In my previous life, I killed my whole family. In my next life, I killed the royal family.

Qi Wan was in Yilan Courtyard and heard Lin Ma say that the third wife's boat had sunk and three bodies were found in the river. They were the third wife and their son Ding You.

She acted surprised. "Oh, that's unfortunate."

Mother Lin whispered, "Young Miss, please don't mention the quarrel that night again."

"Yeah." Qi Wan nodded.

She thought to herself: I just let the boat sink and drown Xiao Dingshi. Logically speaking, with so many servants following, at least the Third Uncle and the cousins ​​should be rescued, but they all died.

No, there are only three bodies. Where is Qi Jiao? Where are the servants?

She always felt that something was wrong.

Soon Wu Yilai told Qi Wan the inside story.

"Miss, I heard that it was the Third Prince who sent people to kill Qi Fu."

"I see." Qi Wan sneered, "Accomplices always have a bad ending."

Qi Wan didn't expect that the third prince would actually send people to follow Qi Fu's family all the way and kill them halfway.

When Qi Lu and his son learned that Qi Fu's family had died in a shipwreck, he said with a gloomy face, "You are courting death."

He arranged for his eldest son Qi Ze, "You and Qi Yuan take a team of servants to Bianzhou to handle the funeral of the third house. I will go to Dongshan to tell your grandfather about this."

The three of them, father and son, split into two groups and set off immediately with their men.

When Qi Lu arrived at Dongshan, he went straight to the study and saw his father sitting at the desk writing.

General Qi was a little confused when he saw his eldest son suddenly come to Dongshan. He put down the brush in his hand and asked, "What happened? Why are you in such a hurry to come here?"

Qi Lu walked to the table and sat down. He sighed and said slowly, "Father, Qi Fu's family is dead."

"Ah!" General Qi opened his mouth in shock, unable to believe what he heard, "How is it possible?"

A few days ago, he heard the guards report that "the Third Master has been wandering around Dongshan for a day, as if he was looking for something." At that time, he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that Qi Fu came to visit his parents. Later, Qi Fu never came to the villa, and he thought that Qi Fu just came to Dongshan to hunt. Unexpectedly, he heard such bad news today.

General Qi couldn't help but scold: "This unfilial fellow, he didn't even come to visit his parents when he arrived at Dongshan a few days ago!"

"Father, he came to Dongshan that day because he wanted to harm Ah Wan."

"What?" General Qi was shocked and asked his son the truth of the matter.

Qi Lu started the story from the beginning, omitting the part where Qi Wan scolded Xiao Ding: "You won't live more than three days."

He told the rest of the story truthfully, about how Qi Fu and the third prince had teamed up to plot against Qi Wan, and how he came to Dongshan a few days ago under the pretext of visiting the old lady.

General Qi suddenly realized, "It turns out that Qi Fu wandered around Dongshan that day, looking for Qi Wan."

He cursed: "This damn thing actually dared to join forces with outsiders to harm his niece."

Qi Lu continued, "I don't want my third brother and his son to continue to be used by the Third Prince, so I went to find him an official position in Yangzhou."

But the third wife did not take the carriage to Yangzhou, but asked her servants to book a boat, and eventually died in a boat capsize.

General Qi was saddened by the sudden bad news.

He cursed, "You brought this upon yourself. You are courting death."

No matter how much of a bastard Qi Fu was, he was still one of his sons. Moreover, a grandson and a granddaughter had died, and the third branch of the family had no descendants.

General Qi's eyes were moist, and he blamed himself and said, "It's still my fault. I didn't teach him well since he was a child."

"Father, you are often away at war, how can you teach my third brother?"

"Marrying an unvirtuous wife will bring harm to three generations." General Qi said sadly.

He asked, "Where is the other body? Where are the servants?"

Qi Lu shook his head, "I don't know where it is. Maybe it drifted downstream, or maybe it sank to the bottom of the river."

General Qi thought for a while and said, "There is something fishy about this matter. Go check it out."

"Yes, father."

General Qi suspected that someone was trying to silence him.

Qi Lu also had this idea, but he didn't get any news. None of the servants he bribed in the third room came back to report the news, which made him deeply confused.

Qi Lu thought for a long time and decided to tell his father something else.

"Father, do you still remember that many years ago, you had a master named Ren who robbed a woman and you beat him with dozens of sticks and drove him out of the military camp?"

General Qi nodded and asked, "Yes, there is this person. How come he is still alive?"

Qi Lu said: "He is not only alive, he is now the military advisor of the Third Prince."

"I went to check it out myself. He has a lame leg and is very important in the Third Prince's Mansion." Qi Lu said with a sigh.

If my father had beaten the man to death directly, none of these things would have happened.

Being soft-hearted often leaves behind troubles, especially for people who are good at scheming.

General Qi was stunned, "He is not dead, and he has surrendered to the Third Prince." Only then did he fully understand the Third Prince's true intentions.

The third prince married the eldest granddaughter as his princess and used the Qi Mansion to help him ascend to the throne. Afterwards, when he had grown strong enough, he would eliminate the entire Qi Mansion.

This is the strategy that Master Ren came up with for the Third Prince.

General Qi gritted his teeth, his eyes showing murderous intent, "He committed a capital crime, and he even dared to entangle the Third Prince to seek revenge, and harmed my entire Qi family."

"Go back and think of a way. Take the initiative and get rid of Ren Zhang while the Third Prince is recovering from his injuries."

"Yes, father."

A maid came to the upper room of the other courtyard to report, "Master, Master, the old lady heard that Master is here and wants to see him. She wants to ask why Master San and his family didn't come to see her."

General Qi glanced at his eldest son. Neither of them wanted to see the half-crazy Ding.

General Qi said to the old woman, "We have important matters to discuss, so it is not convenient for us to see her."

"Tell her that the Third Master went to Yangzhou to take up his official post and left in a hurry, so he couldn't come to see her."

"Yes, sir."

The old woman went to report to Mrs. Ding, "Madam, the Third Master and his family went to Yangzhou to take up their official posts. They left in a hurry, so they didn't come to see you."

Mrs. Ding was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter of surprise, "Hahaha, my son has become an official in Yangzhou, he is going to make a fortune."

"In a few years, he will return to the capital to serve as an assistant minister, a minister, or a prime minister."

"Hahaha……"

It was midsummer and the doors and windows of the courtyard were wide open.

A loud shout came from the east bedroom of a small courtyard not far behind the upper house, and the people sitting in the upper living room could hear it clearly.

General Qi and Qi Lu listened to the shouting coming from the backyard, looked at each other, and no longer had the mood to talk.

There has to be a limit to one's wishful thinking.

A person with no ability who gets a minor official position because of connections is lucky enough to be able to keep the position.

He even dared to dream of becoming an assistant minister, a minister of state, or a prime minister.

General Qi sighed repeatedly and said to his eldest son, "Alu, you must learn from your father's lesson. When choosing a daughter-in-law, you must choose a woman who is of equal status and virtuous."

"A woman like this from a poor family, when she gets married and sees others living a luxurious life, she will be unwilling to accept it and lack vision, so many things will happen."

When General Qi married a second wife, he took into consideration that his two sons were still young, so he married a woman of poor family background, thinking that she would be kind and virtuous.

However, after marrying Ding and giving birth to a pair of children who provided support, she began to change beyond recognition.

It was no big deal that Ding coveted the wealth of the first and second houses. She taught her children bad things and even colluded with outsiders to harm the first house of Qi.

General Qi knew very well in his heart that if it were not for Ding's instigation and approval, would Qi Fu's family and Qi Yuehua dare to plot against the first and second houses?

He said to his eldest son, "Don't come to see her. She is not worthy of the first and second wives' filial piety. The servants here will serve her until she dies."

"Yes, father."

When Qi Lu returned home, he saw his daughter was also in the upper house and revealed her grandfather's words, "Let me get rid of the man named Ren."

Qi Wan smiled and said, "Father, why do you have to take action? Tell the prince consort that Ren Zhang had helped the third prince and harmed the second master of the princess's mansion. Ren Zhang will surely die a more miserable death."

She added, "Princess Daning's Mansion broke the Third Prince's left and right arms, which would also help to appease the Second Prince's anger over his broken legs."