Exile is exile, is half of the capital enough as compensation?

"Seeing I was no match for my opponent, I finally chose to jump off a cliff."

"I don't know if it was my destiny to die, but I was saved by my skinny monkey dad who went hunting in the mountains."

"After that, Skinny Monkey Dad took me back home. When I woke up, I was afraid those people would find me and bring trouble to the villagers, so I started hiding."

"I spent a year hiding like this. Only after no one came looking for me did I dare to appear in public."

"Cousin, why don't you come back to the capital to find us?" Upon hearing this, Old Lady Leng was no longer calm, her tone seemed very excited, and tears in her eyes burst out unconsciously.

She knew that what he said was simple, but no matter which of these things happened, it could not be brushed aside in a few words.

He fell off a cliff, and his body...

Seeing her like this, Mr. Fan stretched out his hand in the air, wanting to pat her back gently to comfort her, but when he thought of Mr. Leng who was still there, he withdrew his hand.

With a face full of shame, he said: "It's not that I didn't go to find you, it's just that I'm too embarrassed!"

"Well, come to think of it, I actually sneaked back to the house to check, thinking if they were still there, I'd let you know. But when I got there, there was no one there. Not only were there people, but even the things on the house had been cleared out. It didn't look like a place that anyone had ever lived in. If I didn't clearly remember living there for half a year, I would have thought it was all a dream."

"But you can also go to Beijing to find us. Even if Qin Zhaohai finds us, we are not afraid of him. Why do you have to go alone..." Old Master Leng shook his head with a look of disappointment.

He knew Old Man Fan well. He was the kind of person who would rather suffer than save face.

In his opinion, face is more important than anything else.

As if knowing what Mr. Leng was thinking, Mr. Fan sighed, "Ah, it's not that I'm too proud to not look for you, you just don't know that the people under Qin Zhaohai's command are no ordinary people. The people he sent to assassinate me back then had very strange martial arts. I was also afraid that if I went to the capital, you..."

When Old Master Leng heard this, he fell silent. When he led his men to clear out Wei An's hidden spies, he found that the martial arts of several of them were too strange. He had also investigated secretly, but he could not find out any of their identities.

He leaned back, muttering to himself in a somewhat decadent tone, "So, only a few people were eliminated back then."

Suddenly he stood up and pounded the table with his fist. "No wonder, no wonder Zhao Mingyao was able to control the situation in the capital so quickly. Now I think Qin Zhaohai must have been helping him."

No wonder Zhao Mingyao took control of the imperial city so quickly.

No wonder he was so determined when he was eradicating the Prince's Mansion, without any worries at all.

It turned out that he had arranged everything long ago.

Or perhaps Qin Zhaohai had already planned everything behind the scenes.

So who is in charge of the Jin Dynasty now, Zhao Mingyao or the Chu family...

Old Fan lowered his head in self-blame, pounding his head with both hands. "It's all my fault, it's all my fault. I deserve to die. I actually trusted something worse than an animal. No wonder my cousin looked down on me back then. Now that I think about it, I even look down on my former self. You all told me long ago that Qin Zhaohai shouldn't be a close friend, but I remained stubborn. Now that I think about it, the leak of your plan must have had a lot to do with me."

He had learned a lot about what happened in the capital these days, and he had no idea whether the prince would live or die.

Zhao Mingyao was so vicious yet he was able to reach a high position. If he hadn't let Qin Zhaohai go, perhaps none of them would have ended up like this.

Seeing him like this, Old Lady Leng felt very sad. She had blamed him for being stubborn in the past, but he had indeed been punished over the years.

I could only comfort him, "Cousin, it was Xiaonian and I who wronged you back then. I've always known what you're feeling, but I only ever thought of you as a brother. Later, after Xiaonian and I met, I finally understood what love was. Actually, it was because of me that you and Qin Zhaohai met. If I hadn't rejected the marriage proposal, you wouldn't have gone out to explore the world out of a bad mood, and that's how you met Qin Zhaohai."

"And then, it was because of my marriage to Xiao Nian that your personality changed drastically, and that's why you regarded Qin Zhaohai as your best friend."

"Besides, if Xiaonian and I hadn't spoken to each other in a bad tone five years ago, you wouldn't have left in anger and done such an extreme thing. So this is not your responsibility alone, so stop blaming yourself."

Old Master Leng also felt a little guilty. He walked up behind him and put his hand on his shoulder. "It's all in the past. Just like Wu'er said, we are all wrong. If I had told you everything at the time, you might not have done that."

"No, it's all my fault. You and Old Man Li have tried to persuade me more than once, but I just wouldn't believe it. I kept thinking you were just saying that because you couldn't stand me getting better and having other friends around me."

"Over the years, I have resented you, but only today did I realize how ridiculous I was. It's great that Wu'er is with you. I'm not worthy of you after all."

After more than 40 years of relationship, I suddenly felt like a joke.

He never married in his entire life just because he wanted Wu'er to see his true heart. Now think about it, isn't it a joke?

He and Leng Xiaonian used to be friends, but they did so many wrong things for their ridiculous self-esteem and even let their enemies escape.

"It's all in the past. Aren't you constantly atoning for your sins now? Wu'er and I have never blamed you. After you left five years ago, Wu'er and I sent people to look for you everywhere, but there was no news at all."

"In the first one or two years, Wu'er often woke up in the middle of the night and told me that you might have met with an accident, but we..."

Mr. Fan shook his head slightly, "Don't blame you, it's me. I brought this upon myself."

"Cousin, stop talking. We don't blame you. Even before Old Man Li passed away, he talked to us and said that he would find you if possible. He also knew that you had a strong personality. Everything you did was just because you were deceived by Qin Zhaohai."

When he mentioned Old Man Li, he felt even more guilty.

She raised her slightly red eyes and said, "Old man Li died because of me, right?" Although it was a questioning tone, there was a hint of certainty in it.

Mr. Leng's hand on his shoulder slipped away.

He also felt guilty towards Old Man Li.

The old man fought with all his might to hold on until Ran'er came back, and even used his death to buy them a glimmer of hope.

"He doesn't blame you." Mr. Leng's four brief words struck Mr. Fan's heart.

Old Fan pounded his chest with his fists.

A man in his fifties cried like a baby.