Hou Ye's palm heart is a black lotus

Xie Anbai paused and frowned slightly.

It was common for his father to get angry with him and even use family rules, but he had never treated his elder brother in such a tone.

This……

Just as Xie Anbai was hesitating, Xie Anjun fell to his knees with a plop.

There was a dull sound, as if it hit Xie Anbai's heart.

"Father, calm down!"

Xie Anjun lowered his voice so low that it was almost inaudible, but Xie Anbai could still hear the nervousness and fear in it.

Xie Anbai turned around and glanced in that direction.

……

In the study, Xie Pei's eyes were wide open, and he looked at Xie Anjun, who was kneeling on the ground, with extreme hatred. His body was shaking slightly because of anger.

He pointed with one hand and cursed angrily: "You! Do you know how big a crime this is!"

Xie Anjun knelt there, and in such cold weather, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

His lips were slightly pale and his eyes were lifeless, and he was obviously panicked.

"Dad, I, I didn't expect things to get to this point! Who could have thought, who could have thought that Xu Jie would be so useless? Not only did he do things dirty, but he also caused a whole series of problems!"

"How dare you say that!"

Xie Pei raised his hand high, but when he was about to strike, he was afraid of attracting the attention of people outside, so he had to endure it.

"Who is Xu Jie? I've told you long ago that he is cunning and treacherous, and you are not worthy of collaborating with him! You actually still have private dealings with him! Now that he has been imprisoned in the Sky Prison, what will you do if he spits out something?"

Xie Anjun had been favored since childhood and had never been scolded like this. He felt sad and angry.

He gritted his teeth: "He dare not, he won't say a word--"

Xie Pei interrupted him coldly: "Don't forget, this is a joint trial by the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice! Do you think Xu Fengchi is easy to fool? He lay dormant for several years in order to overturn Ye Zheng's case. Once he was exposed, he pulled Xu Jie off the horse! You don't really think that he only has those things in his hands, do you?"

He sneered and grabbed a stack of letters from the table. "If Lin'er hadn't accidentally found them, I wouldn't have known that you and Xu Jie had such a close relationship! In just a few years, you've exchanged more than a dozen letters!"

Xie Anjun felt guilty, opened his mouth, and then trembled to defend himself: "Dad, these are just ordinary letters. I believe you have already read them. There is nothing else!"

Xu Jie admired Xie Anjun's articles very much and even made a special visit to him. The two had a very pleasant conversation.

Later, Xu Jie went to Suinan, and it was inconvenient for the two to meet, so they switched to correspondence.

Xie Pei had indeed opened and read these letters. On the surface, they were just ordinary letters between friends, but who was Xie Pei?

If he couldn't even see through this little trick, he wouldn't be able to keep his position as the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.

"Nothing else?" Xie Pei seemed to have heard a joke, "How dare you say that you have never participated in any of his affairs? Especially——"

He took a deep breath and lowered his voice, so that each word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Especially, the death of Huo Yucheng——"

"father!"

Xie Anjun looked up immediately, shocked and frightened.

"My son doesn't have one! My son really doesn't have one!"

Facing Xie Pei's old eyes that seemed to see through everything, his heart trembled.

"...At least the Huo family's affairs really have nothing to do with my son!"

Xie Pei just looked at him, his eyes full of disappointment.

He always thought that his son was smart, but he never expected that one day he would be so stupid.

Xie Pei closed his eyes for a long time before he asked in a deep voice:

"Then, it has nothing to do with the eldest princess?" (End of this chapter)