Brother Lin wasn't born to his father?

A younger brother named Zhou Xi threatened his father so that he could not take the official career?

He suddenly understood why his father was reluctant to speak out, afraid that he would know the truth and turn against Brother Lin, if it was a few years ago, maybe it would, but now, as he said, what is good about being an official, it is better to be comfortable in business.

Looking down at the words that looked at him with concern on his face, Yan Rui smiled, kissed her forehead, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, now it's enough to have you." ”

Although his voice was soft, the room was large and quiet, and this small voice was amplified a lot in it, and naturally the strict father and mother who were sitting in the hall also heard it.

"Who's there? Come out for me! Father Yan's majestic voice came, and he thought it was some ignorant subordinate.

Yan Mu wiped away the tears on her face neatly, and turned her head to look at the door while sitting precariously.

"Father, it's us."

The two men came out of the side doorway.

Father Yan saw them coming, and asked a little nervously and worriedly, "Did you hear what you said just now?!" ”

Yan's mother also looked at her son, and she was worried that her son, who had always been calm, would impulsively drill into the horns of the bull for this matter, and it would really be a brotherly wall when the time came.

"Father and mother, you don't have to worry, I won't have a dislike with Brother Lin for this, it's been so long, and my son has also looked down on officialdom."

"It's just that the son doesn't understand what his father and mother just said."

He had heard a lot, and his father should not have hidden it from him anymore, and fortunately he turned back halfway through just now, otherwise he would not have heard so many things.

"Father, my husband and I have heard so much, you can tell us the rest, your husband doesn't care about what happened back then." Seeing that Yan's father was still a little hesitant, Li Tianyan and Yan Rui sat on the chairs on the side and asked.

"Just say it, anyway, if you don't say the rest, I'll find someone to talk to Rui'er." Yan's mother was also persuading on the side, because she had cried just now, and her voice was still a little hoarse.

Seeing that she was like this, Father Yan picked up the tea that had cooled on the table and took a sip, while recalling, and slowly said the events of the year:

"Back then, well, I have to start from more than 20 years ago, at that time in Jiaqing, your father and I and Yan Lin's biological father Xie Tong got acquainted because of business, at that time my business was still starting, the foundation was unstable, and it was bad for peers to squeeze out, thanks to Xie Tong is to help at a critical time, my business gradually boomed, and then the two of us became friends who talked about everything, and the business field together accounted for the wood furniture shopping mall in Jiaqing, and the limelight was flourishing, you must know how many people thought about ...... back then."

Speaking of this, Yan's father patted his head with one hand, "It's almost far away, people are old, and they always want to talk about the scenery of the year." ”

Li Tianyan saw that the tea was cold at that time, so he went out to make tea, which happened to bring the brewed tea.

"Father, mother, have a cup of tea."

"It's still a girl's caring, how did I give birth to these two silly boys, but it's the same with a daughter-in-law." Yan's mother took the wooden carved teacup she handed and put it on her hand to warm her hands.

Father Yan took the teacup, didn't drink it, put it in his hand and continued the previous words, "Just when Xie Tong's business and I were booming, something happened, that incident was too sudden, and good people said that it was gone, and now I think about the scene at that time vividly." ”

"That day, Xie Tong said that he wanted to go out to enter a batch of wood, and at that time he didn't need to go to this kind of thing, and his sister-in-law just found out that she was pregnant for a few days, and at that time I needed a batch of special wood, so I thought I would go on his behalf, and he agreed at the time, speaking of which, Mrs. was also pregnant with Rui'er at that time."

Yan's father patted Yan's mother's hand and took a sip of tea.

"But the day I left, Xie Tong still came together, since they were all on the road, they went together, it was a matter of a few days, but the thing was on the way back, a group of people dragged a few carts of wood on the rugged mountain road, I and Xie Tong, his carriage was in the front, mine followed behind, there was a square wood vehicle in the middle, some distance apart, when I heard the baby's cry in the car from the faint came, when I thought of the wife who was raising the baby at home, I asked people to change the direction to see, thinking that it would not take long, I didn't say a word to Xie Tong. ”

"And then?" Yan Rui saw that his father was speaking in detail and slowly, and felt that the baby's crying was very strange, and he couldn't help urging.

Fortunately, it's broad daylight now, otherwise listening to what Father Yan said, I would probably wonder if he was making up a ghost story on the fly.

"You kid, why are you in such a hurry, when it comes to the critical time, don't interrupt." Yan's mother heard it really, and she only knew about what happened back then, and Qi Song didn't tell her about it carefully at that time.

Father Yan swept his gaze over them, and then said, "At that time, I looked for the sound, and I didn't think about where the baby's voice came from in the wilderness, and I didn't hear this sound alone, and Ma Bo also heard it at that time, but after looking for a long time there was nothing, and when I was about to return, I found a tanuki standing on a rock. ”

I don't know if Old Man Yan is reluctant to talk about key things, and after talking for a long time, he is still talking about something, and finding a tanuki is the point.

Yan Rui didn't rush it, he would say it anyway.

"Later, when we caught up with Xie Tong and them in the way we came, we only saw ......" His hand trembled a little as he said this.

"I only saw blood all over the ground, all the carriages and timber were turned to the ground, and more than 20 people were all lying on the ground, we were all stunned on the spot, how did it become like this after a while, I found Xie Tong's carriage, he still had a knife in his body, and he still had a breath, I don't know if it was to wait for me."

"I tried to bandage him, but it was useless and the bleeding couldn't stop,...... Xie Tong told me that he used to work for the former prince, but now he was approached by someone from the court, asking me to leave quickly and take care of his wife and children. ”

After Father Yan finished talking about this, he took a big sip from the water glass, and closed his somewhat cloudy eyes to let himself come out of the memories of that time.

"You can guess without me saying the following, I took Lin'er's mother over, I was afraid that someone would hold on to their mother and son, and while paying some officials up and down in Jiaqing, it could be regarded as calming things down, but when she learned the news of Xie Tong's death, she couldn't stand the blow, and washed her face with tears every day, and passed away when she gave birth to Lin'er, and I didn't take good care of it."

Father Yan sighed.

"Twelve years later, I thought that the wind and waves were calm, and Rui'er and Lin'er gradually grew up, but I didn't expect Zhou Xi to come to the door, he knew what happened back then, and used Lin'er's identity as a coercion to make Rui'er give up the township test at that time, at that time his son was also going to participate in the township test, but he was far less smart and wise than Rui'er."

"I had no choice but to agree at that time, if he told Lin'er's identity, the people in the court might not let Lin'er go after so many years, so that Rui'er has always been on good terms with me later, and it is indeed ...... me who am sorry."

"Father, I said I don't care now."

Yan's mother also said at this time, "Since then, my mind has deviated, originally the two children were treated the same, but when I saw Lin'er, I would remember that it was because of him that Rui'er could not be the master of the imperial examination, and the more I looked at him, the more depressed my heart became, and it became a habit after a long time." ”

"For Lin'er, we didn't care as much as we should have, and now I think about what that incident has to do with one of his children, and I'm really ashamed of his mother's spirit in the sky."