Chapter 1449 Jin Yue 50
Tan You's voice echoed in the main hall, as distant as the chanting of Brahma from the heavens: "The moment you harmed Aunt Yun, your three sons were wiped out by the Heavenly Dao."

"A life must be repaid with a life; it's very fair."

Zhang clutched her handkerchief tightly. Was that really the truth? She could have had three sons?

“You see, doing good deeds doesn’t necessarily bring immediate rewards. But if you do evil, even if others don’t see the retribution, Heaven remembers it all.”

Tan You pointed to the sky: "You yourself are worthless, and the Wei Ruoyu you raised is just like you. You deserve to be childless for the rest of your life."

Cheng Qian smirked. Those were truly harsh words.

Zhang stammered, "Son... I was supposed to have three sons..."

Because of the wickedness she displayed in her childhood, all her sons were lost...

Wei Qian: "Is your aunt suffering from hysteria?"

Tan You scoffed: "It's just that they can't accept reality."

She glanced at Liu and Old Master Wei one last time: "I'm not one to kill people, but you've been instigating Wei to mistreat Lin Jinyue and Cheng Sui for so many years, and this debt can't be settled like this."

Old Master Wei straightened his clothes and asked, "What do you intend to do?"

Tan You didn't answer, but instead started a different topic: "It's said that if elders are immoral, the family will be in turmoil. I see that almost every woman in your family has blood on her hands."

"Their own children are not enough to offset the blood debt of so many years, so the debt will accumulate generation after generation on your descendants."

She glanced at Wei Qian and Wei He as she spoke: "The Wei family's lineage is dwindling, and that's a foregone conclusion."

Old Master Wei became anxious: "Young lady, how could these underhanded tricks in the inner quarters affect the Wei family's business? We...we knew nothing about it!"

Previously, when Tan You caused trouble for the Liu and Zhang families, these grown men all sat back and watched the fight unfold. But now that the foundation of the Wei family has been shaken, they're starting to panic.

Tan You chuckled: "Husband and wife are one. If she does something wrong, of course you have to share the responsibility with her."

"Don't even think about things like divorcing your wife, it's useless."

Uncle Wei the Second and Uncle Wei the Third were as anxious as ants on a hot pan: "Miss...Miss, please have mercy, this is all I can do in my life, but Wei Qian and Wei He, they did nothing wrong."

"Isn't it too cruel to make them only have one child in the future?"

Tan You shrugged: "I didn't do this. You all started it first, and then the effect followed. At most, I'm just stating the facts. After all, it's better to be a sensible person than to live a life of ignorance, isn't it?"

“If you could control yourselves and not be attracted to beautiful women, you wouldn’t be in this situation now.”

"Ultimately, they are just trying to maintain their own status. Men are the root of all the trouble."

Cheng Qian remained silent. He used to think that men were upright and strong, like towering trees. But now he realized that men were the biggest trouble. Or rather, men who couldn't stay with their wives were the root of all evil.

The entire Wei family, young and old, were all wilted like eggplants after a frost. Old Master Wei, being worldly-wise, quickly recovered. He knelt down in front of Tan You with a thud: "Young lady, you are kind-hearted. Since you said these things, it must be because you think Wei Qian and Wei He shouldn't have ended up like this."

"Please show us a way to survive! Our Wei family will be eternally grateful. We will erect a longevity tablet for you and offer it to you every day. Please guide us through our confusion!" He knelt down, and the rest of the Wei family knelt down as well.

Tan You smiled, realizing that no one was a fool. She wasn't trying to enlighten the Wei family out of a saintly heart; she was thinking about the future. It was better for the Wei family to know that committing more killings would backfire than for the world to be filled with even more killings.

"Stand up and speak."

Grandpa Wei didn't get up immediately; instead, he kowtowed three times before standing up.

Tan You glanced at the sky before turning her gaze away and said in a low voice, "Wei Qian and Wei He should have had three sons and two daughters, but because your grandmother and mother committed too many murders, they have now been reduced to only one son."

"And this child was spared because Heaven has a benevolent heart and you two brothers did not do evil."

"But these are not enough to atone for their sins. They know in their hearts how many lives they have taken over the years."

"If you don't pay off your debts in this life, these debts will accumulate on your descendants until the day they are completely paid off."

Zhou collapsed to the ground, silently weeping. She used to think that evil deeds would be punished, but she never expected that they would actually befall her son. This caused her more pain than if they had befallen her.

Wei He said in a hoarse voice, "I acknowledge the mistakes of my elders, and my mother too... she was also fighting for my interests. My father was a womanizer, and he had seven or eight concubines in his backyard..."

Wei Qian also kowtowed: "I agree. No matter how badly my mother treated others, she really did everything she could for me."

"Others may complain, but I cannot. If it weren't for my mother, where would I be living the life I have now?"

Tan You flicked her fingers: "They say bad bamboo produces good shoots. I never expected that the Wei family would actually produce such a talented person from the bottom of this sinkhole."

Wei Qian couldn't even manage a smile: "I dare not accept such praise from you, young lady."

Tan You: "I don't advocate the Buddhist idea of ​​'laying down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot.' Debts must be repaid, and past mistakes cannot be wiped away with a few words of apology."

"I need you to find the relatives of the concubines you murdered, settle them properly, and adopt children from the clan for these innocent and tragically killed concubines so that their lineage will not end."

“You must support these adopted children until they come of age and are capable of living independently in this society.”

"And those children who were murdered..."

Tan You paused for a moment and then said, "There are several eminent monks at Baima Temple who are deeply versed in Buddhist teachings. They will tell you what to do."

“If you do all this, ninety percent of the Wei family’s wealth will be gone, and generations of accumulation will be wiped out. Whether you do it or not is entirely up to you.”

As for whether there would be any reward after doing it, or whether the Wei family's offspring would improve, Tan You didn't say. If repentance requires a reward to justify it, then repentance would be meaningless.

After saying this, Tan You disappeared from the main hall.

Zhou finally came to her senses. She hugged Wei He and burst into tears, "He'er, I'm so sorry! If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be in this situation... What will you do now?"

Wei He was heartbroken. Who wouldn't feel good knowing they would only have one child in their lifetime? Especially in such a rigidly Confucian era, what man wouldn't want many children and much happiness?
Children are power, the hope of the family. Few offspring are a fatal blow to a family.

Wei Qian sat there, speechless. He didn't want to believe Tan You's words. But how could he explain that she knew everything about his aunt Zhang's private life when she was young?

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