Chapter 44: Marriage
In front of the embroidery building, Jian An Ning, Lu Fei and Ye Huange were in a barrier and no one could hear their conversation.
"But you have to help us too." Lu Fei said clearly.
"That's easy to say." Seeing that the biggest difficulty had been resolved, Ye Huange became much more talkative. "As long as it doesn't harm the interests of the Ye family, I will go through fire and water."
"It doesn't have to be that serious," Lu Fei said after taking a break. "We are looking for a member of the Ye family, his name is Ye Qingzhou."
Ye Huange paused and pondered for a moment, then asked sincerely, "Who is this?"
Lu Fei:?
Seeing Lu Fei's confused expression, Ye Huange quickly explained, "To be honest, the Ye family is huge and prosperous, with numerous branches and leaves, and countless clansmen. I only recognize a few of the direct descendants. The one you are looking for is probably from a branch of the Ye family."
"That's right," Jian Anning confirmed Ye Huange's statement and explained, "He is a disciple of Qingyun Sect."
"That's right," Ye Huange clapped his hands and said, "The Ye family will not allow the direct bloodline to leave Cangwu. Those who leave Cangwu to join other forces can only be those side branches with little presence."
Ye Huange's words did not express outright contempt for the so-called side branches of the aristocratic families, but anyone could hear the contempt in her words.
However, Lu Fei was really curious. Taking the Fan family and the Jiang family as examples, his senior brothers and sisters were all genuine people who were qualified to inherit the family heritage, but weren't they also driven out of the family?
Why is the Ye family more united than other families?
"Please come with me, I need to show 'Daoist Companion' to my brother first." Ye Huange turned around and started talking about his own business.
Jian An Ning and Lu Fei had no objection, so they left the embroidery building and headed towards the Ye Mansion.
After passing through the vermilion carved gate, several moon doors and winding corridors, they finally arrived at the place where the big brother Ye Huange mentioned was.
I saw a young man sitting behind a desk, with ink and inkstone placed on a corner of the desk. He held a pen in one hand, and seemed to be preparing to write something.
However, when he saw Ye Huange coming, he put down the brush and turned to her and said gently: "Why do you come to me at this time?"
Ye Huange pulled Lu Fei over and said, "Brother, I found my 'Daoist companion'."
The young man's gentle features twisted instantly, and he asked, "Are you really going to the Embroidery House to find a wife?"
Ye Huange didn't notice anything and simply said truthfully, "That's right, the embroidered ball fell into his hands, so I will choose him as my 'Daoist Companion'."
The young man said to Lu Fei with a forced smile, "I am the current head of the Ye family, Ye Chenghuai."
He then continued to say to Ye Huange, "If you just drag anyone over from the street, they won't be able to get past the elders."
"It's not just a random move," Ye Huange racked his brains, "First, the fact that he accepted the bouquet shows that we're destined to be together. Secondly, Lu Fei is a disciple of the Qingyun Sect, so he's a perfect match for me."
"I am his master." Jian An Ning raised her hand silently and said.
Ye Chenghuai was startled. He hadn't noticed there was someone else here. He mentally wiped away a sweat and said to Ye Huange, "It's easy for me to agree, but the elders won't agree so easily. They'd rather you marry into the Lu family to strengthen the ties between the families."
Ye Huange got angry when he heard this and said, "Marriage, marriage, all they think about in one day is marriage. If they like marriage so much, why don't those old guys go themselves?"
Ye Chenghuai spread his hands and said helplessly, "I have just inherited the position of the head of the family. My foundation is still shallow and I can't move them."
Ye Huange's eyes rolled and he suddenly said, "Wait a moment."
She suddenly turned her head to look at Lu Fei and said, "Your last name is Lu. If I remember correctly, the most powerful family in Dongchang is also surnamed Lu. You can just pretend to be from the Lu family of Dongchang."
Lu Fei: ...
There's no need to pretend, it's just how it is, thank you.
However, Ye Huange did not give Lu Fei a chance to speak. Her actions were like a whirlwind. She did what she said and left when she said she would.
She took Lu Fei away directly, leaving Ye Chenghuai and Jian An Ning looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Has your sister always been like this?" Jian An Ning couldn't help but ask.
"My sister is a little unstable, but you don't have to worry. The elders will not make things difficult for your disciple. They just want to maximize their benefits. At most, they will just break them up." Ye Chenghuai said slowly.
"I know what you're thinking. You're just thinking that Dongchang's access to the outside world has been cut off for many years, and there's no news. It's impossible for anyone from the Dongchang Lu family to be anywhere else in the world."
Jian Anning raised her eyes to look at him, her gaze penetrating as if she could see through fire. She said softly, "But Ah Fei is indeed the only member of the Lu family outside of Dongchang."
Ye Chenghuai was stunned. Before the road between Dongchang and the outside world was cut off, there was some contact between the Ye family and the family. However, since a certain day, there was no news at all. He had also sent people to Dongchang, but those people said that they could not find the road to Dongchang at all.
All this shows that something must have happened in Dongchang.
He doesn't care about other things, he only cares about where the Dongchang Lu family's inheritance is now.
While thinking, Ye Chenghuai suddenly raised his hand and was about to grab Jian An Ning.
But Jian Anning's figure was like a breeze, floating away and disappearing from here.
Ye Chenghuai widened his eyes. He knew that such a spell meant that the cultivator had to be at least at the Nascent Soul stage.
He didn't know what thoughts flashed through his mind. He paused and finally stopped his pace to look for Ye Huange. Instead, he cast a spell to communicate with someone unknown.
At the other end of the Ye Mansion, the elders of the Ye family gathered in the Ye family's ancestral hall, looking angrily at a younger member of the Ye family who stubbornly resisted their orders.
"I don't care what the Lu family promised. It has nothing to do with me. I only know that the person who received my embroidered ball is him. He is the one who wants me to marry him!"
Ye Huange screamed hysterically, almost making the elders of the Ye family angry.
One of the calmer female elders advised, "Huange, think carefully. If you marry into the Lu family and combine the resources of both families, your future life will be much better. How can you just marry a random stranger like this?"
Passerby Lu Fei remained silent.
On the way here just now, Ye Huange made an agreement with him that in the ancestral hall, he only needed to watch her perform and he would just be responsible for being a prop.
However, such a sharp dispute and such a stubborn attitude always made Lu Fei feel something.
Perhaps at some point in the past, he had stood in Ye Huange's position and argued with someone.
But the memory was so vague, so vague that he would get a splitting headache whenever he thought about it.
"Lu Fei is no ordinary person," Ye Huange stepped forward and spoke the prepared words to the elders of the Ye family, saying, "He is the only heir to the Dongchang Lu family."
The noisy voices suddenly quieted down, and only Lu Fei's soft "hmm" echoed in the entire ancestral hall.
"But the road to Dongchang has been cut off. No one can go to Dongchang. In other words, no one can leave Dongchang." said one of the Ye family elders.
Ye Huange finally stopped talking. She obviously didn't know about this and her heart suddenly became nervous.
Lu Fei replied calmly, "Actually, I don't remember how I left Dongchang, nor do I remember why I went to Zhongzhou."
"There's a huge chunk missing from my memory."
The elders of the Ye family exchanged glances with each other, and there were countless twists and turns in their hearts, but there was one thing they had in common: their common goal.
That is the Lu family's inheritance.
The Ye family had no inheritance so they had to share Cangwu with other aristocratic families.
If the Fusang sacred tree had not been snatched away by a mysterious figure, and the origin of the wood had remained in the Ye family, Cangwu would have long been the Ye family's Cangwu.
"If what you said is true, then we might consider changing your engagement." The elder of the Ye family softened his attitude and said to Ye Huange and Lu Fei.
Ye Huange was delighted and the smile on his face became even wider.
"However, since you are from Dongchang, why did you come to Cangwu?" another elder asked.
"I'm here to look for someone named Ye Qingzhou." Lu Fei answered softly.
"Ye Qingzhou?" The elders of the Ye family all looked at each other with confusion on their faces.
They had never heard of this name and had no impression of it.
"Is that the Ye family?" They reacted exactly the same as Ye Huange did.
"It should be a branch of the Ye family." Lu Fei said.
"It's no surprise it's someone else," the elders of the Ye family said something similar. "For the sake of the Lu family, if this person returns to Cangwu Mingzhou City, we can help you keep an eye on him."
Ye Huange successfully got away with it with the help of Lu Fei from the elders of the Lu family, and happily held Lu Fei's hand and left the ancestral hall.
As soon as they went out, they saw Jian An Ning standing at the door, looking at them expressionlessly.
Ye Huange felt a very strange feeling from the bottom of his heart, an extremely cramped feeling, as if something he didn't want to be discovered was discovered.
Before she could figure out that she had always been open and honest and there was nothing shameful about it, she felt her hand being pushed away by Lu Fei.
Lu Fei, who was originally like a tool, approached Jian An Ning very attentively, opened his lips and wanted to say something but couldn't say anything, so he just lowered his head, clenched his fingers together, and his fingertips were squeezed white.
Ye Huange quickly started brainstorming. Combining all the previous things, she suddenly thought of this situation in a flash.
Jane Anning won’t be jealous, right?
But aren't they master and apprentice? Are there any other masters and apprentices like this in the world? Ye Huange wondered.
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