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

Xiao Xuan felt warm in his heart when he saw that Fan Zhixing still remembered his taste and took the trouble to help him reminisce about his grandmother's bacon.

"Uncle Fan still loves me!"

Fan Zhixing smiled and said, "Of course!"

Xiao Xuan's eating posture is naturally polite and nice, and coupled with his jade-like face, he looks very pleasing to the eye.

Fan Zhixing watched him eat quietly for a while before he spoke: "I heard that the Xiao family is finally willing to recognize your father this time?"

"Well, my father finally got what he wanted." Xiao Xuan put down his chopsticks, picked up the cup and toasted, "I wish my father got what he wanted!"

Fan Zhixing didn't raise his glass, but stared at him. "You've been to the Sun residence several times recently? Do you know Mr. Sun?"

The cup paused in mid-air, then was put down for a moment. Xiao Xuan lowered his head and said, "Uncle Fan knows a lot!"

"I couldn't find you, so I naturally asked around. You went to the Sun residence twice in the past two days. You must have gone to see Madam Sun, right?"

"Yes!" Xiao Xuan answered quickly. In his eyes, Fan Zhixing was still the same Uncle Fan from back then. He would play with him, accompany him, and help him lie to his father.

"Why? Now that you are returning to the Xiao family, all the Xiao family assets should be yours. Madam Sun is the only daughter of Xiao Zongshan, the current head of the family. As long as she gives birth to a son, she can legitimately inherit the family assets. You are aware of this rule of the Xiao family, right?"

Xiao Xuan heard Fan Zhixing's tone was not right, and looked up at him with doubt in his eyes. But then he thought, after all, Fan Zhixing and his father were like brothers, so naturally he would hope that his father could get what he wanted.

"I know..." Xiao Xuan drank the wine in the glass and squeezed it in his hand, "But I'm not interested in this. I'm not a father. I can't abandon everything in Beidu and devote myself to this place for the sake of my so-called ancestors."

In front of Fan Zhixing, Xiao Xuan was not pretentious and would not smile all the time. He would also express his worries freely, just like now, with a bitter look on his face.

"The Xiao family's wealth is very different from those restaurants in Beidu! They have ships and caravans, and their goods can even be sent to the Western Regions. Even though the Xiao family's ancestral home is in the South City, the dignitaries in the capital all buy goods from the Xiao family's shop in the capital."

"So what?" Xiao Xuan was disdainful. He felt that as long as he could stay with the right person, even simple meals would be the best days. He didn't want to come to Nancheng, and he didn't bother to go to Beijing.

Seeing that he was unmoved, Fan Zhixing also knew why Xiao Zongwen sent a letter saying that Xiao Xuan was the biggest obstacle.

"So what?" Fan Zhixing's displeasure was evident in his heart, "Have you forgotten your father's childhood? Have you forgotten the scars on your grandmother's back? Don't you want to clear their names?" He was disappointed with Xiao Xuan's indifference.

Xiao Xuan was silent for a while, then filled his own glass and drank it in one gulp.

"I know they had a hard life before, but that was a long time ago! My so-called grandfather is about to be buried. Why did his first wife's grandmother want to kill my grandmother before, but now agree to let us return to our roots? A bystander can see more clearly, Uncle Fan, can't you see what they mean?" Xiao Xuan's words were sincere, hoping to convince Fan Zhixing.

If Fan Zhixing could choose to stand by his side like he did in childhood, his father would definitely be shaken. Unfortunately, it seemed that this time it was impossible. Xiao Xuan saw the disbelief in Fan Zhixing's eyes. It was the disbelief that he didn't want to inherit the Xiao family business!

"I know their little calculations, and your father naturally knows them too. But since we are here, we are fully prepared. You think that the Xiao family is setting a trap for us, but aren't we taking advantage of their self-righteousness to plan for our own benefit?"

"We? Uncle Fan...were you planning this with father a long time ago? Didn't the news of returning to the ancestral home just happen suddenly?" Xiao Xuan understood a little, but not much. He had truly believed that this was his father's obsession with returning to the Xiao family. He had seen his father's stubbornness, understood his perseverance, and could barely comprehend why he had to return to the Xiao family that had nearly wiped them out.

But now he felt that he might have been wrong. Perhaps his father came here just for this family business, as well as Uncle Fan.

Fan Zhixing did not answer him. The relationship was complicated and difficult to explain clearly, and he did not want to explain it to Xiao Xuan.

"Xiao Xuan, your father has been strict with you since you were a child, and he has never done anything to harm you. I am the same. I have always protected you since you were a child, and I still do! This matter of the Xiao family is your father's obsession. I am his brother, and I must help him! You are his son, and you must help him even more! Think about it, if both of us abandon him, who will he have?"

"I don't want to abandon him... I just don't want him to be obsessed with this. We can't swallow up such a huge family business. As you said, the Xiao family's business is so big, and we have no roots in the Xiao family, so we have no idea how muddy the water is. If we take this step, the abyss is right in front of us, and even the retreat to the north may no longer exist!" Xiao Xuan has been doing business with Xiao Zongwenxue since he was a child, and he has also thought about the things involved.

"Believe in your father, believe in me! Okay? As long as you're willing to support him, we'll definitely protect you! We'll help you take control of the Xiao family and take back what originally belonged to your father!"

"Uncle Fan! Are you also confused by what my father said? He is not the legitimate son and cannot be the head of the family! This is the family motto of the Xiao family!" Xiao Xuan stood up anxiously, supporting himself on the table with both hands and exerting force, making his whole body tense.

"That mistress will claim your father as her own!"

Xiao Xuan only knew that he was going to return to his ancestral home, but he still didn't believe it when it was registered under the name of his mistress. Now that Fan Zhixing said it, he found it even more incredible!

He had originally only used the word "sure" to motivate Xiao Lan, but it seemed that his father and Uncle Fan had already made a thorough plan.

"Why?" This is what he always wanted to ask!

"I don't understand. Was it just to keep the family business in their own hands that they looked down on me before?" My grandfather is almost seventy now, and his wife is sixty-five. How can he make so many plans with so little time? "Perhaps they have a bigger conspiracy, and we're just their pawns! Isn't it better for us to live a peaceful life in Beidu?"

He knew how his grandmother had been abused by his grandfather's wife. Xiao Zongwen almost didn't even give birth! Fortunately, he was born, a boy. His grandfather wanted to recognize him, but his wife disagreed and refused to give him the title of a concubine's son. His grandmother didn't even have the title of a concubine's daughter.

His grandmother was a renowned singer in South City, with skin as white as snow and hair that shimmered with a hint of gold in the moonlight. Scholars and men of letters flocked to her, paying fortunes to catch a glimpse of her beauty. But she, by chance, caught the eye of the then-Second Master of the Xiao Family.

Who could compare to the second master of the Xiao family? He spent an unknown amount of money to buy her back and built a house outside to settle down.

The old lady of the Xiao family was still around at the time, and she hated the concubine's tricks to the extreme. She supported the second lady, and the second master was also a little wary of her. However, even so, he always protected Xiao Xuan's grandmother, fearing that she would be forced to death.

But no matter how much you love someone, you'll eventually tire of him. Xiao Xuan's grandmother was in poor health after giving birth to Xiao Zongwen, and because of the Second Lady's constant pressure, she became depressed and her appearance faded. The Second Master gradually stopped protecting her as much as before, thinking that since Xiao Zongwen wouldn't be able to inherit the family business, this son wasn't worth mentioning.

So, he really couldn't understand why the second wife of the Xiao family was willing to accept them and even register his father as the legal wife! Doesn't he think this is all too far-fetched? Just casually recognizing the son of a concubine as the legitimate son can make the current head of the family, Xiao Zongshan, hand over the family property? Isn't that too simplistic?