Xiang Minghou stared blankly at the top of the bed, his mother's expression holding a knife flashed through his mind, and until now he still trembled at the thought.
While he was sleeping, he seemed to have had a long, long dream. In the dream, there was his father, mother, and younger brother. It was the day his father died. It rained heavily at night, and he was pushed to the bottom of the well in the backyard.
The water overflowed his head, and he screamed for help. When he was about to suffocate, he saw a figure appearing at the mouth of the well...
The people on the well just looked at him. The rain was too heavy, and his vision was blurred. He couldn't see the other person's figure clearly, and he could only hear the laughter of the wise man...
When the well water was about to swallow him, a bolt of lightning passed by, and the figure at the mouth of the well looked ferocious. That face... that face...
Xiang Minghou shuddered all over, it was her mother.
He was indeed pushed down the well on the day his father died. The figure he saw before he fell into coma, he thought it was his imagination after he was rescued, but he never thought that person was his mother.
This dream was so real that it overlapped with the scene in his memory.
Was she the person who got up at the entrance of the well at that time...
Xiang Minghou's suppressed breathing difficulty, regardless of whether the dream was true or false, was enough to frighten him to the extreme.
"Daddy."
Suddenly, Xiang Minghou heard a soft voice.
The sound drove away the chill in his body and gradually calmed the fear in his heart.
Thinking of the fair cheeks and the bright smile of the little man, he felt a sense of tenacity in his heart. Too many things happened to him in his childhood, which often woke him up at midnight.
He would never let his daughter experience such an experience.
Xiang Minghou thought and already had a plan in mind.
"Rowan."
"General." Rowan stepped forward.
"Ahem...you go to Zhuzhou tomorrow, please...please ask the family leader to come to Kyoto." Xiang Minghou said.
"General, what do you want?" Luo Wen was confused.
"Retire from the clan."
Such a family makes him feel chilled.
Luo Wen was surprised at first, and then understood. However, clan withdrawal is very serious in Beili, and not having clan status will make people look down upon.
"General, don't you think about it?"
Xiang Minghou shook his head. Resigning from the clan was the best choice. Since she didn't regard him as her son, then... let's give him up.
"Daddy."
As the sound rang, Ye Qianning opened the door and entered the room.
Turning to Marquis Ming, the little baby had already ran to the bed.
"Dad, you're awake, how do you feel?" Ye Qianning stood with her hands just enough to lie on the edge of the bed.
Xiang Minghou stretched out his hand, grabbed her chubby little hand, and said in a weak voice: "Everything is fine, you still come here so late."
"I was dreaming. I dreamed that Dad woke up and Fat Tuan came. I didn't expect Dad to really want to wake up." Ye Qianning rubbed his eyes with a smile on his face.
Xiang Minghou also laughed when he heard this, pulled at the wound, and groaned.
"Dad, don't move or laugh. You can't make any big moves now." Ye Qianning pouted.
"Okay." Xiang Minghou responded.
Ye Qianning also held his hand tightly with her backhand. After a moment of silence, she said, "Dad, I just heard you and Luo Wen talking."
Thinking of her mother's attitude, Xiang Minghou apologized: "Don't worry, Fat Tuan. With dad here, dad will definitely not let you suffer any injustice."
"With dad here, I won't feel wronged."
"Dad actually knows everything, but he just doesn't want to face it. Now dad is completely sober."
"None of this is dad's fault. It's not his fault to retreat from the clan." Ye Qianning knew how important it was to retreat from the ancestors in ancient times. If they wanted to retreat, it was them who retreated. Why should dad retreat?
Xiang Minghou sighed weakly: "Father has decided. Tomorrow I will report to the emperor to take over the general's residence."
(End of chapter)
