When he heard his father’s words, Father Xiao laughed and said, "Father, I was confused why my second brother could grow up into soone who was so cruel, arrogant, and greedy before. Now, I finally understand. He is the exact mirror of you."
Hearing his words, Grandpa Xiao was not angry and asked, "Xiao Feng, you can’t be so naive to think that our Xiao family was able to reach what we have today without walking on the dark side, right?"
Father Xiao let out a sigh and said, "Father, I never felt embarrassed for being born as the Xiao family’s son until now."
Taking a deep breath, he added, "No matter what you say, I will never help Xiao Jun. What happened to him today was the result of his own doing. He deserves every punishnt given by the court."
Hearing this, Grandpa Xiao was angry and said, "Unfilial son, are you planning to rebel now?!"
Standing up, Father Xiao looked at his father and said, "Since you don’t plan to have this reunion dinner, then my family will take our leave now."
After he finished his words, he left the dining room.
Seeing this, Grandpa Xiao was taken aback and shouted, "Xiao Feng, stop right there!"
Father Xiao stopped in his tracks and turned around. He glanced at everyone who sat around the dinner table and said, "From today onwards, my family will sever ties with the Xiao family. No matter if it is glory or adversity that my family faces in the future, it will have nothing to do with the Xiao family."
When he finished his words, he held his wife’s hand and left the dining room without looking back.
Grandpa Xiao was so shocked that it took him a mont to regain his senses and shout, "Xiao Feng, you better not regret it!"
Witnessing what happened just now, Xiao Yun let out a sigh and said, "Father, thanks to your partiality, our family is destroyed."
Standing up, he added, "My family will remove our household register from the Xiao family too. Father, you should take care of yourself."
As soon as he finished his words, he glanced at his wife and children. Noticing that it was ti to leave, they followed him and left the Xiao family’s mansion.
With one son ending up in jail and the other two sons cutting ties with him, Grandpa Xiao was unable to handle the stimulations and finally rolled his eyes as he fainted.
"Father!"
"Grandpa!"
"Master!"
Everyone was panicking when they saw him suddenly close his eyes and fall to the ground. While other families were enjoying the reunion dinner, the Xiao family separated their household register.
After leaving the Xiao family’s mansion, Father Xiao and Mother Xiao went with Xiao Yiguan to the military barracks where Xiao Yiqing was living.
Inside the car, Xiao Yiguan said, "Father, you are finally willing to separate from Grandpa’s household register. I thought you would continue supporting the second branch."
Hearing his son’s words, Father Xiao let out a snort and said, "Xiao Jun is always bragging that he has a capable and filial son. Now that he has lost his power and wealth, I want to see how filial his son is."
"I bet he will cut off his relationship with his father when he finds out what will happen to his career without your and the third brother’s support," Mother Xiao chid in.
Xiao Yiguan nodded and said, "That Xiao Yijie is the exact copy of his father. He has big ambitions without the ability. He, ah, won’t be able to advance further without his father pulling the strings from behind the screen."
When he heard this, Father Xiao chuckled and said, "Well, now that we have cut ties with them, what will happen to them has nothing to do with us. After the new year, he might be sent to the northern area. By then, the chance for us to et with him again will be near zero."
The mont he heard this, Xiao Yiguan laughed and said with satisfaction in his tone, "Serves him right!"
Seeing how delighted he was, Mother Xiao shook her head and changed the topic, "Yiguan, did you bring the New Year’s gift I prepared for your sister and brother-in-law?"
Xiao Yiguan nodded and replied, "It’s in the trunk."
While the three of them were on their way, Xiao Yiqing and Mu Zigu were busy preparing the reunion dinner.
After she placed a plate of sweet and sour mandarin fish on the table, Xiao Yiqing asked, "Husband, have my parents and brother arrived?"
Hearing this, Mu Zigu placed a bottle of tonic wine given by Lu Jueyu on the table before he said, "I will go check."
Xiao Yiqing nodded and said, "Husband, rember to buy so roasted peanuts on your way back."
"Okay," Mu Zigu replied and took so money from the jar placed inside the cabinet.
After leaving his ho, he walked to the supply store and bought so roasted peanuts before he went to the entrance. When the guards saw him, one of them asked, "Comrade Mu, are you going out?"
Mu Zigu shook his head and replied, "I ca to wait for my parents-in-law and brother-in-law."
Everyone in the compound knew about Xiao Yiqing’s family background after a while.
At first, lots of people looked down on her since she basically knew nothing about house chores. But after they learned that she was General Xiao Feng’s daughter, no one dared to gossip about her in public anymore.
Even when she was not pregnant after marrying for almost a year, the won in the family compound would only talk about her behind closed doors.
Unlike the wonfolk, the n were quite envious of Mu Zigu’s luck. Although Xiao Yiqing was not good at doing house chores, she was educated, gentle, caring, and knew how to manage a household.
With the addition of a powerful family as her backing, they were sure that Mu Zigu would have a smooth-sailing career in the future. Due to this, lots of people tried to befriend him.
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