Moon Emperor

Chapter 151 Her Hero
It took Su Yan and Su Yan half a month to travel from Qingcheng in Linjiang County to Qingcheng Palace.

This time it took less than three days to return to Qingcheng from Qingcheng Palace.

Along the way, there is no need to talk too much, the most important thing is to have Uncle Yan to guide the way, otherwise Su Yan alone may not know where he got lost.

Qingcheng is not big, but it is very peaceful. The return of master and servant did not cause any ripples.

It was raining lightly that day, and Su Yan was very low-key when he came back. He didn't fly back to the Su family's ancestral house without a sword, but just held an oil-paper umbrella, walked across the long stone street, and walked into the house step by step with the old servant.

During this process, Su Yan didn't feel any trace of prying eyes, but he believed that the news would spread out soon.
The architectural layout and the plants and trees inside the Su family gave Su Yan a feeling of familiarity and strangeness, as if he had been here for many years, but also as if he was just passing by.

As soon as he entered the inner house, Su Yan saw the silver-haired old woman under the eaves. She was lying on a huanghuali recliner, accompanied by a young maid.

The old lady looks at least over 70 years old, her face is kind and calm, her eyes are full of vicissitudes and calmness, just from the look of her face, she doesn't look like a dying person at all, and she doesn't look sick at all.

She seemed to expect that Su Yan would come back in a few days, so she waited here early.

Even so, at the moment when he really saw the baby, Su Yan could still feel that the old lady's eyes suddenly brightened up, like the last burning candle, blooming the last light and heat.
He threw away the paper umbrella, walked quickly to the old lady and knelt down to salute, "The child is unfilial, and the old lady has suffered."

The old lady sat up with a slight smile, and the maid next to her hurriedly came to help her up, but she got up without help, she just patted Su Yan on the shoulder and said: "Get up, don't kneel, there is gold under the man's knees."

Su Yan got up obediently, and Uncle Yan hurriedly moved a low stool over so that the young master had a place to sit and talk.

The old lady held Su Yan's hands affectionately, and looked at his face carefully.

After a while, she said with some emotion: "It's only been seven years, and you've grown so big, it's really unexpected."

"But I still recognized you at a glance. Your face is more like your father's, and you also have a bit of your grandfather's demeanor."

"Speaking of which, both your grandfather and your father were murdered, causing many women to cry for them. I hope you will not follow their old path in the future."

At first, Su Yan didn't know what to say, but he felt a little embarrassed when he heard this. He seemed to have this sign now. It seems that he should pay more attention in the future, and don't flirt with irrelevant women.

After looking at Su Yan's face, the old lady looked at his hands carefully, "There are not many calluses, but they are strong and strong. You gods who have entered the sky and entered the earth are different from us ordinary people after all."

"I still remember your grandfather's hands, thick calluses, very rough, but giving people a sense of security."

As I said before, the old lady is not Su Yan's grandmother, there is no blood relationship between the two, she is just Su Wenyuan's personal maid.

Su Yan knew that this old man loved his grandfather all his life, but he never got a title.
He didn't know the specifics of the past, but he was very upset for the old lady. If there was no such a strong woman who supported the family with one hand, Su Yan's predecessor would have died in a corner long ago.

Watching the old lady chattering, Su Yan didn't ask her what happened before; didn't urge her to explain the important points; and didn't ask her if she wanted to continue her life or live, but just listened quietly.

Soon he found that the old lady mentioned Su Wenyuan repeatedly, like a dying person, who was extremely attached to the best time in his life.

So Su Yan took the initiative to ask: "Madam, I don't know how you and my grandfather met, can you tell me?"

The old lady immediately showed a happy look, and her eyes became brighter, "You were young and ignorant before, and I never told you about this, so it's good to talk to you now."

The maidservant and Uncle Yan who were standing by were also listening quietly at this time. In fact, they were also very curious about this past event.

Among them, Uncle Yan knew some, but not many details.

"Your grandfather was in the army all his life. I knew him, and he was naturally in the army." The old lady showed a look of reminiscence, with a little confusion in her eyes.

"Those years were disaster years, and my family couldn't support me, so they wanted to sell me."

"However, it coincides with the local conscription, and the parents and officials are sympathetic to the people. They post a list saying that within one month, those who volunteer to join the army will have a small amount of money as a pension. If the number is insufficient after one month, they will go door to door to make up for it."

"So I discussed with my family, let me disguise myself as a man and serve as a soldier. If I go early, I still have a few coins to take; Not a single point."

"After comparing the prices, the parents finally agreed."

Speaking of this, the old lady smiled, "I thought it would be better to be a soldier than to be bought into a slave girl, or even sold into a brothel. But I didn't realize until I was in the army that joining the army is so hard and precarious."

"But regret was useless at that time, and it was not so easy for a woman to disguise herself as a man. Not long after I entered the army, I was discovered as a woman and surrounded by people."

"Just when I was terrified and desperate, your grandpa appeared." When the old lady said this, there was infinite tenderness in her tone.

"At that time, he was not a world-renowned general, but a small lieutenant. He was still very young at that time, but he was already a man of indomitable spirit."

"He reached out to me and pulled me out of the crowd with malicious intentions; his arms were so warm, and I still remember it clearly to this day," the confusion in her eyes was even worse.

"Your grandpa took me back to his tent. After he learned the cause and effect, he gave me some money and asked me to go home on my own."

"But I would rather die than follow. The argument I gave at the time was: not to mention the long and difficult journey, even if I go back, I will only be betrayed for the second time."

"So, after all, I insisted on staying by his side. I still disguised myself as a man and became a personal soldier with him."

"Due to frequent transfers in the army, your grandfather took me away from the original team after a few days."

"Besides, he was brave and diligent, and his military ranks continued to rise all the way. No matter where he went, he always had his own independent one-acre three-point land. Therefore, under his protection, it was much easier for me to do things. From then on, no one knew that I was a daughter."

When she said this, the old lady had a faint sense of happiness on her face, without any embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)