wu asked harshly, looking at Xiao Lan as if he were a fool.

Xiao Lan shook her head helplessly, "It's not that I trust Xiao Xuan, but I believe 'Liu Yue' can control Xiao Xuan. One more friend, one less enemy!"

Xiao Wu snorted coldly, "Okay!"

Seeing her reluctant agreement, Xiao Lan urged her, "Write the letter now! Ask someone trustworthy to deliver it! Make sure there's a reply."

Mrs. Xiao Wu glanced at her and said, "Well! What about the second room?"

"You don't have to watch so closely. It's okay if some of them escape."

"Run away?"

"Well... naturally... accidentally..."

"Xiao Zongshan never realized until his death that you were very similar to him..."

"Not..."

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Xiao Lan returned to her yard and sent away the people who came to ask about her well-being, but she couldn't drive away Xu Yi who was following her with a silver needle.

Only after she took the initiative to give him her wrist to pinch and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with her did Xu Yi slowly walk away.

"I don't want to be the protagonist!" Fang Qingqing hugged Xiao Lan and cried bitterly, which made Xiao Lan a little overwhelmed.

"Why, there are still people who like to play supporting roles?" Xiao Lan teased her, "That plaque of yours that reads 'Loving One Family' doesn't look like it's meant to be a supporting role."

Fang Qingqing burst into laughter, leaning back and forth on the couch, holding her belly. "When I said I wanted to write this, the carpenter looked at me like I was an idiot!"

Xiao Lan was also infected by her, and tears came out of her eyes. "Aren't you ashamed? I don't have the face to do it, so you can go through the back door yourself."

"No, no, I'll just hang it at the front door." Fang Qingqing leaned over and looked Xiao Lan in the eye. "I'm a person who easily relies on others. If you really were gone, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to survive."

Xiao Lan looked at her, and Fang Qingqing's eyes were full of worry. "Even if I'm gone, don't we still have Xu Yi?"

Fang Qingqing shook her head. "It's different. That kind of loneliness and fear... is different..."

Fang Qingqing's explanation wasn't clear, but Xiao Lan understood. Yes, for a modern person arriving here, with no one to rely on, and everyone a variable, it was truly terrifying. Life and death were a matter of a split second, with no chance to struggle, and they simply sank into this story...

"I'll try my best not to die... This is the second time. I seem to be immune to all poisons..." Xiao Lan looked out the window at the moonlight, not quite clear-headed. "Last time, that poison was so potent that one pill could kill an old horse, but I took a handful and survived. What could it be this time?"

Fang Qingqing went forward and hugged her, burying her face in the crook of her neck. "No matter what, don't let it happen a third time. I don't want to lose you, President Xiao. I'm scared..." She silently held back her tears, but she couldn't help but feel a sore throat. She only felt an uncomfortable pain in her throat. "I'm really scared..."

Xiao Lan nodded, "This is the third time I haven't died..."

The two chattered on for a while longer. Jasmine came over from a distance and sighed softly at the sight of them laughing and joking on the couch.

"Madam, Miss Qing, Lord Su has arrived."

Fang Qingqing paused, then stood up tactfully and said to Xiao Lan, "I think he's different from my ex-husband. Why don't you give it a try? If it doesn't work, then dump him..."

Xiao Lan was puzzled. "Why? You weren't very..."

"Yeah." Fang Qingqing didn't care, "But he stayed with you all night last night."

"Are you sick? Are you moved by my staying up all night?" Xiao Lan found it funny.

"No..." Fang Qingqing shook her head, "Anyway, it's different. I think it's very sincere..." After that, she ran out of the house wearing her cloth shoes as slippers.

Xiao Lan looked at Jasmine, and Jasmine looked at her.

"Early this morning, Lord Su left through the main gate of our courtyard, and the news spread all over the street. Mother Xu and I warned him before he left, and he told you to blame him after you wake up."

After saying that, Jasmine left.

After a while, Su Ze came in. It seemed as if Jasmine invited Su Ze in and asked Xiao Lan to scold him.

Su Ze looked at Xiao Lan, who was dressed in a disheveled manner. Thinking about what Mother Xu and Jasmine had been talking about that morning, Su Ze felt that he was not showing enough concern for Xiao Lan by allowing her to meet people like this.

"not cold?"