Chapter 289 He Has No Heart
Southland
News continued to arrive from Liaodong County. Xie Zhan and the core members of the family already knew that all members of the Qin family had arrived safely at the place of exile, without a single loss on the way.
Xie Zhan asked people to continuously collect information about the Qin family on their way to exile. All of this information confirmed his guess that the Qin family could have such a good result, and it all depended on Lu Songli's planning.
Upon learning this conclusion, the core members of the Xie family felt particularly bad when they thought about the losses they had suffered along the way. Although this was due to the large number of members and the difficulty in taking care of them, the Qin family's zero casualties was astonishing in comparison.
They couldn't help but think that if it weren't for the accident of falling into the water, Lu Songli would be their mistress!
Xie Zhan frowned. He told the news not to make them regret it, but to make them face up to Lu Songli's strength.
But they are always troubled by these useless emotions.
Xie Zhan didn't understand. What was the point of regretting? It wouldn't help at all. They should have taken the initiative to review the entire incident and learn from it, so that their fall wouldn't have been in vain.
Xie Zhan sighed deeply and thought, forget it, they are all ordinary people, it is normal for them to care too much about gains and losses.
Then he picked up the information and replayed the entire incident in his mind, from which he could see traces of her layout. Lu Songli's careful planning, her calculations, and so on, there was much he could study and learn from her.
Xie Zhan said, "Judging from the recent events in Liaodong County, Lv Songli is working hard to completely control Liaodong County."
Xie Yuan, Xie Qian, and other core family members looked at each other in bewilderment. Xie Yuan even asked in a hoarse voice, "Clan leader, you are right. Lü Desheng is the governor of Liaodong County."
Xie Zhan: "Although Lü Desheng is the governor of Liaodong County, he is only the chief official of Liaodong County. The actual controller of Liaodong County is Lü Songli. Even the Qin family is just her military auxiliary."
"Looking at the recent news coming back, Liaodong County is suppressing bandits and building roads. It can be seen that she is now working hard to completely control Liaodong County."
After hearing the clan leader's analysis, not only the younger generation of Xie Bai and Xie Nan were speechless, but the older generation of clan elders such as Xie Yuan and Xie Qian also looked at each other in confusion.
They don’t understand, how could a woman like Lu Songli get such strong enterprising spirit and aggressiveness, and most importantly, where did she get such great ambition?
Xie Nan said hesitantly, "Actually, Lu Songli is not necessarily suitable for our Xie family."
Xie Nan's words are also a warning to others. No matter how outstanding the mistress of a house is, she is already someone else's. Moreover, Lu Songli is very ambitious, like a hen crowing at dawn. Who knows if she will seize power after marrying in?
"Okay, let's talk about the things I asked you to do recently. How is the progress?" Xie Zhan's words brought their attention back.
Compared with the useless emotions they had because of Lu Songli, Xie Zhan hoped that they could focus on themselves and work together to fight for the survival of the family.
Xie Zhan was well aware that, strictly speaking, his Xie clan was already two steps behind. They were still dependent on the Chen family and had yet to establish a presence in the South, a place of their own. Lü Songli, on the other hand, had already secured territory and had begun clearing out the remaining forces in Liaodong County and cultivating its presence.
He has been preparing for so long, and now it is time to start.
After the meeting, the core members of the Xie family returned home.
Although the clan leader told them not to spread the fact that the Qin family had not lost any members despite being exiled, some of them could not help it and did not want to. In the final analysis, this matter was to blame on their current clan leader's wife, Zhao Yutan.
He couldn't help but tell his partner when he got home, and then it became a secret known to the whole family. Especially those whose relatives had died during the exile, they lost their good impression of Zhao Yutan and even hated him.
Zhao Yutan, who was more than three months pregnant, returned to the Xie clan's territory accompanied by her mother.
After learning that no one from the Qin family died during their exile, the Xie clan members treated her coldly and didn't even greet her when they met.
Luo was a little confused.
"You can't do that. After all, she is the wife of the clan leader now. We have to fight each other no matter what."
"Pah, she still has the nerve to come back? If it weren't for her, how could my father and my second and fourth sons have died?! She still wants me to greet her? Dream on!"
The ladies of the Xie family spoke openly about her.
Zhao Yutan and Luo soon found out the reason.
Luo: "How can this be entirely your fault? This is too unreasonable!"
Zhao Yutan's face was expressionless. If they weren't happy with her, how could she possibly be happy with her current life? In her precognitive dream, although she had been exiled with the Qin family, she had been protected by the Qin family along the way. Even in exile, she was still the one in the Qin family who suffered the least, besides the children. Unlike now, her husband had become someone else's husband, she lived in her mother's house while pregnant, and her husband rarely visited her.
Luo helped Zhao Yutan back to the place where she and Xie Zhan had originally lived. It happened that Chen Baozhu was going back to her parents' home, and Xie Zhan was accompanying her.
Just as the two were about to go out, they ran into Zhao's mother and daughter.
Chen Baozhu looked at Xie Zhan, "You promised to accompany me back to my parents' home."
Xie Zhan nodded slightly, "Okay, you can wait for me outside for a while, okay?"
Chen Bao glanced at the three of them and agreed. She walked past Xie Zhan and went outside.
Zhao Yutan felt a pain in her heart. The scene before her was so similar to the care she received in her dream.
She was now absolutely certain that Xie Zhan was heartless and cold-hearted. All he cared about was his career prospects and the development of his family.
In the prophetic dream, he was good to me, and now he can be good to other women too.
"Mother-in-law—" After greeting Luo, Xie Zhan looked at Zhao Yutan, "Atan, you're back."
"Um."
"Is there any difficulty? Or do you need my help?" Xie Zhan asked with concern.
Zhao Yutan bit her lip. To be honest, she hated his current concern. She would rather he was indifferent so that she could give up easily instead of being deeply trapped in it.
Mrs. Luo glanced at her daughter and answered for her, "It's like this..." She told her daughter about their difficulties.
Xie Zhan nodded, "I see. I'll have someone take care of it. If there's nothing else, I'll go get busy first. Mother-in-law, A'tan, you can go inside and rest. You can come back after you've rested."
Luo nodded hurriedly, "Okay, you go ahead and do your work."
Chen Baozhu was waiting outside, but her eyes kept looking back.
To be honest, I was not happy with this marriage at first.
When her father found out, he scolded her. In his words, if Xie Zhan hadn't fallen on hard times, she wouldn't have been worthy of him.
It has been almost three months since she got married, but Xie Zhan is not always obedient to her and is even distant from her.
Chen Baozhu fell for it, and she found him particularly charming when he was working. His occasional concern made her very moved, and she felt that she had fallen in love with Xie Zhan.
Her only complaint now was Xie Zhan's care for Zhao Yutan. He was very busy and didn't have time to visit her. But every month, he would send Zhao Yutan a lot of food and daily necessities. She would get one portion for each of the good things.
She felt uncomfortable and told her mother about it, but her family was very satisfied with his performance. They said that they were relieved because of him. If Xie Zhan was cold and harsh to his ex-wife, they would be worried.
At the same time, her family also advised her not to make a fuss, saying that Zhao lived in her parents' home and was not an eyesore to her, so she should stop making a fuss.
After thinking about it, Chen Jiazhu could only agree reluctantly.
She hadn't been lost in thought for long when Xie Zhan came out and said, "Let's go."
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