Yan Gui cleaned his hands, slowly started pressing down from Wei Yang's shoulders, and gradually lowered them. Xiao Cao, who was standing by, watched with eyes wide open, without blinking.
Hot air and curling smoke rose from Yan Gui's hands and dissipated. When Yan Gui's forehead was sweaty, Wei Yang moaned and woke up.
A familiar face came into view, and she couldn't help sobbing and whispered, "Uncle."
Because of the fever, Wei Yang's voice was low and dark, without its usual tenderness, and it scraped through Yan Gui's heart like a knife.
Yan Gui raised his eyes when he heard the voice, looked at Wei Yang's slightly flushed cheeks, and did not respond.
The old general outside the house heard the noise inside and couldn't help but ask loudly: "Is the girl awake?"
Yan Gui's eyes were fixed greedily on Wei Yang's face, unwilling to move away even a little bit, and he said loudly: "Awake, come in."
Footsteps were heard, and General Yan walked in alone, his steps slow, slow but powerful.
Wei Yang raised her eyes and looked at him, muttering, "Grandpa Yan?"
General Yan was stunned.
Grandpa Yan
"Nonsense, it's Uncle Yan, am I that old?" He walked over and grabbed Wei Yang's wrist, changing his usual gruff voice and asking gently, "Ninth girl, are you feeling better? Do you want some candy?"
As he said that, he actually took out a box of seven-color rainbow candies from his arms and put them in Weiyang's hand: "Here, they are all yours. You can only eat one a day."
This one sentence brought back Weiyang's memories.
At that time, she was still young and wanted to eat candy every day. Her mother was afraid that her teeth would be damaged, so she only allowed her to eat one piece a day. When General Yan returned to Beijing, he heard that she liked to eat candy, so he secretly bought her a box of candy. He also disliked other people's candy, and insisted on making seven-color candy with fruit flavors.
The store owner took his money and naturally worked hard. When General Yan left Beijing, he finally developed rainbow candy with seven fruit flavors.
When General Yan brought a box full of rainbow candies to the Su Mansion, the whole Su Mansion was shocked. Wei Yang happily hugged the old general and refused to let go, saying that she wanted to be General Yan's daughter and go back to Yanzhou with him.
"Uncle Yan." Wei Yang crawled out from the quilt, threw herself into the old general's arms, and just like when she was a child, she hugged the old general's neck and started crying.
"Okay, okay, we're home. Don't cry anymore. Just have a candy." The old general had no daughter in his life and had always treated the three daughters of the Su family as his own daughters.
Especially Wei Yang, he liked her the first time he saw her and wanted to bring her home to raise as his daughter. The Su family was reluctant to let her go, fearing that he would really abduct Wei Yang, so they forced her to call General Yan "Grandpa Yan".
Outsiders don't know the details, only the Yan family and the Su family know that the person who has a life-and-death relationship with General Yan is not the old Duke of the Su family, but Weiyang's father, Duke Su.
The Su family is the Empress' maiden family and the Prince's maternal grandfather's family. In order to avoid the Emperor's suspicion, they only told the outside world that General Yan and the deceased Duke of the Su family were just nodding acquaintances and could not be considered close friends.
When Wei Yang's crying gradually subsided, General Yan pushed her away from his arms and said softly, "This will be your home from now on. Don't be afraid, understand?"
Wei Yang wiped her tears with her hand and nodded obediently: "Got it."
Yan Gui, who was standing by, was a little angry. Why do you listen to my father so much? Thinking about what the old general said just now: "Your wife, you come and learn." My heart was filled with sweetness. It turned out that my father was the one who understood me.