Chapter 45: Father
Taking advantage of the break between her father and Zilin, Lan Yue half-squatted and moved backwards step by step. There were a few more steps to turn the corner, thinking about hiding first.
"stop!"
Lan Yue has been doing small moves under Lan Shuqing's nose, and Lan Yue has been lacking in her skills for decades.
Hearing that sound, Lan Yue didn't dare to move anymore, but she didn't say anything, lowered her head and hugged behind Zi Lin.
"Sir, I'm damn, I didn't inform you of the news that the lady was back."
Seeing that she couldn't hold on, Zilin didn't struggle at all. She knelt down with a loud bang and confessed faster than anyone else. In fact, in her heart, she was very willing to meet the adults and the lady earlier, and the father and daughter reunion were even more peaceful and her master's wish.
"My Yue'er is back?"
Uncle Lan's eyes fell on Lan Yue, who dared not look up behind Zi Lin.
A mistake! I forgot to put on makeup when I went out. Lan Yue didn’t really want to recognize her father at this time, but can it be okay if she doesn’t recognize her now?
Lan Yue felt that eager and hesitant gaze fell on her body, and it was all at this point. Could it be that she was not his daughter? She looked up carefully and looked at the face that was so familiar that it could not be more familiar. She couldn't stop her eyes, and her eyes turned red in an instant, and she turned her mouth flattened, and she started to cry because of grievance.
The little face that was exactly the same as Jing, even the expression of his eyes was exactly the same as that of aggrieved and crying. Uncle Lan just looked at his daughter without saying anything, and was stubborn.
No matter how stubborn her father is, her father can't be stubborn. Lan Yue knows her father's temperament. Her stubborn eyes are so similar to her modern father. She has some methods to treat it.
"Hmph, don't admit it? Zilin, let's go." Lan Yue stumbled on her neck, and she was doing it.
"Come in." Uncle Lan turned around and entered the house first, and wiped the corners of his eyes as soon as he turned around.
Lan Yue followed behind and pulled Zilin who was kneeling, but Zilin didn't dare to get up.
"She should kneel!" Without looking back, Uncle Lan knew her daughter's little movements as if her eyes were on her back.
"Zi Lin knelt outside and it was cold."
"I'm cold too!"
This is a blasphemy Zilin didn't inform his daughter of finding her right away.
In the room, the father and daughter stared at each other. After a while, Lan Yue knelt down. She grew up so big that she had never kneeled except to worship the gods, but this time she was willing to kneel.
"Why did you come back to see your father?" When his daughter knelt down, Uncle Lan lost a lot of excitement.
"I've come back to see you a long time ago. Do you remember it?"
"Yipinju?"
Lan Shuqing saw something from his daughter's eyes that although the girl in Yipinju looked different, her eyes could not be covered. No wonder she felt familiar that day inexplicably. This is the nature of father and daughter.
Lan Yue smiled cunningly and nodded.
"Dad, don't you suspect I'm fake?"
"Get up and come to my dad."
Lan Yue stood up and walked over as she spoke. Lan's father hugged his daughter with both hands, "I, Uncle Lan, should be like this, it's not fake."
"Dad, wuwu..."
"Why are you crying? Come on, let Dad take a good look, haha..."
Dad Lan's face-changing speed is even faster than Lan Yue. He just wiped his eyes unconsciously, but now he is happy when he turns his face. No wonder he believes that she is his biological child. His daughter's appearance, expression and small movements follow her mother, and her personality and temper follow her father.
"Dad, have you eaten?"
"Yeah, it's the New Year, have dinner first."
Where did Uncle Lan eat? Since his daughter disappeared, every year during the Chinese New Year, she sat in this room where her daughter lived for the whole night. Fortunately, the housekeeper was preparing regardless of whether the master was eating or not. When Dad Lan called for a meal, he had hot dishes in the front yard and plates in the front yard. Finally, there was a sense of New Year atmosphere in the mansion.
"I didn't let my aunt and Zilin tell you. Actually, I've just been back not long ago. Dad, don't blame them, let Zilin get up first."
"No wonder, Zilin, go to the front yard for dinner together."
Lan Shuqing spoke, Zilin got up after thanking her, and walked silently behind the Grand Marshal and the Miss. Looking at the intimate father and daughter, she was happy for Jing and her master.
"You have to tell your dad where you have been over the years, whether you have studied and learned calligraphy and was bullied, and why did you feel wronged? Dad will help you get it back."
"I'm doing well." Only when I come here, I have suffered such a grievance and bullying. But Lan Yue dared not say that.
The Lan Mansion suddenly learned that the lady was back, and some servants with status in the mansion, such as the butler, the leader of the private guards raised by the Lan Mansion, and the personal entourage of the Taiwei, all came to pay their respects one by one.
Lan Yue quietly leaned into her father's ear and asked, "Are these people reliable? I can't tell you about my return home and about the Lan family's daughter. Dad, do you understand?"
When he brought his daughter back from the enemy country, except for the late emperor and the current empress dowager, he did not officially disclose his daughter's identity to the outside world. Although Lan's father didn't know what his daughter wanted to do, he also told these people not to go out and talk nonsense and to keep his mouth shut.
On the dining table, Uncle Lan was happy and asked the housekeeper to pour the treasured wine, but he had to pour a small cup for his daughter.
"Dad, I can't drink." Lan Yue really can't drink, and she has a stomach here, so she has to take care of it.
"Okay, just touch it casually, Zilin, you can sit down and have a drink together. It's rare that you don't be too polite during the Chinese New Year."
"Yes, sir, I'll call Yang's ingots in and settle them first."
"Oh yes, Zilin, go quickly."
"There are quite a lot of people squatting in the corner of the Taiwei Mansion on New Year's Eve?" Dad Lan glanced at his daughter with a blame. If he hadn't heard the sound, he would have been reluctant to show up.
Lan Yue must have said that Yang Zheng wanted to accept his goddaughter again.
"Hmph, my Lan family's treasure has allowed outsiders to take advantage of it." Boss Lan Shuqing was unhappy and pushed the clawed crab to his daughter with a stern face.
"You're stingy, dad." Lan Yue naturally ate the things her father made. She got used to it. Whenever she grew up, she never had to do anything when she served with her dad.
"It's strange that I'm not stingy. I don't feel any pain in my daughter. There are still people who dare to come and grab me!" Dad Lan replaced the peeled plate of shrimps for his daughter with that plate of crab shells. He watched her eat it, which was even more fragrant than he did.
"Dad, eat it too, don't just patronize me." The shrimp meat peeled from Lan Yue's plate was then picked up two more times and put them in Lan's bowl.
"Well, after eating for a while, I went to the yard with my father to set off fireworks and firecrackers. Since you disappeared, the mansion has not celebrated the New Year's Day. It's going to be lively today."
"Okay, Dad, you're the same person every year?"
"Not necessarily, your grandfather would be in the mansion in the past years."
Lan Yue said oh, she had never seen her grandfather before, not even modern ancient times.
Zilin called Yuanbao into the mansion and asked them to have dinner with the Lan Mansion housekeeper. When she came back, she sat aside and ate quietly, listening to Lan Yue explaining her whereabouts.
Chapter completed!