"boom."
Just then, the door to the woodshed was suddenly kicked open.
General Xie stood at the door, his face contorted with rage, looking at the two people inside, his gaze finally settling on Xie Lingqin. "Xie Lingqin, what do you have to say?"
"Big sister, I never imagined that it was really you and Xianglong who conspired to frame my mother."
Following closely behind General Xie, Xie Lingyu also walked in with a serious expression.
The expressions on the father and daughter's faces were exactly the same at this moment, under the quiet moonlight.
Xie Lingyu, in particular, could hardly contain the excitement in her eyes.
However, Xie Lingqin showed no panic in the face of General Xie and Xie Lingyu's accusations. Instead, her fair face showed anger. "Father, you and my sister are here too. Perfect timing. I was just thinking of coming to find you later."
"Looking for me?" General Xie frowned, his tone unfriendly. "After doing this, you still have the nerve to look for me?"
"What did your daughter do?" Xie Lingqin asked, puzzled. Then she looked at the incense burner, as if she had just realized something. Her expression changed immediately, and she shook her head. "Father, in your heart, am I such a despicable person?"
Xie Lingqin turned back to look at Xianglong, "Sister Xianglong, I call you 'sister' only because of Father, not because I really think you're anything special." Xie Lingqin spoke each word with conviction.
Without offering any explanation, they were already protecting themselves.
"Young Miss, what do you mean?"
Xianglong looked at Xie Lingqin's calm demeanor with a hint of panic on his face.
Xie Lingyu came to her and said that in the end, Xie Lingqin would only benefit from the conflict between her and her second aunt. She said that if she listened to Xie Lingqin and testified against her, she would be the best solution.
She thought it made sense.
“Father, whether you believe it or not…” Xie Lingqin then took out an embroidered handkerchief from her sleeve, “Although it was only for a day, Sister Xianglong did patiently teach me, and I am naturally grateful. Now that things have come to this, I cannot help her, so I thought of going to her room to get some embroidery work to express my gratitude. However, I did not expect…”
As she spoke, Xie Lingqin asked Zihe, who was standing nearby, to hand the item to General Xie.
“Father, look at this embroidery pattern. It was embroidered by Sister Xianglong, wasn’t it…”
General Xie frowned slightly and looked at Xie Lingqin's handkerchief. "Let me see this embroidered handkerchief."
Xie Lingqin handed it over calmly, "Father, take a look, this is all..."
General Xie looked at the embroidered handkerchief, and his brows indeed furrowed.
Xie Lingyu, who was standing to the side, was also watching, not understanding what was going on.
However, apart from the two mandarin ducks embroidered on this handkerchief, there's nothing special about it.
"You can go down now."
After a long while, General Xie handed the embroidered handkerchief to Xie Lingqin, his tone devoid of any reproach.
It seemed that his previous anger had vanished instantly.
What does this mean?
Xie Lingyu was completely bewildered.
"Yes, Father."
Xie Lingqin summoned Zihe, who immediately withdrew.
These two mandarin ducks are quite something.
"Father……"
Xie Lingyu, standing to the side, was unwilling to accept this.
My mother, a woman of such intelligence and ability, has now been stripped of her power to manage the household and confined to her room because Xie Lingqin has punished her. This has a far more serious impact on my mother's status in the General's Mansion than being beaten or injured.
Without her mother to rely on, she was somewhat constrained in her actions.
I originally intended to kill her to save her, but I never expected Xie Lingqin to...
What happened to this handkerchief?
However, General Xie's cold gaze fell on Xie Lingyu at this moment. "Lingyu, considering your eagerness to save your mother, I will not punish you for now. However, if there is a next time, I will not let you off lightly."
His tone was like frost and snow, almost pressing Xie Lingyu to her knees.
Xie Lingqin, who had already left Nanshan Courtyard, listened to General Xie's words behind her and imagined Xie Lingyu's incredulous trembling, but felt no relief whatsoever.
It was just a fierce roar; in the end, it was nothing more than a show for her.
That's true, Xie Lingyu is destined to be the Princess Consort of the Virtuous King.
"Miss, the general is so biased, what will you do in the future?"
Zihe no longer advised Xie Lingqin to cultivate a good relationship with General Xie, because even she, an outsider, could see it.
When General Xie looked at the young lady, there was no tenderness or affection in his eyes that one would expect from a father looking at his daughter.
Yes, but it feels like an endless sense of alienation and unfamiliarity.
The young lady had never done anything wrong, but even the slightest mistake would be magnified infinitely.
"General Xie hates my mother."
After a long silence, Xie Lingqin parted her lips slightly and uttered a sentence that startled Zihe, "Miss, haven't you gotten it backwards? If anyone should hate someone, it should be the General's wife who hates the General, not him..."
Zihe certainly wanted to say that General Xie had married so many concubines, but she kept quiet.
In this era, it was normal for men to have three wives and four concubines. It was just that the general's wife was so famous that almost everyone thought that the two of them were a match made in heaven, existing naturally beyond all worldly concerns.
Xie Lingqin observed Zihe's expression, taking in her emotions, and gazed at the hazy crescent moon in the sky below, a cold smile playing on her lips.
"It is wrong for Zihe to have three wives and four concubines."
Xie Lingqin spoke as if she were discussing a matter of life and death.
More serious than ever before.
Zihe's blood seemed to freeze upon hearing those words.
How could it be wrong?
In this Northern Rong Dynasty, in this world, poor men cannot support themselves and can only have one wife and one son. But isn't that the case for those powerful and wealthy families?
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