Chapter 485

After reading a few lines vaguely, he recognized that it was the Lotus Sutra, and asked casually, "why did second uncle think of reading the Sutra?"

"My heart is a little restless in recent days." Xu Yun paused and whispered, "I'm worried about your grandfather."

He's been dreaming about his father lately.

In the past, in his dreams, his father always chased him with a big ear scraper, but in recent dreams, his father stopped beating him and just sat down and talked to him quietly.

He's not used to it.

Also very upset.

Xu Mingyi grinded his ink slightly and said, "don't worry, second uncle. Grandpa will go home safely soon."

Xu Yun nodded. Just now his niece told him a lot about his father's arrangements for going to Dongyuan city. Her niece was very careful and worried, and did many things he didn't even know.

With his niece, he was really relieved.

But he had to go to Dongyuan with his father, which was not a casual remark. He really wanted to accompany his father.

But who let him down.

If he had been a little more successful over the years, he would not have provoked his father's dislike.

And it's not just his father who looks down on him.

Everyone in this world seems to have serious business to do, but he is confused.

Xu Yun pressed down the rare surge in his heart. He didn't spend much time thinking these years, but he suddenly felt that he hadn't been so sober for a long time.

Seeing his second uncle writing a letter, Xu Mingyi's eyes fell on his pen.

"The second uncle's handwriting is really beautiful and tight."

Xu Yun smiled and sighed: "what's the use? You can't use it to help your father kill the enemy."

Xu Mingyi disagreed with the tunnel: "there are many uses."

The ink dried quickly. Looking at the second uncle's action of folding the letter paper and stuffing it into the envelope, Xu Mingyi noticed that he seemed very complicated at this time. Xu Mingyi asked softly, "second uncle... Still can't put it down?"

The second uncle looks particularly sober today.

She wants to talk to such a second uncle.

Xu Yun looked up at his niece suspiciously.

what?

Xu Mingyi: "empress -"

Second uncle still can't let go of the queen?

Xu Yun understood this time. After being stunned for a moment, he immediately asked, "you girl... Where did you hear it?!"

Xu Ming subconsciously pursed her mouth -- just now she looked at her second uncle's worried appearance. She couldn't help but forget that she "should" didn't know the secret.

Xu Yun frowned and said, "but listen to your father's nonsense?"

This old story was the last thing my father wanted to mention. He thought he had lost the Xu family, so it would never be my father.

It must be big brother!

But what did big brother say he did?

Don't think about it. Zhaozhao must have asked a few questions, and the eldest brother said it all - please the girl with his gossip. What are you waiting for if you don't carry it out!

However, it seems that you can't carry it

Xu Yun was so angry that the voice in his head made a mess.

Xu Mingyi hurriedly said, "my father didn't say it, but I guessed it myself."

"....?" Xu Yun was really confused.

Is the niece's lie too perfunctory?

Also guessed, how could she guess so accurately?

However, on second thought, if he had the status of a niece, why didn't he worry about "Guessing" the big and small things in the house?

"Don't be angry, second uncle." Xu Mingyi held a tea lamp from one side of the tea table and said, "I just want to talk to second uncle."

Looking at the tea in front of him, Xu Yun suddenly felt flattered and frightened.

It's impossible not to answer. After all, I don't have the courage. I can only take an elder's tone and say, "don't ask children about adult things..."

There was a trace of helplessness in Xu Mingyi's tone: "second uncle, I'm not a child long ago."

Looking at the niece who just sat down in the chair on one side, Xu Yun concluded.

How to say

My niece can now take charge of business alone. In emotional matters, there are people who agree with each other. In fact, he seems to be far behind his niece except that he is more than ten years old

After a moment of silence with a complicated mood, Xu Yun drank a cup of tea and said, "what can't be put down... It's called daring to love and hate. It's inherited from the bones of our Xu family."

He hasn't mentioned this bad thing for seventeen years.

This is my niece.

It would be impossible for him to open the mouth.

Xu Mingyi listened carefully.

Dare to love and hate?

"Do you hate it?" she asked, looking at her second uncle.

I always feel that my second uncle doesn't look like he hates others.

"..." Xu Yun choked inexplicably.

Hate it?

"Why don't you hate?" he took another sip of stuffy tea and put the tea down with a bang.

Xu Mingyi looked at the cup of tea and felt that the fate of the cup of tea was also wonderful. It was just an ordinary tea, but it tasted like wine.

"What I dislike most in my life is those people who break their promises!" Xu Yun's tone really means a little hate.

Such a person, of course, he wants to hate!

But from the beginning, he couldn't help thinking, what if she had difficulties—— He was unlucky in his life to know her character too well!

So I always think, if after her work is finished, she turns around and finds that he is gone, she can't cry secretly?

He can't wait!

But from beginning to end, she didn't even say a word, so people couldn't decide whether to go or stay.

Are you afraid that if he tells the truth, he will pester her, and if he tells a lie, he will not be perfect?

The more so, the more he wants to spend it with her, and he has to make her have such a hard conscience!

But just spend it. He doesn't have time to think about these things now.

She has business to do, and so does he now!

With this idea, Xu Yun subconsciously wanted to do something. However, he felt empty handed and didn't know what he could do, so he looked at the girl who is now the head of the family: "Zhaozhao, there are two uncles who can catch up with big and small things in the family in the future. Just tell him that he won't be lazy anymore."

He had this idea, not to be angry with anyone.

He has been examining himself in recent days.

Whether it's talking to my father in a dream or when I'm awake and alone.

In the past, everything was fine at home. There was a father outside. There were brothers and sister-in-law in the family. They took care of it in good order. There was no place where he could plug in. He lay down and admitted that he could only avoid trouble.

But now he sees the difference.

Now the situation at home is no better than before. As a Xu family, he can't do nothing without supporting the family.

The topic turned a little suddenly. Xu Mingyi still wanted to say something about the empress. However, she couldn't help smiling at the eyes of "send some work to the second uncle quickly".

It's good. My second uncle has grown up.

"Is there anything the second uncle can do now?" Xu Yun asked again.

Niece smiled and looked at him, very pleased.

Then he shook his head: "No."

Xu Yun felt frustrated: "are you afraid of second uncle's help?"

"How can I? There is no such thing now, but I may need my second uncle to do a big thing in the future." Xu Mingyi said with a smile: "now, my second uncle just needs to be as open as possible to make himself feel more at ease."

Home is a place where there is always no difference between strong and weak.

Just learn from each other and take care of each other.

And if what is the most valuable, in her opinion, the whole family is complete and happy is the best.

She thought that the reason why my grandfather sometimes blamed my second uncle for his lack of ambition was not that he wanted my second uncle to make achievements and glorify his family. My grandfather said he was not ambitious, but he didn't want to see my second uncle's ignorance and self rejection.

Just like the second uncle's marriage, if Grandpa really wants to force it, is there any reason why he can't do it?

After all, getting a wife is only secondary. It's true to want my second uncle to come out of his sadness.

Xu Mingyi thought in his heart and said it.

"The second uncle knows..." Xu Yun's voice was slightly hoarse and his nose was sour.

The greatest blessing of his life is that he became a Xu family and became his father's son.

For ordinary people, he looks like this all day. He's afraid he'll be carried out with his bed and thrown away.

Uncle and nephew talked for a long time.

Until Xu Ming found it.

When Xu Mingshi entered the study, he saw the red eyes of his second uncle. He couldn't help but subconsciously look at Xu Mingyi - how did he bully his second uncle like this?

……

Jottim came early the next morning.

After entering the town government, he was invited into Xu Yun's courtyard. Seeing that his good friend was sitting in the hall and had arranged tea, Qiao Tian couldn't help but be surprised: "Qinghu... Did you really write that letter?"

How could Qinghu take the initiative to invite him and ask him to meet him early in the morning?

"Why did you come here when you suspected that I didn't write it?" Xu Yun asked jokingly.

"Thinking that your handwriting is not something ordinary people can impersonate, come and have a look."

There's another thing he didn't dare say.

After confirming that it was his friend's handwriting, he even doubted whether his friend had been kidnapped.

Fortunately, he thought too much.

Looking at his friend who was sitting there drinking tea and seemed to have trimmed his beard, Qiao Tian couldn't help feeling very strange, but it was still important: "what's important to come to me in such a hurry?"

Xu Yun said bluntly, "my niece wants to see you. She asked me to write and invite you to come for a chat."

Miss Xu?

Jotian moved his eyebrows suspiciously.

What did Miss Xu do when she saw him?

And——

This is really not much different from what he thought. Qinghu was indeed kidnapped.

Looking at his friend sitting there, Qiao Tian couldn't help feeling that an invisible knife seemed to hang around his friend's neck.

In those years when he was preparing for the examination in Beijing, he also instructed the young master of the Xu family in his lessons. Therefore, he knew how intimidating the girl of the Xu family was in the mansion.

This is not to say who said anything in his ear, such as the unruly and domineering girl in the family.

It was because no one dared to say, and all the people in the house regarded everything unusual as ordinary, that he became more and more deeply aware of the status of Miss Xu's family.

"I don't know why Miss Xu wants to see me?" Qiao Tian asked when his friend asked someone to invite his niece.

Xu Yun thought about it when he heard the speech and said, "I'd better wait until my niece arrives. You sit first."

Joe Tian sat down in a mixed mood with his good friend's eyes of "your niece didn't let me say, you understand".

He felt the chair behind him slightly pricked.

After all, according to the appearance of the good friend, even if the Xu girl is going to be bad for him later, the good friend may have to hand over the knife for his niece.

It seems a little hasty to come this time

Xu Mingyi soon came.

After the girl in the thousand year old green horse face skirt came in, the boy guarding the hall withdrew very consciously. Then, the two hall doors were closed behind the girl.

Joe's eyelids jumped.

What's this for?

At this time, the door was closed, and the hall was still bright, but this action still made Qiao Tian beat a drum in his heart.

After thinking about it, I don't seem to have done anything to offend Miss Xu

"Mr. Joe."

The girl came to him and saluted him.

Qiao Tian got up and saluted back. When he sat back, he asked, "why does Miss Xu want to see Qiao?"

Xu Mingyi said bluntly, "it's for your father."

Qiao Tian was stunned. He never thought it would be such a sentence.

Then Mu Lu wondered and said, "my father has been dead for many years... Qiao doesn't understand what Miss Xu means."

Seeing that he was silent, Xu Mingyi went on to say, "recently, I happened to get some clues about your father after checking an old story 18 years ago. Therefore, I suspected that there was something strange about your father's death - I invited you here because I knew Mr. Qiao also had doubts about it."

Joe Tian looked slightly stunned.

Miss Xu suspects his father's death?

And know that this is a knot in his heart?

"... I don't know what the old story in Miss Xu's mouth is?" Qiao Tian asked tentatively.

He took this precaution not against the Xu family, but on this matter, he could not rashly trust anyone.

"This is a family affair of a good friend of mine, and now the truth is unknown, so I can't decide for him and directly tell Mr. Qiao about it."

Xu Mingyi did not disclose the matter of Princess Yan, but said, "the reason why I want to find out that you are dead is because I suspect your father is still alive. If you are secretly coerced, your father's skills and means may be used against my grandfather."

In the first half of the hearing, Qiao Tianshang could be called calm, and could care to say in his heart that Miss Xu has a bottom line, or is a trustworthy person——

However, all these thoughts were buried at the moment of hearing the sentence "your father may still be alive".

His father... May still be alive?!

Qiao Tian was shocked: "this... How is it possible!"

Could it be that this girl Xu is taking such an impractical lie and trying to get him into the game and find out other clues from him?

But the eyes of the girl in the sight are very broad: "now it's just speculation, and even if the living is not your father, it must be someone deeply involved with your father, and among them, there must be the truth of your father's death in that year -"