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Chapter 230 The Imperial Concubine's Secret 【Please recommend, please ask for a monthly ticket! 】

Lin Xiao didn't go directly back to the other courtyard Li Yufan gave her, nor did she go back to Ai Lushi, but went to Chen's Tavern.

Because she learned from Wang Tuo that the Chen's Tavern is actually inextricably linked with the Chen's family.

It was already late at this time, and there was a curfew tonight, so the front of the Chen's Tavern was cold and quiet.

Chen Yun was very surprised to see Lin Xiao coming, and hurried out to greet him:

"Brother Lin, aren't you accompanying me in the palace? Why did you come to me?"

"How do you know that I am accompanying you in the palace? Not many people know about this!"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Chen Yun with a half-smile.

"I, I, it was Mrs. Lin who told me..."

Chen Yun touched his nose guiltily, his eyes were floating around, not daring to look at Lin Xiao.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao knew in his heart that it seemed that during his absence, this kid had often sought out Lan Lian to strengthen his relationship.

However, she didn't expose him, she just said lightly:
"There's a curfew tonight, I'm here to get drunk."

Chen Yun was startled, and he looked at Lin Xiao with deep puzzlement:
"Brother Lin, what's wrong with you? Is there something on your mind?"

Although he had known Lin Xiao not long ago, he felt that Lin Xiao was a very strong, assertive person with a smart mind, and could handle any situation he encountered.

Lin Xiao shook his head, his eyes drooped slightly, and said lightly:
"It's nothing, it's just that something has happened recently that bothers me."

Chen Yun was even more confused when he heard this, but seeing that Lin Xiao didn't want to say more, he didn't ask any more questions, but just patted his chest and said:
"My treat!"

Lin Xiao glanced at him and yawned lazily:
"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey!"

The two came to the private room on the second floor. Chen Yun specially ordered someone to cook some signature delicacies, and took out two altars of fine wine. The two exchanged glasses and drank to their heart's content.

"Do you know the Chen family?"

Lin Xiao spoke suddenly, making Chen Yun, who was pouring wine, stop, with a look of surprise on his face:
"The Chen family? Of course I know! Brother Lin, why are you asking this?"

"I heard that this family is like this in the capital."

With that said, Lin Xiao gave a thumbs up, eyes full of admiration and yearning:

"Even the emperor's most beloved imperial concubine is from their family, and your surname is Chen. Are you related to the Chen family?"

Lin Xiao didn't continue talking, but looked at Chen Yun with puzzled eyes.

Chen Yun was taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled wryly, with a bit of melancholy in his eyes:
"To be honest, our lineage was actually abandoned by the Chen family."

"Why?!"

Lin Xiao exclaimed, she had imagined countless possibilities, but she never expected such an ending.

"This has to start with my ancestors."

Chen Yun took a deep breath and began to speak slowly.

"My ancestor was the son of a concubine of the Chen family. Although he was a son of a concubine, he was highly valued by the elders of the family because of his intelligence. They sent him to Bailu Academy to study, hoping that one day he would be able to obtain fame and become proud of himself. Return, however..."

However, Chen Yun's ancestor falls in love with a peasant girl at first sight during a study tour. The girl is also infatuated with him and has no regrets, and the two make a private decision for life.

The elders of the Chen family were furious when they learned of this, they called Chen Yun's ancestor back home and gave him two choices.

Either make a clean break with that woman, concentrate on your studies, and become the helm of the family in the future, or marry that woman, quit the official status, and become a mountain villager from now on, and have nothing to do with the Chen family.

Chen Yun's ancestor hesitated for a moment, resolutely chose the latter, resigned from the official position, and had a relationship with that woman, Chen Yun's grandmother.

Eloped, left the capital, and flew away.

The Chen family also really drew a line with them and removed Chen Yun's ancestor from the genealogy as a punishment.

"So that's how it is..."

After hearing this, Lin Xiao was filled with emotion.

I didn't expect there to be such an infatuated person in the world, but how much effort did this infatuation cost the younger generation to return to the official status? !
does it worth?
"Brother Lin, you seem to be very interested in the Chen family? Do you want to build a relationship with it? I can't help it. Although we have entered the official status with our elder brother, we are being restrained by the Chen family everywhere." , Self-protection is already very difficult, and there is nothing that can be done.”

"It's okay, I just asked casually."

Lin Xiao waved her hand, picked up the wine bowl and drank it down. She put down the wine bowl and looked at Chen Yun:
"Why do they keep you in check?"

"Hey! It's not that when they saw the booming business of our tavern, they wanted to take a share of the pie, but my dead father directly rejected it, so they held a grudge!"

Having said that, Chen Yun's face became gloomy:

"If it weren't for my eldest brother being a proud student of Bailu Academy, with the support of Bailu Academy, I'm afraid my tavern would have been destroyed by them long ago."

"They are too much!"

Lin Xiao was indignant, she did not expect the Chen family to be so small-minded.

Chen Yun smiled, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes:
"If there is a chance, I will take revenge!"

Hearing this, an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of Lin Xiao's mouth, but she concealed it very well so that Chen Yun didn't notice:
"There is a chance... there is one."

"Oh?!"

Chen Yun's eyes lit up.

"Do you know why the Chen family is so powerful that the imperial concubine can't be the queen of a country?"

Chen Yun frowned, thought for a moment and said:

"Right? Why is that? As far as I know, the emperor seems to rely heavily on their family."

"Yes."

Lin Xiao nodded, she smiled and said:
"I like the imperial concubine's natal family so much, but the imperial concubine is still the imperial concubine. Do you know the twists and turns?"

"Brother Lin, you are flattering me too much. I, a commoner, can't understand this kind of court secrets."

Chen Yun said modestly, but the expression on his face was obviously not like this.

Lin Xiao chuckled, lowered his voice and said:
"Because the imperial concubine is not the direct daughter of the Chen family, but an orphan adopted from outside!"

When Chen Yun heard this sentence, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he stared at Lin Xiao in disbelief, as if he didn't believe that all this was true:
"You said that the imperial concubine was adopted by the Chen family?!"

"Yes."

"impossible?"

Chen Yun couldn't believe his ears, he felt that this was simply unbelievable.

Lin Xiao snorted lightly and said word by word:

"How is it impossible? I even once suspected that all the sons and sons of the Chen family were adopted from outside!"

"If that's the case, wouldn't the Chen family commit a serious crime of deceiving the emperor?!"

Chen Yun's eyes widened in horror.

For a big family like the Chen family, there were originally many families in the capital, and they all fought together with the founding emperor thousands of years ago.

But with the passage of time, many families completely cut off their incense because they did not have a son and a half daughter, and they were buried in the long river of history.

(End of this chapter)