Sheng Lan was stunned when she heard this, and instead of answering, she asked: "Why did you suddenly ask like this? Who told you anything?"

"When he was on the boat, he spoke as if he wasn't your son. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Sheng Weiqiao pouted, because she was committed to suing Sheng Sleeping Crane two days ago, but she had been laughing and playing a round by Sheng Lanci, and at this moment, in order to prevent her father from thinking that she was suing again, she hurriedly explained, "When he mentioned you, he said 'your father', you said that if he is your child, how can you say this?"

"And what about later?" Sheng Lan's words were gentle, but a solemnity floated in the depths of her pupils, and she said lovingly, "Later, you can ask him why he said this as a father?"

Sheng Weiqiao snorted: "I asked! He said that he will not be a child of the Sheng family in the future! So, is he your child? If not, what are you doing to bring him back and say that he is my brother?"

"Of course he's your brother. Sheng Lanci's eyes flickered for a moment, sighed, and said, "After all, you also know: your father is your grandfather's original eldest son, and your grandfather has always been very partial to our big house because he feels sorry for your lost grandmother." If he is not the father's child, can the father still give up the huge Sheng family to an outsider? !"

Sheng Weiqiao heard this, bit her lip, and was speechless for a long time - she didn't know herself, would this be joy or sorrow?

It is said that she should be disappointed, because if Sheng Sleeping Crane is not Sheng Lanci's bloodline, it proves that her father did not betray his promise to her biological mother back then, and is still a good husband and good father in her memory, and Sheng Sleeping Crane wants to rob her of family property, compete for favor, and go to Old Lady Sheng every day to complain, but she is also unqualified;

However, thinking that Sheng Sleeping Crane would never go back to the Sheng family again, stay on this island from then on, and live a life of licking blood from the head of the knife, maybe one day he would be buried in the vast waves like the old sea lord of Gongsun, Sheng Weiqiao felt inexplicably unbearable.

So at this moment, when she heard that Sheng Sleeping Crane was indeed her brother, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Of course, this is not because I am reluctant to him, but because this bandit den is really not a good place!" Sheng Weiqiao thought depressedly, "I just want to see anyone join the ranks of the bandits for any reason!

Sheng Weiqiao instantly felt that he was very great, and thought that he really had the style of his grandfather, didn't his grandfather just let go of the good rich children back then, and left his grandmother Ai Shi to go to Northern Xinjiang to join the army and serve the country?

Sure enough, this kind of consciousness that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband is the heirloom style of the Sheng family, and this generation has shown it in Miss Ben!

Sheng Weiqiao had one thought after another in his heart, and forgot to answer. Sheng Lanci next to her saw that her daughter was silent for a long time, but her daughter was expressing her resistance to Sheng Sleeping Crane.

He frowned secretly, pondered for a moment, and smiled bitterly: "Actually, although He'er is indeed your brother, his biological mother is not the outer room of his father. ”

After a pause, Sheng Lanci solemnly emphasized, "My father has never had an outer room!"

"Then who is his biological mother?" Sheng Weiqiao was stunned when he heard this, and asked subconsciously.

Before he finished speaking, he remembered that in the ancestral hall of Shengfu before, when he asked about Sheng Sleeping Crane's biological mother, his answer seemed to be a metaphor that the person was no longer alive?

Sure enough, Sheng Lan said: "She shouldn't be there." ”

"Should?" Sheng Weiqiao couldn't help frowning, puzzled, "What did Daddy say that it should be? Couldn't Daddy confirm that person's life and death?"

In fact, the father never met his biological mother. Sheng Lanci said this, waved her hand to stop her daughter's eager inquiry, and said, "This kind of thing shouldn't be told to your daughter's family, but now it's our father and daughter, and my father has told you, and you can't tell anyone when you look back: When your father only knew your mother for a short time, because of a business trip, he went to a foreign county." ”

That business had nothing to do with the government, but an official of the local government had a relationship with his father in Chang'an, and accidentally learned that his father had gone there, so he asked people to go to the inn where his father lived and placed an invitation. ”

"When my father was in Chang'an, I was not familiar with the official, but when I met him in a foreign country, and the other party was half a landlord, my father had no reason not to go to the appointment. ”

The official invited some people from the yamen to accompany him, and the wine order was carried out during the banquet, because the father did not understand the rules of the place, and because he had to let the master as a guest, he gradually drank too much. ”

"After that, he spent the night in his house in a daze, and when he woke up the next morning, the official said that he saw that his father was very drunk, so he stayed in the guest room for the night, and asked the servant woman to change his clothes—and the father did not feel anything wrong at that time, and exchanged a few words with him, and ate breakfast at his court, and then took his leave!"

When Sheng Weiqiao heard this, he frowned and said, "Daddy means that the official let the prostitute serve you that night?"

She knew about domestic prostitutes, because the atmosphere of Nanfeng County was more luxurious, and almost all of the wealthy officials in the county had domestic prostitutes to serve their guests.

Originally, the Sheng family also wanted to raise it, but because the second master Sheng Lansi himself was greedy for beauty, the old lady Sheng felt that raising such a group of people at home basically opened a private checkbox for Sheng Lansi in the house, and he didn't know what to do with the family style - so it was better not to raise it, let this son go outside to play, so as not to bring the children in the family!

When the old lady scolded Sheng Lansi like this, Sheng Weiqiao happened to hear it, and naturally knew that the big families raised prostitutes not for their own children to play with, but mainly for hospitality.

However, generally speaking, this hospitality often requires the consent of the guest before sending a prostitute to sleep, and rarely says that the prostitute will enter the room without greeting.

Not to mention that the guests were still in a drunken state-Sheng Weiqiao thought to himself that if this was the case, he really couldn't blame his father, but the official was really hateful!!

I didn't want Sheng Lanci to sigh, shook her head and said: "Domestic prostitutes are often sterilized, it is difficult to have children, how can they give birth to your brother?"

He looked embarrassed for a moment before he whispered, "Yes...... It's the official's wife!"

"What?!" Sheng Wei Qiao never expected this to be the truth, she almost jumped up from her seat, and said dumbfounded, "Does the official know?!"

Sheng Lanci said hesitantly: "It was originally arranged by him, how could he not know?"

Sheng Weiqiao really stood up now: "The official arranged it?!Is he crazy!"

She originally thought that her father was too handsome and chic when he was young, which caused the official's wife to move the idea of red apricot out of the wall - who knew that the mastermind was actually the official?!

Seeing her shocked appearance, Sheng Lan couldn't speak for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and said: "Good girl, you don't know, this kind of borrowing is common in remote places, especially among foreign races. However, foreign people borrow seeds, often because there are few people in the clan, and after several generations of intermarriage, if there is no outside blood inflow, it will cause the children to be indifferent. And that official, because he was already over the age of confusion at that time, and he was full of wives and concubines, but he never came out!"

Childlessness has been a big problem throughout the ages.

In fact, Sheng Lanci itself has not been disturbed by this problem in recent years, mainly because even if the parties themselves don't care, their families, servants, relatives and friends will also help worry about it, so that things will be big.

However, Sheng Lanci is determined and strong, and the only old lady Sheng who can suppress him is a favored eldest son, so everyone really can't talk about it, so he will die down.

But this was not the case with the official who calculated Sheng Lanci back then, who was very concerned about having no children, and in order to cover up the problem, he would rather borrow a seed than have a stepchild from the clan - and he chose Sheng Lanci.

This is not surprising, Sheng Lanci has excellent appearance, he was born as a Jinshi, and his body has always been very healthy, and his heirs will more or less inherit his advantages.

The most important thing is that Sheng Lanci's ancestral home is Nanfeng County, which is very far away from the official position and the location of Sang Zi.

In this way, even if the child who borrows the seeds looks like his biological father, no one can find out, at most, he thinks that the child is not like his parents, and he may look like a relative who has been separated by many generations!

"Originally, the official's calculation went well, but the father did not know anything, and his wife became pregnant as she wished, and gave birth to a crane. Sheng Lanci looked at her stunned daughter, smiled bitterly and pressed her shoulder, motioning for her to sit down and listen to herself continue to speak, "The official was so clear of his name, and he was happy in his heart, but he also saw that the crane was beautiful and cute, and he regarded him as his own, and he was very pampered!"

After a pause, "This is also the reason why He'er was dressed luxuriously when he was on Tortoiseshell Island, and he looked like a rich son!"

Sheng Weiqiao was puzzled: "Since that official attaches great importance to him, then why did he still fall into the hands of human traffickers? What's more, I remember he told me before that he had been living in another courtyard until he was five or six years old?"

-- How can a normal child be sent to live in a separate courtyard until he reaches adulthood, such as his or her parents, and especially the only "son" who is highly valued?

"Because the world is unpredictable. Sheng Lanci said hesitantly, "When He'er was three years old, the official's wife was pregnant again--and that child is the real official's own blood and blood, or a boy!"

Sheng Wei Qiao was stunned!

Although the official loved He'er, it was mainly because he thought he couldn't have his own flesh and blood. Sheng Lanci sighed, "Speaking of which, it is also the life of the crane, if he grows to be ten or eight years old, and the relationship between him and the official is deep, maybe the official will be reluctant." But he was only three years old at the time, and in fact he had only been with that official for two years, how could such a short relationship be worthy of the importance of the future of his own heir?"

After all, Sheng Sleeping Crane is on the bright side, but he is the eldest son of the official!

In terms of inheritance, it has a natural advantageous position.

The official didn't want him to take his real blood, how could he tolerate the existence of such a "eldest son"?

"So He'er's biological mother couldn't bear him, although she couldn't resist her husband, in the end persuaded her husband not to kill He'er directly, but to put He'er in another courtyard to 'recuperate' under the pretext of being weak and sick, and gradually faded out of the crowd - He'er was only three years old at that time, and his memory was incomplete, so he forgot that when he lived in the mansion in the past, he only said that he had been living in another courtyard. ”

"Originally, his biological mother planned to let him have a reputation as 'weak', and it was logical that he would not worry about it in the future, so that his younger brother could replace him to inherit the family business. In this way, if he is placed under house arrest for the rest of his life, his life can be saved. However, Crane was young and did not know his situation, and he had not been in the other courtyard for a long time, but because of the occasional teaching of a literate servant woman, he showed an amazing talent!"

Sheng Lanci said this, revealing a complicated expression, "He is born with a good eye and never forget-the servant woman who taught him to read and write is also kind, so she just reported this matter, and hoped that the eldest prince she served could return to the mansion! But the official knew, but despite his wife's obstruction, he insisted on eradicating it!"

After all, with such a talent, even if he was raised when he was a child, he will taste it when he grows up, and he may be able to turn over with this talent!

That official will definitely not spread the word about his borrowing behavior, so it is difficult for him, the eldest son, not to threaten his younger brother's status!

So for the safety of his own son, how could that official let him live?!