"Brother Wan..." Ye Ji followed Ye Wan out of the wing room and came to the empty courtyard. He looked at Ye Wan's back, feeling that this thin and thin back was no longer as low-key and silent as he remembered. He had been unknown in the Ye Mansion in Yunzhou for ten years, but had grown to a height that he could not imagine.

I heard that she was promoted to a thousand households within a few days after going to Xianzhou, and was promoted to a lieutenant within a few days. She was promoted to a lieutenant as if she had been on a fast horse.

"I first came to Yanjing. My uncle's affairs were negligent. My adopted father would buy more servants and guards in the mansion..." Ye Ji said a little annoyed. He didn't know who was in a hurry to assassinate Ye Fugui as soon as he arrived in Yanjing. I think it might be his uncle's enemy when he was in Beijing. Fortunately, Yu Jin was here this time, otherwise he would not know what unimaginable consequences would be caused.

Ye Ji didn't know Jian Ye's existence, so he only thought that Yu Jin fought to protect Ye Fugui this time and was able to escape the disaster.

"Entertainment Father, don't worry. Yu Jin's injury will be better after healing for a few days. You don't have to hurry up and add people." Ye Wan comforted. Today's matter has nothing to do with Ye Ji, and maybe she has implicated them herself. It is already a rare thing for Ye Ji to be willing to guard Ye Fugui with a considerate relationship. She thought about it and said, "There are some things... I want to ask the adoptive father to solve my doubts."

"You said that as long as the adoptive father knows, he will say it all."

Ye Wan said: "A Wan wants to know... why did my uncle come to Yanjing to be an internal supervisor back then, who did things when he was in Yanjing, why did he return to Yunzhou if something happened, and the adoptive father Ye Li who actually picked me up, who is your second brother?"

Her several questions made Ye Ji startled, and then frowned: "Brother Wan, what do you mean? Are you suspicious... the person who attacked his uncle, was his uncle or Li'er's enemy in Yanjing?"

"I just doubt that there is a possibility." Ye Wan said, "I know nothing about what happened many years ago, and it is difficult to track down. I just ask casually to see if it helps in tracing the identity of the murderer."

"So that's it..." Ye Ji nodded, and hesitated for a moment: "These old things... have passed and it's been over. The adoptive father shouldn't be nagging you juniors. But Brother Wan, you are old now, and you are even a young talent who has gained a place in the army. You are an independent child. If you want to know, the adoptive father should of course tell the truth."

He looked sideways at the two wing rooms with candlelights, "This is not a place to talk. Let's have a good rest. Let's go to the study to talk in detail."

It is not easy for the Ye family to give up their industries in Yunzhou and move their family into Beijing.

The rich Ye family, which is important in Yunzhou, is just an ordinary business in Yanjing. Not to mention that Ye Ji and Ye Chi have separated, most of the financial, material and manpower are in the hands of Ye Chi, the second master of the Ye family. Ye Ji's property is not rich, so he did not settle down in the inner city as wealthy as Ye Chi, but bought a spacious and exquisite house in the outer city to settle.

At this late at night, the main courtyard and the two young masters' yard were quiet and silent. They had not recovered from their physical and mental fatigue after several days of travel, or they did not take Ye Fugui's attack to heart.

Ye Ji took Ye Wan to his study in the front yard and ordered the servant who was yawning Liantian to add tea to him and Ye Wan.

"I was anxious before, but I haven't asked my adoptive father yet. Will I be safe in the past few months?" Ye Wan did not rush to ask about Ye Fugui and Ye Li, and slowly took a sip of tea.

Ye Ji said: "We are all healthy, but the third brother's affairs... made my mother suffer a lot of blows. I was seriously ill before coming to Yanjing. During the Rising Day, I went to my second brother's house to visit my mother, but fortunately my condition has been relieved. The third brother is really confused this time."

Chu Hui's statement to the outside world did not mention Ye Wan, Zhen Yu and three of them went to Quezhou to solve the case alone, but attributed the credit to the Central Guards and the scout camp, so the Ye family did not know that this was Ye Wan's killing relatives for justice. If he knew that this was done by Ye Wan, he was afraid that Old Lady Ye and Ye Chi would want to cut her into pieces and cut her bones.

"But Brother Wan, have you known the inside story about that long ago, so you sent someone to try your best to dissuade us from splitting up?" Ye Ji asked. If it weren't for the guy named Zhou Jian who tried his best to make a move, I'm afraid that their whole family would have been killed and thrown away from the mountain hill.

He just asked casually, but he didn't expect Ye Wan to answer. He shook his head with regret and said, "You haven't visited your second uncle's house yet? Your grandmother may have said something to you, don't take it seriously. It's a good thing to save the Ye family. You have to thank you for saving the Ye family. When you save the other ones, your adoptive fathers will thank you." When Mrs. Ye was ill, she scolded Ye Wan for being unfilial. She ate the Ye family's drink from the Ye family, but she refused to make a move in the army to protect the life of the third uncle's family. She was a real ungrateful wolf. Ye Ji had just heard of it, and there was no need to tell Ye Wan.

Ye Wan used her toes without expecting that the old lady Ye, who was born in her concubine, would spit out any ivory, so she nodded casually.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." Ye Ji coughed and said seriously, "The adoptive father will tell you about the past of the Ye family. Listen carefully to see if it will be helpful for pursuing the murderer."

The Ye family is not a businessman who has experienced a wealth of wealth for a hundred years. Fifty years ago, it was just a poor family in Yunzhou. The Ye family’s Taizu and Tai grandmother took the Ye family’s old masters Ye Changxi and Ye Fugui to rely on each other. They barely survived by selling noodles and lived a very poor life. Ye Changxi was still young at the age of seventeen or eighteen, because his family was poor.

Ye Fugui, who was only ten years old at that time, made a quick decision. He actually took a ox cart from the village to Beijing as a young child. He secretly came to Yanjing without telling his family and recommended himself to the palace to be an internal surveillance. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu, he valued the internal surveillance. Although he started as an ordinary eunuch, he gradually became favored because of his cleverness and diligence, and was promoted to the Internal Affairs Office.

The Taizu of the Ye family and Ye Changxi also relied on the flowers that Ye Fugui sent home from time to time as a cost to improve the family's economic situation and start a small business. Ye Changxi also married a wife and gave birth to two sons shortly after the marriage, one of them was Ye Ji, and the other was Ye Li, who was later expelled from the Ye family's genealogy.

"It can be said that the Ye family was supported by his uncle. When there was a problem in the business, there were also uncles trying every means to make a move. The Ye family was able to become Yunzhou Fu in just fifty years." Ye Ji was filled with emotion on his face, and his heart was filled with gratitude and admiration for Ye Fugui.

The Ye family's business grew day by day, and Ye Changxi was just an ordinary man of this era. When he was rich, the common problems of those men naturally emerged. With the consent of his original wife, Mrs. Ye, he took a concubine and took a house. The concubine was the current Mrs. Ye Wang. Wang was just an unpopular concubine of the Wang family in Yunzhou. He was very lucky to marry a famous local rich businessman. Soon after Ye Li was born, he also became pregnant and gave birth to Ye Chi and Ye Xiao.

In this way, Ye Changxi had four sons, which was extremely stunning.

"It turns out that my uncle actually did such a righteous thing as self-sacrifice, and gave up his life for his parents and brothers, just to be safe and happy for his family." Ye Wan said. "The court's internal supervisor has always had the habit of adopting adopted sons to support him. How could my uncle come back to Yunzhou?"

Ye Ji hesitated for a moment and said, "This is about my second brother...Li'er's affairs."

Ye Wan looked at it with a scrupulous look.

Ye Li is the second son of the Ye family. When he was young, the Ye family was already extremely rich and noble. After the Ye family Taizu and Taizumo, the Ye family reached a peak in his career at Ye Changxi's hands. Ye Ji and Ye Li's two Ye family legitimate sons can be said to be in a good mood, and even the prefect of Yunzhou at that time had to give the Ye family a little bit of shame.

Ye Wan's heart moved and suddenly asked, "The magistrate of Yunzhou at that time... Could it be that the current old Duke Zeng, Zeng Qiuyun?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Ji's expression changed. He said solemnly: "Now the Zeng family is in Dayan, you must not call the name of Mr. Zeng directly in the future. At that time... the magistrate of Yunzhou was indeed Mr. Zeng, and the Zeng family had a good relationship with the Ye family." When he saw Zeng Qiuyun at a young age, he also called him Uncle Zeng very cordially. But Zeng Qiuyun has now transformed and has become such a hot and powerful figure in charge of the court. There is also the eldest son of the Zeng family, the current Duke of Qing, Zeng Ruhu, who had a friendship with him and his second brother, who had never met him.

His eyebrows suddenly flashed, and when he talked about the Zeng family, he got stuck, and seemed to have no idea how to continue.

Ye Wan thought about it and began to guess boldly: "What is the relationship between Ye Li's adopted father... and the Zeng family?" If she guessed correctly, it would be a heartbreaking thing.

Ye Ji was shocked all over. He still felt a little sad when he thought about what happened back then. He looked at Ye Wan and thought about it over and over again, and said, "During those days, I and my second brother often went to the Zeng family... We and your second uncle, who was not young at that time, went to the Zeng family to play together. Duke Qing would also bring his younger brothers and sisters to our house as guests. After a while... You are old and understand the affairs of love. The second brother actually secretly fell in love with the eldest daughter of the Zeng family and became in love."

The eldest daughter of the Zeng family! Today’s Zeng Hou, Zeng Rushui!

Ye Wan was so beautiful and tightly locked in surprise. Unexpectedly, the adoptive father who actually picked up his own, had such a past with Zeng Hou. Why did Zeng Hou want to die now? "The eldest lady of the Zeng family... to Ye Li's adoptive father..."

"Shh!" Ye Ji shook his head suddenly and told her not to continue talking. Such a thing would not be an open and upright matter if an ordinary person was an ordinary person, let alone the empress dowager who is now in power and in charge of the palace.

With this reaction, Ye Wan confirmed that Zeng Rushui might have been interested in Ye Li back then. The official daughter and the business son, even the rich son, no matter how deep the relationship is, the fate will only float like duckweed. What's more, the matter later when Emperor Zhaoyang was in vain to Yunzhou, the two had to sigh and say what the fate is.

"After entering the palace, the Zeng family moved to Yanjing and cut off contact with Yunzhou. But he didn't expect..." Ye Ji looked sad and said that he had thought of something that made him feel extremely sad. "My father and mother knew that Li'er had deep love for that lady. After giving birth to such a thing, his emotions became less and less than the other day, so his mother decided to get engaged to Li'er. At that time, Li'er was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and she would be better after a while. Her mother thought that maybe she would forget the lady with a girl next to her... but..."

"How could Li'er run away from home!" Ye Ji screamed in pain.

"Where has Ye Li's adopted father... gone?" Ye Wan was unwilling to believe that possibility.

However, the more you don’t want to have something, the more you will be. This is called Murphy’s Law.

Sure enough, Ye Ji said quietly: "A month later, my uncle sent us a message, we realized that Li'er fled from Yunzhou to Yanjing to find his uncle, and...and asked his uncle to let him enter the palace and become an internal surveillance." He said that he was going to find his uncle, but in fact, he was looking for the eldest lady of the Zeng family who left with his heart.

Ye Li's deep love for Zeng Rushui is really unpredictable.

"What happened later? Ye Li's adopted father..."

"We don't know what happened later. Li'er's unauthorized decision to enter the palace to purify her body made her mother so angry that she fell ill. She cried day and night for asthma. The doctor only said that she was a heart disease and had no doctor for medicine, so she could only relax herself."

My beloved biological son is willing to be a eunuch for a woman. Any mother who encounters such a thing is probably crazy.

"The letters I sent to Beijing were not heard of. My uncle and Li'er seemed to have lost contact with each other. They only sent us a message every few months to ensure safety. We knew nothing about other information. My mother went to illness less than half a year. My father thought that the Ye family must be the mistress, so he helped Wang three years later. Not long after, he met a bandit on his way to collect the accounts outside the city and left." For a moment, his father, mother and younger brother left Ye Ji, and only a concubine Wang and her two sons were accompanied by him."

More than ten years have passed, about ten years ago. One day I met an old man with a child, my uncle and you. Although I had never seen my uncle, I was instilled with my father since I was a child. If I faced him, I could confirm that it was my uncle. My uncle came from Yunzhou from afar. My uncle took you back to Yunzhou from afar and told me that Li'er died of illness and only took you, an adopted son. I thought that Li'er was so hard in the second half of his life, and was expelled from the family tree and could no longer have children. It was rare to accept an adopted son, so he took the initiative to pass you to my name."

Ye Wan frowned: "Who erased Ye Li's adoptive father from the family tree?"

"It's... Wang. After his father left, she said that the Ye family should not have such unfaithful and unfilial descendants. So... I tried my best to stop him, but..." Ye Ji lowered his head regretfully. He loved to do literary works since he was a child, and he didn't care about business matters. Even Ye Chi's property was taken care of by Ye Chi, which made him not very confident to resist what Wang said. In addition, after his mother passed away, Wang took the initiative to marry the Wang family's niece. The little Wang family was tricky and stubborn, and he had no right to speak.

A man with a temperament like Ye Ji is gentle and polite, but he has no opinion. He yearns for the noble and arrogant nature of the literati and is suitable for being an official, but he is really not a candidate for living at home.

Ye Wan was silent. Although he heard Ye Ji talk about the past of the Ye family today, Ye Fugui and Ye Li had no clue about the birth of Ye Jing. He was far away in Yunzhou and had no authority. Maybe Ye Chi knew what Yanjing had. She comforted her and said, "I know my adoptive father. Thank you for telling me about the past. I will try my best to check the news." She thought for a while and said, "I originally wanted to take my uncle and live with me, but now I live in the general's mansion. The military rules are strict. I cannot take my uncle with me. Although the court rewarded me with a small house, I don't go there often on weekdays. I am even more worried about my uncle living alone. So... I also have to trouble my adoptive father to take care of him."

"What are you saying? He is also the uncle of his adoptive father. If he had no uncle, where would the Ye family come from today?" Ye Ji couldn't help but look down when he heard her polite words. "I will instruct the servants to pick more guards tomorrow. The adoptive father has no ability and only knows it. He will trouble you to investigate the assassin's affairs. But the adoptive father promises you that he will take good care of his uncle's safety, so don't worry."

Ye Wan nodded: "It should be nothing tonight. Let's go and rest earlier. If Yin Feng and the others accompany you, nothing will happen."

If you want to know what happened to Ye Fugui and Ye Li in Yanjing back then and why there was no news for many years, it seems that she still needs to investigate it carefully.

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