607: Chapter 563: I’m Not Biological Either?
607: Chapter 563: I’m Not Biological Either?
At this ti, within the Shuofang Army, soldiers who managed to escape trickled back into their own tents, so tending to their wounds and others reorganizing.
Morale was utterly defeated throughout the army.
For this battle, i Fei felt confident of victory, which is why he led twenty thousand Shuofang soldiers into war.
The casualties who confronted the enemy head-on in battle approached three thousand n.
And the five thousand cavalry who took a detour for a surprise attack from the north against the Tujue, none returned alive.
Plus those who were scattered along the way and captured.
In the end, the soldiers who returned to the Shuofang Army’s main camp number less than six thousand by now.
Although more soldiers continued to return, everyone knew it was unlikely that the returning count would exceed ten thousand.
One battle, over half the troops lost!
This was a disastrous defeat.
But at this mont, i Fei’s mind was not at all on the victory or defeat of this war.
Right now, i Fei, looking at the body of i Wu in front of the Central Army’s tent, was overco by tears of grief.
“i Wu, my son!
How could you just leave like this!”
i Fei walked over, wanting to embrace the body of his son.
But i Wu’s body was tightly held by Wang Lihui.
Seeing this scene, i Fei couldn’t help but be moved.
Worthy of being my Deputy General, so loyal to .
It’s my son who died, yet he acts as if his own son had perished.
“Deputy General Wang, that’s enough.
I know your loyalty.
Let go, let hold him, let …
accompany i Wu on his final journey…”
“Scram!”
At this mont, Wang Lihui holding i Wu bellowed furiously at i Fei.
This roar not only shocked i Fei but also stunned all the surrounding soldiers and generals.
Nobody expected the usually mild-tempered Wang Lihui to tell i Fei to scram.
i Fei even widened his eyes in shock as he looked at Wang Lihui’s back.
“Wang Lihui!
That’s my son, not yours!”
At this point, the heartbroken Wang Lihui could care about nothing else.
“Your son?
He is my son!
i Fei!
It is your foolishness!
You would rather trust a dog that can talk than listen to our advice!
It’s you!
You killed my son!”
As he said this, Wang Lihui’s fists clenched in anger, frightening i Fei into hastily backing away.
In this mont, i Fei couldn’t help but recall how, whenever i Wu was involved in anything, Wang Lihui would always argue strongly against it and offer help, showing particular kindness toward i Wu.
Later, as i Wu grew up, he and Wang Lihui remained by his side, like his right and left hand.
Even, many said i Wu and Wang Lihui looked very much alike.
Could it be…
Could it be…
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
i Fei imdiately grabbed his riding crop, intending to strike Wang Lihui, but just as he lifted the crop, seeing Wang Lihui’s formidable back, he ultimately dared not carry it out.
“Soone, fetch my wife.
Never mind, I’ll go myself!”
With that, i Fei headed straight for his wife’s sleeping tent.
At this mont, the wife who had just learned the news of her eldest son i Wu’s death was crying her heart out in the sleeping tent.
Seeing i Fei enter, the wife imdiately lunged at him, wishing to weep in her husband’s embrace.
i Xiu, the second son, also approached his Grandpa.
But before the wife could get close, i Fei pushed her away.
“I’m asking you, is i Wu my biological son?
Is he Deputy General Wang’s seed?
Tell !”
The wife was startled.
Obviously, she knew the cat was out of the bag regarding the past affair.
At least Deputy General Wang had spilled the beans.
But the wife, having kept the secret from i Fei for so many years, naturally had her cunning.
“i Fei!
Is it I who have lost a son now?
What now?
Your son has died, and you’re not sad, but you co to question instead?”
i Fei was taken aback, just about to argue, but the wife gave no chance for any explanation.
“So, I’ve beco unimportant to you, haven’t I?
Our son too, hasn’t he?
To you, i Fei, has our family really beco so dispensable?”
“It’s not… what I ant… I… I an…”
The lady let out a deep sigh, then spoke with a face full of dejection and loss, “I knew it, love can disappear.
Xiu’er, let’s go.”
i Xiu, seeing Grandpa and Grandma suddenly arguing, and it made no sense at all, didn’t understand what was happening before Grandma pulled him out of the sleeping tent.
“Grandma, what did Grandpa an just now about soone being biological or not?”
By this ti, the lady had led i Xiu quite a distance from the sleeping tent; she looked back to make sure i Fei hadn’t imdiately followed, and only then did she let out a long breath.
“Your elder brother is not your Grandpa’s biological child.”
“My elder brother was adopted?” In i Xiu’s mind, there still lingered a naive and beautiful fantasy.
“Your elder brother is the son of Deputy General Wang Lihui and .”
Upon hearing this answer, i Xiu felt a buzzing in his head, and in that instant, the whole world went silent.
At that mont, the lady took i Xiu to another servant’s sleeping tent, instructing the servant to prepare pen and ink.
The lady began to write a letter while soone else prepared items for i Xiu.
Finally, i Xiu’s ears began to regain their sense of the outside world, and he started to co back to himself.
“But, Grandma, my elder brother… if he’s not biological, what… what are you bringing here for?”
The lady looked at her simple, foolish son.
“You think you are biological?”
“Ah!?”
At that mont, the lady finished writing a letter and handed it to i Xiu.
“Take this letter and the other things, leave Shuofang Army, and go to the Lingwu Army to find your biological father, Changsun Bubai.
He will take care of you for the rest of your life.”
In that instant, i Xiu felt his entire world collapsing!
After being bitten back by his wife, i Fei couldn’t respond for quite so ti, completely at a loss as to what had just happened.
He simply sat in the sleeping tent and then called for soone to bring in wine.
The more i Fei drank, the angrier he beca, and the angrier he was, the more he wanted to drink.
After drinking for a while, i Fei suddenly thought of sothing and shouted towards the entrance, “Deputy General Wang, co here!”
After calling out, i Fei rembered that that bastard Wang Lihui had slept with his wife and made a cuckold out of him.
Other family mbers ca in, not understanding what was happening with their family head.
i Fei asked, “Where’s Deputy General Wang?”
“Deputy General Wang is still holding… holding the body of i Wu.”
i Fei could be sure that i Wu must be Wang Lihui’s seed.
Otherwise, Wang wouldn’t be so heartbroken.
“And the lady?
Where did she go after she got angry just now?
Wait!
She didn’t go looking for Wang Lihui, did she?”
“No.
The lady just took the Second Young Master away and then prepared horses and so things for the Second Young Master, instructing him to leave the camp and head west.”
i Fei couldn’t help but be curious as to why i Xiu was suddenly sent away for no apparent reason.
i Xiu couldn’t be Wang Lihui’s seed, after all, i Xiu was handso and bright-looking, clearly not the child of soone as brutish as Wang Lihui.
There had been jokes that i Xiu looked like Changsun Bubai, and i Fei actually felt it was quite cool when Changsun Bubai called him grandson.
But then, in the next mont, i Fei suddenly rembered that when his family was attacked by the Tujue at the border, it was Changsun Bubai who saved his wife.
Could it be…
i Fei imdiately left with people to look for his wife.
But after searching through many servants’ tents, he couldn’t find his wife.
The more i Fei saw his wife, the more he felt she was keeping things from him.
That’s when i Fei found his daughter’s sleeping tent.
Seeing the tear stains on his daughter’s face, who had just been grieving her brother’s death.
That heart-aching appearance.
That delicate and yet-to-flourish look.
That face which resembled his wife’s youth, or even surpassed her in beauty.
That’s right!
Not one of my children is biological!
In that case…
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