[two hundred and seventy-two] father and son meet
The unknown torment is always unbearable.
Time was lost little by little in the leaks. An hour later, Xue Bi came to Dongnuan Building on time, leading four waiters behind him, paired up to the wings of Yue Chong and Nian Qian, and he went to the master bedroom in the building himself.
Ning Nanyou was extremely anxious in the house. When he felt sad, Xue Bi knocked on the door: "Master, Lord, everything is ready and you can pass."
The man stood up from the seat and couldn't help but breathe a deep breath, his face full of nervousness.
Jiang Chengjia comforted him and said, "We look at you from behind the carved window from afar. Erlang, I will always be with you..."
Ning Nanyou looked at her, nodded with a serious expression, and then walked outside the house. The girl followed closely behind, and the two stepped out of the threshold and headed towards the west side courtyard under Xue Bi. Yue Chong first arrived at the inconspicuous courtyard on the west side. The waiter who led him to took the handwritten handed over to him by Xue Bi in his hand and knocked on the gate of the west courtyard.
Yue Chong was taken in in a daze, and then a maid in the yard led him towards the secret room. The two waiters who had just brought him over came out of the yard and carefully closed the red painted door.
Yue Chong followed the maid to an ordinary wing room. Then the maid solemnly handed a key to him and instructed him: "Miss Jiang and Deputy Hero Master Xue, let the little husband hold this key and wait in front of the screen. After about a cup of tea, someone will teach you how to use this key to open the secret room in the room... These are the instructions I received. The little husband waited with peace of mind, and I took my leave first."
The maid rumbling for a while, Yue Chong blinked and looked at her in a daze. Just as he was about to ask something, the maid didn't give him a chance to ask, turned around and left, leaving him alone in the room.
Yue Chong could only wait quietly in the wing room as the maid said.
As the maid said, after a cup of tea, a man's voice came from somewhere in this neatly arranged and unobtrusive wing room: "Is the guest invited by Deputy Lord Xue in the room?"
Yue Chong was stunned. Facing the screen in front of him, he panicked and searched for the source of sound. While looking around, he nodded and said, "I am."
The man said again: "Your name is Yue Chong?"
Yue Chong was stunned again and said softly: "Yes."
The man's voice was silent for a moment, and a tranquility fell into the room. After a while, when Yue Chongzheng was worried about where the sound came from, a slight movement suddenly came from the blue brick wall behind the screen. A small square hole appeared on the seemingly solid wall. A man showed his face from the hole and said to Yue Chong: "Mr. Yue Xiaolang, please come to the wall with the key in your hand."
Yue Chong walked over mechanically. The man continued, "Did you see a crack by the wall? Put the key in it and wait for a while."
Yue Chong listened to his words and searched on the wall for a long time before finding an inconspicuous crack in the middle and lower place. He honestly put the key in, looking around and waiting.
Suddenly he heard a crack from the blue wall in front of him. The seemingly dilapidated blue wall split into two from the middle and rumbled to both sides. A man in a black green robe walked towards him, bowed respectfully and said, "Mr. Yue."
Yue Chong waved his hand in a hurry, then returned the gift, saying repeatedly: "I dare not take on my brother's gift, I dare to ask... Why did Deputy Director Xue invite me here?"
The man in the robe avoided and did not answer, smiled at him and said, "Young Lord Yue will know when you follow me into the secret room."
He finished speaking, raised his foot and walked into the dark secret room. Yue Chong did not dare to stay outside, so he followed him in.
Yue Chong originally thought that everything in the Water Tower was a rare wonder in his life, but who could have expected that when he stepped into this seemingly ordinary secret room, he saw a scene that was even more mysterious than the Water Tower.
He followed the man in the robe in the dark corridor for a while and then came to a courtyard made of high walls, tiles and bricks. The courtyard was hidden under the deep forest of the west courtyard. Yue Chong looked up and saw a shimmering lake water gushing over his head, leisurely and quiet, the sun shining down the water lines, reflecting into the courtyard, lighting it up.
Yue Chong stared at the rippling water above his head in surprise, wondering what structure this was to hide a courtyard wall under the water.
The man in the robe walking in front turned to see him looking stunned and explained calmly: "This is a glass brick from Xiliang. Our pavilion master transported it for a huge amount of money... The wall is transparent and the gaps are tightly closed. Even if it is hidden under the lake, it can ensure that no drop of water can flow in."
Yue Chong felt dizzy when he listened to his words and admired him sincerely. He originally thought that there was not much difference between the Water Pavilion and the Ye Kong Pavilion, but now he saw that the Ye Kong Pavilion built by his lord could only be seen from him and was completely incomparable. Such a glass high-top is built underground and hidden in the lake. How much manpower and material resources are needed to make it look like today?
The man in the robe led him to the depths of the courtyard. This place is as warm as spring, without the irritability of summer, nor the coldness of winter. The flowers and plants grow lushly, lushly and green, full of fragrant and sweet fragrance. Yue Chong followed the people in front of him to a house.
The man in the robe finally stopped and said to him: "Young little brother, we are here."
Yue Chong stopped on a secret path, raised his eyes and looked forward curiously, and saw a maid pushing a wooden wheel to walk in the corridor under the very exquisitely carved corridor. On the wooden wheel, there was a very thin middle-aged man sitting.
Yue Chong stared at the man's back and felt a little familiar, but because he was too thin and full of illness, Yue Chong did not remember where he had seen him.
It was not until the maid pushed Mu Lun and looked at Yue Chong that he could see the middle-aged man's face clearly. At this moment, he was completely stunned and stared at the man motionlessly, feeling cold all over.
The middle-aged man on the wooden wheel was originally lowering his eyes. After judging Yue Chong's hot gaze, he slowly raised his eyes and looked not far away. He looked at a tall and burly young man standing on the stone path in the garden and frowned slightly. He looked at the young man's eyebrows and eyes, and always felt familiar.
"Father, father?"
At this moment, the young man on the stone path called out with a stuttering sound. The middle-aged man sat upright in shock.
Yue Chong was shocked and hesitated and did not dare to approach him. He hesitated on the path and refused to step forward. The middle-aged man swallowed his throat and shouted dryly and hoarsely: "Is it... Xiao Chong?"
Although the voice was extremely gentle, Yue Chong heard it. He couldn't believe it, but now he heard the word Xiao Chong from the middle-aged man's mouth, and his childhood memories suddenly surged out.
He moved his steps and leaned over carefully: "Father? Is it you?"
Yue Chong still felt incredible, so he only dared to ask in a low voice. The middle-aged man on the veranda turned red and muttered to himself: "So what Miss Jiang said... is all true?"
"Miss Jiang?" Yue Chong murmured to himself and asked, "Is it...the girl of Jiang?"
The middle-aged man could no longer control his emotions and said tremblingly: "In my lifetime, you, my father and son... can still meet."
Yue Chong listened, at this moment he could not speak at all. He stared at his father, looking at his skinny and sickly, and his eyes were red. Although he had not seen him for many years, Yue Fu's appearance had changed drastically due to his illness, his face still retained the heroic spirit that was once a hero on the battlefield.
After many years, Yue Chong could still recognize his father at a glance, but... he stood in the yard and looked at the middle-aged man's aging face, and always felt as unrealistic as a dream.
"You...have you been living in Shui Pavilion for years? What happened in the border war back then? Father... why are you missing and why are you here?"
Yue Chong had too many questions to ask, but no matter who asked, he felt sad. He asked in pain: "What's wrong with you...why are you so thin? Why are you sitting on this wooden wheel? What exactly happened over the years?"
The middle-aged man burst into tears in a panic. His collapsed emotions made him unable to answer. His hands on his knees were trembling at a loss.
Yue Chong half-squatted down, stroked him, looked up at him with his head tilted, his eyes filled with tears, but he still suppressed himself and refused to cry.
The father and son looked at each other silently.
Next to the carved stone wall not far from the right side of the veranda, Ning Nanyou and Jiang Chengjia stood next to each other, bringing all the things on the corridor into their eyes, feeling very complicated.
The man clenched his fists, and an indescribable impulse surged in his heart. Through the carved stone wall, through the gap, he looked at it for a while, and could no longer bear to look at the hurt scene. He let out a heavy breath, and his back was weak and leaned against the edge of the wall, lowering his head in disappointment.
"If it weren't for my father... Yue Chong and his son wouldn't have ended up in this situation..."
He murmured to himself, his thoughts were extremely complicated. Jiang Chengjia was by his side. Seeing him deeply blaming and suffering, he couldn't help but comfort him: "This is not your fault... Erlang, what happened back then was the grudges of his fathers, and it has nothing to do with you..."
"No matter whether it is the hatred between my fathers or not, I am the son of King Huai... This is an unchangeable fact." He said in a daze, unable to listen to any persuasion from the girl.
Chapter completed!