FSC [QT] Chapter 26.4

“The governor’s family has a daughter who has just reached the hairpin’s age. She is a perfect match for you.”

As the head of the Xiao family, Old Duke Xiao received a letter while Huo Lindong and others were still on the road. The letter contained Huo Lindong’s life experience over the years.

Old Duke Xiao was very satisfied when he learned that Huo Lindong had passed the exam and became a scholar at a young age. Although their family’s status did not require their descendants to be successful, having such an outstanding grandson was still something that made the elders happy and proud.

However, Old Duke Xiao was very dissatisfied with Huo Lindong’s wife. She was from a low background and was a fool.

In his opinion, even for a slightly respectable servant in the county government, she was not enough, let alone his only grandson.

“I already have a wife.”

Huo Lindong really couldn’t bear the thought of getting close to this old man with a wrinkled face and white hair who only had a few breaths left to hold on.

“I will only accept this one wife, and I will only marry Ah Wu. If Grandpa is unwilling to accept this granddaughter-in-law, or if something happens to Ah Wu, there is no need for this evil root in me to exist. I heard that the palace is short of eunuchs all year round. I wonder if I, the only descendant of the Duke, can be a responsible eunuch if I enter the palace.”

“You dare!”

Old Duke Xiao looked at the free-spirited eldest grandson in front of him and shouted in shame. He was threatening him!

“Grandpa, let’s see if I dare.”

Huo Lindong sneered: “Grandpa should be lucky that I have Ah Wu’s weakness now. Otherwise, according to my temper, I would rather see the Xiao family’s descendants cut off and the family fortune ruined than inherit the Xiao family.”

As the grandfather who personally taught him back then, how could he not be aware of the darkness of his nature, his habit of destroying things he couldn’t get and not wanting anything that had been touched?

This was also the reason why he gave up on his grandson in the first place. Because he was afraid that his grandson’s paranoia and domineering would go out of control and destroy the Xiao family.

“It is impossible for the County Duke to let a fool become the wife of the clan!”

The Old Duke looked straight at Huo Lindong and said with his sharp eyes like an eagle.

“Perhaps the Old Duke can have one more eunuch descendant?”

The red phoenix eyes inherited from the Xiao family were more charming on Huo Lindong. The eyes were slender and the tail of the eyes was slightly raised to form an extraordinarily gorgeous arc.

The raised eyebrows and the extraordinarily delicate facial features inherited from his biological mother bloomed even more after leaving the dusty cotton clothes in the countryside. The purple brocade clothes supported his skin as white as jade.

Old Duke Xiao was thinking about the private rumors that the new Emperor favored handsome eunuchs, and when he heard what his eldest grandson had just said, his face turned green with anger.

“Aren’t you afraid of losing everything you have now? You are not the only descendant of the Xiao family.”

Old Duke Xiao was trembling with anger, but he knew in his heart that although there were other descendants of the Xiao family, they were the children of his two concubine brothers. How could he want his title to fall into the hands of those two branches?

“What am I afraid of? These were not mine before anyway.”

Huo Lindong didn’t take these threats from Old Duke Xiao to heart at all.

“You, you, get out of here.”

The old man’s face was livid. He regretted sending his grandson away. If he had known that his legitimate grandson would not live long, he should have suppressed his restless daughter-in-law. Now he wouldn’t have these worries.

“With a wife like this, you will regret it sooner or later.”

When Huo Lindong walked to the door, Old Duke Xiao looked at his back and said coldly.

“A well-born wife may not be your help, but a foolish wife will definitely be your hindrance.”

This eldest grandson dared to challenge him, analyzed his situation in a short period of time, and knew what to use to threaten him, which was enough to prove that the other party was not lacking in thought and courage.

He did not believe that his eldest grandson had no ambition. Jiang Wu was destined to be his stumbling block.

Huo Lindong sneered and left.

How do they know that Ah Wu will only be his motivation to keep improving?

 

 

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