【Chapter 003】Entering the Storybook
【Chapter 003】Entering the Storybook
Just as Nangong Chenyu was racking his brains to think of where he had heard the name "Ye Mengying", he saw a sneaky person standing at the gate of the courtyard out of the corner of his eye.
When he turned around to look, the man quickly retracted his head. There were two servants guarding the gate of the courtyard. Anyone who was not driven away by the servants could only be the master of the house.
Nangong Chenyu winked at Xiaoliu.
Xiaoliu understood and trotted to the gate of the courtyard.
After a while, Xiaoliu ran back again.
Without waiting for Nangong Chenyu to ask, Xiaoliu took the initiative to report: "The person at the gate just now was the Second Young Master. When I walked to the gate, the Second Young Master had already left."
Nangong Chenyu had a question mark on his forehead: "Who is the second young master you are talking about?"
"The second son of the master."
"Patriarch?" Nangong Chenyu murmured, "Isn't that my father-in-law?"
He then asked, "How many children does my father-in-law have?"
Xiaoliu replied: "The master has two sons and one daughter."
"What are their names and ages?"
"The eldest young master is Ye Yisheng, sixteen years old; the second young master is Ye Yuncheng, thirteen years old; the young lady is Ye Yixin, also thirteen years old."
"What is my father-in-law's name?"
Xiao Liu looked outside and then whispered, "The head of the family is Ye Xian."
Nangong Chenyu continued to ask: "What about my mother-in-law?"
This time, Xiao Liu lowered his voice even more: "I have never seen Madam since I entered the mansion, so don't ask about Madam in the future. In the Ye Mansion, Madam is a taboo."
Nangong Chenyu nodded, indicating that he understood. Then he said, "Xiao Liuzi, tell me about the relationship between the masters in this mansion."
"The real masters of the mansion are only the head of the family, the eldest young master, the second young master, and the young lady." After saying that, Xiao Liu saw Nangong Chenyu and quickly added, "And you, my son-in-law."
Nangong Chenyu frowned: "What about Old Madam Ye and Second Master Ye?"
When Old Madam Ye brought Mr. Ye and his family to the Ye Mansion, Xiaoliu was already there. So he knew quite a lot. Thinking of Nangong Chenyu's identity, he immediately told Nangong Chenyu the detailed process.
After listening, Nangong Chenyu concluded: "So my father-in-law is not Madam Ye's biological son?"
Xiaoliu looked at Nangong Chenyu with a strange look. He had the same idea when Old Madam Ye had just moved into the Ye Mansion. However, after asking Butler Du about this idea, Butler Du rejected it.
"I heard from Butler Du that the Patriarch is Madam Ye's biological son. But for some reason Madam Ye just doesn't like the Patriarch."
Nangong Chenyu was born in the imperial palace and had witnessed a lot of dirty things in the harem. He asked, "When Madam Ye gave birth to my father-in-law, was it Steward Du who delivered him?"
Xiaoliu opened his eyes wide: "How is it possible!"
"Since it wasn't Butler Du who delivered the baby, how can Butler Du be sure that my father-in-law is Madam Ye's biological son?"
At this time, Nangong Chenyu's mind was full of ideas. He felt that Ye Xian might be the son of Old Madam Ye's enemy. Otherwise how to explain why Old Madam Ye treated Ye Xian like that.
"Uh..." Xiaoliu was stunned by the question.
At this moment, Xiaoliu's belief, which he had believed in for six or seven years after being persuaded by Butler Du, was collapsing. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the head of the family was most likely not Madam Ye’s son.
"Xiao Liuzi, do you know what my eldest brother's name is?" Nangong Chenyu asked again.
In the original owner's memory, he always called him Big Brother. Before my adoptive father disappeared, he was called Boss. Outsiders call him Young Master Nangong, or Mr. Nangong the Good Man.
Xiaoliu's eyes twitched slightly. It seemed that her son-in-law was not stupid! Speak clearly and ask questions with clear ideas. But how could such a son-in-law ask him this question?
Seeing that Xiaoliu didn't answer, Nangong Chenyu asked, "You don't even know my eldest brother's name?"
Xiao Liu came back to his senses: "My uncle's eldest brother is called Nangong Suhao."
Nangong Chenyu's heart was in turmoil.
The names all match! ! !
After taking a deep breath, he asked Xiaoliu, "Does the cousin of Madam Ye's mother's family also live in the Ye Mansion?"
Xiao Liuzi nodded: "Yes."
"What's the name of this cousin?"
"Chen Qiang."
"Are you sure your name is Chen Qiang?"
"The servant is quite sure."
Nangong Chenyu was puzzled.
Why doesn't this name match?
Could it be that the other party changed his name later?
Thinking this in his heart, he asked again: "Xiao Liuzi, what did you do in the mansion before?"
"I am the servant of the young master."
Nangong Chenyu raised his eyebrows: "So Ye Yisheng asked you to serve me?"
"No." Xiao Liuzi hesitated for a moment, then continued, "The eldest young master vomited blood when he returned home yesterday, and he is still unconscious. It was Steward Du who asked me to serve you."
Nangong Chenyu: “…” Vomiting blood, could it be because of him?
"Why would Butler Du let you serve me?"
Xiao Liu lowered his head, rolled his eyes and said, "Butler Du is afraid that others will neglect you. I have always been with the young master, and everyone in the mansion knows me."
Nangong Chenyu didn't believe it: "Does Butler Du still ask you to report my every move to him every day?"
Xiaoliu: "...Butler Du is afraid that you will be bullied."
Nangong Chenyu smiled helplessly. After what happened this morning, it can be seen that Butler Du has a very high status in the Ye Mansion. He is highly regarded by the master of the house and is very loyal.
"What kind of person is Ye Yisheng?"
Xiao Liu sighed and said, "The eldest master is a miserable man."
Nangong Chenyu: "...what else?"
"No more." Xiaoliu kept his mouth shut.
Hearing this, Nangong Chenyu waved to Xiaoliu: "Xiaoliu, come here."
Xiaoliu hesitated for a moment before walking and standing one meter away from Nangong Chenyu.
"Why are you standing so far away? I won't eat you." Nangong Chenyu motioned for him to come closer.
Xiaoliu gritted his teeth and took two steps forward.
Nangong Chenyu quickly stretched out his index finger and pointed it at Xiaoliu's forehead, directly erasing the conversation between him and him.
In an instant, Nangong Chenyu's face turned pale. His current spiritual awareness is not even at the foundation-building stage. Erasing the memory required a lot of soul power, and his head began to ache.
It seems that I should try to use my spiritual sense as little as possible in the future.
After a trance, Xiaoliu woke up. His memory stopped at the time when Nangong Chenyu called him Xiao Liuzi. Seeing Nangong Chenyu's back as he walked into the inner room, he hurriedly followed.
"Sir, are you going to sleep?"
"Sleepy."
What could Xiaoliu say but to help Nangong Chenyu undress and take off his shoes.
Lying on the bed, Nangong Chenyu stared at the ceiling with lifeless eyes, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.
He originally thought he had just traveled through time, but after finding out the names of everyone in the Ye Mansion. He then discovered that he had not only traveled through time, but also traveled into a storybook with a male protagonist called "The Supreme Path to Immortality".
The male protagonist is called Huo Zichen, and he had a fiancée in the early days named Ye Mengying. Ye Mengying in the storybook is a vicious female supporting character who appears in just a dozen chapters before being eliminated.
Because of something going on at home, the male protagonist's wife, Ye Er, asked Ye Erye to take him to live in the Ye Mansion. After Ye Mengying found out that the male protagonist did not have a good family background, she looked down on him in various ways.
In the storybook "The Supreme Path to Immortality", Nangong Chenyu is a passerby cannon fodder without even a name, the kind who dies before the story even begins.
It was precisely because his name was not in the storybook that he did not know that he had entered the storybook last night.
However, all his family members were on the list.
In the storybook.
The eldest brother Nangong Suhao is a saintly father; the father-in-law Ye Xian is a comatose vegetative person; Ye Yishen, who is married to him, is a sickly person; the brother-in-law Ye Yuncheng is the heroine's bootlicker; the sister-in-law Ye Yixin is a love-brained person.
The whole family are cannon fodder who died early!
Ye Erye's family is the best relatives who are eyeing the eldest brother's property.
There is not much description of Ye Xian's family in the storybook because they are not the protagonists. And not long after the show started, the whole family died. Their family exists just to fulfill the male protagonist.
Ye Xian had a talent for business and accumulated a fortune after doing business for more than ten years. But in the end, all his huge fortune fell into the hands of the male protagonist.
The protagonist's journey to becoming an immortal began after all the members of the Ye family's eldest branch died.
As a diligent and hardworking sword practitioner, Nangong Chenyu is either practicing or on his way to practice every day. Things like storybooks would never have anything to do with him.
But he couldn't resist having a master who had very unique ideas.
When he first started practicing, his heart was filled with hatred and a sense of hostility. His master found many picture books for him to read.
He didn't read it, but his master read it to him while he was practicing basic sword techniques every day. Sometimes, a story is repeated several times.
His master had read to him all kinds of stories about time travel, reincarnation, and rebirth.
According to his master, it is impossible to achieve success overnight through cultivation, and one must combine work and rest. Relax appropriately and avoid going into overdrive.
Influenced by his master, whenever he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, he would look for storybooks to read.
"The Supreme Path to Immortality" is a serialized storybook. As soon as he saw the hero start practicing, he felt that the opportunity for his ascension had arrived.
Then he survived the thunder tribulation of ascension.
Then he came here.
In the current timeline, the plot in the storybook has not yet begun.
Just when Nangong Chenyu wanted to carefully recall the plot of "The Supreme Path to Immortality", he fainted due to severe headache.
At the same time.
Nangong Mansion.
In a simple room.
Nangong Suhao, who was lying on the bed, rubbed his temples with his hands before slowly opening his eyes. He was confused for a moment, then suddenly sat up.
"Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu..."
He called out anxiously a few times, then quickly put on his clothes and walked out the door.
Aunt Lu, the cook from the Zhu Mansion next door, just came back from shopping. When she saw Nangong Suhao, she casually greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Nangong!"
Since Nangong Suhao is generous to everyone, everyone treats him very well.
"Auntie Lu, have you seen my Xiaoyu?"
Aunt Lu looked at Nangong Suhao strangely, then said with a smile: "I saw Xiaoyu being picked up by the people from the Ye Mansion yesterday. I heard from Xiaoyu that he wanted to become a son-in-law of the Ye family."
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