Chapter 433, The Life of My Wife and Children

Duke Yan slowly raised his eyes and watched the Queen Mother shed two lines of tears, "Yes. It's him!"

The Queen Mother trembled and closed her eyes.

No one present spoke.

In the quiet scene, the little baby suddenly asked, "Who is it, who is it?"

Xia Siheng pinched her little face and said in a deep voice, "It's my uncle, the Lord of Donglin."

Speaking of the relationship between this person and him, Xia Siheng's eyes were cold, without any emotional fluctuations.

"Then why is it fifty-nine knives?" Xia Wanwan was full of curiosity.

“Because, among the group of assassins who tried to kill the late emperor, there was a man who led them named Wushuang. He was handsome and had great martial arts skills. It was him who fought with my father to the end. He was stabbed fifty-nine times and my father was also stabbed fifty-nine times. The two were evenly matched and died together in the end!”

Speaking of this, Duke Yan felt heartbroken. He continued, “Later, they killed my wife and children. Then I realized that the man was the one that Lord Donglin loved the most…”

“In order to avenge him, Lord Donglin first attacked my wife and children…”

Duke Yan raised his head and looked at the noble and magnificent beams of Yu’s study. His thoughts mixed with tears went back to that year.

When he was twenty years old, his wife and son went to the suburbs to worship Buddha. On the way back, they were killed by spies from Donglin. Both mother and son fell off a cliff.

After he got the news, he went to that place like crazy. On the cliff, dozens of guards were dead, and each of them was stabbed 59 times!

He couldn't imagine what had happened to his wife and children. The wheels of the carriage disappeared all the way to the edge of the cliff. He frantically led people to look for them under the cliff.

But when he saw the smashed corpse, his tense and trembling heart finally collapsed.

He was a dignified duke, a high-spirited prince who had just ascended to the throne, such a high title and the bright future left for him by his father. He didn't care about all these material possessions and all his image.

He lost his mind and knelt in front of the corpse, hammering his chest in pain, crying like the sky was falling.

"Donglin people! You want revenge, kill me!"

"If you want to kill someone, kill me, why do you want to kill my wife and children!"

"Why——"

Duke Yan couldn't figure it out.

It was his father who protected the late emperor, it was his father who killed the Donglin warriors, and it was his father who killed Wushuang.

The son pays the father's debt!

If the Donglin people want to kill someone, they should kill him!

And his wife was just diagnosed with pregnancy yesterday, and he will soon have a well-behaved son or daughter. His son

is well-educated and just started to learn yesterday. He was praised by the teacher, and his little face was full of energy, and he has a bright future.

His wife also said that she would go to worship Buddha tomorrow, firstly to pray to Buddha to protect her and her baby, secondly to pray for a good future for her son, and

thirdly to wish her husband good health and success .

But he held his wife's hand and smiled, "No need to pray for me, I wish Shu'er good health and stay with me all my life."

Shu'er smiled and leaned into his arms.

It was so beautiful yesterday.

But now, her smile gradually faded in front of his eyes and turned into blurred tears.

The broken body in front of him turned out to be his wife who was smiling like a flower yesterday!

Duke Yan felt as if his soul was about to be torn apart. He pinched his chest tightly, spit out mouthful of blood, cried heartbreakingly, and the sky was dark!

It hurts -

it hurts so much -

he even hits his head against the cliff, wanting to follow his wife and son.

"Duke, Duke, you can't get into trouble. Wouldn't it be their wish if you died? Your death would only make your loved ones sad and your enemies happy!" Butler Qian's face was filled with grief, and sweat mixed with tears dripped down. He held Duke Yan tightly.

Duke Yan was suppressed, and only then did he regain some reason.

Yes, he can't die!

He wants revenge!

He wants revenge for his wife!!!

God seemed to see his struggling will, and there was a rumbling thunder.

At this time, one of his men suddenly shouted, "Master, the young master is still alive! Master, come and see! The young master is still alive--"

Duke Yan quickly crawled over, his hands and feet were scratched, blood and tears were streaming down his face. His three-year-old son was lying in his arms, breathing weakly and with a bruised face.

He was still breathing.

Duke Yan dared to see how his wife died, and he trembled and cried until his tears dried up!

His wife fell on her back, and when she fell off the cliff, it was his wife who held their son tightly in her arms.

There were many branches and leaves under her body, and she must have hit her back on obstacles to protect her son, which cushioned the impact.

How painful it must have been for her.

Duke Yan couldn't imagine it. He thought, if God had eyes, he should let him, as a husband, bear such pain.

Later, in order to avoid the eyes of spies, Duke Yan rushed to Hezhou overnight with his son.

The doctor said that if he had come half a minute later, his son would not have survived.

In order to protect his son, he set his sights on a farmer in Hezhou. The head of that family was a smart man. Duke Yan entrusted his son to them and helped them secretly, bringing glory and wealth to the Qiao family.

But the head of the Qiao family was too smart and cunning. Duke

Yan wanted all the resources he gave to his son to fall on his son.

He did not allow the Qiao family's son to go to school, and asked the Qiao family to declare to the outside world that they only had one son, Qiao Zhishu.

On his way back to the capital, he saw a woman holding a girl and abandoning her in the river and drowning.

He bought the girl and lied to others that she was his daughter who was found at the bottom of the cliff.

But the servants in the Duke's Mansion knew that he had given birth to a son.

So, Duke Yan sold or replaced all the servants who knew about it.

He even spent a lot of money to keep quiet about all those who knew the gender of the child.

The fact that he had found his daughter was soon known to the Donglin assassins.

The Donglin assassins also suddenly received an order to assassinate the entire family of Duke Yan, and did not have time to investigate the situation of Duke Yan's family of three.

On the cliff, after they killed the guards, they opened the curtain and saw the woman holding the child tightly in her arms, but they could not see her face clearly.

So they pushed the carriage directly into the cliff.

The Donglin assassins were going to attack Duke Yan later, but they took a fancy to the Phoenix Mountain under the control of Duke Yan and the Fengyu Ling, the ancestral treasure of the Yan family.

The Donglin assassins took his daughter away to threaten him to become a spy.

Duke Yan thought that if he could use the identity of a spy to climb up to the highest level of Donglin step by step and get close to the Lord of Donglin, he could kill the Lord of Donglin in one fell swoop and avenge his wife!

So, he began to communicate and interact with the people of Donglin, and began to do some things that were not good for the country.

He gave Phoenix Mountain to the Donglin people to train death warriors, and used phoenix feathers to help the death warriors improve their internal strength every month. In

order for the Donglin death warriors to branch out and increase their population, he sent his own people over to help them branch out and place his own men.

But even though he did so much, he couldn't get close to the top leaders of Donglin.