But if Lan Yu continues to keep these adopted sons, the harm will be too great.
There are hundreds of brave and capable elites in the hinterland of the capital. This is like putting a thorn in Lao Zhu's eyelids! To be honest, Han Du felt that Lao Zhu knew Lan Yu had so many adopted sons and still granted Lan Yu a dukedom. His endurance alone made Han Du feel chilled all over. It was terrifying!
It is not a pleasant experience for an emperor like Lao Zhu to tolerate you and let you go. All these will be dealt with one by one in the future. The more Lao Zhu tolerates now, the more ruthless he will be when he can't bear it anymore.
Therefore, no matter what, these adopted sons of Lan Yu must be dismissed.
Han Du thought for a moment and laughed easily. Seeing Lan Yu looking at him doubtfully, he explained: "Isn't this simple? My brother is not forcing them to leave. Everything is based on their own free will. Those who are willing to leave, if If the elder brother feels that he owes them, he can reward them more generously, or even give them a certain position in his hometown. If they are not willing, it is their choice, but the elder brother wants to take back the Lan surname and let them restore their original surname. "
Lan Yu nodded, agreeing with Han Du's idea. If you stay or leave voluntarily, you can't be considered mean and ungrateful. Even for those who want to stay, as long as their surname is no longer Lan, even if something happens in the future, it will be much easier to deal with.
"Okay." Lan Yu finally nodded and made up her mind, "However, not all of our adopted sons are in the house. Some of them are still serving as generals in the army. We don't have military power now, so we can only send people to inform them. It’s hard to say whether they have time to come to our place.”
No one would believe this! Han Du just smiled and cleared the matter up with a haha.
As Lan Yu's adopted son, even if he serves as a general in the army, he cannot disobey Lan Yu's orders. The reason why Lan Yu said this was just to express his dissatisfaction to Zhu Biao about having his military power taken away.
But in this matter, even Zhu Biao couldn't be Lao Zhu's boss, and it was even less possible for him to promise Lan Yu anything, so he had to pretend to be ignorant and get through.
Sure enough, following Lan Yu's order, all his adopted sons who served as generals in the army rushed to Liang Guogong.
"Father..."
"Father..."
One after another, people walked into the lobby and bowed to Lan Yu.
Seeing that everyone was here, Lan Yu looked at the swaying figures in front of her with some reluctance. To be honest, every one of the nearly one hundred adopted sons knew Lan Yu, but it was impossible for Lan Yu to know everyone. When he first adopted his adopted son, he didn't think too much about it. Sometimes, when he was having a good time after drinking wine, someone next to him wanted to recognize him as his adoptive father, and he would agree with a smile.
After he sobered up, he felt confused enough to admit his adoptive son, but he, who always spat on him, could not refuse with dignity, so he had no choice but to accept him.
Even Lan Yu had never thought that in this daze, he would have so many adopted sons.
Han Du was sitting on the right side of Lan Yu, looking at the people in front of him with a somewhat unhappy expression.
These people are all powerful and wearing armor. Even those in the mansion cannot take off their armor and never leave their bodies with their swords. What kind of adopted sons are these? They are simply a well-equipped elite force. With such a group of people staying in Liang Guogong's mansion, let alone Lao Zhu, even Han Du would not be able to rest assured.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lan Yu no longer hesitated, picked up a bowl of wine and stood up, "You all recognize me as your adoptive father, but I just discovered today that I have not been a good adoptive father. Some of you We can’t even call you by name, some of you have blocked arrows for us, some of you have been knifed for us..."
Lan Yu sighed with emotion, bursting into tears, and moved all the adopted sons. Then the conversation changed and he said
gave them two choices.
It's up to them whether they take the reward and go back to be rich, or they continue to hang out as generals in the army. Anyway, Lan Yu is determined to take back the Lan surname no matter what, leaving no one behind.
After Lan Yu finished speaking, the entire hall became as quiet as death, and you could hear a needle drop.
No one expected to hear this before coming here.
After a long silence, no one spoke. Lan Yu was about to speak, but was interrupted by someone in front of him.
I saw a powerful adoptive son, wearing the armor of a school captain, looking at Lan Yu with red eyes, and asked Lan Yu in a voice as if he was crying: "Does the adopted father not want a child?"
Lan Yu couldn't bear it. She didn't want to face this person's pleading face, so she had to avoid it and said: "You also have parents, so it's not good to follow our surname. Besides, the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, so we can be regarded as father and son." Of course, I don’t want you to live a life of licking blood anymore.”
It was okay if Lan Yu didn't say this. As soon as he said this, the adopted son in front of him suddenly became excited, punched his fist and shouted: "We have no parents, our adopted father is our reborn parent, and I won't agree to it!"
"Yes, we will never agree!"
If someone takes the lead, others will naturally follow. But fortunately, except for the dozen or so people who served as generals in the army in front who agreed, the others in the back remained motionless and looked on with cold eyes.
Lan Yu's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and he shouted: "Lan Ping, what do you promise or not? I said, this is not forcing you. You can choose whether to leave or stay. But from today on, you all have to recover. My surname."
Is this person Lan Ping?
When Han Du heard Lan Yu's words, he couldn't help but look at Lan Ping a few more times. This person's behavior in Xifengguan really made Han Du have to doubt him.
Lan Ping faced Lan Yu. He didn't dare to refute anything, but suddenly saw Han Du sitting beside him, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes. He took two quick steps and rushed to Han Du, pointed at him and said, "Is he your bewitched adoptive father? Our father and son have a deep love. Why are you so vicious and sowing discord with us?"
Han Du only felt a huge sense of oppression coming towards his face. He subconsciously put his hand on his waist, took out a revolver and played with it.
Looking at Lan Yu coldly, he said in a deep voice: "What did you say? Say it again?"
Seeing Han Du's revolver in his hand, Lan Ping couldn't help but take a step back in shock. The cruel look towards Han Du in his eyes ignited again, but quickly disappeared. With a face full of grievances, he pointed at Han Du and said: "What? Are you going to beat us to death with a revolver? Come on, come on, it would be better to beat us to death, so as not to let us suffer the pain of heart-cutting." "
Lan Ping said he was aggrieved, but his hand quietly placed on the handle of the knife at his waist.
When Lan Yu saw it, he immediately shouted: "Bastard, what do you want to do?"
His eyes were wide open, staring at Lan Ping.
Lan Ping suddenly felt a little annoyed that he shouldn't have been so whimsical, and wanted to take advantage of Han Du's lack of time to react, but was noticed by Lan Yu. Han Du is a scholar, even if he is holding a revolver, Lan Ping may not be afraid at such a close distance. If he suddenly breaks out, it's still unclear who will win.
But Lan Yu is different. Lan Yu's strength is far superior to him. Even if he holds a knife and Lan Yu is empty-handed, he still has no confidence.
In the flash of lightning, Lan Ping thought everything clearly. He instantly let go of the hand holding the handle of the knife, and quickly stepped forward to cry, as if he was a wronged child.
But the scene just now was seen by Lan Yu, and since Han Du had warned him more than once. Everyone has his or her own thoughts, and one hundred people have one hundred thoughts. Even the adopted son cannot be completely of the same mind as him.
Originally, what Lan Yu had said about Han Du was
The words were a bit scoffing, but the scene just now really made Lan Yu sober up a lot. This bastard actually wants to attack Han Du!
Han Du was not only Lan Yu's sworn brother, but he had also just saved his life. He dared to attack such a person, so what else could he not dare to do?
No matter how much Lan Ping begged, Lan Yu remained indifferent and insisted on letting him restore his surname. As for whether he chooses to receive the reward and return to his hometown, or continue to stay in the army as a general, Lan Yu will no longer care.
Han Du also looked at Lan Ping with burning eyes. At that moment, Han Du felt the murderous intention towards him from this person. This murderous intention was so unprovoked and so violent that Han Du couldn't think of where he had offended Lan Ping for a moment.
Moreover, Han Du also saw from Lan Ping's eyes that he knew him. It's not the first time I know myself, but the feeling of knowing myself for a long time.
But this was obviously the first time he saw Lan Ping, how could he have known him for a long time?
Also, just now Han Du clearly felt that Lan Ping's hatred for him did not come suddenly, but broke out over time.
This was the first time he saw Lan Ping. Where did his past hatred for him come from?
Han Du smiled faintly in his heart and felt that some things were really getting more and more interesting.
What happened was as Han Du expected. Among Lan Yu's adopted sons, only a dozen or so people strongly opposed it, while the others stood quietly and watched.
Although these people are also Lan Yu's adopted sons, I'm afraid Lan Yu can't name many of them. Since they were already estranged from Lan Yu, they naturally had no hope of getting a high-ranking official or generous salary from Lan Yu. Now that they can withdraw smoothly with the money, and with Lan Yu helping to find a position for them in their hometown, they are satisfied and have no resentment at all.
With most people acquiescing, Lan Ping and others couldn't change Lan Yu's determination no matter how much they cried, and finally had no choice but to retreat.
After seeing that there were no twists and turns, Han Du changed his mind and asked Zhu Biao to go out, leaving space for Lan Yu and his adopted sons.
As soon as he walked out of the gate of Liang Guogong's mansion, Zhu Biao turned to Han Du and asked, "Why are you so deliberately trying to draw a clear line between your uncle and his adopted sons?"
Han Du glared at Zhu Biao helplessly and said, "Stop pretending to be confused. I don't believe you. You won't be able to see the harm of those adopted sons."
When Zhu Biao heard this, his tone suddenly stopped, and after a few breaths, he sighed and said: "My father has long been unable to stand these adopted sons of my uncle. Even Gudu reminded his uncle in a subtle way several times, but he didn't know that he was I didn't realize it, but I still thought it didn't matter. Anyway, you had no intention of dismissing these people until you took action.
Speaking of which, you still have a way. It was so easy for my uncle to agree to dismiss his adopted sons. Yes, yes, you have the ability. "
Han Du responded to Zhu Biao angrily and sighed in his heart. How could it be easy to persuade Lan Yu? If he hadn't taken this opportunity to make Lan Yu doubt an adopted son like Lan Ping, Lan Yu would never have agreed to dismiss them.
Lan Yu is not stupid. The conversation with Han Du and the various things that were wrong mentioned by Han Du made him suspicious. When he was injured, he took medicine. Although the injury was not serious, the medicine he used was much larger. Originally Lan Yu didn't notice anything was wrong, but it wasn't until Han Du mentioned it that he had to become suspicious. Because the person who gave him the medicine was Lan Ping. Lan Yu did not tell Han Du about this matter, so Han Du could not frame Lan Ping deliberately.
And what happened at Xifengguan also made Lan Yu have to doubt Lan Ping. According to Han Du, since the defenders only chose to fight back after being attacked. Lan Ping, who was standing at the front, was the biggest suspect.
