General, Madam Called You To Farm - Chapter 495

General, Madam Called You To Farm
Chapter 495 – The truth revealed (3) 

Translator : Moon Lee
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Qin Canglan hated nothing more than seeing a cowardly man.

“What do you mean, you don’t know?!”

Choking up, Qin Hai confessed:

“Back then… Xianglian… She came to find me after escaping with the child. At first I didn’t dare believe he was my son… but he looked far too much like me… And you, Big Brother, you swore up and down that you had never touched Xianglian… Only then did I realize the truth…”

Qin Canglan paused, recalling indeed such a conversation had happened.

He glared at Qin Hai in bitter disappointment.

“So that’s why you came to ask me back then, whether I had ever been with Xianglian, just to confirm whether that bastard was your own flesh and blood?”

Qin Hai hunched his shoulders.

Qin Canglan’s teeth ground with fury.

“And afterward?!”

Qin Hai dared not meet his brother’s furious gaze.

“Afterward… I settled them down. At the time, Che’er was still young… he doesn’t remember that he once called me father for two whole years…”

On this point, Qin Hai wasn’t lying.

Qin Che truly didn’t remember.

Qin Canglan’s anger flared once more. “Che’er is my son’s name—” 

Qin Hai whispered guiltily:

“I… I just got used to calling him that…” 

Qin Canglan almost wanted to punch him to death, but he reminded himself that he hadn’t come here to vent his anger, as he came to uncover the whole truth.

He forced himself to calm down. 

“What about Huayin’s case?”

Qin Hai lowered his head. 

“Xianglian only stayed for less than two years before leaving. She said she wanted to take her son back to her hometown to visit relatives. I gave her some travel money.”

“How much?”

“T-Ten thousand taels.”

The veins on Qin Canglan’s forehead bulged. 

“Quite generous of you!”

Qin Hai didn’t dare argue.

“After that, Xianglian never came back. A year later, she contacted me once, sent a letter from Qingzhou, saying that her great-grandmother was gravely ill and needed money for treatment. I… I scraped together several thousand taels and sent it over. Another year later… I heard that Sister-in-law and Cheng’er had an accident in Qingzhou…”

That matched with the leads Qin Canglan had found.

The assassins who had attacked Su Huayin and Su Cheng were clearly a band of wandering brigands, paid to kill for money.

He had once suspected that an enemy had hired them.

Unfortunately, those desperados had been killed too quickly, cutting off all leads.

He and the Su family had continued to investigate, but nothing came of it.

Qin Canglan’s fury was so great his voice trembled. 

“If you suspected Ruan Xianglian of hiring killers, why didn’t you tell me sooner?!”

Qin Hai sobbed, “Big Brother… I didn’t think that way at first… Only years later, when I saw her again… she brought Che’er… that child… and said he should take the place of our nephew. I refused… but she knelt and begged me, saying since the real Qin Che was already dead, and the Qin family had no heir, the dukedom would eventually fall to me anyway… that I owed her and her son… since I never gave them a proper title… so why not …”

Qin Canglan finished coldly: 

“So why not pass the Duke Protector’s title to your illegitimate son.”

Qin Hai bowed his head. 

“I asked her, how could she be sure Qin Che was dead? She wouldn’t say. That’s when I guessed that Sister-in-law and Cheng’er’s accident might have had something to do with her. I thought of refusing, but she threatened me over and over… then died right in front of me, and I…”

He covered his face, unable to face his elder brother.

Qin Canglan said icily, “That bastard doesn’t know his own parentage?”

Qin Hai braced himself. 

“When he was three or four, he knew. Later, when he grew a little older, his mother told him, ‘Your father is Qin Canglan, the current Duke Protector. One day I’ll send you back to your father’s side.’ As for me, she told him I once saved her, so he always thought I was simply repaying Xianglian’s kindness, that’s why I looked after him.”

Qin Canglan gave a cold snort. 

“Hmph! Then how do you explain after running into Su Mo and Daya twice, both times you tried to cover up the truth?” 

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