Bai Heran's appearance was somewhat unexpected by Bai Xingyan, because she came with wine, one person and one jar, all of which were old wines.

Bai Xingyan looked at the wine jar she handed over, and although he received it in his hand, he really couldn't understand what it meant.

Didn't you come to ask the teacher about sin? Why do you still give it to drink? Could it be a guillotine wine?

I heard that death row inmates in the prison are popular to drink guillotine before execution, which means the last bowl of wine before death, intended to see them off. Legend has it that after drinking the severed head wine, it doesn't hurt to cut off the head, and the wine on Huangquan Road will not want to provoke because of the smell of alcohol.

However, this wine is not the obligation of the government and the yamen, and not every condemned prisoner can drink it. If you want to have a severed head to drink, you must first have silver, and secondly, you must have status, otherwise you will have no one to care about your idle business.

Bai Xingyan looked at the wine jar in his hand and thought of the severed head wine, and his body trembled even more.

However, Bai Heran didn't mention what she said during the day, she just put the wine on the table, dragged a chair and sat on the table, facing Bai Xingyan, and took the lead in taking a sip in the wine jar.

Bai Xingyan was a little confused, what does this mean?

"Drink!" Bai Heran said, "There is no poison in the wine, and I don't care about using poison to solve you." ”

"That'...... How do you want to solve me? Bai Xingyan finally asked what he was thinking, "Ah Ran, I know what you want to ask, but I can't say, I really can't say." Ah Ran, I'm not for myself, I'm for everyone in the Bai family. Not only our Guogong Mansion, but also your second uncle's family, your third uncle's family, all the people with the surname Bai within the nine clans have to lose their heads. Can you understand? It's not that I won't tell you, it's that I can't bury the lives of my whole people! ”

When he said this, he hid his face and cried bitterly, "I don't want to kill my own son, and I can't bear that child, but what can I do?" They won't let me go, they won't let go of our Bai family, if I don't obey, everyone will die. Including you, but also your birth mother. Ah Ran, I have no choice, I can save the whole clan by sacrificing that child, what will you do if you change you? Do you keep one, or do you keep the whole family? ”

Bai Heran didn't seem to hear these words, she just pushed the wine jar in front of Bai Xingyan again, "Drink." ”

Bai Xingyan looked up at her, stomped his foot for a while, grabbed the wine jar and poured it into his mouth. After pouring it, he seemed to be a little bolder, at least his body stopped shaking.

"Ah Ran, I don't want to kill my own son, I was forced, you don't know the situation at the time, and I don't know how much the old lady told you, but if I don't kill that child at that time, the Bai family will be in great trouble."

Bai Heran's eyes narrowed, this father was still playing her words at this time. Old lady? This was to test whether she really learned the news from the old lady. If she nodded, it would be true that the old lady did know that he had killed a sister-in-law back then, and if she shook her head, it would mean that the old lady was not the only one who knew the secret.

At that time, no one from the Ye family had entered the mansion, and there was no one else who could tell her this secret, except for the Hong family.

"I just returned home, and His Highness the Tenth and Ninth Highnesses sent me back." To Bai Xingyan's surprise, Bai Heran didn't answer him, but avoided that incident and chatted about it. "His Royal Highness the Ninth intends to ask for your fourth daughter, and he has already calculated the day after tomorrow. Father, congratulations, you have another daughter who is betrothed to the noble prince. ”

Bai Xingyan shuddered, and the cold face of the Nine Emperor Princes immediately appeared in front of him. This news made him very depressed, he already had a daughter who promised the Tenth Emperor the devil, if there was another daughter who promised the Ninth Emperor the Hades, would he still be able to have a bright future in his life? The two princes and concubines are at home, and they can't be pressed so that he can't turn over forever?

In the past, there was Bai Jinghong, and he didn't feel too much pressure, after all, Bai Jinghong's beauty and talent were one in a million, at least in Shangdu City, no one could compare with him. But now that Bai Jinghong is gone, relying on Bai Huayan alone, he really has no confidence.

"My father originally wanted to pick a good family for Zhen Zhen." Bai Xingyan held back such a sentence for a long time.

Bai Heran raised his eyebrows, "What, my father thinks that the Jun family is not a good family?" ”

"No, no, no." Bai Xingyan hurriedly denied it, how dare he say that the royal family is not good, "I mean, although the royal family is good, there are many rules, and the disciple is too high, if she is wronged in the future, she will have nowhere to cry, and her mother's family will not be able to give her the master no matter what." You also know the temperament of your fourth sister, she is used to being wild, I am really afraid that she will lose her temper when she marries into the royal family and bring disaster to herself. He paused, then put on a fatherly appearance and looked at Bai Heran, "Is there any room for turning back in this matter?" We can't hurt your fourth sister! ”

Bai Heran was about to laugh, "If it weren't for me being your daughter, I'm afraid I would have believed what you just said." It's a pity that I'm your daughter, and I know you too well, so father, do you think I can believe it? Where are you worried that Zhen Zhen will be wronged, you are worried that you yourself will be wronged! After all, the Nine Emperor Princes held the Hades Hall in their hands, which was almost the most powerful authority in Eastern Qin except for the imperial court. Once Zhen Zhen becomes the wife of the Lord of Hades, she is not just the granddaughter of the Hong family to you. At the same time, there are a few more people in this mansion who can compete with the Ye family head-on. ”

She took a sip of wine and asked Bai Xingyan again: "Can power really make people mad to this extent?" Is it really worth it for you to pay such a big price in order to be closer to the pinnacle of power? In fact, if you look back, you have two daughters who are about to become princes and concubines, and they are also the two most powerful princes of the Eastern Qin royal family. Become the father-in-law of the Nine Emperors and the Ten Princes, who else in the world dares to underestimate you Wen Guogong? You just enter the palace, and the people in the palace have to give you a little more thin noodles in front of the two princes. If you can devote yourself to state affairs, if you can use your full stomach and wealth on the court, even the emperor will look down on you, and your suggestions will be listened to a little more than others. What is power? Isn't this called power? With such two sons-in-law, if you want to walk sideways in the upper capital, no one dares to stop you, are you still not satisfied? Why do you have to go to the big cake drawn by the Ye family? ”

Bai Heran is persuading Bai Xingyan, and he is also testing Bai Xingyan, and at the same time, he is analyzing Bai Xingyan.

She said: "If Bai Jinghong's plan succeeds and she sits on the phoenix chair one day, what does it have to do with you?" She is half of the Ye family and half of the Duan family, but she is not the Bai family at all. How much do you think you're going to get out of it? Even if it's not Bai Jinghong, if you change Bai Huayan to do it, what choice do you think the Bai family and the Ye family, your daughter will make? The Ye family's big cake, how many bites can you take in the end? Compared to the two, don't you think I have a better chance of winning with Zhen Zhen? Aren't you getting more benefits from being close to me and Zhen Zhen? ”

Bai Xingyan has been silent and has drunk a lot of wine. He admits that what Bai Heran said is true, he is not a fool, and he also knows that if he treats these two biological daughters well in turn, it will be called a bright future, and it will be called a complete turnaround of the Bai family.

It's a pity that everything is late, from the moment he strangled his sister-in-law to death more than ten years ago, it was too late.

"It's not that you don't want to, but you don't have a chance, right?" Bai Heran's eyes were like torches, staring at his father in front of him. "You have no choice, because you have done a wrong thing that is enough to exterminate the clan, but this wrong thing has been caught, which forces you to have no way back, you can only run to the dark on the road paved by the Ye family, even if there is an abyss of hell in front of you, you have no room to turn back. Am I right? ”

She suddenly understood that in fact, Bai Xingyan not only had no choice in the matter of killing his sister-in-law, but also had no choice in the matter of collaborating with the Ye family to set up the overall situation. Or in other words, the original handle, the people who know it are not only the current monarch of the Gebu Kingdom, but also the Ye family. Not only did they know, but they had also been using that handle to coerce Bai Xingyan, for more than ten years, or even more than twenty years.

Bai Xingyan covered his face with his hands, and he didn't know if he had drunk too much or if he was really touched by Bai Heran's words, in short, his shoulders were shaking, and he actually cried out with a whimper.

Bai Heran knew that she was right, including a question she had been wondering about for a long time, and finally had an answer.

She has been wondering since she crossed over, a generation of Wen Guogong, with his own ability, let the Guogong Mansion, which had been abandoned on the periphery of power, squeeze back into the court, which shows that Bai Xingyan is not a stupid person. He has his own ideals and revenge, he has his own clear goals, he wants to revitalize the ancestral family business, he wants the Bai family to return to the peak of its heyday, and he wants the declining Wenguo Mansion to regain its glory in his hands.

So he has been working hard and managing carefully, and he already has a place in the court when he marries Chun Yulan.

is such a person, but later he went more and more deviated, and even wanted to let other people's children inherit his family business, and he wanted to give up the hereditary Duke of Wenguo to others. This simply doesn't make sense!

Bai Xingyan is not a fool, and he thinks that he can revitalize the declining Bai family in this generation, which shows that he has brains.

But why do people with brains do things that have no brains?

Everyone said that he was attached to the Ye family, that he was not satisfied with being just a minister, and that he was not satisfied with standing in the middle of the court. He wants to go further, he wants to be the ruler of the country, and he also wants to join forces with the Ye family to cultivate a puppet emperor, and then be the person who controls the puppet behind the scenes.

But it's still that sentence, Bai Xingyan is not stupid, how could he not think that even if Bai Jinghong really sat in the back seat, how could the Ye family let him be the helmsman? At that time, the title of Duke Wenguo was given to Bai Haochen, what else was left?