For a moment, the main hall of Nanyuan fell least thirty years have passed since the incident. If we count from the first time the old Duke met his wife, it has been more than forty years. They couldn't tell the exact date when Madam Yan started to plot and when she started to poison her eldest sister's clothes. It is indeed impossible to produce any witnesses or physical evidence. Madam Yan obviously expected this, which is why she laughed so wildly. Speaking of physical evidence—— Yan Funing asked the old Duke: "Grandfather, do you still have any of Grandmother's clothes?" The old Duke shook his head: "When a person dies, all his clothes must be disposed of. Not a single piece should be left." As he spoke, he sighed. Even if there were some left, given that the dose of poison was small, what can be found after so many years? The hall fell silent again. Speaking of witnesses——

Yan Funing looked at Old Madam Hong and said, "Grandmother, you and Grandmother are close friends, but do you know who else was around Grandmother back then?" "There's only A-mi left." Old Madam Hong said softly, "The people who served your grandmother back then were basically older than her. Not to mention the nannies and the old maids, the younger maids were also a few years older than your grandmother. Of the people who served your grandmother back then, only A-mi is left now." The old concubine in front of her must be aware of all these situations, so she was not afraid of her and told her directly. Ami looked at Old Madam Yan excitedly: "Miss Third, Madam has treated you well. You two are sisters. How could you have the heart to kill her back then?" Madam Yan sneered: "I didn't do it, it's because she's not in good health." "Bah." Old Madam Hong spat, "You are in good health, how come you can't give birth to a child? Yan Min is definitely harmed by you!" "Even if I harmed her, what can you do to me if you can't provide evidence?" Old Madam Yan stood up and said, "I'm tired. I'm going back to the East Garden." Having said that, he walked away. He had only taken two steps when the old Duke called him coldly, "Stop." Madam Yan stopped and turned to look at her husband: "What's the matter?" "Without evidence, I can't do anything to you." The old duke's voice was cold and heavy in an instant, "But I can divorce you." "Divorce me?" Old Madam Yan couldn't believe it. "You and I are both old. In this world, how can someone divorce someone at such an old age?" "Divorcing you has nothing to do with age." The old Duke said in a deep voice, "You have no children, so I should have divorced you long ago." "My sister said that she wanted you to take care of me for the rest of my life." Only then did Old Madam Yan panic. "Haven't I taken good care of you? I asked you to take care of everything in the mansion, and I gave you the power to manage the household expenses. What about you?" The old Duke raised his voice, "You schemed hard to be by my side, and caused Yan Min to leave me early." "I've already said that it wasn't me who killed her." Old Madam Yan growled, then changed her tone to a sad one, "You and I have been husband and wife for thirty years after all, and you and my sister have only been together for a few years, a little more than ten years at most. Can't our relationship be compared?" "No." "No?" Old Madam Yan laughed bitterly, "So if my sister hadn't asked you to, you wouldn't marry me?" "Correct."

"After all these years, do you really have no affection for me at all?" Old Madam Yan was unwilling to accept it. The old Duke said in a cold and hard tone: "You were entrusted by Yan Min. Since you are the aunt of the two children, I have no choice but to accept you. Over the years, I have not had the slightest affection for you. I, Yan De, have only been married to Yan Min from the beginning to the end." “Hahaha…” Madam Yan laughed bitterly. “No wonder after we got married, you said that you didn’t want me to have a baby too early for the sake of the children. You said you wanted to wait until Cheng and Yu were older before considering it.” "So I drank the contraceptive soup." Old Madam Yan's eyes suddenly flashed with ferocity. "You had already planned not to let me have your child. Since you didn't plan to let me have your child, why did you agree to consummate the marriage with me?" "What's the point of you saying these things in front of the young ones?" The old Duke was already impatient. "What's the point? Are you afraid that if you say it out loud, the younger generations will criticize you?" Old Madam Yan pointed at the old Duke and scolded him, "Or are you saying one thing and doing another, and you are unworthy of being the respected old Duke?" The old Duke snorted, "If you want to say it, then say it. I wanted to save some dignity for you. Since you don't want it, let's talk about what happened back then." He cleared his throat and pointed at Old Madam Yan: "I haven't touched this woman for three years since she entered the Yan family. The reason I gave was that my child with Yan Min is still young and needs her care." "At that time, the children became more and more distant from her. I thought it was because the two children were growing up and knew that their biological mother and aunt were different." Read the error-free version at 69shuba! 6=9+shu_ba is the first to publish this novel. "Father." Yan Yu said, "My brother and I were already able to remember things at that time. We were children, not fools, and we could tell when someone was truly treating us well. After my aunt came into the family and became a stepmother, she was fine in the first few days, but later, she treated us differently. What was different? Maybe I couldn't figure it out at that time. Now that I think about it, she acted like a loving mother in front of you, but behind your back, she treated us very harshly and often treated us coldly. My brother and I naturally didn't like such a person." At this time, Yuan Lang spoke up: "Yes, I am a child, I know best who is good to me. Even if someone is smiling and trying to coax me, I can feel that they are pretending." "Well said!" Yan Cheng touched his grandson's head, then looked around, "That's what my sister and I did back then." The old Duke sneered upon hearing this: "Now it is finally clear." Soon he smiled with relief: "Fortunately, you all have great potential and have not grown crooked at all." Those two bastards were raised astray by her. After a slight pause, he continued, "I haven't touched her for three years. I didn't agree to consummating the marriage. She drugged my wine." "She is not worthy of bearing my Yan De's child, so I ordered someone to make her a contraceptive soup." Madam Yan was very unwilling: "You don't want me to get pregnant with your child, and you keep saying that you have my sister in your heart, but the fact is that you have two concubines. What a hypocritical man." "Yes, which man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? I have two concubines. These two concubines were given by the emperor. I had no choice..." He didn't need to explain man's affairs to the younger generations. After a slight pause, he continued, "They are not like you, with ulterior motives." But he was clear in his mind: one of them was his wife's sister, and he was already forcing himself to take care of her as his wife had asked him to do. As for other things, he couldn't treat her as his wife, even as a woman like a concubine. Madam Yan asked again, "What happened next? Did I not give you drugs again?" "I don't know whether you drugged me or not. I only realized afterwards that it wasn't your sister who came back, but you pretending to be your sister." The old Duke clenched his fists. "And it's a fact that you can't have children. Don't blame it on those bowls of contraceptive soup." (End of this chapter)