Chapter 221 Disgusting Backhand
In the lobby of Fang's house, all the important figures of the Fang family gathered together.

"I wonder what the outcome was in the Ming Palace?"

The current head of the Fang family, Fang Xuedao's son, Fang Huiju's nephew - Fang Shenyi sat in the second master's seat, looking in the direction of the Ming Palace, muttering to himself.

The Fang family had already prepared for the worst, but the vast landscape painting that had just appeared and the huge vibration sound gave the Fang family hope.

They long for Jiangshan Huajuan to win and hope that Zhu Chengwu will be brought to justice!
Although they did not know that Fang Huiju had already achieved Yangshen, and could not be sure that the Jiangshan Scroll was used by Fang Huiju, the former legitimate daughter of the Fang family and the Fang family's greatest supporter for the past twenty years, the Jiangshan Scroll and the Fang family's orthodox Painting of Jiangshan were so compatible that they had to guess that the Jiangshan Scroll that suddenly appeared in the Ming Palace was closely related to the Fang family.

Under the current circumstances, Fang would not let go of even the smallest bit of straw and would pounce on it and hold on tightly, not to mention the huge landscape painting in the Ming Palace which was obviously not an ordinary thing.

Regardless of whether one has martial arts training or spiritual cultivation, or whether one can sense the tremendous power hidden in the landscape painting, just by looking with the naked eye, everyone knows that the landscape painting that suddenly appeared in the Ming Palace should not be underestimated. It is a powerful force that can influence the Ming Dynasty and even the world.

Afterwards, when Zhu Chengwu laughed loudly, he did not use his true Qi to amplify the sound and volume.

Although the Fang family is the maternal family of Empress Dowager Fang Huiju, for some reasons, the Fang family residence in the capital is far away from the Ming Palace, so they did not hear Zhu Chengwu's laughter when he flew out again after the Jiangshan scroll was pressed down, and they did not know that Zhu Chengwu was fine. Their understanding of the latest battle situation in the Ming Palace is still stuck on the earth-shaking shock caused by the pressing down of the Jiangshan scroll.

Therefore, everyone in the Fang family still has the delusion that Zhu Chengwu will fail and die.

Although they also know that the probability of such a thing happening is not high.

However, the painting scroll of rivers and mountains, which was extremely compatible with Fang's Jiangshan Ruhua Jue, gave them the confidence and courage to realize their dream.

In particular, the astonishing power displayed by the Jiangshan Painting Scroll, which caused a great earthquake in the entire capital city, brought out their desires to the maximum.

"Master, don't worry! That must have been my aunt's trick! My aunt will definitely win, just like she did more than 20 years ago!"

Hearing Fang Shenyi's mumbling, his wife Ai Zhuling, who was sitting next to Fang Shenyi, comforted him like this.

These words were also what Ai Zhuling used to comfort herself.

While speaking, Ai Zhuling couldn't help but glance at the mother and son sitting at the end of the seats in the hall.

The "Ai" in Ai Zhuling's name is the same as the "Ai" in Cui Shuyun's second sister-in-law Ai Jingxia's name.

The two are even sisters!

This is the power of a large family’s network of relationships and the strategy of risk sharing.

For the real big families, the confrontation between the powerful leaders does not prevent them from making bets on both sides in a roundabout way.

By betting on both sides, no matter which side fails or succeeds, at least the family inheritance will not be a problem, and the most you will suffer is a slight loss of profit.

And because there are people on both sides, with various relationships intertwined, they can even persuade the fellow tribesmen of the successful side to save the lives of the fellow tribesmen of the losing side.

Your life will most likely be safe, but your power will be gone.

This is the price that people from a big family have to pay if they fail after supporting and betting on a certain side.

This price is completely different from the price ordinary people pay for going to the battlefield to fight for their lives, and the price a powerful leader pays for having his property confiscated and his family exterminated if he fails.

This is how a big family survives!
This is also the reason why big families dare to invest and keep things simple.

This is also the fundamental reason why some big forces, despite having extremely strong power and influence, never act as leaders or take the lead.

Different concepts and ideals lead to completely different ways of dealing with the world.

"I hope so!"

Fang Shenyi answered Ai Zhuling in this way.

At the same time, he glanced at the mother and son sitting at the end of the hall with complicated eyes.

They were clearly his daughter and son, but he didn't feel the slightest bit of closeness to them.

However, although they were not close, he now had to rely on them and count on them...

"My dear, can my uncle win? Or will my aunt have the final victory?"

The son of the mother and son who were being watched by Fang Shenyi and Ai Zhuling was also affected by the atmosphere at the scene. He unconsciously turned his gaze to the middle-aged woman beside him who had been keeping her head down and eyes closed, turning the Buddhist beads in her hand.

The son moved closer and asked his mother in a low voice.

In a large family, only the wife can be called mother, and the concubine can only be called mistress, even if the concubine is the real biological mother.

These are the rules and etiquette of this world and this era.

But surprisingly, the mother did not open her eyes and did not show any intention of responding to her son's question.

But the speed of the Buddhist beads in his hand suddenly became a little faster.

His son was still too young. Even though he was no longer young and was over twenty-two years old, he had never read a book or practiced martial arts and rarely communicated with outsiders. He did not know that warriors and spiritual practitioners, even if they were only first-rate or Yin gods, had very keen perceptions of their surroundings.

Especially now that the area of ​​the lobby is still very limited, even if he deliberately moved closer to his biological mother and lowered his voice, his voice still could not be concealed from these first-class Yin gods present.

After the son finished asking the question, except for his biological mother who kept her head down and eyes closed, turning the Buddhist beads in her hand, everyone else present suddenly turned their heads and looked at him with a strange look.

But no one spoke.

"Did I say something wrong?"

Even though my son, who has been locked up in a small yard since he was a child, has gradually begun to come into contact with the outside world in recent months, this is the first time that he has participated in such a high-end and formal gathering.

Now, seeing everyone's eyes turned to look at him, the son suddenly became nervous.

The son murmured nervously and looked to his biological mother for help. After finding that his biological mother still had no response, the son looked for help to his father in the secondary position and his grandmother in the primary position, with whom he had only had more contact in recent months and had developed some feelings.

But, contrary to the son's expectation, no one spoke at the scene, including his grandmother and father who he asked for help. Everyone just looked at him with a puzzled look, including his grandmother and father who had been very kind to him recently and taught him to read and write.

My son didn’t understand the meaning of their strange looks, he just felt it was so complicated, so strange, and so scary.

"I…"

The son was about to say something to ease his fear.

"You, you are worthy of calling Aunt Huiwei Aunt! You..."

But the son was interrupted before he could utter just one word.

My son had never seen this person a few months ago, but he has seen him several times in recent months.

According to his father and grandmother who were very kind to him, this person was his sister, his biological sister, and one of the people he needed to ask his uncle to save in case of danger.

Although the son had never met his uncle, he understood that his situation had changed and he was able to leave the small courtyard and come into contact with the outside world, all because of his uncle whom he had never met.

The son could feel that his father and grandmother were very afraid of his uncle and hated him very much.

Although his father and grandmother never said it explicitly, the son could sense the gnashing of teeth and helplessness in their eyes whenever they talked about his uncle. They didn't even dare to say a bad word about his uncle in front of him.

It was as if he was afraid that he would hear it and tell the truth to his uncle, which would bring about a terrible disaster.

Who is his uncle?
Why did it cause such great fear and dread in my grandmother and father, to the point that they didn't even dare to say a bad word about my uncle in front of him, even when they were carrying him behind his back?

My son is very curious!
For this reason, he once asked his biological mother, Xiulan.

However, Xiulan did not answer his questions.

Although, Xiulan didn't say anything, her son still remembers the first time Xiulan stopped the sound of the wooden fish when he introduced his uncle and asked why his grandmother and father were so afraid and wary of his uncle, and the complexity revealed in her eyes after she opened her eyes.

That was a more complex emotion than the entanglement, fear and hatred in the eyes of his grandmother and father. These experiences made the son more curious about the uncle he had never met.

When his grandmother and father called him to the lobby today, when he saw the people in the lobby, he actually understood vaguely deep in his heart that perhaps today he would be able to meet his uncle, whom he had never met but who had caused the entire Fang family to remain silent!
However, after sitting here for a long time and still not waiting for the uncle whom he had only heard of to arrive, the son was actually a little nervous.

Especially after the previous earthquake and the appearance of the huge landscape painting in the Ming Palace, the son became even more panicked.

Because he could sense that the attitudes of his relatives and clansmen in the lobby seemed to have changed after the landscape painting appeared and the earthquake occurred.

They are looking forward to something and hoping for something!
However, the very things they were expecting and hoping for were not in his favor!
From the past few months of interaction and their frank communication just now, the son guessed some of the current situation.

His aunt Hui, whom he had only met a few months ago, seemed to be fighting with his uncle, whom he had never met, and almost everyone, including his aunt Hui, thought she would lose...

Therefore, after Aunt Huiqi met him, he was able to leave the courtyard where he had lived for more than 20 years but had never been able to leave.

But now, things seem to have changed, and Aunt Huiqi seems to have a chance of winning.

They seemed to want to lock him back in that small courtyard, and they even seemed to have other deeper ideas...

Although he wasn't sure what their deeper thoughts were!
But he was sure that it was not a good thing for him!
It was precisely because he sensed that things were developing in a direction that was unfavorable to him that the son could not help but ask his biological mother, Xiulan.

To seek peace of mind!

Unfortunately, her biological mother Xiulan still did not respond to her.

Now his sister Fang Yihe began to question and question him, saying that he was not worthy of calling Aunt Huiqi aunt. Although this surprised her son, he felt that his sister today was completely different from the sister he had met in the past few times.

But to be honest, after his sister Fang Yihe spoke, his son felt more relieved than surprised.

Because someone finally spoke up!

The scene was finally no longer the creepy atmosphere where everyone was looking at him with weird eyes but no one said a word.

"Yihe, be polite to your brother! You just said something inappropriate, apologize to your brother!"

Fang Yihe had just finished speaking, and just as his son was beginning to relax a little because the strange atmosphere at the scene was broken, his grandmother, who was sitting in the main seat in the lobby, spoke.

The first thing she opened her mouth was to blame Fang Yihe, saying he shouldn't talk like that!
The biased words made the son suddenly feel that his grandmother was still the kind and gentle grandmother he had known for the past few months. The creepy look and weird atmosphere just now seemed like a dream.

"But, Grandma, he..."

Hearing what his grandmother said, Fang Yihe, who had been spoiled since childhood, suddenly became emotional and defended himself.

"Hmm~~"

But as soon as she showed her emotion, she was stopped by a stern look from her grandmother who was sitting in the main seat.

"Yihe, okay, listen to your grandmother and apologize to your brother!"

Seeing the situation change, Fang Yihe's biological mother, Ai Zhuling, spoke at the right time.

She understood that as long as no specific battle report came from the Ming Palace, the mother and son sitting at the end of the hall would not be able to move.

After all, maybe their entire family still depends on that mother and son for their lives!

This naturally includes her daughter, Fang Yihe.

"But, mother! He..."

Unfortunately, although Ai Zhuling has good intentions, because she is spoiled, mother Ai Zhuling does not have much authority in Fang Yihe's place.

Not only did Fang Yihe not listen to Ai Zhuling's words and apologize to his half-brother who was sitting at the end of the lobby, but he wanted to say something.

When people are favored, they always become ignorant and don't know their place!

"Apologize!"

A muffled shout was heard.

Just when Fang Yihe wanted to continue speaking, she was interrupted again.

The person who interrupted her this time was someone Fang Yihe dared not offend or refute.

Because this time the person who asked her to apologize was her biological father - Fang Shenyi.

Seeing her father's stern eyes and realizing that none of her grandmother, mother, or brothers stood up to speak for her, Fang Yihe finally had no choice but to compromise and stood up reluctantly.

"sorry!"

Under the gaze of her father and the encouraging looks of her grandmother and mother, Fang Yihe held back the tears in her eyes and said "I'm sorry" quickly and aggrievedly to her adopted brother who was sitting at the end of the lobby.

After saying this, Fang Yihe sat back in her seat sullenly, as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"It's ok!"

Seeing this scene, the son who was sitting at the end of the lobby quickly stood up and waved to Fang Yihe who was already seated, indicating that it was okay.

"Grandma, father, mother, it doesn't matter, we are all family, my sister doesn't need to apologize!"

Then, the son quickly bowed to his grandmother, father, and mother who were sitting above him, and said so.

Looking at their sensible grandson/son, Fang Shenyi and others sitting above had complicated feelings.

He is a sensible child, but it's a pity...

"Oh no, oh no... Master, Madam, Old Madam, Marquis Fu'an has arrived outside the Fang family mansion!"

Just then, an old servant suddenly rushed in from outside the lobby in a panic.

This old servant had mediocre abilities, but Fang Huijue had found him with great effort after Zhu Chengwu reappeared. He had once served under Zhu Chengwu and had met Zhu Chengwu before.

Because he had seen Zhu Chengwu before, when Zhu Chengwu appeared outside the main gate of the Fang family, the old servant recognized Zhu Chengwu through the door hole that was deliberately left.

In fact, when the old servant finished speaking, the Fang family members in the hall no longer needed the old servant to remind them.

Because they had already sensed that outside the Fang mansion, the fire-attributed vital energy of heaven and earth was rapidly gathering at a speed they had never seen before.

Marquis of Fu'an Zhu Chengwu has arrived!

He is using his power to destroy the Fang family directly!

Sister-in-law/Aunt, she failed!

After a quick glance at each other, the three people sitting at the head of the hall understood everything.

Then, the three of them quickly turned their eyes to the mother and son sitting at the end of the hall.

Miss Xiulan was still turning the Buddhist beads in her hands with her eyes closed.

Although the Buddhist beads were spinning faster and faster, she had no intention of opening her eyes.

But the son immediately understood the meaning of the looks in his grandmother, father and mother's eyes.

"Uncle, I am your nephew, please stop!"

The son followed the instructions of his grandmother, father, and mother and shouted loudly outside the Fang family mansion.

(End of this chapter)