Ouyang Mansion's Main House
Ouyang Zhen, the head of the Ouyang family, glared at the eldest lady with anger on his face. His chest heaved violently, as if an uncontrollable rage was burning in him.
He paced back and forth in the room, each step seemed unusually heavy, revealing his inner restlessness and anxiety.
The eldest lady looked at Ouyang Zhen with some fear in her heart. She asked cautiously:
"Master, what's wrong with you? Ever since you came back from the palace this afternoon, your face has been frighteningly gloomy. What on earth happened in the palace?"
Ouyang Zhen suddenly stopped in his tracks when he heard the eldest lady's question. He trembled as he extended his finger, pointing it directly at the eldest lady, and asked in a trembling voice, "I'm asking you, is Jin'er my child?"
The eldest lady's pupils shrank suddenly, but it was only for a moment. She quickly regained her composure and acted as if nothing had happened.
"Master, what nonsense are you talking about? Jin'er is of course our biological son, and our most outstanding son. Even the Empress said before her death that with Jin'er around, the Ouyang family would prosper for at least another fifty years."
However, Ouyang Zhen did not believe what the eldest lady said at all. He roared in anger:
"The Empress Dowager summoned me to the palace this afternoon. How dare you lie to me here?"
When the eldest lady heard that the Empress Dowager had summoned Ouyang Zhen, her face instantly turned pale and bloodless. Her body seemed to have lost its support and fell straight back.
For so many years, she had kept this secret deep in her heart. She never expected that it would be revealed today, which made her feel extremely panicked and desperate.
"Tell me! What's going on? Do you want to implicate the entire Ouyang family before you tell me?"
Seeing that she still didn't want to speak, Ouyang Zhen held her hand tightly and walked out of the house. The eldest lady looked carefully and saw that her yard had been surrounded by a group of mysterious people in black. The atmosphere was extremely tense.
Her lips trembled involuntarily and her body began to stagger, as if she would fall at any moment.
Finally, she could no longer hold on, and staggered back to the inner room, where she sat down on a chair, her face as pale as paper.
"Are these people... the Queen Mother's men?" The eldest lady asked with a trembling voice filled with obvious fear.
Ouyang Zhen nodded helplessly and said solemnly, "Yes, it's the Queen Mother's people. You should know that you will definitely not survive tonight. So, hand over what the Queen Mother wants. This way, you may be able to save other innocent people."
The eldest lady widened her eyes, looked at Ouyang Zhen in disbelief, and muttered to herself:
"How could she know this? She has never discovered it in all these years..."
Ouyang Zhen sneered and interrupted her mercilessly:
"It's pointless to say this. You and the Queen Mother were best friends. She's been so caring for you for so many years. But who could have imagined that you'd betray her and climb into the late Emperor's bed? Now that things have come to this, do you think she'll let you go?"
Ouyang Zhen's words were like a sharp knife, piercing the Madam's heart. He was not only mocking the Madam, but also mocking himself.
After all, the son he was most proud of was actually the illegitimate son of the previous emperor, which made him feel extremely sad and ashamed.
It's a pity that Jin'er, a child with both literary and military skills and elegant demeanor, should have been the pride of the Ouyang family, but because of this incident, she has no connection with the Ouyang family anymore.
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