護花近衛 - 第1631章 無奈的結果 - 清風書屋

Though airing such a thing would look like washing the family's dirty linen in public, abandoning Bing Tang back then had already been a disgrace of the highest order, so a trifle like this hardly counted for anything anymore! And Bing Tang had never once asked Xiao Ming about it. Since that was so, all the better—Bing Tang's attitude toward the Hidden Tang family became that much easier to handle. She would treat them purely as clansmen. With no bonds of kinship to bind her, her heart was the lighter for it.

Just as it had once been with the mundane Yu family and the Hidden Yu family, so it now was with Bing Tang and the Hidden Tang family.

Since they could not ask Bing Tang, they had no choice but to ask their own people.

In the Hidden Tang family's conference room, Old Master Tang sat in the seat of honor with a thunderous face, scanning every member of the Hidden Tang family. He slammed his palm against the table and said, "Speak! Who did it back then? Say it now and I will not pursue it—nor can I pursue it. With Bing Tang's standing as Palace Master of the Ice Palace, this can only be treated as a family disgrace, not to be spread abroad. But if I uncover it myself, do not blame me for showing no mercy!"

Years of unquestioned authority had made Old Master Tang's word law within the Tang family, and so once he had spoken, every Tang was cautious to the point of not daring to breathe.

"Silence? Not one of you will speak?" Old Master Tang waited a long while, and seeing that no one spoke, he slapped the table and sneered, "Fine. Since no one will speak, then every last one of you will go and take a DNA test for me. I would very much like to see who did it!"

Of course, after Old Master Tang finished, still no one opened his mouth. They all quietly lowered their heads, each nursing his own thoughts.

"Good. In that case, Tang Yu, call the doctor in and give every one of them a DNA test!" Old Master Tang said in a fury.

"Yes... Grandfather..." Tang Yu smiled bitterly. He had never imagined a scene like this. To think that his own third aunt should have borne Bing Tang by another man! But such a thing could not be spoken of carelessly, and he could only do as his grandfather bade him: fetch the doctor and have a paternity test performed on every member of the Tang family in that conference room.

Once the doctor arrived, Old Master Tang studied each Tang descendant present—yet he found that every one of them was calm and composed, as though it had nothing to do with them at all, without the slightest trace of a guilty conscience.

This left Old Master Tang rather bewildered. What was going on? Could it be that none of them was Bing Tang's father?

The results came out very quickly, and Old Master Tang's guess had indeed struck the mark: Bing Tang was related by blood to all of them, yet where father and child were concerned, there was nothing of the sort! Not one of these people was Bing Tang's father.

There was truly nothing Old Master Tang could do. He could only pass the news on to Xiao Ming. Though he did not say it outright, he hoped she would reveal the truth of what had happened all those years ago.

But Xiao Ming felt deeply wronged. Back then she had been with Tang Lingtou and no one else, and afterward she had Tangtang. She had never so much as touched another man, much less carried on some improper affair with one.

Though the Tang family said nothing, the way those people looked at Xiao Ming had begun to turn strange. When Xiao Ming came into the conference room, she felt as if her face were burning! She truly did not want to come, and yet come she must.

This concerned her own innocence, and Xiao Ming had to make it clear.

But how was she to explain it? How was Xiao Ming to prove it? Just as she stood there at a loss, someone wholly unexpected walked into the conference room.