On this day, the spring breeze blew, bringing a hint of warmth and gently caressing people's cheeks.
Yan Cheng escorted the convoy that was carrying his parents, siblings, and brothers to the capital, moving slowly forward until they reached the outskirts of Yulin Prefecture.
After living in fear in Yulin Prefecture for nearly ten years, this year Yan Cheng's father, Yan Guangyi, finally returned to Beijing as an official, and even a high-ranking official as the third-rank Minister of Works.
Speaking of which, Yan Guangyi's efforts to be transferred to an official post actually had something to do with Yan Cheng.
Yan Cheng's parents never told him why his father did not stay in the prestigious Hanlin Academy but was instead sent to Yulin Prefecture. However, he was not a real child and he knew everything about the past.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Yan Cheng's identity in this life.
He is the adopted son of Yan Guangyi and Chu Yuan. He has an older brother Yan Zhuo, an older sister Yan Xi, and a younger brother Yan Luo.
"Adopted son" is the key word. In fact, Yan Cheng is the child that Yan Zhuo brought home from the mass grave outside Beijing.
At that time, Chu Yuan had just given birth to Yan Xi and was still in confinement. When she saw the cute and well-behaved but abandoned baby, her motherly love was so strong that she decided to adopt him.
Yan Cheng has always been grateful to his parents and brothers.
If Yan Zhuo, a considerate person, had not picked him up from the mass grave and brought him home, he might have died at the beginning and traveled through loneliness.
If he had not been adopted by the kind Yan couple, he might have had to learn the difficulties of survival at a young age.
Therefore, Yan Cheng cherishes this family relationship very much, and anyone who tries to destroy their relationship is a complete villain.
People are evil and there are many bad guys.
Yan Cheng has met all kinds of people with ulterior motives.
Because of his status as an adopted son, they always tried to alienate his relationship with his family by starting with him, so as to make him, who was deeply trusted by his family, take action against the Yan family.
Most of these people were Yan Guangyi's political enemies in Yulin Prefecture, and they all hoped that Yan Guangyi would ascend to heaven as soon as possible.
When Yan Guangyi first came to Yulin Prefecture, he was only a Tongzhi. In just three years, he became the prefect and stayed in the position for another six years. This shows how much he did and how great his contributions were.
During his tenure, the tax revenue of Yulin Prefecture increased dramatically every year. The Ministry of Revenue was overjoyed that it no longer had to subsidize Yulin Prefecture. During the official evaluation, it gave Yan Guangyi a very high evaluation.
In contrast, under Yan Guangyi's management, the aristocratic families in Yulin Prefecture made less and less profit, so the aristocratic families hoped more than anyone else that Yan Guangyi would run away earlier or die earlier.
If one day Yan Cheng could be instigated by them to poison the Yan family, Yan Guangyi would die with his eyes open, and they would laugh to death in broad daylight.
Then again, why do people say that Yan Guangyi's being sent out as an official has something to do with Yan Cheng?
The real reason was that Yan Guangyi wanted to protect him.
The convoy stopped outside the city, and the loving relatives said their final goodbyes to each other.
While talking to them, Yan Cheng couldn't help but think of Old Madam Yan who was far away in the capital.
This old lady, who was shrewd in her youth and still shrewd in her old age, really disliked Yan Cheng, her adopted grandson who came from a mass grave.
When Yan Guangyi said he wanted to adopt Yan Cheng as his adopted son, she was extremely opposed to it, but in the end she could not persuade her eldest son who had already grown up.
But she just couldn't stand Yan Cheng, so she wanted to kill him and ordered someone to secretly poison him.
Fortunately, Yan Cheng, as a time traveler, has a golden finger given by the time travel god, which makes him immune to all poisons.
Under the effect of this golden finger, poison looks like sweet candy in Yan Cheng's eyes. The more poisonous the poison, the sweeter it tastes.
After months of being exposed to only one kind of taste, the little baby even wanted another helping of the extremely sweet "sugar water".
Perhaps the baby’s wish moved God to tears, and a few days later the little sister who brought him “sugar water” came again and poured the “sugar water” into his mouth without saying a word.
This time the "sugar water" was even sweeter than last time. The baby choked a little, but that was all. However, it successfully scared the pretty young lady to faint.
He was poisoned but not dead. Old Lady Yan, who didn't know that he had a golden finger, felt more and more that he was not a good person.
Instead of waiting for the third "sweet soup", the baby was killed by covering his face.
Probably because the time traveler had a built-in protection mechanism for minors, the face-covering killing lasted only two seconds, and the pretty young lady was caught red-handed.
Knowing his mother's intention, Yan Guangyi was very angry and had a big quarrel with her. He did not understand her thoughts at all. It was not like their Yan family could not afford to raise a child.
Yan Guangyi, who was still hesitating whether to be sent out to do practical work or stay in the Hanlin Academy to gain experience, decided to be sent out with his wife and children.
If Yan Cheng had not been nearly killed, Yan Guangyi would have preferred to stay in the Hanlin Academy, after all, the Hanlin Academy was a place of nobility.
But with this incident in mind, Yan Guangyi was afraid that if Yan Cheng continued to stay in the capital, he would be killed by his mother where he could not see.
So Yan Guangyi's extroversion has something to do with Yan Cheng.
Why did Old Madam Yan wish so much that the baby would die soon?
Yan Cheng thought about it and thought that the other party might think that he was unlucky because he came out of a mass grave.
As far as he knew, Old Madam Yan was an extremely devout Buddhist. There was a small, magnificently decorated Buddhist temple in the Yan Mansion in the capital, where the old lady would go to chant sutras every day.
Buddhism talks about cause and effect. He came out of a mass grave filled with corpses and bones, so the old lady couldn't help but feel that he was tainted with an unlucky aura.
Maybe they even think that he is possessed by some wronged spirit.
Over the years, due to the distance between them, Old Lady Yan could no longer do anything to Yan Cheng. She even gritted her teeth and accepted the fact that the Yan family had an adopted son to share the family property, despite Yan Guangyi's repeated persuasion.
According to the laws of Daxia, adopted sons who are registered in the household register can inherit some of the family property. This may be one of the reasons why Old Lady Yan dislikes Yan Cheng.
Although Yan Cheng's identity was acknowledged, Madam Yan's prejudice and malice still existed.
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