Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Chang Feng: "What do you mean?"

Chang Dong, who was sitting silently, suddenly stood up and picked up a sword beside him. The sword seemed to be tailor-made for him. It was not long, but it shone with a cold light. Chang Feng realized that he was carrying a weapon, so he stepped back and asked, "You two want to kill someone?"

Changdong looked at him coldly, turned and went behind the screen. He heard a humming sound from inside, and then a fat woman was pushed into the front hall by Changdong with the scabbard of his sword.

The candlelight was dim. Chang Feng lowered his head and carefully identified it, only to find that it was an acquaintance. He became even angrier and pointed at Chang Dong and cursed: "You two brothers actually kidnapped the wife of the manager of Linqi Pavilion. You are really lawless!"

Minglan: "Third brother, please listen to what Lady Zhao wants to say to you first."

Changdong pulled the cloth ball out of Madam Zhao's mouth, but because he pulled it too hard, Madam Zhao fell to the side.

When she was finally able to speak again, Lady Zhao cried to Chang Feng, "Third brother, please save me! Third brother, please save me! This is what Lady Lin asked me to do! This is what Lady Lin asked me to do!"

Chang Feng: "What's going on? What did my mother ask you to do?"

"She...she asked me to kill Wei Xiaoniang with a poisonous snake..."

Madam Zhao tearfully recounted the whole story, how Lin Qinshuang forced her, how Madam Zhou taught her, and even where she bought the poisonous snake. Chang Feng was stunned for dozens of breaths, and his eyes gradually became confused as he looked at Minglan and Changdong: "This... This is impossible! Although my mother is usually a bit venomous, she is a very weak person. How could she... How could she..."

Minglan sneered: "Weak? There is irrefutable evidence that Lin Xiaoniang released a snake to kill someone, and you actually said she was weak?"

Chang Feng: "How can you say the evidence is conclusive? These are just one-sided statements from Madam Zhao. What if she accepted your dirty money to frame my wife?"

Madam Zhao was accused of a crime without any reason, and she was so anxious that she shouted, "No, no, it's really not! It's really Madam Lin! I didn't frame her, I didn't frame her!!!"

Minglan: "Since you don't believe what Madam Zhao said, there is another person whose words Third Brother should listen to more."

Xiaotao went into the inner room and brought out a small figure.

Chang Feng immediately squatted over when he saw her: "Ayan?" He hugged Ayan and turned her over, "Are you okay? Why are you here? Were you kidnapped as well?"

Ayan endured it for a long time, and finally burst into tears when she saw Changfeng: "Father! Madam Zhao released the monster to eat the monk! She wants to eat the monk! There are so many delicious foods at the monk's place, Ayan doesn't want her to be eaten!"

Ah Yan lay on Chang Feng's shoulder and cried bitterly, her words were incoherent, Chang Feng couldn't understand anything, so he could only ask Ming Lan: "What did she mean?"

Minglan: "Mrs. Zhao went to release a poisonous snake in the room of Master Jing'an, and was caught by Ayan. Ayan had never seen a snake before, so she called them monsters. If Ayan hadn't discovered it first and shouted to warn people, Master Jing'an would have been buried in the snake's belly."

When she said these words, Xiao Tao bowed her head deeply. She was blaming herself for falling asleep.

Chang Feng thought this was too absurd, and asked A Yan, "Why are you at Jing An Jushi's place?"

A-Yan: "The lay Buddhist gave it to A-Yan."

Chang Feng: "What did she give you to eat?"

Ah Yan: "So many delicious foods."

"...What's delicious? Don't eat it carelessly. Is the food clean? It's not on the ground, right? Did they trick you into eating it?" As he said this, he glanced at everyone with an unfriendly look.

Ah Yan waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no, they are in the basket, put them one by one in the basket. Ah Yan, go, the layman will give them to you."

Hearing this, Chang Feng knew that at least the food given by Jing An was real food, so he felt relieved and said to Yan, "Then you shouldn't just eat other people's food. What if there's something unclean in it?"

Ayan lowered her head in grievance.

Minglan couldn't stand it any longer and said, "Third brother, didn't you notice that your own daughter doesn't have enough food every day? Look how skinny she is? She's only five years old, even the children in our house are stronger than her. Mr. Jing'an felt sorry for her and saved money to support her, and you're still here making excuses! Third brother, instead of wasting your time being sarcastic with me, why don't you go back and ask the people in Linqi Pavilion why they are making things difficult for a child."

"That's impossible! I told them to give Ayan more food." Chang Feng pulled Ayan off his shoulders, looked into her eyes and asked, "Didn't they give you food?"

Ah Yan nodded and shook her head: "I gave it to you, but I'm not full."

Minglan continued, "She couldn't eat enough in your Linqi Pavilion, so she had to steal tribute from the ancestral hall. During those days, the ancestral hall was offering the engagement letter of my second brother and his wife. Fortunately, she was seen by Jing'an Lay Buddhist, so Ah Yan didn't get into trouble! Lay Buddhist saw that she was starving, so he kindly took out his own food to help her, but you doubted his intentions? It's been two months, and you, as a father, probably don't even know that your daughter has been begging for food in a monk's house for two months!"

Chang Feng asked A Yan: "Is it true? Is everything she said true?"

A Yan nodded: "Ms. Jing An is a deity. She can conjure up food for A Yan every day."

Chang Feng shouted angrily, "If you are hungry, come and tell me! Or go to our small kitchen to find food. Why do you have to beg for food in other people's houses?"

Ayan burst into tears: "Wuuuu... Father is busy... Wuuuu, Father is not here... There is nothing to eat in the small kitchen!" She spoke incoherently, but no one present understood her.

Chang Feng hugged A Yan tightly with guilt, unable to utter a word.

Everyone felt mixed emotions.

Minglan: "Ayan thought of the goodness of the monk in her heart. When she saw someone trying to harm her, she rushed to save her. If the monk and Xiaotao hadn't handled it properly, your biological daughter would have been bitten by the snake. Human life is at stake. Are you going to stand by and watch, Third Brother?"

Chang Feng hugged A Yan and whispered, "My mother did all this. I know nothing... Even if I knew, there's nothing I can do. My mother doesn't listen to me at all... I can't even protect my own daughter. I am nothing in Linqi Pavilion and in this family..."

Minglan: "You call your father Daddy and your wife Mother. Wherever you go, everyone calls you Sheng Sanlang. How can you be nothing?"

Chang Feng: "What do you know? Father only has eyes for my second brother, the eldest lady sees me as a thorn in her side, grandma only loves you, and my mother is the only one in the family who lets me rely on her... But now that I failed in the imperial examination, my mother doesn't count on me anymore, and now even my own sister can point her finger at me and scold me... In this family, I am redundant."

"Third brother, you are Ayan's only hope. If you become depressed now, what will Ayan do in the future?"

Chang Feng gently patted A Yan's back: "She and I are both miserable people. She was abandoned by her mother, and I was abandoned by my mother. Haha, I don't know what I will do in the future. How can I know what she will do in the future?"

Minglan had expected Changfeng to be so incompetent, but she was still furious when she heard him say these words: "Third brother, I heard Ayan say a lot about you today. I know that you love this child in your heart, otherwise you wouldn't teach her so many principles."

"What's the point of teaching her so much? In the end, she can't even have a full meal! It's better for her to learn nothing and just learn some work skills so that she can support herself."

"If she continues to stay in Linqi Pavilion, no matter how many skills she learns, she will end up dead."

"How can you say that!"

"Brother, don't blame me for speaking harshly, but this is the fact. I checked Ayan's body and found bruises all over. She must have been bullied a lot in Linqi Pavilion, right?"

Chang Feng rubbed A Yan's back distressedly: "Ah... it's all my fault. If I could have passed the exam earlier, I could have said a few more words for her, and she wouldn't have to be bullied by Mo Lan every day."

"Why did the fourth sister bully her?"

"Molan feels that she looks too much like me, and she would be embarrassed if others saw her."

"Ayan does look a lot like my third brother..."

"Oh, you also think she is a stain, right? It is people like you who flatter the powerful and bully the weak that have left the innocent child with no way to survive!"

"Whether she has a stain or not, whether she has a way out, does not depend on others, but on you, Third Brother! You are her father, and what kind of person you are determines what kind of person she is. How you plan for her future will determine what kind of future she will have..."

"I've already said it!" Chang Feng interrupted Minglan, "Her future is not up to me. It's all controlled by my mother. Why can't you understand? My mother... everything my mother does is for us brothers and sisters. If I interfere recklessly, I'm afraid I will lead my whole family to destruction... I, I really have no choice!" He remembered the time when he almost killed Sheng Hong because of his nonsense.

Minglan: "If Third Brother only knows how to bow his head and does not persuade and discipline Lin's mother and daughter, then everything will really go to ruin."

Chang Feng: "Advise and discipline? Haha, you are so easy to talk. Lin Qige can be what it is today thanks to my little mother. Why should I advise and discipline her? What benefit can I get from advising and disciplining her? When Lin Qige is completely abandoned by my father, will you be responsible?"

Minglan: "What responsibility can I take for the future of Linqi Pavilion? You are Lin Qinshuang's son, so of course you are responsible for the future of Linqi Pavilion."

Chang Feng: "I am responsible. How can I be responsible? Why should I be responsible?"