In Li Haozi's study, the two teenagers who have not seen each other for many years did not reminisce about the past, but told their respective experiences over the years after separation. Li Haozi learned that Yun Xuelan had been ambushed before, and he was so seriously injured in the fight that he was unable to cultivate, and then he accidentally refined the moon spirit in the tomb and returned to cultivation. Li Haozi listened to the narration of the young man in front of him, and his expression changed very wonderfully at any time.

Then Li Haozi hesitated, but decided to tell his childhood friend about Yuwen's visit and his intentions openly. Hearing this, Yun Xuelan pondered for a moment and then raised her head and asked, "It seems that Uncle Li has decided to choose the Yuwen family?"

Li Haozi pursed his lips and looked at the person in front of him without saying a word, and then he closed his eyes, the pain in his heart made the young man's brows twist together, and he nodded with difficulty. After a long time, he didn't see any reaction from Yun Xuelan on the other side, Li Haozi opened his eyes, and seemed to have made a lot of determination to accept the anger and accusations of the person in front of him, he was ready, no matter whether the young man in front of him said that he or their Li family was a white-eyed wolf, whether it was eating inside or outside, or treachery, he was willing to bear all the harsh reproaches and words, for the Li family and for himself. It is unfaithful to the Li family and unrighteous for oneself.

But what greeted Li Haozi was not the thunderous anger he imagined, but the warm smile on the young man's face. Li Haozi shook his head uncertainly, and finally determined that the young man's smile was the same as the smile he saw when he was a child, warm and bright like sunshine, sincere and calm like a hook. There was no ridicule and contempt as he thought.

"You, don't blame me?" Li Haozi asked in disbelief.

"Why do I blame you?" the boy still smiled.

"Because of my father, him. ”

"You are you, and the Li family is the Li family. There was nothing wrong with Uncle Lee's decision. He has always hoped to glorify the lintel of your Li family, although he is now a state assassin, but who is an official does not really yearn for the center? Only by entering the sixth department and becoming a heavenly official can it really be the beginning of the rise of your Li family in Shilin. Our Yun family is not in the government or the opposition, but we just want to guard their place for the people of Great Xia and the people of this state in the southeast, keep the peace that their ancestors have passed down from generation to generation, and keep their current small life. Our Yun family is indeed inferior to your Li family in terms of official career, and the Yuwen family is also a giant in power, with many connections, which can help your father go further. Uncle Li is in the year of fighting, but after entering the capital, he has made great achievements, don't you want to watch your father die depressed in this state, right?"

"But the Yuwen family wants my father to participate in your Yunyin Villa, support the army, and collaborate with the enemy of Nanliang to commit treason. But I'm sure my dad wouldn't do that. But even if my father doesn't do this kind of thing, our Li family moves from here to the capital and marries the Yuwen family, and the fool will see that it was the Yuwen family who threw your Yunyin Villa on the ground and trampled on it. ”

"Mouse, do you think our Yun family has been criticized less over the years?" Yun Xuelan laughed at himself and continued: "From the day my Yunyin Mountain Villa was founded, I have been criticized because my Yun family ancestor is an old Chen of the previous dynasty. For so many years, we have been defending the southern border of Great Xia, and we have always been obscure and indisputable with the world, but have those people really let our Yun family go? If my brother and daughter-in-law of Yunyin Mountain Villa enter the court, we will be rejected by several families, and we will also be accused of forming a party for personal gain; if we keep a low profile and do not ask about political affairs, we will be said by the world to be proud of our achievements and support our own troops; if our wonderful children of the Yun family are a little famous in the rivers and lakes, they will be provoked and assassinated openly and secretly. There will also be people who denounce that our Yun family intends to get involved in the entire Great Xia's rivers and lakes. Heh, if my Yun family really has such a ability. The young man's words didn't continue, he wanted to blurt out, if our Yun family really had such ability and ambition, wouldn't we have really rebelled a long time ago. This is not what the boy thinks, but he is angry unintentionally. But Yun Xuelan still didn't have a casual Brexit, even in front of his childhood friend, he didn't dare to let down his vigilance. It's not that he doesn't trust Li Haozi in front of him, he believes that the other party has not changed, but once some words come out, the speaker has no intention of listening to the other party, and he will harm the other party.

Yun Xuelan shook her head and said indifferently: "If there are many lice, you are not afraid of biting." The lice that want to suck the blood of our Yun family are not one or two, and they are not a day or two. Why bother with them, just a Yuwen family. ”

Li Haozi didn't seem to be relieved because of Yun Xuelan's calmness, but the guilt in his heart worsened. He felt that his throat and lips were a little dry, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva hard and said, "Brother Lan, our Li family owes you the Yun family, and I am also sorry for you." The boy's last words were very soft, and his head hung very low.

Yun Xuelan was stunned for a moment, and then understood what the other party meant. He sighed and said, "It's okay, you don't have to take it seriously when you were a child, forget it if you can." With that, he got up and walked out the door. He understood what Li Haozi said to him, and I'm sorry for what you mean. The other party wanted to say that he couldn't fulfill his agreement to go through the rivers and lakes with him. Maybe it's for their Li family, maybe it's for something else. He had actually thought of this result a long time ago. Li Hanren has always hoped that Li Haozi will be a scholar and a person who can glorify the lintel of the Li family. The high level of the scholar can't see his son become reckless, and even many generals with outstanding military achievements are just a reckless man in the eyes of these scholars. In fact, he can understand the boy's decision, and he will not blame the boy for breaking the agreement. He was just a little disappointed, I don't know if it was because people couldn't be themselves as they wanted when they grew up, or because they had to carry too many things to disappoint him when they grew up, or because they were all such people, but they couldn't get rid of such a fate to disappoint him. The moment the young man pushed open the door, Li Haozi's somewhat choked voice came from behind him, "Brother Lan." Yun Xuelan's steps paused there but she didn't look back. "Let me think again. ”

Yun Xuelan stepped out of the room, the noon sun shone directly on his face, and he couldn't open his eyes. In the courtyard, Ding Ye was sitting under the tree eating pastries, and a maidservant stood aside with an expression of disbelief, she had never seen such a person who could eat and had such a thick skin. Usually when I go to other people's homes as a guest, the refreshments prepared by the host are just the number of courtesies for entertaining, and no guest will really want to eat, but this young master Ding, who was repeatedly told by his young master to entertain well, has already asked her to add pastries five times. Just looking at the clothes of the young man in front of him, he thought that the latter was the recklessness of his young master's friendship, but although he gobbled up the appearance of the young man when he was eating, his demeanor was not vulgar, but he looked like a declining family child.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Ding Ye put down the food in his hand and stood up, and ran to Yun Xuelan who was going out in a hurry. He patted the other party's shoulder with his greasy hand, and then thought of the identity of the young man, so he quickly retracted his hand, wiped it on his clothes, and said with some embarrassment: "Brother Lan, ah no, Yun Gongzi, your matter is finished?" Seeing the other party nodding, Ding Ye asked tentatively with some restraint: "Then what do we do next?" Yun Xuelan couldn't cry or laugh at the embarrassment of the young man in front of him, he stepped forward, hugged Ding Ye's shoulder, and said with a somewhat ruffian smile on his face: " Let's go, take your Brother Yun to drink the best wine in Luoshi City that you said. Ding Ye's shoulders trembled as he was surrounded by the young man. He couldn't believe that the young man who casually accosted him by the moat outside the city gate and wanted to brag about passing the time would be the young owner of Yunyin Villa. He originally thought that even if Yun Xuelan would not ask himself for the guilt, he would put on an arrogant attitude of the prince of the palace, but he didn't want Yun Xuelan to change in the slightest, and he still had that casual and friendly attitude. As if sensing the thoughts of the young man beside him, Yun Xuelan comforted again: "There is no young owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa, only your Brother Lan of Ding Ye." Then he patted the boy on the shoulder, and his arm tightened again.

Li Haozi, who followed Yun Xuelan out of the door, couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw this scene, it turned out that Brother Lan was really the same Brother Lan as before, and he had become a real himself. His idea of sending Yun Xuelan and the others out was dispelled.

The two walked to the door just in time for Li Yingxin to come in. The soup kitchen outside had ended, and the girl had changed into a goose yellow dress, and the scarf on her face had been removed. The three of them met at the gate of the courtyard, and the two teenagers were stunned for a moment when they saw the oncoming beautiful girl. Yun Xuelan saluted Li Yingxin to show friendship but did not speak, so she pulled Ding Ye around the girl to make way for the latter.

"Yun Gongzi and my brother haven't seen each other for so many years, don't you stay longer?" Li Yingxin took the lead in breaking the embarrassment.

"Could it be that I want to stay and wait for Miss Li to settle accounts with me and kidnap your brother?" Yun Xuelan teased, but her tone was not sarcastic.

The woman's face flushed slightly when she heard this, and she replied, "Yun Gongzi smiled." That's my brother's angry words that he said casually, and now that I see Childe himself, I really regret it, I didn't persuade my father to let my brother learn more from Childe in Yunyin Villa, and my father and I don't have to worry about it like today. ”

Miss Li was serious. I, a stubborn person with no ambitions, how dare I teach my younger brother. I only came to Luoshi City to see my old friends, not on behalf of Yunyin Villa. Miss, don't worry, I'm not here to take her to explore the rivers and lakes. Now that he is safe and sound, I will not bother here. ”

"Why don't you have lunch and then leave?Today, there is a banquet in the mansion to catch the wind for the people of Yuwen Wangfu, why don't you invite Yun Gongzi to accompany you?" Seeing the two of them walking away, Li Yingxin hurriedly opened his mouth to stop it, and the volume of the last sentence was deliberately raised by a few points.

Hearing the increasingly intense confrontation in the conversation between the two, Li Haozi, who was standing at the door of the study, could no longer stand by. He hurriedly stepped forward and interjected anxiously: "Sister, Brother Lan said that he still has important things to do, so don't delay them to get down to business." ”

"Serious business?" Li Yingxin's tone rose, as if questioning his younger brother's words: "He is more important than eating with you, a friend I haven't seen for many years." You talk to Brother Lan in front of me and my father every day, saying that he will come to the house to look for you sooner or later, but now that he is here, he doesn't even want to eat, this is the sincerity of his coming to you?"

The woman's meanness and aggressiveness made Yun Xuelan a little disgusted. He turned to look at Li Yingxin and said, "Mrs. Yuwen has already thought about her husband's family before she has passed the door? Is it that Mrs. Yuwen thinks that her man's face is so big, or does Ling Zun's godson have no way? Yun Xuelan said this lightly, but every word was heartfelt. For Li Yingxin, the most important thing for the scholarly ladies of the family is their own name, the Yuwen family just came to mention the matter of marriage, and did not carry out the six ceremonies such as Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, invitation, and greeting, but Yun Xuelan said that Mrs. Yuwen made it clear that she was alluding to the secret knot between Yuwenxing and Li Yingxin Zhufetus, and he called Yuwenxing as a concubine, although the latter had a high status in the Yuwen family and was highly valued, but he was not the eldest son of the Yuwen family. Although Li Hanren is a thorn in history, he is a real grassroots background, the Li family has no foundation in Great Xia, and the main purpose of the marriage between the Yuwen family and the Li family is to cultivate it into his own henchmen, and at the same time, he is also to disgust the Yun family. Therefore, Li Yingxin's marriage into the Yuwen family can be said to be high. But Yun Xuelan's sentence is undoubtedly reminding everyone present that even if the Li family climbs, he is also a concubine who has no hope for the future of the prince. This is a slap in the face that can be heard in Zhongyao Prefecture by the Li family, who cherish their reputation.

Hearing this, Li Yingxin's face was pale, and his whole body trembled like chaff. Li Haozi on the side also looked at Yun Xuelan with a bloodless face, not knowing how to speak. It seemed that it was the first time to see Yun Xuelan's words so sharp, and Ding Ye was also stunned on the sidelines.

With a "whoosh" sound, a black shadow flew from a distance, and it was coming towards the back of Yun Xuelan's head at an extremely fast speed. The boy didn't look back, his left hand flicked behind him, and a round ball flew out of his sleeve, and the two collided in the air and exploded into the sky. Ding Ye looked down and saw that on the ground were two fans divided into two and half a horseshoe cake, which were just the pastries prepared for Ding Ye by Yun Xuelan and Ding Ye before they were about to walk out of Li Haozi's small courtyard just now.

"Didn't you say you're a waste?" a somewhat suspicious voice sounded from the direction where the fan was flying, and a group of four people came from a distance. The leader was a young man in a pink brocade robe, and the young man had an evil face, and the question just now came from his mouth. The boy was followed by an old woman, a middle-aged man, and a young woman dressed as a maid. The evil pink-robed young man continued as he walked: "A waste dares to speak disrespectfully to Ben Gongzi, it really deserves to be killed, but it's a pity that Ben Gongzi's beauty fan." ”

The four of Yuwenxing stepped forward. Li Yingxin seemed to see a savior, and hurriedly showed a charming and moving smile, and gave another salute, but Yuwenxing didn't look at her, but stared at Ding Ye beside Yun Xuelan from head to toe a few times, and Li Yingxin's face, which had just recovered a trace of blood, turned pale again.

"I didn't expect that the owner of Yun Shaozhuang still had such a Yaxing. Yu Wenxing turned his gaze from Ding Ye to Yun Xuelan and said playfully: "Presumably, Yun Xuexiao also spends all her time on these elephant aunts like you, no wonder she was beaten so badly by me in the tomb." The Yun family is really not as good as the generation. After saying that, he shook his head regretfully, and then seemed to think of something, and asked with a frown, "Have we met somewhere?"