Ask the Nine Ministers

Chapter 29 Born Bad
The spring breeze blows, flowers and leaves flutter, and the remaining red petals are dotted with green and spread all over the ground.

Xue Qingzhi looked at her smile, which was quite awkward and strange.

He didn't know if it was because of the blood connection, but after staring into those eyes for a long time, he felt as if something was quietly moving in his blood, and a strange emotion slowly surged into his chest.

This is his daughter. His biological daughter.

Xue Qingzhi softened his voice.

"What are you here for?"

Xue Sui saw the change in his expression.

This was the scene she had longed for in her heart ten years ago.

Her father would smile at her, his eyes relaxed, his gentle voice like the breeze blowing gently under the warm sun, with the same kindness he showed to his eldest and fourth sisters, holding her in his arms, tall and majestic.

This way, she can warn them loudly when they are bullied:

"My father was a general. He fought in the battlefield and killed people. If you dare to touch me, he will definitely peel off your skin..."

But she dared not.

Although her father had been to the battlefield and was good at using weapons, he would not support her.

Ten years later, she came back. When the scene that she had thought about countless times in her mind really appeared, she was not touched at all.

Not anymore.

The past was like a sharp blade that had already shattered her hopes.

Cut open and reshape it, one knife at a time, like peeling skin and pulling out tendons.

Reshape herself into a person who no longer needs fatherly love.

Xue Sui bowed slightly: "Third uncle is in trouble, and I am very worried. I just went to the west yard to see Third aunt."

Xue Qingzhi slowly put his hands behind his back and asked, "How is your third aunt?"

Xue Sui said, "Aunt Third cried pitifully."

Her tone was cold and she had a proper smile on her face, but her eyes were like a deep pool, without the slightest ripple.

Xue Qingzhi couldn't tell what the problem was, but he knew in his heart that the momentary warmth he had shown wasted.

She doesn't deserve it.

I really shouldn't expect anything from a daughter like this.

Xue Qingzhi frowned slightly and said impatiently: "You don't need to interfere in this matter, go back and rest early."

Xue Sui curled her lips slightly: "Father, there is something I want to find a safe place to tell you slowly."

Xue Qingzhi was feeling upset and waved his hand, "I still have to go to Jingzhao Prefecture. We can discuss this later if there is anything."

Xue Sui said: "Maybe it has something to do with the death of Third Uncle?"

Although the sound was light, it was like a heavy hammer, striking directly into Xue Qingzhi's heart.

Xue Qingzhi stopped and looked at her.

"Father, please follow me."

Xue Sui smiled and turned around without looking at him again.
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Fu helped the old lady take the medicine and then left Shou'an Courtyard.

She called Xue Yueying: "Come with me."

Xue Yueying's heart was in turmoil as she followed her all the way back to Qinglan Courtyard.

After closing the door and sending the servants out to guard the room, Fu's face changed and she asked sternly:

"Speak up, you vile creature! Did you do this?"

Xue Yueying knelt down with a plop, "Mother, I am innocent."

"You still dare to cry out for injustice?" Fu's eyes widened with anger, and she threw the porcelain on the table at her. "You keep saying that you are helping me, but I didn't see how you were helping me. Instead, you came up with such a vicious plan to bring disaster upon me..."

"Mother." Xue Yueying raised her head and looked at her pitifully: "My daughter has never touched your purse, and I don't know why it was with the murderer. But my daughter has no intention of killing my uncle, and I dare not harm my mother..."

As he spoke, he knelt over and hugged Fu's thighs, "It must be the sixth sister. Mother, it must be the sixth sister..."

Fu sneered, "I was hoping it was her. But when did she return home? Where did she get the purse from, and how did she know all these old things? Fourth Miss Xue, I really didn't realize that you had such a mind..."

Xue Yueying shook her head vigorously and said anxiously: "This matter is indeed strange, but my daughter is innocent."

Fu was so angry that her face turned cold: "How dare you say that your third uncle's affairs have nothing to do with you?"

Xue Yueying gritted her teeth secretly.

This Fu family!

It was clearly her instigation, but now she is blaming herself.

Xue Yueying bit her lower lip and kowtowed to her.

"Uncle San has relied on grandma's favor and has never been respectful to mother. I just want to vent my mother's anger and find someone to teach him a lesson. I don't want to kill him..." Fu scolded: "It's you!"

Xue Yueying shed tears, "I originally wanted to put the blame on my sixth sister, so I made her clothes wet at the family banquet, so that I had the opportunity to take her purse and put the money in it to give to the murderer. However, I had clearly instructed them to beat up my third uncle, and then deliberately leave the purse behind and run away... Let my third uncle go to find the bad luck of my sixth sister, so that I can help my mother vent her anger and stop my eldest sister's thoughts..."

"Bah, you little rascal harmed your uncle, and you want to frame me?" Mrs. Fu sneered, "Your mother died when you were just five years old. I raised you by my side and treated you as my own daughter all these years... I didn't expect that you would be such an ungrateful person..."

Fu said as she pulled her.

"Let's go and talk to the master together."

Xue Yueying panicked when she heard this and grabbed her sleeve with her backhand, "My daughter is also here to help her mother share her worries."

"Shut up! Stop biting me!" Fu also got angry and grabbed her and wouldn't let go.
"Mother!" Xue Yueying shook her head desperately.

She was pregnant and could not bear such pulling. After several times, she was furious. Suddenly, she made up her mind, pushed Fu away, raised her tearful eyes, and put on a strange smile.

"Is it true that my mother raised me because my mother died when I was young and there was no one to take care of me?"

Fu looked at her coldly, "What do you want to say?"

Xue Yueying wiped away her tears and said with a sneer on her face, "Isn't it because you feel guilty and afraid that my father will know the truth about my biological mother's tragic death?"

She paused for a moment, and each word became more and more emphatically spoken.

"Mother killed my own mother, but she still earned the reputation of being a good wife. Shouldn't she be grateful to me?"

Fu's expression changed. "You...what are you talking about?"

"Oh!" Xue Yueying's eyes were filled with ice coldness, and she changed her address: "Madam, if father knew that the woman he loved most in his life died in your hands, would he forgive you? Would he go to Jingzhao Prefecture to plead for you? And about that Yunjin purse, no matter how many excuses you make, I'm afraid it won't be justified..."

"You're such a bastard! It turns out that you stole my purse and framed me..."

Fu was furious. "Do you want to avenge your mother? If you have the guts, go and tell the master. Tell him that you knew the bowl of soup was poisonous, but you served it to your mother in order to please me and become my daughter."

"I didn't." Xue Yueying raised her chin. "I was young at that time. How could I tell whether the soup was poisonous or not? I only knew that the eldest lady and my biological mother were close friends. The soup that the eldest lady made for my mother was naturally excellent..."

Fu sneered and stared at Xue Yueying viciously.

"Great! The white-eyed wolf I raised with my own hands is really amazing."

She smiled suddenly, and her pampered face became particularly ferocious.

"Go, tell the master that you watched your dear mother open her eyes wide and stretch out her hands to ask for help, but you ran to me without saying a word. Poor dear mother, she died in front of you, with eyes wide open!"

Xue Yueying's face turned pale.

Her biological mother and Fu were sisters in the boudoir, and her biological mother had no intentions towards Fu. Before she married into the Xue family, she loved someone else, but her family fell into poverty, her father and brother committed a crime, and she was implicated and became a slave.

Her father came from a prominent family and was determined to have her, and she was powerless to resist.

After entering the mansion, her father was infatuated with her and loved her very much, which aroused Fu's dissatisfaction. She thought that she had betrayed the sisterhood and would make trouble for her at every turn. Even if she tried to please him with a humble attitude, she could not escape Fu's clutches...

Xue Yueying remembers the way her biological mother died...

Confused and sad, but not resentful. She would never feel resentful.

Because she was so young, what could she do wrong? She didn't know anything and just wanted to survive.

Only by clinging to someone stronger can one survive. Mother will not blame her.

Xue Yueying's face turned pale, and she slowly stood up. "If the Madam really wants to send me to my father, then I can only perish with her and tell her everything. If the Madam is kind enough to show mercy, I will never break my promise. If there is any punishment, I will be filial to my mother and bear it all..."

"You can afford it?!" A sneer came from the roof. "How can you afford to poke such a big hole?"

Boom!
The sound was like thunder, striking down heavily.

Fu and Xue Yueying both looked up at the rustling tiles above their heads and their faces changed.

After a moment, the surroundings returned to silence.

Soon, footsteps were heard again and the door was pushed open forcefully from the outside.

Xue Qingzhi walked in with a sullen face, and the person standing indifferently beside him was Xue Sui.

She didn't utter a word, but it felt as if a sharp knife was stabbing in her eyes.

"Xue Liu!" Xue Yueying exclaimed in disbelief, her eyes full of fear.

This bad seed, disaster, and scourge!

She actually called her father over and hid on the roof to eavesdrop.

"No, father, listen to me..." Xue Yueying reacted very quickly. Before Xue Qingzhi could start to attack, she knelt down in front of him. "Father, this was all ordered by the eldest lady. It was Aunt Liu who ordered me to do this. The eldest lady is in charge of the household affairs. She withheld my daughter's dowry to threaten me. My daughter is humble and her words are not taken seriously. She was also forced to do so..."

Xue Qingzhi glared at her with great anguish, then slowly looked towards Fu, his eyes becoming increasingly cold.

"Fu, what else do you have to say?"

　This book is expected to be released on the 26th of this month, but Erjin has been too unlucky recently. He has been suffering from frequent health problems and has to go back and forth to the hospital. I am very helpless. I may disappoint everyone after it is released, and I won't be able to update so much. But I will try my best to keep the pace of updates, and I will be responsible to Xue Pingan...

　　In the end, good health is the most important thing. Sisters should take care of themselves, don't be angry, and be happy and open-minded. Life is short, like the morning dew. Although we always say a lot of truths, we have to experience life before we can understand it.

　　(End of this chapter)