"face?"
"Oh! You better get out of here alive first."
After being silent for a long time, Old Madam Xu finally spoke, her voice was unconcealable coldness.
Old Master Xu paused holding the chopsticks.
Then he looked up at Madam Xu outside the prison door. Only then did he notice Madam Xu's cold eyes. He subconsciously frowned and his face darkened: "Madam, what do you mean by this? How do you talk to me?"
For decades, Old Madam Xu had always been docile and obedient in his presence.
Seeing her looking at him with such a cold look, Old Master Xu immediately became unhappy. Feeling that his authority was challenged, he dropped his chopsticks and scolded with a cold face: "I am your husband. As a woman, how can you be like this... well..."
Before Old Master Xu finished speaking, a look of pain suddenly appeared on his face.
He held his stomach.
The severe pain in his abdomen made him fall to the ground, knocking the wine glass to the ground. The wine spilled onto the ground and foamed...
poison?
Old Master Xu caught a glimpse of it from the corner of his eye, his eyes widened in horror, and he looked at Old Madam Xu outside the prison door in disbelief: "You, you actually poisoned me?"
How is that possible!
How dare she—
Madam Xu sneered at him and said, "Just die peacefully. Don't bring trouble to our children, and don't live in this world to disgust others."
"No, no, you... you can't do this. I am your husband, your heaven, how can you... " Old Master Xu was in so much pain that blood started to come out of the corners of his mouth.
He felt his life slipping away rapidly.
He was scared.
He doesn't want to die yet.
"Save me, ma'am, save me..."
Old Master Xu was squirming on the ground, desperately reaching out to Old Madam Xu, but Old Madam Xu just looked at him coldly, with a cold look from beginning to end, without a trace of pity in her eyes.
It was as if the wife who had obeyed him and done everything according to his wishes had never existed.
Until the moment he breathed his last, he kept his eyes wide open in disbelief, staring at Old Madam Xu, his eyes wide open until he died.
"Clean him up."
Madam Xu gave the order expressionlessly.
A jailer quickly stepped forward and opened the cell door. The two servants he brought with him quickly entered the cell and wiped the bleeding face of Old Master Xu. Then, they lifted Old Master Xu's body and slammed it against the cell wall...
*
"I heard that Old Master Xu died in prison after hitting his head against a wall. Before he died, he kept shouting that he was wrong, saying that his body was poisoned and he couldn't control the toxins, which was why he did such a cruel thing. Then he died of shame by hitting his head against the wall."
"What's the point of poisoning? It's just an excuse to save your reputation."
"That's right. I heard that Old Master Xu wiped out an entire family in order to kidnap someone. The children he tortured were only five or six years old. And those young girls were locked in cages with the animals..."
"It's simply something worse than an animal."
"Speaking of which, Old Master Xu did such a mad thing, is it true that no one in the family knew about it? I heard that those beasts were tigers, wolves, and the like, so they would definitely make some noise. How come no one noticed?"
"I think the Xu family must have known about this but kept it a secret."
"I think so too... I'm afraid the Xu family is an accomplice..."
The people were talking about it.
The disgusted spit was about to drown the Xu family.
Kunning Palace.
Empress Xu couldn't help herself and smashed the cup in her hand in anger: "Father is really old and confused. How could he do such a thing? Isn't this going to kill us?"
"My lady, please don't be angry."
"Mother, why didn't you stop him earlier!"
Empress Xu looked at Old Madam Xu who was sitting beside her with some dissatisfaction. "You know, that bitch Concubine Liu has been waiting to find something to hold against me. Now that this matter has come to light, she will definitely use my father's affairs to make a fuss. By then, not only will the Xu family be implicated, I'm afraid that both me and Prince Yu will be implicated. In the future, the position of crown prince..."
"Shh!"
Madam Xu quickly reached out and held Empress Xu's hand. She glanced towards the door and lowered her voice to remind her, "Your Majesty, please don't talk nonsense. Be careful, there are ears on the other side of the wall."
Empress Xu bit her lip and endured it.
Madam Xu then said helplessly, "You know what kind of personality your father has. A few years ago, he separated his large courtyard into a separate area, saying that he wanted to rest and recuperate. Without his consent, we can't enter at all."
There were some things that Old Madam Xu really didn't know. Although she had heard some unusual rumors, she never thought that Old Master Xu would really be so perverted as to do something worse than an animal.
She regretted it too.
If she had known this earlier, she would have dealt with the situation earlier and would never have let the matter come to the attention of the emperor.
"But don't worry, mother will take care of it."
"Although the family will be affected, as long as your eldest and second brothers are around, along with your grandfather and uncles, nothing serious will happen. You and His Highness should keep a low profile for the time being. After a while, the world will naturally forget about it."
"What about father?"
"This matter has caused such a big stir, Your Majesty will definitely not let it go easily." Empress Xu obviously didn't know what happened in the cell.
Madam Xu leaned in closer and whispered, "Your father is dead."
"What?"
Empress Xu was shocked.
Old Madam Xu patted her hand gently to comfort her and whispered something.
The shock in Empress Xu's eyes gradually faded, and finally replaced with a cold expression: "Mother, you did the right thing. Father...will indeed die of shame. His funeral cannot be grand. It should be low-key if possible."
"Well, let the elders of the clan choose a date and bury him."
The mother and daughter talked for a while, and Empress Xu suddenly thought of something: "By the way, mother, what are you going to do with those people? They are the ones that father gave... " She didn't say the word "treat".
Old Madam Xu understood what Empress Xu meant.
If they want the matter of Old Master Xu to be over as quickly and thoroughly as possible and never brought up again, the best way is to cut the weeds at their roots. Otherwise, if someone with ulterior motives picks it up and makes a fuss about it in the future, it will also be a major hidden danger to the Xu family.
"All the servants and stewards who served your father have been dealt with. However..." Old Madam Xu frowned slightly: "Those children and girls were taken back home by the Marquis of Zhenbei."
"Take it home?"
Old Madam Xu briefly described the situation at that time.
It turned out that at the end of the morning court, Yang Tiejiang jumped out again. After a lot of nonsense, Emperor Wenyuan actually agreed to let Yang Tiejiang take the person back and make arrangements.
"Mother."
Empress Xu frowned: "There's something wrong with this."
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