Chapter 64

Fang Wenjue pulled Wang Hui over and said, "It's already this late, save your words! Can't you see he's about to take action?"

The servants surrounded them, ready to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Liao Baifan no longer concealed himself and drew out his Xiuchun sword. The cold light reflected the red candlelight, but it was shockingly cold.

【Great, Lord Liao is here too.】

Xu Yongjie's eyesight was blurry, but Xu Ping's was not. He saw the pattern on Liao Baifan's knife clearly and broke out in a cold sweat. Who were these guys? How did they have a knife used by the Jinyiwei?

If this cold-faced man was the Imperial Guard, then who were the others? Anyone who could be protected by the Imperial Guard must be of a high position, perhaps even much higher than him as the prefect.

Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Xu Ping's forehead.

Lin Nanjie wanted to speak, but seeing that the other side had more people and more power, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Under the circumstances, he grabbed Li Chenghuan's hand and gestured quickly on his palm with his fingers.

[It would be nice if I had a pen and paper. I don't know if the dog emperor would understand what I'm writing. Butler Jiang has the antidote for the muteness, so he has to speak.]

Li Chenghuan only felt a tingling sensation in the palm of his hand. The slightly cool fingertips were gesturing anxiously in his palm, like feathers fluttering gently.

He lowered his eyes and looked at Lin Nanjie wearing a bright red wedding dress. The dress was a little too big and didn't fit her well, but it outlined Lin Nanjie's slender figure. It gradually narrowed at the waist, like a soft bamboo.

His dark eyes, which always flashed with restless light, were now looking at him closely. The light from the wedding candles cast a golden edge on his face, illuminating his sparkling eyebrows and eyes.

Li Chenghuan could hear Lin Nanjie's heartbeat, but the other party looked at him without blinking, like a cat that was full of trust in people. The touch of his palm was too good. Li Chenghuan knew what he wanted, but hesitated for a moment.

Lin Nanjie was a little anxious, and his eyes changed from full of trust to gradually suspicious.

[No way, I've written it so many times, why can't the dog emperor understand it? ]

【Didn’t I write it clearly enough? 】

Lin Nanqi's eyes revealed a hint of disdain.

【Why are you a little bit stupid? 】

Li Chengqian, whose intelligence was doubted, silently clenched his fingers and held Lin Nanqi's constantly gesticulating fingers in his palm.

【？ 】

Lin Nanqi's eyes gradually widened.

Li Chenghuan lowered his head and whispered in his ear: "Got it."

Then, Lin Nanjie saw Li Chengqian quickly restrain Butler Jiang and asked in a cold voice, "Where is the antidote?"

Lao Jiang was a little out of breath and pretended not to know: "What did you say? I don't understand."

Li Chengqian pulled his arm and put it behind his back. Everyone heard a crisp snap and housekeeper Jiang's arm was dislocated.

"ah---"

Butler Jiang's miserable screams echoed throughout the wedding hall, and were even more frightening in the tense atmosphere.

He hurriedly took out the antidote from his pocket and said in a trembling voice: "Here, here it is."

Li Chenghuan took it, poured out a pill and placed it in Lin Nanjie's palm.

Lin Nanqi swallowed it quickly.

He cleared his throat and finally found his voice: "Ahem!"

Then he rummaged in his jacket and pulled out a golden token, which he showed to Xu Yongjie, Xu Ping, and Xu Jing: "Seeing this token is like seeing the emperor. Why don't you leave immediately!"

Fang Wenjue and the other two all looked at Li Chenghuan and Lin Nanjie.

Are they seeing things?

The Emperor's token!

They were all given to Eunuch Lin!

Several people immediately felt jealous.

They haven't even touched it.

Li Chenghuan didn't move, which was a good thing as he didn't have to be exposed for the time being.

Xu Ping was stunned. This was the emperor's token.

He looked at Xu Yongjie with shock on his face: "Dad, who is he?"

Xu Yongjie's face was full of disbelief. Before he could come to his senses, Xu Jing beside him had already knelt down with a "thump".

Xu Jing's face was blank, and he muttered, "I was wondering why he looked familiar, and now I remember, he was the supervisor of the examination at Gongyuan, and he was Yu's father-in-law."

Xu Ping is going crazy.

Before?

Father-in-law?

Can he even supervise the examinations in Gongyuan?

He had heard vaguely that there was a favored father-in-law in front of Yu, whose surname was Lin and whose name was Lin Nanjie.

Could it be that he is?

Xu Ping could no longer stand, he looked at the man who was protecting Lin Nanjie with horror and fear. As soon as he saw this man, he felt that he had an extraordinary bearing, although he was not very old, but he made people dare not act rashly.

No, it's impossible!

How could the emperor leave the capital and come to Hangzhou?

He must be overthinking it.

But these people are definitely not ordinary people.

Xu Ping knelt down and said, "Long live the emperor! Long live the emperor!"

Seeing the token is like seeing the emperor.

Xu Yongjie couldn't believe it and shouted angrily: "How dare you pretend to be someone in front of me and forge a token? You deserve the death penalty!"

Lin Nanqi threw away the curtain on his head, his handsome face full of anger: "Death penalty? I'm afraid what you did is not even worthy of a death penalty."

Xu Yongjie leaned on a cane, his eyes flashing with deep disgust: "How dare you!"

Lin Nanzhen pointed at the ashes of the fourth Miss Xu and said, "You killed your own daughter. All three of your daughters died because of you."

Xu Yongjie poked the ground with his cane, making a "twang-twang" sound: "Shut up! They are my daughters. How could their deaths have anything to do with me?"

Lin Nanjie's face was as cold as ice. "The eldest and second daughters were tortured by their in-laws. One was tortured to death, and the other jumped into the river to commit suicide because she couldn't bear the humiliation. When they were tortured to the point where they couldn't bear it anymore, they both asked you for help, but you ignored them and even refused to let them go home for a while."

"When she got married, you didn't even want to give her a dowry, but your house was decorated with carved beams and painted rafters, and the food, clothing and daily necessities were all top quality, and you even had several acres of gardens. But you didn't give a penny to your daughter, and just watched her grow up with indifference."

"The fourth young lady always secretly supported her two elder sisters. She saw their miserable state and was forced by you to get engaged. The man she was engaged to even spoke frivolously to her. As the wedding date approached, she became more and more afraid. She once asked you to cancel the engagement, but you scolded her. She was so scared that she thought it would be better to end her life with a white silk thread than to be tortured to death by her in-laws and husband."

"Originally you just wanted to bury her hastily, but since the death of the eldest daughter, the Xu family has been in decline. Xu Ping has been married for many years but has no children, and Xu Jing did not get any place in the imperial examinations. You didn't think about it at first, but after the death of the fourth daughter Xu, your health suddenly deteriorated, and you suspected ghosts and gods, thinking that it was the lingering spirit of the fourth daughter Xu."

Lin Nanjie became more and more angry: "So you came up with such an evil method as arranging a ghost marriage!"

Xu Yongjie looked grim: "So what? Whether you agree or not, you must get married today. In the netherworld, with someone to accompany you, you won't be lonely."

Xu Ping was exhausted and puzzled: "Dad! What are you doing? I have no children because it is not my destiny. How can you connect this with ghosts and gods? It is simply ridiculous!"

Xu Yongjie glanced at Xu Ping coldly: "What do you know!"

Lin Nanjie clenched his hands tightly, making a creaking sound. "Of course he doesn't understand. You were a poor scholar who married into the Yuan family. After your wife died of complications during childbirth, you seized the Yuan family's property and changed the name of the Yuan family to the Xu family."

Xu Ping was stunned and showed an expression of disbelief. He remembered that he had a name when he was a child, Yuan Ping.

Xu Yongjie's face turned pale. He didn't expect that this strange young man in front of him actually knew the origin of the Xu family.

Xu Yongjie sneered: "By then I'd already been an official in the court, rising step by step, so what's the harm in changing my surname to Xu?"

Lin Nanqi's eyes revealed a rare look of disgust: "You wrote books and even wrote an article "Female Virtue" that was circulated in the world. You don't allow women to read or write, and you don't allow women to leave the house."

Xu Yongjie's old eyes flashed with disdain: "What's wrong with that? Women's virtue lies in their lack of talent. If all women learn to read and write, their ambitions will flourish day by day, and they will sooner or later threaten the government and cause chaos in the world."

Lin Nanjie took a step forward and asked: "Are you doing this for the so-called grand world, or for your own family?"

Xu Yongjie frowned: "What do you mean? Are you trying to slander me?"

Lin Nanjie looked straight at him and slowly said eight words: "Jinhe Xu family, nine generations of maids."

As soon as these eight words came out, everyone present changed their expressions. The Xu family in Jinhe was once very prosperous, but they never had an eldest daughter. Later, they were found to have abused and killed a baby girl, and their reputation was ruined, and almost everyone wanted to punish them.

This world is too cruel for women.

There are poor families who abandon their first daughter in the wilderness. Some people believe that a married daughter is like spilled water. Some people even think that it is the daughter's fault if she cannot give birth to a son.

But it is foolish and cruel for a prominent family to rely on the evil magic of abusing and killing female babies in exchange for family prosperity.

I didn't expect that Xu Yongjie was actually a descendant of the Xu family of Jinhe.

Xu Yongjie's face suddenly changed: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Lin Nanjie rubbed his neck.

[I have been locked in the room for the past few days. Besides offering incense to Miss Xu Si, I have been digging up the secrets of this old man. Fortunately, I have dug up all of them.]

"Although the Xu family of Jinhe fell into decline, you survived and married into the Yuan family. As the eldest grandson of the Xu family, you were ashamed of your marriage and spoke coldly to Madam Yuan and found fault with her everywhere. Madam Yuan gave birth to children and the Yuan family supported you to study and take exams, but you looked down on Madam Yuan even more after you became an official. As soon as she passed away, you couldn't wait to change your name."

"Your daughter's marriage is either used to win over colleagues or arranged for poor families, and their requests for help are ignored. You even feel a secret joy when you see your daughter, who looks like your wife, being tortured."

Xu Yongjie's face became increasingly gloomy. He stroked the dark pattern on his cane, his eyes grim, "You know too much."

"Come on, take them all down!"

The servants were well-trained and immediately picked up their weapons and attacked them.

Liao Baifan's face turned cold and he kicked the man away. With the cold light of Xiuchun Knife, these servants were no match for him at all.

Wang Hui was in a state of dismay, and was even more dumbfounded at this moment: "Old Xu, bah! Xu Yongjie is simply worse than a pig or a dog! I am ashamed of the fact that I admire you so much."

"You even called me a sour scholar, bah!"

"You vicious old thing! Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but he can do such a heinous thing. I don't want to be associated with you!"

Wang Hui snatched the stick from the servant beside him and knocked down a group of people.

Lin Nanjie was stunned by Wang Hui's skills.

[Is this what it means to quit being a fan and then turn against someone? ]

There were many servants in the Xu family, and they all obeyed Xu Yongjie.

Fang Wenjue and Bo Zhang both thought he was crazy. Did he know who he was going to capture?

Li Chengqian's face turned cold. He took off his disguise and looked at Xu Yongjie with a gloomy face: "Old Master Xu, do you still recognize who I am?"

Xu Ping had just stood up when his knees clicked and he fell to his knees again.