The Blessed

“What the hell do you want, you shameless little bastard? After setting up Jingwei, now you even want to disintegrate our whole family, huh? If I had known this, I should have sunk you into the river! It’s only your saying that someone tried to kill Lady Wang! Who knows whether it was you who threw in cinnamon in it? Maybe someone dropped it in accidentally!”

At such a time, how could the unreasonable old lady not argue back? Looking at her bossy face, Ling Jingxuan only felt speechless, “Really unreasonable! How about we go to the yamen and ask the magistrate to be the judge?”

He did not believe that she still dare act so crossly. To deal with this kind of unbelievable person, he must let her fear, although he himself was also a little upset about himself since every time he would use magistrate.

“Son of a bitch!”

Sure enough, when she heard the word yamen, the old lady didn't dare shout again, but…

“Ling Jingxuan, you don't have to mention the magistrate every time, what she said is not all unreasonable. Although it is not likely that you’d try to poison your own mom, accidentally picking up the wrong herbs and someone dropping it in the bowl is kind of possible.”

The old woman's insolence undoubtedly let Ling Qiyun see a turning point. Although this reason was really too far-fetched, he can not even convince himself, how can he easily let go of such a good opportunity? In any case, he would not let the rumor spread that there was a murderer in the Ling family.

“Hehe, what a coincidence! The cinnamon that would cause hemorrhoea of a miscarriage woman happened to drop into my mom’s medicine.”

Hearing that, Ling Jingxuan immediately argued back with sarcasm. Ling Qiyun’s old face immediately turned red. After all, as a scholar, his face was not so thick like the old woman. And other elders who also tried to use this point to cover it up all felt uneasy there. A moment ago, they all looked so righteous, actually, none of them cared about the result. The only thing they cared about was the face of the whole family, like they threw the one who embarrassed them into a remote place…As long as their face was saved, the truth was not important at all.

“Well, it seems that even if you get it investigated, you would come to any conclusion. But it is a solid fact that someone tried to kill my mom! So I would never let my parents and younger brothers stay in this family. I give you two choices. Either open the ancestral hall and let my father live alone independently, or we’ll go to the yamen now!”

Hands held behind, wearing a cold face, Ling Jingxuan finally spoke out his real purpose. Living alone independently and dividing up the family were different. The latter was only living alone. If there’s anything of the old Ling family, his father would still get involved. But the former was equal to cutting off with the old Ling family, just like how he got thrown out of the family. The difference was that he got thrown out under the name of shame, while Ling Chenglong asked to move out himself. Although the result was the same, the meaning was greatly different.

“You…Don't even think about it!”

Ling Qiyun angrily shouted. Living alone independently? Isn’t it like slapping him in the face?

“Bah! Living alone? Don't dream about it. I gave birth to him and brought him up, which took me so much pain. As long as I’m still breathing, he can’t move out!”

The old lady who just took a break immediately lost her temper, eyes glaring at Ling Jingxuan viciously. He tried to egg on her second son to break away from her control! No way!

“I wouldn’t mind giving you a push if you insist on seeking death.”

Ling Jingxuan, who had been staying cold, suddenly wore a murderous look, with that pair of long and thin phoenix eyes stained with undisguised ruthlessness and evilness. The old woman made a shudder and finally remembered his heartlessness. Others no longer even dared to look at him. Not knowing why, they always felt that he would really have the balls to kill people.

Seeing this situation, as Ling Jingxuan had expected, Ling Chenglong’s heart softened. After all, they were his blood parents. But as he stretched out a hand trying to pull Ling Jingxuan’s clothes trying to tip him of his manner, Ling Jinghan moved forward to stand before him, while Ling Jingpeng also grabbed his hand, signaling him to stay there. Their big brother was sacrificing his own name for them!

“Mom, dad, please forgive my unfilial behavior. Since this family cannot accommodate my wife and children, please let me leave. My sons grow up. I don’t want to end up losing my wife and sons and dying alone. I won’t take anything with me but my wife and sons. If you still take me as your son, please make me.”

However, Ling Chenglong still broke away from the two brothers, moved forward and knelt before the old couple and kept kowtowing. His son sacrificed his own name to help him. How would he not be moved? Five years ago, he had given up on him once. This time, he would never let him keep out wind and rain for him again!

Ling Jingxuan was annoyed at the beginning, but after thinking that his dad might have done this for him, he felt a bit helpless. Things like dignity or name, he had never cared about that at all. On the contrary, instead of having to deal with those unbelievable people from time to time, he’d rather let all of them fear of him and dare not provoke him again. Fortunately his dad was not muddled-headed and did not overturn his requirement of living alone independently, otherwise all he had done would go nowhere.

Ling Jinghan was also smart enough. He could guess out what his big brother was thinking, while Ling Jingpeng looked a bit pissed off, only afraid that his dad would blow things up. He didn’t want to stay in this family for one more minute!

The sudden move of Ling Chenglong shocked not only Ling Qiyun, but also Ling Qicai and other elders. Seeing that Ling Chenglong’s nearly bleeding forehead, they only signed there and no longer looked as furious as before. All in all, that was their family issue, which had nothing to do with them. So they shouldn’t interfere.

Seeing his second son so determined, Ling Qiyun only felt his blood rushing all into the brain. He even hadn’t blamed them about Jingwei’s thing, now they checkmated him first! Such an unfilial son! How could he have raised such an ungrateful bastard?

The old lady dare not talk back under Ling Jingxuan’s threatening. But any mother who saw her own son kept kowtowing there and even broke his forehead should at least feel worried, right? But the way she looked at Ling Chenglong was still filled with indifference, even mixed with a bit hatred, like she only wished he’d kowtow to death there.

“Enough! If you want to live alone, I’ll make you!”

No one how long it had passed. Finally Ling Qiyun roared, and then turned to storm into his study. Ling Chenglong who was still kowtowing there froze there, his whole body collapsed there. No one knew whether he was happy or scared. Ling Jinghan and Ling Jingpeng moved forward and supported him up, while Ling Jingxuan tore off a piece of cloth from his robes and dressed the wounds expertly.

“Patriarch, the elders, please be the witnesses for us. From today on, my second son and his whole family will live alone independently. We are no longer related, be it rich or poor, healthy of ill!”

Before long, Ling Qiyun took a piece of paper on which the ink was still wet. While saying so, he threw it directly on Ling Chenglong’s face. Really having not the slightest benevolence in the heart!

“Big brother, you should think clearly. If Chenglong really moves out and lives himself, in the future, he would be no longer your son.”

Seeing here, Ling Qicai couldn't help moving forward trying to persuade him. Even he, an outsider, could tell who was the real filial son of this family, let along there’s Ling Jinghan. If someday, he got recovered, it was not impossible he’d have a career in the court! And…Ling Qicai couldn’t help cast a glance at Ling Jingxuan, and in his brain he remembered that man he had seen in the house they day. He had some kind of inherent dominance which not common people had. He was certain that person was really something. If Chenglong stayed with them, even though Ling Jingxuan had been thrown out of the family, when that man’s identity got verified, they still could benefit from it. But if his big brother Ling Qiyun still insisted, in the future, the possible glories would totally have nothing to do with them.

“Yeah, dad, you should think it clear.”

After watching the drama for so long, Ling Chenghu also hurried moved forward. If his second elder brother really lived alone, what about the military service? Who would take care of the ten mu of land?

“Grandpa...”

“Jinghong!”

As Ling Jinghong just wanted to stand out to say something, Lady Li quietly pulled him. He looked back and directly encountered his mom winking at him. Ling Jinghong frowned. How could they think it so simply? Jingxuan was already not that Jingxuan five years ago. And Jinghan…The drama had lasted for so long, he hadn’t even coughed once! Even the bad-tempered Jingpeng looked quiet today. What did it mean? It meant that they were changing fast, they changing toward a better direction! He was sure that if his grandpa really agreed to let his second uncle move out, they’d be regret!

“You don't have to say any more. For such an unfilial son who even set up his own nephew, there’s no room in our family for him!”

Ling Qiyu already lost his head. The harder others tried to persuade him, the angrier he became, totally not showing a bit of regretful feeling. Ling Qicai who was the first trying to stop him made a deep sigh, turned back at the old patriarch and gave him a nod, signaling to agree. The old patriarch could only try to stand up under the support of his crutch, “If so, Ling Qiyun, Ling Chenglong, and Jinghan and Jingpeng, follow me to the ancestral hall.”

The farce was almost over here. The two brothers nodded at Ling Jingxuan, then held up their dad and followed the old patriarch to leave.

Before leaving, Ling Jingxuan gave Ling Jingwei a meaningful look. Of course he did not miss the old man’s words of “setting up his own nephew’. Anyone with brains could guess the whole story. For this, the ridicule crawling on Ling Jingxuan’s face was weird. It looks things are getting funnier.

It was almost an hour later when Ling Chenglong and others came back carrying that new family tree book. Before that, Ling Jingxuan asked Yan Shengrui to go to Zhao family and ask Zhao Dalong to use his ox cart to take his mom to his place, and then made a prescription, asked him to go to town to buy some medicine. And for those things at that home, except the quilt matted on the ox cart for fear that Lady Wang might catch a cold and some egg money of Lady Wang, they didn’t take a single thing.

“Let's go home.”

As Ling Jingxuan who had been waiting in the yard saw his dad and two younger brothers come in, he and Yan Shengrui immediately went to them. Maybe because he just moved out, Ling Chenglong who was holding the family tree book still looked startled. Only the two brothers nodded at him. Ignoring others’ staring at them, they turned around simultaneously. As they passed over the old man, Ling Jingxuan suddenly stopped and said with a bright smile, “Lord Ling, just now you said my dad indulging his son to set up his own nephew, I think I got to clarify. It’s true that I told Shopkeeper Zhao that Ling Jingwei was born with cold sperms. But before that, he hired people to kidnap my sons first. So you should be clearer who set up whom, right? Shopkeeper Zhao also knew this. If you don’t trust me, you can go ask him.”

“What did you say?!”

Ling Qiyun who originally wanted to ignore him turned around, shocked, eyes nearly popping out. Ling Jinghong who was next to him also couldn’t help frowning. If so, hadn’t his grandpa become the one who forced his son to rebel???

“Hehe...My life principle is, tit for tat is fair play. Lord Ling, as long as you don’t provoke me, I will never harm you. About today’s thing, I swear I’m gonna pay you back a hundred times more!”

Speaking of which, Ling Jingxuan walked away with Yan Shengrui. Before they walked out of the gate, Ling Jinghan added, “I forgot to tell you. Actually I’m almost recovered.”

“Poof!”

“Grandpa...”

“Dad…”

“My lord…”

It was like Ling Jinghan stabbed directly into the old man’s heart. Ling Qiyun only felt a bit of sweetness in the throat and spat out a big mouthful of blood, then directly passed out. The whole Ling family got into a mess. After Ling Chenghu took the old man from his hands, Ling Jinghong turned around and looked at their leaving figures. After quite a while, he made a sigh. Who to blame? They only had themselves to blame!