"So the old lady broke up the couple?" Su Xiaoxiao touched her chin, thoughtfully.

"Qin Che and Qin Canglan look somewhat alike. Could it be that... that cousin and Qin Canglan had a secret pregnancy, and Qin Che is her son?"

…

In the messy study, Qin Che was lying on the ground in a mess.

Qin Canglan stood aside as if struck by lightning.

"No, it's impossible... You are not my son... I don't have a son like you!"

Qin Che wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

His father... was really cruel...

If she wasn't Su Huayin's child, she wouldn't be worth loving in his eyes...

"Father..." Qin Che laughed with endless sarcasm, "Have you forgotten how you spent time with my mother under the moonlight?"

Qin Canglan gritted his teeth: "You are talking nonsense! When did I ever meet your mother - who is your mother?"

Qin Che laughed so hard that tears fell from his eyes: "Father, don't you even remember your cousin?"

"Ruan...Xianglian? Are you Ruan Xianglian's child?" Qin Canglan searched for such a person from his long-forgotten memories.

Then he was silent.

Qin Che took in his reaction and raised a satisfied sneer at the corner of his mouth: "Did father finally remember?"

"I...she...how could it be..." Qin Canglan frowned even more tightly, "Impossible...this is impossible!"

Qin Che's sneer deepened: "Did father forget the love between him and my mother that night?"

Qin Canglan shouted: "Shut up!"

Qin Che said sarcastically: "Only father is allowed to do it, but I, as his son, am not allowed to say it? Why does father think my mother was sent to the farm to recuperate? My mother was pregnant with father's child! My grandmother was afraid of ruining father's reputation, so she sent my mother to the farm and kept her there for a whole year! Later, my mother escaped with me, who was still in her infancy..."

"My father married the daughter of a high-ranking marquis, but my mother and I have to live in hiding, fearing that we will be caught by my grandmother's people and imprisoned for life!"

"Dad, do you understand what kind of life we ​​lived in those years?"

"You and Su Huayin have a deep love for each other, have you ever considered how pitiful my mother is?!"

This was the first time Qin Che called his stepmother by her name, and it wasn't that difficult at all.

"Yes, I returned to the Qin family pretending to be Su Huayin's son, but they owed me this! If it wasn't for Su Huayin, you would have married my mother! I am your eldest son and legitimate son! The heir to the Duke's Mansion!"

Qin Canglan frowned: "Is that what your mother told you? Where is she now? Find her out, I want to confront her face to face!"

Qin Che lowered his eyebrows and murmured, "My mother has passed away... If I want to see my mother, why don't I go to the underground to find her..."

"You..." Qin Canglan made Qin Che so angry that he fell backwards.

Qin Canglan had not expected such a turn of events.

Qin Che once again raised his eyes and looked at his father: "It was a coincidence that I got the jade pendant. My mother spent all her belongings and even sold the shop she had run for several years to buy it. My mother said that she had nothing left. I told her that I would earn money for her. It's a pity that she passed away before she could enjoy the day of happiness. Father, do you think she is very pitiful?"

Qin Canglan was furious: "Shut up! I don't know what your mother said to you, but she and I are not what you think! Even if Huayin wasn't there, I wouldn't marry her!"

Qin Che looked at him disappointedly, with endless grievance in his eyes: "So father, if I don't use this method, will you recognize me? Do you think I am willing to take on someone else's identity? But if I don't do this, I don't even have the qualifications to call you father!"

As he spoke, he began to roar, pounding his chest hard, tears streaming down his face.

"Is this fair to me? Is this fair to me? I am also your son—"

…

On the rooftop, Su Mo and Su Xiaoxiao, who were eavesdropping in the corner, looked solemn.

After all this time, I didn't expect such a turn of events.

Qin Che is actually Qin Canglan's son? Is this true?

From their angle, they couldn't see Qin Canglan's expression, but they could see Qin Che's expression clearly.

Qin Che was very excited.

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes flickered: Will Qin Che kill Qin Canglan to silence him? Su Mo's mouth twitched: Do you think that anyone can kill your great-uncle? Let's not talk about whether Qin Che has the intention to kill. Even if he does, his great-uncle has already recovered from the huge shock of yesterday. If he wants to get an advantage from him, Qin Che must have ten heads.

Su Xiaoxiao: Oh.

Su Mo: Are you concerned about your great-uncle? Su Xiaoxiao: I’m afraid he didn’t have time to make a will.

Su Mo: “…”

After Qin Canglan left the study, Su Mo used his Qinggong skills to take Su Xiaoxiao out of the Duke's Mansion.

Su Mo said: "Let's go see my grandfather. He may know more about what happened back then than we do."

The old marquis recovered well, the toxins were completely eliminated, and his heart disease was effectively controlled.

The diet is relatively light.

The servants thought that getting the old marquis to eat grass would be harder than climbing to the sky, but unexpectedly, the old marquis ate it with gusto.

The servants then all knew that the old marquis listened to the little fat girl the most.

Su Mo told everything he had heard at the Duke of Huguo's Mansion.

The old marquis was also surprised.

Su Mo asked: "Grandfather, did my great-uncle really have a cousin named Ruan Xianglian?"

The old marquis recalled: "Yes, there is. Her surname is Ruan. I don't know if her name is Xianglian. I haven't asked carefully. As for her relationship with Qin Canglan... I have been to the Qin family several times, and I can see that she really admires Qin Canglan. However, Qin Canglan doesn't have much interest in her."

Whether a woman approaches a man intentionally, and whether a man likes a woman or not, anyone who is not a fool can actually see the clues.

Ruan's approach was not very clever.

Qin Canglan didn't like her.

Qin Canglan's mother also did not agree with her marriage to Qin Canglan.

"Once there was a birthday party for Qin Canglan. The brothers from the military camp went there. A bunch of rough men drank wine like water and made Qin Canglan fall down drunk. I also drank quite a bit and had to be carried back."

"My token was left at Qin's house. The next day, when I went to get it, I ran into a carriage coming out of Qin's house. There was a woman sobbing inside. Later, I found out it was Ruan."

"Ruan was sent away by Qin Canglan's mother. After that, I never saw Ruan in the Qin family again."

Su Mo asked: "Grandfather, does my great-uncle really have no personal feelings for Ruan?"

The old marquis smiled faintly: "If he had a private affair, he would have left her in the room long ago. At that time, he didn't even know Huayin, so it can't be said that he kept his chastity for Huayin."

Su Mo said: "From this point of view, it does seem like Ruan is just wishful thinking."

Su Xiaoxiao combined the information given by Qin Che and the old marquis and roughly deduced what happened that year.

Qin Canglan was drunk. Although he had no interest in Ruan Xianglian, Ruan Xianglian always wanted to get close to him. Ruan Xianglian knew that with her identity, it was impossible for her to be with him, so she took a gamble and took advantage of Qin Canglan's drunkenness to make the matter a fait accompli.

Ruan Xianglian thought that this would be foolproof, but Qin Canglan's mother ignored their relationship and resolutely drove her away to the farm.

Qin's mother must have doted on her son very much, so she hated the woman who dared to climb into her son's bed.

Let alone becoming a concubine, Ruan Xianglian would never be able to step into the Qin family's door in her life.

Qin's mother had no love for the bastard in Ruan Xianglian's belly. She did not kill the mother and son because they were distant relatives.

Su Xiaoxiao was thoughtful and felt that something was wrong.

…

After coming out of the Marquis' Mansion, the two got on Su Mo's carriage.

The driver is Su Mo's confidant. He has followed Su Mo for seven years and knows very well that although Su Mo appears to be kind and unerring, he is actually a very cold person in his heart.

Everything he did was what he should do.

In front of the elders in the marquis's mansion, he is a filial son and a virtuous grandson; in front of his younger brother, he is a serious brother; in the military camp, he is an iron-faced and selfless young general; in the court, he is a loyal minister.

But recently, the driver seemed to have sensed some changes in Su Mo.

For example, the eldest son would actually peel walnuts for people himself, but his four younger brothers in the family had never had this treatment.

Neither did the original Qin Yanran siblings.

Su Xiaoxiao picked up the walnut jar and said, "Well, who peeled the walnuts? They peeled them really well."

"I don't know." Su Mo took a sip of tea.

"What do you think about what happened today?" Su Mo asked.

Su Xiaoxiao held the walnut jar and asked, "Are you talking about Qin Canglan or Qin Che?"

Su Mo was not too surprised that she called him by his name instead of calling him grandfather.

"Both." He said, "Do you think what Qin Che said is true?"

Su Xiaoxiao finished chewing a walnut and picked up another one: "Are you referring to the fact that Qin Che is Qin Canglan's biological son? I don't know, but they do look a bit alike."

This is exactly what Su Mo did not refute on the spot.

Even after ten or twenty years, a person's appearance may change, but there will always be no trace of the past.

Su Mo murmured, "The pursuit that my great-aunt and uncle encountered back then...could it be that Ruan Xianglian also secretly planned it?"

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Whether she did it or not, the vested interests are all Qin Che."

Qin Che stole his father's identity.

It would have been fine if Qin Che didn't know about it, but when he knew about it, he snatched away everything that originally belonged to Old Man Su, and shamelessly said that he did it just to recognize his father.

Are you kidding me? Su Mo wanted to tell her not to worry, but when he took a look at the girl, he realized that she was not in a hurry at all.

That's right, this girl never thought of marrying into any noble family from the beginning, and background never seemed to be important to her.

And, putting all this aside, the one who should be anxious now is actually Qin Che.

Now that the legitimate heir has returned, Qin Che is feeling very uneasy.

Su Xiaoxiao returned to Lihua Lane.

"mother."

"mother."

Little Tiger and Second Tiger rushed out one after another.

Da Hu is not here.

He went to visit his neighbors again.

Recently this guy always leaves his brother behind and acts alone.

Su Xiaoxiao held the hands of the two little ones and asked, "What are you playing? You're sweating all over."

Erhu said: "Trojan horse!"

Father Su was making a wooden horse for the three little ones. They rode towards each other and almost made two big holes on the ground.

"Where is Dahu?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

Erhu said, "Uncle Ling's house."

Xiaohu nodded.

The man who can play the piano...is his last name Ling? Inside the side room, the man sat on the floor.

Da Hu tilted his head to look at him, then looked at the snacks on the table: "You didn't eat?"

The man paused and said, "I don't like eating."

How could someone not like to eat?

Da Hu didn't understand.

He scratched his head and took a step forward cutely: "The snacks my mother made are really, really delicious. You'll know once you try one bite."

The man's bony fingertips gently plucked the strings.

Da Hu said seriously, "If I lied to you, I would be a puppy."

The man looked refusal, as if he didn't want to eat.

Da Hu patted his belly with his little hands and said, "You need to eat more to be plump and white like me."

The man looked at the little guy's innocent face and his expression relaxed a little.

"I'll just take one bite."

"Um!"

Dahu nodded.

The man hesitated as he opened the paper package and looked at a piece of bright-yellow pastry. He closed his eyes, took a bite, and swallowed it with difficulty, as if he was going to the execution ground.

He was ready to vomit.

Unexpectedly, there was no discomfort.

He looked at the snack in his hand in astonishment and took a second bite tentatively.

…

On the other side, Qin Che returned to his yard in a daze.

Along the way, the servants saw him like this and didn't understand what had happened.

"It looks like it came from the old man's yard."

In the garden, two maids were gossiping in low voices.

"Did you have a quarrel with the old man?"

"What's the point of quarreling like this? Doesn't the old master love the Duke very much?"

"What are you talking about?"

Qin Yanran appeared behind the two of them with her maid.

Their hearts skipped a beat, and they quickly turned around and bowed their heads, "Miss!"

Qin Yanran glanced at the two trembling people with cold eyes: "The Duke's Mansion is a place for work, not a place for gossip."

One of the maids said, "Yes, yes! We understand! We will never dare to do it again!"

Qin Yanran frowned, didn't bother with the two servants anymore, and went straight to Qin Che's yard.

Qin Che sat alone in the room in a daze, not allowing the servant to enter to serve him.

The servant heaved a sigh of relief as if he had seen a savior: "Miss, you are finally here. If you hadn't come, I would have gone to call you."

Qin Yanran asked, "What happened to my father?"

The servant said, "I don't know either. The old master just called the Duke over, and when he came back...something was wrong with the Duke."

Qin Yanran looked solemn: "You go down."

"Yes." The servant retreated.

Qin Yanran entered the house.

She looked at Qin Che who was sitting in a daze on the chair, and asked in confusion: "Father, what's wrong with you?"

Qin Che said tiredly: "Yanran is here."

Qin Yanran asked the maid to guard the door, and she came to Qin Che and looked at his neck and face carefully: "Father, are you hurt?"

Qin Che did not answer, but looked at the brocade box in her hand: "What are you holding?"

Qin Yanran said: "The Third Prince has returned to the capital and brought me a gift."

"Third Prince... yes... Third Prince..." Qin Che said in a daze, then smiled with shining eyes.

He held his daughter's shoulders with both hands, "That master told you the fortune and said you are born with the destiny of a phoenix. In the future you will be the mother of the country...haha...hahaha..."

Qin Yanran felt a numbness in her heart when she heard her father's laughter: "Father...what's wrong with you? Don't scare your daughter..."

Qin Che cheered up again: "Father is fine...Father will not admit defeat...Father has worked so hard to get to where he is today...Father will never give up everything he has obtained!"

"I am the eldest son... the eldest son is made the heir first... and the legitimate heir is made the heir later... I am qualified to inherit... the Duke's Mansion is mine..."

Qin Yanran became more and more horrified: "Father... your daughter doesn't understand..."

Qin Che smiled and touched his daughter's temples: "It doesn't matter, you don't need to understand, you just need to remember that you are the future consort of the Third Prince, the Third Prince will inherit the throne, and you will be the Queen. Your father will definitely clear all obstacles for you and let you successfully become the daughter of destiny who is second only to one man and above ten thousand people!"

…

She understood every word her father said, but when they were put together, Qin Yanran was confused.

What do you mean by eldest son or legitimate son? Grandfather only has one son, my father.

My father should indeed inherit the Duke's Mansion, but from the way he spoke, it seemed as if my grandfather had another son who wanted to compete with my father for the family property.

impossible.

My grandfather only had a biological child with my grandmother Su Huayin.

"Miss, the hairpin that the Third Prince gave you is so beautiful!" The little maid said with a smile, holding the brocade box.

Qin Yanran raised her eyes and found that she had walked back to her own yard.

She was in no mood to appreciate the step-shaking ornaments.

Somehow, a sense of uneasiness welled up in her heart.

The two chapters were posted together.

(End of this chapter)