Wanhua Imperial Capital, Yanbo Street is still as quiet as ever. In front of Shangshu Mansion, Mrs. Ye and Ye Yin had been waiting for a long time.

I heard that the convoy escorting the princess returned to the imperial capital today, so Ye Zhiqiu should almost arrive home.

Finally, a carriage came slowly in the distance, and it didn't stop until it reached the front of the house.

"Master, you're back."

"Daddy! You're back, brother? ”

Ye Zhiqiu looked at the earnest eyes of the two, smiled slightly and didn't speak, and motioned for them to go in first.

In the hall, Mrs. Ye had already prepared dishes to catch the wind. The dining table in Yefu is not big, and a table of eight immortals is just enough to seat a family of four, which is spacious enough. It's just that today, Ye Yin looked at the empty position on the side, a little dumbfounded. She couldn't believe what her father had just told her and her mother: Su Xiaochen was missing.

How could my brother disappear out of thin air? Aren't there guards on the way?

Mrs. Ye was just as shocked as her daughter when she heard the news at first, but when her husband took one look at her, she quickly calmed down and stopped asking anything.

Husbands and wives are like this, they can know everything with one look.

Ye Zhiqiu rolled up his sleeves unhurriedly, and symbolically raised the wine glass, signaling that his daughter could move the chopsticks, and then put down the glass. Seeing that his daughter didn't move, he was relieved: "Yin'er, although Xiaochen didn't come back today, but Daddy is not too worried, your brother is almost eighteen years old, it stands to reason that he has married a wife and had children at this age, not to mention that he is now a Yinlin given by the Holy Father, and he is an adult." Believing that he probably had something to do this time, Daddy left on the way, thinking that he would come back in a few days. ”

Ye Yin saw that her father's face was not as worried as herself, she was a little skeptical, and asked: "My brother has always been very deferential to my father, even if he has something to do, he will not leave without saying a word to his father, this is not like what my brother would do." ”

Mrs. Ye was silent.

Ye Zhiqiu continued: "Yin'er, my father has already said that he is also in charge of the court now, and this time he has made a lot of contributions to Bihai, and the saint is very praised. What's more, he is also a student of Taishi, and it is very likely that he suddenly received a letter or secret order from a pigeon harrier on the way. Even if my father is his elder, you can't delve into the affairs of the court, and you can't continue to dig into the bottom of it. ”

Ye Yin knew that she couldn't ask anything, she knew her father's style very well, it was not necessary to let herself know, but she was afraid that she wouldn't say a word. At that moment, I had to eat a few bites indiscriminately, so I pushed the rice bowl and went back to the room first.

It wasn't until after Ye Yin left that Mrs. Ye sent everyone down again, and then asked softly, "Do you know where he went?" ”

Ye Zhiqiu nodded.

"Northside?"

Still nodded.

Mrs. Ye sighed: "I knew he would go sooner or later, but I didn't know it would be so early, I just said that he can come back once this time, and I can also see him again, and give him a good send, it is not in vain that I have raised him for seventeen years." ”

Ye Zhiqiu said expressionlessly: "Sooner or later, he will return to this Wanhua Imperial Capital, why should you worry." ”

Mrs. Ye squinted at him and said, "Don't you have any reluctance to this child in your heart?" ”

Ye Zhiqiu gently picked up a slice of ham, and said while eating: "Madame must have heard a sentence, I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf, not to mention that he is not our child." ”

Mrs. Ye shook her head: "Zhiqiu...... How have you become so ruthless over the years? ”

"Over the years, it's not that I've become ruthless, it's that my wife has become too soft-hearted. Xiaochen's matter, you and I knew it clearly from the beginning, what will happen to him in the future, and I haven't hidden anything from Mrs. Isn't it all planned now? Madame now sighs, but I am puzzled. ”

"People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless. You know he's not ......"

Ye Zhiqiu suddenly glanced at her sternly and said, "Madam! You promised me never to mention it. Everything I do now is for the Chang family, I am still the descendant of the Chang family's side branches, you are the only remaining orthodox bloodline in the clan, how can you not think about recovering the country, entangled in these calf licking private affairs. ”

"I know that you think of the continuation of my Chang clan's bloodline in everything, and you think of recovering the country. You want to marry Yin'er to Xiaochen, don't you also want to use Xiaochen as a chess piece? ”

"If we hadn't raised him for seventeen years, where would he have his current life and future, or if I wanted to treat him as a pawn, let him repay this nurturing grace, would he still be able to say a word?"

"But Yin'er is always your own daughter, right? You want to match the two of them, have you ever asked her what she wants? ”

Ye Zhiqiu snorted coldly and said, "Madam, because you are with Yin'er every day, how can you not even see through her daughter's thoughts." What's more, her little temperament, Xiaochen can stand it, can you rest assured that she is married to someone else's family? ”

Mrs. Ye was obviously said to be on her mind, Yin'er's temperament was a little arrogant, she and Xiaochen always spoiled her, and Ye Zhiqiu didn't care about her. What's more, she really hopes to keep Xiaochen by her side, this child's fate is destined to be bumpy, even if she is not her own, she can't help but want to cherish more.

"Then Xiaochen, did you ask him what he meant?"

"Madame, rest assured, if I had not obtained his permission, I would have left him to the Imurans. I also know about him, and since I promised to treat Yin'er well in the future, I will definitely do it. It's just ......" Ye Zhiqiu suddenly frowned, "Yin'er may have to be wronged in the concubine room in the future, I see that Xiaochen's mind has completely fallen on the third princess of the blue sea." ”

Mrs. Ye was taken aback: "What? Concubine? How can you be so wronged? She's your own daughter. ”

Ye Zhiqiu was robbed by his wife like this, obviously a little resentful, and said sullenly: "I didn't expect that in the past half a year, Imuran's side has secretly matched the two of them, and their abacus has been fighting longer than mine, I sigh to myself." I asked the big butler in person this time if it was his plan, although he pretended not to know and admit it, but I couldn't be clearer about his intentions, he just wanted to fuse the blood of the Bihai Zhu clan into their Imuran bloodline, and the desire to covet the world can be seen. But this anti-customer-oriented thinking is actually the same as mine. ”

Speaking of this, Ye Zhiqiu couldn't help but sigh: "Madam, a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses." Without a great steward, there is no hope for us to recover. Moreover, although Yin'er has a noble bloodline, she is indeed slightly inferior to the Bihai Zhu family, and as a concubine in the future, it cannot be said that it will humiliate the lintel of our Chang family. What's more, it's man-made, even if it's not a wife, what Concubine Jing did back then is not unavoidable......"

Mrs. Ye's expression suddenly changed, stared at her husband's face and said, "Ye Zhiqiu, there are some things you have to do, I just didn't see it, after all, you are also dedicated to my father's entrustment back then." My daughter, you don't want to get her into all that dirty thing! Do you hear me? ”

There was silence in the living room, and for a moment I couldn't even hear the sound of the chopsticks.

* * * * * *

The sound of the wind passed by in his ears, sometimes roaring like wolves, sometimes sluggish like ghosts crying and crying. Su Xiaochen slowly opened his eyes, and there was a bright fire in front of him, and the dead branches were being burned to crackle, and a few sparks burst out from time to time.

He subconsciously curled up and found that he was covered with a thick sheepskin blanket.

It seems that he is not dead.

Su Xiaochen struggled to stand up, looked around, and suddenly found that there was a circle of people surrounding him, at least twenty or thirty people.

Each of these men was a burly man, with thick hands and feet, and was dressed in various fur garments with strange braids. Some were roasting meat, some were sharpening daggers, but all of them were staring at themselves.

Su Xiaochen looked closely, and there was a pattern on the shoulders of these people, a red emblem like a flame, some of which were tattoos, and some of which were dyed on their clothes.

Red Flame ...... Is this the family crest of the Bloodline? Su Xiaochen vaguely remembered that Uncle You had taught that the three major clans of Imuran Blade Blood Eagle were the most warlike and cruel clan. This clan is not only warlike by nature, but also merciless to those outside the clan by plundering, and even within the blood clan, the weak eat the strong, and only respect the strong.

Su Xiaochen secretly thought, if he encountered the Blade Clan, he could still try to lure him, but now that he has fallen into the hands of the Blood Clan, he is afraid that it will be really bad luck.

He looked closely, and in the middle of the group, there was a leader-like figure leaning on a large rock, holding something in his hand and looking at it carefully.

Su Xiaochen suddenly found that it was the horn given to him by Xiao Yun.

Absolutely not!

He didn't know where he got the strength to stand up all at once, and wanted to rush over and take the horn back, but he didn't pay attention to the pile of scattered branches under his feet, and he tripped and fell to the ground, looking very embarrassed.

The people around him burst into laughter.

The leader-looking man raised his left hand, and everyone immediately stopped laughing. He slowly stood up and walked over to Su Xiaochen.

At this time, Su Xiaochen realized that the man in front of him was so tall, not only was he not under the iron flower of the blue sea, but his figure was also more burly than the iron flower.

His face was covered with vicissitudes, and under the fur covered by his body, countless deep and shallow scars were revealed, as if to prove how many life and death this body had been in.

The man leaned over, looked at Su Xiaochen's face carefully for a while, and suddenly said a few words. Su Xiaochen didn't understand what he meant at all, but he felt that the tone of his voice was very gentle, but the kind of courage he exuded from the inside out made Su Xiaochen feel a little awe.

Su Xiaochen mustered up the courage to calmly point to the horn in his hand, then pointed to himself, and said, "This is, my ...... It's mine. ”