Chapter 262: Not Giving Up
The old master stopped his hands before he saw that the doorway and the corridor and stairs were crowded with people.
The magistrates patrolling the streets also came, “What kind of people are fighting and causing trouble here?”
They barreled through the crowd and walked in, only to see that it was Elder Duke Meng beating Marquis Zhao.
The old lord carried Zhao Hu and threw him at the magistrates, saying, “This is a flower slapper, how dare you abduct my grandson.”
After saying that, he dragged Meng Zhui Yu outside.
The crowd made way and watched as they descended the stairs, walked out of the restaurant, and boarded a carriage.
Back in Meng Yu’s courtyard, the old master threw Meng Yu on the ground, and Meng Yu sat on the ground shrunken like he had no bones.
The old master was furious and kicked him again.
Meng Zhuyu’s eyes were unfocused and he mumbled, “You beat me to death, I don’t want to live ……”
He was actually Zhao Hu’s son, and Zhao Hu made him do that thing, which was to treat him as an outcast. If he did it he would die a horrible death, he didn’t want to do it and didn’t dare to do it. But if he didn’t do it, the fact that he was an illegitimate child would be exposed, the Meng family wouldn’t care about him, the Zhao family wouldn’t recognize him, and he would be like a rootless willow floss, with nowhere to cling to ……
The old man was furious, beat him, just want to see anger in his eyes, even if it is hate. But he, like a walking corpse.
The old master sighed, squatted down and grabbed the clothes on his chest, his eyes looked straight at him and said, “Did Zhao Hu say that you are his own son, and then let you help him do something?”
Meng Yu Yu’s eyes took on a fearful color and looked at him in horror.
The old master added, “What he said is false, you are my Meng Ling’s first and dear grandson.”
Meng Ruyu’s eyes seemed to light up with hope, his eyes were red, and he asked, “I, I’m your grandson?”
The old man said, “Silly words, if you are not my own grandson, why would I be so nice to you, go through all the trouble of reasoning with you, hoping that you would come out of your grief and be a decent person?”
Meng Yu Yu muttered, “You are using me to strike Zhao Hu.”
These were Zhao Hu’s words.
The old man snorted coldly, “To combat Zhao Hu, I have plenty of ways, I don’t need to use you yet. Think about it the other way around, if you’re really Zhao Hu’s son, he’s already seen what happened to Fu, how can he afford to use you to harm the Meng family again, that’s pushing you into an abyss of ten thousand fathoms.
“Your mother ran to hang herself in front of Zhao’s house to protect you. She was afraid that Zhao Hu would use your looks to lure you in and then intimidate and use you to work for the Zhao family and King Ying. She thought that by dying so decisively, she had completely broken with the Zhao family, so that Zhao Hu would have a word of fear and wouldn’t dare to hit on your bad ideas again. Now it seems that Zhao Hu is even worse than she thought, and is even more eager to mess with our Meng family.”
Meng Yu Yu’s lips trembled, “Grandfather, I don’t look like my father at all, I’m really your own grandson, you don’t doubt it at all?”
The tone also softened. He wished that he was a Meng family child, the real grandson of the old man in front of him.
The old man sighed. He also doubted, but as long as he wasn’t certain that this child must not be the Meng family’s seed, he couldn’t give up on him.
After decades of military service, no less than ten thousand enemies had died under his command. But now, the older he got, the more merciful he became, unwilling to let anyone die, much less not leave a way out for someone who might be his own grandson. Although this child is weak and unproductive, and can t even compare to a woman when he meets a blow ……
Because of the uncertainty, get this child to Yongcheng, where it is not only far away from strife and the center of power, but also within the Meng family’s sphere of influence. Gave him a point of good life at the same time, but also not afraid of him bad things ……
Of course, this was also the agreement he made with Fu before he died.
The old man helped Meng Yu Yu to sit down on a chair and said with a heavy heart, “Of course you are my own grandson. I, Meng Ling, am not a fool to help raise someone else’s child, or to help raise Zhao Hu, whom I hate the most. Based on looks alone, Resignation Mo and Moon Maiden also look not like Xie Daoming, but like their mother and uncle, cousin, and aunt, can you say that they are not my own grandchildren and grandchildren?”
He pulled out another letter from his pocket and handed it to Meng Yu, “Your mother wrote me two letters before she died, one exposing how Zhao Hu used their previous affair to force her to do bad things, and one asking me to pass it on to you. It said that if Zhao Hu really dared to entrap you, she would give this letter to you.”
Meng Yu Yu took the letter and tears flowed out of her eyes when she saw the handwriting on it. After reading it, he cried out in pain.
When a bigger blow overpowered the previous one and struck him to the point of suffocating, this big blow was suddenly solved, a light appeared in front of him, and those previous blows became insignificant.
This was the mood of Meng Yu at this time. He was much more relaxed and seemed to have joy, at least he was a descendant of the Meng family, the grandson of Meng Ling ……
The old master added, “Look at the four great talents of Jiangnan, the court is interested in asking them to come out and become officials, but they are still unwilling. There is also the Zhao chivalry of Sichuan Shu, the pleasure is to travel all over the thousands of mountains and rivers …… The career path is not the only thing in life, there are many pleasures in life, it depends on how you think, how to deal with it ……”
After this day, Meng Ruyu a honest down. Not go out to drink, stay quietly in their own house.
Meng family calm down, but outside the Meng family is lively and complicated.
The old man so a mess, Zhao Hu forced Fu’s scourge of the Meng family, and nonsense want to hard to recognize Meng Ruyu as his son, so that Meng Ruyu continue to scourge the Meng family of the matter has been spread out again.
While the crowd is watching, many officials have submitted impeachment papers against Zhao Hu.
The emperor reprimanded Zhao Shufei and King Ying, and summoned Zhao Hu to the palace, beat him with twenty canes, and directly reduced the title of Marquis of Zhennan to Zhennan Bo.
Zhao Hu was so angry that he vomited blood. He did not have the face to stay in the capital, the title of Zhennan Bo passed to his son Zhao Yuanhui, temporarily avoided returning to his hometown Jiaodong.
King Ying completely withered, do not know when to turn up again.
King of England’s biggest dependence was finally defeated, the crown prince and the king of peace is extremely happy.
Outside of them, there are even more happy people.
When people were speculating whether Meng Yu was Meng Daoming’s son or Zhao Hu’s son, the old master swore that Meng Yu was the Meng family’s child.
The vast majority of the people felt that it was impossible for someone as smart as Meng Ling to confuse his own bloodline and take someone else’s child as his own, or the enemy Zhao Hu’s. Therefore, they firmly believed that Meng Yu was a Meng family seed.
There were also a few who believed that Meng Ruyu didn’t look like Meng Daoming, and Fu was so shameless, so it was really hard to say if it was his family’s child.
Those who held this view included Meng Ruimo and Jiang Yishi. They knew that even if there was even a single point that Meng Ruyu could be the Meng family’s child, the old master would give up on him.
They also secretly admired the old master for being an old ghost, it looked like he used this move to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred at his own expense, suppressing Zhao Hu while making the reputation of the Meng family suffer another heavy blow and letting outsiders look at enough jokes. In fact, he also used this move to change Meng Zhui Yu’s mind, slightly picking up that pile of slime.