Chapter 12: The Past
"I'm evil! You've been fooled! I really want to ask you now, I really want to ask you Dagongzi Lan, you are so rich in your house, and the woman who gives you a marriage according to reason should definitely not be wrong, why are you so bent on running away from marriage, and still living in our humble house? Feng Yao, who already knew a little bit of eyebrows, was more curious about this Lan Yi in front of him, unlike so many rich children, this Lan Yi did not show any signs of stubbornness, he was noble and cold, he seemed to be out of place in this world!
"How can you understand this?" Lan Yi was still concentrating on pouring spices, this was the task that Xiao Zheng gave him in the morning, and he had to complete it.
"I just can't understand it! Running away like this is not a solution at all, unless you cut ties with your family, otherwise, even if the young lady of this family does not succeed, they will ask you to ask the young lady of the other family! Do you really not want to get married, or do you have any prejudices about this Miss Zhong family? Oops, give it to me, see you get all the vanilla outside! In the future, I won't have to do this work myself, just leave it to me! If you feel a little moved, you might as well tell me more about this capital and satisfy my curiosity. Seeing that Lan Yi was a little distracted, she got some juice out of the vessel, Feng Yao snatched it away, and the small medicine pestle seemed to have spirituality in her hand, flexible and fast, without a little difference.
Lan Yi looked at her, always thinking that she was bragging, but she didn't expect that there were really two hits.
"You don't have to worship me so much! I've been doing this for so many years, and I'm good at pouring vanilla! I think that at the beginning, in order not to ask me to run out, but also to hone my heart, my father handed over all these forage pouring work to me, and told me not to go out to play until I finished it! But I was so bent on going outside to play, I poured it as soon as I could! Just poured and poured and poured, and after a long time, my kung fu of pouring spices was practiced. Feng Yao laughed, she is a woman, everything is good, but she is not like a girl.
Lan Yi didn't speak, just watched from the sidelines, watching quietly. Looking at the slender little hands shuttling quickly in the vessel, the smoke-like past seems to still be vivid.
Indeed, Lan Yi's thoughts are indeed something that Feng Yao can't understand, if he can, he doesn't want to understand it himself, but it's a pity that the world makes people, he not only has to understand, but also has to bear it.
The current Lan family has a prominent position, rich gold and silver, and a strong family background, behind these shining brilliance is the heartache that the Lan family itself understands.
For more than ten years, Lan Yi has been cold to his father, has no concern for the family business, and seems to have an instinctive resistance to everything around him. He ran away from all the arrangements of the family, he rebelled against his father's plans, and he rebelled against all the rules that bound him. He is like a rebellious child, who doesn't judge what is wrong, doesn't think about right and wrong, everything is just to be against his father! As long as his father said it, he instinctively resisted, and as long as it was his father's decision, he rejected it from the bottom of his heart.
This character slowly sprouted from Lan Yi's very young age, and gradually when people grew up, these thoughts and behaviors gradually became habits, lingering, and could not be erased. In fact, whenever Lan Yi did this, he was not happy, but if he didn't do this, it would make him even more miserable! This pain will torment his body, torment his conscience, and make him sleep!
When he was a child, Lan Yi didn't understand what adults only saw, he only knew that his father was not good to his mother, very bad, not only emotionally neglected, but also seriously injured verbally and physically beaten and scolded! When he was young, he rarely saw his mother, and most of the time he was accompanied by a nurse. But almost every time I saw that woman, almost always in the sound of my father's scolding. Even for two years, Lan Yi didn't know that the woman who had been bullied by her father was her mother!
Later, Lan Yi gradually grew up, of course his father would not say this to him, and the subordinates did not dare to speak falsely! But once, he heard all this from one of his father's concubines, because the woman said that he was the child of a slut! This was the first time he knew his mother, and he knew that the person who was often beaten and scolded by his father was actually his mother! For the first time, he went crazy to find her, hugged her and cried bitterly, and didn't want to leave for a long time!
Later, he was still taken away from his mother by his father, as for the woman who was just for a moment...... Lan Yi didn't want to know what happened to her, but later, in the mansion, he never saw her again!
Later, Lan Yi heard the rumors outside, some rumors gradually poured into his ears, and some strange eyes began to cast on him, although Lan Yi himself didn't say it, but he deeply felt the disharmony and ridicule of those words and those eyes.
Later, Lan Yi learned something, his former father was not like this, and his change began with an unsuccessful marriage.
The Lan family was not a wealthy family in the capital, at least not twenty years ago. And at that time, Lan Yi's father, Lan Hongda, was about to marry, and the bride was Du Yuexian, a young lady of the Du family who had already had a marriage contract! The words of the matchmaker of the parents, the letter of appointment and the dowry are all available, but unfortunately, at the last moment, the Du family resolutely repented of the marriage, and the specific reason for the regret of the marriage is unknown, but the outside world has spread it because the Du family dislikes the Lan family's power is not strong enough, and the family is not rich enough!
It is not unreasonable to say this, because not long after the Du family repented of the marriage, Du Yuexian married the widowed Ran Lin Zongran, who was the wife of the old man, and from then on, not only Du Yuexian, but the entire Du family followed the chicken dog to heaven.
Although the Lan family was not a wealthy family at that time, it was by no means an ordinary people's family, and the impact of such a change on the Lan family can be imagined! Gossip is overwhelming, and the Lan family and Lan Hongda have become people's after-dinner conversations. Lan Hongda, who had never experienced such a setback, could not bear such humiliation! But how easy is it to block the mouths of Youyou?
Later, the elders of the Lan family, that is, Lan Yi's grandfather, proposed to find a better family for Lan Hongda, but this place in the capital has long been full of wind and rain, and how many people with status are willing to bear such pressure to marry into the Lan family? Therefore, although Lan Hongda wants to marry, there is always no young lady who is willing.
Later, the elders of the Lan family asked someone to bring a girl from the countryside, that is, Lan Yi's mother, and lied that she was an outsider who entered the door of the Lan family. Although everyone didn't believe in such a statement, on the day Lan Hongda got married, many people saw the pretty girl he had courted, and Lan Yi's mother's stunning appearance did open a corner of the sun to Lan Hongda's embarrassing situation. Since then, there have been fewer gossips, and the rumors of envy for Lan Hong's ability to please such a handsome woman have begun to spread quietly.
A turmoil brought to Lan Hongda by regretting his marriage was suppressed in this way.
But Lan Hongda's heart has not been open-minded because of the decline of the limelight, and he is still haunted by the shame of the past! Especially when he knew clearly in his heart that his wife, who had an appearance, was not a daughter of an outsider, but a daughter of a broken family! He was disliked by Du Yuexian because of his family background, but he was not ashamed, but asked for a woman with a lower status and status! Thinking of this, Lan Hongda's heart couldn't help but be irritable! He couldn't accept his wife even more! As a result, Lan Hongda often made fun of Lan Yi's mother, scolded and even beaten!
The extreme distortion and perversion made Lan Hongda's personality strange after marriage, but it also prompted him to spend more time and energy on his own business. After a few years of hard work, Yipinxiang has become the No. 1 restaurant in Beijing from an ordinary shop, and Master Lan has suddenly become the object of scrambling to marry girls in Beijing.
Lan Hongda, who has achieved fame, did not waste his identity at all, and successively married a four-room concubine, although Lan Yi's mother's status is still a wife, but that ...... It's just a name, and nothing else.
No, the Lan family still has Lan Yi, this is her only sustenance and hope in this life! After so many years, it is also thanks to Lan Yi, and fortunately, the other concubines did not give birth to a son to Lan Hongda, otherwise, the fate of the Lan family is really unimaginable.
Today's Lan family lives in a simple house, eating fasting and reciting Buddha in an extremely hidden room in the backyard of the Lan Mansion. Very few people usually go to visit, of course, it is one thing that the Lan family does not like to be disturbed, and it is also true that he really did not go to see it. Except for Lan Yi, there is no one there! Lan Yi wanted to tell her mother to live better, at least, she was the mother of Young Master Lan Fu, but the Lan family refused! Now she doesn't care about fame and fortune, she doesn't care about fame, she doesn't care about fame, as long as she can stay quietly in this mansion, and everything is enough to watch her Lan Yi for a long time!
These are the sorrows buried in Lan Yi's heart, and they are also the heartaches that he can't reveal to outsiders! He has endured it for so many years, and it seems that he has taken this as a habit, if Feng Yao hadn't mentioned it at this moment, he would have forgotten that he had always been sick, his heart was sick!
"What's wrong with you? Silly or frightened? Feng Yao's hand shook vigorously in front of Lan Yi for many times before he came back to his senses, "What's wrong with you?" Seeing that Lan Yi's face was a little ugly, Feng Yao couldn't help but ask with concern.
"I'm fine, these ......" Lan Yi looked at the work in Feng Yao's hand.
"I'm done! If you're not feeling well, take a break, I'll call you at dinner! Anyway, my brother isn't home now, and no one will bother you if you sleep there! If...... It's true...... Someone is coming...... I'll help you cope with it. When he said this, Feng Yao smiled at Lan Yi, and the smile was extremely bright, casting a warm sunshine into Lan Yi's dim heart. Although just a touch of it was not enough to illuminate the entire heart, at least there seemed to be some light in Lan Yi's heart.