Noble Lady

Xue Chenyu exchanged a glance with her and walked forward, "Father, don't force yourself. Some things will have the same result whether you say them or I say them."

Marquis Xue: "But you..." After all, his mother was his mother, Yu'er's grandmother. With the flower viewing banquet approaching, he really didn't want her to be branded as unfilial.

"Someone has to start it." Xue Chenyu didn't care. "Besides, being filial to one's parents is also filial piety, isn't it?"

For a moment, Marquis Xue didn't know how to refute.

Xue Huai also said, "It's hard to be a father, so let us do it."

After saying that, he walked forward and stood with Xue Chenyu.

Xue Luoyan followed closely and stood on the other side of Xue Chenyu.

"You, what are you doing?!" Old Madam Xue was so angry that her hands were shaking.

"I'll teach you a lesson," Xue Hou said angrily. He then turned to the three children and said, "Your father isn't so useless that he can't even speak a few words clearly. I can do it myself."

Madam Xue also said, "Step back."

Xue Chenyu and her siblings exchanged glances and then retreated.

"Xue Hejun has a beautiful concubine who gave birth to a big, fat boy last year. He's already over six months old. Mother should have known about this a long time ago, right?"

A trace of guilt flashed in the old lady's eyes, and she immediately pretended to be dumb and said, "What? What about women and children? You left an old woman like me in Liyang without caring about me. What should I know?"

"Since the mother doesn't know, then it's easy. I've already sent someone to report it to the police and have had the woman and child arrested."

Before she could finish her words, Old Madam Xue jumped up in a rage, "What do you want to do?! Do you want to make my Xue family extinct?!"

No more descendants.

Marquis Xue chewed on these four words carefully and couldn't help but laugh, "If Xue Hejun's bastard is gone, the Xue family will be extinct. Where does this put our family?"

Madam Xue avoided his gaze guiltily. "Don't be so picky with me. Don't think I don't know what you're up to. You just can't stand your brother living a better life than you do!"

"Yeah, I don't have the ability of Xue Hejun to bring back a woman who should be in the Jiaofangsi to warm my bed and raise a child for someone else."

"Don't talk nonsense, Yin Yin would never betray me! Don't lie and tarnish my innocence!" Master Xue was so angry that he wanted to break free from his restraints.

However, Xue Hou's long-time attendant Song Tao was also a veteran who had followed him in many battles. He was no match for a half-baked person like Xue Hejun.

He struggled in vain and could only howl at the top of his lungs.

But the next moment, Song Tao blocked his mouth and he could only make a humming sound.

"What on earth do you want to do? Didn't you hear what your brother said? Yinyin is a good girl. How could she do something to let him down?!"

"It seems that mother has really seen that woman." Xue Hou smiled coldly.

Mrs. Xue then realized that she had let the cat out of the bag in her haste. "I, I didn't. Don't talk nonsense."

"There's no such thing as an impenetrable wall, mother." Marquis Xue's gaze grew increasingly stern. "Xue Hejun has shielded a criminal official. At the very least, he's guilty of the same crime, and at the worst, he's deceiving the emperor. Regardless, he must be beheaded!"

Madam Xue panicked, "No, it's impossible..."

"And you knew the truth and still wanted to protect him. You are dragging your whole family down with you for his stupidity!"

"I, I didn't..." Old Madam Xue was frightened and at a loss.

"Yes, he brought Yinyin to see me, and said that Yinyin was pregnant with his child, so I was the one who took charge and brought her in. What about being an official? I, I don't know anything about it!"

How stupid. Xue Chenyu couldn't help but think in her heart.

They also said that this grandmother came from a scholarly and famous family, so how could she be so stupid.

Although Xue Huai didn't say anything, the look in his eyes probably conveyed the same meaning.

Xue Luoyan was more straightforward and spat directly at Xue Hejun, "This thing harms others and yourself!"

Mr. Xue: “Wuwuwu…” Mother, don’t listen to his nonsense. I didn’t do that.

"Mother, do you think that His Majesty will forgive you and our entire family's lives just because I say I was ignorant of the crime he committed?!"

"My grandfather earned the title of Marquis of Wu'an, and my father risked his life to preserve it. I also joined the army at the age of eight, training day and night for the honor of the Marquisate."

"Now, because you failed to educate your son and protected and condoned him, you are going to destroy the three generations of hard work and the century-old foundation of the Marquisate, and make the Xue family extinct."

"Even if you die, how can you face your ancestors in the underworld?!"

Old Madam Xue was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.

But Mr. Xue was twisting and turning like a maggot, looking at her with tears in his eyes, making a "wooooo" sound from his mouth, looking very pitiful.

This immediately made her feel like a mother again.

"Xue Heyan, stop talking nonsense. I don't believe what you say. If you are so confident, why do you still want to block your brother's mouth?!"

Mrs. Xue looked at Marquis Xue's disappointed expression and just shook her head without going forward.

Xue Hou immediately pulled the rag from Xue Erye's mouth and said, "Speak now! Now that things have come to this, I want to see if you can still spit out ivory from your dog's mouth."

As soon as Mr. Xue broke free from his restraints, he immediately crawled to Old Madam Xue's feet.

"Mother, don't listen to his nonsense! Yinyin is not the descendant of a convicted official. You have seen her. Yinyin is well-educated and well-mannered, and has the air of a noble family..."

"I told you before, her family was just in dire straits, so she was saved by her son."

"It's all Xue Heyan's fault. He can't stand seeing his son doing well, so he deliberately framed me. Mother, don't you still trust your son?!"

Madam Xue immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned and scolded, "I knew you couldn't stand seeing your brother doing well!"

"If you say so, then so be it." Marquis Xue just sneered and mercilessly kicked Second Master Xue again in front of her. "How dare you not tell mother about her family's poverty?"

"Isn't it because her father, who worked at the Ministry of Revenue, embezzled a huge amount of stolen money that His Majesty punished him, confiscated his property and exiled him?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Mr. Xue froze in place.

Marquis Xue continued, "Since you dared to do something like that and rescued someone from the Jiaofang Bureau, why don't you dare to admit it? How great is your ability? If your ancestors saw you, they would praise you for being so shameless!"

Madam Xue: "Son, please speak up. He's just talking nonsense, isn't he?"

Mr. Xue clenched his fists, changing his previous angry expression.

He thought that it was an accident that Xue Heyan and his wife blocked his family of three at the city gate, but he didn't expect that he would investigate so deeply.

"You, how do you know Yin Yin's identity? What else do you know?"

"No, you must be deceiving me. You haven't found anything at all, have you?"

"Why are you so nervous? I haven't finished yet."

Marquis Xue gave his long-time attendant Song Tao a look, and Song Tao held Master Xue down again.

"How long are you going to hold your brother down? Let go!"

Even at this time, Old Madam Xue still rushed forward.

"He's a fifth-rank lieutenant general. If this embarrassing incident gets out, will he still be able to live as a human being?!"

Xue Hou closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

When I opened my eyes again, they were cold.

"Ms. Xue Zhao, please wake up. Xue Hejun has committed a devastating crime that will wipe out your entire family! On the day of the incident, everyone in the Marquis of Wu'an will be buried with him, and you can't escape either!"

"I always thought you came from a prominent family in Shengjing, well-educated and well-mannered. I never thought you couldn't even see the stakes involved and still want to protect him. You're truly hopeless!"

At this point, Marquis Xue was completely disappointed with Old Madam Xue.

Over the years, he and his wife had never lacked food, clothing, and other expenses for her. In fact, because the Marquis's Mansion was not short of money, his wife gave her more than enough.

But she didn't expect that all the money and supplements they had given her over the years would be given to Xue Hejun to seek a better future.

It would be fine if he did something serious.

But his claim was to seek a bright future, but in reality he had spent a large sum of money to get a beautiful woman from the Music Bureau, and then through this woman's introduction, he embarked on the path of salt and iron trade, which led to the confiscation of property and the extermination of the clan.

If it weren't for the warning from Taoist Zhang Xiao, everyone in the Marquis' Mansion would have been completely unaware of the situation and would have allowed Xue Hejun to bring that woman into the mansion. From now on, they would have been unable to deny any connection with the matter.

Old Madam Xue was so shocked by his words that she couldn't recover for a long time, but when she saw her good son being pinned to the ground, she wanted to rush over to protect him.

"I don't believe it. My son wouldn't even dare to step on an ant to death, so how could he do something like plundering our property and exterminating our entire family?"

"Xue Heyan, how dare you? How dare you throw such dirty water on your brother? Are you crazy?!"