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

A carriage stopped at the gate of the military camp. No one got out of it, but they were respectfully led in.

Liu Yu's guest room was different today than usual. There was no music or singing, only a few oil lamps lit, making it seem a little dim.

Liu Hu changed his clothes and washed his face, but he still looked haggard. He didn't drink wine or tea, but kept rubbing the empty teacup in his hand until the person at the door came in and sat down in front of him.

"Ah Hu." The speaker was Fan Zhixing. Liu Hu looked up at him.

"Uncle Fan, how did you know?"

Fan Zhixing paused slightly and looked at Liu Yu. Liu Yu nodded to him, and then he sat down. Xiao Zongwen sat down behind him. There was no stove in the room, and he felt very cold and a little impatient.

"Aunt Fang was the concubine of the Xiao family's second wife. His wife tried to kill us all. The Xiao family chased us all the way to Beidu, where we only managed to escape death after meeting your father. They fell in love and had Xiao Xuan, but your father didn't want to disappoint your mother, so he never confessed to her and just kept on going."

When Xiao Zongwen heard Fan Zhixing say this, he kept his head down, holding the hand warmer that had no residual heat in his hands, and remained silent.

"Uncle Xiao, isn't Xiao Xuan your son?" Liu Hu asked him, tilting his head to check his expression, afraid he'd missed something. He hadn't seen Aunt Fang much before. He only remembered that when they were little, Fan Zhixing had recognized them by chance and would often take them out to play and bring them delicious food from the city. But later on, he learned some of Uncle Xiao's family affairs, about his concubines and his legal wife. So he had always believed that they had simply returned to take their share...

"No, at that time..." Xiao Zongwen seemed to have made preparations before speaking, "At that time, we met refugees on the road and they robbed us of our money. It was your father who saved us. Later, we stayed in a village for a while. It was at that time that your father and my mother..."

Seeing his bad face, Fan Zhixing continued, "Later, for some reasons, your uncle Xiao was asked to adopt Xiao Xuan as his son and treat the child's mother as if she were dead. Your father was a responsible man and often came to help us orphans and widows. But the good times didn't last long. When your mother found out, she wanted to drive us out of Beidu. Later, the two of them quarreled and lost our way..."

Liu Hu listened quietly and observed everyone's expressions. "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Fan Zhixing nodded, "I saw it with my own eyes. That night, I saw someone coming to look for your father. That person was very skilled in martial arts and went out the window. I was worried that your father would be in danger, so I followed him quietly. They were talking not far from the town..." At this point, he looked at Liu Hu, his eyes full of guilt, "Ah Hu, don't blame me, I don't know martial arts, I can't save your father..."

Everyone was speechless. Liu Hu nodded, his tone helpless, "I don't blame you. No one can match my mother, not even my father..."

Liu Hu turned to Liu Yu, "We can't avenge our father's death. After all, we couldn't have killed our mother with our own hands! What about you?" Liu Hu stood up and looked down at Fan Zhixing and Xiao Zongwen. "You want to swallow up the Xiao family and take back what you think belongs to you? What does that have to do with us? Why should we take risks for you? It was your mother and my father who caused the trouble, and now you want us to help you seize the family property? My brother is now in a successful career and is being appreciated. He is doing a carefree garrison in the South City. If anything happens..."

Liu Yu was furious when he heard what Liu Hu said. He also stood up and pointed at him, saying, "If it weren't for the Xiao family's inhumanity, how could there have been these disastrous consequences later? If it weren't for Uncle Fan telling us where our father was, our mother would still be in the dark, thinking that he just disappeared! Have you forgotten what Uncle Fan did to us back then? When we left home, it was Uncle Fan who gave us money and took us to the capital, where we stayed until we got a job in the army!"

Liu Hu gritted his teeth and stared at Xiao Zongwen's head in the dim light. The man hadn't even looked up, not even at him. "Since you want to help them, I'll help them too! But Xiao Lan..."

Liu Yu was furious when he heard Liu Hu mention Xiao Lan again. "You're still mentioning that woman? Sooner or later, you'll die at the hands of a woman!"

"Ah Hu! If you really like that woman, we will definitely spare her life in the end, but don't interfere with other things of the Xiao family!" Fan Zhixing quickly took over the conversation.

"I don't like her, and she looks down on me!" Liu Hu turned his head away with a look of disdain, and everyone didn't know whether he was true or not.

"No matter what, I'll spare her life and let you do whatever you want with her! But she killed her mother before, and that man's mother came to her house and poisoned her..." Fan Zhixing spoke tactfully and did not say anything final before he was sure of Liu Hu's true intentions.

"Poison?" Liu Hu felt a chill on his back and broke out in a cold sweat. "Dead?"

"No, you said this woman was lucky. It's said that the coroner saved her." Liu Yu patted his shoulder and could clearly feel him tense up. When he heard him say no, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Liu Yu only thought that this Liu Hu was so similar to his father back then. In the end, they would only be defeated by women.

"What about now?" Liu Hu didn't notice, he just avoided Liu Yu's touch unnaturally.

Fan Zhixing told the whole story of how Xiao Zongshan was stabbed to death and Xiao Lan was poisoned during the riot at the north city gate, including that Su Ze stayed at the Xiao family's house for one night.

Liu Hu clenched his fists, veins on his forehead bulged, and his chest heaved!

"Now that Xiao Zongshan is dead, the Xiao family is in chaos. It's time for us to take action. However, my Miweixuan was also burned down. It should be Xiao Lan who did it. Don't say that the woman is a bit courageous. She relied on the support of the county magistrate to dare to burn down my restaurant." Fan Zhixing glanced at Liu Hu.

"County magistrate? That Su Ze is just a weak scholar. How dare a small county magistrate support her here? She looks down on me, isn't it because of that Su Ze? Then I will kill that Su Ze. The people in the small county government can't stop me!"

Liu Hu said this and turned to leave. Liu Yu grabbed his shoulders and asked, "What are you doing?!"

"Kill that Su Ze. As long as Su Ze is gone, Xiao Lan will just be the woman beside me! I said I can ask her to leave the family business and follow me, and I can do it! I won't care about the rest!"

Liu Hu turned around, escaped Liu Yu's control, and strode out. Fan Zhixing quickly stood up to stop him, "Ah Hu! Don't be impulsive! Assassinating an imperial official is a capital crime. You can't be impulsive for a woman!"

"I'm not impulsive! If I kill Su Ze and take Xiao Lan away, you can easily take back the Xiao family! I was bewitched by that woman before, and thought that as long as I helped her get what she wanted, she would follow me willingly, but now it seems that I am too easy to talk to!" Liu Hu rushed out without caring about anything, and Liu Yu took a lot of effort to drag him back into the house.

"Listen to me! We have our own plan, and you can't mess with it!"

"I'm making trouble? What am I making trouble for? No conspiracy or conspiracy is better than a single blow. I'm not interested in the Xiao family. We each get what we need! Why should a bastard county magistrate have the right to pick on the woman I haven't met yet?"

Liu Yu wanted to stop him, but Liu Hu suddenly turned around and faced him. Liu Yu was frightened by his sudden action and took a step back.

Liu Hu pointed a finger at his nose and said, "Xiao Lan begged the county magistrate to protect her right in front of me that day! Right in front of me! If that's the case, no one will get away with it!"

"You just woke up, how can you get anywhere like this!" Liu Yu grabbed his hand and pressed it down, "Hu! Listen to my advice, it's only a matter of time before you become the county magistrate. Don't worry!"

"Yes, yes, Ah Hu, don't worry. Uncle Fan doesn't want this restaurant anymore. I won't seek revenge on Xiao Lan! Don't be impulsive! Our plan now requires her. Without her, Uncle Xiao and Xiao Xuan can't..."

"Zhixing!" Xiao Zongwen stood up at this time. Maybe he shouted a little too quickly and coughed a little violently. It took him a long time to recover.

"Ah Hu...don't be anxious. That Su Ze is engaged, and his parents and fiancée are all in South City. It's impossible for him to be with Xiao Lan. That day, Xiao Lan was poisoned, and he did stay with her all night, but Xiao Xuan was with her before that. Xiao Xuan left in the middle of the night, and there was also a coroner and a girl from their family in the room."

Xiao Zongwen continued to tell the story, and Liu Hu finally calmed down. He looked at him sideways and asked, "Are you serious?"

Xiao Zongwen nodded, "Seriously. If we give you a few chances to be a hero and save the damsel in distress, she'll realize how important you are. You're just a small county magistrate, not as important as your brother, the garrison commander who holds the military power over the city. She'll see through that."

"What do you mean?" Liu Hu was confused. Liu Yu was also thinking about Xiao Zongwen's words.

"As long as a woman is willing to put in the effort, she will be yours sooner or later. But I need you to go back and coax her first. Are you willing?"

Liu Hu thought about it and agreed.

"Row!"

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After leaving the military camp, the carriage circled the city for a long time before returning to a small courtyard. This was the courtyard Fan Zhixing had purchased when he first arrived in South City, and now it was his only place to rest. As the owner of the largest restaurant in South City, he was in competition with other restaurants. Although he could get along well with them on the surface, he still would not stay in other people's restaurants.

Xiao Zongwen and Fan Zhixing did not get off the carriage.

"You don't trust Liu Hu?" Fan Zhixing took out the cold hand warmer from Xiao Zongwen's arms, handed it to the coachman, and asked him to go to the yard to change it for another one.

"Well, I don't know. This kid is not like Liu Yu, he is not greedy. Because he is not greedy, he is difficult to control. Xiao Lan is the only bargaining chip that can lure him now." Xiao Zongwen put his hands in his sleeves, but it was still difficult to warm them up.

"It's better to just kick him out. Liu Yu doesn't favor this younger brother."

"I'm not partial, but he's his biological brother after all. Last time, Lin Rui caused Liu Hu to suffer such a serious injury, and he actually dared to chase him and yell at him. Although it was just a few words, it was extremely courageous." Xiao Zongwen said lightly, "So we can't bet that Liu Yu will kill Liu Hu. It's better to go with the flow and do him a favor, so that he can live happily for a few days. This will prevent that reckless man from really moving Su Ze and snatching Xiao Lan away in a moment of impulse. If the scapegoat is gone, everything will be difficult to operate, and Liu Yu will not care about our lives at that time."