Xiao Jing stood up straight and slowly took off her jacket. She turned around and faced the tall and mighty Madam Tai.
Qin Ran covered his mouth in disbelief. If his injuries were already so painful that she was about to faint, then what happened to the wounds on her child"s back?
Shen Chengfeng stood in front of Xiao Jing and enunciated each word clearly, "If you say she did something wrong, then let me think what she did wrong?"
Hiding his ident.i.ty?
What"s wrong with that?
Were there any rules in the military camp that prevented girls from entering the Special Forces?
She was wrong. It was because she was running in the rain of bullets with her thin body. "
The room was silent.
Shen Chengfeng turned her body and pointed at the two striking bullet holes on her shoulder, "Penetrating injury, if you deviate a bit more, her entire hand would not be affected, and her waist would also be pierced, and her kidney would not be here. If you move her right atrium one centimeter to the left, her life would be gone.
You can deny us our ident.i.ty, but you can"t deny us our achievements. "
"Even if she dies, we can"t escape from the mistake of deceiving the Xiao family."
"The Xiao family"s mistake?"
What mistake did the Xiao family make?
Can you ask Marshal Xiao Yao if he admits this mistake? "
Shen Chengfeng asked.
"No matter what you say today, I will never admit that she is a descendant of my Xiao family."
Shen Chengfeng b.u.t.toned up Xiao Jing"s clothes for her, "Does Xiao Jing still want to stay in this kind of home?"
"This is my mother"s house. Why can"t I stay here?"
Xiao Jing asked.
"That"s a good question. This is our own home, why should we be influenced by others and not return?"
Shen Chengfeng saluted to Qin Ran, "Madam, please remember this. No matter how difficult it is, you are still the wife of Marshal Xiao Yao. The only one who can make you leave home is Marshal Xiao Yao."
"Shen Chengfeng, do you insist on getting involved in our Xiao family"s affairs?"
"I spoke to the marshal just before I came in. He"ll be back in three hours."
Old Madam Xiao"s expression darkened. "Alright, I"ll deal with it after he returns."
Shen Chengfeng then added, "Old lady, I still have something to advise you. Leave a line for everything, or you will end up in a bad old age."
"You"re threatening me?"
Old Madam Xiao glared at him angrily.
Shen Chengfeng shook his head, "All these years, you have forced Marshal Xiao Yao to stay away from them. You personally taught your son to be an unrighteous husband and father. If he were to do the same to your mother in the future, please be at ease."
Old Madam Xiao glared at the three departing figures as if her eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. Suddenly, she smashed the table heavily.
Shen Chengfeng looked at the wound on Qin Ran"s back and said with a serious expression, "First, help your mother with the wound."
"Yes, captain"
Xiao Jing helped Qin Ran up to the second floor.
Within the room, a cold breeze blew past the windows. After a night of not shutting the windows, the entire room was so cold that it was intimidating.
Qin Ran stood motionlessly at the entrance.
Xiao Jing took the medicine box brought by the butler uncle and silently opened the bottle of disinfectant water.
"It was my cowardice that caused you to suffer so much in the Xiao family. Child, I"m sorry."
Qin Ran tightly tugged at the corner of her clothes. She had been silent for her whole life, like a person who could do nothing.
She looked at her mother, who was trembling with excitement behind her, and shook her head, "Captain is right, we didn"t let anyone down, I was just hiding my ident.i.ty as a girl, not some heinous crime, why should we act like a criminal?"
"Mom, you"re not wrong. You don"t need to blame yourself, much less apologize."
"But I"m sorry."
Qin Ran carefully touched Xiao Jing"s face. "Those injuries were all brought to you by mother"s cowardice. They were all brought to you by me."
"Mom, these injuries are all evidence of my pride. They will always remind me to stand up straight. Although I have concealed my ident.i.ty, I have no qualms about it. I did not let the country down, the people down, or the Xiao family down."
"Yes, my child didn"t let anyone down. All of the faults were caused by mother. It was my selfishness that made you give up your ident.i.ty. It was my fake presence in the Xiao family. It was all my fault."
"Mom, you"re right."
Xiao Jing hugged her. "The mistake is that you met the wrong person at the right time."
"I"m sorry, my poor child."
Qin Ran didn"t even get a breath of air before he collapsed.
"Mom?"
Xiao Jing helped her sit on the sofa and pinched her.
"Cough, cough."
Qin Ran came back to her senses. Facing the child in front of her, she stuck it in her throat, "Sorry, sorry for my child."
"Mom, you didn"t let me down, and you didn"t let Father down, and you didn"t let her off. The only person you felt guilty towards was yourself. You think you"re too humble."
Xiao Jing slowly helped Qin Ran deal with her wounds. With every injury, she couldn"t help but shudder.
Qin Ran held her hand and said, "Child, you can leave now. Your father won"t let us go once he returns. He is such a proud person, how could he allow me to deceive him for over twenty years? Quickly leave. If anything happens, mother will bear it."
"If I don"t leave, then I"ll leave feeling guilty."
Xiao Jing smeared the powder on the table. "Please rest for a while. If there"s anything you need, we"ll talk about it when Father returns."
"Bang, bang, bang."
A chaotic sound of breaking came from the hall.
Xiao Jing suddenly stood up from the chair, her brows knitted tightly. She comforted her mother and said, "I"ll go downstairs to take a look. You can lie down and rest."
"I"ll go down with you."
Qin Ran seemed to recall something, but the moment he moved his body, he lost his balance and fell down.
Xiao Jing supported her, "How are you going to continue like this?"
"Have a good rest, I"ll go down and take a look."
In the main hall, Old Madam Xiao stared at her grandson in disbelief. She pointed at him with a trembling finger. "Xiao Qing, I love you the most. You actually dare to criticize me today?"
Xiao Qing"s head was split open by the lamp as blood rushed out in all directions. In just a short moment, it dyed his entire face red. It was indeed a terrifying sight to behold.
Old Madam Xiao staggered back onto the sofa. When she saw the three of them, she sneered mockingly and said, "How did our Xiao family get into such a mess?"
"After I die, how can I face the old gramps?"
The butler led the servants out of the hall.
Xiao Ying wiped the blood off her face and said, "Grandma, I hope you understand that our Xiao family has been in harmony for hundreds of years. We have never heard of such an undesirable thing as driving away anyone."
"She, Qin Ran, has lied to everyone. If the news gets out that Xiao Jing is a girl, then our Xiao family will lose face. The entire capital city and even the empire will laugh at our Xiao family. I will not allow the glorious and clean Xiao family to be sullied by Xiao Jing."
"Little Four is not in the wrong, and so is Third Madam. The only one in the wrong is the Xiao family."
Xiao Ying heard the footsteps behind her, and he looked at the figure walking down the stairs, slowing down his words. "Little Four is currently an elite member of the Special Forces, and in my eyes, she is only arrogant, without the humiliation you spoke of."
"What is her shame?"
"Entering an important place in the army camp as a woman, deceiving everyone. Tell me, isn"t she a disgrace?"
"It is undeniable that she has made countless meritorious deeds. Compared to her, the mistake she made is insignificant."
Old Madam Xiao narrowed her eyes and glared at the righteous Xiao Qing. She confirmed a fact from his appearance.
Xiao Ying said unhurriedly: "Grandma, she is also a child of the Xiao family. Since young, you have neglected both mother and daughter. Although she is only a lieutenant colonel, she is already working hard to prove her struggle to everyone. Why are you still trying so hard to take away a person"s ident.i.ty?"
"You all know that, don"t you?"
Old Madam Xiao was so agitated that she had already lost her rationality due to the spreading of her fury. She said furiously, "All of you know that you are planning to hide this from my wife. Are you preparing to reveal this truth after I die?"
"Grandmother, we didn"t hide anything from you, but you chose to ignore her existence."
Xiao Ying said.
"Ridiculous."
Old Madam Xiao covered her chest with one hand.
"I"m speaking the truth. You"ve never cared about her before, so you"ve always neglected her true ident.i.ty."
"Good, good, you guys are very good. All of you are very good. I will never let this matter rest. Get over here right now."
Old Madam Xiao pointed at Xiao Jing, who was standing behind the crowd. "Get over here."
Xiao Jing strode forward and straightened her body, appearing neither humble nor arrogant.
Old Madam Xiao coldly smiled, "You"re very proud, aren"t you? Xiao Jing, you really have the guts to lie to an old man like me with your mother, who you can"t even compete with. Fine, fine, fine. You can do it, you"re very capable."
No matter how n.o.ble you are, you are just a single person. No matter how lowly my mother is, as long as she has bones and blood, she is still a human. She is also a human, so why is she divided into three, six, and nine ranks?
"Some people are born cheap. She"s not fit to be a human being."
Old Madam Xiao threw down the voluntary retirement application in her hands. "You can sign it yourself. I won"t expose this matter due to the Xiao family"s pride. From today onwards, you are not allowed to take another step into the army camp."
"I won"t sign it. Even if you court-martial me, I won"t sign it."
"Do you really think I wouldn"t dare?"
Old Madam Xiao glared at the three brothers as she said indifferently, "Listen up. I don"t care if you knew about this before. Tie her up and sign her down. I won"t allow anyone to do anything that would harm the Xiao family"s reputation."
"Grandma, Big Bro is right, I don"t think Little Four is being disgraced. She is an elite member of the Special Forces, a hero with flesh and blood."
Xiao Hong said expressionlessly.
"You won"t listen to me?"
Old Madam Xiao slapped Xiao Hong"s face and glared at him. "Did you forget where she came from?"
How did she and her mother come to our Xiao family?
It was at your mother"s funeral that her mother seduced your father. "
Xiao Hong"s expression did not change, "Father was also at fault, it had nothing to do with mother and daughter. All these years, you forced us not to go to the mountains to see them, and we did not even allow them to enter the Xiao family. We brothers did not want to make things difficult for you, so we did as you said.
And whether she"s a sister or not, we"re all family. "
"Xiao Hong!"
"Since we are a family, I must respect her and respect her decision. You have no right to interfere, and we have no right to interfere. This is her freedom."
"Alright, you three brothers have a common enemy. You must be thinking that I, a person with half of my foot in a coffin, is your biggest enemy."
"You are being too serious. We will also respect you, and we hope that you can put down those unworthy glories and properly take care of yourself."
Xiao Zheng stepped forward and picked up the application form for retirement, ripping it clean without any hesitation.
"Xiao Zheng!"
"Alright, alright, I finally understand. Xiao Jing expected that I wouldn"t be able to do anything to you, right? Right now, I"ll let you know that even though my wife has been retreating for the past few years, my words will cause a storm in the capital."
With that, Madam Xiao walked straight to the table and pressed a number.
Xiao Ying"s expression turned cold as he took two steps forward. He did not hesitate to hang up the phone, "Grandma, are you really that heartless?"
Old Madam Xiao gave a cold snort. "Get out of my way. Don"t make me disappointed in all of you."
Xiao Fen remained unmoved. He grabbed the other end of the phone, "Are you really going to bring this matter to court?"
"She brought this upon herself, and I gave her face. Look at how she gave me face!"
"Women dressed up as men for over twenty years, deceiving me as though I was an idiot!"
"Grandma, have you thought about why they lied to you?"
"Isn"t he just thinking of borrowing his son to enter our Xiao family!"
On the day that the Third Madam gives birth, you didn"t even send a doctor. If it wasn"t for grandfather Xiao Jing taking the risk of offending our Xiao family to forcefully bring the doctor into the Cang Mountains, they would have already died long ago. You have your pride, but they are still human lives.
"This isn"t a reason they can lie up and down."
Because of your forceful att.i.tude, she did not dare to tell everyone that Xiao Jing is a girl. You told her, and you even told my mother to my second brother"s mother, that the children of the Xiao family brought the heroic souls of their ancestors.
"If you put it in an outsider"s house, you"ll be left to fend for yourself."
Xiao Ying"s eyes reddened.
Old Madam Xiao did not speak.
"Perhaps even second brother doesn"t know why my mother died from depression. It"s all because you sent that child away just one day after she gave birth to a girl."
The entire hall went into an uproar as soon as he said that.
"You lied to your father that the child is dead."
Old Madam Xiao raised her head. Her arrogance made it seem as if she had made a mistake.
Xiao Qing Qing continued, "Yes, our Xiao family has been generals for hundreds of years and they are all mighty heroes. However, it turns out that there is actually such a disgusting thing behind my back. Why can"t we have girls?"
"No matter how well-raised a girl is, she"s just an ingrate."
Old Madam Xiao sat back on the sofa, still holding her head high. "How did your grandfather die? You may never know. It was due to my biological daughter"s death. Your biological aunt gave up her father for a despicable man."
"Didn"t Grandpa die in battle?"
the three of them asked at almost the same time.
"He died in battle?"
I don"t want your father to be abandoned in the face of such a choice in the future. "
"Then you have no right to deprive others of their lives."
Xiao Ying turned around.
"The child was sick, and died the second year he was sent away."
Old Madam Xiao closed her eyes and abruptly opened them. "Yes, I was indeed a bit hasty at that time, so I thought about it later. But I didn"t think that the mother and daughter pair would actually dare to do such shameless things."
"Dong, dong, dong."
The sound of hurried footsteps came from the courtyard.
Old Madam Xiao"s complexion recovered a little. "Your father has returned. No matter how Xiao Jing tries to defend herself, our Xiao family won"t have a place for her to stay."
Xiao Jing silently stood at the side. She looked at the figure rus.h.i.+ng over from the courtyard. She clearly saw the sunlight, but she felt a bone-chilling cold.
Xiao Yao"s body was still cold as he entered the house. The door behind him slowly closed.
Old Madam Xiao sat back on the sofa and rested her hand on her forehead. "You came back at the right time. You take care of this yourself. I don"t want to see mother and daughter again."
"Mother, I have already arranged the mansion for you. Have someone to help you pack up your things. Why don"t you go live in Jiangcheng for a while?"
Xiao Yao took off his coat and spoke casually.
Old Madam Xiao raised her head in astonishment and stood up from the sofa excitedly. "What did you say?"
Since you and Qin Ran are at odds, there"s nothing we can do about it. After all, she is my wife and the mistress of the Xiao family, so I need her to take care of the entire house. I don"t want you to continue working hard.
"You, you want to chase me away?"
Xiao Yao lifted his head and looked at each other. He said, "I just want you to take care of your life. The Xiao family will now officially be handed over to Qin Ran to take care of."
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The group has been disbanded. Babies, remember not to add the group, love you, I am really grateful that you are still there.