The elder looked at the little girl's adorable appearance, pointed at her, and shook his head with a smile.
"Very well, since I'm here today, I will certainly make the decision, but..."
"But what?" everyone asked.
"But in the future, you must not call me 'old man' for such things. He is not willing to do such a disgraceful thing a second time."
"Okay, I promise I won't call you next time."
Among the crowd was a minister who spoke the entire time; he was handsome and didn't look very old.
Xiao Wanwan remembered him.
Lord Yan wanted to continue speaking, but the Ye family's collateral branch couldn't stand it any longer and grabbed him, stuffing a handkerchief into his mouth.
"Shut up!"
"Waaaaah..."
The other ministers in the court also dared not come out at this time and could only endure it for the time being, in case they were implicated, they might lose their official positions.
Ye Jianyi stood there, at a loss.
Ye Jianxing said, "Second brother, let's verify it, otherwise we might not be able to silence the gossip."
Ye Jianyi looked at the life-testing stone in Ye Jianxing's hand, and then glanced at Ye Jianxing.
"Brother, don't you believe me either?"
No, I believe you.
Although Ye Jianyi's behavior was somewhat strange along the way, he still chose to believe him, at least for this moment he was still his younger brother.
"He's not a child of the Ye family!"
Just then, the Dragon Queen entered from the main hall, panting as she pointed at Ye Jianyi.
"Mother? What brings you here?" Ye Jianxing asked.
The Empress Dowager had no time to respond to him at the moment. She looked at Ye Jianyi and said, "I know everything. Today, I went to Consort Xue's palace and saw her correspondence with the Yan family over the years."
"Ye Jianyi is not a child of our Ye family. He is the illegitimate child of Consort Xue and Lord Yan, and his purpose is to monitor my Xing'er and the Dragon King's every move."
"I thought that only his closest confidants would know the Dragon King's itinerary, so why would the Dragon King go to the Dragon Tomb for no reason?"
"It turns out that the Yan family deliberately planned this, secretly luring the Dragon King to the Dragon Tomb so they could use him as a tool to kill him."
"Once the Dragon King is in trouble, the Yan family faction will naturally recommend someone from the Yan family to take power, and that will be the end for the Ye family!"
After saying this, the Empress handed the letter bearing the Yan family's seal to Ye Jianxing.
"I am not allowed to interfere in politics after I learned about this, but I have to speak out about it. Otherwise, if the Yan family were to sit on the throne, would the Ye family still have a place to stand?"
"Furthermore, the Ye family of today could be you of tomorrow. Aren't the ministers afraid?"
If Xiao Wanwan hadn't acted decisively, the Empress wouldn't have thought of this and announced it directly in the main hall.
Some things should be kept secret, or everyone should know them.
At this point, Ye Jianxing gave Ye Jianyi no chance whatsoever. Just as Ye Jianyi was about to escape, he used his spiritual power to slash Ye Jianyi's arm and then rubbed the life-testing stone directly onto his wound.
And just like that, after a few moments, the birthstone flashed a few times and then turned blue.
Everyone stared at the color, utterly shocked and incredulous.
"blue?"
"How could this be..."
"It's blue!"
"this……"
They were all so shocked they couldn't express it in words. Ye Lanyin calmly looked at the life-testing stone, tightly gripping her handkerchief.
"Bang!"
Ye Yangyu slammed his cane down again, startling those around him.
"Well done, your Yan family is truly cunning. You dared to have an affair with my granddaughter-in-law in secret, and even let our Ye family raise such a child!"
Ye Yangyu trembled all over, never imagining that he would follow in his elder brother's footsteps and indirectly raise the ungrateful Yan family.
"No..." Ye Jianyi said in a panic.
No, how could it be discovered?
"Guards! Consort Xue has defiled the harem; she must be executed immediately!" As soon as the Empress finished speaking, Ye Jianyi panicked.
He knelt down with a thud before the Empress Dowager, pleading, "No, Mother..."
"Don't call me Mother Empress. I don't have a son like you."
"Your Majesty, I beg you, for the sake of the many years I have called you Mother, please forgive my mother..."
"Forgive you? You secretly passed messages to the Yan family, almost causing your death, Dragon King, and you expect me to let you go?"
"Furthermore, there are still many secrets of the Yan family that haven't been discovered yet, aren't there?" After saying this, the Dragon Queen threw a stack of letters in her arms onto the ground and said to Bai Guang, "Here are all the evidence of the Yan family's secret collusion with Consort Xue in embezzlement!"
Boom!
The Dragon King swallowed a mouthful of fishy-sweet taste.
"Ahhh..."
Upon seeing this, Ye Jianxing immediately ran up to him, calling out, "Father!"
"Ah ah..." The Dragon King pointed at Xiao Wanwan, "Ah ah ah..."
Ye Jianxing immediately understood. He hurriedly walked up to Xiao Wanwan, cupped his hands, and said, "Dragon King, please take charge of the overall situation."
Xiao Wanwan had already returned to her seat, and she and Yao Qianshu were watching everyone from the side.
Since Ye Jianxing had singled him out, he had no choice but to do something.
So he said, "The Yan family embezzled public funds, plotted against the Ye family, and confused the bloodline of the Dragon King, implicating nine generations of their family."
"Other people involved will be detained and await further instructions."
A single, seemingly casual remark sent chills down the spines of everyone present.
This child was convicted without even reading the letter?
Lord Yan was gagged and couldn't speak, only making muffled noises.
"I'll look at this evidence later. Let's go and ransack the Yan family's house..."
"No, please don't..."
"Let me go..."
"Let me go back, I want to go back..." Lord Yan recalled Xiao Wanwan's words earlier that Di Ze was not his child, and at this moment he actually wanted to verify it.
He can't be imprisoned, he can't die immediately, he needs to prove...
The man had no recollection of his eldest son, Yan Chenghong, and by the time he came to his senses, he was already in the water dungeon.
The elder stroked his beard, looked at the precocious and well-behaved child, and nodded with a smile.
"Indeed, Ye Zunyu's descendants are extraordinary..."
After the tide receded, the Ye family surrounded Xiao Wanwan, bombarding her with questions.
Xiao Wanwan answered all of them, but she didn't respond to Ye Yangyu's words at all.
“Wanwan, look at me, I am your great-uncle.”
Xiao Wanwan glanced at him.
I've never seen such a foolish grandfather. He was tricked into severing ties with his great-grandfather without a second thought.
[This led to my great-grandfather's untimely death.]
Well, on the other hand, without this, there wouldn't be a mother, an older brother, or a maternal grandfather.
Xiao Wanwan struggled internally, unsure whether to pay him any attention.
But then Xiao Rui'an walked over and said, "Great-grandfather, Wanwan is still young and doesn't understand things."
Ye Yangyu, leaning on his cane, looked at Xiao Rui'an with satisfaction.
The young man was handsome and refined, like a dashing gentleman. His calm face exuded a sense of composure, which I admired from the bottom of my heart.
"My elder brother's great-grandson does indeed look a bit like him; their temperaments are exactly the same."
"From now on, the dragon race is in your hands!"
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