Chapter 212 Life experience

Chapter 212 Life experience
Xie Dahe felt nervous after hearing what Zhu said.

He first winked at her, signaling her to stop talking for the time being. Then he quickly walked to the door, opened it, and carefully glanced around. Seeing that there was no servant outside, he felt relieved.

He quickly closed the door again, turned back to the window, and checked outside again. After making sure no one was eavesdropping, he quickly closed the window and walked back to Zhu with a frown.

Zhu's heart was churning.

She originally only suspected that Xie Lan was not Xie Changting's biological daughter. But at this moment, seeing Xie Dahe's nervousness and anxiety, her suspicion became more and more firm.

If Xie Lan really had nothing to do with the Xie family, she would definitely find a way to kill that little bitch and avenge her Yan'er.

Thinking of her daughter's miserable condition, Zhu was extremely heartbroken. Her daughter was so well-behaved and sensible, but now, because of that calamity Xie Lan, not only was her leg broken by a horse, but she was also expelled from the Royal Academy, and her reputation was ruined.

A lifetime is ruined like this!
The more Zhu thought about it, the more hatred grew in her heart. She swore that she would make her niece pay for what she had done.

Xie Dahe hated her more than Zhu.

He was already angry at Xie Lan for sending Yao Peishan to jail, and now that Xie Yan was ruined by her, he hated her even more.

Xie Dahe originally wanted to take advantage of his daughter's rising prominence in the Royal Academy to find a marriage for her into a wealthy and powerful family, and use this opportunity to curry favor with the upper class nobles and improve his own official position.

But now everything has come to nothing, Xie Yan's future has been ruthlessly torn apart, and he has lost the opportunity to climb up. If he could, he would want to take Xie Lan's life directly.

Seeing Xie Dahe's gloomy face but silent, Zhu said unhappily, "That little bitch Xie Lan is really not Big Brother's biological daughter? Then whose child is she?"

Xie Dahe was interrupted by this sudden questioning and responded in a low voice: "What nonsense are you talking about? If Xie Lan is not my eldest brother's daughter, then whose daughter could it be?"

Zhu sneered, her eyes like knives: "Humph, you still want to hide it from me? If Xie Lan is really my eldest brother's daughter, why were you so nervous just now?"

Xie Dahe's heart tightened, knowing that his wife had become suspicious and would definitely ask questions to the end. But he was just guessing, suffering from the lack of solid evidence. "I'm not trying to hide it from you, I just suspect it, but I don't have any evidence."

Zhu glared at him in dissatisfaction: "How could you not know? When Su married into the Xie family, you were not young anymore, right? Don't you know whether Xie Lan was her child?"

"Then why do you suspect that Xie Lan is not Big Brother's biological daughter? When Su married Big Brother, she was pregnant, right? Was there anything unusual about Su back then?"

When talking about the past, Xie Dahe couldn't help but recall the past.

In the past, the Xie family was just an ordinary family far away from Kyoto. Although they had a few acres of thin land, it was barely enough to make ends meet. After their parents gave birth to three brothers, their already poor life became even more difficult.

Seeing that the three of them were getting older and were about to reach the age to get married, but the family could not afford a decent dowry, their parents became more and more worried.

Things didn't start to turn around until that year when my eldest brother picked up a woman from the mountains.

Zhu was startled, frowning and staring at Xie Dahe, "Could that woman be Su? But didn't your mother and eldest brother say that Su was the sister of your classmate and that everyone in her family was dead? Why did you lie to the three of us sisters-in-law?"

Xie Dahe was afraid that what he and his wife said would be overheard by outsiders, so he lowered his voice and said softly, "I lied to you for a reason." Zhu's curiosity was aroused, and she urged Xie Dahe to continue.

The Xie family told others that Su was the sister of Xie Changting's classmate, but in fact she was picked up by Xie Changting when he went to the mountains to chop firewood.

When Xie Changting found Su, she was unconscious in the mountains. He was attracted to her because she was extremely beautiful and her clothes and jewelry were all exquisite.

When Su woke up, it was discovered that she had forgotten everything except her name being Su Jinrong. It was speculated that she had fallen off a cliff and injured her head.

Seeing that Su had nowhere to go and remembered nothing, Xie Changting lied to her that she was from the Su family on the next hill and that her parents had passed away long ago, leaving only her and her brother.

Because she met her elder brother when she was studying in a private school, the two became classmates and friends. Later, her elder brother became seriously ill and entrusted Su to him before he died. In order to keep Su by his side, Xie Changting even claimed to be Su's fiancé and brought her back to the Xie family.

The family was not well off to begin with, and when Xie Changting suddenly brought home a woman, his parents were very unhappy about it. But after Xie Changting took the old couple back to the house and talked to them in private for a while, their attitudes changed and they became extremely enthusiastic about Su.

Not only did he keep her, he even held a banquet for Xie Changting and Su the next day and let them get married. Then he sold the family's land and house and moved the whole family to the capital.

Since moving to the capital, the Xie family not only bought a large house, but also hired many maids and servants to serve them, and the family lived a wealthy life.

Xie Changting even used money to donate money to get an official position in the Imperial Household Department, and he climbed up step by step from the lowest and most insignificant position to the position of chief clerk of the Imperial Household Department.

Later, Xie Changting used money to get Xie Donghai into the Imperial Household Department as a pastoral supervisor, and got Xie Dahe into the Imperial Medical Bureau as a clerk.

Zhu frowned, "So, there is something wrong with Su's background? After your eldest brother brought Su home, he hid in the house with your parents and said something, do you know what it was?"

Xie Dahe shook his head. "My parents and my eldest brother kept it a secret and didn't tell my second brother and me. In fact, not only do outsiders not know Su's background, but even my second brother and I don't know. My parents didn't tell us anything except that Su was the sister of my eldest brother's classmate, and they didn't let us ask.

I only started to get suspicious when I overheard my parents talking about Su's family. But unfortunately, they found out before I heard a few words, so they didn't know much."

The reason why Xie Dahe doubted Su's background was that there were only a few students in the private school where Xie Changting studied, and their families were not wealthy.

But when Xie Changting brought Su home, Xie Dahe remembered that her clothes and jewelry were very exquisite, and it was obvious that she was not the daughter of an ordinary family, so he guessed that she was not actually the sister of Xie Changting's classmate.

Seeing that she couldn't get any more information about Su's background, Zhu had no choice but to give up.

"Since Su Shi did marry my eldest brother back then, then...what's so suspicious about Xie Lan's identity?"

Xie Dahe shook his head, "No."

Zhu was dissatisfied, "No? Aren't you so nervous because you suspected that she wasn't eldest brother's biological daughter?"

Could it be that you knew but deliberately hid it from me?"