Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2745 Still Vigorous in Old Age 129.0
"Yes!" Xiao Fengqi didn't shy away from the truth and frankly admitted to the scheme. "If Heaven wants to destroy someone, it first makes them mad, doesn't it?"

"Thinking about it carefully, it's really quite frightening." Song Yaojia gently tapped the table, looked at Xiao Fengqi, and said, "You see, whether it's the Xiao family, the Qi family, or other major clans in your camp, they all made plans against them after they had developed. But your late king was different. Perhaps he started planning from the moment he was forced to marry into another family, was forced to become a concubine, and had to have two children."

"What Brother Yaojia means is..." Shen Cha followed Song Yaojia's train of thought and couldn't help but shudder. She looked at Shen Haolin, then at Chu Han behind him, and saw them nod at her calmly and indifferently. She was at a loss. "This...this..." She looked at Xiao Fengqi, who had a sullen face, and then at Jin Miaomiao, who was just as at a loss as she was. "Isn't that too cruel?"

“It is ruthless, but it is indeed something the late king would do.” Xiao Fengqi sighed and nodded to Song Yaojia. “My great-aunt also had doubts and once tried to ask the late king, but he wouldn’t say anything, neither admitting nor denying. Thinking about it carefully, it’s quite frightening, isn’t it?”

"He hates the concubine, he hates her family, and he also hates the late Princess Consort." Seeing the children all turn around and look at him with puzzled eyes, Chu Han sneered, "Young Master Xiao has met the late King of Liao and had dealings with him. What kind of person do you think he was?"

"What kind of person was he?" Xiao Fengqi thought for a moment and said, "To me, he was a very kind and benevolent elder. After all, I was not very old when he passed away, and I had not yet truly become the heir of the Xiao family, so he was not so wary of me. To him, I was a friend of Young Master Lan and Young Master Nan, and a fairly clever junior."

"So, you haven't seen his ruthlessness." Chu Han raised an eyebrow slightly. "Do you know how he reacted when Xiao Xiao and Xiao Qi were betrayed by a mole in their family, the two young princes, and their maternal relatives, and traded to Mian?"

"What is it?"

"He told your great-aunt and the head of the Qi family, who is also Xiao Qi's grandfather, that the matter of Mian should be handled by the Great Xia. They will not show favoritism, he is very certain of that. But he will definitely deal with the two young princes and their maternal families, and the result of this dealing will satisfy everyone. He will not allow anyone to provoke him and challenge his authority again and again. He said that he had already let them off the hook twenty years ago, but they not only did not restrain themselves, but became even more outrageous. So don't blame him for being ruthless. Anyway, they have already done it once. If he provokes them again and makes them do it again, they will not doubt it. On the contrary, they will be overjoyed."

How do you know all this?

"If you said it to my face, how could I not know?" Chu Han looked at Xiao Fengqi and explained, "It was when I met with the late King of Liao to deal with the matter of your kidnapping. The patriarchs of the Xiao family and the Qi family were present at the time, who are your great-aunt and Xiao Qi's grandfather."

"The late king made no attempt to conceal his disgust for them, even in front of you, my benefactor..." Xiao Fengqi couldn't believe the extent of the late King Liao's hatred for this family. He looked at Chu Han and asked, "You just said that the late king not only hated his concubines, their children, and their families, but also his late queen. What does that mean?"

"You can understand why they're so fond of the concubines, right?" Seeing the children nod, Chu Han smiled. "What you can't understand is why they're so fond of the former princess, right?"

"Yes, didn't he love the late Princess Consort very much? He was determined to marry her no matter what, so how could he hate her?" "I said before, his love for the late Princess Consort wasn't as much as others thought. Otherwise, no matter how much he loved her, he would have protected Young Master Lan instead of making excuses to let him suffer so much at such a young age." Chu Han sighed and looked at Xiao Fengqi. "What I'm about to say was told to me by the Prince of Liao himself. Even your great-aunt, Xiao Qi's grandfather, didn't know it. That's why I'm so sure he hated the late Princess Consort, and after her death, he transferred that hatred to Young Master Lan."

"Please speak, my benefactor."

“During that meeting, he used the excuse of wanting to learn about the Sleep organization to keep me behind and said he had some things he wanted to say to me.” Chu Han shrugged. “I asked him at the time, since we were meeting for the first time and were basically strangers, plus we were from two different countries, why would he tell me these things?”

“Yes!” Jin Miaomiao nodded. “If he wants to find someone to confide in,” she paused, thought for a while, and then sighed, “he probably won’t even be able to find anyone to confide in.”

“That’s right.” Chu Han chuckled. “We all believe that the moment he finished confiding in someone, his words had already spread throughout the residences of all the royal family members and important officials in Linhuang Prefecture.”

“That’s true.” Xiao Fengqi nodded. “Especially since many of my innermost thoughts may involve the interests of the court and the interests between various ministers and royal residences. I didn’t quite understand this before, but now I understand it better than ever.”

"Therefore, if he wanted to confide in someone, he had to find someone who wasn't involved in this relationship of interest, and I just happened to be the most suitable person to appear when he most wanted to confide in someone."

What did he say to you?

"I don't remember the specifics, but the gist was..." Chu Han thought for a moment and said, "Oh, we had a couple of drinks that day. He was a little drunk, probably trying to embolden himself with alcohol. He didn't say anything else, mainly about the Princess. He said that the Princess had lived with Aunt Xiao for so many days, yet she hadn't learned any of Aunt Xiao's decisiveness or her methods. She knew that her biological parents, her current parents, and her family treated her badly, so why didn't she fight back? Her inaction directly led to their lawlessness and caused this shameful forced marriage, making him and the Yelü family lose face and dignity. If she had fought back, he wouldn't be in this situation, forced to marry someone he despises and hates." He sighed softly and said, "He told me a secret while he was drunk, a secret that probably only I know in the whole world."

"What is it?"

"Those two little princes were not his children."