Chen Ke stiffened his neck, looking dissatisfied. "Then why is it that whenever someone tries to assassinate my eldest brother, my father always suspects his son of doing it?"
Now no matter what his father suspected, Shen Ke didn't dare to admit it.
Ever since his mother was exiled, he and his sister Shen Lan's status in the Marquis' Mansion has not been as respected as before. If his grandmother had not protected them, they would have been bullied by others and would have died.
After all, Chen Ke still hated his father a little!
This time, even though he knew that his father had gone to Linzhou to find his elder brother, he still sent people to Linzhou to assassinate him at the instigation of Liu Jiner.
What he was thinking was that he was his father's biological son. If his father and his elder brother were both gone, the title of Wu'an Marquis would definitely fall to him, the only legitimate son of Wu'an Marquis.
Under the temptation of such conditions, he acquiesced to the assassin's decision to "leave no one alive."
Marquis Wu'an was a little tired. When he went to Linzhou this time, he didn't expect to encounter his favorite son assassinating his own son. He felt extremely uncomfortable when he asked about it!
That's why I rushed back to the capital, just to confirm whether it was Chen Ke who did it.
In fact, there was no need to investigate this matter at all. He already knew in his heart that it was Chen Ke who did it.
I just don't want to believe it!
Then he thought, Shen Nian is fine, as long as Shen Ke admits that he sent someone to assassinate him, then he will forgive him once for the sake of father and son!
But this evil creature has no remorse at all!
"Humph! I doubt you! Do I need to doubt you?" Wu Anhou said angrily, "The assassin has confessed everything clearly. If it weren't for your elder brother and I being lucky, I wouldn't be standing here talking to you right now!"
"But isn't it a bit hasty for father to say that his son did it based on the testimony of just one assassin?" Chen Ke continued to argue, "Couldn't it be that my eldest brother set me up?"
"A trap?" Wu Anhou was furious. "How could someone set a trap for his own life and his father's life?"
This son really disappointed him. Even at this moment, he didn't care about his father's life or death, and was still trying to make excuses for himself!
"Isn't the father standing in front of his son?" Chen Ke grumbled unwillingly!
Wu Anhou was furious, "What did you say?"
This rebellious son really can’t be kept this time!
"Come here, apply the family law! Open the ancestral hall!"
Marquis Wu'an had a dark face and strode out!
After leaving the house, he turned around and ordered, "Take that rebellious son with you!"
After saying this, he strode towards the ancestral hall.
Lin Qing twisted Chen Ke, "Fourth Young Master, I'm sorry!"
After saying this, without waiting for Chen Ke to resist, he directly picked her up from his arm and followed Marquis Wu'an to the ancestral hall.
When they arrived at the ancestral hall, Chen Ke was thrown to the ground by Lin Qing!
"Kneel down!"
Marquis Wu'an personally took the execution of the family law and threw it on Chen Ke's back with a "bang"!
Chen Ke was knocked to the ground by the whip unexpectedly, and cried out "Ah..." in pain.
Marquis Wu'an didn't give him a chance and whipped him again and again, causing Shen Ke to roll on the ground. "Father, I didn't kill you, big brother. Why are you defending me so much?"
Even though Chen Ke rolled on the ground after being beaten, he still questioned Marquis Wu'an unconvinced!
Seeing that his son still did not repent even at this time, Marquis Wu'an became even more angry.
"Rebellious son! You did it! Why don't you admit it?"
Thinking of this, he beat even harder!
"Father, you're going to beat your son to death today. I didn't do it, so I didn't do it!"
Shen Ke retorted stubbornly, he just didn’t believe that his father could really beat him to death for Shen Nian?
The old lady heard that the Marquis of Wu'an had gone to open the ancestral hall and was a little confused. "Why is the Marquis opening the ancestral hall so late at night?"
Aunt Zhang had been staying in the room with the old lady the whole time, and she had no idea what was going on. "Old lady, would you like me to send someone to check it out?"
It's almost dark, why is the Marquis going to the ancestral hall?
"Well, let's go and take a look!" The old lady was uneasy, so she sent someone to the ancestral hall to see what had happened.
A moment later, Mu Jin came in in a panic, "Madam, the Marquis is enforcing family discipline in the ancestral hall!"
When Mu Jin heard the maid's reply, she felt panic in her heart. She didn't know how the Fourth Young Master had offended the Marquis again?
"Use family rules? Why?" The old lady was puzzled. The eldest son had just returned, so who would be punished by family rules?
"It's the Fourth Young Master!" Mu Jin said hesitantly, "I don't know why, but I heard the Fourth Young Master was almost beaten to death."
This was also the reason why she was panicked, because she had never seen Marquis Wu'an so angry.
Even though Liu had made such a mistake in the past, she had never treated the Fourth Young Master like this!
When the old lady heard that Chen Ke was about to be beaten to death, she panicked and dropped the tea bowl in her hand to the ground!
"Hurry, help me go and take a look!" The old lady got off the kang in a panic. Nanny Zhang hurried forward to support her, while instructing Mu Jin to put shoes on the old lady quickly.
After the old lady put on her shoes, Nanny Zhang helped her hurry to the ancestral hall.
"Hurry up!" the old lady urged. Mu Jin held on to the other side, fearing that the old lady would accidentally fall.
By the time the old lady arrived at the ancestral hall breathlessly, Chen Ke had already been beaten unconscious.
"My Lord, what are you doing?" The old lady walked over distressedly, looking at Chen Ke lying on the ground with a little anger, "What did Ke'er do to you? You're so angry just after coming back?"
Seeing Chen Ke being beaten and covered in blood, the old lady was so distressed that she quickly asked Mu Jin to help him up, "Go and see what happened."
Mu Jin went over, but she didn't know where to start. Blood was gushing out of Chen Ke's entire body, and he looked so cruel.
Just as Mu Jin was about to help him up, Wu An Hou yelled at her, "Leave him alone!"
Mu Jin's outstretched hand trembled in fear and she quickly retracted it. She looked at Marquis Wu'an in fear and then quickly looked at the old lady.
The old lady stamped her feet in anger, "My Lord, he's your son. Why can't you just talk to him nicely? Why do you have to beat him like this?"
She was so angry because this was her favorite grandson.
I have never been beaten so badly!
"Mother, you'd better go back! If I don't beat this rebellious son to death today, I'll be letting my ancestors down!"
Marquis Wu'an was so angry that he could hardly breathe. Even though he had just been trembling like that, Chen Ke was still stubborn and refused to give in. So what was the point of having this son?
This rebellious son even wants to kill his own father, what else can't he do?
It's no wonder that Marquis Wu'an was angry. When he was interrogating the assassin leader's subordinates in Linzhou, one of the assassins confessed that the person who hired them said that everyone around Shen Nian must be killed and no one should be left alive!
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