He originally wanted to go to the palace to meet the emperor, but after thinking about it, he felt that some things were too big of a misunderstanding and he needed to explain it clearly to his chubby granddaughter.
Su Xiaoxiao was acting so well in the Duke's Mansion, and she thought Qin Canglan came to settle the score with her later, but unexpectedly, Qin Canglan did not mention at all that she had framed Qin Che.
"Your father and Ergou are out?"
Qin Canglan asked.
Su Xiaoxiao kneaded the dough while saying, "Oh, my dad and Dahu went to walk the pony, and Ergou went to buy flour."
Qin Canglan sat on a small stool behind the stove, adding some firewood from time to time.
He hesitated for a moment, and said somewhat at a loss: "I came here to tell you that I have nothing to do with the Ruan family."
Su Xiaoxiao said, "Are you referring to the night you got drunk?"
"You..." Qin Canglan thought he was straightforward enough, but he never expected that this girl was even more straightforward than him.
He frowned: "Did the old monkey tell you?"
"No!" Su Xiaoxiao decided not to sell the old marquis.
But Qin Canglan is not stupid. Apart from Su Shuo, there is no one else in the world who can tell her about these old stories.
Qin Canglan was so angry that he gnashed his teeth.
The guy named Su will be punished sooner or later! "I did drink too much that night, and I was unconscious. When I woke up, I was lying on her bed... but I... definitely didn't touch her."
He is a man, and he knows whether he has touched a woman or not.
Su Xiaoxiao: "Oh."
Qin Canglan looked at her anxiously: "Do you... believe me or not?"
He doesn't care how others wrongly accuse him.
But he cares about what the kids think.
"I believe you." Su Xiaoxiao said.
This is the first person who said he believed in him.
Qin Canglan was so moved that he almost burst into tears.
The next second, he heard Su Xiaoxiao say seriously: "A man cannot have sex when he is drunk. If he can, it means he is not too drunk, and he must be conscious and remember what he did. If he can't remember anything the next day, he must have been drunk, how can he be ready to fight?"
“Cough cough cough!”
Qin Canglan choked so much that his face turned red and his neck became thick.
In the front yard, Wei Ting, who had just entered with a jar of wine, also stopped.
Su Xiaoxiao continued, "Some people have listened to too many operas and really think that men can do that when they are drunk? Those men are just pretending! They take advantage of the alcohol to do things and then say afterwards - 'I drank too much last night and I didn't expect it to turn out like this. Don't worry, I will be responsible for you'!"
Su Xiaoxiao grabbed the kitchen knife and chopped it on the chopping board with a thud!
"If I met a man like this, I would just chop off his tools!"
Wei Ting threw the jar of wine out in a second———— Qin Canglan didn’t stay in Lihua Lane for too long.
No matter whose son Qin Che is, he is not his after all, and he cannot allow Qin Che to continue occupying Su Cheng's identity.
Now that the truth is unclear, he still has a lot to do.
Su Xiaoxiao put the kneaded dough into the bowl and woke up: "I think you can go meet Qin Hai."
Qin Canglan was puzzled: "How do you know this name?"
Su Xiaoxiao patted the flour on her hands and said, "I've encountered him twice. Although Qin Che is not your son, but... he looks so much like you, have you never doubted anything?"
Qin Canglan's body trembled: "What you mean is——"
…
This year, there has been a lot of rain in the capital city in the spring. It rained just two days ago, and there were lightning and thunder at night.
Qin Hai had just come out of the gambling house and forgot to bring an umbrella. Looking at the changeable weather, he frowned in worry.
He hurried to his carriage.
As soon as the curtain was opened, the sky seemed to be torn open, and heavy rain poured down.
"Luckily I ran fast!"
He smiled triumphantly, brushed off his wide sleeves, and sat down on the stool.
Then, with a thud, he fell off the chair!
"Big brother?"
Damn it! Why is his elder brother in the carriage? He was so scared!
Qin Canglan was like a demon god, with endless murderous intent in his eyes: "You still remember that I am your elder brother!"
Qin Hai broke out in a cold sweat, swallowed his saliva, climbed up fearfully, and sat far away from his elder brother, almost sitting outside.
He asked tremblingly, "Big Brother, what are you doing? Aren't you feeling unwell recently... recuperating at home? Why...why are you...coming to arrest me?"
Qin Canglan said coldly: "You'd better tell the truth about what you have done!"
"I..." Qin Hai looked in the direction of the gambling house and said embarrassedly, "I just couldn't help it. I just went to gamble twice. I swear, I have really changed a lot in the past two years... I haven't been to the gambling house for a long time... Just this one time... and you caught me, big brother!"
Qin Canglan's eyes were cold: "I will settle the account of going to the gambling house with you later! I came here today to ask you what is going on between Ruan Xianglian and Qin Che!"
Qin Hai's eyes flashed.
Qin Canglan slapped the table and said, "You don't dare to say anything, right? Qin Hai! Do you want me to hand you over to the emperor for punishment?"
Qin Hai's expression changed: "Brother!"
Qin Canglan pointed at his nose and said, "Don't think that you have done everything perfectly. If you didn't want others to know, the dirty things you did back then would have been discovered long ago!"
Qin Hai's legs went limp, and he knelt down in the carriage, looking at Qin Canglan pleadingly: "Brother... I... I didn't mean it... I was confused for a moment... and Xianglian..."
Qin Canglan had not expected that it could be tricked so easily.
Sometimes the clues are right next to us, but we have been blinded to them.
At this moment, Qin Canglan didn't know whether he should blame himself more or the instigator more.
He looked at Qin Hai with utmost disappointment: "You really are having a good time with Ruan Xianglian... Qin Che is your flesh and blood, right? How could our Qin family produce such an evil child? Come with me to see His Majesty! Explain clearly what happened in front of His Majesty!"
Qin Hai hugged Qin Canglan's thighs: "Brother, I was wrong! Please don't let me go to see the emperor! I really know I was wrong...Brother, I beg you..."
Qin Canglan clenched his fist tightly: "Is it enough to admit your mistakes? Although you and I are not from the same mother, I have never treated you unfairly. After I lost my son, I even thought about passing the title of Duke of the Protectorate to you... I never expected... that you stabbed me in the back! Was the accident between Huayin and Cheng'er... also caused by you?"
Qin Hai was startled: "Brother, what are you talking about?"
Qin Canglan was furious and said, "You still don't admit it? In order to get yourself and Ruan Xianglian's son to the top, you even killed your own sister-in-law and nephew. Qin Hai, you have lost your conscience!"
"I didn't harm my sister-in-law and nephew!" Qin Hai knelt down, bent over, and raised his finger. "I swear to God, I didn't mean to harm my sister-in-law and Cheng'er..."
Qin Canglan said: "Didn't think about it? Does that mean it's harmful?"
"I...I..." Qin Hai's eyes turned red, he held his head and crawled on the ground, "I...I don't know..."
Qin Canglan hated it the most when a grown man was so timid: "What do you mean you don't know?!"
Qin Hai choked up and said, "Back then...back then Xianglian...she took the child...and came to find me after escaping from the village...I couldn't believe it was my son at first...but he really looks so much like me...Big brother, you insisted that you had never touched Xianglian...I...I am sure now..."
He asked angrily, "You came to me and asked me if I had ever touched Xianglian. It turned out that you just wanted to confirm whether that bastard was your own flesh and blood?"
Qin Hai shrank his neck.
Qin Canglan was so angry that he gritted his teeth: "What happened next?!"
Qin Hai didn't dare to look directly at his elder brother's anger: "Later... I settled them down. Che'er was still young at that time... I don't remember calling me father for two years..."
Qin Hai did not lie about this.
Qin Che really didn't remember.
"Che'er is my son's name--" Qin Canglan was furious.
Qin Hai whispered, "I'm used to it."
Qin Canglan really wanted to punch him to death, but he remembered that he was not here to vent his anger, but to find out the whole truth.
He tried hard to suppress his emotions: "What about Huayin's matter?"
Qin Hai lowered his head and said, "Xiang Lian left after living here for less than two years. She said she wanted to take her son back to visit her relatives. I gave her some money for the trip."
"One?"
"One, ten thousand taels."
Qin Canglan's veins jumped: "You are really generous!"
Qin Hai didn't have the courage to refute.
"After that, Xianglian never came back. She only contacted me once a year later. It was a letter from Qingzhou, saying that her...grandmother was seriously ill and needed money for treatment. I...I gathered a few thousand taels for her. Another year passed...I heard that something happened to my sister-in-law and nephew in Qingzhou..."
This matches the clues Qin Canglan found.
The group of people who assassinated Su Huayin and Su Cheng back then were obviously a group of gangsters who took money from people and helped them get rid of disasters.
He once suspected that the murder was committed by an enemy.
Unfortunately, that group of desperadoes died too quickly and the clues were lost.
He and the Su family continued their investigation, but they found nothing.
Qin Canglan was so angry that his voice trembled a little: "Since you suspected that Ruan Xianglian hired someone to kill someone, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Qin Hai cried, "Brother... I didn't guess this at the beginning... I saw her many years later... She brought Che... that child here... She said she wanted to replace my nephew's identity... I didn't agree... She knelt down and begged me... She said that the real Qin Che was dead anyway... The Qin family had no successor, and the title would fall on me sooner or later... I owed them mother and son... I didn't give them a name... Why not..."
Qin Canglan continued for him: "Why not pass on the position of Duke that is within your grasp to your illegitimate son."
Qin Hai lowered his head: "I asked her how she was sure that Qin Che was dead? She refused to tell me, so I guessed that the death of my sister-in-law and nephew might have something to do with her. I thought about refusing, but she threatened me in every way and died in front of me, so I..."
He covered his face, too embarrassed to face his elder brother.
Qin Canglan said coldly: "That evil creature doesn't know his own life experience?"
Qin Hai said stiffly, "He knew it when he was three or four years old. When he grew up a little, his mother told him that his father was Qin Canglan, the current Duke of Protector of the Country. One day, his mother would send you back to your father. As for me, his mother told him that she had saved me, so he always thought that I wanted to repay Xianglian's kindness, so I took good care of him."
Qin Canglan snorted coldly: "Hmph, then how do you explain that Su Mo and Daya met you twice, and you ruined everything!"
Qin Hai said: "Brother...you mean the last two times, right? When I saw the child, I guessed that my nephew might not be dead. I wanted to persuade him to confess to you, so I sent someone to your house to warn him. As for the second time in the alley, I did intend to stop him."
Qin Canglan pointed at his nose and said, "You are helping the tyrant!"
Qin Hai raised his head and looked at Qin Canglan with shame and helplessness: "Brother, you can beat me or scold me, but I only have this one son... I can't watch him die..."
Qin Canglan said sternly: "Do you think Daya and Mo'er want to assassinate him?"
Qin Hai said in a low voice: "That's what he said... Let me stop him..."
"You believed what he said? What a pig brain you have!" Qin Canglan was so mad at this stupid brother.
The carriage stopped at Lihua Lane.
Qin Canglan shouted: "You need to explain these things clearly in front of Daya later!"
Qin Hai was stunned for a moment, he lifted the curtain and took a look, only to find that the carriage had unknowingly come to a secluded alley.
Moreover, the driver had long been replaced by the eldest brother's man.
Qin Hai was brought into the yard by Qin Canglan.
The family went out and did their own things, and got caught in the rain on the way. At this moment, Old Man Su was washing the hair and bathing the three little ones in the house, and Su Ergou also went back to the house to change clothes.
As it was inconvenient to meet Qin Canglan, Wei Ting did not show up and got on the carriage to secretly plan his next target.
Su Xiaoxiao was sorting medicinal herbs in the main room.
"Go in!"
Qin Canglan kicked Qin Hai on the butt.
Qin Hai staggered a few times and nearly fell down.
He touched his nose awkwardly and greeted her angrily: "Little... niece..."
Su Xiaoxiao said, "You recognized me last time in the carriage, right?"
"Yeah." Qin Hai admitted honestly.
Su Xiaoxiao guessed it, so she didn't feel too surprised.
She looked at Qin Hai: "Why are you here——"
Qin Hai said resignedly: "I have just confessed to my eldest brother that Qin Che is my son."
Su Xiaoxiao asked: "Are you sure?"
Qin Hai was surprised: "Huh?"
What are you talking about?
He was not sure, why should he recognize Qin Che?
Su Xiaoxiao looked at Qin Canglan who was standing aside: "I just didn't finish my words when you left. Qin Che looks like you, and also like Qin Hai."
When Qin Canglan faced Su Xiaoxiao, the murderous intent in his eyes instantly disappeared: "Yes, that's why I expected that he was Qin Hai's son."
Su Xiaoxiao shook her head: "That's not what I want to say. I did a genetic test on you, which you can think of as... another form of blood test. The results show that Qin Che and you are both related, but not biological children. In layman's terms, neither of you is Qin Che's biological father."
"What?"
Qin Canglan and Qin Hai opened their mouths at the same time.
Su Xiaoxiao flipped through the test report on the table and said seriously, "Qin Che, it's your brother."
The two were struck by lightning——
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