"I didn't even know that I had a son, so I was buried in front of my steps......"

Duchess Weiguo cried so much that Weiguo Gong was about to pull Duchess Weiguo's hand and froze in mid-air.

"Shi Yuzhen, what are you talking about?

has been a husband and wife for a lifetime, and Wei Guogong is very familiar with his wife-

Although she looks crazy, what she said is certainly not crazy!

Duchess Wei Guo stared at Wei Guogong viciously, grabbed him by the placket of his clothes, and while he was stunned, she gave him two resounding slaps without hesitation, and every word she said was like a knife blade on her heart:

"At this time, you still have the face to pretend to be stupid? Didn't you listen to your mother and your sister? Your family murdered the child in my womb, and then stuffed a daughter of unknown origin into me!"

"Xu Qinhou, what debt did I owe to your Xu family in my last life, and you want to do this to me? That is also the flesh and blood of your Xu family, how can you bear it? Do you have a heart, do you have a long heart?"

"You Xu family, brutes from all over the house!"

Duchess Weiguo wept and scolded until she was hoarse.

Wei Guogong covered his hot face, his mind was buzzing, and he couldn't tell the meaning of these words for a long time.

In addition to Wei Guogong, there was Xu Chenglin, who knelt beside Duchess Wei Guo, almost speechless:

"But my grandmother said that my brother was born...... It's out of breath, she's afraid you'll be sad......"

"Yes, and you!"

Xu Chenglin didn't speak, Duchess Weiguo couldn't remember him, and when she heard him speak at this time, she immediately pounced and raised her hand to beat him:

"How can I have a son like you! You teamed up with outsiders to deceive me, and you also poisoned Mama Lin in a vain attempt to cover up the truth of the year, are you really my son?!"

Wei Guogong slowly turned his head, looked at his wife who was beating his son, and then looked at his son who only knew how to hide from the beating, and finally made it completely certain that they were all shrouded in a conspiracy, and now, that conspiracy has been torn open.

His face was as calm as stagnant water, and he commanded those who were guarding the door:

"Go, bring me all the people involved, I want to personally interrogate, who is it that wants to mess with my Xu family!"

The next day, in the palace, Xiao Shaotang received the second batch of news.

"Wei Guo Gong ordered someone to pick up an unconscious old woman from Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Wei Guo Mansion, and then the door inside and outside the house was closed, no one could enter or exit, Wei Guo Gong's study, the lights were on all night, as for what happened, the humble post has not yet been investigated. ”

"Who is this old woman?"

"It was a grandmother who served Mrs. Hou of Weibei back then, surnamed Lin. ”

Xiao Shaotang felt more and more strange.

It is said that an aunt and an old grandmother are both servants and the like, and they should not be able to set off a big storm, but the situation of the Weiguo Mansion is obviously something big, after all, even the ancestral hall has been smashed.

He thought for a moment and commanded:

"Don't let the queen know about this matter yet, continue to stare at it. ”

The gate of the Weiguo Mansion and Rongxi Courtyard slowly opened.

Duchess Weiguo was dressed in plain clothes, wearing a silver-white cloak, holding a package tightly in her arms, and walked out against the cold wind.

In the past, the noble and bright Duchess of Weiguo suddenly showed that she was nearly fifty years old and haggard, the corners of her eyes were wrinkled, her eyes were red and swollen like peach pits, and her temples were covered with frost and snow.

This is a hundred times more haggard than when Cheng Huan died.

With just one glance, Xu Chenglin, who was outside the door, almost burst out of his eyes with tears, he walked up to the Duchess of Weiguo and lowered his head to hide his reddened eyes:

"Mother, where are you going? ”

"Son?"

Duchess Weiguo tightened the package in her arms, looking indifferent:

"My son is in my arms. ”

"Mother!"

Such words were like a hammer smashing on Xu Chenglin's heart, and his tears flowed down all of a sudden:

"Mother said so, let her son deal with himself!"

"Since you have had an idea since you were a child, you can hide such things from me for so many years, what else can't you deal with?"

Duchess Weiguo's indifferent expression was broken, revealing a bitter hatred, even her son, who once valued her more than life, has now become her enemy.

"But Mother, I really didn't know that my grandmother would do such a thing, and I didn't know that you were also kept in the dark......"

"You know!"

The anger that Duchess Weiguo had been suppressing broke out in an instant:

"You think your sister is very good, and you admit it, right? You saw everything with your own eyes, but you didn't tell me! Even now, you have found out that something is wrong, but you still don't want to tell me! Do you think that if you are afraid that I will be sad, you can join forces with your grandmother to deceive me for the rest of my life? You are my son in vain!"

"You're afraid that I'll find out, and you want to kill Mama Lin, cover up this matter completely, and then let me live in other people's calculations for the rest of my life!"

"Even though you're not a murderer, you're an accomplice! you're no different from those who killed your brother!"

Duchess Weiguo raised her feet and walked towards the second gate from Xu Chenglin's side, with irreparable determination in her eyes:

"Your Xu family is so vicious, you will be punished by heaven!"

"Mother!"

Behind him, Xu Chenglin hurriedly chased after him with tears in his eyes:

"Where the hell are you going?"

Duchess Weiguo looked down at the package in her arms:

"I'm going to ask someone to take your brother over and bury him, will you go too?"

"My son is naturally going!"

Xu Chenglin wiped his eyes, turned around and ordered the soldiers who followed him to prepare the car.

Duchess Weiguo didn't give him half a good face because of this, but just said coldly:

"It's okay for you to go, atone for your brother's sins, and see if you Xu Chenglin can have a clear conscience!"

Xu Chenglin didn't dare to refute half a word, and followed behind Duchess Weiguo without leaving an inch, and Mama Gao, who was originally following Duchess Weiguo, could only take a step back.

When he got out of the second gate, Wei Guogong also heard the news and rushed over.

"Yuzhen. ”

A middle-aged man over half a hundred years old had gray hair overnight.

is a high and powerful position, and made great contributions to the new emperor's accession to the throne, carrying forward the century-old Hou Mansion and becoming a national mansion.

Wei Guogong, who was supposed to be high-spirited, was also crushed by all kinds of gloom that was revealed almost overnight.

He has always been a martial artist with a straight back, but he is a little rickety, and his face clearly has the slap marks of the Duchess of Weiguo last night.

He called out to the Duchess of Weiguo in a low voice, strode to her side and stretched out his hand:

"Give it to me, I'll hold it. ”

"Go away!"

Duchess Weiguo turned her head and wanted to be angry with him, but there was great sorrow in her heart—

She hated it so much, but who could she hate?

She can hate the vicious Xu Shuning, hate the mother-in-law she always thought was loving, or she can hide her son for so many years with hatred, but how can she hate her husband?

Mama Lin was ordered by her to use all means to get a moment of repatriation, and she said it clearly.

The thing that happened back then was that Mrs. Tai couldn't resist Xu Shuning's hard work, and finally the son she gave birth to died on the ground, so she agreed to send the illegitimate daughter sent by Xu Shuning to the Weibei Hou Mansion to drop the bag.

But no one in the mansion knew that every time Xu Shuning kindly asked for a doctor for her at that time, she was just trying to murder her child!

No one knows that the child in her womb did not die because of congenital deficiencies, but because of the fetal medicine sent by Xu Shuning!

But Xu Shuning, who should have been cut by her with a thousand knives, had already been buried in the Xu family's cemetery, and Mama Lin's daughter Xiurong, who was an accomplice, had already died in the hands of Xiao Shaoyun, and Mama Lin quickly swallowed her breath.

There was only one Aunt Zhu who witnessed what Mama Lin buried in the mansion back then, and she wanted revenge to reveal all this, and at the moment of Mama Lin's death, she fulfilled her wish and went crazy.

She is the only one who has to face all this painfully and soberly!

She can't even vent her anger!

"Jade ......"

Wei Guogong choked in his throat and reached out to take her into his arms along with the package in his arms, but she avoided her.

Although Duchess Weiguo knew in her heart that he was innocent and just a poor person who was deceived like her, her hatred that she had nowhere to vent still made her angry with him:

"You've never hugged them since they were born, what are you pretending to do now? He doesn't need you as a father!"

Wei Guogong retracted his hand in a dejected manner, lowered his shoulders, and clenched his teeth so that no sorrowful roar escaped his throat.

Actually, he hugged it!

It's just the one who hugged it, but it turned out to be not his daughter.

His eldest son follows the tradition of the Xu family and is strictly raised, and he, as a father, has never even hugged it with his own hands.

But when he came back from outside and learned that he had a little daughter, he was so full of joy that he carefully held the little baby in his arms, and from then on he and his family regarded her as the pearl of their palms.

They pampered her and cared for her in every way.

When she died, they were so heartbroken that they even turned against the emperor. She was reborn, and they were willing to give everything for her, even if they were reviled as rebels.

But now, all of a sudden, it was all ruined, not only did they never have a daughter, but even the son who should have survived turned into a handful of mud under the begonia tree in front of their hall!

Suddenly, husband and wife turned against each other, mother and son hated each other, and the root of all this was his sister whose heart was like a snake and scorpion!

He could understand the hatred and anger in his wife's heart, but he didn't know what to do at this time to restore this shattered thing to its original state!

The three of them stood silently, and the prepared carriage and horses came, and the Duchess of Weiguo got into the carriage with the package, leaving the father and son of Weiguo facing each other in the cold wind.

Xu Chenglin's personal soldiers brought two horses.

Xu Chenglin bowed his head to his father and said:

"Father, please, get on the horse. ”

The men of the general's family, no matter how cold the weather is, there is no reason to ride in a carriage.

Wei Guogong silently took the reins of the horse in the hands of his own soldiers, got on the horse, and then glanced back at Xu Chenglin, and his voice was cold:

"I don't want to pursue this matter, your fault, but how to explain it to the palace, you can figure it out yourself. ”

Xu Chenglin led the horse to look at his father's distant back, and his heart sank completely.

At this point, sure enough, his father and mother would not forgive him.

When the Weiguo Mansion and his party left the city, Xiao Shaotang immediately received the news.

"The family went to Beishan Temple?

Xiao Shaotang pondered for a while, omitted everything that happened in the Weiguo Mansion, and only informed Bai Chenghuan of this matter.

Bai Chenghuan was very puzzled:

"That's right, my mother used to go to Beishan Temple to incense at the end of the year, but isn't my mother sick, why do you still go out in such a cold weather?"

"I thought that the Duchess of Weiguo could go out in the spirit, maybe there was no big problem, now you can rest assured. ”

Xiao Shaotang felt that all the strange things, he just had to worry about it in his heart alone, and he didn't need to let Bai Chenghuan know.

In addition, now the Li family is not worried about Bai Chenghuan, so he took a sign that is forbidden to enter and leave the palace freely, and as long as he has free time, he will enter the palace to accompany Bai Chenghuan.

Bai Chenghuan heard that Duchess Weiguo could go out at this time, and gradually relaxed and stopped pestering.

After the third day of the Lunar New Year, the early dynasty, which had been stopped because of the New Year, began again.

Although it was only less than three days, Fang Handong, who had a ghost in his heart, came up with a way to oppose the emperor's reduction of sacrifices.

It is said that Fang Handong is also worthy of the name of the Ministry of Rites, and he gushed endlessly in the court, arguing with reason, from ancient times to the present, from "Zhou Yi" to "The Book of Rites", expressing the view that it is unfilial to reduce sacrifices.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked sideways, but except for a few people from the household department who came out to echo Fang Handong, the other courtiers all had a wait-and-see attitude.

In the final analysis, it is the ancestors of the Xiao family who are sacrificed, and the number and specifications are not up to the emperor to decide.

Xiao Shaotang sat on the dragon chair, let Fang Han finish a big call, and then lightly put down two words:

"Talk again!"

Then he took out a notebook from his sleeve and threw it to Zhu Siming, the head of the household:

"I have an account here, Zhu Shangshu will do the math for me, and then come back to me after I understand!"

Zhu Siming held the account in his arms in a panic, and was shocked when he saw it, and he didn't dare to open it in front of the hall after closing it.

Fang Handong stretched his neck hard, but he didn't see what kind of account it was.

The arguments prepared by Fang Handong were all blocked in his throat - he worked hard to search his intestines and scrape his stomach, but the emperor didn't look at it at all!

He became more and more sure that the new emperor was looking at him unpleasantly, and he wanted to find fault and clean him up!

Fang Handong suddenly felt a knife hanging over his head, and he might chop him into pieces at any time!

Next, the minister once again talked about the new emperor's accession to the throne and the fact that he should be granted amnesty to the world.

Xiao Shaotang had already made up his mind with Bai Chenghuan about this matter, no matter what others said in his ear or how insistent the minister was, he would never pardon those who committed the most heinous crimes.

He wants to forgive those who have truly been wronged.

The emperor said to Wu Zhengmao, the Zhengqing of Dali Temple:

"Wu Zhengqing is in charge of the Great Qi criminal name, then let me take a look at whether there will be unjust, false and wrongful cases in your hands!"