Chapter 233 Denying it to the End

Chapter 233 Denying it to the End

Upon seeing Hao Yu, the leader immediately bowed and said, "This humble one greets Uncle Hao Yu."

Although he looked down on Hao Yu, who was now just making a living by running a small martial arts school, he needed Hao Yu to testify for him. Therefore, when it was time to bow down, he felt that he should bow down appropriately.

However, Hao Yu did not reciprocate the leader's exceptional politeness. He frowned at the leader, who had already straightened up on his own, and asked, "Who are you? Do you know me?"

The leader's face stiffened slightly, but he still managed a forced smile. "I am Jiang Shun. Don't you remember me?"

Hao Yu looked completely bewildered. "What do you mean by remembering or not remembering? I don't know anyone like you at all."

Jiang Shun's face flushed red and then turned pale. He hadn't expected that Hao Yu would actually forget about him.

No, no, no, he must be faking it.

That's what he thought, but on the surface, Jiang Shun still had to patiently explain their origins and purpose to Hao Yu.

Hao Yu listened to him ramble on with his arms crossed. When he finally finished, Hao Yu waved her hands slightly outward a few times and said, "Alright, I think I understand what you're trying to do, but you've definitely got the wrong person."

“My disciple doesn’t have that kind of luck to become the eldest son of a noble family. His situation is different from the child you’re looking for; he was abandoned by his own parents.”

“They made it clear that they didn’t want him and didn’t recognize him. He had no choice but to come to Zijing Pass to join the army, hoping to risk his life to make a future for himself.”

As he spoke, he looked at the crowd and said, “You all know how dangerous war is. If my disciple really had a marquis father who cared about him, even if he were just a lowly illegitimate son, let alone the eldest son who could inherit the title, he wouldn’t need to run to the border to fight the Northern Hu, would he?”

The onlookers nodded in agreement. That's exactly right. If there were any other way out, who would be so foolish as to risk their life to fight the Northern Hu?

Seeing this, Jiang Shun and the others looked at each other, feeling troubled.

They never expected that Hao Yu would deny that Jiang Yuan was their uncle's biological son from this perspective.

Indeed, their lord had abandoned Jiang Yuan more than once, but Hao Yu couldn't just lie through his teeth and deny the father-son relationship between Jiang Yuan and their lord because of that.

They had anticipated that Hao Yu would harbor resentment towards their master and mistress because of past events, even before they asked Hao Yu to testify.

They were prepared for the other party to bring up all those old, trivial matters, and even point their fingers at them and berate them and their master's family. That's why they initially wanted to negotiate with Xie Wanniang in a secluded place.

However, Hao Yu used the inconsistency in their uncle's attitude as a reason to directly deny the father-son relationship between their uncle and Jiang Yuan... This unexpected move was something they had not anticipated.

No, this group of people really doesn't play by the rules at all!

Once again realizing just how troublesome the situation was, Jiang Shun and the others couldn't help but feel a little irritated.

In front of so many people, they couldn't very well say that what they had said before about how much their lord coveted his eldest son was all a lie. In fact, before Jiang Yuan became famous for capturing the Tatar princess, their lord had indeed abandoned Jiang Yuan, the son who grew up in the countryside. However, Jiang Yuan was just too lucky. The merit he had made had already won him the emperor's favor, making him a potential target.

They had nothing to say, so Hao Yu simply ignored them and turned to Xie Wan Niang, saying, "A Yuan isn't home. If you have any troubles, just send someone to find me and your aunt."

Xie Wanniang smiled, "Uncle Hao, don't worry. Although I am a woman, not just anyone can come and bully me."

After speaking, she smiled and looked at the people of the Earl's Mansion who were speechless and didn't know what to say. "If you have nothing else to do, please leave as soon as possible. I still have some trivial matters to take care of at home, so I won't keep you company any longer."

How could Jiang Shun let her go so easily? Upon hearing this, he hurriedly introduced his master's name, "My master's name is Jiang Tong. My wife comes from the Han family, a prominent clan in Renqiu County, Hejian Prefecture. She is a cousin of yours, Uncle! Back then, when you stayed in Mingfu Village, wasn't it at my wife's request to take care of the eldest son?"

Hao Yu glanced coldly at Jiang Shun, "I don't know him, I don't recognize him, I've never heard of him."

Jiang Shun: !!!

Jiang Shun never expected Hao Yu to be so shameless as to deny the whole thing. Veins bulged on his forehead. "You...you..."

Hao Yu took a step back. "Don't call me 'you' (formal). I'm just an unknown nobody, I can't accept your 'you'."

If Hao Yu hadn't wanted to confirm the father-son relationship between Jiang Yuan and Jiang Tong, he would have already started bringing up old grievances and cursing Jiang Shun to his nose.

His cousin's husband abandoned his wife and children in order to "make a name for himself," and his cousin, for a brief message from her husband asking her to help procure food and supplies, left behind her crying baby and led a large group of people to contact relatives and old friends.

If they hadn't taken away most of the useful people, why would he have had to flee in such a sorry state with Jiang Yuan when danger came?

After the uncle and nephew barely escaped death, he managed to contact the couple and ask them to send someone to pick up Jiang Yuan. How did they do it?

He was dismissed with a simple "we don't have enough manpower"!

In his anger, he vehemently accused the other party, who shamelessly handed over the child to him.

Hao Yu still remembers what his so-called cousin-in-law said.

All that talk about "the dangers around us are everywhere," "the village is safer," and "once the situation stabilizes a bit, I will send someone to bring you two back" is utter nonsense.

He was surrounded by danger, yet his wife, concubines, and other children, both legitimate and illegitimate, all survived.

On the contrary, Jiang Yuan lived in a small village where only Hao Yu had ever truly practiced martial arts, and he had experienced countless life-or-death crises since childhood.

If it weren't for the Zhenbei Army regularly clearing out bandits and rabble soldiers within Baoding Prefecture, and if the villagers hadn't mostly inherited the fierceness and courage of the people of the North and never backed down in the face of trouble, how could he, a man who had been injured and whose one hand was practically useless, have protected Jiang Yuan, who was just a little child at the time?

The idea of ​​taking them back is even more absurd. Let alone when the situation was "slightly more stable," even after the world was at peace, that scoundrel Jiang Tong didn't think of taking Jiang Yuan back.