Madam Zheng spoke in a calm tone, her voice without much variation, but to Huang Haichuan, it was like a thunderclap exploding in his ears, almost making him stunned.
Huang Haichuan was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to regain his senses. When his senses returned, anger filled his mind. He had originally come here to relax, but he did not expect to be even angrier after arriving here.
This woman is absolutely incompatible with him.
"Are you crazy?" Huang Haichuan roared at Madam Zheng. "Hu Yikang and Hu Yi'an are our Hu family's sons, our Hu family's offspring!"
This woman wants her son to die out because he's been added to someone else's family genealogy.
"Is your surname Hu?" Facing their parents' argument, Huang Ziyao still looked heartbroken, but Huang Yi'an seemed used to it. Madam Zheng, like her son, clearly didn't take Huang Haichuan's anger seriously. She spoke calmly, holding a pot of tea, steaming gently. She poured a cup for Huang Ziyao and Huang Yi'an, softly saying to Huang Ziyao, "Ziyao, try this, see if your mother's cooking is as good as yours!"
Seeing that her mother was ignoring her father, and that her father was red-faced with anger, Huang Ziyao cautiously called out, "Dad, please sit down!"
"Ziyao, Yi'an, you two go out. I have something to say to your mother!" Huang Haichuan said to Huang Ziyao and Huang Yi'an.
Huang Ziyao and Huang Yi'an stood up to leave, but Madam Zheng stopped them, saying, "Wait a minute, this matter concerns you, especially Yi'an. It would be good for you to hear about it!"
Huang Haichuan roared again, "I disagree! They are the offspring of our Hu family! I'm not dead yet, why are they being included in the Zheng family genealogy! Do you want our Hu family line to end? How could you be so vicious, Zheng Pei?" Huang Wenbai didn't have many women in his life, only two in total: Princess Yuru and his mother. Neither of these women was fertile, so they only had two children. Let's not talk about the eldest son. The eldest son believed he was a member of the royal family until his death and never acknowledged his surname as Huang—well, at that time, no one could remember their family name. The eldest son died, leaving behind a son. Although he had many women, only Zheng Pei gave birth to a child. The others either didn't get pregnant or miscarried for no apparent reason.
If Huang Yi'an and Huang Yi'kang were to be adopted by the Hu family, then the Hu family would truly be extinct!
"Is your surname Hu?" Madam Zheng asked again. "Besides, doesn't the Hu family have Hu Mingmei? His wife is pregnant, so it's not like their lineage has died out!"
Huang Haichuan was taken aback.
Madam Zheng continued, "Now Hu Mingmei is in charge. I just went to check, and the entire Hu family looks completely different now. Are you sure you still have any say in things? Are you still surnamed Hu?" Although Hu Mingmei didn't announce Huang Haichuan and the others' change of surname, judging from Hu Mingmei's series of actions, he only kept quiet to save face. Now that they've come out, the people in the mansion still call them Second Master and Second Madam, but do they really treat them as masters?
There isn't a single person in this mansion who is loyal to them.
“Then we absolutely cannot let them be adopted!” Huang Haichuan said. “One day, I will make sure they bear the Huang surname!”
"Look at what you have left to give them?" Madam Zheng sneered. "What do you Huang family have left in this family? Even your daily expenses are paid by others. You've ruined yourself, do you want to ruin your two children too?"
Madam Zheng sneered, feeling utterly contemptuous of Huang Haichuan. She increasingly felt that her father's decision back then was a mistake; how could such a person be someone to whom one could entrust one's life?
In the past, she watched Huang Wenbai and his son deal with Hu Mingmei, and watched her mother-in-law make things difficult for Hu Mingmei. She didn't say anything because of their different stances. She also disliked Hu Mingmei because of their different stances. Moreover, Hu Mingmei looked sickly. No, Hu Mingmei is still a sickly person now. But it was this sickly person who destroyed their business of more than ten years in just one day.
Hu Mingmei was able to destroy everything Huang Wenbai and Huang Haichuan had, and she could certainly destroy her own sons as well. She couldn't let her sons be ruined by Hu Mingmei.
"It's settled then!" Madam Zheng said calmly. "I just wrote to my elder brother, and we'll have a result in a few days. Oh, by the way, my elder brother mentioned before that the Imperial Merchants Association will soon be holding a new election, and Yi'an will represent the Zheng family in the election!"
"You!" Upon hearing this, Huang Haichuan was immediately silenced by Madam Zheng, who gave him no room to resist. He slapped Madam Zheng across the face.
"Father!" Huang Ziyao screamed. Madam Zheng did not move. The wind from Huang Haichuan's slap blew the hair on Madam Zheng's forehead, but Huang Haichuan's slap did not land on Madam Zheng's face because Huang Yi'an had already stood up and blocked Huang Haichuan before Huang Haichuan hit Madam Zheng.
Seeing his son like this, Huang Haichuan immediately said, "Yi'an, step aside! Your mother is like this, your father must teach her a lesson!"
“Is it inappropriate for a father to reprimand his son’s mother in front of his son?” Huang Yi’an said. “Father, I also want to be adopted by my uncle and participate in the imperial merchant selection.”
"What nonsense are you spouting?" Huang Haichuan was about to slap Madam Zheng when the slap landed on Huang Yi'an's face with a crisp "smack." Huang Ziyao watched from the side, not daring to say a word.
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