Jiaochu

Chapter 549 Extra
Banquet

After leaving the small fishing village, Yan Fei took Yan Hai and Yue Er to a place called Lianhua Town to find her brother. Yue Er said that was their hometown. Yan Hai did not wake up after returning to the shore. Yue Er said that her brother could cure people, as long as Yan Fei sent her back to her brother. Among those people, she only knew Yan Fei and believed that he was a good person.

Along the way, Yue'er kept talking about how good and beautiful Lianhua Town was. When they arrived at the destination, Yan Fei saw an ordinary town with white walls, gray tiles, small bridges and flowing water.

The difference is that the clear stream meanders through the entire town, with the middle section covered with emerald green lotus leaves and pale pink lotus flowers. The air is filled with the fragrance of lotus leaves and lotus flowers, and people's faces show a sense of comfort and tranquility.

It is a nice place to walk along the river in the evening, listen to the gurgling sound of the water, and smell the faint fragrance of lotus flowers.

Yue'er and her brother lived in a small house by the river. Liu Yao was also here, but he was a completely different person from before. He was wearing coarse linen clothes, and the pair of big iron hammers were gone. He was sitting in the yard guarding the medicinal herbs drying on the shelf. When he saw Yue'er come back, he happily ran over to call her. His eyes were still as pure as a child's. There was only Yue'er in his eyes. He didn't see Yan Fei at all, and naturally he didn't notice that he was carrying someone on his back.

Yue'er brought him some rice dumpling candy, and Liu Yao happily held the candy and obediently sat back on the small stool. Yan Fei carried his father on his back and followed Yue'er into the house. Yue'er went upstairs to see her brother, and after a while she ran downstairs again, asking Yan Fei to bring his father up with her.

The windows in the upstairs room were closed and the light was dim. As soon as you entered the room, you could smell a strong smell of medicine. There was a person sitting inside with his back to the door, and his face could not be seen. The chopping board in front of him was filled with bottles and jars.

Yue'er asked Yan Fei to put his father on a wooden bed by the window, and whispered to him that her brother didn't like outsiders to be present when he was seeing a doctor, so she asked him to go downstairs and wait, and she would stay here.

Yan Fei was waiting downstairs. The light gradually moved westward. When the sun set, Liu Yao came in with the dried herbs and placed them on the shelf against the wall. This time, when he saw Yan Fei, he waved and greeted him like a child. Then he went out and brought in a small stool. He sat at the door and carefully took out a rice dumpling candy and put it into his mouth carefully, for fear of dropping it. After eating it, he clapped his hands happily like a child.

At this time, Yue'er came out from the room upstairs and shushed him. Liu Yao immediately put his hands behind his back and remained motionless. Yue'er gave him a thumbs up and he grinned happily. Yan Fei asked how his father was. Yue'er said her brother could cure him. She pointed to the kitchen and told Yan Fei to prepare dinner.

In the following days, Yan Fei became a free cook, buying food and cooking, and even had to pay for the food himself. Yue Er went downstairs once in the morning, noon and evening to bring the food up to eat with her brother, while Liu Yao and Yan Fei ate downstairs.

Liu Yao is very good at catching fish. Every time he goes to the river outside the town to fish, he can catch five or six big, fat crucian carps. Yue'er especially likes to drink fish soup and can drink two big bowls of it in one meal.

Yan Fei doesn't know how to make fish soup, but Liu Yao does. He occasionally watches from the sidelines and remembers all the steps to make fish soup. He wants to make it for another person in the future. He has been a cook for free for nearly two months. That night, Yue'er ran downstairs to tell Yan Fei that the person had woken up.

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On the way back to the capital from Lianhua Town, Yan Fei picked out the important things he could remember and told Yan Hai about them. He said that he entered the Shangshufang to study, that his third uncle and Uncle Meng taught him martial arts, that his third uncle became the leader of the Dragon Shadow Guard, that he followed his grandfather to Qingzhou to suppress the bandits, and that his third uncle got married... When they were almost in the capital, Yan Hai asked about his mother's life over the years. Yan Fei was silent for a while and said that she no longer lived in the mansion.

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It had been hot these days and Su Hui had no appetite. She ate two bites of dinner and then stopped. While sitting in the house fanning herself with a round fan to cool off, she heard the rustling of bamboo leaves. The sound was very cool and soothing. She sat in the house and listened for a while, then took Ginkgo to the bamboo forest on the back mountain.

After walking a little by the bamboo forest, but not going inside, Ginkgo spread a towel on a smooth round stone. Su Hui sat on it, slowly waving a round fan and talking to Ginkgo. When the two were talking about Yan Fei, Ginkgo pointed at the two figures coming in front and said, "Madam, do you think that person looks like the young master? The person behind must be Brother Meng."

Su Hui immediately stood up, fixed her eyes on the front and took a closer look. She recognized it was Yan Fei, and quickly stood up and took Ginkgo over. After walking a few steps, her expression suddenly froze, and her eyes were fixed on the person behind Yan Fei, with a look of disbelief. As that face got closer and closer to her, her eyes had turned scarlet, and hot tears burst out. She could no longer stand there and wait foolishly. She ran over with all her strength, staggered and fell into a solid embrace. She raised her head, looked at the face so close with her eyes blurred by tears, and asked herself in a trembling voice if she was dreaming. Yan Hai held her hand and put it on his face, telling her that it was not a dream, it was him, he was back.

The two hugged each other, and the rustling sound of the bamboo leaves seemed like the whispering of thousands of words between them.

Ginkgo was watching from the side and her eyes were filled with tears, and she kept wiping her tears with her handkerchief.

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Three days later, Yan Fei left the capital again.

In the following three years, he stayed in that small fishing village and never left.