The moon falling to the ground

Chapter 247 Scared and Sick

Although Jian Yue's tone was light, Yan Xiuyuan felt as if he had been slapped in the face, and his face was hot.

Seeing Jian Yue's impatient expression, Yan Xiuyuan didn't dare to beat around the bush and said directly: "You can cure the emperor's poison, so you must be good at poison. Your father..."

"Minister Yan, I have been expelled from my clan. I no longer have a father or family. Please be careful with how you address me." Jian Yue interrupted him.

Yan Xiuyuan choked and paused: "I would like to ask the princess to help save my wife Ah Jiao. If you have any conditions, please feel free to mention them."

Jian Yue looked at him solemnly: "What if I want to know the truth about my mother's death and the reason why my grandfather's family was destroyed?"

Yan Xiuyuan's pupils shrank, and his heart almost stopped. He breathed harder unconsciously, and his hands clenched subconsciously: "You... didn't I tell you a long time ago that your mother died of dystocia? As for your maternal grandparents, I heard that your uncle came to Beijing to do business a long time ago..."

Jian Yue looked at him steadily and said coldly: "Since Minister Yan is not sincere, then there is no need to discuss this matter."

Yan Xiuyuan was inexplicably relieved, but also a little annoyed: "It's been so many years, why are you digging it up again? What's the point other than adding to your troubles?"

However, Jian Yue's words were no less shocking than a bolt from the blue: "My mother died unjustly. She often appeared in my dreams at night, asking me to redress her grievances and avenge my grandfather's family. Judging from Minister Yan's expression just now, you know the truth."

Yan Xiuyuan felt inexplicably flustered and subconsciously retorted: "What nonsense! I know you are unhappy that your stepmother embezzled your mother's dowry. But, didn't she return it to you?"

Jian Yue sneered: "Are you sure you have returned all of them to me? Minister Yan's mention of this reminds me that you should return all of my mother's dowry to me, right?"

Yan Xiuyuan wanted to slap himself in the face for bringing up dowry for no reason.

"The dowry books are all in your hands..."

"The one you deliberately let me get is not the real one. Minister Yan, since you have expelled me from the clan, do you no longer have the right to spend my mother's dowry? Otherwise, I will show the real dowry list to the emperor?"

Yan Xiuyuan was shocked: "You..."

Jian Yue's face was as cold as frost, staring at Yan Xiuyuan: "Minister Yan, I have been to Qiongzhou and visited my mother's dowry shops. I found that the ten shops on the fake dowry book have become the property of Xie Chujiao's second uncle. I don't care who gave them away in the first place. You have ten days to return all the dowry property and the things that were given away, as well as the output of the shops and farms over the years. Otherwise, we will meet in court."

Looking at Yan Xiuyuan's pale face, she smiled sarcastically: "I just saved the emperor. I think the emperor should be happy to use this credit in exchange for a fair and just trial."

Yan Xiuyuan's body swayed slightly, and he almost couldn't stand steadily. With a pleading look on his face, he said in a hoarse voice: "Yue'er, do you really not care about the father-daughter relationship?"

Jian Yue laughed: "When your mother died tragically during childbirth, did you ever consider the relationship between husband and wife and avenge her? When your newborn baby was stolen, did you ever consider the blood relationship and look for him carefully?"

Yan Xiuyuan looked grim.

Jian Yue's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting his heart hard and making him breathless. He seemed to have lost all his energy and spirit at once, and his back instantly hunched. His eyes were dull and he murmured, "I know, you hate me, and you have never forgiven me. But your mother really died of dystocia!"

"Minister Yan, you can't fool even a ghost if you say that. If you really don't know the truth, go ask your gentle and kind little wife. As the murderer, she knows the truth best."

Yan Xiuyuan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets: "What did you say? What nonsense are you talking about? How could she be the murderer? She never harmed your mother. She even broke her leg in order to find a midwife for your mother."

"Haha! When they were burning incense, there were a large group of maids, servants and guards following them. Was it necessary for a county magistrate's daughter to go and find a midwife in person? Minister Yan, if you can't even understand this, how did you get promoted to the lord of the mansion? You're not as dumb as a pig!"

Yan Xiuyuan felt like he was struck by lightning.

Over the years, he had never had the courage to uncover the window paper that separated him from the truth, and he had been subconsciously avoiding it. But today, Jian Yueqiang pressed his head and made him face the bloody truth.

He looked at Jian Yue with deep fear in his eyes: "You, what do you know?" He suddenly realized, "You were the one who poisoned Gillian, right? You are taking revenge on her!"

Jian Yue looked indifferent: "I'll say it again, if I don't receive all the dowry within ten days, I will file a complaint with the emperor. Get out!"

Butler Lei, who was waiting at the door, came in with a fake smile on his face: "Minister Yan, please come in!"

Yan Xiuyuan didn't know how he walked out of the Princess's Mansion. He looked back at the imposing door lintel of the Princess's Mansion, his mind in a mess. He felt cold all over, and the cold air overflowed from the bottom of his heart, tightly wrapping his heart.

From this moment on, Yan Xiuyuan realized that he had never seen through this daughter. He felt a strong hatred from this daughter.

She won't let them go!

This was Yan Xiuyuan’s thought before he fell into darkness.

"master!"

"master!"

The coachman and Yan Wu caught the unconscious Yan Xiuyuan, quickly carried him to the carriage, and drove away.

Yan Xiuyuan fell ill.

It was two hours later when the Yan and Xie families received the news.

The first thing Yan Xiuyuan did when he woke up was to struggle to get up and let Yan Wu help him to see Xie Chujiao.

The person who came from the Yan family was Yan Xiusheng, and the person who came from the Xie family was Xie Rui. Seeing this, the two hurriedly stopped him. Yan Xiusheng frowned and said, "Since you are not in good health, just lie down and rest. If there is anything, let the people below do it."

Yan Xiuyuan was too weak to fight off the two men's restraints. He looked at Xie Rui and said word by word: "Princess Mingyue wants her mother's dowry back within ten days. If she doesn't return it within ten days, she will file a complaint with the emperor."

Xie Rui exploded on the spot: "How dare she!" Seeing Yan Xiusheng's surprised face, he hurriedly tried to make amends, "Brother-in-law, she is your daughter. She is so ignorant to go to the emperor for a little dowry. Such an unfilial daughter should be served with a slap in the face."

Yan Xiusheng looked at him with disdain: If it's really just a little dowry, why don't you take it out!

He was not feeling unfair for Jian Yue, but he felt extremely unbalanced when he thought about his half-brother eating up the daughter of the richest man in Qiongzhou.

Why did he, the eldest son, work so hard to get to where he is today, while his younger brother didn't have to do anything and had tons of money to spend?

Yan Xiuyuan was full of bitterness, and he was in no mood to pamper his elder brother-in-law: "I have already told you, you two brothers should discuss what to do! However, I want to remind you, elder brother-in-law, that Princess Mingyue is a person who sticks to her word. She is going to use her merit in saving the emperor to get back her dowry."

After saying that, he lay back on the bed...