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Chapter 187: A Hypocrite Who is Good at Disguise

Yan Xiuyuan's face suddenly changed, and his sharp eyes swept over like a knife. Although he concealed it in time, Jian Yue still saw it.

She sensed a hidden murderous intent in Yan Xiuyuan's eyes.

"That's not true. Where did you hear that rumor?" Yan Xiuyuan frowned.

Jian Yue snorted and laughed: "No? Before entering the family tree, I overheard the conversation between Yan Xinning and Huamei. Yan Xinning said that my maternal grandfather's family is very rich, and even if they send tens of thousands of taels to the mansion every year, it is just a drop in the bucket. She also said that my mother's dowry is a huge fortune, which is firmly held in the hands of Xie Chujiao, and no one can get it from her. She would rather kill people to silence them than hand over this wealth."

Of course, this was all made up by Jian Yue in order to scare her.

As expected, she found Yan Xiuyuan's expression was gloomy. Although he tried his best to hide it, he couldn't control his disordered breath.

As her Qinggong skills improved, Jian Yue's five senses became more and more acute. She could clearly detect Yan Xiuyuan's emotional changes. And Yan Xiuyuan thought he was hiding it well.

Yan Xiuyuan's face soon returned to normal. He softened his expression and comforted Jian Yue in a fatherly tone: "Yue'er, no matter what people outside say, you don't have to take it to heart. Your mother's dowry is naturally yours. When you get married, it will be handed over to you. Besides, the dowry book is in your hands, can the dowry still fly away?"

Jian Yue looked at him without saying anything.

Yan Xiuyuan showed a loving smile: "Yue'er, you should have a coming-of-age ceremony on your fifteenth birthday. It was my fault that I remembered the wrong birthday. Now that you are the county lady, if you want to hold a coming-of-age ceremony, you have to hold it in a big way. You see..."

Yan Xiuyuan also understood Jian Yue's temper and knew that she didn't like tedious and troublesome things. Since she missed the coming-of-age ceremony, she would definitely not go back to make up for it.

Sure enough, Jian Yue said, "Since you missed it, there's no need to bother again."

Yan Xiuyuan was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Jian Yue say, "For a young girl who has just come of age, the coming-of-age ceremony is such an important event in life. But who made me so miserable that I don't have a mother? My stepmother deliberately brought back a fake daughter, didn't she just want me to die out there? I must have burned eight lifetimes of incense in my previous life for me to be able to return to my ancestral home alive."

Yan Xiuyuan almost vomited blood.

Now that things have come to this, how can he still quibble... no, how can he explain?

"Yue'er, your thoughts are too extreme. You disappeared when you were born, and no one knew what you looked like, so it was inevitable that they would mistake you for someone else. I know that you not only resent your stepmother, but you also blame me. But so many years have passed, and the mistakes we made cannot be made up for. Can't you put aside the past grudges and live a good life as a family?" Yan Xiuyuan looked earnest.

Jian Yue looked cold: "I also want to live a good life. But will my stepmother allow me? She instigated her step-sister to take things from my shop without paying. When that plan failed, she maliciously wanted her step-sister's son to destroy people and rob them of their wealth. Without her instigation, there would be no poisoned wine tragedy. That's fine. She even deliberately ignored the most important coming-of-age ceremony in my life. She blatantly slapped me, the newly promoted county lady, in the face. What does she want to do? Can I live a good life as a family just by myself?"

After going around in a circle, I came back again.

Yan Xiuyuan had already experienced Jian Yue's ability to turn the tables. It was really like a magic sound entering your head, leaving you speechless.

Now, he experienced it again.

Yan Xiuyuan gritted his teeth secretly, knowing that if he continued to talk like this, he would not be able to say anything. So, he changed the subject: "Yue'er, your father knows that you feel wronged, and I will definitely compensate you when I have the chance. The mansion has received many invitations, all of which invite you to the banquet. You are not familiar with the circle of noble ladies in Yanling Mansion, so why not let your sister Lingshan take you there."

Jian Yue couldn't help but sneer: "Father, after saying so much, your last sentence is the key point, right?"

Yan Xiuyuan's thoughts were exposed. He was angry, but he couldn't show it. He felt really depressed.

In fact, since Jian Yue was named the county lady, the Yue family has received many invitations from various mansions. However, Jian Yue was really busy, so the family did not accept the invitation.

"If father has nothing else to say, please go back! I'm very busy." Jian Yue ordered the guest to leave.

Yan Xiuyuan suddenly remembered the important things here: "Yue'er, what have you been busy with recently? Why don't you come back home?"

Jian Yue really wanted to roll her eyes and asked the question even though she knew the answer.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to see the look on my stepmother's face, or are you going to catch those lazy servants?"

Yan Xiuyuan resisted the urge to vomit blood and continued to hint patiently: "Yue'er, only by doing good for your father can you be better. When you handed in the advanced agricultural tools, you had not yet acknowledged your master. Let's not talk about the past. I heard that you built a sugarcane workshop, which is a great thing. Our Nanchang country does not have the technology to make brown sugar. If you offer this technology..."

The news of Gejia Village planting sugarcane vigorously was too loud to be concealed. If Yan Xiuyuan was determined to investigate, he would be able to trace it back to Jian Yue.

Jian Yue immediately understood what Yan Xiuyuan meant.

He wanted this credit, but unfortunately, he could only dream about it.

Jian Yue said calmly, "The brown sugar recipe was handed over by Master a long time ago. Otherwise, how could I have the title of County Lord? Did my father think that he could make me County Lord just because of an advanced farm tool?"

It was the truth that it was handed in. However, the person who handed it in was not Dr. Mao, but Ji Yunzhong.

Yan Xiuyuan was very disappointed when his hopes were dashed. He thought that if he hadn't raised the child himself, then he couldn't do it. He would rather let an outsider take all the credit than let his biological father take all the credit.

At this moment, Yan Xiuyuan was extremely disappointed with Jian Yue.

The father and daughter parted unhappily.

After Yan Xiuyuan left, Yun Zhonghe entered the living room and asked Jian Yue with a smile: "Yue girl, what do you think of your father?"

Jian Yue said mercilessly: "I have just finished the identification. He is a hypocrite who is very good at disguising himself."

Yun Zhonghe: ...Isn't the appraisal a bit too harsh?

Jian Yue called Fu Wu over and said, "Pack up and go to Qiongzhou right away to check on my maternal grandfather's family. There is also my cousin named Yan Jinghong."

"What happened?" Yun Zhonghe asked.

Jian Yue told Yun Zhonghe about her encounter with her uncle. After that, she continued, "Since I returned to my ancestral home, no one has mentioned my maternal family. There is also a very puzzling thing. Yan Jinghong said that my uncle's family lost contact after they went to Shangjing. The Yan family's roots are in Qiongzhou, and all relatives and clansmen are in Qiongzhou. Under what circumstances would a person lose contact with his clansmen?"

Yun Zhonghe took another look at Jian Yue's face, his expression solemn: "Your kinship is very weak, I'm afraid something happened to your maternal family a long time ago."

Jian Yue nodded...