boyutpedia Chapter 110: A bag of candy many years ago
Chapter 110: A bag of candy many years ago
Chapter 110 A Bag of Candy Many Years Ago
The first-rank general’s mansion, the cool courtyard.
Ye Wenyan sat beside Mu's couch and cast a sleeping spell on her, so that the maid Dannuo didn't notice her arrival at all.
When Mu slept, she was holding a rag doll. The doll was hand-sewn and did not look pretty and looked a bit old.
The doll's body is a simple square filled with cotton. It has no hands or feet. It only has a round head with two small braids hanging down made of cloth rope.
The facial features were painted on with rouge, but over the years it has faded so much that the eyebrows and eyes can no longer be seen.
She looked through the original owner's memories and quickly remembered this rag doll. This was sewn by Mu Shi herself for the original owner to play with when she was four or five years old, and the original owner liked it very much. Because there were not many rag dolls in that era, Mu Shi's idea was just a sudden impulse, and the craftsmanship was not delicate, just to make her daughter happy.
The original owner had held this doll for many years, and it must have the scent of her daughter, so now Mu held it in her arms and was reluctant to let it go even when she fell asleep.
She felt a little sad, reached out and touched it twice, then pulled up the quilt that had been sliding down, and then disappeared from the room.
She did not have much sense of belonging to the First-Rank General's Mansion, but due to the original owner's body, whenever she came into contact with people close to her, her body would automatically secrete a certain emotion to stimulate her to treat these people as her own relatives.
Ye Wenyan was not too opposed to this. After all, she also had nostalgia for Xuanmai in her previous life. To express her feelings to her husband was a result of karma and reincarnation, and it was also a kind of compensation from God.
The thin girl shuttled around the First-rank General's Mansion silently. She came back to the mansion this time to go to Qihua Pavilion.
It is still unknown who was responsible for the incident on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. Although Shi Liyuan burned down Prince Su's mansion in anger, he also insisted that the incident was related to Ye Feizhou.
The second house's family was always locked up. Ji Duo and Ji Rong were very competent and stayed in the yard day and night. Even meals were brought to them by Nanny Ji herself, and the two of them were allowed to eat while standing in the yard in the cold wind.
When Ye Wenyan arrived, Ji Rong was sleeping on the small stone table, leaving Ji Duo alone staring at the study door, while also listening in all directions, paying attention to the movements around him.
The stone table was exceptionally cold in the winter. She gently pinched the petals as she walked past, giving Ji Rong a warm and sweet dream.
All this was done without any sound. Even a master like Ji Duo could not discover the hiding of a spiritual practitioner. It was just the sudden scent of flowers, with a hint of agarwood, that made Ji Duo alert.
He stood up and turned around, trying to find the source of the two smells, but before he could find them, the fragrance disappeared. The Ji family was very sensitive to the smell of agarwood, because it was the incense that the emperor often used. Because it was often used by the emperor, all countries in the world were told that no one was allowed to use agarwood, from the royal family to the common people.
For hundreds of years, the Ji family in Quanzhou has trained their people to become familiar with this scent so that they can identify those who have been loyal to them for generations.
When the incense arrives, there is only one possibility: the Emperor has arrived.
Ji Duo knelt down, kowtowed three times silently in the direction of the fragrance, then stood up and stood aside properly. But Ji Rong was still asleep, and he didn't know why his sister slept so deeply tonight.
Ye Wenyan smiled, and looking at the two siblings, she thought of her brother. Her lost sister disappeared again, how anxious would her brother be? She didn't know what Nanny Ji had said to her family, how were they doing these days?
In a trance, she found that she could naturally think of her relatives in this life. Just like this time when she came back, the first thing she did was to go to Qingliangyuan to see the Mu family. Before leaving, she even used magic to restore the blurred facial features of the dolls.
Perhaps this is what it means to fit in! She smiled self-deprecatingly, and then looked at the Ji brothers and sisters. She felt that no matter what their status was, whether they were masters or servants, as long as the family could be together, it would be the best.
Of course, the family has to be united. If they are like Ye Lianmian, no matter how good God’s arrangement is, it will be a disaster.
In the study room of Qihua Pavilion, Xiao had already fallen asleep on the couch in the inner room. Not eating or drinking for a few days and being injured made the always pampered Second Madam of the Ye family look very haggard, and even her hair was much drier.
Ye Jingsheng and Ye Feizhou were still awake. The bandaged wounds on their shoulders had stopped bleeding, but the blood that had previously shed had soaked through the white cotton cloth, and no one had changed it, so the smell of blood filled the room.
The two of them could only hold on like this. In this situation, it was good enough to be alive and breathe. Who could expect the Mu family to suddenly change their temper and let them go? Ye Wenyan passed through the wall and picked up a chair next to the two of them and sat down. She was only one step away from Ye Feizhou who was leaning on the soft couch. The corner of her skirt even touched the soles of Ye Jingsheng's feet who was sitting on the ground.
This was her first time seeing this second brother. Although the original owner also had the second brother's appearance in her memory, there was still a certain difference between the appearance in the memory and the reality. For example, this second brother looked miserable and beautiful despite being seriously injured. If she said that the person lying here was a lonely beauty, some people would believe it.
Ye Feizhou is very young, and has been practicing martial arts since he was young, learning from a martial arts master. Logically, his physique should be much better than his father's.
But it didn't seem to be the case at the moment. Ye Jingsheng was in a much better condition than Ye Feizhou, at least he could let his son lie on the couch, and he sat on the ground with his eyes open, wondering what was going on.
Ye Wenyan sat for a while, and soon heard Ye Jingsheng talking. He said to Ye Feizhou: "If I had known that this situation would happen, I would never let you get involved. When I heard your mother say that Hongzhuang sent you a letter, and you and the Third Prince borrowed secret guards to ambush and kill the fourth girl outside the city, I felt that this matter was not very reliable. Ye Wenyan has been acting shady since she came back from Prince Su's Mansion. We have never gotten any benefits from her several times, and she even injured my hand. How can you succeed by coming forward?"
Ye Jingsheng coughed a few times, and his strength was also exhausted. "But in the final analysis, we wanted the fourth girl to die too much. Your sister was ruined by her. It would be a lie for me to say that I am not heartbroken. And if it weren't for her, the new emperor would be the Sixth Prince, and Hong Zhuang would be the legitimate queen, and the great cause we have planned for many years would be accomplished. Unfortunately, we were just one step away, and the whole thing was lost. How could I be willing to accept this? So I acquiesced and even arranged a burning of incense. But I didn't expect this result, I really regret it."
Ye Feizhou opened his eyes drowsily, his two thin eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and his eyes were staring straight at the beams of the house.
After a long time, I heard him say, "You all have your own thoughts, things you want to do, and great things you want to accomplish. You train your daughter, hoping that she can become the queen, and you don't hesitate to use all means to snatch Xiao Si's engagement. But after all these years, have you ever thought about me? When I was four years old, you said that for a family like ours, sons are useless unless they can go to the battlefield to fight and continue to win glory for the family. But if there are no major wars to fight in the country, compared to your daughter, I, the second son of the family, will be of no use at all. You said this to your grandmother, I overheard it, and I have always remembered it."
Ye Jingsheng was a little annoyed, "Fei Zhou, that's not what your father meant."
"Then what do you mean?" Ye Feizhou laughed, "For so many years, you have been obsessed with Hongzhuang, saying that you only have me as your son, but what have you done for me? Outsiders think that you sent me to the martial arts world to learn martial arts, but they don't know that my master actually accepted me as his disciple for the sake of the Third Prince."
His brows were furrowed even tighter, perhaps because he had talked too much and pulled the wound, causing him to break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.
"I was practicing martial arts away from home and didn't receive any letters from home for three consecutive years. In the fourth year, it was Xiao Si who asked the escort to bring me a bag of candy from Lin'an City. How could a boy like candy? That candy was Xiao Si's favorite. I guess maybe she was young and thought that others would like what she liked! No one knew that I kept that bag of candy for three years. Even when it was spoiled, I was reluctant to throw it away because it was the only thing my family cared about me. Ironically, the people who cared about me were not my parents, nor my biological sister, nor even my half-sister, but the fourth sister from my eldest uncle's family who you hated since childhood."
Listening to his words, Ye Wenyan remembered that the original owner had indeed done such a thing.
Ye Feizhou was sent to practice martial arts when he was very young. At that time, the original owner was even younger, so he had almost no idea that his second brother had left home. Three years later, when he grew up, he remembered that he had a second brother. So he asked his grandfather where his second brother practiced martial arts, and then took the maid to the street to buy a bag of candy from the eldest brother, and then begged the escort to bring the candy to his second brother in the name of his grandfather.
In fact, the original owner was just interested in doing this, but later he forgot about it. As for the second brother, who didn't have any impression of him when he was a child, how much can he remember?
Unexpectedly, after many years, Ye Feizhou still remembered this incident and talked about it with his father.
Ye Jingsheng snorted coldly and said dissatisfiedly: "You are good at remembering things, and you can remember her things. Ye Wenyan is not that kind. How old was she when you went to practice martial arts? What can she know? As for bringing candy, humph, if she really meant it, she should bring you silver notes."
Ye Wenyan almost laughed. Silver note? How old was the original owner at that time? Where did the silver note come from?
Ye Feizhou stopped talking and remained silent for a long time. Ye Wenyan almost thought that he would not speak again and was about to leave, but heard Ye Feizhou say again: "I helped Hongzhuang kill her not because I don't like her. On the contrary, I care about that sister very much. But compared to you, I hope that I can be a useful person to the family in the eyes of my parents. So I want to accomplish this matter, and I want you to value me because of it. But I didn't expect the result to be like this..."