The old farr pointed incredulously at Lu Yuan, his old eyes wide as saucers: "Girl, what did you say? This rascal who’s been tricking all this way is my long-lost grandson?"
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Lu Yuan snorted coldly, "As if I’m keen on being your grandson."
Zong Zhengxi was stunned.
So after all this ti, you two are blood relatives, then what was the point of everything I went through?
Starving, fleeing, stumbling, and being imprisoned...
Am I just a part of your family reunion?
Liu Qingyun looked at her father and son, who seed like they were about to fight, and was baffled: "You two... didn’t know? So how did you end up together?"
ng Qianqian was equally surprised.
Yu Zichuan had only told him that Lu Yuan and Zong Zhengxi were caught and thrown into the county governnt’s prison, but didn’t ntion there was a rogue "grandpa" involved.
"If you’re not interested, then why did you follow ?"
"Then why did you insist on hosting a feast at the inn without any money?"
"How... how was I supposed to know the inns in Capital City were so expensive?"
"You two stop arguing!"
Liu Qingyun decisively interrupted the banter between the grandfather and grandson, bent down, entered the cell, grabbed her son’s hand, furrowed her brows, and asked the old farr, "Did you put a gu on him?"
"I did not!" The old farr adamantly denied.
Seeing Liu Qingyun staring at him with a serious expression, he cleared his throat, "Just one."
Liu Qingyun imdiately forced the Gu Worm out of Lu Yuan’s body and crushed it without a word.
The old farr tried to stop her but was too late: "Ah—my worm!"
Liu Qingyun said angrily, "If this happens again, I’ll burn all your worms!"
The old farr was heartbroken: "He was the one who tricked first!"
Liu Qingyun looked at Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan said flatly, "Put a bit of poison on him."
The old farr exploded: "I knew it!"
Liu Qingyun’s mouth twitched hard: "The young one poisons the old, the old one puts a gu on the young..."
Other grandparents greet each other with tears of joy, but her father and son et each other ready to fight to the death!
If she hadn’t co tonight, she would seriously doubt she’d need to collect a body the next morning.
The governnt official waiting outside grew impatient, knocked on the cell door with his keychain: "Hey! Have you decided yet? Which two are you going to ransom?"
The words plunged everyone into an awkward silence.
Especially Liu Qingyun.
She ca to ransom her father and that kid, but she didn’t know her son was there too.
In a flash, she grabbed her father with one hand and her son with the other: "Ransom these two!"
Zong Zhengxi, who was heartlessly abandoned: "...!!"
ng Qianqian suppressed her slightly upturned lips and hurriedly went to pay the ransom.
The ransom was paid to the governnt office, used for bailing out three people, but the al money still needed to be paid.
ng Qianqian paid for the al as well.
Liu Qingyun said with a stern face: "A al for two hundred taels, and the bail for you all cost fifteen hundred taels."
Lu Yuan glanced at the old farr: "He wanted to eat."
Old farr: "You didn’t eat too?"
Liu Qingyun scolded: "Arguing again?"
Lu Yuan huffed coldly.
The old farr also wanted to huff but didn’t dare.
His daughter was terrifying when angry.
Liu Qingyun said to her father: "et your granddaughter-in-law."
ng Qianqian stepped forward, gave the old farr a respectful salute: "Qianqian greets grandfather."
The old farr imdiately brightened, smilingly said to ng Qianqian: "Hello, granddaughter-in-law!"
ng Qianqian smiled: "I apologize for the inadequate greeting upon your long journey, please forgive , grandfather."
"You’re such a likeable girl! Co, co, grandpa has a gift for you!"
The old farr said, taking out a small porcelain bottle from his waist pouch.
"Put away those worms of yours..." Liu Qingyun was about to say, but when she saw the Green Simurgh Jade Bottle, she swallowed her words.
The old farr, having walked around the prison, had dirt on his hand, so when he handed the gift to ng Qianqian, it inevitably got a bit dirty.
ng Qianqian accepted it with genuine joy, without a hint of disdain.
The old farr was very pleased: "The old man is all dirty, it’s hard for you not to mind."
ng Qianqian chuckled: "What are you talking about, grandfather? Traveling from Miaojiang must have been exhausting, let’s return ho first."
The old farr readily agreed: "Listen to the granddaughter-in-law!"
ng Qianqian turned to Lu Yuan, but seeing him standing there coldly, she paused, gently taking his hand: "Husband, I’ll co earlier next ti."
These words implied that he wasn’t upset with his grandfather, but with her tardiness.
Everyone could see that ng Qianqian was giving the grandfather and grandson a way to reconcile.
Lu Yuan remained silent.
ng Qianqian gently shook his hand, urging him to relent.
Lu Yuan, maintaining a very aloof deanor, acknowledged with a hum, holding her hand as they left the cell.
The old farr crossed his arms: "You rascal!"
Liu Qingyun sternly said: "Dad, be nicer to my son!"
The old farr imdiately dropped his hands: "Understood."
Unfilial daughter!
Forgot her father once she had a son!
Outside the prison, ng Qianqian said to Zong Zhengxi: "Your Majesty, it’s too late now. To prevent worrying the Supre Emperor and Noble Consort, I’ve already sent word to the palace that you’ll be staying at the Governor Mansion tonight."
Zong Zhengxi looked down at himself, realizing his disheveled state was indeed unsuitable for returning to the palace, lest it cause more chaos.
He gave ng Qianqian a slight nod: "Much appreciated."
After an exhausting day, Zong Zhengxi fell asleep as soon as he got into the carriage.
Liu Qingyun and the old farr also boarded ng Qianqian’s carriage.
Yu Zichuan sat atop the carriage, polishing his bow.
When it happened, he was polishing his bow by the front gate of the carriage, and since Lu Yuan and the others escaped from the back gate, by the ti he caught up, they were already captured.
The old farr had left a signal on the roof, and his guard, seeing the signal, found a way to contact Liu Qingyun, who was also in Capital City.
On the carriage, the grandfather and grandson exchanged looks of mutual disdain.
The old farr said with disdain: "Girl, are you sure you’re not mistaken? Is he really my grandson? He’s nothing like !"
ng Qianqian observed their identical eye-roll expressions and couldn’t help but think, isn’t everything exactly the sa?
Lu Yuan said coldly: "Indeed, unlike you, cunning and scheming."
"Oh ho! Quite good with words!" The old farr crossed one leg over the other, grabbing his lifted leg, said, "That’s called old ginger is spicier!"
Lu Yuan chuckled: "Well, didn’t you still get poisoned?"
The old farr retorted fiercely: "Didn’t you also get hit by my gu?"
ng Qianqian softly reminded: "Grandfather, watch the respect."
The old farr choked on his words.
ng Qianqian glanced over each of their faces, catching all their expressions: "Since everyone’s gathered, why not clear up the misunderstandings of the past?"
The old farr said: "What misunderstandings? Oh, granddaughter-in-law, you an about the boy going missing? Why didn’t we look for him after he disappeared, causing him to suffer all these years?"
As he spoke, his face suddenly seed to carry the weight of years: "Actually, back then..."
Liu Qingyun clenched her handkerchief tightly: "What happened back then was my fault."
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