Bai Xingjian already had doubts about the relationship between Hua Fushu and his adoptive father, but Hua Fushu's words left him confused.
What do you mean he doesn’t know who he is? Who else could he be? He is Bai Xingjian!
"What do you mean?" Bai Xingjian almost yelled out in anger.
Hua Fushu knew that he had successfully attracted Bai Xingjian's attention, so he climbed down from the tree and leaned against the trunk and said leisurely:
"There was once a prefectural governor in Luoyang named Han. He had a young son named Han Xingjian, born at 3:30 pm on September 26th, the eighth year of the Xianping reign. On March 12th, the second year of the Xiangfu reign, Governor Han's wife, Shi, took the young son Han out. The young son was abducted at the entrance of Chongde Alley. The abductor's name was Bai Yanlang."
She took out the jade pendant and played with the string that tied it. "The cicada is the Han family's emblem. All the Han family members have this kind of jade, with a cicada engraved on one side and a surname on the other. Young Master said this is yours. Could it be that you are Han Xingjian, the young master of the Han family?"
Every word Hua Fushu said floated into Bai Xingjian's ears. His eyes widened little by little, with surprise, joy, surprise, confusion, incomprehension, and even anger. All kinds of emotions piled up and intertwined together, his face was full of complexity and indescribable.
Han Xingjian, Bai Xingjian, just one word difference!
Impossible! Impossible!
Godfather won’t do that?
His adoptive father told him that his biological parents were close friends, and that before their death, they had entrusted him to his adoptive father's care. His adoptive father wasn't particularly close to him, but he was very kind. When he was young and sick, his adoptive father would personally make medicine for him, coaxing him into drinking the bitter soup. He would also make honey and white fungus soup for him, and buy him all kinds of fruits, like fried cherries and candied plums...
He regarded his adoptive father as his biological father, but now someone told him that it was his adoptive father who kidnapped him and separated him from his biological parents. How could he believe it?
If Hua Fushu was lying, how could she know his birthday, even the blue cloud birthmark on his left shoulder?
Is the woman in front of him who told him her life story really just the young lady of the general's mansion?
She knew his background, in other words, she might know his biological parents.
He was hesitating between belief and disbelief. Having witnessed Hua Fushu's cunning, he had some doubts about what Hua Fushu said.
Perhaps he should ask his adoptive father.
At this time, Hua Fushu said sarcastically: "Haha, is it a deep love between father and son, or is it recognizing a thief as a father?"
Bai Xingjian struggled in vain, and was caught off guard by a sudden taunt. Anger surged in his heart, and he charged forward with his sword drawn. Hua Fushu calmly said, "If I die, I'm afraid you'll never see your biological parents again."
The sharp sword was about to sink into Hua Fushu's body. At that moment, Bai Xingjian retracted the sword and asked coldly, "Why should I trust you?"
Hua Fushu said sternly, "If you don't believe me, go check. There should be people in Luoyang who still remember that Han Fuyin."
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Hua Fushu rushed to the inn and walked into the yard. He saw bloodstains on the ground and several corpses lying in a mess. These were the bodies of the killers.
She took a closer look and found that most of these people were killed by arrows. She also checked the bodies that were not hit by arrows. Some of them should have died by Ye Zelin's sword, and some should have died by Yu Chisu's knife.
There was a strong smell of blood in the air, which was nauseating. She looked around and didn't see Ye Zelin and Yu Chisu. She had an idea in her mind that besides Cai Yuanchang's men, there must be other people.
Among the people on the ground, three or four were killed by Ye Zelin and Yu Chisu, and the rest were killed by arrows at the hands of others. That is to say, after she and Yu Xuanji and others left, another group of people appeared, but where did Ye Zelin, Yu Chisu and that group go?
Feeling uneasy, she walked into the inn, but it was empty. She went upstairs to look around, but still no one was there. She went to the kitchen, and just as she was about to enter, a person walked out.
The man was wearing a crab-shell green cloth shirt and holding a long sword in his hand. He was tall, with sword-like eyebrows, bright eyes, and a straight nose. Unlike Ye Zelin's gentleness, there was a hint of rebelliousness between his eyebrows. The man in front of her was actually her senior brother, Qin Youran!
Why is her senior brother here?
Before she could react, Senior Brother Qin, who had come all the way to look for her, stepped forward, tapped her forehead, and scolded her hurriedly, "Hua Fushu, are you looking for death? You came to Yuezhou without a word!"
Hua Fushu felt pain, covered his forehead, and said dissatisfiedly: "Senior Brother, you really have the guts to do this!"
He wasn't the one in pain, so why couldn't he do it?
Qin Youran said, "Don't worry, that little pain won't kill you." He controlled the strength of his attack very well.
Hua Fushu gritted his teeth, wanting to strangle Qin Youran's neck until it was pierced with purple and red. "It seems you're not the one who's in pain."
Qin Youran told her clearly: "Of course I'm not the one in pain."
Hua Fushu suppressed his anger and thought of his original question: "Brother, aren't you in the capital? Why are you in Luocheng?"
Qin Youran got angry when this was mentioned. Why did he come to Luocheng? Wasn't it because she was running around?
He originally thought she was going to Lanling, but ended up coming to Yuezhou. It took him a lot of effort to find Yuezhou.
He clasped his right thumb and middle finger, preparing to flick Hua Fushu's forehead again. Hua Fushu subconsciously took a step back, so he had to withdraw his hand and told her the truth, "This is what happened. Miss Lu came to me and said she had a conflict with you and wanted to break up with her. She hid herself away and didn't see anyone. She went to the General's Mansion to look for you but couldn't see you. She thought you were angry and wouldn't see her, so she came to find me. I asked Mu Qing to go to the General's Mansion to ask, and your housekeeper said you went to Lanling to find our master. I sent Mu Qing to find you, but who knew you didn't go to Lanling, but instead went south along the canal. I thought you were going south under the guise of going to Lanling to find your master, or maybe something was wrong, so I hurried south with Mu Qing to find you. I never expected you were here to find Ye Zelin."
He paused and couldn't help but tease, "I said it was only a month or two, and you couldn't help yourself, rushing all the way to Yuezhou to look for him. It really proves the saying that a day apart feels like three years. I remember you said before that you wouldn't marry him, so how come you're attracted to him? But it's true, your husband has such a good-looking face, I'm moved just by looking at him, not to mention that you're a beauty."
Hua Fushu blushed slightly at Qin Youran's teasing. She wasn't in the mood to joke with Qin Youran at the moment. She said seriously, "Brother, stop teasing me. Have you seen Ye Zelin and Miss Yu?"
Back to the point, Qin Youran said, "When I arrived, apart from those lying there and the shopkeeper, I didn't see anyone else. I looked around and found the shopkeeper. The couple who owned the shop said that Ye Zelin and a girl had been captured by bandits from Qingyun Mountain."
"Captured?" Hua Fushu was not surprised at all and asked hurriedly, "Where is the store owner? Let me ask."
Qin Youran pointed into the kitchen and said, "He hid in the cellar."
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