Possessed by Luffy's fruit, I went crazy in ancient times

Chapter 85 Xu Family

Kyoto.

In the residence of Taifu Xu.

Xu Tai looked at the letter on the table with gloomy eyebrows. It was the reply letter sent by Jin Wang Yeshang a month ago.

The gray beard trembled twice, and the housekeeper stood aside tremblingly and said: "The second and third young ladies have been leaving for four days, and they should meet up with the eldest lady soon."

Inside the room, the yellow candlelight illuminated Xu Tai's relaxed face, making it look even more sinister and terrifying. This was the fifth time the housekeeper had seen this expression.

The first time was a reply from King Jin, and the second time was when the master came back from court and the queen summoned him.

Then came the return of the envoy, then the victory report of Xiaocheng's recovery, and then the return of the army to the court.

Every time there was news in the court, the master would take out the letter from Prince Jin and read it. After reading it, he would get very angry.

"The queen sent someone to reprimand me, all because of this rebellious girl." Xu Tai was almost mad and furious. His black eyes were forced to open much wider and bulged outwards.

The housekeeper stood aside, his body shook twice and he immediately fell to his knees: "Master, master, please calm down, calm down."

Upon hearing this, Xu Tai exhaled heavily, calmed down his emotions, and then slightly loosened his fist.

"It's all the fault of the Xie family." The Xie family is the queen's natal family, and its influence in the court is intertwined. The Xie family has determined that the next emperor will be born among the queen's three legitimate sons.

However, the Xie family's generation only gave birth to male babies, not even half-year-old female babies. In order to increase their connection with the royal family, the Xie family even resorted to concubines and wives by any means. However, for some reason, the Xie family's generation only gave birth to boys. baby.

After working hard for more than ten years, I didn't even see a female child. It was strange to say that Taifu Xu's family seemed to have enmity with the Xie family and could not give birth to a male child.

All the daughters of the Xu family wanted to join the royal marriage, and Taifu Xu taught three more princes, oh, no, four princes. Prince Jin was only taught once by Taifu Xu.

The Xie family and the Xu family were jealous of each other and disliked each other, but Taifu Xu wanted his daughter to advance to a higher level because of the queen's reputation.

But the daughter here naturally does not include Xu Chuan.

Speaking of Xu Chuan, it was a shame to Taifu Xu. Xu Chuan's mother was also a commoner, so people in Manchu didn't want to see Xu Chuan.

"Master, the eldest lady has been promoted to the rank of captain. I'm afraid that if she comes back this time, she still has to ease the relationship," the housekeeper persuaded in a low voice.

Even he didn't expect that the eldest lady would become an officer in the army after running away from home. This was quite an explosive thing for the Xu family.

However, no matter how the housekeeper looked, he never saw that the master was happy for the eldest lady.

On the contrary, he disliked seeing the eldest lady even more.

This time when the two ladies went to pick up the eldest, the master emphasized many times that they must kill her spirit.

The housekeeper doesn't know what kind of spirit the eldest lady has. For so many years, the eldest lady has been a transparent existence in the Xu Mansion.

Almost no one would notice her. Even where she lived and ate, she was never considered a eldest lady.

My aunt died early, and my husband remarried too early. My aunt saw that my husband didn't want to see the eldest lady, so she never cared about her life and death. I don't know why, but now my aunt wants to kill the eldest lady.

Even a servant like him felt that it was wrong to do this. Such a tit-for-tat confrontation would make it bad for father and daughter to become enemies in the future.

Xu Tai sighed and said, "That's all. If we can't ease the relationship, we can only sever the relationship between father and daughter." He lowered his eyes and looked at the letter in front of him, feeling increasingly unwilling to do so.

Everyone in the capital had forgotten that he had an eldest daughter, but the Xie family insisted on helping him find it, and even pretended to let the unfavored legitimate daughter marry the King of Jin, which just happened to be a piece of garbage. It was these two words "garbage" that deeply hurt Xu Tai's heart.

His Majesty disliked that Concubine Tao was of low origin, and even targeted the gentry and royal families for marrying civil and military wives from all over the dynasty. However, his ex-wife, like His Majesty's Concubine Tao, was from a commoner.

Therefore, he had the good sense to remarry a daughter from a noble family when His Majesty felt disgusted with her, thus concealing his ex-wife's identity as a commoner.

It's the Xie family. The Xie family actually moved their legitimate daughter Xu Chuan out in order to prevent the Xu family's daughter from marrying the prince.

The queen had always disliked Concubine Tao, and she even disliked King Jin, who was known as the God of War. However, the Xie family gave Xu Chuan a marriage to Yeshang, and even the queen looked down upon the Xu family.

This made Taifu Xu very unhappy, so in recent years, when he looked at the Xie family, his nose was not a nose, and his face was not a face. However, because of the empress, he did not dare to offend or get angry.

So later he thought of a way to kill Xu Chuan.

Unexpectedly, he ran away, so he had to declare to the public that Xu Chuan had run away from home.

Xu Chuan has been locked up in the backyard of the Xu family all year round. Except for a personal maid, no one has seen her true face.

Even her father, Taifu Xu, only thought of her appearance before her mother died.

Seeing that Xu Tai's voice had softened a lot, the housekeeper didn't care.

He himself was born a slave and lived a life of fear in the Xu Mansion. He had no time to take care of the eldest lady.

This is not the first time that Taifu Xu has been cruel.

Last time, he sent someone to write a letter to Marshal Xue to kill the eldest lady. Now it is not surprising that he wants to sever the father-daughter relationship with the eldest lady.

After all, the two of them had never had much of a father-daughter relationship, so they broke it off, and the eldest lady might not be surprised at it.

When the housekeeper thought that the eldest lady was now a lieutenant colonel in the army, he secretly regretted it. If he had known earlier, he should have sent some food to the eldest lady. Maybe she would be able to do it for the sake of his meal. Protect him for a moment or two.

Maybe even a good job will be given to him in the end.

He was thinking this as he walked over to polish Xu Tai's ink. The master still had many things to deal with.

The three princes are about to return to the capital. The master also has to prepare the lessons for the three princes. I wonder how the three princes are doing now?

The master always praised the intelligence of the three princes he taught. Recently, I heard his majesty preach that the three princes had achieved a lot in the battle of Xiaocheng.

It's just that even his servant is doubting whether this military exploit was stolen from King Jin.

After all, the three princes often asked people to write their homework for them. I don’t know if the master really didn’t notice it or just pretended not to notice it. Anyway, as soon as the three princes’ homework was collected, he just praised them.

"Order someone to clean up the eldest lady's yard, and let her live there when she comes back." Xu Tai wrote, and then he remembered that Xu Chuan didn't even have a place to live in the mansion.

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately and said, "Yes." He felt much relieved. The master still felt sorry for the young lady.

"Huh, I've already done this. If she still hates me, don't blame me for being rude." After hearing this, the housekeeper's heart pounded again. He still overestimated this master. In terms of cruelty, who can? Comparable to him.

"Yes, I will go down and make arrangements now." The housekeeper exited the study.

(End of this chapter)