Several boys were seen bullying a little girl. The leader of the group was the worst; he pushed the girl to the ground, said some nasty things, and tried to hit her.
"Miss! How could they..." The steward's expression changed drastically.
Tianning asked, "Is that the city lord's wife's child?"
The steward said, "Yes... The city lord and his wife have two children. Besides Miss Xin, who is six years old, there is the young master who was born half a year ago."
As the two were talking, Shi Qinxin, unable to bear it any longer, stepped forward, pulled the boy away, and helped the girl on the ground up.
"Who are you? The City Lord's Mansion is letting in all sorts of random people now?!"
He was about to continue his attack when he was startled by the sword Shi Qinxin held to his neck: "You, you, you dare to lay a hand on my Wang family in the City Lord's Mansion!"
Shi Qinxin coldly said, "Get out!"
"You wait, my father will never let you get away with this!" The boy retreated tremblingly, not forgetting to utter a threat before leaving.
"Miss! Miss!" The steward rushed over to check if the girl was injured.
"Don't worry, she's fine," Shi Qinxin said, her gaze towards the girl complicated. She asked, "Who were those people?"
The steward's face darkened. "They're from the Wang family, relatives of the city lord..."
At this point, everyone learned from the steward that the Snow City Lords had always been surnamed Yun. The reason the current Lord was surnamed Wang was because the old Lord valued him highly and specially recruited him as a son-in-law. However, the Wang family was restless and had been causing trouble in secret since the old Lord left. Out of consideration for face, the Lord did not suppress the Wang family too harshly.
But no one expected that the Wang family would be so audacious as to plot the death of the city lord and have his twin brother take his place!
"I don't know what kind of underhanded methods they used to evade the oath of heaven!" The steward sighed repeatedly, his face full of worry. "Ever since that fake city lord returned, the Wang family has become increasingly outrageous. Targeting the madam is one thing, but they even targeted the young lady. No matter what, the young lady has half the blood of the Wang family flowing in her veins..."
"This is outrageous!"
Shi Qinxin wanted to say something, but Tianning grabbed her hand, and she realized that she had overreacted.
The little girl looked to be only five or six years old. If her child grows up safely, he will probably look like this too...
Just then, a maid came over and said that the young master had already fallen asleep, and the madam was inviting everyone to go in.
The group followed the maid into the reception room, where they saw Madam Yun, seated at the head of the table, calling out to the little girl, "Xin'er!"
The little girl ran away with a stern face, refusing to acknowledge her.
Madam Yun hurriedly sent her maid to chase after them. Perhaps because she had to take care of her young child, her face was full of fatigue.
"I'm sorry to have made you all laugh," Madam Yun sighed softly, "Since my Daoist partner passed away, my two children and I have been living in dire straits. I have devoted most of my energy to my young child, to the point that I have neglected Xin'er's feelings. I am not a good mother..."
Seeing her sadness rising, Helian Boda changed the subject, saying, "Madam, let's talk about serious matters."
"Why are you so sure it was the city lord's brother who replaced him?"
"Because they look almost identical," Madam Yun said, forcing herself to emerge from her grief, "but my partner Wang Lang and his younger brother Wang Shengan have completely different personalities. One is a diligent city lord who works hard to benefit the people of Snow City, while the other is a coward who relies on the Wang family's wealth to live a life of idleness and waiting to die..."
"By the way, Wang Shengan's cultivation level is extremely low. He's over forty years old but still only at the Foundation Establishment stage. However, starting a year ago, the Wang family used some kind of medicine to make his cultivation level advance by leaps and bounds. At the time, I just looked down on the Wang family from the bottom of my heart, but I didn't expect them to be so cunning, actually wanting to take over the entire Snow City!"
"And most importantly, my partner disappeared with Wang Shengan on the day they fought the beast tide! They were missing in the snow mountain for a month. When they came back, he said that Wang Shengan was dead and that he had been lucky enough to be saved, but I don't believe it! I suspect that they killed him, and that it wasn't him who came back, but Wang Shengan!"
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