Lord Chen seemed to have just noticed Old Master Xu. He stepped forward and said with a smile, "Old Master, I'm here at the Emperor's order to check something at the Xu residence. You don't need to get up. Just lie back in your chair."
Seemingly respectful.
But anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was not even an ounce of respect in Lord Chen's eyes, but rather a hint of disgust.
right.
Just disgust!!
When he was young, Old Master Xu almost joined the cabinet. Later, Empress Xu entered the palace. Emperor Wenyuan did not like the power of his relatives. In addition, Old Master Xu made a serious mistake at that time, so Old Master Xu took the opportunity to become an official. Although he has not been an official in the court in these years, it does not mean that he is not aware of some of the trends in the court.
This Lord Chen has always known how to adapt to the times.
For him to be so disgusted with him, I'm afraid something must have happened in the palace... Could it be that the emperor really knew something?
Thinking of this, Old Master Xu felt a tightness in his heart.
His eyes subconsciously swept across the room, and this action was seen by Lord Chen.
"You, follow me into the house and take a look."
Lord Chen directly called over several officers who were investigating nearby, and under the gaze of Old Master Xu, he went straight into the house.
"Old Master!"
The manager was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.
Old Master Xu's face looked very ugly, and his hands unconsciously clenched the armrests of the rocking chair tightly. He pretended to be calm, but in the end he couldn't help it and hurriedly asked the steward to help him stand up from the chair.
He thought.
Searching his house would at most mean looking around.
But as soon as he entered the house, he saw Lord Chen directing the officers to knock and bang in every corner of his house, as if he was looking for a secret room or something...
Old Master Xu's expression suddenly changed: "Stop, all of you stop!"
But at this moment.
"Sir, we found it..."
When Lord Chen heard this, he ignored Old Master Xu and quickly led his men over.
'hiss'
The moment the secret room opened, a gasp was heard. And Old Master Xu's face changed drastically...
Golden Palace.
The women of the Xu family were brought up first.
They all had confused expressions on their faces, not knowing why officials came to their house, took them to the palace, and even took them to the throne room. This had almost never happened before.
But compared to the common people.
As wives of officials, they were much calmer and all knelt down to pay their respects to the emperor.
"I heard that your Xu family lost a child a year ago?"
Emperor Wenyuan sat high on the dragon throne, his gaze sweeping majestically over the kneeling women of the Xu family.
The leader was the old lady of the Xu family.
"Your Majesty, a year ago, a girl from our Xu family did go missing."
"Then you look at her."
The woman handed the little girl out.
When Old Madam Xu saw the little girl with the empty eyes, she was slightly stunned, but soon a sobbing voice sounded from behind the female relatives: "Yun'er, it's Yun'er, it's my Yun'er."
The one who spoke was a beautiful woman.
And she has a big belly.
With tears in her eyes, she crawled over the crowd on her knees and hugged the girl with empty eyes tightly.
The woman's status was just a concubine.
Logically, it is impossible for her to appear here, but Lord Chen specially asked someone to bring her here.
Old Madam Xu frowned, very dissatisfied with the girl's uncouth behavior, but she did not blame her in public. The other female members of the family also looked at the little girl seriously at the same time.
"It's Yun'er."
"It is indeed Yun'er."
"There's a small red mole on her neck, there's no mistaking it."
Because Xu Xuan doted on her, the people in her family naturally paid attention to this child.
After taking a look, Old Madam Xu also recognized it.
"Your Majesty, this child is indeed the girl from our Xu family who went missing a year ago. She is my great-granddaughter." Old Lady Xu replied respectfully.
But I felt something was wrong.
The Emperor couldn't possibly order all the women in their family to be brought in like criminals just for a lost girl, right? And they even brought them to the throne room.
Soon, Old Madam Xu found out the reason.
Old Master Xu was brought in.
Along with the several girls in the secret room, the girl in the cage, and the pile of strange and bizarre torture instruments...
"Your Majesty, these were found in the secret room of Old Master Xu's house: three girls, four young women, and various torture instruments. As for the beasts in those cages, I saw them with my own eyes; they do exist..."
This proved that what the woman said was true.
Now everyone looked at Old Master Xu with disgust in their eyes, especially when they saw those girls and young women, everyone couldn't help but frown.
The little girls were no more than five or six years old, and the young women looked as if they were not yet of marriageable age. Although they were all wrapped in clothes, they looked disheveled, covered in wounds, and had fear in their eyes. They were trying hard to curl up into a ball and trembled.
"brute!"
Tutor Liu really couldn't hold back his anger. If he hadn't had the rationality to hold back, he would have probably followed Yang Tiejiang's example and smashed the court board in his hand at Old Master Xu.
"How could such young children go down there?"
"The books of the sages have all been turned into dogs' stomachs."
"He's simply a beast in human form..."
“…”
The whole court was filled with contempt.
Some upright old men even pointed at Old Master Xu's nose and cursed him. Their eloquence was indeed much better than Yang Tiejiang's. At least Yang Tiejiang couldn't curse out a string of idioms of four words each.
What a beast in human clothing, shameless and devoid of conscience...
The women of the Xu family went from initial confusion to gradual disbelief, and finally to shock and disgust...
Especially the girl’s mother.
After hearing the rest, she was so angry that she almost lost her mind, "You beast, how could you do this... She is your great-granddaughter, your own great-granddaughter, how could you have the heart to do this to her..."
Old Madam Xu was so angry that she was shaking all over.
She never dreamed that her husband would be such a person who is worse than an animal behind her back.
Abduct women.
Forced women.
He even forced the woman to live with the beasts, and in the end, he even spared his own great-granddaughter...
This is not a human being at all.
Old Madam Xu came from a noble family. Since she married into the Xu family, she has strictly adhered to the virtues of a woman and the family rules, taught her children with all her heart, and managed the household in an orderly manner. She was even very virtuous and took in many concubines for Old Master Xu.
It can be said that Old Master Xu has never lacked women.
But in such a situation, Old Master Xu still did such disgusting and heartless things in private. She didn't understand, didn't comprehend, and couldn't accept it.
"Why? Why would you do such a thing? I have taken in all kinds of concubines that you wanted into the mansion. What on earth are you dissatisfied with?" Old Madam Xu stared at Old Master Xu and asked through gritted teeth.
There was a slight glint in Old Master Xu's eyes.
When facing Old Madam Xu, he finally felt the shame of having his face ripped off alive...
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