mtl008 Chapter 507: Closing the Clues (2)
Chapter 507: Closing the Clues (2)
Seeing her nod, Shen Yu became even more confused.
"Is your family master's jade pendant... wholesale?"
Madam Yun didn't understand what wholesale meant. After taking the medicine, she was already in good health, so she supported herself and stepped forward to explain, "My Lord and Princess, my husband is actually Concubine Yun's biological brother, not his cousin."
Oh, it’s happening. He’s using the same trick again, placing his legitimate son in someone else’s place to pretend to be a bastard’s son…
Shen Yu was really speechless about these members of the Yun family. Since they cared so much about the bloodline between legitimate and illegitimate children, why did they take concubines and give birth to illegitimate children?
Madam Yun smiled awkwardly. She actually only found out about this after she married her husband. Thinking of her husband and eldest son who were no longer alive... she sighed. Although she knew very well that the two people in front of her were the culprits who caused her family to be broken up, everything always has a first come first served. Tracing back to the root cause, it was the Yun family who took action first, and Prince Zhuo's Mansion was just fighting back.
This was also a good opportunity for her to confess that now no one except King Zhuo could save the three of them, mother and son. If it weren't for Yan'er's alertness... she really couldn't even think about it.
Madam Yun ignored her son's attempts to stop her and directly knelt down, "My Lord, Princess, my husband had no choice but to do what he did before!"
She raised her head firmly, "I am not trying to clear my husband's name. He was raised as a member of the Yun family's side branch since he was a child. He was taught to provide intelligence to the Yun family in Zhuocheng. He was a target in Zhuocheng with the surname Yun. He was out of reach of the core power of the family. Once something went wrong, he would be the scapegoat. It was not until the year Yan'er was born that this jade pendant was found in the gift list. There was also a note attached, saying that it was a token of the head of the Yun family. It also said that my husband was the younger brother of Concubine Yun. The old lady did not want her daughter's inheritance to fall into the hands of others, so she lied that my husband died at birth and sent him to the Yun family's side branch..."
“Your Highness, Princess, please beg my two children! My husband has never cared about the position of head of the family. He said that since he has been a member of the side branch Yunhao since childhood, he will only be Yunhao in the future…” After saying this, she kowtowed, her voice filled with sorrow.
Shen Yu subconsciously turned his head, blinked, and looked at Lu Yingxing a little confused: So, is it what I thought?
Lu Yingxing nodded. It turned out that his wife was not in good shape today. She looked silly but cute.
The little girl Yun Ke seemed to understand but not quite. She hugged her brother's thigh and looked at her mother curiously.
"So, the person who wants to kill you is Concubine Yun?"
Lu Yingxing turned his head to look at the little ghost beside her, "Because he also has the right of inheritance, right?"
"I don't want to inherit any damn Yun family!" Yun Yan had a serious face, pretending to be very steady, trying hard to express his refusal.
Madam Yun did not hide it. "I don't know this, but outsiders think that the Yun family's patriarch only passes down his family lineage to daughters, not sons. But this is actually based on the premise that the previous generation of the patriarch had no male offspring..."
Thinking of her husband's distraught look after he found out about his life story, she said sadly, "We have been hiding this jade pendant very well since we received it, and we didn't show any abnormality. We just kept it in the warehouse as an ordinary item. My husband didn't care about the position of the head of the family, and he never thought of giving it to Yan'er, but I didn't expect..."
Shen Yu interrupted her and asked someone to help her sit up, "So, Concubine Yun has always known that the jade pendant is in your hands?"
Madam Yun shook her head, "I don't know... But according to my husband's guess, this might have been sent by a family servant who knew the truth of the past. Princess may not know that although the Yun family has always claimed that women are in power, in fact, the head of the family has always been a man, and the head of the family's first wife will automatically inherit the position of the patriarch."
Although she didn't say it too specifically, Shen Yu understood it. What she meant was that every couple in the Yun family were the ones in power, a bit like the man being the breadwinner outside and the woman being the homemaker?
"Let me tell you what I understand. Your father-in-law is the current head of the Yun family, and your mother-in-law is the clan leader of this generation. Concubine Yun is their only child. If there are no other brothers and sisters, Concubine Yun will succeed as the head of the family? Right? I remember that the heads of the Yun family are all women, right? So, as long as Yun Hao is not around, Concubine Yun will serve as both the head of the family and the clan leader of the next generation. Is that right?"
Mrs. Yun hesitated for a while. Could this be the truth?
"Princess, I'm sorry, I don't know..." She was afraid of saying something wrong and misleading Shen Yu, so she told the truth, "My husband is just a pawn of Zhuocheng. We can't access this level of internal family information, but at present, many arrangements are directly issued by Concubine Yun. It's not an exaggeration to say that she is the acting head of the family."
A sense of weirdness flashed through Shen Yu's mind, but he didn't catch it. "Your Yun family is quite weird. On the one hand, you despise me because I am a side branch, and on the other hand, you want me to work hard with all my heart."
Mrs. Yun smiled helplessly. Isn’t it?
Perhaps it was because she had opened her mouth. It was rare for her to talk to others about the depression she had been feeling over the years, so she couldn't stop. "In fact, the Yun family started to develop side branches in order to train wives for the direct descendants. The Yun family cares a lot about blood inheritance. If close relatives could not get married within three generations, perhaps the Yun family would never have considered marrying other women."
Shen Yu, "..."
"Originally, the people in Youcheng wanted to send a distant cousin to my husband as a concubine, but he refused. They tried to throw me into his arms a few times, but he got angry and used some evidence to blackmail me, and the matter was dropped. I'm a native of Zhuocheng, so maybe they think the child I gave birth to is not pure enough."
Shen Yu, "..."
"Also, Prince You's mother is actually a member of the Yun family. Concubine Yun should call her aunt according to seniority."
Shen Yu, "..."
"Although the second son of Youcheng married a noble lady from Luocheng, all his concubines and harems are from the Yun family."
Shen Yu, "..."
"In fact, their original plan was to let Tan Fuyao marry Prince Zhuo as his principal wife, and let Tan Daixue be his concubine, and then arrange for eight or ten daughters from the Yun family's side branches to enter Prince Zhuo's mansion as concubines. Oh, I remember, there was actually a daughter of Youcheng who was betrothed to a side branch. This girl was prepared for Prince Zhuo many years ago."
Shen Yu was speechless.
Because the content was so explosive, it became Mrs. Yun who was speaking, and a group of people were listening outside the door.
Gao Yong was the most exaggerated. He directly ordered people to write down these stories word for word, saying that he would go back to write a picture book and a play. He even thought of a name, which was called "The Glory of the Side Branch"...
Shen Er and Shen Nan would occasionally interrupt, mainly complaining that the Yun family's so-called "no marriage for three generations" logic was not strict enough. After all, those direct descendants who entered the side branches through indenture were excluded and their identities were kept secret. Isn't that completely wrong! !
Fu Yunxiu was just curious, where had the girl who was going to be married to Prince Zhuo gone?
Successfully received someone's death sight attack...