After Xue Xingyi finished saluting Mrs. Xue, he kowtowed to Xue Yuancheng again, but did not say a word.

Mrs. Xue glanced at the father and son, with deep worry in her eyes, but she didn't understand political affairs, so she didn't speak, but just said to Xue Wanqing: "Qing'er come with me, my mother has something to explain to you." ”

Xue Wanqing looked at Xue Xingyi, lowered her eyes and saluted Xue Yuancheng, and then followed Mrs. Xue.

Only Xue Yuancheng and Xue Xingyi, father and son, were left in the courtyard.

Xue Xingyi got up and patted the dust on his knees casually.

Xue Yuancheng looked at Xue Xingyi silently, and suddenly said, "I thought I would have to wait a few more years?"

Xue Xingyi raised his eyes to look at Xue Yuancheng.

Xue Yuancheng's eyes were deep, "I have a rule for employing people, fathers and sons and brothers cannot serve as senior members of the third rank or above at the same time, let alone enter the cabinet together, if I stay in the cabinet, even if Your Majesty values you again, he will not let you enter the real center of power." ”

Xue Xingyi did not deny it.

"Others may think that you Xue Xingyi is a love saint who ousted his son from power for a long-dead fiancée, but I know your ambitions better than anyone else. Xue Yuancheng mocked in his tone, "But I thought that even if you couldn't wait, you would endure it for a few more years, and then do it after receiving my connections." ”

Xue Xingyi listened calmly and said lightly: "My father is wrong, I am different from you, I have never thought of climbing to a high position with the help of others, I can do it on my own." ”

Xue Yuancheng sneered, "Arrogance." ”

"There is another point that you are wrong, I really didn't drive you down for the so-called revenge, not just because of ambition, but because you are not worthy of the position!" Xue Xingyi said slowly.

Xue Yuancheng, who had never lost his temper in front of everyone after being ousted from power by his own son, was furious when he heard this, "Son, you are presumptuous. ”

Xue Xingyi lowered his eyes and saluted Xue Yuancheng.

After all, Xue Yuancheng has been in a high position for many years, and he quickly controlled his temper, looked at Xue Xingyi and said calmly: "Is virtue unworthy? I have been an official for many years, and I think I owe nothing to the court, the king, and the people, but the Yang family was ...... back then."

Xue Yuancheng paused and didn't say any more.

Xue Xingyi looked up at Xue Yuancheng and asked, "I've always wanted to know, why are you?"

Xue Xingyi looked at Xue Yuancheng, and his eyes were a little complicated.

The man in front of him was his father, whom he once admired immensely, and his original concept of being an official was also influenced by Xue Yuancheng. If Xue Yuancheng was a traitorous villain with a lust for power at the beginning, how could he get into the eyes of Master Yang and vigorously support him?

Xue Yuancheng asked rhetorically: "I remember that you also tried to save the Yang family at the beginning, why did you change your mind later?

Xue Xingyi paused and said, "I have my reasons. ”

Xue Yuancheng smiled and said, "Look, you have your reasons, and I naturally have my reasons." ”

Neither father nor son would be honest, and there was no need for the conversation to continue.

Mrs. Xue came out with Xue Wanqing, and Xue Yuancheng helped Mrs. Xue into the carriage.

A family of four, only Mrs. Xue and Xue Wanqing had parting sadness on their faces, and the mother and daughter sat in the carriage and stood outside the carriage, holding each other's hands and reluctant to say goodbye.

Xue Yuancheng glanced at Xue Xingyi before getting into the car, and said meaninglessly: "Don't think that you can sit back and relax if you get out of power, you are my son, even if I know that you make some small moves, I can turn a blind eye, and others are not so easy to speak." I don't have to write a letter to my hometown after I return to my hometown, I won't go back if I do, and the New Year's festival is also exempted. ”

Xue Xingyi frowned when he heard this.

Xue Yuancheng ignored him anymore, got into the carriage and lowered the curtain, and instructed the coachman: "Let's go, dark clouds cover the sky, I'm afraid the rainstorm is coming, let's get out of the city early." ”

Xue Xingyi watched his parents' carriage slowly drive out of the gate of the Xue Mansion, and his frowning brows never let go.

On the second day, He Linwan received a secret report from Hu Yao: Chen Yu and his wife encountered a robber on the way out of Beijing, and the husband and wife, their grandson Chen Junsheng, who escorted them back to their hometown, and dozens of slaves accompanying them were all killed, and none of them survived.

He Linwan was suddenly startled, turned his head and asked Hu Yao: "I remember that Xue Yuancheng left Beijing with Chen Yu. ”

The fox said, "Yes, girl." After the prince got the news, he immediately sent someone to investigate, and there were traces of a large number of people and horses ambushing on the road where Xue Yuancheng returned to his hometown, but Xue Yuancheng did not take that road, so he avoided it. ”

When He Linwan heard this, he was even more sure of the guess in his heart, and led people to ambush on the road, and it was her third brother Yang Chengying who intercepted and killed Chen Yu's family.

He Linwan sighed in her heart, although she took revenge, but she was in a heavy mood.

When the news of the assassination of Chen Yu's family reached the capital, Emperor Tiancheng was furious and sent Yan Yan, the former commander of the forbidden army who was good at tracking the bandits, to investigate the matter, but the bandits who suddenly appeared suddenly disappeared again. The case became a headless case.

Because Chen Yu was killed, Chen Hong returned to Beijing for funeral, and according to the regulations, he needed to help his parents' coffins return to Chen's ancestral hometown, and Ding was worried for three years.

The current Chen Hong is played by Cui Yan, so he naturally doesn't have to really go back to the Chen family's ancestral hometown, but he just arranged for someone to change his appearance as Chen Hong, and he himself recovered his identity and stayed in the capital to help Li Yu.

In fact, it was easier to let Chen Hong die at this time, but for fear of arousing the suspicion of Emperor Tiancheng, and also considering that he might need to borrow Chen Hong's identity in the future, he still let him "live".

He Linwan was worried about Yang Chengying, and his mood was not very easy during this time, so he was more strict with He Yin's homework.

The three children complained bitterly in their hearts, but because there were friends on the side, no one refused to admit defeat and shout tired, even when Li Heng faced his little brother Xiaomu, he pretended to be light and light at all, and then closed the door and grinned.

Chunxiao saw that He Linwan was in a bad mood, and tried every means to make her happy, but on this day she inquired about some interesting things in the market, and hurriedly came back to tell He Linwan about it.

"Girl, that fake jinshi has now found a livelihood, that is, to compose and write lyrics for Qinglou, I heard that it is very popular with those flower girls and singers, as soon as he gets a new song, he is scrambled to sing, and the singers are the first to sing the tunes he wrote. Aunt Wei thought that his identity was embarrassing to her, so she sent people to his house to smash him in three days, trying to force him to leave the capital, and scared the outer room of the fake jinshi almost had a miscarriage. ”

Chunxiao didn't know what to think, and couldn't help but laugh "poof", and continued: "But the fake Jinshi's temper was also aroused by Aunt Wei, and instead of leaving Beijing, he wrote the little thing in his boudoir with Aunt Wei into a slang song and passed it on, so that now the whole capital knows that Aunt Wei has a big mole under her belly button!"