A crescent moon hangs in the sky.
Seventeen-year-old Xie Xian stood behind the courtyard wall, looking at the woman kneeling there, and said softly: "My aunt is here to watch the wind, while I go to bring food to my mother."
It was the time for the guards to take over their shifts. After Xie Xian made sure that there was no one in the yard, she quickly walked away carrying the food box.
In the middle of the courtyard, a woman was kneeling. She was wearing white clothes whose original color could no longer be seen. She had messy black hair and a sad expression.
The woman has been kneeling here for a long time. Her body seems to have reached the extreme point, and she seems to faint at any time.
"Mom..." Xie Xian quickly stretched out her hand to support her, "Eat something quickly."
Yun Chu raised his eyes, looked at the person who came, and said in a hoarse voice: "Sister Xian..."
"Mom, there's no need to say anything more." Xie Xian brought out the meat porridge and handed it over, "Only when you are full can you have the strength to save the Yun family. Mother, eat quickly."
It has been nearly three months since the Yun family's accident happened, and the entire family was imprisoned. Only the married woman has not been affected for the time being.
At the beginning, my mother traveled far and wide to find people with connections to save the Yun family, but no one dared to interfere with the crime of treason.
In the end, there was really no other way, so my mother knelt in the courtyard of the study, hoping that her father and eldest brother would come forward and ask the emperor to re-investigate the Yun family's rebellion.
Now his father is a third-rank official in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and his eldest brother is the chief minister of the cabinet, the youngest chief minister since ancient times.
If the elder brother is willing to come forward, there will definitely be a chance to turn this matter around.
However, my mother has been kneeling here for nearly three months, and my eldest brother and father have avoided seeing her.
Xie Xian felt chilled for her mother.
If there was no mother, if there was no Yun family, how could the eldest brother have a smooth journey, rise to the top, and become a great minister?
Now that something happened to the Yun family, my mother begged for help, but my eldest brother stayed out of it...
Moreover, the eldest brother also controlled all the servants around his mother and did not allow anyone to bring water or food to her...
Xie Xian stopped her thoughts and poured a glass of hot water for Yun Chu and handed it to him.
However, at this moment, a figure quickly approached, then raised his foot and kicked over the bowl of hot water.
Hot water splashed on the back of Xie Xian's hand. She couldn't help but exclaimed, raised her head, and said in disbelief: "Brother Kang?"
Xie Shikang said coldly: "The Yun family is plotting rebellion. She is the daughter of the guilty minister. The Xie family is kind in giving her a place. How can we give her food again? Just because the Yun family is in trouble, our Xie family has been harmed." She was almost implicated, she doesn’t deserve to eat a grain of rice from our Xie family!”
"Master Xi..." Aunt Jiang had just stopped him. She staggered up to catch up with him, took Xie Shikang's arm, and said painstakingly, "Master Xi was born prematurely when he was a child. His slap is too big. Your aunt doesn't want you anymore. It was my wife who picked you up." I went back to Yusheng to take good care of you, and even asked famous doctors to treat your illness in the west. Later, I even went to Qingzhou many times to seek medical treatment for you... Without my wife, you would not be who you are today. How could you say such things to your wife? ?”
Xie Shikang gritted his teeth and said: "But because of the Yun family's rebellion and because her surname is Yun, the Xie family has also been jealous of the emperor. If the emperor also thinks that our Xie family participated in the rebellion, the Xie family will definitely be imprisoned..."
There was no ups and downs in Yun Chu's heart.
Ever since the incident happened in the Yun family, she had seen clearly the Xie family.
All the hard work has become a joke.
She didn't want to pursue the past. She just hoped that Xie Jingyu and Xie Shi'an could have a little bit of conscience and come forward to testify for the Yun family.
Xie Shikang raised his foot and kicked over all the food in the box.
Meat porridge and various foods were scattered on the floor.
The next moment, Xie Shian came out and said coldly: "What are you doing?"
Xie Shikang didn't have time to speak.
Yun Chu raised his head: "Shi'an, you are finally willing to come out to see me. I beg you, please ask the emperor to thoroughly investigate this case, please!"
"Mom is an elder, how can you kneel down to me." Xie Shi'an bent down and helped Yun Chu up.
But Yun Chu had been kneeling for so long that his legs had long since lost the ability to move, and his knees were stiff. As soon as he stood up, he fell down again.
Aunt Jiang and Xie Xian hurriedly stepped forward, supporting her on the left and right, so that she could lean on Aunt Jiang.
"Although I am the chief minister, I do not have the ability to make the emperor change his mind." Xie Shi'an said slowly, "I can't help the Yun family, mother, please stop kneeling."
"Shi'an!" Yun Chu shouted hoarsely, "The treason letter found by the court is fake. It is forged handwriting. As long as we invite an experienced calligraphy master, we will be able to identify it! Shi'an, I know you have the ability to find a calligraphy master. , and also has the ability to ask the emperor to re-verify the evidence..."
Xie Shian remained silent.
Her voice became hoarse, "For the sake of me raising you, for the sake of me giving everything to pave the way for you, can you help the Yun family, Shi'an, please..."
A sneer sounded at an inappropriate time.
Everyone looked up and saw that Xie Shiwei was back in armor.
He is now on duty in the military camp and only comes back every few days, looking majestic and majestic.
"I first thought my mother was a smart person." Xie Shiwei said with a mocking look on his face, "Things have come to this point, and my mother still can't figure out why. That letter..."
"Shi Wei!" Xie Shi'an shouted sharply, "There are some things you should say and some things you shouldn't say!"
Yun Chu felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
Her weak body couldn't help but shake.
In just an instant, she figured out details that she had never thought about before.
"It's you, it's you..." Yun Chu's voice was almost speechless, "It's the treason letter you wrote in imitation of my father's handwriting..."
At first, Xie Shi'an was highly valued by her teachers in the Imperial College, but her handwriting was slightly inferior. So she asked her grandfather to find a famous teacher for Xie Shi'an. The calligraphy master was the same teacher who had taught her father how to write. , it turns out that the root of the disaster was laid so early.
But how did the letter end up on her father's desk...
Yunchu's eyes fell on Xie Shiwei's face, and then he smiled sadly.
Xie Shiwei had been naughty and ignorant since she was a child, always fighting with others, so through her connections with the Yun family, she sent Xie Shiwei to the military camp for training.
More than ten years have passed, and Xie Shiweiji has become a third-rank general in the military camp, able to enter and leave the military camp freely.
It was Xie Shiwei who must have placed the letter on her father's desk.
"Hahaha!" Yun Chu's broken voice was full of despair, "It turns out that the people who harmed the Yun family are you, the sons I raised... No, it was me who killed the Yun family, and I knew it. People don’t know clearly, it was me who caused trouble by raising tigers, it was me who killed my grandfather, my father and my mother, my eldest brother, and the entire Yun family..."
"Mom, it's not your fault..." Xie Xian cried, "It's their fault. They are ungrateful and bite back..."
"Xie Xian!" Xie Shiwei said angrily, "Where are you from? Don't forget, your surname is Xie!"
"I would rather not be named Xie! I hate that the blood of the Xie family is flowing in my body!" Xie Xian collapsed and shouted, "How much evil did I do in my previous life! I want to be a family member with a group of cold-blooded and ruthless monsters like you!"
