"Cen Xiao, do you really consider me your godfather?"
"nature."
"Then why did you allow Yang to harm Xuan'er? She's your sister! If you truly consider me your godfather, you shouldn't have let Xuan'er be bullied!"
No one bullied her.
"Crack!" Qiu Tianyun threw a teacup at Cen Xiao. Cen Xiao turned slightly to the side, and the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.
Cen Xiao said calmly, "Godfather should not believe only one side of the story. You can send someone to investigate carefully."
"You mean my daughter is lying to me?"
Upon hearing these words and the tone, Cen Xiao and Yang Cui could easily guess that Qiu Mingxuan had definitely been spreading rumors about Qiu Tianyun.
"I'll take the children outside first, you can talk," Yang Cui said, then led the children to sit on the stone benches outside.
This is Cen Xiao's godparent, so Cen Xiao should step in to resolve this.
Inside the room, Cen Xiao slowly said, "Godfather, what kind of person do you think I am?"
Qiu Tianyun was speechless.
Cen Xiao then said, "If you don't trust my wife's character, you should trust me..." Cen Xiao then told Qiu Tianyun everything that Qiu Mingxuan had done in Wan'an County.
What Cen Xiao said was basically different from what Qiu Mingxuan and Granny Tang said, and Qiu Tianyun fell into deep thought.
At this moment, Cen Xiao added, "I have no physical evidence that she colluded with outsiders to try to harm my wife, but I do have witnesses. It's only because my wife was lucky enough to survive that she came back alive, and she is your only child. Otherwise, why do you think she would have survived?"
Upon hearing this, Qiu Tianyun was immediately alarmed: "You don't even have any solid evidence, yet you still want to kill her?!"
"Godfather, I hope you can persuade her properly and not make any more mistakes, so as not to damage our relationship. If there is a next time, I will not be so lenient."
Cen Xiao spoke calmly, but Qiu Tianyun knew that Cen Xiao's words were not just empty talk.
"She loves you, while Yang is just a divorced woman who has been married before. How can you expect Xuan'er to accept this?"
Upon hearing this, Cen Xiao's expression turned serious: "Just because you're unwilling to accept it, you can harm others? What kind of logic is that? My background isn't good either, and I'm also a second-time bride. You may not like her, but I hope you won't use her background to attack her. In my heart, she's a good person. No matter how bad my wife's background is, it's not up to Qiu Mingxuan to bully her."
"If you're willing to marry Yang and even marry into her family, why can't you marry Xuan'er?"
“Because I don’t like her!” Cen Xiao said decisively. “Besides, aren’t you afraid of her suspicions?”
Qiu Tianyun was terrified upon hearing this.
He knew perfectly well who "that person" referred to.
The sons of the Qiu family died on the battlefield, and the only surviving descendant was Qiu Mingxuan. That's why the emperor trusts the Qiu family so much now and calls her "Xuan girl" so affectionately.
However, once Cen Xiao marries his enemy, neither Cen Xiao nor his enemy will have a good end.
If a general is too incompetent, the emperor will worry; if he is too capable, the emperor will still worry.
Cen Xiao had thought about this problem from the beginning, and of course, it was also true that he didn't like Qiu Mingxuan.
“I’d like to persuade Qiu Mingxuan properly. I don’t want to damage the relationship between our two families,” Cen Xiao said. “We’ll head back now. My wife is an excellent cook. Father, when you have time, please come over and try your daughter-in-law’s cooking.”
After saying this, Cen Xiao bowed and returned home with his family.
Qiu Tianyun's heart remained unsettled for a long time.
After calming down, he realized more and more that Cen Xiao was right; his precious daughter hadn't told the truth.
Subsequently, Qiu Tianyun secretly interrogated Zhuang Zhicheng and the other guards, and finally questioned Qing'er and Granny Tang.
Granny Tang stubbornly refused to budge, but Qing'er wasn't as resolute as Granny Tang. When Qiu Tianyun learned the truth, he collapsed into a chair, utterly astonished that his daughter had done such a thing.
As Cen Xiao said, no matter how bad Yang Cui's background was, it was not a reason for Qiu Mingxuan to hurt her.
It seems we must find her a husband...
*
Cen Xiao and his family went directly to the Star Gazing Tower for dinner.
What brings you here today?
He met Su Murong at the restaurant.
"We come to the restaurant to eat, of course," Yang Cui said with a smile. "Business is good."
When business was mentioned, Su Murong's smile became even brighter, and she lowered her voice to say, "Thanks to you, pork and vegetables and rice noodles are in high demand."
"This must be Madam Cen," said the man beside Su Murong. "Madam Cen, my name is Guo Zhenyu. I have long admired your name."
As soon as Guo Zhenyu gave his name, Yang Cui knew who he was.
"Let's talk later, let's go upstairs first." After Su Murong finished speaking, he led everyone to the private room on the third floor. As the owner, he always reserved a private room for his own use in his restaurant.
As soon as Cen Xiao and the others went upstairs, the people downstairs started talking about it...
"Isn't that General Cen? The woman beside him must be his wife."
"I heard she's a country girl, but her appearance and demeanor don't seem to match."
"I heard she's the ex-wife of Lin Shikang, the famous scholar from a poor family who went on to achieve the highest rank in the imperial examinations."
"Such a thing actually happened? Who told you that?"
"Huh? You all don't know? This news came from the Duke's mansion. You all know that the enemy's daughter chased after him all the way to Wan'an."
"What kind of taste does General Cen have? He just had to take a fancy to a divorced woman. But this woman is quite something."
"If I wasn't powerful, how could I have managed to get Lin Tanhua to that remote little county town? Everyone says that this general is not interested in women, but it seems that's just a rumor. In the end, even heroes can't resist the charms of a beautiful woman."
"I don't quite believe it."
"I don't believe it either. I heard she's from the countryside, but I never heard she was secondhand..."
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