Chapter 340 - 340 THE SON OF TANG YANMEI

340 THE SON OF TANG YANMEI

Three people waited inside one of the pavilions in Fan manor, and the three of them sat at a table. It was a quiet night, and neither of them broke the silence in the pavilion.

Among the three people, Wu Jingguo looked the most impatient as he tapped his index finger on the table. “I don’t even know what you’re going to do, but I hope it’s not just a waste of my precious time,” he finally broke the silence as he whispered to Yu Ming who was sitting across from him.

The three men sat at a square table with Wu Jingguo and Yu Ming facing each other, while Bai Chen sat on the other side of the table as if he was the referee for the two men.

“I didn’t force you to follow me to this place, Your Highness. I only asked you to help me knock on the door. You can’t blame me for wasting your precious time,” Yu Ming replied.

In fact, it could be said that Wu Jingguo and Yu Ming were not wrong in their opinions. Wu Jingguo did not know what Yu Ming would do tonight, but Yu Ming was also not wrong as he did not force the Crown Prince to follow him tonight.

Bai Chen was expecting another fight between the two men, but he wasn’t quite right because someone had suddenly entered the pavilion where they were waiting for the manor’s owner, and it was indeed the master of this place who had just entered.

Previously the guards had said that their master had not been feeling well recently, and perhaps they weren’t lying because the old man who was walking with the help of the guard did look pale.

It probably took the old man a while to arrive to greet his guests as it seemed he had purposely dressed properly before coming to the pavilion. His clothes didn’t look bad as they were made of the finest silk, but how the old man didn’t even have time to comb his long gray hair caused him to still look pitiful in such an expensive outfit.

“My apologies, Your Highness. I didn’t know that you would come to visit, and that’s why I went to bed early tonight,” the old man immediately uttered an apology right after he arrived next to the table with the help of the guards.

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He looked very weak, and that was why he needed two guards to help him walk. Even when he stopped walking, he could only rely on the two young men to be able to stand properly, and the sight was quite miserable.

“You’re a Fan Zedong, right? Please take a seat,” Wu Jingguo replied.

Even if Wu Jingguo knew that the owner of this residence was called Fan Zedong, it seemed to be the first time he had met the old man, and that was why there was no sense of familiarity on his face when he saw the old man.

Even if Fan Zedong looked weak and pale, he managed to keep a smile on his face after hearing the Crown Prince’s question. “Ah, yes, yes, Your Highness. This humble servant is Fan Zedong, and I sincerely apologize for not welcoming you properly.”

It was the Crown Prince who had come to visit him, and that was why Fan Zedong tried to appear polite in front of the young man. Even if he was old enough, it seemed he still wanted to be on the Crown Prince’s good side, and that was why he didn’t try to offend the young man.

“That’s fine. Please take a seat as my friend here wants to ask you some questions,” the Crown Prince replied as he glanced at Yu Ming who was sitting across from him.

Yu Ming almost snorted after hearing what Wu Jingguo had just said. Did he just hear the word “friend”? That one word was actually quite unexpected for Yu Ming. He thought the younger man would say he was his servant or something, and that was why he found it funny when the man introduced him as his friend.

But of course, Yu Ming knew that Wu Jingguo was only helping him in front of Fan Zedong, and that was why he only smirked at the young man to show his appreciation. Wu Jingguo could see the smirk on Yu Ming’s face, but he only rolled his eyes in response.

Meanwhile, Fan Zedong received the same two orders from the Crown Prince, and since he didn’t want to offend the young man, he quickly sat down on the empty seat across from Bai Chen with the help of his two guards.

A pair of old eyes turned to Bai Chen and Yu Ming, and it seemed that he failed to recognize the two men.

“May I ask the identity of these two gentlemen? I don’t think I have seen you two before tonight,” Fan Zedong politely asked the two men.

He was indeed being polite even though his sleep was disturbed tonight. If the intruder wasn’t the Crown Prince of Wu Li, the old man might have shouted and chased the intruder from his pavilion, but due to the Crown Prince and his “friends” coming to visit him, he couldn’t even raise his tone in front of them.

“My last name is Yu, and as His Highness the Crown Prince just said, I am his friend,” Yu Ming casually introduced himself.

Just like how Wu Jingguo had coldly glanced at him before when he referred to him as his “friend,” Yu Ming had also done the same when he introduced himself to Fan Zedong.

Hearing Yu Ming’s answer, Fan Zedong let out a polite “ah” before turning to another man who had yet to introduce himself. “Then, how about you, sir? May I know your last name and background?” He asked the man sitting across from him still in his polite tone.

It was Bai Chen who received the old man’s question, and he looked at the man intently before replying, “My surname is Bai, and I am the son of a prostitute named Tang Yanmei. Does that name ring a bell?”