After interrogating Qiao Sheng, it was almost midnight. Although they all felt very tired, they were not sleepy at all. They were thinking whether to go back to the Duke's Mansion to rest or find a room in Dali Temple to spend the night. Anyway, they would have to wait until dawn. Continue to deal with Mr. Chi Ge, Chi Hong and his son.
However, before they could reach a conclusion, they waited for the guards sent by Xuanyuan Liang. The children had no choice but to follow the guards obediently and left Dali Temple and went straight to Xuanyuan Xiaoyuan.
When they arrived, Xuanyuan Liang and Tantai Pingchuan were already waiting in the tea room. The room was extremely warm, and there were steaming supper on the table. Seeing the posture of the two old people, the three of them looked at each other. , this is to prepare for a long conversation all night long.
"You're not going to bed so late, aren't you tired?" He asked the guards to go to the prepared wing to rest. Shen Haolin washed his hands and took Shen Cha to sit opposite the two elderly people. He saw a pot of ginger soup on the table. , picked up a spoon and filled three bowls.
"I'm older. Unlike kids like you, it's pretty good if you can sleep for one to two hours a day." Xuanyuan Liang looked at the ginger soup in front of them, "Drink this first. You guys in Dali Temple You’ve been in jail for too long, get rid of the coldness on your body.”
"Okay." Shen Haolin picked up the soup bowl and drank more than half of it. He glanced at Shen Cha who was sipping the soup and Bai Meng who was drying up the soup. He shook his head gently, "It's so late and you called us specifically. Come here, do you have something to tell us, or do you have something you want to ask us?"
"All of them." Xuanyuan Liang sighed, "We have heard a general idea of what happened, and we want to hear from you in detail. By the way, we can also help you clear up your doubts and answer the questions you are most concerned about."
“Our biggest concern?”
Shen Cha spent a lot of effort to finish the ginger soup. She felt that Xuanyuan's ginger soup had enough ingredients, and she could eat tiny ginger grains in every bite. After finishing the bowl, she went to I’m not afraid of rolling around in the snow anymore. He stuffed a piece of sweet candied fruit into his mouth and chewed it for many times before he could barely suppress the spicy taste in his mouth.
"You mean, Chi Hong's life experience?" Seeing Xuanyuan Liang and Tantai Pingchuan smile, Shen Cha's eyes lit up, "Is there really a problem?"
"Didn't you all find out?" Tantai Pingchuan looked at the small stew pot on the table that was boiling, picked up a spoon and filled a bowl for everyone, "The confessions of the man named Qian and the assassin have actually said a lot. Clear."
"It's really true!" Bai Meng took the small bowl handed over by Tantai Pingchuan with both hands, "But there has never been such a rumor in Xijing City. Basically no one has heard of it. Everyone thinks that Chi Hong is Chi The biological son of Mr. Ge."
"That's because there weren't many people who knew about this matter, and there aren't many who are still alive now." Tantai Pingchuan put down the spoon in his hand and looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "Xijing City now knows Chi Hong picked it up, and apart from old man Chi, there are only two of us."
"What's the specific situation?"
"Then I don't know." Xuanyuan Liang shook his head, "When Chi Hong came to Chi Mansion, he was about five or six or seven or eight years old. Old Chi claimed that the child was sent away after he was born. They were all raised outside, and now it’s time to start enlightenment, so I brought him back. Later, it was spread that old man Chi and his sons were very kind to the youngest son and youngest brother out of guilt."
"When such news comes out, does everyone believe it?" Shen Cha looked at Xuanyuan Liang curiously, "Xijing is no better than Bianguan, and household registration control has always been very strict. Even if Chi Ge is the elder, Jingzhao Mansion will not buy it easily, right? "
"According to common sense, it should be like this. But who would have thought that there was really a young master in the Chi family who was sent away after he was born. But..." Xuanyuan Liang raised an eyebrow, "That young master just After leaving Xijing, it only took a day or two and disappeared without a trace."
"Disappeared?" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha looked at each other, "Why did it disappear?"
"Well... this," Xuanyuan Liang had a look of embarrassment on his face. He looked at Tantai Pingchuan, who was calmly drinking tea, and stretched out his hand to push him, "Tell me, I... can't say no to this kind of thing. Too exported.”
"What can't be said?" Tantai Pingchuan looked at him and found it particularly funny. He reached out and patted his arm, then looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "It's because that young master is not Old Chi's." The biological son is the illegitimate son of the deceased Mrs. Chi." He showed an evil smile, "The biological father of this child is Lu Hanlin, who has always been at odds with old man Chi."
"What kind of story is this?" Bai Meng looked at Xuanyuan Liang and then at Tantai Pingchuan, "Wait a minute, I seem to... have a little impression. I remember my grandpa once said, are Old Man Chi and Lu Hanlin related? We share a common hatred and both want to kill each other, so why would Mrs. Chi have anything to do with Lu Hanlin?"
"Lu Hanlin and Mrs. Chi are childhood sweethearts and grew up together. Mrs. Chi's natal family was very optimistic about Lu Hanlin and waited for him to rank among the top three before they arranged their marriage. Unfortunately, the big exam that year , Lu Hanlin failed and unfortunately failed, and left Xijing in despair. Before leaving, he went to see his cousin, Mrs. Chi, and asked her to wait for three more years."
"But the number one scholar that year was Mr. Chi Ge, and the old lady from Mrs. Chi's natal family has always been a snobbery. No matter how much Mrs. Chi begged, she got engaged to the Chi family and hurriedly forced Mrs. Chi to get married. Three years later. After that, Lu Hanlin returned to Beijing High School and was full of joy to marry his cousin, but he didn't expect that his cousin had already married and his son was already two years old." Tantai Pingchuan sneered, "The hatred of seizing my wife, Lu Hanlin almost did it in front of everyone. In front of the people of Xijing City, I said harsh words to Mr. Chige, and he must avenge this."
"How to repay?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "Just having a private relationship with Mrs. Chi, giving birth to an illegitimate child, and then letting the child die inexplicably? This is too stupid!"
"Compared with Old Man Chi, Lu Hanlin is really stupid. After knowing that his wife was hooking up with her cousin and even gave birth to a child, Old Man Chi was indeed very angry, but he had no choice but to do anything about it. It seems that he was at fault in the first place. If he had known that these two people had already made a lifelong commitment, he would never have agreed to the marriage."
"Then how did he do it?"
"Mrs. Chi passed away not long after giving birth to the child. Mr. Chi Ge and his sons couldn't bear the child's existence, so they thought of sending the child away from Xijing to be fostered by relatives far away. However, Lu Hanlin didn't know that the child who was sent out was his own, so he bribed the horse thieves, set up an ambush on the necessary path, and sent the guards sent by the Chi Mansion and the child..." Tantai Pingchuan did He made a gesture of wiping his neck, "It's just that only Old Man Chi and Lu Hanlin know about this matter. If we hadn't been paying attention to people and things that have anything to do with the Tantai family, we wouldn't have followed the clues and found this out. .”
"And Chi Hong replaced this child's household registration." Xuanyuan Liang looked at the three children who suddenly realized, "So, Jingzhao Mansion does not have any suspicion, do you understand?"
"Lu Hanlin later found out the truth, and he..."
"Suicide." Xuanyuan Liang added, "Old man Chi personally visited him and told him the truth."
"What a tragedy!" Bai Meng shook his head gently, "Why bother? Why bother?"
"This can clearly explain why no one doubts that Chi Hong is not a child of the Chi family." Shen Cha nodded, "It's just that when Chi Hong was lost, he should have already remembered it, right?"
"Everyone in Xijing City knows that the young master of the Chi family is in poor health. When he was brought back from outside, he was in a coma. Old Chi invited many famous doctors to treat him and he was able to save his life."
"After recovering from the illness..." Tantai Pingchuan showed a meaningful smile, "Chi Hong can't remember anything from the past at all."
