"Nonsense!" the old lady snapped. "How could I know what Madam Min did? If I did know, how could I not punish her?"
"My children are all from the first, second, and third wives' families. It doesn't matter to me which grandson inherits the title!"
She cried out again, "Your Highness Prince Yu and Your Highness Princess, please be wise! I only learned tonight the truth that Madam Min switched the two children back then!"
"If I had known earlier, I would have made them switch them back. They are both my flesh and blood. How could I have let such a mistake continue?"
The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, all feeling that it was impossible for the old lady to have known about Min's actions beforehand. After all, they were all her children, and it wouldn't affect her who inherited the title.
Ye Qingxue snorted coldly and said, "But what if my father, Ye Xiaobai, is not your biological son? Wouldn't you be trying to seize the title from my eldest son's branch and pass it on to your son's descendants?"
A bolt of lightning ripped through the night sky, illuminating the old woman's face, which turned deathly pale, devoid of any color.
Everyone was stunned, and suddenly looked up, glancing at Ye Qingxue and then at the old lady.
The old lady finally realized what was happening and shouted angrily, "What nonsense are you spouting! Your father was born after I carried him for ten months! How could he not be my biological son! Everyone in the household can testify to that back then!"
"Qingxue, I know that sending you to the countryside when you were young made you suffer, and that you harbor resentment towards the Marquis's mansion!"
"What you can't have, you don't want anyone else to have either, so you want to destroy the entire Marquis's mansion. Today you even lied, saying that your father is not my biological son. That's just ridiculous!"
"Let's not talk about anything else. Just think about your father's face, and then think about your sisters' faces. Don't they all look a bit like me?"
This time, not only the Min family, but also the Prince Yu and his wife, Madam Zhou, Ye Cunsi and everyone else were all looking at Ye Qingxue.
They all seemed shocked by what she said.
It's unimaginable that Marquis Zhongyong Ye Xiaobai wasn't the old lady's biological son.
Ye Qingxue said, "Alright, then please explain, Madam, what is the story behind the skeleton that has been kept behind your Buddhist hall? Who is she?"
The old woman opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to argue, but something seemed to be blocking her throat, and she couldn't make a sound.
Granny Wang helped her up and said to Ye Qingxue, "That was the old lady's good friend when she was young. She is enshrined in the Buddhist hall to pray for her soul's soul to be delivered to the afterlife!"
The old lady and Granny Wang had long suspected that Ye Qingxue had discovered the secret of the small Buddhist hall.
But they thought that even if Ye Qingxue knew the whole truth, it didn't matter. Tonight, Ye Qingxue would die in the fire at Guanju Courtyard, taking all the secrets with her.
They never imagined that Ye Qingxue would come out alive and question the skeleton!
The old lady, supporting Wang Mama's arm, weakly agreed, "That's exactly right!"
Ye Qingxue, however, approached them step by step.
She was tall, had a cool and aloof demeanor, and exuded an imposing presence.
For a moment, the old lady wanted to step back, but she managed to control herself.
Ye Qingxue stood in front of the old lady: "If she is your sister, and you want to perform a ritual for her soul, why are you binding so many red threads on her bones? That clearly means she will never be able to be reborn!"
Ye Qingxue immediately called Dongbai over, and together with Granny Hu, they went to bring out the skeleton.
Dongbai and Granny Hu left to carry out their orders. Ye Qingxue whispered in the old lady's ear, "I know you moved that skeleton away temporarily just in case. My people have been watching you. I know where the skeleton is hidden."
The old lady tensed up, glaring at Ye Qingxue, and raised her hand to slap her hard across the face, trying to suppress her with her grandmotherly aura.
However, Ye Qingxue stopped her wrist.
Unable to break free, the old woman was furious: "Fine, so what if I want that skeleton to never be reincarnated? Can't a person have someone they hate to the core? Who doesn't have an enemy?"
"Just because I have an enemy and can't let go of my hatred, does that give you the right to slander Ye Xiaobai as not being my biological son? What do these two things have to do with each other!"
At this point, everyone else fell silent, simply watching.
Whether it was Min's doing or the fact that the old lady wasn't Ye Xiaobai's biological mother, it all sounded too unexpected and too shocking.
They couldn't get a word in edgewise.
The skeleton was carried over by Dongbai and Granny Hu on a frame, covered with a white cloth. After the cloth was removed, red threads of varying ages could be seen on the skeleton's body.
On such a rainy night, it looked particularly eerie, and low gasps of surprise rippled through the crowd.
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