Chapter 310 Closing the Net Part 4 (Two Chapters Combined into One)
Emperor Yongjia watched all this with a cold eye. Only then did he speak: "Father, although the Third Brother is vicious, he is still your grandson. You can demote him to a commoner or expel him from the clan, but the fact that he is of royal blood is indisputable."
The emperor now felt disgusted even to look at him for one more second. After hearing what he said, he snorted coldly: "Wei, the witness is here, why don't you kneel down and confess your guilt!"
Concubine Li was stunned for a moment before she realized that Wei was her.
She couldn't remember how many years it had been since anyone called her that.
At this moment, her mind was in a mess.
What’s going on? What’s going on?
Who is this old man who looks like Xu Lang?
"Wei, speak!" the emperor shouted sternly.
Concubine Li's legs went limp and she fell down. The nanny wanted to help her up, but she dragged her to her knees.
"Your Majesty, I don't understand what you are saying..." Concubine Li's voice was vague, like a kite with a broken string struggling in the wind.
"Don't understand? Then I'll tell you, this man's surname is Xu, his name is Xu Lin, and the other two are his sons.
Xu Lin has a twin brother named Xu Kun!
Wei, you should still remember who Xu Kun is, would you like me to tell you in detail?"
Concubine Li’s face was as pale as paper. It was over, all over!
But she couldn't admit it, otherwise she would die without a burial place!
"Your Majesty, you are joking. I don't know this Xu Lin, let alone Xu Kun."
The Emperor sneered and said to Xu Lin, "I'll give you a chance to introduce your brother. If you do well, I'll leave you with an intact body."
Although Xu Lin was a carefree person, he knew that he was in trouble. Before he was brought here, the old man surnamed Zhen called a cook and started eating hot pot in front of the three of them, father and son. The cook was slicing the food and hot potting it as he went along.
The old man also said that if the emperor was not satisfied with slicing them up and boiling them in a hot pot, he might even chop them up and make meatballs out of them...
He was so scared that he peed on the spot.
So now the emperor said that he wanted to leave him an intact body. Leaving him an intact body means no hot pot or meatballs.
Xu Lin suddenly became energetic. He was going to die anyway. Instead of being sliced and chopped, who wouldn't want to die comfortably?
"I am Xu Lin, my elder brother Xu Kun, and I are twin brothers. We have looked exactly the same since we were little.
The only difference is that my brother is better at studying than me. Although he did not pass the imperial examination, he was favored by the official and was allowed to work in the government.
But my brother is a playboy. He flirts with women wherever he goes, and he only flirts with girls from decent families.
He had affairs with many women and caused a lot of trouble for our Xu family. Because of this, he changed two or three employers in a row. Later, he followed County Magistrate Wei, but he got involved with Miss Wei.
My brother already had a wife and a child at that time, so Miss Wei could not be his concubine.
When Mrs. Wei learned about this, she expelled her brother from the house.
But at this time, the name of the young lady from the Wei family had already been reported, and she soon entered the palace for the selection.
My brother was a sentimental man. After breaking up with Miss Wei, he was sad for a while and then found a new love.
We all originally thought that my brother and Miss Wei would become strangers from now on and would never have any contact again.
It’s just a pity that fate plays tricks on us. No one could have imagined what would happen later.
Lord Wei was the lord of a county, and my brother was frightened by his power, so he had no choice but to take his wife and children to seek refuge with Yue's family.
As mentioned before, my brother is a playboy. After he went to his wife's family, he had an affair with his sister-in-law. He and his sister-in-law knelt in front of his eldest sister-in-law and begged her to help them.
The villain's sister-in-law was so angry that she agreed to divorce him.
Although it was my eldest brother's fault, my nephew is a member of the Xu family. Even though they are divorced, my nephew can only stay in the Xu family.
No one expected that after the divorce, the sister-in-law found out that she was pregnant.
Life is difficult for a woman returning to her parents' home, let alone when she is pregnant.
As her belly grew bigger and bigger, her family's attitude towards her became worse and worse.
At this time, a nobleman from the capital found my sister-in-law and wanted to take her and her mother to the capital.
In exchange, that nobleman helped her get her son back from our Xu family.
The eldest sister-in-law gave birth to a son, but before she could feed the child, the child was taken away by a noble person, and it was the noble person who took the child away personally.
Not long after, my eldest sister-in-law, her eldest son, and her family members died in accidents one after another.
Only her sister, my brother's sister-in-law, lived a few more days because she did not live with them.
My elder brother married my younger sister-in-law. On the wedding night, my elder brother abandoned his bride and went away with his new love.
In a rage, the sister-in-law poisoned her new lover and then hanged herself. The new lover's family was not to be trifled with, so they beat the villain's brother half to death and threw him out of the city.
It was a very cold night, and my brother was injured. He didn't dare go back to the city, so he had to hide in a dilapidated temple to keep warm. During the night, the temple caught fire, and my brother was burned to death.
When Xu Lin said this, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeves.
At that time, he really thought that Xu Kun died in an accident. It was not until he was locked up by the fat old man surnamed Zhen that he gradually realized that Xu Kun's death might be man-made, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence.
He continued, "Not long after my brother died, someone found me. It was a steward who said his master's surname was Wei, and he was rich and powerful. There was a relative of the Wei family who was an old friend of my brother. Considering that we were old friends, they wanted to give me some wealth and honor.
I was not well-educated, so I believed him and followed him to the capital with my two sons.
The steward settled me and my two sons in the farm and made me the steward.
This stay lasted for many years.
Over the years, I gradually learned that this farm was a dowry from Madam Wei of the Marquis of Baoqing. To be honest, my father and I have lived a very comfortable life in the farm over the years, eating well and living well. Although we are in charge of the farm, we don't have to do anything. There are other people in charge of the farm, and my father and I just need to take care of it and do whatever makes us comfortable.
But there is one bad thing, that is, we are not allowed to go out, so we can only live in the village.
Later, I finally understood that Madam Wei did not want to support me and my son, but was worried that our faces would be seen by outsiders.
I have been wondering why I was afraid of being seen. Until just now, when I saw His Majesty and the Third Prince, I suddenly realized.
Your Majesty, you look just like me when I was young. No, you look like my brother, as if they were cut from the same mold. If you don't believe me, just look at my two sons. When the three of you stand together, you look like brothers!"
"How dare you! Stop your nonsense! Come, drag this lunatic out and beat him to death with clubs!"
Emperor Yongjia had actually been angry for a long time. When Xu Lin mentioned County Magistrate Wei and Miss Wei, he secretly thought that something was wrong, but he could not stop him, otherwise he would have something to hide.
Until now, he could no longer bear it. Xu Lin's words became more and more unpleasant, and he was about to say directly that the current emperor was Xu Kun's son.
Emperor Yongjia was furious, but no one came in from outside the door. Only the two eunuchs beside him tried to pull Xu Lin in fear, but before their hands touched Xu Lin's clothes, they were kicked away by the Broken Stone brothers one by one.
What a joke! Mr. Zhen handed these three people over to them. If they were beaten to death, would Mr. Zhen forgive them?
They have eaten a lot of delicious food from Master Zhen. Don’t think that they won’t go hungry just because they are the sons of a royal family. It is common for these two brothers to have no food to eat. Master Zhen said that as long as today’s task is done well, all the restaurants in the capital can be on his account in the future!
Listen to this courage, it will convince you!
This kick from the Broken Stone brothers completely destroyed the remaining face of Emperor Yongjia and Concubine Li.
Emperor Yongjia looked at Prince Lu fiercely and said, "Uncle, this is the good grandson you raised. He is a traitor!"
Prince Lu looked aggrieved and said, "You are wrong. What did my grandson do wrong?
As descendants of Taizu, should they bow down to an illegitimate child of an ordinary commoner?
Great Ancestor, you are watching from heaven, your descendants are being bullied!
"Woo woo woo~"
Emperor Yongjia’s head buzzed with a sound: a child born out of adultery, a child born out of adultery!
How dare that old bastard Prince Lu say that he was a son born out of wedlock!
Before he could get angry, Prince Fu said, "Yes, Your Majesty, these two children are your nephews. You can't just watch them being bullied by the illegitimate children. Isn't this going against the Tian Gang?"
The Emperor snorted and said to Concubine Li, "Wei, you committed adultery, substituted one for another, and confused the royal bloodline. Do you plead guilty?"
Concubine Li was not a smart person, and she had no ability to adapt to changes. She was already panicking at this time: "Who are these Xu Lin and Xu Kun? I don't know them, I don't know them, and I have never done anything like swapping children, I have never done it!"
The Emperor sneered, "Xu Linke never mentioned that you had swapped the child. Are you admitting it?"
Concubine Li shook her head desperately: "No, no, no, it's not, it's really not!"
The Emperor's voice was icy: "Back then, you and Concubine Meng Shu were both pregnant at about the same time. You wanted to win my favor, but you were worried that you wouldn't be able to have a boy right away. So, you teamed up with your natal cousin, Da Wei, who was still the wife of Marquis Baoqing, to find several women who were pregnant at the same time as you. Among them, Xu Kun's wife, Zou, was the one you specifically requested.
You wanted your adulterer's son to become a prince and sit on the throne in the future. To this end, you asked the Wei family to lock up my eldest daughter in a nunnery for forty years!
Over the years, that bastard has enjoyed all the glory and wealth, and has usurped my throne and my kingdom, while my eldest daughter has been forced to have her head shaved and work in the fields!
Wei, you are so vicious and cruel, I wish I could tear you into pieces!"
Concubine Li felt like she was falling into an icy cave!
He knows everything!
How did he know?
Didn’t sister say she handled it very cleanly?
So many people died, and anyone involved in this incident was killed, so why did the news still leak out?
The eldest princess of the emperor. Yes, the eldest princess of the emperor. The old man said the eldest princess of the emperor twice.
In a flash, Concubine Li thought of someone.
Princess Jiabao, the daughter that the retired emperor found from somewhere, is the emperor's eldest daughter!
But how is that possible?
Concubine Li murmured, "Impossible, impossible. The child was clearly sent to the charity center. I even sent someone to check and saw that someone had taken the child away for adoption."
The emperor sneered: "Your good sister killed so many people to cover up her crimes, even your adulterer Xu Kun was killed, but only Xu Lin was left behind. She raised Xu Lin and his son for so many years, is she kind-hearted?
She was worried that Xu Lin alone wouldn't be enough to threaten you, so she took my daughter into her own hands."
Concubine Li was stunned. She had long guessed that her elder sister had something on her. She thought it might be a midwife, a eunuch or a palace maid, but she never expected it to be Xu Lin and his son. She never expected that her daughter was also in her elder sister's hands.
But soon, her focus shifted.
"What did you say? Xu Lang was killed by my sister? Didn't he die in an accident?"
Once Xu Lang uttered the word, it was equivalent to admitting all the crimes.
Emperor Yongjia was filled with hatred. He thought that she was only protecting the Baoqing Marquisate and Zhu Yu because she was devoted to her parents' family!
It was not until this moment that he realized that it was not that Concubine Li was siding with her natal family, but that Old Madam Wei had caught something against her, so she dared not disobey.
Since he was a child, he knew that his biological mother was stupid, and he had disliked her countless times, but he had never thought that he was not her biological son!
The third prince was already stunned.
The previous moment he was panicking because his plot to murder the retired emperor had been discovered, and the next moment, he was not the retired emperor's grandson. No, he was not a royal descendant at all, he was just the grandson of a lecher.
The third prince has endured a lot these days. His affair with Fan Qiujun was exposed, Concubine Qiao was under house arrest, and Feng Jiahe committed suicide. But he did not fall down because he still had hope.
His hope is to kill the retired emperor and put the blame on Zhao Guanyue. As long as he completes the task assigned to him by his father, he will be able to turn the tide.
He held on to hope and persisted until now.
But now he was told that even if this matter was accomplished, he would not be able to get the chair because he was not a true descendant of the royal family.
He's just an imposter!
He is a prince. He was born with a jade spoon in his mouth. He was born into wealth and grew up in wealth. He has the pride of being a prince.
But now it's all ruined, his dignity, his pride, everything he has is ruined!
And all this is because of Concubine Li!
At this moment, the string that had been taut for many days finally broke!
The third prince collapsed!
He suddenly rushed to Concubine Li and pushed her to the ground, saying, "Why did you do this? You've already entered the palace, you've already gained the emperor's favor. As long as you behave yourself, you can live a prosperous life. Why did you do this? You've harmed my father, and you've harmed me, you've harmed me!"
Broken Stone couldn't understand, so he kindly reminded her, "Hey, you, don't make any mistake. You're not from the royal family. Even if she didn't do this, you're not a prince. Your grandfather is that pervert named Xu."
The Third Prince's head was buzzing and he could not hear any other sound. He only hated that he was not strong enough. He wanted to kill Concubine Li, kill her!
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