The guard noticed Aunt Chang's actions and, without thinking, kicked her away.

Aunt Chang slammed into a pillar with a "bang" and slid to the ground.

Wei Teng's expression changed drastically.

"mother!"

He quickly stepped forward and helped Aunt Chang up.

The pillar was square, and Aunt Chang bumped into it squarely on the forehead, breaking a large gash from which blood gushed out.

The sudden pain cleared her mind considerably.

She realized that her actions had been too rash, and after being helped up by Wei Teng, she quickly tried to make amends.

"Quickly let go of the old lady. She's so old and can't take any more trouble."

She gripped the hairpin tightly and shouted at the guard.

"Otherwise, I will risk my life to save you!"

The way she said that made it sound like she was targeting the guards, not the old lady.

Some guests believed it to be true.

After all, it's unbelievable that either a concubine would assassinate the old lady or a niece would assassinate her aunt.

Wei Zhenghong knew, however, that she genuinely intended to kill the old woman to silence her.

I wonder what other secrets the old lady is hiding.

The fact that he wasn't the old lady's biological son wasn't something Aunt Chang was going to do.

He then continued to interrogate the old woman: "Who are my biological parents?"

"They were a couple from out of town who sold steamed buns..."

The old lady replied.

Under Wei Zhenghong's persistent questioning, a past event that had been buried for over forty years was revealed, and people were astonished to discover that it involved two murder cases.

When the old lady was eight months pregnant, the old Duke injured his scrotum on the battlefield and could no longer have children.

The midwife said the old lady was likely having a daughter, so the old Duke discussed with her the possibility of adopting a child from the clan to inherit the Anguo Duke's mansion if she gave birth to a daughter.

The old lady was unwilling to let the Duke of Anguo's mansion fall into the hands of others, so she came up with an idea and had someone find a couple from out of town who were orphans and had come to the capital to make a living.

The husband in this couple bears a resemblance to the old Duke, and the wife is seven months pregnant.

The midwife said that the woman's baby was very likely to be a boy.

The old lady then instructed her maids, Liu San and his wife, to approach the couple.

On the day she gave birth, Liu San's wife gave the woman a labor-inducing drug, and the two women gave birth to their children almost at the same time.

The only difference was that she gave birth to a woman, while the other woman gave birth to a son.

She sent her daughter to her parents' home to be her brother's daughter, and took the woman's son to be her own son.

To prevent future trouble, Liu San's family used some tricks to cause the woman to die from postpartum hemorrhage.

Then Liu San orchestrated for the husband to fall off a cliff and die.

The couple had no relatives or friends, and no one would investigate their deaths.

From then on, she waited patiently for Wei Zhenghong to grow up so that she could marry her daughter to him.

Thus, the Duke of Anguo's mansion will be inherited by her grandson.

The only flaw was the old Duke.

He disliked the Chang family and resolutely refused to let Wei Zhenghong marry a woman from the Chang family. Instead, he arranged for him to marry a woman from the Ning family.

The old lady had no choice but to let her daughter enter the mansion as a concubine, and slowly make her move.

What happened next is common knowledge.

Upon hearing this, Wei Zhenghong's forehead veins bulged, and his hands clenched into fists as if he were about to beat the old woman to death with a flurry of punches.

Ning was afraid he would do something foolish, so she tugged at his sleeve and reminded him, "Don't be impulsive."

Her voice flowed like a gentle stream through Wei Zhenghong's heart, instantly extinguishing the flame within him.

Indeed, now is not the time to act impulsively.

He looked at the Prefect of the Capital: "Please trouble Lord Lin to summon Liu San and his wife here."

The Prefect of the Capital nodded and immediately sent someone to summon the person.

While waiting, Wei Teng, his face pale, asked Aunt Chang, "Mother, is what Grandmother said true?"

Aunt Chang really wanted to pretend she knew nothing.

But her behavior just now had already exposed her, so she could only reply, "I don't know about what happened back then. I only recently found out that I am the old lady's biological daughter."

That's not actually the case.

She knew it as soon as she was old enough to understand.

The old lady often took her to the Duke of Anguo's mansion and even hired tutors and nannies for her. The education she received was better than that of her sisters in the family.

At first, she thought the old lady favored her and wanted her to be her daughter-in-law, but later she was told that she was actually the young lady of the Duke of Anguo's mansion.

Wei Zhenghong was adopted.

The reason she has remained so calm all these years is because she knows clearly that the Duke of Anguo's mansion belongs to her.

Whether it's Wei Zhenghong or the Ning family, they are both people who have usurped power.

The old lady and her scheme almost came true.

Unfortunately... Xiao Qingyin appeared out of nowhere and ruined all their hard work.

Thinking of this, Aunt Chang was filled with hatred.

If she had known that girl was so capable, she should have had her killed after Yun Wanyin's burial.

But she wasn't one to accept her fate.

“You weren’t involved in any of these things,” she said to Wei Teng. “You are completely innocent. Even if my mother and I are held accountable, you must protect the Duke of Anguo’s mansion, understand?”

Wei Teng looked completely bewildered.

How to save the Duke of Anguo's mansion?

What can he use to protect himself?

The title has always been passed down to sons, not daughters. The concubine was a daughter, so the title was not hers to begin with, nor was it his to begin with, as her grandson.

This matter has already been exposed. Even if His Majesty doesn't take back the title, it's very likely that someone else from the Wei family will take it over.

He had been scheming and plotting all these years since he was a child, only to end up with nothing?

Wei Yan, that fool who severed ties with the Wei family and became a marquis through his military prowess, was the real winner in life.

Such a huge difference caused him immense heartache.

He glared fiercely at Wei Yan, wishing he could chop him up with a knife.

Wei Yan never expected that coming to offer condolences would lead to such a grand spectacle.

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