Chapter 22
The housekeeper of the Yu family took Ye Lanqiao to the door of the study, and then retreated by himself, Ye Lanqiao raised his head and looked at the hidden study door, thought about it, turned back to Yueluo and said, "Yueluo, you are waiting for me here, I will go in by myself."
Yue Luo nodded, and stood obediently under the corridor, watching Ye Lanqiao walk in.
Carefully pushed open the door of the study, and a burst of woody mellow fragrance came to his face, Ye Lanqiao has always been unaccustomed to smelling such heavy thoughts, plus he had a headache today, and couldn't help but sneeze.
"Come in." Master Yu was sitting behind the desk, and after he heard Ye Lanqiao sneezing, his face was a little unhappy, and he spoke coldly.
Ye Lanqiao hurriedly walked into the study and made a big salute in a proper manner: "Grandfather Wan'an."
"Do you remember, this is the first time you've been to the Yu family?" Master Yu didn't say to let Ye Lanqiao get up first, he looked at his granddaughter who saluted in front of him, but his eyes were rusty.
After decades, Master Yu knew in his heart that Ye Lanqiao suddenly came to visit the Yu family, and he must have come to beg him.
Ye Lanqiao thought for a while and said softly: "The third time." The first time was when she was a little doll, the second time was when Master Yu came over with her grandfather and grandmother when he was 60 years old, and today is the third time.
"The first two times you were brought over, although your mother is my daughter, but I haven't said a few words to you, why did you come here by yourself today?"
Master Yu couldn't tell whether it was mockery or questioning in his tone, he raised his hand, motioned for Ye Lanqiao to sit aside, and went straight to the point.
Ye Lanqiao raised her eyes and secretly glanced at Master Yu, and a layer of cold sweat had already appeared in her palms, but since Master Yu asked herself straight to the point, Ye Lanqiao also felt that there was no need to go around anymore, so she said all the words she had prepared to Master Yu.
When Master Yu heard this, he snorted coldly: "You asked me to save Chu Feiye?" What does he have to do with me? ”
Ye Lanqiao lowered his head, and there was some pleading in his tone: "The business is because he has nothing to do with your grandfather, so my granddaughter begged you to save him."
Master Yu got up, walked in front of Ye Lanqiao, and looked at her condescendingly, his eyes were like torches, and Ye Lanqiao was a little uncomfortable all over his body.
"You're not stupid, you know in your heart that the blood relationship between you and me is insignificant at all, and you still come to beg me today, isn't it in vain for you?"
Ye Lanqiao gasped, should her grandfather be so upright.
"Grandfather." Ye Lanqiao's heart was crossed, and he got up and knelt in front of Master Yu.
Although Ye Lanqiao doesn't like to kneel at every turn, in this ancient world, kneeling if you want to ask someone to do things is the minimum configuration, besides, for Chu Feiye's life, Ye Lanqiao's short-term discomfort is nothing at all.
Master Yu had already planned to leave the study, but it could be seen that Ye Lanqiao's attitude was so resolute, he didn't know what was going on, so he moved a little bit of compassion and stayed.
"I know that it is indeed a bit abrupt to let my grandfather spend his efforts to save a person I don't know, but this person is really wronged, grandfather, you are the most honest and honest official, and you can't bear to see a serious errand person being framed, right?"
Ye Lanqiao knelt on the ground, her knees hurt from the cold floor, but now she was really a little anxious in her heart, if she didn't even have any hope for Master Yu, then Chu Feiye would really not be able to get out.
Seeing that Ye Lanqiao's eyes were flashing with tears, Master Yu frowned, returned to the old sandalwood relief circle chair opposite and sat down, and asked rhetorically:
"How do you know how I am an official?"
Ye Lanqiao blinked, her face did not change and her heart did not beat and said: "After my mother had a difficult birth, Mother Fan, who was serving by her side, put away her mother's relics, a few years ago, Mother Fan, who had already returned to her hometown, went to Ye's house to see me, and Mother Fan told me that when my mother was alive, I admired you the most, and my mother also said that although she was not your most well-behaved and favored daughter, you were the person she was most proud of in this world."
Ye Lanqiao snorted, lay on the ground, and her voice was even more trembling and pitiful: "Grandfather, granddaughter knows that over the years, granddaughter has not been able to fulfill her filial piety by your side, and now she is still using such a thing to make her grandfather angry, it really shouldn't be." But please let my grandfather agree to his granddaughter's request for the sake of his deceased mother. ”
After Ye Lanqiao finished speaking, the study fell into an eerie silence. I don't know how long it took, just when Ye Lanqiao, who was lying on the ground, was about to lose his support, Master Yu suddenly sighed heavily:
"Get up and talk first."
A little hope rose in Ye Lanqiao's heart again, she didn't dare to show it, she slowly got up from the ground, and sat opposite Master Yu with her head down.
"I have a lot of children, plus the court is busy, not to mention your mother, the children of the Yu family, I am not very close, I only need to be strict on weekdays, I don't care what Chenghuan knees. But I didn't expect your mother to see me like that in her heart. ”
Master Yu's voice came slowly, his tone was still as blunt as ever, Ye Lanqiao raised his eyes and secretly glanced at Master Yu, and he also had mixed feelings in his heart.
Some people choose to put their families first, while others have struggled for their careers all their lives. Master Yu has chosen the latter in his life, and there is no right or wrong choice, but it is just different.
"I know more or less about Chu Feiye, but now I want to know more why you want to save him." Master Yu swept his eyes shrewdly, he looked at Ye Lanqiao directly, and added: "Don't look at me old, just find any reason like 'he's a good person' to send me away, let me do things, you must be honest!"
The last four words fell on Ye Lanqiao's head like a big stone, and Ye Lanqiao racked his brains for a long time, isn't it because "he is a good person"? Could it be that this reason is not sufficient?
"Grandfather, I ......" Ye Lanqiao raised her head a little embarrassed, she didn't dare to make up nonsense on the spot, in case the car overturned, the previous efforts would not be in vain.
"If you want to save him, you need a good reason, a relationship that can't be beaten with a hundred poles, even if I try my best, others won't listen." Master Yu looked at Ye Lanqiao faintly and added.
"Relationship?" Ye Lanqiao was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but ask.
"Or a relative, or a relative's family." Master Yu broke his words, and he suddenly thought of this question just now. Ye Lanqiao tried so hard to save Chu Feiye out, what was it for.
Ye Lanqiao is not a little girl who is in love for the first time in her teens, she immediately understood the meaning of Master Yu's words.
It was precisely Master Yu's words that reminded Ye Lanqiao of the moment.
Chu Feiye said to Ye Lanqiao, how could it not be a life-saving straw?
Chu Feiye, who is the concubine of the Hou Mansion, although he does not have a title, is relatively far away from the whirlpool of power, and when the family is separated in the future, he will naturally be able to live a stable life.
A stable life, for the current Ye Lanqiao, isn't it what she needs the most?
Seeing Ye Lanqiao in a daze, Master Yu knocked on the table impatiently and spoke: "I know, the marriage of the Qiao family was originally yours." Although you are my granddaughter, I should not be in charge of the marriage. Originally, I thought that you couldn't plan for yourself as an under-married girl, but I didn't think that you actually took a fancy to Chu Feiye. ”
Master Yu had an expression that understood everything, and said slowly. When Ye Lanqiao heard this, his heart immediately became weak and he couldn't help lowering his head.
"Chu Feiye is fine, although there is nothing to do in the future, it is better than you being alone in Ye Mansion."
Master Yu has no attachment to family affection in his life, although he softened his heart today because of the deceased Yu, but it is impossible for him to take care of Ye Lanqiao, the granddaughter, in everything in the future.
"Grandfather ......" Seeing Master Yu get up, Ye Lanqiao was a little confused for a while.
"This is a mention of Geng, and when I have Chu Feiye's name above, I will naturally have a reason to say that I will go and save him from prison." Master Yu ignored Ye Lanqiao's puzzlement, he took out a letterhead from a brocade-wrapped box on the bookshelf, opened it and looked at it, and then handed it to Ye Lanqiao.
Ye Lanqiao looked at the letterhead handed over by Master Yu blankly, and was stunned for a moment, and did not raise his hand to take it for a long time.
"What? Isn't that true? Master Yu frowned: "If it's not true, then I don't have the ability to save an unrelated person from under King Qi."
"It's true!" Seeing that Master Yu was about to take back the letterhead, Ye Lanqiao hurriedly reacted and raised his hand to take the letterhead.
Her heartbeat was so strong, in her previous life and in this life, Ye Lanqiao never thought that one day her marriage would be decided in such an environment.
The marriage post in his hand is like a hot potato, no matter how much Ye Lanqiao refuses in his bones, he can only hold it tightly.
This is Chu Feiye's life, if everything goes well, it is also the stability of his grandmother.
Coming out of Yufu with Yueluo, Ye Lanqiao raised his head and looked at the gray sky, and thought for a long time before gritting his teeth: "Yueluo, follow me to the prison temple."
Yueluo thought she had misheard: "Prison Temple? Girl, what are we going to do there, it's ...... there."
The prison is the largest prison here, and it is full of heinous bad people. Yueluo felt that her girl must have a fever and was confused, so she wanted to go to that kind of place.
"Time is tight, I still have important things to do." Ye Lanqiao's eyes were firm, she pinched the mention of the Geng post in her hand, got into the carriage without looking back, and the group walked towards the prison temple.
Taking the waist card given by Master Yu, Ye Lanqiao also asked Yueluo to give a bag of broken silver to the soldiers guarding the door, and finally walked into the prison temple smoothly.
"Yueluo, don't interject no matter what you hear, you know?" Seeing that he was about to reach the place where Chu Feiye was locked, Ye Lanqiao's heart also rose to his throat.
"Got it, girl." Yueluo nodded, when she passed by the various prison entrances along the way, the wailing and cursing that came out of it had already frightened Yueluo, even if she was asked to speak at this time, she didn't know how to speak.