Chapter 3378 Strangers Should Not Disturb Each Other
The elder looked at him like this, and seemed a little reluctant. He was silent for a long time before he said, "How did you know I was here?"
Gao Ye said, "I heard that the place where the family lived at Yumen Pass has been empty for many years. It shouldn't be so clean."
“…”
"Besides, I can smell the master."
His words sounded a little mysterious, yet so certain that they could not be refuted. The elder looked at him for a while. The child in front of him was no longer the dying child he had rescued and could only rely on his protection to survive.
So he smiled faintly and said, "You."
Upon hearing this, Gao's eyes also turned red for some reason.
He whispered, "Master, you've been in self-exile for so many years, isn't that enough?"
Hearing him say this, the elder's thin body trembled suddenly.
Gao couldn't wait to step forward and said anxiously: "Master, Master's wife has passed away for so many years. Hasn't your grief subsided yet?"
The elder did not speak, but after a long silence, he sighed.
Then he said, "I am no longer sad."
“…”
"When I left you, it wasn't all because of—"
He seemed to have some reservations after all, and did not finish his words. Gao Ye immediately caught something sharp and looked at him with a frown: "Could it be that there was another reason why Master left me and Little Sister Xiyun?"
“…”
"Did someone force you to leave?"
“…”
"Still, is there danger?"
“…”
"If, if someone forced you, or even if there was danger, Master shouldn't be afraid now. My little sister Xiyun has become the favorite concubine of the King of Anxi. The King dotes on her and gives her everything she wants. And your eldest daughter, Master, has also become the Imperial Concubine of the Emperor of Yan. Not only is she deeply favored by the Emperor, she has also earned honor for the entire family. With the two of them, what else does Master have to fear?"
Hearing him say this, the elder showed a relieved smile on his face.
He said gently, "I'm not afraid."
“…”
"The danger that forced me to leave has long since passed. Now I am free."
Gao Ye heard this and immediately asked anxiously, "Then why did the master avoid us and not acknowledge us?"
The elder looked at him gently and said, "My two daughters are both doing well."
Gao Ye nodded: "Yes."
The elder smiled and said, "Then why should I show up again?"
"What?"
"They are doing well without me, so my presence is unnecessary."
Gao Ye frowned and asked, "Master, don't you want to be reunited with them? Master is old now, don't you want children and grandchildren to be around you?"
The elder was silent for a moment, then said calmly, "If it's not given, how can I take it?"
These four words were spoken lightly.
But it is very powerful.
When Gao Ye heard these four words, although he had a lot of words to persuade him, at this point, he couldn't say a word.
He was just a little sad: "Master..."
"I have only been myself in my life and have never been their father, so naturally I shouldn't have children and grandchildren at this time. I am a stranger to them, and they are a stranger to me."
“…”
"Strangers should not disturb each other."
The elder smiled at Gao Ye again and said, "If I hadn't appeared today, you wouldn't be feeling this sad right now."
“…”
"So my appearance is not a good thing for you."
“…”
"Since it's not a good thing, it should end as soon as possible."
After saying this, he looked up at the sky, smiled and said, "You came out from Yumen Pass, right? You'd better go back early and don't let them worry."
He was about to turn around after he finished speaking, as if he was preparing to leave.
Gao Ye took another step forward and asked anxiously, "Is the master really gone just like that?"
The elder stopped but did not turn around. He was silent for a moment, then smiled faintly and said, "That's it."
After saying this, he did not stay any longer and left with Wen Wu Yu.
Gao Ye stood there motionless, watching their backs disappear in front of him. He wanted to move and catch up with them several times, but in the end he didn't do it. He just knelt on the ground the moment the elder's back disappeared and bowed deeply three times.
When he returned to Yumen Pass, it was already dusk.
The setting sun shone obliquely on the old residence of the Wen family, giving the dark little house a golden glow. For some reason, it showed an inexplicable brilliance and also an inexplicable loneliness.
When he walked in, everyone inside gathered around the bed.
Zhu Feng, lying on the bed, looked pale, but his cheeks were flushed with a sickly color. Nan Yan sat beside him, holding his hand tightly with one hand, with a solemn expression on her face. Surrounding them were Chen Zixiao and the others, as well as two unfamiliar children in their teens, who also looked like they had just rolled out of the mud, and each of them was in a very disheveled state.
As soon as Xiyun saw him come in, she immediately rushed forward and grabbed his sleeve.
"Brother, where have you been!?"
When Nan Yan heard this, she turned around and looked at him. When her red eyes looked at him, there seemed to be a hint of inquiry.
Gao Ye looked at Xiyun and then at Nanyan.
Thinking back to the sentence "I didn't get it", I sighed softly in my heart, and then said: "I didn't go anywhere, I just went out and strolled around."
Xiyun said, "Sister and the others encountered people from the Neng Kingdom last night and had a fierce battle. Didn't you hear it?"
Gao Ye paused and shook his head.
Xiyun asked in confusion, "You usually have the sharpest ears and are the most alert, so how come you didn't hear anything this time?"
Nan Yan looked at them with a twinkling gaze, then said calmly, "Xiyun, Yumen Pass is so huge, Lord Gao Ye might have wandered off somewhere else. It's perfectly normal that we didn't run into him. Don't ask."
Gao also glanced at her.
The two people's eyes met, as if they both felt something, but Nan Yan didn't say anything else. She just lowered her head and looked at Zhu Feng gently.
After hearing Nan Yan's words, Xi Yun stopped dwelling on the matter and simply said, "Brother, it's great that you're back. Come and see my brother-in-law. He has a high fever. I gave him the medicine you gave me since we were little, but the fever subsided a little and then came back again, and he's not conscious. Is he in trouble?"
Everyone around was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
If an ordinary person said such an unlucky word when the emperor was sick, he would have been dragged away and beheaded long ago. But she was the favorite concubine of the King of Parthia, and had such a relationship with the Imperial Concubine. She also called the emperor "brother-in-law" all the time. Even if Chen Zixiao and the others were angry, they couldn't express it.
Zhu Chengjun listened from the side, his eyes red.
Gao Ye shook his head, stretched out his hand to pull her aside, then walked to the bed and whispered to Nan Yan, "Let me take a look."
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