A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Qi Xin didn't expect that the turn would be so sudden, and the topic would turn to himself inexplicably.

Instinctively, she took two quick steps, moved behind Cen Shi, and grabbed the corner of Cen Shi's clothes.

Seeing the serious and even cold expression on Master Cen's face, Mrs. Cen couldn't help being agitated.

She held her daughter's hand and chatted to comfort her. At the same time, she pretended to be calm and smiled, and continued to say kindly: "Second brother, children's marriage is a lifelong event, don't make such a joke."

Something happened to Qi Xin, and her reputation in the circle of ladies in the capital was ruined.

But the Marquis of Changning is still there, so why is she still a girl from the second wife of the dignified Hou's mansion, and has a father who is a second-rank Beijing official!

No matter how bad it is--

It is not enough to give in and come to be a concubine for the son of a fifth-rank official.

Master Cen's words...

Even if it is a joke, it will hurt the feelings of relatives.

not to mention--

His expression and tone now don't look like he's joking.

Cen felt that he seemed to have gone crazy suddenly, why did he suddenly change his face when he changed his face?
But the three of them, mother and son, are now on someone else's territory, too far away from Beijing, so it can be said that they are isolated and helpless.

So, inexplicably...

A feeling of fear began to rise in her heart, giving her the illusion of being tricked into a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair.

"I'm not joking!" Second Master Cen really didn't stop there.

Not only did he not take back what he said before, he even made it worse, and pointedly glanced at Qi Yuanming, who had a gloomy and disapproving expression, and said loudly: "You and I are brothers and sisters, and I'm already showing you favor. If you want to blame, blame you for not being strict in teaching your children. You don't have to feel wronged. Could it be that your family is only allowed to destroy my daughter, and your daughter is precious and precious, and no one can touch it? This is because of the relationship between brothers and sisters Come on, otherwise your son will be gone today."

Cen was not a fool at all, so he quickly understood what he was implying.

However, her first reaction was to not believe it.

She also took a look at her son, and then quickly regained her composure, still trying to reason with her second brother: "Second brother, you must have misunderstood, our brother Ming..."

"Did you misunderstand and ask your son yourself?" Second Master Cen ran out of patience and interrupted her directly.

Cen choked on his cold attitude, and felt a pain in his chest for a while.

Master Cen Er said: "Leave this girl as compensation to my Cen family. As for your mother and son...you can leave if you want, I won't force you to stay!"

After saying that, he turned around decisively and left without giving Cen a chance to speak again.

After pushing the door and going out, he ordered his followers in the yard: "Show me this yard, other people are free to go or stay. The girl from the Qi's family watched me, and she is not allowed to step out of this yard."

Cen saw that he was really serious, and hurriedly chased him into the yard: "Second brother, listen to me..."

Before the words were finished, Master Cen continued to stride away mercilessly.

It was only then that Cen noticed that there were more than a dozen tall and burly family guards outside the courtyard, guarding the only exit of the courtyard tightly.

Seeing this battle, she couldn't help shivering.

On Qi Xin's small face, her face was pale, she was so frightened that she was about to cry, step by step, she clutched her sleeve tightly: "Mother."

She obviously just accompanied her mother out of Beijing to visit relatives, why did she take herself out out of nowhere?
Why did her uncle, who was always so kind to her, suddenly change his face and become this way?

If it was the Cen's family in the capital, Cen would go out without any psychological burden, because she knew that the Marquis of Changning would back her, and that would be her confidence!
But now, the three of them are thousands of miles away, and deeply trapped in other people's territory, but she knows the current affairs and dare not even bark her teeth.

Heartbroken, she took her daughter back into the house.

Close the door and look at——

Qi Yuanming still had a gloomy but immobile expression, standing there calmly, motionless.

No matter how much Cen protects his shortcomings, he can see that there is something wrong with his son.

She stepped forward angrily, and asked sharply, "You tell me the truth, is what your uncle said true?"

He, the second brother, is now the pillar of the Cen family, without relying on any relationship, he became an official in the imperial examination, and he was a fifth-rank governor in his early forties. Because of his speculation, he blatantly turned against her and the Qi family of the Marquis of Changning.

now--

This is obviously because my son really pulled out the scales of others!
When the fire burned to his body, Qi Xin was also very angry, and couldn't wait to ask: "Brother, what does the second uncle mean when you say that you ruined his daughter? Could it be that Cen Huiyuan is you..."

She is also an unmarried girl, although she doesn't have much contact with her cousin, Cen Huiyuan, and she doesn't have a deep friendship, but thinking of what happened to Cen Huiyuan is also frightening.

The next moment, the way she looked at her brother changed accordingly.

It seemed that this person was not the elder brother who grew up with her, but a mad stranger.

Qi Xin was only in the middle of speaking, and stopped abruptly in fright.

"Speak?" Cen couldn't bear it and asked loudly again.

Qi Yuanming, instead of being afraid or regretting it, said coldly with hatred on his face: "So what if I plotted against you? The world is all for profit, and their family is only useful for this..."

Before he finished speaking, Cen raised his hand furiously and slapped him again.

"Are you crazy?" Cen's eyes turned red with anger, "That's your own uncle and cousin! Even if it's to ask him to support you, what can't you say properly?"

In fact, she also quickly realized her son's real intention of making such a bad move...

First of all, Cen Huiyuan was already engaged, and he was engaged to Mrs. Cen Er's natal nephew. As the wedding date was approaching, it was almost impossible for him to intervene. Madam's grudge, so that even if Qi Yuanming became the son-in-law of the Cen family, the mother-in-law would blow the pillow wind to the old man from time to time to hinder him from supporting him. This is also a great resistance. The effect here is that only when Cen Huiyuan is ruined like now and the Cen family's scandals are used as a handle, the Cen family and his wife will be grateful and jealous of him, and they will be willing to be pawns in the future and spare no effort to protect him.

To be honest, if he was still the second son of the Qi family who was favored by the people, Qi Yuanming would not look down on his uncle's family at all, but at this time and at that time, because Qi Huan made a good marriage and stabilized the position of the eldest house, his father He basically missed the title, and he fell out of favor because of his failure in the imperial examination. Now he urgently needs to make plans for himself and find another way out.

In order to do this game, he is desperate.

but don't want to...

His uncle is completely out of touch!
Qi Yuanming was already furious, but Cen's slap immediately angered him.

He spat out the blood foam in his mouth, and his expression instantly became ferocious: "If I can talk about everything well, I won't be sent out and everyone will ignore me. Relying on myself alone, I'm afraid I won't even be able to go back to the capital within ten or eight years, and if I don't plan for myself, am I just nesting in that ghostly place in the backcountry and waiting to die of old age?"

In the past ten or twenty years, why didn't Cen have great expectations for his son's future?

Qi Yuanming made it like this, and she was actually worried all the time for the past six months, and it was difficult.

"That can't be..." Her voice suddenly weakened.

Qi Yuanming was already irritable, and interrupted her angrily: "Why can't I? The second uncle has the face to say that it's also a scheme. I would like to ask him why he can scheme against others by any means, and others can't count him as him." ? Where did he get the family business and confidence that he holds in his hands today? Mother, you don’t know. Back then, in order to seize the family business, he kicked away stumbling blocks, but he even killed his own brothers and sisters. It’s too late, but now he’s making such a sanctimonious gesture...it’s just ridiculous!"

"Shut up!" Cen growled in a panicked voice, rushed forward and covered her son's mouth.

At the same time, he turned his head and looked towards the door in fear, for fear that his words would be overheard or reach Master Cen's ears.

Qi Yuanming's expression was a little crazy at this time, and he was still unconvinced when he was pushed into the back room with a look of resentment on his face, and he said bitterly: "A sinister villain who even killed his own brothers, I will sue the judge for his life." No more, what else is there to play?"

"Ming'er, are you trying to force me to death?" Mrs. Cen beat him desperately, not daring to scold him too loudly, "What kind of situation is this, what kind of place is this? Do you understand the truth of people living under the eaves? You Didn't you promise that I would forget about it? Don't mention it again, do you hear?"

The viciousness of her second brother has actually always caused Cen Shi to have lingering fears.

When Qi Yuanming was still young, she didn't dare to say some things too seriously, for fear of scaring her son to death, but in fact she knew very well in her heart——

Since her second brother was able to kill her eldest brother in order to inherit the family business, she could also lay hands on their mother and son in order to silence them.

Although times have changed now, if Qi Yuanming recklessly revealed this matter, it would cause a great disaster.

Qi Yuanming has always known his mother's attitude towards this matter, but he only thought that she was protecting her own brother for the sake of protecting her shortcomings and her own selfishness.

In his opinion, the Cen family is to be controlled by the Qi family, not to mention that the second master Cen has a reason to murder his brother.

He had been devious before, trying to use other methods to win over his accomplices, but he didn't want to pierce the window paper and completely tear his face, but now that his second uncle doesn't know how to flatter...

He didn't really mind talking about it.

It's just that Cen's reaction is intense now, he is tired of dealing with his old mother, so he simply hangs his neck and doesn't speak at this moment.

Mrs. Cen tried to comfort him for a long time, and even forced him to swear to his face that he would never bring this matter to Master Cen. After getting his guarantee, he was relieved.

Seeing that the night was getting late, she brought Qi Xin into another room in the guest courtyard.

Qi Xin was dumbfounded by the secrets of the Cen family.

When she was at Qi Yuanming's place just now, her thoughts were confused for a moment, so she endured a long time without making a sound, and waited to go back to the house, and then said in a daze, "Mother, what you told brother just now...is it true? My uncle He was really..."

As he said that, he shuddered instinctively.

When the elder of the Qi family died, she was only two or three years old. She didn't remember anything at the time, but only knew that the elder uncle fell into the pond and drowned because of drunkenness on the night of her grandmother's birthday.

At that time, the eldest uncle had only two daughters and no son, so the Qi family's family business naturally fell into the hands of the second uncle who was also a descendant.

Moreover, after that, the second uncle also got the full support of his grandfather.

Cen still had lingering fear on his face, and sighed while making the bed: "It's all old, you just pretend you don't know, and you'll rot in your stomach if you die, don't mention it to anyone."

She took her daughter's hand and sat down.

Qi Xin was terrified, full of doubts: "But how did you and brother know? Could it be spreading false rumors?"

Cen said: "It's not a rumor, Brother Ming saw it with his own eyes that day. He was squatting in the flower garden next to the pond picking up shuttlecocks, and he just caught up with that stubble."

As he said that, he sighed heavily: "Speaking of it, it was a pain for him, because I was so frightened that he fainted there in the middle of the night before I found him, and he fell seriously ill because of it, that is, since then He left the root of his illness, his legs go limp when he sees water. It was for this reason that he was almost drowned by that vicious girl in Dafang last year."

Qi Xin suddenly realized: "No wonder I always remember that my brother seemed to have a serious illness around my grandmother's birthday."

But after thinking about it again, she felt that something was wrong: "But my brother passed out by the pond so coincidentally, and the second uncle didn't suspect it afterwards?"

There was also a gloomy look in Cen's eyes: "Mother Xu was the one who found him first, and we moved him to a place to deceive others. Afterwards, I told him to forget about it and never take him there. Did the government report on your second uncle?"

Not only is it a family scandal, but it is also a fatal family scandal!
In aristocratic families, there are dirty things of open and secret fighting for family property, but it would be appalling if things like murdering one's own brother were revealed.

The Cen family has three brothers in total, two of the older brothers are descendants of the concubine, and the other younger brother, the third master of the Cen family who is currently in Beijing, is a concubine.

Although her eldest brother is innocent, but after all, he is gone, she can't make up for it anymore and send her second brother to the Yamen as a murderer, and then entrust the family business to the third child, right?
Not to mention that the concubine's younger brother has not been taken seriously since he was a child, he is just a timid and cautious mediocrity...

People's hearts are separated by belly, and a brother and sister who crawled out of the belly are unreliable, and she has no reason to abandon her own brother to help a concubine younger brother.

So, their mother and son kept that matter a secret for more than ten years.

To this day, she has deceived herself that such a thing never happened.

Originally it was an old story, Qi Xin just listened to it, but now...

It is closely related, but she cannot be allowed to stay out of it.

Hearing that her second uncle even killed her own brother, she immediately turned pale with fright, and held Cen's hand tightly: "Mother, what should I do now? I can't be a concubine for my cousin. But the second uncle got angry, judging by the situation, he won't let me go."

Even if Qi Yuanming went to make amends and receive punishment, it would definitely be useless.

His second uncle is cruel and merciless, so he must utter such a bad breath.

Cen said: "Don't be in a hurry, bear with it, we won't hear from us for a long time, the Hou's mansion will send someone to look for it soon!"

Wei Feng changed two roofs, and he didn't figure out the ins and outs of everything until after two more days. He quietly put the tiles he removed back in place, and he quietly withdrawn.

Back at the inn, he reported the news to Qi Huan and Gu Zhan intact.

Qi Huan is not as optimistic as Cen's: "The second master of the Cen family is thoughtful and vicious, but he will never ignore anything that Cen can think of, and he will never give the Qi family in the capital a chance. Come here to stop it, within a couple of days, he will definitely finish the matter first and cut off the retreat of the Cen family's mother and daughter."

Although Qi Xin is good at calculating, she is often willing to use clever tricks to trip her up, but if a girl from the dignified Marquis Ning's mansion is reduced to be a concubine for the son of a fifth-rank official, that slap will be slapped on Qi Huan's face It hurts too.

Gu Zhan understood: "It's not too difficult to create opportunities to get them out."

He looked at Qi Huan.

Qi Huan said: "Don't worry, wait for the Cen family to make the first move and force them to die. Although the Cen's mother and daughter are not guilty of death, at least they have to learn some lessons to be afraid, otherwise they will not really have a long memory. "

Then after this night, taking advantage of the New Year's Eve, the eldest son of the Cen family was having a New Year's reunion at home, and the next day, matters related to taking concubines were discussed in the Cen mansion.

A hastily purchased pink wedding dress was delivered to the guest house, the mother and daughter of the Cen family all panicked as if they were facing a formidable enemy.