novelden Chapter 708: Death of an Old Man
Chapter 708: Death of an Old Man
Wan Niang listened to her husband's words quietly, with a hint of disapproval flashing across her face.
"Even if you want them to side with me, you can't be too harsh on them. If they are provoked by others at such a young age, how can they deal with you?"
Lin Yuzan didn't know whether he had remembered it or not. He responded perfunctorily and started thinking about other things.
Just at this moment, he finally noticed the gaze on his face. He lowered his eyes slightly to look at his daughter, and met her gaze which was filled with inexplicable thoughts.
He turned his eyes away and ignored it, but for some reason he felt an itch in his palm.
The old man always believed in his intuition, and couldn't help but ask: "Wanniang, did Sister Qing do anything out of the ordinary today?"
Xiao Yining: (*￣m￣), the scumbag dad wants to spread rumors!
Wan Niang also looked at him in confusion and retorted, "Brother Zan, what nonsense are you talking about? Sister Qing has been very well behaved today!"
Lin Yuzan heard the anger in his wife's words and wisely changed the subject: "Don't be angry, Wanniang. I'm just afraid that Qingjie will take advantage of your love to fool you."
As he spoke, he stood up, holding his daughter in his arms, intending to hand her over to his wife's arms, and bid farewell to this brief time spent with their family.
"I'm going to look for your brother. Today I went to the residence of Grand Secretary Qiu and found out something that I want to discuss with him."
Wan Niang nodded understandingly and reached out to take her daughter.
Unexpectedly, the little kid's chubby hands, which had originally loosened, once again tightly wrapped around the old man's neck as he finished speaking.
Little Yining's eyes flashed with excitement, and she said in a baby voice, "Mom, Qingjie misses daddy!"
After saying this, she put her face close to the old man and pretended to be a filial daughter.
Lin Yuzan: →_→
Wan Niang thought for a moment, then picked up the little girl's special cape from the side and tied it on her, saying with satisfaction: "My husband, you see how much Sister Qing misses you."
Lin Yuzan pulled the corner of his mouth noncommittally, then looked at his daughter, and saw her showing her proud little milk teeth to him.
He had no choice but to compromise: "Then I will take Sister Qing with me. If we come back late, Wan Niang will go to bed first."
After saying that, he carried his daughter out of the main room. As he turned the corner, he heard his wife's instructions from behind him: "Brother Zan, if there is really something wrong with the death of your parents-in-law, you must tell me, and I can help you."
Lin Yuzan paused when he heard this. He turned around and looked at Wan Niang affectionately. He said "don't worry", then quickly walked towards the side door and disappeared from her sight.
At this moment, Wang Cheng was putting money into his purse.
When Lin Yuzan arrived at his door with her daughter in her arms, she saw that his face was full of heartache. He put the silver into his purse hesitantly, and then took out some and put it aside as if it was too much.
He couldn't help but sigh and said sarcastically, "I never thought Shu Zhi would bring so much money with him. He's so generous."
Wang Cheng:......
The old man raised his eyes impatiently, but met his niece's curious gaze. He quickly put all the silver into his purse and said with a smile: "Qingjie, why are you here? But your father won't let you rest."
Little Yining said without blushing or beating her heart, "Sister Qing misses her uncle!"
The old man raised his eyebrows, not caring whether it was true or not, and smiled happily. He took the kid and put him on his lap, and pointed to the money bag in a generous manner: "Tomorrow, your uncle will take you to the street to watch Nuo opera, and then Sister Qing will use the copper coins in it to reward you."
Copper coins?
Little Yining glanced suspiciously at the purse on the table. It was bulging with money, so there couldn't be any small change in it!
The old man had no idea what the little boy was thinking. After saying this, he turned his spearhead towards his old rival, saying yin and yangly, "Although I am not as generous as Shunan, every penny I spend is spent on my family, not a penny is wasted."
Lin Yuzhan: (▼へ▼メ)
The two old men looked at each other, and then secretly competed in front of the little kid, and finally sat opposite each other in a tie.
Wang Cheng took out a small wooden sculpture from the secret compartment under the table and put it into the little boy's hand. He then asked directly, "Did Chen You find anything wrong when he brought you to Qiu Xuanzhi today?"
Lin Yuzan had already thought about this matter for a long time. As soon as his old rival finished speaking, he raised a sarcastic smile and said, "This person is very cautious. He doesn't want to leave any flaws outside, and he doesn't want others to know his true preferences. He hides them very deeply."
Wang Cheng nodded slightly when he heard this, and agreed: "He is not a simple person, otherwise he would not have stepped on the corpses of Gu Shinian and Master and his wife to reach a high position."
He lowered his eyes slightly, looked at his niece who was playing with the wood carving in his arms, and sighed: "What a pity, Master's wife forgot everything when she fled, otherwise we wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to investigate what happened back then."
"The old man said that the former crown prince's body mysteriously disappeared, and he might not be dead. But when we killed the crown prince's remnants, they were leaderless and were also looking for the whereabouts of the former crown prince."
"If Master's wife returned to Yanjing, it might be more advantageous to their situation. Why would she kill someone and make such a bad move?"
Lin Yuzan's eyes were filled with grief, and he slowly replied: "My father was cautious and did not tell Gu Shinian that I was his child. My mother became a useless person and a person who should not exist in this world."