When Chu Yizuo heard this, he looked aside with confusion. Pei Weinan took out a letter from his sleeve, put it on the table, and pushed it over.
Taoye also followed with eager eyes.
Chu Yizuo opened the letter under the gaze of the three people. There were two pieces of paper inside, densely written on them. He read along, but after a moment, his expression changed and his hands shook unconsciously.
He had outstanding knowledge since he was a child and read books very quickly, but he stared at these two pages for a long time.
"Brother!"
Chu Yizuo's expression was so weird that Taoye, who was already anxious, ignored the rules and stood up and called out.
"I didn't expect that Brother Ban Yue Rong would investigate my life experience completely!"
Chu Yizuo smiled bitterly, but he was not resentful or angry.
Yunzhou and Shengjing are far apart, and it takes more than half a month to go back and forth by horse. Even if you use carrier pigeons to send the news back, it will take more than ten days at the earliest. Not long after he and his sister met, Young Master Rong Wu sent someone to check. their life experience.
He didn't know about his sister's previous request, but he just felt that Young Master Rong Wu was not an ordinary dandy in Shengjing, and he was quite ambitious. It was understandable that he wanted to investigate after making friends with him.
"Brother, what happened to you and your mother these years? Can you not hide it from A Yuan?"
Taoye has been used to holding back over the years. After all, she can't always express her true emotions in front of her master.
But at this moment, her eyelashes were moist, her eyes were red, tears were falling down her face, and her voice was choked when she finished speaking.
Rong Jiu frowned when she saw the little maid standing in front of Chu Yizhuo, full of pleading and sadness, and stretched out her hand to pull her into her arms: "She thought about it all the way on the carriage. I think Brother Chu should tell her personally about this matter." Better!"
Rong Jiu quietly reminded Chu Yizuo, whose eyes were still fixed on the letter paper.
Chu Yizuo looked at the tear-stained face of the sister he had loved since childhood, and her eyes were sad and worried, almost the same as when she saw her father being washed away by the flood that day.
He subconsciously reached out his hand to wipe his sister's tears like he did before, but there was a hand faster than hers.
"Thank you, Fifth Young Master!"
When Taoye saw Luopa in front of her, she realized her gaffe and quickly wiped her tears with a handkerchief.
"At that time...my mother and I searched for you but couldn't find you, so we could only follow the crowd towards Yunzhou City. Later, I became weak and passed out again. When I woke up, I had already entered Yunzhou City!"
"I asked my mother later and found out that that day at the gate of the city, she saw that I was so burned that I couldn't hold on any longer. My mother risked her life to beg the passers-by, and happened to stop the carriage of the steward of the Chu Mansion. My adoptive father, Chu Yuanzhi, He is a branch of the Chu family. It is said that he was injured not long ago and has no chance of having an heir. The housekeeper originally went out of the city to find a child from a poor family to be his heir!"
"I didn't want to, but at that time several counties in Yunzhou City suffered from floods, and the victims poured into Yunzhou City. Even in Yunzhou City, life was unsafe. The Chu family is the safest place. Chu Yuanzhi Although it is a side branch of the Chu family, it has a good relationship with the main branch and is enough to shelter people."
"I was very ill at that time. If I lost the chance of treatment, I might not survive. In order to save my life, my mother agreed!"
When Chu Yizuo said this, he clenched his fists, and his eyes showed infinite self-blame, regret, helplessness, and even more hatred.
"But Chu Yuanzhi and his wife told my mother that if she wanted me to become the adopted son of the Chu family, her biological mother would have to sell herself as a slave in the house, and we would no longer be able to care about our mother and son!"
"I was unwilling and struggled to get up from the bed, but mother..."
Chu Yizuo covered his face and couldn't say any more.
But even if he didn't say it, Taoye understood that the Chu family was afraid that they would not be able to raise their eldest brother well enough, so they made their mother a slave in the Chu family. They wanted to break the bond between mother and son, and also use this to control the eldest brother.
Even if the eldest brother becomes successful in the future, as long as the mother is still in their hands, she will not be able to get out of their hands.
Moreover, she had been a slave for many years, and her master had many ways to deal with the servants. But even if the eldest brother knew that his mother was suffering, he would not dare to help, because this would only make the Chu family murderous.
The tears in Taoye's eyes had blurred her vision.
Although she missed her mother and brother these years, she still tried to protect herself cautiously most of the time. However, her eldest brother and her mother lived under the same roof and saw each other every day, but they could not recognize each other.
Drops of clear tears fell on Rong Jiu's holding hand. He had never seen the little maid crying so uncontrollably. Even if he knew that his left ear was difficult to cure, he had never been so sad.
"Ah Yuan, don't cry, it's all because of Big Brother! Big Brother shouldn't hide it from you..."
Seeing her sister crying like this, Chu Yizuo couldn't care less about her own sadness, so she leaned closer and coaxed softly.
"Brother!"
Taoye ignored the rules this time and leaned forward, hugging her eldest brother's shoulders and continuing to cry.
Rong Jiu lowered his eyes slightly, but finally took back the hand around Tao Ye's waist.
"Ayuan, be good, stop crying! Big brother promises to reunite mother and son together, so don't hurt your eyes from crying!"
Chu Yizuo was originally trying to persuade others, but he also cried when he tried to persuade others.
Rong Jiu first looked at the two of them being intimate for a while, then turned back as if nothing had happened, and Hong Hao stepped forward to add tea.
Pei Weinan on the other side, although usually a quiet person, was just drinking tea quietly at the moment.
By the time the two of them calmed down, a quarter of an hour had passed.
There was a knock on the door, and Hong Xiao went out for a while. When she came back, she had a basin of warm water in her hand with a soft cloth soaked in it.
"Girl, come in with me and freshen up!"
Hongxiao got the hint from Rongjiu's eyes, walked to Taoye and said softly.
"Go ahead, brother is waiting here!"
Although the two have known each other for some time, today was the first time they were so close, so Taoye glanced at her eldest brother subconsciously.
Chu Yizuo looked at his sister with a familiar look of attachment on her face, and spoke softly like she had when she was young.
"Brother Pei, Brother Rong, I lost my temper!"
"It's okay, everyone will cry when this happens!"
Pei Weinan waved his hands carelessly, with a look of sympathy on his face.
"The matter has been made clear. I wonder what Brother Chu plans to do next?"
Unlike Pei Weinan, Rong Jiu didn't have much emotion on his face. At this moment, he was gently stroking the lid of the tea cup and looking calmly at Chu Yizuo, who had just calmed down. His deep eyes were full of inquiry.
Chu Yizuo's heart froze, feeling as if those eyes could see through his mind, so he picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip.
"If I can help Brother Rong, can I ask Brother Rong to agree to something?"
Chu Yizuo waited until the sip of tea in his throat went down before he slowly spoke.
