Chapter 357: Bu Bu Pooh Her Face
"Your Majesty, please understand. I divorced this vicious woman a while ago. Xu Xiangdie and Xu Liang were also expelled from the Lin family tree. What they did today really has nothing to do with me."
"Now that these three have committed such shameless acts, Your Majesty and Princess should just kill them. I, this old minister, will just pretend that these two children never existed."
Ruan originally thought Xu Lin was here to save them, but unexpectedly... he was here to send the three of them, mother and son, off on their journey.
"Xu Lin! Do you still have any conscience? I've been married to you for many years and have never done anything to let you down. Now, after only being prime minister for a few years, you want to send the three of us, mother and son, to our deaths. Are you still human?"
"Xu Lin, I am your legally married wife after all. Xiangdie and Liang'er are your own flesh and blood. Even if you don't care about them, I can't watch them die."
"Master, Master, I'm dead, but please, save our children. Liang'er is dying. Can you please ask the Regent to let the miracle doctor see him first? As long as Liang'er is saved, we will accept any punishment."
"And Xiangdie, she's been well-behaved, sensible, and kind-hearted since she was little. She loves the prince so much that she suddenly thought of something and did something like this... insulting the prince's innocence. This is all my fault. If it weren't for my indulgence, she would never have done such a thing."
"Master, you can blame me if you want, but these two children... they are innocent."
The little girl yawned as she sat in Bu Ruo's arms: "This aunt is wrong. Her children are not innocent at all."
"This guy called Liang, although he didn't marry, he had a mistress outside and she got pregnant. The mistress wanted her child to have a good family background, so she asked Liang for a legitimate status, even if it meant being a concubine. If he didn't agree, she would go to the Prime Minister's residence with her belly bulging and make a scene."
"This Liang was so angry that he beat the woman to death and then rolled her up on a torn straw mat and threw her into a mass grave outside the city. The woman was pregnant with his child, a boy."
"Besides her, the woman had only one brother left in her family. He worked odd jobs outside. Liang was afraid his brother would cause trouble, so he initially gave him some money. But then, feeling uneasy, he hired a few thugs to beat the man to death in the dark of night and throw him into a mass grave."
"This is just one of the things he did. Every time someone died, he would use the Prime Minister's Office as a pretext to suppress the matter before taking the person's life. He has done so many things like this outside this year that I can't count them on one hand. The mass grave outside of Kyoto is almost becoming his family's ancestral grave."
Under Prime Minister Xu's shocked gaze, the little girl continued, "And that crazy person over there isn't a good person either. I don't know how this auntie can say she's well-behaved, sensible, and kind-hearted. If the words 'well-behaved, sensible, and kind-hearted' could be used, I'd be cursing right now."
"This stinky butterfly has been nothing but a piece of shit since she was little. When she was four, she pushed her playmate into the pond, just because the girl was wearing a prettier dress than hers, and that day was the girl's birthday."
"The little girl wasn't rescued in the end because she pointed the searching nanny in the wrong direction, wasting time, and then even pretended to join the search."
"Her? She's been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child? Bah in her face every step of the way."
Ruan's face turned pale when she heard the little girl's words: "Well... Die'er was young at that time, and she didn't do it on purpose."
The little girl snorted softly: "Young? Not on purpose? But Bubu is only three years old, Bubu would never do such a thing."
"Okay, even if you say she's young, what about what happened next?"
The little girl looked at Xu Xiangdie, who was sitting in the middle in a daze, and continued, "When she was seven years old... Auntie, seven years old is not too young, right?"
Nguyen: ...
"When she was seven years old, she learned that the Prime Minister's concubine, Lin, was pregnant. So she asked her maid to go out and buy a lot of round marbles and scatter them at Lin's doorway at night. Then she pretended to fall and sat at Lin's doorway crying..."
"That concubine is kind-hearted. Even though Ruan was usually mean to her, well... really mean, she still couldn't bear to see that stinky butterfly crying."
"Grandpa Prime Minister, you originally had a daughter, but she was lost when a stinky butterfly scattered its marbles. If that sister could have been born and grown up, she would have been a well-behaved, sensible, and kind-hearted child. What a pity!"
Xu Lin looked at Xu Xiangdie at this moment, his eyes glaring as if he wanted to nag her to death: "Ruan! I have been diligent and honest in my official duties for so many years and have never treated you unfairly. Every month, my salary and the household expenses are all given to you. What about you?"
"Look at the two good children you raised. The son is reckless and the daughter is vicious. You...you..."
The little girl looked at Xu Lin with some distress: "Grandpa Prime Minister, please don't be angry first. Yes, yes, put your hands down. Save your energy and fight again later. Bubu hasn't finished talking yet."
Xu Lin: "Anything else?"
The little girl nodded: "Yes...but I don't know how the Prime Minister is doing. Can he still listen?"
Xu Lin gritted his teeth and said, "Please speak, young princess. I have heard so much and there is nothing I cannot hear anymore."
"Well... okay then." Seeing Bu Ruo agree, the little girl continued, "Prime Minister wasn't supposed to marry her originally, was he?"
Xu Lin was stunned, not knowing why the little girl asked this, but he still answered truthfully, "What the little princess said is true. I was originally supposed to marry her elder sister instead of Ruan. However, a month before our wedding, the eldest daughter of the Ruan family suddenly fell ill and passed away, so I married her, the concubine's daughter."
The little girl looked at Xu Lin with even more pity in her eyes: "The legitimate daughter of the Ruan family didn't die of illness, but was killed by the illegitimate daughter of the Ruan family who was beside you."
"Back then, the Prime Minister's grandfather wasn't yet the Prime Minister, but he was still a minor official. The Ruan family was just a small family, and they didn't want to miss out on this marriage opportunity, so they let their concubine's daughter marry into the family. And all of this was planned by this concubine's daughter of the Ruan family."
"The Ruan family's mistress didn't know this was her plan at the time, but when she found out, it was too late. She had already married you and severed ties with her family. Not long after, she was promoted to another town with you. The Ruan family's mistress later died early because of the resentment over this matter."
"Well, if the daughter of the Ruan family hadn't died then... forget it, Grandpa Prime Minister, you don't want to know how happy your life is, with a peaceful home, a virtuous wife, filial children, and four generations living under one roof."
Xu Lin couldn't even kneel anymore and collapsed to the ground.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com