Chapter 169

"Old man, don't be anxious. The eldest young lady is not injured, but because of excessive fatigue, she fell into a coma when she just arrived in the Lighthouse Country. I invited Zhang Shenyi, whose ancestors were a family of imperial physicians, to diagnose and treat the eldest young lady."

"Then hurry and send Bingyan back to her room!"

Although Tang Laoyezi was full of questions, he also knew that the most important thing right now was to let Tang Bingyan receive treatment, so he immediately made a path for the bodyguards to carry Tang Bingyan to the room on the second floor.

After Tang Bingyan was placed on the bed, Tang Laoyezi, Gu Beicheng, and the Tang family close relatives all surrounded her.

The whole room was full of people, and Xu Tian was squeezed out instead, so he had to stand near the door for the time being.

Tang Laoyezi confirmed Tang Bingyan's condition with A Wei again and again, and upon learning that there was no life-threatening danger, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at Tang Bingyan, who had her eyes closed tightly and a pale face, with blood-like color in his cloudy eyes, and even his voice was somewhat choked.

"A Wei, hurry and tell me what you experienced in the Lighthouse Country?"

"Why were you attacked?"

"And how did you escape?"

"Old man, don't be anxious. Zhang Shenyi will be here soon; let's not disturb the eldest young lady's rest and talk outside."

Under A Wei's suggestion, the people gathered in the room all moved to the reception hall on the second floor.

After everyone was seated, A Wei sorted out his thoughts before slowly explaining: "On the afternoon of the day we arrived in the Lighthouse Country, the eldest young lady suddenly fainted, and at the same time, we discovered that we were targeted by Tattoo, a killer organization famous internationally."

A Wei recounted those thrilling scenes in a calm voice.

"Our signal was interfered with, and we only had time to send a distress message to Mr. Gu before we could no longer transmit messages."

"At that time, the eldest young lady was still in a coma, and our decision was to send Mr. Xu, an outsider, away first. Tattoo's target was the Tang family, so the entire first team of bodyguards led by Bai Lu took the lead in escorting Mr. Xu to evacuate."

A Wei was just stating the facts, but he also didn't want Tang Laoyezi to blame Xu Tian before figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, so he added:

"The strength of the killers on Tattoo's side was vastly different from ours; regardless of whether Bai Lu and the others were there or not, we couldn't break out, so I asked Bai Lu to take Mr. Xu away first."

Tang Laoyezi's expression was somewhat ugly, but he couldn't blame A Wei.

After a long while, he sighed: "At that critical moment, your decision represented Bingyan."

Because A Wei was the closest subordinate beside Tang Bingyan, he also understood Tang Bingyan best.

Even if Tang Bingyan were awake, she would make such a decision.

However, although Tang Laoyezi understood rationally that this was also Tang Bingyan's decision, he couldn't let go emotionally.

Others around heard A Wei's words, and their expressions all showed obvious dissatisfaction, especially the Tang family close relatives who knew Xu Tian's identity.

Xu Tian is Tang Bingyan's husband, even if he is just a live-in son-in-law, there is no reason to escape by himself at a critical moment; is he still a man!

Originally, those Tang family close relatives didn't approve of Xu Tian marrying Tang Bingyan, and now that they learned he chose to escape alone when in danger, they wished they could immediately drive this cowardly pretty boy who had no sense of responsibility out of the Tang family.

On the side, the highly respected Second Elder of the Tang family coughed lightly and said slowly:

"In that situation, A Wei's decision was not wrong; after all, he is not a member of the Tang family, so there is no need to be implicated by the Tang family."

His light sentence excluded Xu Tian from the Tang family.

"Mr. Xu, now our Tang family members want to discuss very important secrets, and we don't want outsiders present."

This very obvious order to leave made the people in the room cast their gazes on Xu Tian.

Xu Tian raised his eyes slightly to look at the Second Elder not far away, and moved his gaze away after a while.

The Tang family is a large family; besides the struggles between various close branches inside, it also has complex relationships with other families.

This Second Elder who spoke just now has a very high status in the Tang family.

His niece married an heir of a branch of the Gu family where Gu Beicheng is, so he also has deep dealings with the Gu family.

In his previous life, he had been trying his best to match Gu Beicheng and Tang Bingyan's marriage.

He hoped that Gu Beicheng could marry Tang Bingyan and become the legitimate heir of the Tang family to consolidate his position, but he didn't expect a Xu Tian to kill his way in halfway.

And he didn't expect this pretty boy who had no money, no power, and no status to directly get a marriage certificate with Tang Bingyan.

Among the Tang family close relatives present, some were in the same camp as the Second Elder, and some had the same thoughts as the Second Elder, hoping to drive Xu Tian out of the Tang family, but they didn't dare to take the risk of being the leader.

Now, because of Xu Tian's act of escaping first, Tang Laoyezi was dissatisfied with him, and the minds of those people suddenly became active.

The Second Elder took the lead in making trouble, and with two simple sentences, denied Xu Tian's identity.

Although Tang Laoyezi was not satisfied with the Second Elder acting on his own, he looked at the indifferent Xu Tian and finally said nothing.

Xu Tian actually didn't want to get involved in the Tang family's disputes, but now Tang Bingyan didn't know when she would wake up.

He was a little worried that if A Wei were wronged as a traitor like in his previous life, no one would plead for him.

He remembered that in his previous life, the real traitor, in order not to be discovered by the Tang family, forged evidence to frame A Wei after Tang Bingyan and the others returned from the Lighthouse Country.

Just now he observed the people left in the villa, and among them, there must be accomplices of the traitor.

This time Tang Bingyan was attacked in the Lighthouse Country, even if she wasn't injured because of it, Tang Laoyezi would thoroughly investigate this matter.

In order to cover himself up, the traitor behind the scenes would definitely still choose a scapegoat.

The accompanying A Wei is the best choice!

Thinking of this, Xu Tian's gaze turned cold.

He absolutely would not allow A Wei, who was loyal to Tang Bingyan, to be slandered groundlessly again!

Seeing Xu Tian not leave, the Second Elder increased his tone somewhat impatiently:

"Mr. Xu, I have already made it very clear just now; we are going to discuss important family matters next, and some secrets cannot be heard by outsiders. If you have nothing else to do, please leave first."

Gu Beicheng immediately said upon hearing this: "Uncle Liang, Mr. Xu is Bingyan's husband after all, and in a legal sense, he is not an outsider."

Although Gu Beicheng still had a polite and gentle attitude toward Xu Tian, this "legal sense" was somewhat intriguing.

"Hehe..."

Before the Second Elder could speak again, a cold laugh came from the corridor outside the reception hall.

Immediately after, a young man dressed in a flashy way walked in quickly.

He said sarcastically as he walked, "What legal husband, is this pretty boy worthy?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice; the Second Elder frowned tightly after seeing the person: "A Yuan, what are you doing here?"

"Uncle, I was worried that Tang Laoyezi would be bored alone, so I wanted to come over to play chess with him. Just now outside, I happened to hear your conversation and learned that Xu Tian, this pretty boy, actually let the elite troops under the eldest young lady escort him to escape at a critical moment. I was angry for a moment and didn't let the servants come in to report in advance."

"Mr. Liang, I think you misunderstood."

A Wei was originally telling Tang Laoyezi about Tang Bingyan's encounter with danger, but was interrupted by the Second Elder halfway through. Now hearing Liang Yuan accuse Xu Tian without distinguishing right from wrong, he hurriedly spoke up.