"Then He Bingpeng is not your biological father. Your mother Yunxiang was originally my concubine. She left the Zhenyuan General's Mansion when she was pregnant with you, and later passed on to your adoptive father. I went to investigate it myself, and your mother married When she entered the He family, she was indeed pregnant."
"I didn't know about your mother and son's existence all these years, so you have suffered so much. Then He Bingpeng was just a hooligan. Seeing your mother's beauty and making a living alone, he had bad thoughts and ignored you. Mother is willing to force her into the door."
"I heard that he is still an alcoholic, and he will beat people when he is drunk. You mother and son have suffered a lot because of this." Speaking of this, Du Chengzhong's face showed a bit of guilt.
"I know that I have been ashamed of your mother and son all these years. Don't worry, I will definitely compensate you. From now on, you will be the only son of my Du Chengzhong, and the only son of General Zhenyuan's residence." He assured again.
He Shaoting laughed angrily: "General Du, for the sake of you being an official of the imperial court, I don't care about you. It's just how my father was and how he treated my mother and me during his lifetime, but you are not an outsider. Beak."
"My surname is He, I will only be surnamed He in this life and this life, I have nothing to do with you Du Chengzhong, and your Zhenyuan General's Mansion! If General Du came here today just to say these ridiculous words, please forgive me and I will not accompany you, come. People, see off!"
After he finished speaking, he turned around and left with a flick of his sleeve.
Du Chengzhong chased without even thinking about it, but was blocked by Cao Sheng and his guards. Seeing He Shaoting's figure getting farther and farther away, he was sweating profusely and shouted, "Shaoting, what I said. Every sentence is the truth. If you don't believe it, you can go and check it yourself! I know you have grudges in your heart, and it's not your fault. It's just that blood kinship is destined by heaven. No matter how unhappy you are, you can't deny that you With my blood!"
He Shaoting paused, but continued to leave without looking back.
On the other hand, Cao Sheng and the others were shocked when they heard Du Chengzhong's remarks, and looked at each other in disbelief.
Is there a blood relationship between your own general and this Zhenyuan general
With a gloomy face, He Shaoting accelerated his pace and walked towards the main courtyard, leaving the shouting behind him far away.
The arrival of Du Chengzhong, the words he shouted loudly, once again aroused the part of the memory he had decided to bury. Especially the sentence 'Blood kinship is destiny', even though he never thought of recognizing that biological father from beginning to end, he couldn't deny that there was indeed that person's blood flowing in his body.
He didn't expect that person to know his background, and after listening to the meaning of his words, he actually went to verify it himself? Otherwise he wouldn't be so clear about what his father did in his lifetime.
He poured himself a full glass of wine, raised his head and drank it.
Yes, his adoptive father was really addicted to alcohol before his death. If he was drunk, he would beat people. He did suffer a lot because of it. Protect him, don't teach him to take any damage.
And when the adoptive father doesn't drink, it's not too bad for him. Sometimes when he is in a good mood, he will buy him some delicious food.
All the changes happened in that year. The drunk adoptive father accidentally pushed down the pregnant mother, so that the child in the mother’s womb could not be saved.
In fact, he did it, and within a year after that, he did not drink a drop of alcohol, and his temper was even more restrained. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. On a pitch-dark night, because of his grandmother's sudden illness, he hurried out to ask for a doctor, but he accidentally fell on the road, hitting the back of his head with a stone, and it broke in less than half an hour when he was brought home. pissed.
And the grieving grandmother passed away half a year later, leaving only him and his mother to depend on each other.
Is it bitter? Indeed there is. But he would not resent his adoptive father for this. After all, he also gave their mother and son a place to live, and the loving grandmother took care of him like a biological grandson, and his aunt later raised him wholeheartedly.
He has received a lot of sincere love from the He family, and he has long regarded himself as a member of the He family.
As for Du Chengzhong...
He twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly.
Why would he think he would admit to him? Why do you think that you will despise his Zhenyuan General Mansion
Although he didn't get his son's recognition, and he didn't hear the 'father', Du Chengzhong didn't care at all. After all, his son didn't grow up by his side since he was a child, and he didn't know the blood relationship between them. There's nothing strange about it, just wait for him to figure it out.
The leader of the younger generation in Daqi, General He, is actually his own son, and this alone is enough to teach him to be ecstatic.
It turned out that he was not without a son. He had his own son early in the morning, but he was kept in the dark, so that the father and son were separated for many years.
But it doesn't matter, it's going to be a long time in Japan, and he still has a chance to make up for him.
He was in a good mood, but he left from General Zhongyong's mansion a little reluctantly. Before leaving, he repeatedly told Cao Sheng and others to serve He Shaoting well, which made Cao Sheng and others inexplicable.
It was the Yun family who had received the news that her husband was returning to Beijing today. The left and right waiters did not see Du Chengzhong's return. When he asked, he learned that Du Chengzhong did not return directly to the mansion after returning to Beijing, but instead went to General Zhongyong's mansion. When he had business affairs to discuss with He Shaoting, he didn't take it to heart.
Du Chengzhong unexpectedly learned from the doctor in the mansion that day when he might still have a child alive, out of prudence, he didn't tell anyone, but kept everything under wraps. I don't know that he suddenly left the capital some time ago, not because of official business, but to investigate the whereabouts of his former concubine Chu Yunxiang.
How could she have imagined that Du Chengzhong's return would bring her such a huge "surprise".
She couldn't believe what she heard, stared at Du Chengzhong and asked, "What did you say? Is the loyal and brave general He Shaoting your own flesh and blood?"
"It's true, I've personally verified that Shao Ting was Yun'er back then... Yun Xiang was my son. When Yun Xiang was pregnant, he was very weak, and Yulan, who had always been with her, was worried that she couldn't bear it. The medicine of the tiger and wolf, I asked Doctor Yi for help, and used a fake medicine to hide the sky and the sea, and save the child in Yunxiang's stomach, that is, Shao Ting."
Having said this, Du Chengzhong felt fortunate for a while.
Fortunately, Yulan stepped in, otherwise he would have lost such an outstanding son.
Yun Shi looked at the undisguised joy on his face, his face was pale, and he was speechless for a long time.
One Du Zuwang left, and another He Shaoting... and later this one was more difficult to deal with than the previous one.
Du Chengzhong didn't know what she was thinking, he was only immersed in the ecstasy of finally having it, and he said happily: "It is said that tiger fathers have no dogs, and Shao Ting can achieve such achievements at a young age, which is enough to see that this is true. How could Du Chengzhong's son be such a mediocre and mediocre person?"
"Only this child is worthy of being my Du Chengzhong's son, like a member of the Du family!!" He couldn't help laughing anymore, his laughter was endlessly joyful, sweeping away the gloom of the previous period.
Feng Weiliang, who happened to walk in to greet the Yun family, changed his face, his heart trembled, and he even wondered if he had heard it wrong, or if there was an ambiguity in what his father said.
Is He Shaoting his father's son? The direct descendant's son? His eyes widened in disbelief, wishing he had misheard him.
But Du Chengzhong's smiling face told him that he did not hear it wrong, everything was true.
He Shaoting... This name has always been introduced to his ears in various scenes over the years. The fathers were full of praise for him, the younger generation was envious of him, and the girls admired him, and even ordinary people regarded him as the new generation of war gods in Daqi.
This man is a shadow in his life. It was also because he had a fight with him when he was young but lost, and his father didn't say it, but he changed himself to martial arts, which has already explained his disappointment. It was the guard in the mansion, and every time he looked at him, the look in his eyes that he didn't deserve to be the eldest son of General Zhenyuan's mansion made him embarrassed and angry.
If he hadn't made preparations later, I'm afraid that his father and mother would have given birth to children one after another, and there would be no place for him in the mansion by then.
If it wasn't for He Shaoting, how could he have attacked his father back then, and how could he have lost his chance to become a father again!
All this is thanks to He Shaoting!
It's just that he never thought that after so many years, He Shaoting would disrupt his peaceful life in another way, and even wanted to fight for everything that belonged to him!
For the next few days, Du Chengzhong went to the General Zhongyong Mansion again and again, and even brought the sword spikes that Chu Yunxiang made for him that day.
Of course, this sword spike was also discovered by accident when he was rummaging through the boxes. It was also the only trace left by those concubines after Yun's marriage into the Zhenyuan General's Mansion.
"You must remember your mother's craftsmanship. This sword spike was made by her hand for me after I returned from the expedition. Speaking of which, it was more than 20 years ago." He sighed, and there was indescribable nostalgia in his tone. .
Yun Xiang... That gentle but somewhat stubborn woman was also the only woman after his wife who made his heart a little bit. There was a moment when he even thought of marrying her as his wife.
But he didn't expect that the delicate and gentle woman would actually go away with his child, and not even the slightest bit of news was leaked, teaching him to keep in the dark.
"Your mother has a pair of skillful hands that are rare in the world. The flowers you embroider are better than others', and the things you make are more delicious than others. Any simple object can suddenly become in her hands. Beautiful." He sighed again.
He Shaoting was silent, but the whole person was a little dazed.
It was the first time he heard about his mother's past. In fact, she had never mentioned anything about being in the General's Mansion in Zhenyuan before her death, nor did she have the spare time to do all kinds of beautiful things to decorate her home.
She has always been very busy, busy weaving, busy with all kinds of embroidery work, and busy with all kinds of chores inside and outside the home. Later, when her father and grandmother were away, she was even more busy, and there was basically little time to take a break.
"Did your mother ever mention me before her death?" he heard Du Chengzhong ask tentatively.
He calmed down and replied indifferently, "I'm really sorry, my mother never mentioned you before, not even a word."
"This..." Du Chengzhong was stunned for a moment, feeling uneasy in every possible way.
The woman who gave birth to a child for him has never mentioned his existence to her son for so many years
But he thought about it again and said with a smile: "Why did you kid even lie to your father? If your mother never mentioned me, why did you come to me and ask that question when you were in He'an Mansion?"
He Shaoting sneered: "What did I ask you?"
"You ask me if I've ever done it in my life..." Du Chengzhong's throat was blocked, but he couldn't say the next half of the sentence.
"Have you ever done anything? Have you ever done something you regret?" He Shaoting sarcastically said, "Why didn't you say it? Why did I ask such a sentence? What did you do back then to make people think you would? Regret?"
"Du Chengzhong, a manly man, since you have done it, you have to bear all the consequences. Didn't you do a good job in the past few years?"
"You have to remember what you said, you don't regret it, even if you are asked to choose again, you will still give the concubines who gave birth to your children an abortion pill without mercy!"
"I can stand in front of you today, not because of your gift, but because of Aunt Tian's kindness. The evil deeds you committed to those innocent women were also told to me by my aunt."
"My mother, even if she was ill and knew that she couldn't afford it and was worried about my future whereabouts, she never said a word about you! She always wanted my surname He, but only He!"
The blood on Du Chengzhong's face faded little by little. It never occurred to him that this child would know exactly what he had done back then.
Aunt Tian? By the way, it must be Tian Yulan, who told him everything. In other words, he knew his own background early on, and he knew early on that he was his son, so he asked himself that sentence when he was a child, and that was because he was complaining about his mother's injustice. !
"You already knew about your background, but you never came to see me?" He didn't give up and squeezed this sentence out of his throat with difficulty.
"Yes, I already knew it, so you don't have to show me your so-called evidence again and again. But so what? When I was desperate and had no relatives, I didn't want to go to you, and now I naturally don't. ." He Shaoting said lightly.
"General Du, please come back! You were the child in my mother's womb and you were knocked down by you. Anyway, that's what you originally planned, didn't you?"
"That thing happened back then, not out of my heart, but..." Du Chengzhong wanted to explain subconsciously.
"Enough!" He Shaoting sternly interrupted him, "Did you want to say that the Yun family forced you to do everything back then? She forced you to marry her, she forced you to dismiss concubine, and forced you to fight. Kill your own flesh and blood?"
"You make me sick!" He dropped this in disappointment, and finally turned to leave.
Du Chengzhong's expression changed, he opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't say a word.
Since joining the army, he has been born and killed several times on the battlefield, and He Shaoting has a better understanding of the difficulty of military commanders. It is really fighting with life, holding his head to fight for the future, and every step is a blood mark.
For Du Chengzhong, who started as a soldier at the bottom and worked hard step by step to his current status, even though he is not ashamed of his character, he still has a certain respect for him. Daqi has a general like him. Chaos, but also a peaceful and prosperous world for the people.
But at this moment, this little respect from him completely disappeared as he pushed all the sins of the year onto Yun Shi.
It is not easy for a woman to be married. She hopes that her husband will treat her wholeheartedly after marriage.
The real fault is the one who made the decision, and he is the one who really harmed those innocent women!
He pursed his thin lips tightly, and the overwhelming disappointment at the man swept through the sky.
"General, Tang Shangshu has sent white sugar cakes again." The servant in the distance hesitated for a moment, but came over, looked at his face secretly, and reported it carefully.
Then he saw that it was the general who had a frightening and gloomy aura all over his body, but that aura disappeared all of a sudden, and even his ugly face changed, and his expression was quite helpless.
He Shaoting rubbed the corner of his forehead, and the corner of his lips raised a helpless but somewhat doting smile.
He seriously suspected that the little liar was doing it on purpose, or that he wanted to retaliate for calling her a little liar. Since these days, people have been sending white sugar cakes every day, every day.
Seeing that the master took the white sugar cake and put it into his mouth as always, the servant secretly clicked his tongue. He never thought that the always majestic general would actually like sweets so much, and he would eat it repeatedly, the same every day, and not a day would fall.
He considered it and suggested, "It's better to make it now. If the general likes it, why not let the back chef make it every day? In this way, there is no need to trouble the Lord Shang Shu's house to deliver it every day."
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a really good idea. It not only saved the Shang Shufu's trouble, but also made it easier for the general to eat it at any time. After all, the cooking skills of Shang Shufu are too unstable, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Look, the white sugar cake delivered today is so bad in appearance, and the taste must not be much better.
He Shaoting reluctantly swallowed the bitterly sweet white sugar cake, only to feel a bitterness in his throat, he quickly took a few sips of tea, and then rubbed his forehead more and more helplessly.
The little liar has done it again, and it is difficult for the cook in her house to make such a unique white sugar cake.
Thinking of that rotten little liar, his mood instantly improved a lot. At this moment, he desperately wanted to see her. As long as he faced that beautiful face, even if he didn't do anything or say anything, he would also I feel very satisfied.
With such a thought in his heart, he was impulsive, and immediately ordered his servants to prepare a horse, hurried out of the house, got on the horse, and went straight to the Shangshu House.
It's a pity that he was doomed to miss out. Today, Tang Junyao went to Chen Ningzhen's husband's house with the female relatives of the Tang residence.
In the past few days, she has also found out that Chen Ningzhen's husband, Yi Mingda, has a younger sister who became King Xin's concubine last year.
King Xin is now the most popular candidate for the new crown prince, with many followers, Yi Mingda has such a relationship, and it is not surprising that he can be transferred to the capital.
In fact, Chen Ningzhen held a banquet to entertain the female family members of Tang Mansion. It was also his inspiration. King Xin intended to win over Tang Songnian. He also learned from his sister. , of course to make good use of it.
Originally, he also wanted to take this opportunity to get to know Tang Songnian, but Chen Ningzhen had a ghost in his heart, only that the time was not ripe. Although the two houses had such a level of kinship, after all, they had not been in contact for many years, so it was inevitable that they were unfamiliar. It would be better for her to get acquainted with the daughters of Tang Mansion first, the two mansions are getting closer, and then they will invite Tang Songnian brothers in the name of the master.
Yi Mingda thought it was the most suitable way to do this, so he readily agreed, so Chen Ningzhen held a banquet to invite the female relatives of the Tang Mansion.
Tang Junyao followed Ruan Shi, watching her politely talking to Chen Ningzhen, with an expression that made it impossible to see the slightest difference.
She nodded secretly, her mother finally practiced it over the years.
If it was her previous temperament, if she saw this Chen Ningzhen who used her goodwill to covet her husband, she would not be able to calm down at all, let alone treat her as if nothing had happened.
Chen Ningzhen was also quite unhappy, especially looking at Ruan's dignified and dignified Mrs. Gao Ming, thinking that she should have returned with honor, but she still had to curry favor with this person as she did in the past.
But what made her feel good was the change in the attitudes of Li's and Lin's, especially Li's, the flattering on his face was so obvious.
"We haven't seen each other for many years, so let's talk freely, don't hold them young girls." She pursed her lips lightly and said with a smile.
Li et al.
Tang Yunyao followed behind the maid of the Yi residence without caring, and went out of the flower hall with sisters Tang Yunyu and Tang Yunrou.
The maid led them to the quiet garden, and after walking a distance, Tang Yunyu exclaimed, "Oops", and then ordered Tang Yunrou, who said nothing, "I put the veil in the hall, you Go back and help people pick it up."
Her tone was too natural, and Tang Junrou was accustomed to it, and returned to the spot obediently.
Tang Yunyao glanced at the handkerchief showing a corner of her sleeve, and looked away calmly, resisting the discomfort and letting Tang Yunyu hold her arm affectionately.
"The silk flower on the third sister's head is really beautiful, isn't it from the palace?" Tang Junyu had nothing to say.
"Second sister is really insightful." Tang Junyao replied lightly.
Tang Junyu didn't care either, and continued to chat with her about topics. After a while, she said, "I'm a little tired after walking for so long. Let's find a place to sit for a while?"
"My sister is in charge."
Tang Junyu winked at the maid, who nodded slightly and left quietly.
Tang Yunyao pretended not to notice and continued to follow Tang Yunyu. As he walked, Tang Yunyu fell behind a few steps intentionally or unintentionally.
Tang Junyao suddenly became vigilant, looked around calmly, walked around a corner, and suddenly a hand stretched out from behind her, covering her mouth and nose tightly.
She was shocked, grabbed the opponent's wrist without thinking, held her breath and kicked the person behind her violently.
The man didn't expect her to be so ferocious, and she kicked him straight on the right knee, and suddenly fell to the ground with a 'thump'.