Chapter 120

A hot towel gently caressed his face, its force cautious and gentle. Could it be Yueming? Yunkai struggled to open his eyes from the haze, only to see Feng Xiaosai's mournful face. Disappointed, he began to wonder if the sight of Yueming before he passed out was just an illusion.

Feng Xiaosai was delighted to see Yun Kai awake, and he asked repeatedly, "Master, you're awake. Are you feeling unwell? Are you hungry? Do you want some water?"

Yun Kai felt his dizziness grow even more dizzy. He strained against the vertigo and tried to prop himself up, only to be met with a shout from Feng Xiaosai: "You can't get up! You're injured, and your head is bandaged. You need to lie down and rest. Do you want to go find Miss Yueming? Wait for me to go get her for you."

He kept babbling about going to ask Yueming for help, but he just stood there by the bed, motionless. Yunkai glared at him, "What are you standing there for? Go!"

Feng Xiaosai looked at himself and said, "I know I'm in the way," and walked out with a smile.

His head was spinning with dizziness and his chest was filled with nausea, but he still struggled to get up. He leaned against the bed with cold sweat on his forehead. He wiped his sleeves and found that he was wearing a half-worn silk coat. The cuffs were a little fuzzy. This coat must have belonged to Lan Yingde or Changsheng. He couldn't help but feel sad. It was so old and he still didn't throw it away. Life here must be extremely difficult. Yueming must have suffered a lot. She had been living in luxury since she was a child. How could she live in this life of scarcity, war and fear? Thinking of this, his eyes were slightly sore and his heart was extremely uncomfortable.

There were light footsteps at the door, and the wooden door was pushed open with a creak, and Yueming walked in with a tray.

She had already washed off the dust of her long journey, now dressed in a white cotton dress, her long hair tied up with a handkerchief and hanging softly behind her. She approached and carefully examined Yunkai's condition. Ignoring the reddening in his eyes and the excitement on his face, she asked calmly and gently, "Are you awake? Are you feeling dizzy? Dad said you might have hurt your head."

These words were like a bucket of cold water poured over Yunkai. He was stunned. Such a calm greeting was like a thin, cool breeze that chilled his bones.

This whole past and future, this way of treating her like an old friend, made Yun Kai's forehead twitch and his scalp tingle. If she had cursed him with anger, he would have known how to comfort her. But now, in this polite yet not overly intimate way of getting along, he felt at a loss.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Yueming asked again: "Are you hungry? I asked Ai Ye to make some porridge, would you like to have some?"

Yun Kai waved his hands and said, "I can't eat now." He felt like he would vomit even if he drank water, so how could he have an appetite? He asked softly, "Why did you come here?"

Yueming maintained her calm expression and spoke calmly, "Did I tell you about Aunt Liu, the nanny who raised me? When the Japanese bombed Kunming, she and Uncle Liu had already taken refuge in the air-raid shelter, but she remembered she had forgotten the deed to the villa by the lake at the old house and insisted on returning... The house and the people were gone. Without a home, you can only travel the world, and wherever it is... it doesn't matter."

Yunkai felt that it was not that simple. Even if they wanted to make the world their home, Lan Yingde had already spread his net all over Southeast Asia. There were so many places where the father and daughter could go, so why did they have to come here?

"But why here? This is a war zone! How could someone volunteer to be shot?"

Yueming placed the tray on the small table beside the bed, looked at the white mist on the hot porridge and said slowly: "Just like you want to avenge the master and the eldest master, I also want to avenge my relatives. That's why I chose to come here."

Yunkai wanted to ask more, but Yueming didn't want to talk any more. He pointed at the bowl of porridge and said to him, "Even if you have no appetite, you still have to eat! You've been unconscious for a whole day and night, and it's time to replenish your strength. I'll go call Feng Xiaosai up." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Yun Kai quickly called out to her, "Aren't you going to eat with me?"

Yueming shook his head: "I have already eaten. Now that you are awake, I have to call dad to come and see you."

Watching Yueming turn around and leave without any reluctance, Yunkai's heart sank to the bottom.

Yueming breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the house. She truly didn't know how to face Yunkai, now awake. Having experienced so many separations and deaths, she had long since buried her resentment deep within her heart. Now, she simply hoped that all her friends and family, including Yunkai, could survive in this chaotic world of war. She had asked Feng Xiaosai why they had come to Tengchong, and upon hearing they had come specifically to see her, she felt a mixture of emotions. But it was only for a moment; now, she felt neither touched nor secretly delighted, only astonished.

Feng Xiaosai had spent every spare moment since yesterday scolding the two attendants who had come with him: "I told you to come along to protect the master, but when you saw the master running onto the bridge, not only did you not stop him, you sat there as if a thousand pounds were hanging on your shoulders. What? Are you hallucinating while riding in the master's car? Do you really think you're the boss? Just wait, when we get back to Old Lady Yunxiang, she won't forgive you."

Yueming stood by the wooden railing on the second floor to stop him from talking non-stop: "Xiao Sai, your second young master is waiting for you to serve him dinner!"

He is no longer the second young master but the master!

Feng Xiaosai didn't correct her. Anyway, the master was happy to agree to whatever Miss Yueming asked.

He smiled and patted Yueming's waist: "Thank you for your hard work, Miss. I will be right up."

Yueming nodded at him and turned to walk towards Lan Yingde's room. When she reached the door and was about to knock, she heard someone singing happily from inside.

She heard her stepmother singing, "The general is so rude. He shouldn't tease us—our good family."

After singing this line, Lan Yingde continued: "Good people, bad people, shouldn't be so slanted with this crabapple blossom. Twisting and twisting, twisting and twisting, very elegant, the charm lies in this crabapple blossom."

Her father's words vividly portrayed Zhengde's frivolous and slippery behavior in flirting with decent women. Yueming couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.

It looked like he was busy. She decided not to go in and cause trouble. Yun Kai didn't look like he had any serious problems, and Lan Yingde wouldn't be in any trouble for a while if he didn't go to see him. If she had nothing to do, she might as well go for a walk on the street!

As soon as I came downstairs, I saw Captain Du standing in the middle of her yard, eating sunflower seeds. He was a soldier now, and he looked nothing like the neat uniform he had in Kunming.

His coat was casually draped over his shoulders, his sleeves rolled up one side and down the other. He clutched a brown paper bag of sunflower seeds, his fashionable sunglasses coquettishly perched on his nose as he snapped, smacked, and spat on the shells. But he had a truly impressive figure, with a narrow waist and long legs, and this slovenly attire only added a touch of uninhibited coolness to his look.

Yueming didn't care how he dressed, but when he spat out melon seed shells, Yueming was very dissatisfied. She frowned and said, "Where are you going to spit? Are you going to sweep the floor?"

Captain Du didn't care about her nagging face at all. He said, "Pah," and then said, "You talk as if you sweep the floor every day." He handed the melon seeds to her and said, "I won't eat them, okay?"

Yueming took the melon seeds, twisted one and put it in her mouth: "These fried melon seeds are so fragrant." Seeing Captain Du take out a cigarette, she hooked her finger at him: "Give me one too."

Captain Du said in surprise, "You dare to smoke when your father is still at home? You are so bold!"

Yueming stared at the cigarette box in his hand: "My dad is busy and has no time to take care of me.

"What's he busy doing in broad daylight?"

He was old enough to be a grandfather, but in broad daylight he dragged his wife to the room to sing "Dragon and Phoenix". Yueming curled her lips and said, "He and my wife are busy singing "Gao Laozhuang Seeking a Marriage"

Lieutenant Du burst out laughing: "You are so bold, you even dare to laugh at your own father."