Chapter 359: Send a Letter "No." Ye Fangzheng murmured...
"No," Ye Fangzheng murmured. "No, how could I not like him?"
But he was too conceited and once thought that the person would never leave him. Even if he was hurt badly, no matter where he was, he would just wave and the person would come back to him. Who knew that in the past ten years, he had traveled to so many places but still couldn't find a person named Lu Fan.
The Lu family was truly heartless. When they said they were going to sever the father-son relationship, they really didn't care about Lu Fan's life or death. But the one who was the most heartless and hurt Lu Fan the most was none other than him.
Looking back at the road, it twists and turns, and the way he came is no longer visible. The person is no longer waiting for him to turn around and look back.
Ye Fangzheng burst into tears. "Cousin, if I hadn't chased him away, I wouldn't have been able to protect him. I wasn't the Crown Prince back then, and my Second Uncle's family was staring at me, wanting me dead. They wanted Lu Fan dead because I was with him, and they wouldn't even let my child go. I had no choice."
"There's no way? Do you think the people in Prince Xiao's Mansion are dead?"
"But at that time, my aunt and uncle were already exhausted because of you. There was chaos outside the Great Wall, and the Xiao family had to send troops to help. How could I even ask for that?"
It's not that Ye Fangzheng hasn't thought about asking the Xiao family for help, but Xiao Hengzhi was poisoned and rumors were circulating that Xiao Heng didn't have much time left. Ye Fangzheng didn't dare let Xiao Hengzhi worry about anything. It was precisely because the Xiao family was unable to take care of themselves that Second Uncle Ye wanted to get rid of Lu Fan and even the children.
Although Lord Ye is Grandma Xiao's half-brother, the two have a good relationship. If Ye Fangzheng speaks up, the Xiao family will definitely not ignore him. But they can only control him for a while, not forever. Second Uncle Ye is just coveting the position of the prince. What can the Xiao family do to him?
At most, you will just be warned.
Ye Sifan was sent back to the Ye family. Ye Fangzheng was devastated. Lu Fan would rather give up the child than leave him. He had obviously regarded the child as his life before, but now he just gave up on him.
This person really has a cruel heart.
But the person who should be blamed the most is actually myself.
Xiao Hengzhi was lost, "What did you say?"
"Cousin, I can't let you get involved. You've been poisoned and can't take care of yourself. I can't bother you anymore." Ye Fangzheng covered his face and cried. He didn't know at that time that Xiao Heng's life was so tough. He was obviously dying, but now he was alive and kicking. If he knew, he would not leave his cousin unused.
It’s a pity that I didn’t know everything earlier.
Xiao Hengzhi wanted to kick Ye Fangzheng away, "You kid, you're telling me the truth, can't you just ask me yourself?"
"I went to see you. Your aunt was in tears all day long, and your uncle was looking for a doctor everywhere. You were lying in bed motionless, as thin as a ghost. I even checked your breath, but that was it. How could I have known you could hold on for so long?"
"I wanted to deal with my second uncle and the others before finding Lu Fan, but I searched all the mansions in Dayan and still couldn't find him. Some time ago, I found out that he had become the emperor's husband of Demonno."
Xu Yunfan: “…”
These cousins are really close.
Xiao Hengzhi was speechless, feeling guilty. It seemed that he had done something wrong in the past, indirectly sending Lu Fan to Dongwu Kingdom, so that Ye Fangzheng had been looking for him for more than ten years but couldn't find a single hair.
Because Ye Fangzheng was his brother, Xu Yunfan didn't want to cry anymore. "Uncle Ye, don't cry. If there's anything, let's work together to find a solution. As the saying goes, two cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. Although you and your father-in-law are the only two cobblers and you probably can't come up with a solution, don't you still have me as your military advisor? Don't worry."
Ye Fangzheng: “…”
How can this boy talk like that? Who is he calling a cobbler?
Ye Fangzheng was angry and wanted to laugh, and he couldn't even cry anymore.
Xiao Hengzhi slapped Xu Yunfan, "Are you itching for trouble, kid?"
Xu Yunfan straightened his back after being hit, and his back tightened. "Oh, father-in-law, you hit me again? You are really going against the will of heaven. When I am not around, I will whisper something in the ears of my father and grandfather. Then you will know that there are people you cannot afford to offend."
Xiao Hengzhi raised his hand and then silently put it down.
His current family status...it's too sad to talk about it anymore.
"Uncle Ye, do you want Uncle Lu Fan to come back?"
"Well, I want to see him."
"So cousin Sifan is his son? This isn't a nice question, but some things still need to be made clear."
Xu Yunfan thought that if Qin Run kissed someone else and told him that the baby in her belly might not be his, he would probably want to hit him.
As for forgiveness?
That is absolutely impossible. If he endures betrayal and cuckolding, can he still be considered a man?
He would be disgusted to death if he lay in the same bed with someone who had eaten shit.
Although it was very embarrassing to talk about these things with a junior, Ye Fangzheng didn't care about it anymore. "It's his. I've never slept with any other man except him. The child can only be his."
Xiao Hengzhi was surprised and said, "That's impossible. I heard..."
Ye Fangzheng: "I also heard that my cousin has countless female confidantes, and he even had a lot of affairs with women..."
"Nonsense, I am a person who keeps myself clean. Who the hell spread rumors like that?" Xiao Heng was furious.
Before, it was the King, but now it is me.
It seems that Ye Fangzheng is busy and I can't just stand by and watch.
"Father-in-law, Uncle Ye, please stop arguing. Uncle Lu Fan is someone else's third husband now. It's impossible for us to ask for him. We can only discuss it and see what Uncle Lu Fan thinks. If he doesn't want to come back, there's nothing we can do."
Ye Fangzheng's eyes became red again, and he kept asking Xu Yunfan for help. Helplessly, Xu Yunfan could only write a letter, under the name of Qin Run, and let the caravan deliver it to Demonzali.
If Lu Fan were to come back, would he owe the Damon family a favor?
Before writing the letter, Xu Yunfan glanced at Xiao Heng, and the other party fell silent.
Silence was just a disguised form of acquiescence. After Ye Fangzheng left, Qin Feiyu came out from behind the screen.
He was accompanied by Grandma Xiao and Qin Run.
Grandma Xiao hesitated to speak, feeling guilty towards Xu Yunfan. "Yunfan, I'm sorry to bother you with this matter. It's Grandma who has caused you trouble."
Xu Yunfan pretended to be unhappy, "Grandma, do you want to listen to what you are saying? We are a family, why are you saying such awkward things? I don't like it."
Qin Run looked at Grandma Xiao, then at Xiao Hengzhi, "Grandma, are you close to Lord Ye? Why didn't Yunfan and I know that we're actually relatives of the Ye family?"
If the two families are related, then what happened in the Fang family before can be explained.
Grandma Xiao said, "These things happened a long time ago. Lord Ye was a very kind person, but he always felt guilty and owed me something. He was also afraid that someone in the Ye family might have taken advantage of the Xiao Palace's influence, so he stopped associating with the Xiao Palace for years. Rumors were circulating that my sister and I had become enemies, and over time, my heart grew cold. We had been at odds for decades."
"My grandmother, your great-grandmother, once fell ill trying to save Uncle Ye. Later, Uncle Ye saved your second uncle from drowning at the Xiao family. At that time, Master Ye had just finished his confinement, and your second uncle fell into the water. While the other servants couldn't swim and could only yell and scream, he didn't even think twice and resolutely jumped into the water to save your second uncle. Because of this, Uncle Ye could no longer conceive, and was constantly blamed by his mother-in-law at the Ye family. Your grandmother came to visit, but the old hag at the Ye family was also very powerful, and the two families almost got into a fight. Uncle Ye had no choice but to choose one."
Xiao Hengzhi sighed and continued, "Uncle Ye had no choice. The situation in the Great Yan Dynasty was unstable before. My father was the only one left in the Xiao family, and he was away all year round. Your second uncle and I were still young, and compared to the Marquis's Mansion, we were indeed a bit inferior. If we had quarreled with the Ye Marquis' Mansion, we would have suffered. Later, when your grandfather returned from the border, the Ye family tried to get close to us again. Uncle Ye couldn't stand it, so he stopped associating with us, thus putting an end to the Ye family's desire to curry favor with the powerful."
The Ye family is large, and if one or two of them take advantage of the Xiao family's power to bully men and women, will the Xiao family still have a good reputation?
As the king of the opposite sex, in the eyes of many ministers, the king of the opposite sex who holds military power is a tiger lurking and waiting for an opportunity to strike. Keeping him can deter external enemies, but it will also make people at home feel fear.
If the Xiao family behaved improperly, the higher-ups would have a reason to seize their military talisman...
Xu Yunfan asked curiously, "Ah, now that our Xiao family has stabilized, why aren't we interacting with the Ye family?"
"I'm so angry." Grandma Xiao said awkwardly, "He said he'd break off the relationship of more than ten years between brother and sister? How could the Xiao family fall so easily? He stabbed me in the heart under the pretext of doing good for the Xiao family. This person is really confused."
Xu Yunfan understood. After all, Grandma Xiao just couldn't swallow this humiliation, and Uncle Ye probably didn't have the face to visit her. Over time, the two families had no contact with each other anymore.
Qin Run listened quietly, and he said that when he married Xu Yunfan, the money given by others was only a few dozen taels at least, and a few hundred taels at most, but Lord Ye gave six thousand taels.
This was not a small amount of money. He and Xu Yunfan were puzzled at the time. They had thought that the Ye family was very wealthy, but it turned out not to be the case.
"Grandma, don't be angry. This matter still depends on Uncle Lu Fan's opinion. If he is willing to come back, then he can come back. If he doesn't want to, no one can force him." Qin Run said inwardly. That being said, if Lu Fan wanted to come back, Princess Demong would have no choice but to let him go.
A month later, Xu Yunfan's letter was finally delivered to De Monzali.
"What? Run Ge'er wrote to me? I thought..." De Monzali was very happy, but there was an unexpected sense of loss in his heart.
Lu Fan patted Zhali's head in amusement, "What do you think? Whose letter are you waiting for?"
This child was born to Demonno in the second year after he came to Dongwu Kingdom. During that period, he was in a very bad mood, even to the point of being confused and sleepless. He couldn't sleep for whole nights and sometimes wanted to understand himself. Demonno was worried and often stayed at his place to look after him.
For this reason, after Demonzali was born, many people outside speculated that he was his son. Demonno simply took Zali to his room. It was Zali's arrival that gave Lu Fan a new life.
Lu Fan felt deeply for this child who was not his own flesh and blood but was more like his own flesh and blood. "It seems that our Zhali has made a good friend in Dayan."
Zhali skipped over to Lu Fan, leaned against his feet, and rubbed his arm affectionately. "Third Father, the Great Yan Dynasty is really fun. It's a place of outstanding people and good people. Do you remember Run Ge'er I told you about? He wrote to me!"
"Oh, then you should read the letter quickly. Maybe the other party has something to do." Lu Fan remembered Qin Run. Zhali had said many times that the dragon beard candy he brought back, which was sweet and delicious and melted in the mouth, was made by her husband.
Zhali opened the letter and found that it was written in the language of Dongwu. Zhali was very disappointed and said with a wry smile, "Ah, it wasn't Runge who wrote to me. It was Xu Yunfan."
Xu Yunfan?
Lu Fan had also heard Zhali mention this man. He was the famous top scholar of the Dayan Dynasty and also Qin Run's husband.
What's a man doing writing to Zally?
A man who traveled thousands of miles to send a letter to you makes one think deeply.
Lu Fan couldn't help but frown, "What did Xu Yunfan write in the letter?"
"Third father, Yunfan said these letters are for you. He was looking for you, not me." Zhali glanced at the remaining letters. He could only recognize a few words written on them at a glance and could not understand them at all.
Lu Fan was puzzled, and then he heard Zha Li curiously ask, "Third father, do you know Yun Fan?"
"I don't know him." Lu Fan was sure that he really didn't know this man from overseas. "Let me see the letter."
Zhali found that after reading the letter, his third father had obviously become a different person, and the expression on his face kept changing.
"Third father, what's wrong with you? You look very sad."
Are you sad?
Lu Fan didn't know. He thought that more than ten years had passed and he had let go of some things and moved on from them long ago. But it turned out that it was not the case!
There are some things that you really can’t let go of, can’t look past, and can’t forget.
More than ten years ago, he was still a 19-year-old boy, and Ye Fangzheng was a youthful and unrestrained young man. At the age of 16, he was at the age when he loved to play, and he was also the young master of a marquis's family, so he acted without any scruples.
Compared with himself who has been used as a punching bag, bullied and lifeless since childhood, the innocent and lively Young Master Ye is undoubtedly a ray of light that illuminates his gloomy life, so he has no hesitation, even if it means flying into a flame, he will do it willingly.
Later, he realized that light would disappear, and the light that illuminated him gave him a darkness that was even more unacceptable after witnessing the light.
Both Ye Fangzheng and he at that time were too young and thought that love could last forever. A few sweet words and those vows that they thought were eternal were like farts. One said it casually, and the other foolishly remembered it for a lifetime.
Now that I am in my thirties, looking back, I realize how naive and ridiculous I was before.
Lu Fan pulled a face and smiled: "Nothing, just an acquaintance wants to meet me, and asked Xu Yunfan to write to let me know, asking if I am willing."
"Ah, Third Father, you have acquaintances in the capital. Why didn't you tell me earlier? I could have visited them for you when I went there."
"He's not a very important person." Lu Fan thought about it and said, "I heard from your mother that you were invited to be a guest by the Ye family?"
After Demonno came back, he took Zhali and kept busy. Lu Fan only mentioned it once when he scolded Zhali during dinner, and he didn't ask too much. Now when he saw Xu Yunfan's letter, he couldn't help but think of the person who didn't want to be mentioned and was deliberately placed in the corner of his memory.
Zha Li nodded. "Oh, Father, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten. During the Great Yan Dynasty, I met a... This man was so infuriating. He even asked me why I was your son. What other reasons could there be for such a thing? But that man's son was quite arrogant and unreasonable. When I was at the Ye family, he took me to play and taught me how to read and draw. He was very nice. I made mistakes several times, but he never called me stupid. Unlike my eldest and second brothers, they had no patience at all and would always scold me with words like 'You're so stupid!', 'Were you born without a brain?', 'You're dumber than a pig!' If I wrote correctly, he would even praise me for my progress."
As Zhali was talking, his face suddenly turned red. He lowered his head shyly and smiled.
Seeing this, Lu Fan suddenly felt like he was in a state of disbelief and said helplessly, "That's not called rudeness or unreasonableness, that's called being well-educated and reasonable. It's true that your elder and second brothers lack patience, but they love you very much."
Zha Li: "I know, there's a saying in your Great Yan Dynasty that beating is love and scolding is love, but they love too much. I don't like to hear those words. He is very good and never scolds me."
How many times has Zari mentioned that 'he'?
Lu Fan couldn't remember clearly, but Zhali had mentioned it many times since he came back. He would always compare "him" with his two brothers in front of them, saying that the eldest and second oldest brother were not as good as them in this or that way, which made the eldest and second oldest brothers so angry that they jumped up and down.
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