Chapter 282 Questioning
Chapter 282 Questioning
Although Mrs. Peng felt that Xie Lan was smiling at the moment, she was more terrifying than the evil ghost. She subconsciously wanted to escape, but her legs were broken and she felt excruciating pain when she moved. How could she escape?
She swallowed and said dryly, "Lan... Lan girl, what nonsense are you talking about? You are here just fine, aren't you? How could Second Aunt sell you out? There is absolutely no such thing."
Xie Lan raised his lips in an icy arc, his eyes piercing Peng like cold stars, "Since I can find this place, it proves that I know everything you did. At this point, you still want to lie?"
Peng's face changed again and again. Even though her heart was pounding like a drum, she knew that she must not admit it.
Seeing the people around her pointing and talking at her, Mrs. Peng's eyes rolled and she suddenly burst into tears, "Lan girl, Second Aunt knows that ever since your mother passed away, your temper has become more and more perverse. In the past, when you were in the mansion, you often found fault with our second house and disturbed our peace.
We felt sorry for you for losing your mother at such a young age, so we were very tolerant of you. We even moved out of the house and stayed with relatives so that you could live more comfortably in the mansion.
I didn't expect you would not let us go and chase us here shouting and killing us. Do you have to force us all to death before you are satisfied?"
When Aunt Zhang saw that the people around her looked at Xie Lan differently after Mrs. Peng said this, she was so angry that she started to curse, "Bah, Second Madam, you are just full of shit. The eldest daughter was just born, and you, the heartless elders, threw her to Sanqing Mountain and ignored her for more than ten years.
Now that the eldest daughter has reached marriage age, he has brought her back just to take advantage of her marriage to gain benefits.
Since the eldest daughter returned to Beijing, several girls in the mansion have repeatedly stolen her admission tickets and replaced her to go to the academy. Your second wife and the third master's family are not good people. Not only did they steal the eldest daughter's money, but now they have secretly pushed her into the fire pit of the Song family and want to take all the betrothal gifts of the Song family for themselves.
You conscienceless people, treating your own niece like this, your hearts, livers, spleens, stomachs and kidneys are rotten to the core, worse than pigs and dogs!"
Peng didn't expect that Nanny Zhang would be so merciless and reveal all the ugly things they had done in secret, which made her so angry that she was fuming.
Just as Xie Lan was about to open his mouth to scold Aunt Zhang for her lies, he had already lost his patience and didn't want to listen to her nagging any more.
"Manager Song, was this concubine document signed by my second aunt and the Song family?"
Peng looked up and saw the people who came to the Song Mansion to welcome the bride, and cursed in her heart, they are all useless! There are so many people, but they can't even deal with a yellow-haired girl.
"Lan girl, Second Aunt doesn't even know Manager Song, and she has never signed any documents with him to take a concubine. You can't listen to other people's slander."
Manager Song was so angry at the second lady's words that her face turned blue, but the concubine document was not signed by her. "Xie Xiaoxiao, I don't know this lady."
When Mrs. Peng heard this, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense nerves also relaxed.
Xie Lan glanced at Manager Song and saw that he didn't look like he was lying, so he wasn't surprised. Even if the concubine document wasn't signed by Peng, it couldn't be separated from the brothers Xie Donghai and Xie Dahe.
However, Tiechui entered the house and searched it inside and out, but found no trace of Xie Donghai.
Peng's heart was in her throat again, fearing that Xie Donghai would be recognized by Manager Song when he returned.
Seeing that the servants and guards in the mansion finally heard the noise and rushed over, he simply gritted his teeth, pointed at Xie Lan, and shouted angrily.
"This damn girl even dares to hurt her elders. She is really disrespectful to her elders. You tie her up. I will send her back personally and let her father discipline her." These maids, servants and guards were all newly bought by Xie Donghai and his wife when they moved into this house.
They didn't even know Xie Lan and her servant, and knew nothing about their background.
Although he saw Tiechui carrying a sword, he didn't take her seriously at all.
He thought it would be easy to capture these weak women.
But they soon realized that they had hit a wall. Miss Xie and her servant were by no means innocent and harmless little white rabbits. They were clearly ruthless female bullies.
Mrs. Peng saw that the guards were all knocked down without even touching the corner of Xie Lan's clothes, and she almost vomited blood in anger. She knew that Tiechui was a high-level martial artist, so she specially spent a lot of money to hire more than 20 guards, but she didn't expect these people to be so useless.
Just as Xie Lan was about to attack Peng and force him to tell about Xie Donghai's whereabouts, he saw the brothers Xie Yuan and Xie Rui rushing in from outside the crowd.
"Big sister, you are really going too far. My mother is your elder after all, and you dare to hurt her so badly!
You are so cruel and ruthless, do you still care about us, your family members?"
Xie Lan glanced at him indifferently and said coldly, "I'm sorry, I really don't have any family members like you who are worse than pigs and dogs in my heart."
Mrs. Peng had never expected that the Xie Yuan brothers would turn back at this time. She looked anxiously for Xie Donghai, but did not see him, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, before he could finish his sentence, he heard Xie Lan order Tiechui, "Catch them both."
When Mrs. Peng saw Tiechui rushing towards her two sons, her face changed and she shouted, "You dare!"
Not to mention that Peng's legs were broken and she couldn't move. Even if she had good hands and feet, Tiechui would not take her seriously.
In no time, he captured Xie Yuan and Xie Rui and dragged them over roughly.
Xie Lan ignored Mrs. Peng's scolding and looked at her coldly, "Tell me the truth, who promised me to the Song family as a concubine? Think about it before you answer, I don't have much patience. If you dare to hide anything, I will kill your two sons."
Peng didn't believe that Xie Lan dared to kill people in public, especially his two cousins. But when Tiechui exerted a little force on the long sword in his hand, blood oozed from Xie Yuan's neck.
She was so frightened that she screamed, "Stop it, I'll tell you everything! It's your grandmother who thinks you are unlucky and caused your second and third uncles to lose their official positions, so she's unhappy.
I was also afraid that you would take away your father's official position, so I wanted to marry you to the Song family as a concubine so that you would no longer be able to harm the family."
"Even if it was grandma's idea, it was my second and third uncles who promised me to the Song family as a concubine. Grandma often stayed in the inner house and rarely went out. It was impossible for her to know Mr. Song."
Xie Lan was clear in his mind and knew that there was a lot of water hidden in Peng's words.
It is very likely that the old lady had some resentment towards her, thinking that it was she who caused the Xie Donghai brothers to lose their official positions.
But as for the bad idea of betrothing her to the Song family, it was definitely done by her two uncles who were blinded by greed and disregarded family affection.