Chapter 4 — He said he wouldn't marry me until the Holy Order came down and he would go crazy

I stepped forward, my eyes falling on Mrs. Tham's face.

“Your so-called big picture is to kill your eldest son, exterminate the servants who know about it, force your biological mother to shut up, and then trample on the kindness of the To family to elevate Tham Nghien Phong?”

Old lady Tham glared at me.

“Is it your turn to speak here?”

Tham Nghien Tu took a step forward, blocking my face.

“She is the king's concubine.”

“Here, the person most qualified to speak up is her.”

Old Lady Tham's face turned pale. I looked towards Mrs. Tham.

“The lady just said that a mountain person came to report the news.”

“What happened to the mountain people after that?”

Mrs. Tham's crying suddenly stopped. Old Lady Tham's eyelids suddenly twitched. I immediately had the answer in my heart.

“Are you dead too?”

Mrs. Tham closed her eyes.

“His entire family of seven people were infected with the epidemic in just one night.”

“The body was also taken away and burned at night.”

Many female relatives in the main hall turned pale. The Emperor slammed down the sentence.

“Insolent!”

The emperor was furious, the whole hall simultaneously knelt down. In the end, Mrs. Tham did not dare to say another word. The emperor opened the letters in the iron chest. On the letter was Mrs. Tham's personal seal. There is a silver contract used to bribe bandits. There is a list of servants who need to be exterminated. There is also the thinnest piece of paper. On that piece of paper there was only one line of writing. If Tham Nghien Tu comes back alive, kill him immediately and do not spare him. Below is Mrs. Tham's handprint. Tham Nghien Tu looked at that piece of paper, but his expression was calmer than anyone. Unusually calm. It's like a wound that has rotted for so long that it no longer bleeds anymore. I looked at his face sideways and suddenly remembered the eunuch's words.

“Today, the lady has to suffer frustration.”

It turns out that the resentment he had to carry on his back was much heavier than mine. Tham Nghien Phong knelt on the ground and suddenly bowed his head towards the Emperor.

“Your Majesty, I wish to denounce my ancestors.”

"Over the years, the Tham family still has its own books, and the grandmother has a very close relationship with the foreign minister."

Old Lady Tham looked at him in disbelief.

“Nghien Phong!”

Tham Nghien Phong did not dare look at her.

“I was forced by my ancestors.”

“At that time, I was still young and didn't understand things.”

“Your Majesty, please show your kindness.”

Tham Nghien Tu laughed softly. That smile was so cold that it made people feel cold.

“Tham Nghien Phong.”

“Do you really think that the debt from ten years ago is over now?”

Tham Nghien Phong's whole body stiffened. Tham Nghien Tu raised his eyes and looked out of the palace.

“Bring in the witnesses.”

Outside the main hall door, a black-armored guard escorted a woman with drooping hair into the room. When the woman raised her face, Tham Nghien Phong's whole body seemed to be struck by lightning. I also recognized her. It was the singer who received my embroidered screen last year. In her arms she was holding a child less than a year old. The singer's name is Lieu Oanh. Last year, when Tham Nghien Phong gave the screen that I spent three months embroidering to her, she leaned against the flower hall door frame, smiled and bowed to me. When Yes, there is no child in her heart. And now, she was kneeling in the middle of the main hall, her face pale, the baby in her arms so scared that she burst into tears. Tham Nghien Phong's eyes almost wanted to tear her apart.

“Who told you to come here?”

Lieu Oanh hugged the baby tightly, her whole body trembling.

“Second Young Master, if you don't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive tonight.”

Tham Nghien Phong shouted sternly:

“You talk nonsense!”

Lieu Oanh cried as she took out a long life lock from her chest. The lock is very small, the gold light is tarnished, and the word Tham is engraved on the back. She held the eternal lock above her head.

“The Second Master himself personally put this lock on the baby.”

"Second Young Master said, when the To family annuls the marriage, when King An Bac can never return to the capital, he will welcome us both into the palace."

The whole hall was immediately in an uproar. I looked at Tham Nghien Phong and suddenly burst into laughter. It turned out that he hated me to the core, but that didn't slow him down from using the To family's money to support the exterior. Mrs. Tham was so angry that her eyes darkened.

“That servant, you dare to slander the son of the Tham residence!”

Lieu Oanh raised her face.

“Hasn't the old lady also met this child before?”

Old Lady Tham's expression immediately changed. Lieu Oanh continued to say:

“On the day the baby turned one month old, the old lady even sent her mother to bring her a gold bracelet.”

"He also said that if it was a boy, he would naturally have a future in the future."