When Shen Rong and her family arrived, Minghui Courtyard was silent. When Shen Rong followed Aunt Hua to the outside of the courtyard, she thought Aunt Hua had conveyed the wrong message. The reason was that the courtyard was too quiet, so quiet that it didn't sound like there were any guests at all.

It was not until Shen Rong and Changsheng entered the reception room that Shen Rong saw that there were people sitting on both sides of Old Madam Li.

There were quite a few people coming, but no one spoke. When they saw Shen Rong and Changsheng come in, everyone in the room, young and old, looked over.

Big Chen and Little Chen were sitting next to each other. When she saw Changsheng's family, she unconsciously grabbed her cousin's arm.

She thought that the information her brother had worked so hard to find out was reliable, but she didn't expect it to be so wrong. Not only women, but also men and two children came.

Mrs. Chen felt dizzy and was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.

This damn old woman hid it so well!

"Sister-in-law, where did you get this from..."

The old man from the West Mansion originally wanted to say that the bastard that Li brought back from somewhere was his nephew's bloodline, but when he saw that Changsheng's face was 50% similar to that of his deceased eldest nephew, he immediately swallowed the rest of his words.

This child looks like his grandfather and also like his biological father Gong Shaoyun.

Gong Shaojia and his son Gong Shixing looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.

Why did you invite so many people?

There are actually children.

Looking again, I found that the child looked 70% like the man. The relationship between the two children was self-evident.

The man looked exactly like Gong Shaoyun. Gong Shaojia instantly determined the relationship between the young man and his dead cousin, but he still didn't want to believe it.

As for Shen Rong, since she didn't resemble the Gong family at all, the people in the West Mansion subconsciously ignored her.

Only Mrs. Chen, thinking of her brother saying that it was a woman who hurt him, shot a poisonous look at Shen Rong coldly.

With Nanny Hua's reminder, Shen Rong didn't take it to heart even if these people looked at her unkindly. Changsheng didn't care about outsiders except his family members, let alone whether their eyes were kind or not.

As for the two children, they were probably too young to understand the looks in those people’s eyes!

As soon as they said they came to Minghui Courtyard, the two little ones were so happy that they hadn't been quiet all the way. Now seeing so many people in the room, they were not at all stage nervous. The brother and sister opened their eyes as big as their father's and looked at this person and that person.

Therefore, even though everyone present, except Li, looked unfriendly towards the Changsheng family, Shen Rong and the others were not affected at all.

"Child, come here. This is your second uncle, this is your first cousin, the one opposite is your aunt, and your cousin Xing Ge'er..."

Old Madam Li introduced the people who came with her daughter-in-law to Shen Rong, and Shen Hechangsheng brought the children to pay their respects to the elders one by one.

The old man from the West Mansion had listened to his son and came to question his sister-in-law about where she got a bastard from to confuse the bloodline. However, he did not expect that this young man really looked a bit like his brother, and he was speechless immediately.

Seeing this family standing in front of him and about to pay their respects to him, he immediately remembered the purpose of his coming here. He waved to Shen Rong and Changsheng and turned his gaze to Li and said, "Sister-in-law, where did you find these children? This is not a very decent thing to do! How can you put someone else's child under Brother Yun's name?"

Seeing that his grandfather had not forgotten the purpose of his visit, Gong Shaojia was relieved. "Yes, grandma, we don't know where this man came from. If brother Yun knew about this, I'm afraid he wouldn't be at peace in the underworld if you found him a country bumpkin to be his son!"

Although Changsheng changed his clothes, his simple and naive look made it easy to tell his background at a glance, not to mention that he had spies in the East Palace.

Shen Rong didn't want to bow to the elders of the West Mansion, so she stopped and looked at Mrs. Li.

When Madam Li heard what the grandparents said, her face suddenly darkened, then she relaxed again and said softly to Changsheng and the others:

"Don't stand there, sit down first!"

Shen Rong sat up after hearing this, and saw the old lady looking at the second uncle. The expression on her face immediately changed, and she said in a cold voice:

"Confusing the bloodline of the Marquisate?

If they were not the bloodline of the Marquis' Mansion, I would not have traveled thousands of miles to bring their whole family here. Do you think I am old and confused?

Changsheng is Shaoyun’s third son. The child had been in poor health since childhood and had been raised outside. Now that he is well again, he and his wife and child have been brought back home.

Second brother, you are too old to see how much this child's face resembles his father and grandfather, but I am not too old to be unable to see clearly what my own grandson looks like."

Old Madam Li did not give the old man from the West Mansion any face. After being scolded by his sister-in-law, the old man looked extremely ugly. He snorted coldly and suddenly remembered who the third son of his nephew Gong Shaoyun was.

"I remember that Shaoyun San'er was a bastard. Back then, that kid... wasn't his brain burned out? Yes, his brain was burned out!" The old uncle's turbid eyes suddenly burst into a gleam of light.

Good for being a fool!

There is no fool in this capital city who can support a family.

Li has been dealing with the old man from Xifu for half her life, how could she not know what he meant?

Li thought about the evening's arrangements. She was not annoyed by Changsheng's exposure. She just said calmly, "What do you mean by stupid or not? This child has been raised in the countryside since he was a child. He is honest and straightforward. He is not like those people in the capital who are cunning and calculating."

Old Master Gong's face tightened when he heard what she said. He knew that the other party was talking about them again, but she didn't call them names or curse them with her fingers. It was impossible for him to turn against her. However, her next words were not so pleasant to hear.

He sneered, "Oh... Sister-in-law, inheriting a title is a big deal. It's not like a game played by children in the countryside. If His Majesty finds out that our Pingyang Marquis's Mansion has nominated someone to inherit the title, and if that angers His Majesty and he takes back the title, can you, a woman and child, bear this responsibility?"

When you are a hundred years old, how will you face your ancestors?"

At this time, Da Chen also advised: "Auntie, my father is right. This inheritance is related to the fate of the family. We need to be cautious!"

Madam Li's breathing became heavier.

If these people hadn't killed her grandchildren's lives and designed to make his grandchildren unable to have children, would Dongfu have reached this point today?

If she had evidence, she would have sent these people to the government immediately.

In Li's heart, she would rather the emperor take back her title than let those jackals from the West Palace take advantage of their East Palace!

As for whether letting Changsheng inherit the title would displease the emperor, Li didn't care at all.

Among those princes and nobles who followed Taizu to conquer the world, which one of them had not been suppressed by the late emperor?

Later, in order to win that position, several princes each won over the nobles in the capital. Since the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion had no strength and was not in the eyes of those princes, it escaped the disaster.

Li thought about the fate of those nobles who chose the wrong side. Those people are now worse off than their Pingyang Marquis Mansion!

The new emperor now looks like a kind person, and he must have been scheming and scheming to climb to that position. In the past two years, she watched the emperor gradually follow the path that the previous emperor had taken, and she was afraid that it was not a good thing for old nobles like them to be too ambitious. But those idiots in the West Palace didn't understand. Maybe it was not that they didn't understand, but that their eyes were blinded by greed and they didn't want to understand at all.

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