When He Yan returned to the house, the lights in the house were still on. Two girls were lying on the side of the outer room and playing with flower ropes. When they saw He Yan, they quickly turned over and stood up and said, "Madam."

He Yan whispered: "It's okay, you guys go to bed, I've gone into the house to rest. Has the young master been asleep?"

Cuijiao shook her head: "Young Master has been reading books."

He Yan nodded, "I understand, you guys should also rest early."

She pushed the door and entered the inner room. She saw Xiao Jue sitting at the table in the inner room, looking through the long scroll in his hand. He was only wearing a middle-clothed shirt, and the snow-white middle-clothed shirt was loosely placed on his shoulders, revealing his jade-like skin, his collarbone was thin, and as beautiful as the moon.

He Yan closed the door, walked toward him, and said, "Governor?"

Xiao Jue only raised his eyes and looked at her faintly, without saying a word.

"I thought you were asleep." He Yan took off the whip on his waist and hung it on the wall. The colorful ear hanging at the handle of the whip swayed like a ray of glow with her movements. A red red pomegranate flower was even more wonderful and very eye-catching. Xiao Jue's eyes fell on the colorful ear.

Seeing that he was looking, He Yan took down the whip and handed it to Xiao Jue: "How is it? Governor, is it good-looking? This was given to me by Mr. Chu."

"Chu Zilan is so generous," Xiao Jue closed his eyes and said calmly, "It's not a waste to give such an expensive thing to you."

"Valuable?" He Yanqi said: "The Fourth Master Chu said that this pomegranate flower is fake jade and is not worth much money. I accepted it after hearing what he said."

"Oh," he smiled and mocked: "Then he is still very considerate."

"It's so expensive?" He Yan was a little uneasy, "Then I'd better give it to him tomorrow." If there is anything unclear about it in the future, it's better to distinguish between money and money.

Xiao Jue: "Please accept it, don't you like him very much?"

He Yan was shocked: "Do I like him?" Why didn't she know it herself!

"I didn't want to care about your business at first, but I still want to remind you," the young man's eyebrows were so handsome under the light, his eyes were dark and deep, with a bit of inexplicable coldness. "Chu Zilan is Xu Jingfu's favorite son-in-law. If you don't want to die, stay away from him."

Xu Bingting is Xu Jingfu's pearl in his hand. He seems to like Chu Zilan. Lin Shuanghe also told her about this, but what does it have to do with her? Not to mention whether she likes Chu Zhao or not, Chu Zhao is so gentle and polite, and she doesn't look down on a woman who can sit cross-legged on the bed and punch.

Xiao Jue is really worried.

"Governor, I think you are too nervous about Mr. Chu, and even have prejudice against me." She squeezed to Xiao Jue and bent down to see the long scroll in Xiao Jue's hand: "It's so late, what are you looking at?"

Xiao Jue ignored her, He Yan stood behind him and stretched his neck to look, and after a moment, he said, "It's a military defense plan! How about it, have you seen any problem?"

"The tone of your speaking," Xiao Jue said calmly, "It seems that you are the governor."

He Yan immediately took back the hand that was on his shoulder, moved a stool and sat beside him, and said, "I'm just too concerned. The matter of the transfer of the people in Jiyang City in the past few days should be known by those ukuleles. Those ukuleles will soon rise if they get the news." He Yan's headache, "But there are too few soldiers in Jiyang City. Since the ukuleles dare to come to attack the city, they will bring no less than 100,000 soldiers."

Twenty thousand to one hundred thousand, these 20,000 are still the city gate army that has never fought for many years. No matter how you look at it, the situation is not very gratifying.

"Aren't you a female general in your previous life?" Xiao Jue leaned back on the back of the chair and pulled the corner of his mouth, "Tell me what to do."

He Yan was stunned for a moment. What was this called? He was clearly telling the truth, but he was regarded as a lie.

"In the military defense map, they came from the water." He Yan said: "Since that's the case, there is only...the water attack."

Speaking of this, she carefully looked up at Xiao Jue's expression. The youth's expression was as plain as ever. The drinking sword hanging on the wall was as crystal clear as snow and as cold as ice.

It’s strange that she and Xiao Jue, one of whom lived and died in the water before, always had a little shadow on the water deep in his heart. The other first battle was the water battle. For him, water attack was not a good memory. But in Jiyang City, such a battle could not be avoided.

He Yan even doubted whether she and Xiao Jue had a fire spirit in their previous life, and had such a bad relationship with Shui.

"I'm going to the martial arts field to practice tomorrow morning," Xiao Jue said, "You go too."

"Me?" He Yan hesitated for a moment, "I really want to go, but will the Prince Mengji be unhappy?"

In name, Xiao Jue was the governor of the Right Army of the Great Wei Dynasty. No one could be better at training troops and preparing for war than him, but He Yan was just Xiao Jue's subordinate.

"Don't worry about her." Xiao Jue said: "You go with me."

...

It's late at night.

The man sat in front of the room and quietly looked at the flower basket on the table.

The sugar painting looks bright and crystal clear under the warm lights of the oil lamp. The flowers in the flower basket are blooming in a dense and prosperous way. In front of the flower basket, there are two words written: Zilan. It is upright and beautiful.

A smile seemed to sound in my ears.

"Zhao means light, and Zilan means vanilla. The person who gives you this name must love you very much. I hope that you will be noble in character and bright in the future, so that you will be so elegant."

The person who gave him this name must love him very much?

Chu Zhao never thought so.

His mother was Ye Runmei, the daughter of a small official family in Qin County. She was born with a beautiful appearance and was as beautiful as a fairy. The same was true in his memory. She was an impeccable woman with eyebrows and eyes, beautiful, charming and pitiful, and in her handsome posture, she also had a bit of naive and ignorant aloofness.

Such a beauty will never be forgotten at all. How many men in Qin County hope to marry Ye Runmei as their wife, but Ye Runmei fell in love with the same handsome Shi Jinbo and Chu Linfeng who came to Qin County to do business.

Even though Chu Linfeng was in Shuojing, he was still a rare beauty. In addition, he was generous and struggled in the pile of makeup for so many years, and knew how to please people. Soon, Ye Runmei fell in love with this romantic and considerate young master Chu.

Not only do we fall in love with each other, but we also spend a good night together.

But in only three months, Chu Linfeng was about to leave Qin County and return to Shuojing. Before leaving, Chu Linfeng told Ye Runmei that she would come back to marry her. Ye Runmei was immersed in the dream of waiting for her lover to marry her. She did not realize that she knew nothing about Chu Linfeng except that she knew Chu Linfeng's name and lived in Shuojing.

When Chu Linfeng left, there was no news again.

Not long after he left, Ye Runmei found out that she was pregnant.

She was anxious and afraid and dared not tell anyone. But her belly grew bigger and bigger, and she couldn't hide it. Master Ye was furious and forced Ye Runmei to ask who the father of the child was. Ye Runmei herself didn't know the other party's true identity, so how could she say it clearly, and she just kept crying.

In the end, Mr. Ye had no choice but to hire a doctor, intending to abort the child in Ye Runmei's belly. After a year and a half, he would send Ye Runmei to get married. This matter would be rotten in his stomach for the rest of his life and no one would say anything about it.

Ye Runmei knew her father's plan and ran away overnight.

She didn't want to fall into this child, not knowing whether it was out of nostalgia for Chu Linfeng or because of something else. In short, she ran away.

Ye Runmei decided to go to Shuojing to find Chu Linfeng.

How could she go so far as a woman with a big belly? But because of her beauty, she met a merchant along the way, who took the initiative to help and agreed to take her to Shuojing.

Before he arrived in Shuojing, Ye Runmei gave birth, and it was at this time that Chu Zhao was born. After Chu Zhao was born, Ye Runmei's miserable days had just begun.

The merchant was not a kind-hearted person. He took a fancy to Ye Runmei's beauty and hoped that Ye Runmei would be his concubine. Ye Runmei refused to obey and scratched the merchant. The merchant was furious and sold Ye Runmei into a brothel for ten taels of silver.

Chu Zhao also sold it in, because the mother of the brothel felt that Ye Runmei was so outstanding, her son should not be bad. If she was born well in the future, she might not be able to make another money. If she was born poorly, she would not lose money as a slave.

Ye Runmei and Chu Zhao moved into the brothel.

The young lady who was spoiled for the past ten years and did not know the sinister nature of the world saw all kinds of ugly and vicious people in the brothel, as if she wanted to take back all the smooth sailings of her past. Ye Runmei's life was worse than death. The long-term torture caused her temperament to change drasticly. She began to become irritable and irritable, and did not dare to act rashly in front of Enke. However, she vented her inner resentment completely and often beat Chu Zhao. If it weren't for the other women in the brothel, Chu Zhao felt that she might not have lived to see Chu Linfeng.

Chu Zhao did not understand what Ye Runmei had for her. If she said she didn't love her, she left home alone, wandered in a foreign land, suffered all the hardships, and did not give up on him. If she said she loved her, why did she repeatedly say that she used those tingling words to him, and her eyes and eyebrows were full of hatred.

She always hit him with a bamboo pole, and said while beating: "I hate you! If it weren't for you, if it weren't for you, my life shouldn't be like this! Why did you appear? Why don't you die!"

After the vicious curse, she looked at the scars on Chu Zhao's body and hugged him and shed tears: "I'm sorry, mom, I'm sorry, Ah Zhao, Zilan, don't blame me, mom, mom is sorry for you..."

He was very confused when he was young, and he didn't understand whether he loved or did not. He just looked at the mourning woman, and a hint of disgust flashed through his heart.

He hopes that such days will end soon, and he hopes that he can grow up quickly and escape from this dirty and desperate place.

More than one person thinks this way, and Ye Runmei is also looking for opportunities.

She had never given up finding Chu Linfeng. She cursed Chu Linfeng's ruthlessness while also full of hope for him. She always looked at Chu Zhao, as if she was looking at all hope. Perhaps she left Chu Zhao back then to stand openly when she saw Chu Linfeng one day and told him: This is your son. Then she brought the hardships of the years. Chu Linfeng would feel sorry for her, and marry her as she said to her back then, and make up for the debts she had to their mother and son over the years.

Ye Runmei thought so, so she always took the initiative to entertain every guest from Shuojing. Her stunning life was easily the top star in brothels. Although she was not in Shuojing, there were always people from Shuojing when she came and went to Shuojing. One day, she actually asked her to wait for someone who knew Chu Linfeng.

The man was Chu Linfeng's friend. When he first heard Ye Runmei telling the sad past, he just listened to some fun, and sometimes accompanied him to comfort him to satisfy his savior's kindness. But when he heard that the man was called Chu Linfeng, who was handsome and handsome, and was from Shuojing again, his face gradually changed.

Anyone who knows Chu Linfeng knows that this person is lingering in flowers and is particularly lustful. It is not impossible to hook up with a woman from a small family when she goes out. However, this is not authentic enough, and at least it is also informed of the truth, which makes people lose their thoughts and cannot keep the person in the same place. After waiting for many years, it has become a bad fate.

"My miserable child... I don't know if I will have the chance to see his father in this life." Ye Runmei covered her face and cried.

"There are children?" the friend was startled and asked, "Can I let me see you?"

Ye Runmei asked Chu Zhao to come out.

Chu Zhao's nose and mouth are like Ye Runmei, but his eyebrows and eyes are printed on the same mold as Chu Linfeng. He is gentle and affectionate. When looking at people, he always seems to have a soft smile. If this face is said to be Chu Linfeng's son, no one would doubt it.

The friend got up, said perfunctoryly, and hurried out.

Ye Runmei was extremely disappointed.

When a friend returned to Shuojing, the first thing he did was to find Chu Linfeng at Shi Jinbo's mansion and asked him if he had ever had a love relationship with a beauty in Qin County many years ago. Chu Linfeng thought for a long time and finally recalled a little bit of an impression. He vaguely remembered that he was a very kind woman. Unfortunately, he was a little stupid and believed in what he said.

"The woman is now in a brothel," said the friend: "I also gave birth to a son for you. I have seen that child. It is very similar to the one you gave birth to, and it is so beautiful!"

This was beyond Chu Linfeng's expectations.

Mrs. Chu was ugly and never cared about his romantic affairs outside, so he was happy and carried a nineteen-room concubine into the mansion, all of which were beautiful. Unfortunately, Mrs. Chu had only one condition, and could take a concubine, and the child could only crawl out of her belly.

Mrs. Chu had three children, and Chu Linfeng was not interested in having many children and good fortune, so he felt it was enough. The only regret was that none of his three sons inherited his appearance and looked mediocre. He knew that his colleagues and friends were laughing at him behind his back. He was greedy for good colors all his life, but unfortunately his offspring was mediocre and boring and not moving enough.

Now someone has come to tell him that he actually has a son left behind, and he was born very prominently, and his eyebrows were very similar to him. This is a good thing for him to fall from the sky. For a moment, I really wanted this child to recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown. In this way, if others say that Chu Linfeng could not give birth to a good-looking son, he could slap them in the face.

But Chu Linfeng has been respectful to his wife for many years. Although Mrs. Chu seems dignified and generous, she is not easy to mess with. Otherwise, the concubines in the Chu mansion would not have no son. Chu Linfeng had no choice but to ask the old lady, his mother.

Although Mrs. Chu did not value the concubine's son much, it was always the blood of the Chu family, and it was not good to be left outside, not to mention that it was a place like a brothel, so she went to find Mrs. Chu personally. Mrs. Chu and the old lady said something in the house for an hour. When she left the mansion, Mrs. Chu personally ordered someone to go to the brothel in Sazhou and take the concubine's son back.

But that concubine's son did not mention Ye Runmei.

Although Shi Jinbo was not a master in the capital, he was also a high-ranking official and was even more unattainable than those from Saizhou. When the letter flew from Shuojing to Saizhou, Ye Runmei could hardly believe her eyes.

She knew that Chu Linfeng should not be an ordinary person, and she was so generous and had a very different temperament from those men in Qin County. She thought that her family background was quite good. But she never expected that he was the current Shi Jinbo. She was the one she would never dare to think about in her life.

It seemed as if years of forbearance had come to this moment and finally harvested the sweet fruits. She hugged Chu Zhao and cried with joy, "Zi Lan, your father is here to pick us up, we can go home..."

Chu Zhao quietly let the woman's excited tears fall on her neck, and her young face was indifferent that was not in line with her age.
To be continued...