Chapter 97 I Have My Own Way (Part 2)
Dingbei Marquis Mansion.
Shen Yanchuan opened the file again.
The battle at Tongtian Pass three years ago was full of doubts. After talking with Feng Zhang this time, he became even more convinced that there was something fishy going on.
He could already recite the file by heart, but to find out the truth of that year was a difficult task and he had to unravel it.
Suddenly, his eyebrows moved slightly, and he looked out the window and said, "Why, is the gate of Dingbei Marquis's Mansion not wide enough? Do you have to climb in from the backyard?"
The next moment, the window was pushed open and a handsome figure jumped in.
It was Xie Anbai who had just returned to Beijing.
He opened his fan with a "swish" sound, shook his head and said, "Your hearing is too good. Can't you let me win once?"
Shen Yanchuan closed the file, put it aside, and looked at him.
"Has the money run out?"
Xie Anbai: "..."
He coughed hard: "How can that be possible! Am I that kind of person? What is our relationship? We are brothers who have been through life and death together! How can I bother you just for a few pieces of silver?"
Chen Yanchuan: "After you returned to Beijing, you haven't returned to the Xie family yet?"
Although it was a question, the tone was firm.
Xie Anbai suddenly had a headache: "What a joke! If I go back now, my father will make me kneel under the sun for two hours! Isn't this courting death?"
When his father punishes him, it's for real!
"It won't be too late to go back after a few days when the temperature cools down and his temper is not so bad."
Chen Yanchuan nodded: "The firewood room in Dingbei Marquis's Mansion is still empty, I can lend it to you."
Xie Anbai opened his eyes wide in disbelief: "I rushed over to deliver a letter to you, and you treat me like this?"
"Sending me a letter?" Chen Yanchuan raised his eyebrows slightly. "Didn't you just return to the capital? What letter are you sending me?"
"Of course it's a letter from Doctor Ye!"
Xie Anbai put away his folding fan and leaned forward, looking curious.
"I just happened to see her go to the Xu residence, and Xu Rongqing went out to greet her in person!"
Shen Yanchuan paused.
Seeing his reaction, Xie Anbai couldn't help but smile with a hint of gloating: "How about it, did I send this letter in time?"
Shen Yanchuan said nothing, his eyes were lowered, and no emotion could be seen.
Xie Anbai couldn't stand it any longer: "Hey, why don't you react at all?"
He leaned back and said, "I've asked around. Doctor Ye's background is not ordinary at all. She is Ye Zheng's daughter!"
Speaking of this, Xie Anbai couldn't help but sigh: "I was saying that when I first saw her, I felt that she looked familiar. It turns out that I really saw her three years ago!"
Chen Yanchuan raised his eyes to look at him: "After she came to Beijing three years ago, she only stayed in the capital for a few months, and because of her weak health, she almost never left the gate of the Ye Mansion. Have you - seen her?"
"Of course! How could I remember something like this wrong!" Xie Anbai sat up straight immediately, "She rarely went out at that time, but I met her on her first day in Beijing!"
Xie Anbai touched his chin.
"What a coincidence. That day was the day you left Beijing to return to Huizhou. I said I would see you off, but I happened to run into Ye Xiting on the road. He was in a hurry to meet someone outside the city gate, and he just said that his family had come to Beijing, so I didn't ask in detail. Later I found out that it was his mother and sister who came that day."
A dark color flashed across Shen Yanchuan's eyes, and countless images quickly passed through his mind.
“…So it was that day.”
"Come to think of it, you should have encountered him outside the city, but you just didn't see him."
It was an extremely ordinary day and no one cared about the person who passed by them.
"I saw her from afar at that time. She looked very thin, as if she could be blown away by the wind. I didn't expect that when I saw her again three years later, she seemed like a completely different person. If I hadn't met her again in the capital this time, I probably would never have remembered who she was." Xie Anbai sighed.
Three years is neither long nor short, but it is enough to change a lot of things.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this. How is your recovery?" Xie Anbai raised his chin. "I heard that you have been sick at home since you returned to Beijing, and you have postponed a lot of posts."
Shen Yanchuan pressed his chest.
"Well, it seems that I am not fully recovered yet."
Xie Anbai was very surprised: "Really? So your injury is more serious than I expected! But isn't Doctor Ye a very good doctor? I heard that she even saved the princess. How come you haven't recovered after so long?"
Xie Anbai looked at him and said, "How about asking her to come over and help you?"
…
Xu Mansion, study.
Xu Fengchi took out a wooden box and handed it to Ye Chutang.
"Put in here are some old things of your parents and brother. At the beginning... the accident happened too suddenly. When I received the news and rushed over, it was too late. I only found these."
Ye Chutang took it with both hands and opened the box.
Lying quietly inside were a seal, a pair of pearl earrings, and a jade plaque.
These were all my father, mother and brother’s personal belongings at the time.
Ye Chutang stared at it for a long time, seemingly in a trance.
At that time, in order to take Ayan, Afeng and Xiaowu away safely, she made everyone think that they were dead and did not take anything with her from the carriage.
I never thought that I would see these objects again one day.
She concentrated and held her breath, closed the box, and bowed earnestly to express her gratitude: "Uncle Xu's kindness will be engraved in my heart along with Ah Yan, Ah Feng, and Xiao Wu."
Xu Fengchi sighed and shook his head helplessly:
"In fact, I didn't help you much. I couldn't save most of their belongings. Ye Heng was fully responsible for the subsequent matters. After all, I was an outsider. I was not like him and your father, who were blood relatives. Naturally, I had no right to ask about many things, and I could get very little. Even when they openly moved to your house later, I..."
Talking about this incident, Xu Fengchi still feels very guilty.
Ye Chutang didn't seem to care: "You have done a lot for us. Besides, you didn't know we were still alive at that time, right?"
She gently stroked the box. It clearly didn't contain much, but it weighed more than a thousand pounds.
She said calmly: "Even if they are blood relatives, it is common for them to turn against each other. Sometimes, the ones who hurt people the most are the ones who are closest to them."
Xu Fengchi's heart moved: "Chu Tang, what you said... did you discover something?"
Ye Chutang curved his lips and said, "I'm not sure yet. I'll tell you when I'm sure. By the way, you said before that someone in the Tongzhou riverbank embezzlement case was once my father's subordinate?"
Xu Fengchi's expression was stern: "Yes. I once suspected that he was related to the accident that your parents encountered."
Ye Chutang nodded: "I want to see him."
Xu Fengchi frowned: "I'm afraid this matter is not that easy. He is now imprisoned in the Sky Prison and will be exiled soon."
"Since I want his testimony—"
Ye Chutang smiled slightly.
"Then I have my own way to pry open his mouth."
(End of this chapter)
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