Chapter 1212: TangNing Deep and subtle thinking (2/2)

Tang Zijin looked at her in disbelief. “Who told you all this?” he finally asked after a while.

“Ning Jing!” Lady Tang said unhappily.

Tang Zijin’s eyes flickered with a complex look. He knew Ning Jing was a genius at business and witnessed her talent at management, but when did she get so familiar with the complicated relationships of the chessboard of politics? Did she figure it out all on her own, or was someone guiding her along?

Tang Zijin could hardly overlook such important implications.

Since they’d gotten this far, Tang Zijin stopped hiding anything and explained, “Wife, if the Tang Clan ever gets into trouble, we need a daughter-in-law like Ning Jing! But the Tang Clan’s future heir cannot be her son!”

Lady Tang froze. She stared at her own husband, never expecting his subtlely to run so deep.

So he understood everything from the start!

He’s no different from Baili Yuanlong after all. He’s just using East Qin as an excuse to suppress Ning Jing. He wants Ning Jing around, but is afraid of her overwhelming strength in the future! Lady Tang now thoroughly understood why Tang Zijin was so insistent on choosing a candidate to birth Tang Li’s son.

“You certainly schemed well!” Lady Tang smiled coldly. “Tang Zijin, you don’t understand your son a bit! And you know Ning Jing even less! I’ll tell you now, don’t mention Tang Li having children with someone else. If he so much as touches another woman, Ning Jing will definitely leave! You can’t make her stay! And once she leaves, the empress might not even let the Tang Clan oversee weapons manufacture anymore.”

“She won’t go. She didn’t leave months ago, so she definitely wouldn’t leave now. I forced A’Li to do this, so she’ll only blame me, not him!” Tang Zijin explained instantly. “Moreover, A’Li lost his wits all because of her. If she left, then she can just wait for the world’s people to curse her out!”

He had wracked his brains over this matter and personally made a trip back to trick Ning Jing away for his plot. Unless he was absolutely certain of success, he never would have risked it.

“Tang Zijin, it seems I’ve gained a whole new understanding of you today,” Lady Tang shook her head in disappointment.

Tang Zijin suddenly realized he’d revealed too much and didn’t know how to explain himself. “Wife, I’m doing all this for the sake of the Tang Clan--for A’Li! Do you want the day to come when A’Li becomes Ning Jing’s puppet? Or for our grandson to be the puppet of the Ning Clan?” Tang Zijin asked heavily.

“Ning Jing wouldn’t do that!” Lady Tang raised her voice.

“Why should you trust her?” Tang Zijin retorted. His wife once had no end of complaints for Ning Jing. How did a few months made her believe in the woman so much?

“Because Ning Jing loves A’Li, just like how I loved you in the past!” Lady Tang cried while tears streamed down her cheeks. “Tang Zijin, wasn’t it hard enough when we were being pressured in the past? Why are you repeating the same mistakes with your son?”

She shoved him aside and ordered the guards to open the door. When the guards saw the old clan head remain silent, they had no choice but to obey. But as soon as the door was unlocked, they saw Tang Li standing gloomily in the doorway, his rage surging like waves in his glare. Both Tang Zijin and Lady Tang were startled by the sight.

“Where’s Ning Jing?” Tang Li asked coldly.

“A’Li, you…” Lady Tang was both shocked and thilled. She gripped Tang Li’s hand and grew too moved to speak. In the past, all he did was call Ning Jing “Jing Jing,” but he had never said her full name so clearly.

Tang Li’s furious gaze rested on Tang Zijin before he demanded, “Mother, where’s Ning Jing? Tell me, where is she? Is she still alive?”

Lady Tang was every more delighted. Tang LI had called her mother at last! He must have recovered his wits, definitely!

“Ning Jing…” Lady Tang couldn’t bother with too many details as she cried, “Quickly! Ning Jing just left the mountain! She couldn’t have gone far, so hurry! Let’s get her back!”

Tang Li’s glare finally shifted from Tang Zijin’s face as he ran out of the house, his top still bare. Lady Tang chased after her as she called, “She was heading for Cloud Realm Trade Consortium! A’Li, bring her back! Mother will vouch for you! Mother will help you explain everything!”