Chapter 177 The Liveliness of the Jing Family
The falcon tilted its head with human-like eyes to look at Jing Wei, whom it had not seen for a long time, and then moved its claws closer to Jing Wei in a very arrogant manner, and quickly put its little head against his arm.
This greatly alleviated Jing Wei's unpleasant mood when he saw the message.
He snorted coldly, his voice tinged with ice: "The old man's men are here, and the second one is dead."
Yuan Ying was startled and rode a few steps closer: "What do you mean by looking for you at this time, old man?"
What's the meaning?
With the old man's cold temper, he wouldn't care about the dead one at all, nor would he always be thinking about himself. What he fears most now is that his title and property will be lost.
Jing Wei's understanding of his father is profound.
The teahouses of the capital city have recently been buzzing with new gossip: the long-dormant Weiyuan General's Mansion is stirring up trouble again. The general's wife, wanting to adopt her nephew, is arguing with the general day and night.
Weiyuan General's Mansion
Because her own son was gone, Liao was so heartbroken that her well-maintained face looked much older. When she looked at the still handsome man, her eyes were filled with sadness and confusion.
"Our son has no one to rely on in the future. I think there's nothing wrong with letting him take up his son's position and fulfill his filial duty. Why doesn't my husband agree?"
Liao Yuan stood aside somewhat awkwardly, not daring to look up into his uncle's eyes.
Although the aunt's words were nice, in fact, everyone knew that the reason for adopting her was for the title and property of the Weiyuan General's Mansion. Back then, the aunt relied on her old relationship with the general and used all her tricks to become the mistress of the general's mansion.
I had thought that my whole family would live a prosperous life with my aunt, but who would have thought that after so many years of marriage, she would give birth to a sickly child who died before he even reached adulthood.
As soon as the Liao family heard the news, they made preparations to adopt him, but Liao Yuan didn't expect that his uncle would disagree, because his uncle liked him very much in the past.
Jing Chao glanced at Liao coldly, his usual gentle demeanor gone. "My Jing family is also a prominent family. If we want to adopt a child, there are plenty of nephews and nieces of the right age in our family. Why would we bypass our own family members and adopt someone from another family?"
Jing Chao's words did not leave any face for Liao and Liao Yuan beside her. One of them looked pale and the other flushed, one was angry and the other was embarrassed.
Liao thought about what her sister-in-law said, and tried hard to suppress the urge to have a big fight with Jing Chao.
She tried to speak to Jing Chao calmly: "My husband, you know very well that the people in our family have misunderstood me because of the incident with the previous one over the years, and the clan has not interacted with us for a long time.
If we adopt a child from our clan, who can guarantee that he will be of the same mind as us?
But Yuan'er is different. Yuan'er is kind-hearted and has shown great respect to you and me over the years. Even when Lei'er was ill, it was thanks to Yuan'er's company and comfort. Isn't such a good child better than those in the clan whom he has never met?"
Jing Chao ignored Liao's words.
He is an extremely selfish person. No matter how bad Jing Wei is, he is still his biological son. No matter how much he resents him, he will not do anything to his biological father. He will even serve him wholeheartedly out of pressure of filial piety.
How could he be at ease with other people's seeds?
Jing Chao had been pestered by Liao Shi for a long time, and he had no interest in beating around the bush with her. "It's too early to talk about succession now. Madam, have you forgotten that I still have a biological son? Once we find him, someone will naturally take care of him for the rest of our lives. Liao Yuan should go back and serve his own parents."
With just one sentence, Liao was nailed to the spot.
Her face turned red and white, changing rapidly. Finally, she could no longer maintain her solemn appearance. She pointed at Jing Chao with a trembling finger, her voice hoarse:
"You dare, you dare to bring that jinx back.
It was him and his bitch mother who caused my Lei'er to be weak since birth, and now he has lost his life at a young age. I have long wanted to tear them apart alive.
Jing Chao, if you dare to bring him back, I will hang myself at the gate of the Jingzhao Yin Yamen. I wonder how you and your son will have the face to stay in the capital from now on."
Seeing that Liao was obviously furious and shaking like a sieve, Liao Yuan was afraid that she would make him hurt before the matter was done, so he hurried forward to support her and said a few words to Liao:
"Uncle, you know how much my aunt was hurt by that mother and son. Now my cousin has just passed away. How can you bear to stab my aunt in the heart?"
Jing Chao didn't even want to raise his eyes to see how he felt about himself and dared to come and lecture him. He continued to speak slowly to Liao: "I think you have been living a life of luxury for these years and have forgotten where you came from. You think everyone in the capital has forgotten what happened back then.
If you hadn't been so shameless and resorted to despicable means back then, you wouldn't have gotten the chance to be the general's wife, and you little bastards from the Liao family wouldn't have had the chance to talk nonsense in front of me.
For Lei'er's sake, I didn't bother to argue with you these years, but I made you forget who you were. "
Vicious words came out of Jing Chao's mouth one after another, and Liao felt cold all over. After all, she had thought of hearing these words from anyone, but she never thought that this person was her husband who she lived with day and night.
Her lips trembled as she tried to save some face for herself: "Jing Chao, how dare you say that to me? You clearly knew everything I did back then, but you didn't want to care and just pushed it away!
If you're talking about shamelessness, then we as a couple are no less shameless."
Hearing this, Jing Chao sneered nonchalantly: "So what? There's no point in pushing away something that comes to your door." What's more, there were already some problems between him and Jing Wei's mother at that time. Such a jealous woman was not worthy of being the mistress of his general's mansion.
Everything that happened later was just the result of him going with the flow.
It's a pity that he thought he had planned everything out, but in the end he was tricked by that woman. He didn't know what tricks she had done to him. Although he was obviously normal, he only had two children in his life, and the one born by Liao was a sickly baby.
Seeing that the development of the situation was far beyond his expectations, his aunt and uncle actually started to quarrel. Liao Yuan was anxious and didn't know what to do. He even forgot that Jing Chao had just called him the bastard of the Liao family.
Moreover, the huge change in Jing Chao himself also made Liao Yuan extremely doubtful of his life.
How can a person change so much in just a few days?
Finally, Jing Chao touched the jade pendant at his waist and coldly ordered those around him, "The Second Young Master has passed away. Madam is so grief-stricken that she has fallen seriously ill. From today on, she will rest well in the courtyard. You must take good care of Madam and don't let irrelevant people disturb her peace.
The affairs of the mansion will be handed over to Concubine Liu to handle."
After saying that, the man lifted his robe and was about to leave. How could Liao be willing to leave after running the General's Mansion for so many years...
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