Chapter 106: Connecting Uncle and Nephew
Ling Chan came with the real Hongdou, Gong Lan and Gong Yu.
Seeing them, Ling Chan stood up and said, "Master."
Ling Chan nodded at her, "Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard." Ling Chan shook her head slightly.
She closed the door and began to take off the mask on her face.
'Hongdou', 'Gong Lan' and 'Gong Yu' also took off their masks, and soon their original appearances were revealed.
They also took off their outer clothes and changed into Ling Chan and the others' clothes.
Gong Lan instructed them, "After you leave Floating Cloud Villa, go south for about a hundred miles. There are two mountains close together. Gong Ye Gong Ling will meet you there."
The four of them put on their clothes, put on veils, and left Floating Cloud Villa.
"OP, let's go to bed early too." Gong Lan glanced at the neatly made bed.
Ling Chan had already walked around the room. Gongzhou seemed to value her very much. Everything in this room was of the highest quality.
Coming to the bed, she touched the bedding, which was very comfortable and delicate.
"You guys should go down and have a rest too." From 'Lingchan' to Floating Cloud Villa, they had been waiting outside the Floating Cloud Villa and only had some dry food for dinner.
Ling Chan slept very comfortably that night. When the morning sunlight shone in, she was still a little dazed when she opened her eyes.
It took me a while to realize that I was now in Floating Cloud Villa.
"Miss." Hongdou walked in. After a month of training, she had completely lost her previous timid look. "Breakfast is here."
Ling Chan sat up and rubbed her eyes, "Hmm..."
"Prince Rui is here. He said he wants to have breakfast with..." Hongdou scratched her head awkwardly, "with Sister Wanyue."
Ling Chan rolled her eyes.
When she was dressed neatly and walked out with big strides, she saw Xiao Jin standing with his hands behind his back and his back to her.
Clearing her throat, she called softly, "Brother Prince Rui."
Then he shuddered and felt disgusted with himself.
Xiao Jin turned around and said, "Sister Wanyue is awake. It's just right. Let's have breakfast."
Breakfast was placed in the yard. Ling Chan sat over and asked, "Why are you placing breakfast here?"
I don’t know how long it has been there, but it’s no longer hot.
She picked up a bowl of porridge and gulped down a big mouthful. Fortunately, there was only no heat on the surface, but the porridge was still hot and just right for eating.
"Why are you still standing? Sit down." She also did not forget to ask Xiao Jin to sit down.
Xiao Jin was helpless, "Sister Wanyue is a princess, how could she be so rude?"
Ling Chan grabbed a snack and said, "I'm not worthy of the title of princess."
Gongzhou is not in the capital, but he definitely knows Ling Chan's situation and what kind of person she is.
The more rude and silly she acted, the easier it was for him to let down his guard.
Xiao Jin also knew that he was just teasing her.
"Eat quickly," Ling Chan urged him. "After we finish eating, I still need to go and reconnect with my uncle."
Xiao Jin elegantly scooped the porridge from the bowl with a spoon, and every move he made exuded aristocratic temperament.
Ling Chan was really curious. Was he like this when he was at the border?
How could he still do this when the enemy was in front of him?
Xiao Jin picked up a side dish with chopsticks and put it in front of Ling Chan. "This is a specialty of Qingzhou. Try it."
Ling Chan tasted it and found it was a crispy pickled vegetable, very refreshing and went very well with porridge.
After gulping down a few mouthfuls of porridge, Ling Chan put down her bowl and chopsticks.
"I'm going to find Gongzhou. Take your time eating."
After saying that, she left in a hurry, leaving Xiao Jin shaking his head helplessly.
Ling Chan didn't need anyone to lead the way and went straight to Gongzhou's yard.
"Uncle." Gongzhou is the third child in the family. Strictly speaking, Ling Chan should call him third uncle.
However, in order to get closer to him, Ling Chan just calls him uncle.
Gongzhou was having breakfast in the yard. What he ate was the same as what Ling Chan had just eaten.
"The princess is here..." Gongzhou stood up.
Ling Chan looked at him dissatisfiedly, "Uncle, I call you uncle, but you call me princess. This is too distant."
"Uncle, why don't you call me Chan'er?"
Gongzhou hesitated, he didn't want to get too close to Ling Chan.
"uncle?"
Gongzhou's hesitation faded away, "Chan'er."
"Uncle, please sit down." Ling Chan sat down and asked Gong Zhou to sit down too.
"Uncle, do you know I miss you?" Ling Chan leaned on the table, looking at Gong Zhou with her eyes wide open. "Do you know how hard my life was in the Ling family?"
"Every time I can't stand it, I think of my uncle."
"It's a pity that my uncle is the leader of the martial arts world. He is too busy with the affairs of the martial arts world and has no time to come to the capital to see me."
"But now everything is fine. Chan'er can come to Floating Cloud Villa to see her uncle."
Gongzhou was observing Ling Chan, trying to figure out whether what she said was true or false.
He knew everything about her life in Ling Mansion.
A child, motherless and neglected by her father, cruelly treated by her stepmother and stepsister, lives a life worse than death, teetering on the brink of death...
He wrote to the Queen Mother several times, asking her to give Ling Chan a quick death.
But the Queen Mother said that she still had use for Ling Chan.
As for what it was used for, he didn't know.
"Uncle, please take me to the Gong family ancestral hall to pay respects to my grandparents."
“And other elders…”
"Chan'er is so presumptuous of a junior that she has never even paid homage to them. I feel really guilty."
Gong Zhou stirred the porridge back and forth with her spoon. She had just prayed for Gong Lele at Yulu Temple, and the first thing she did after returning to Fuyun Villa was to go to the ancestral hall to pay respects to the elders. This request was very reasonable.
"Okay." Gongzhou had no reason to refuse her.
Ling Chan waited obediently by the side. After Gong Zhou finished his breakfast, he took her to the Gong family ancestral hall.
There is a large table in the middle of the ancestral hall, on which are placed the tablets of the ancestors of the Gong family.
In the nearest row, there is a tablet with Gong Lele's name on it.
"The deity of Gong Lele, the legitimate daughter of the Gong family." Ling Chan muttered in her heart.
When she turned her head to look at Gongzhou, she was shocked, "Uncle, there is actually a tablet for my mother?"
Although her mother was the legitimate daughter of the Gong family, she was already married, so her tablet could not be placed in the Gong family ancestral hall.
Gong Zhou hummed, "Your mother is buried in Yulu Temple, but the Gong family is her home after all."
"Moreover, she was honored as the Marquis of Zhenbei by the late emperor. Her virtue is remarkable, and she deserves to be enshrined in the ancestral hall and be worshipped by the younger generations of the Gong family."
He spoke in a tense voice, clearly unwilling to do so.
Ling Chan looked at the other tablets. Members of the Gong family...she didn't recognize any of them.
"Uncle, whose tablet is this?" She pointed to the tablet of a goddess called Ama.
Gongzhou's expression changed, and his throat tightened. "She, she is my mother."
A hint of surprise flashed in Ling Chan's eyes, "My uncle's mother? Wasn't she my grandfather's concubine? Can she also be included in the Gong family ancestral hall?"
The muscles on Gongzhou's face twitched, "I am now the leader of the martial arts world, and my mother can barely join."
The Gong clan ancestral hall has a rule that "concubine mothers are not allowed to enter, only those whose sons are noble and have been granted titles can enter."
In other words, a concubine cannot enter the ancestral hall unless her son has done something great...
What Gongzhou said about himself becoming the leader of the martial arts world can barely be considered.
but...
"Doesn't my uncle's mother have a name? Why is she called Haenyeo? Is Haenyeo her name?"
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