The little ancestor of the family

"Is it delicious?" Zhong Yujian was thinking about it when Leng Qingyu suddenly asked.

"Delicious." Zhong Yujian put another piece of glutinous rice lotus root into his mouth.

"How long do you plan to stay in the capital this time? When will you leave?"

Zhong Yujian's mouth was full. He chewed a few times and swallowed the food in his mouth. He said, "I haven't been back for a long time. I plan to stay for a few more days after finishing my business and fulfill a wish in the temple."

"When did you make a wish?" Leng Qingyu looked up at him.

"I promised it before I left."

"It's been so many years! If you wanted to fulfill your wish, you should have come earlier. Isn't it too late now?"

Zhong Yujian muttered softly: "My wish has just come true, it's not too late."

"..."

Leng Qingyu was speechless.

He just changed the subject and said, "The old house at home is still empty. My parents are not in the capital these days. If you don't want to stay in the inn, just go back. Uncle Wang, the gatekeeper, knows you. He will open the door for you when you go there."

"What about the room I originally lived in? Is it still there?"

Zhong Yujian was a little nervous.

"Your room is still there! In our Leng family's huge yard, everyone lives on their own. Who would occupy your room?"

Leng Qingyu said this lightly, but to Zhong Yujian's ears, it was as valuable as gold.

I never thought that he left without saying goodbye, and it has been so many years since he left, but the Leng family still left his yard there.

Thinking of this, he regretted his impulsiveness even more.

If he had not been so impulsive and stayed in the capital for all these years, he might have been able to help Qingyu if something happened.

However, Leng Qingyu did not give him a chance to think more and started asking about business matters again.

Leng Qingyu usually looks like a quiet lady from a wealthy family, but when it comes to business, she immediately reveals her shrewd side as a businessman.

When Manager Jin was negotiating with Zhong Yujian, he had already lowered the price very low, and she even lowered it a few cents further.

Zhong Yujian listened to the reasons she listed one by one, and was unable to refute any of them.

"You really won't give in." Zhong Yujian smiled helplessly, "You won't let me make any profit at all?"

"There are no fathers and sons in the business world, let alone friends. Boss Zhong won't lose money at the price I mentioned."

Leng Qingyu said this with confidence.

"Okay, since this is a long-term cooperation and we are the active party, I will give you this profit."

Zhong Yujian agreed generously.

By the time they finished discussing business, they were almost done with their meal.

Leng Qingyu sent her maid to take Zhong Yujian to the old house, while she and Ye Xinran returned to the palace together.

As the carriage passed through street after street, Zhong Yujian actually felt homesick.

When the carriage stopped at the gate of Leng's mansion, a hunchbacked old man immediately came out.

The smile on his face froze the moment he saw Zhong Yujian. He looked at him carefully for a long time, but seemed unable to tell who the person was, so he turned around and prepared to go back.

"Uncle Wang!"

Zhong Yujian immediately called out to the person in front of him, "It's me!"

Wang Bo stopped and looked at Zhong Yujian's face again. This time, he finally recognized the person in front of him. He seemed a little bit unbelievable. He pointed at Zhong Yujian and said excitedly: "Zhong..."

"It's me, Uncle Wang!"

Zhong Yujian stepped forward and grasped Uncle Wang’s hand.

Thinking back to the time when he was in the Leng Mansion, he had caused a lot of trouble for Uncle Wang.

Even the last time she ran away from home, she deliberately sent Uncle Wang away and sneaked away right under his nose.

"Master Zhong, is it really you? You still remember to come back!"

Uncle Wang still couldn't believe it.

"It's me, Uncle Wang. I came to see you right after I got back from Yancheng."

Uncle Wang was sighing, and the little maid who brought Zhong Yujian over said, "Uncle Wang, the master asked me to send Boss Zhong over, and said that he should be arranged to stay in his original room."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Uncle Wang took Zhong Yujian's hand and walked into the yard.

If he had just felt a little sad on the road just now, now that he actually saw the Leng family's courtyard, Zhong Yujian was truly stunned.

This courtyard was exactly the same as it was before he left. He didn't even need Uncle Wang to lead the way. He could find his original room easily.

"Uncle Wang, how come this yard hasn't been moved in all these years?"

Uncle Wang laughed and said, "Back then, you left one by one, and some got married. In the end, only the master and his wife were left in this courtyard.

Once there was a heavy rain and the yard where you lived was flooded. The housekeeper suggested that we renovate the place, but the master and the mistress disagreed.

They all said that maybe one day you would miss home and come back by yourself.

I can't wait for you to come back and find that the yard is gone.

So I took great pains to clean up your courtyard and reinforce the house, so it has been preserved until now."

Listening to Uncle Wang's rambling description, Zhong Yujian couldn't help but think of the two old people in the Leng family.

He was really confused back then. Even if he was leaving, he should have said goodbye to his parents.

The two old people must have been worried about him a lot over the years.

"Then where do my stepfather and stepmother live now?" he asked.

"The master and his wife now live all over the world. Wherever they want to go, they live there for a while. When they have lived there long enough, they move to another place. So, we don't know where they live now.

However, they do write letters to the eldest lady every month to let her know they are safe.

It is said that it will be back this summer!"

"That's great. When they come back, I must meet them."

Zhong Yujian said.

He went into his room.

It can be seen that the room is cleaned all year round, so it is maintained very well.

On the desk are several books that he used to read frequently.

Zhong Yujian picked up one of the books and flipped through it casually. Unexpectedly, a note fell out of the book.

Zhong Yujian was a little surprised. He picked up the note and recognized that the beautiful handwriting on it belonged to Leng Qingyu.

To his surprise, the note turned out to be an apology letter from Leng Qingyu:

[Brother, I accidentally hit you today, and I feel really sorry about it. It was not my intention, but I couldn't control my emotions at the time.

If you are willing to forgive me, I will invite you to have a drink and enjoy the moon at the Lake Center Pavilion today. What do you think? 】

Zhong Yujian read the words on the note over and over again.

The paper is old and you can see it's been there for a while.

It must have been put inside the book by Leng Qingyu back then.

But why didn’t I see it back then?

She must be full of hope, thinking that he would definitely go to the center of the lake to watch the moon with her.

But how could she know that after the two of them had a quarrel, she didn't even open the book and fled from the Leng Mansion overnight.