“Father…Father, I’ve been reading in the room…” Qu Mingcheng was still quibbling, with a bad feeling in his heart. His people hadn’t responded yet, and neither of them had come back.
I should have succeeded by now, but until now I have not received any news.
"You are reading a book. Where are the people I gave you before?" Qu Zhizhen looked at him coldly and asked in a low voice. Even though there were only two of them in the study at this time, his voice was subconsciously suppressed.
"Father... of course they are here, they have been protecting me secretly." Qu Mingcheng said hurriedly. No one knew that this young minister had secret guards around him, several secret guards who protected him.
This kind of treatment was not what he deserved as a son of a minister. Since Yu was unaware of this matter, the only people who knew about it were Qu Zhizhen and Qu Mingcheng.
One was the person who was sent away, and the other was the person who took over. Apart from them, no one else in the Qu Mansion knew about it.
Qu Xuexin had been eager to ask Qu Mingcheng for help before, and she also vaguely discovered that there were many useful people around Qu Mingcheng, and they were very capable. This was also an important reason why she wholeheartedly helped to harm Qu Moying.
"Let them all come to me and I will investigate." Qu Zhizhen said.
"Father... I sent two of them out, and they are not in the capital right now. I will let them come to see you when they come back." Qu Mingcheng made an excuse hastily. He had sent two people out, and neither of them came back, either alive or dead.
"You can't come back!" Qu Zhizhen sneered.
"Father...Father, what did you say?" Qu Mingcheng was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously.
"The mission has failed, the people have been exposed, they can't come back." Qu Zhizhen said in a sinister voice, staring fiercely at his son. This was his only son, and because he was afraid that something might happen to his son, he sent several secret guards over. He didn't expect that two of them would be killed this time.
Even he himself doesn't have many people around him who can be used.
Now suddenly two people were killed, and it was because of this incident. Qu Zhizhen's anger surged up, and when he thought of the extreme hatred, he picked up the paperweight in front of him and threw it at him: "You evil creature, you actually dared to plot against your sister. Yu herself is not a good person, and the son she gave birth to is also a rotten one."
If he had known that Qu Mingcheng was such a good-for-nothing, he would not have trained him so hard. Qu Zhizhen only hated that he only had one son. If he had another, the one in front of him would definitely be abandoned.
"Father, you...how can you say that to mother?" Qu Mingcheng was still young after all, and he was angry for a moment and retorted subconsciously. When he finished speaking, he saw Qu Zhizhen turned out from behind the desk and kicked him.
Qu Mingcheng was caught off guard and was kicked back two steps, hitting the door frame behind him heavily. He fell to the ground in pain, covering his face.
The kick was so powerful that it almost knocked him unconscious.
"Do you think you have the confidence to talk to me like this?" Qu Zhizhen looked coldly at Qu Mingcheng, who was curled up in pain, and said sternly.
“Father…Father…” Qu Mingcheng was in so much pain that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
“Qu Mingcheng, don’t think that you are really the only son I have. Do you really think... that I can’t give you up..." Qu Zhizhen said sternly, with a strange coldness flashing in his eyes. That feeling was definitely not the caring father that Qu Mingcheng had seen in the past.
That look seemed more like calculation, deep calculation, as if he was calculating against Qu Moying.
His body trembled involuntarily. At this moment, he clearly felt the murderous intent in his father's eyes. It was indeed murderous intent. Did his father want to kill him
Want to kill your only son
Qu Mingcheng couldn't believe this, but that was exactly what he felt at that moment. His whole body was convulsing and his hands and feet were cold.
“Father…Father…” He murmured almost subconsciously, with embarrassment in his eyes.
"Mingcheng, it's the person you sent, right?" After a long time, Qu Zhizhen calmed down. The weird feeling in his eyes that scared Qu Mingcheng disappeared, leaving only a hint of gloom, and the murderous aura in his expression disappeared.
Such a Qu Zhizhen brings much less pressure to Qu Mingcheng.
"Father... I... I just wanted to kidnap her for a few days to tarnish her reputation. I didn't really want to kill her, nor did I really want to destroy her."
After such a shock, Qu Mingcheng's mind suddenly became clearer than ever before. He did not get up at this time, but crawled a few steps on his knees, walked forward and hugged Qu Zhizhen's legs, crying loudly, "Father... Father, I don't have other brothers, only one big brother. Although I don't like my fourth sister, I won't really kill her. I just want her to have a bad life. Father, please believe me."
He no longer resisted and said that this matter had nothing to do with him.
He suddenly realized that if his father really wanted to investigate, he only needed to call away everyone around him. He thought that these people were his men, but in fact, they were always controlled by his father in their bones, right
"Ruin her reputation?" Qu Zhizhen sneered, "Do you think I would believe it?"
"Father, this is true. I really just want to ruin her reputation, so that she can't marry well in the future, live worse than her sister, and let her sister always suppress her. As for other things, they are all grudges from the previous life. Father doesn't care about them. I...what else do I care about? I just want to suppress her for the rest of my life."
Qu Mingcheng's eyes were red. "I don't know why mother did such a thing. It made it impossible for us sisters and brothers to get close to each other. It also made my third sister and I dislike my fourth sister. But that's all. If my fourth sister really loses her reputation, will my third sister and I have a good reputation? Father won't think I'm risking everything!"
He hated Qu Moying so much that he wanted to trample her into the mud and make her look so lowly.
But he couldn't tell these words to his father. He used to think that even if he really dealt with Qu Moying, his father would only know about it afterwards. What could his father do to him
I am no longer my father's only son, and everything from now on belongs to me.
But just now, he was suddenly afraid. He saw the murderous intent and coldness in his father's eyes. That real murderous intent was directed at him. It was really directed at him.
He even had a feeling that if he didn't handle the situation correctly at that moment, he might not be able to leave the study.
No matter what, he had to make the matter look small and make himself sound innocent and pitiful, saying that he just wanted to harm Qu Moying a little but didn't really want to kill her.
Seeing that Qu Zhizhen still didn't speak, Qu Mingcheng said, "Father, I will take the imperial examination soon. I will study hard. I don't want to do anything wrong at this time. I won't meet my fourth sister from now on. After a while, when mother's matter... has calmed down a little, when I see my fourth sister again, I may be able to calm down."
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When talking about Mrs. Yu, Qu Mingcheng burst into tears: "Father, no matter what mistakes Mother made, she is still my biological mother. I... I... I can't get over it for a while..."
After hearing what she said and seeing his condition, Qu Zhizhen asked half-doubtfully, "Are you really not going to deal with your fourth sister again?"
"Father, I won't do that again. I will study hard, bring honor to our family, and think of you. Mother did something wrong, so she should be punished. As for me and my fourth sister... I will figure it out after some time. I can figure it out. Even if I am not as close to my fourth sister as before, I will still treat her as my own sister."
Qu Mingcheng wiped the traces from the corners of his eyes and said in grief.
These words were spoken at a very timely moment. He first talked about his future, and then said that he had done something wrong this time because he just couldn't get over it for a moment. Yu was not a good person, but for Qu Mingcheng, she was his mother, his biological mother. No matter how wrong she was, he would not get rid of her.
This shows that he is a very filial person.
He then said that he would treat Qu Moying as his own sister in the future, and that he would be able to do it once he got over the hurdle in his heart. As for how to get over it, he would study hard during this period and he would definitely be able to do it.
What he said made sense and fit his current situation. Although Qu Zhizhen still had some doubts, he was very satisfied with his attitude. He turned around and sat down behind the desk again. After thinking for a while, he said, "It's best that you think so. When you go back, gather the people around you. Don't let anyone know that there is someone around you in the near future."
"Father... is it because of what happened today?" Qu Mingcheng asked hurriedly.
"It's impossible for those two people to come back. If they fail in any way, even if they don't die, they will have no choice but to protect themselves by dying if they fall into the hands of others." Qu Zhizhen said slowly. The light in the study jumped, giving people an inexplicably cold and weird feeling.
Qu Mingcheng shuddered unconsciously, "Father... Father... Those are... assassins?"
Only death warriors would commit suicide and escape without leaving any trace after being caught. He had heard of it before, but had never seen it. He never expected that the several secret guards arranged by his father to be death warriors were actually death warriors.
For the first time, he suddenly realized, how could there be such a assassin around his father
My father is a civil servant, and a low-ranking one at that, and he has no connection with the royal family. Why would there be such a person around me
What is my father hiding
Under the candlelight, the study became quiet. The shadows of two people were stretched out, one was sitting and the other was half-kneeling on the ground.
It took a long while before I heard Qu Zhizhen's cold voice: "You should go back first. I haven't called you during this period. You have been studying quietly outside the mansion. It would be best if you could get a good reputation. Yu's family has nothing to do with you now. You are now registered under the name of another concubine. If you want to take the imperial examination and become an official, you must have a clean reputation."
"As for the Yu Mansion, you must remember that the Yu Mansion is of little use. Not only is it of no use, it will also drag you down." Qu Zhizhen warned again. Qu Mingcheng has been making a lot of moves in private recently, and he is not completely ignorant of it.
Qu Mingcheng shuddered subconsciously, lowered his head, and said respectfully: "Yes, father, son... son knows."
He lowered his head at this moment, and even Qu Zhizhen did not notice the resentment and hatred in his son's eyes. How could he fail again...