Traveled through time and became the darling of the whole family

"Ayin, what's going on?" Ye Quanyong asked. The male guests were all sitting in the front, so the two brothers didn't know what was going on.

"I don't know either. After dancing, Ayu said she felt stuffy and wanted to go out for some fresh air. So the palace maid went out with Ayu. When they came back later, Ayu was the only one there. I asked Ayu, and she said she didn't see the palace maid either." Ye Qingyin answered truthfully.

"Brother, will Ayu be okay?" Ye Qingyin asked worriedly.

"It looks like everything is fine now. The clerk at Huizhengsi was quite respectful to Ayu just now. He probably asked Ayu to find out the situation. Jiaxuan, take Ayin home first. I'll go to Huizhengsi and wait for Ayu."

Ye Jiaxuan and Ye Qingyin also knew that they could not help much for the time being, so they returned home first.

*

"Your Majesty, I (the minister's wife) pay my respects to you." Ye Zhengde and Jiang Xu arrived at the study.

"Stand up. Jiang, let me ask you, do you really not know where Mr. You is now?"

"Your Majesty, Mr. You asked for leave from me half a month ago, saying that something happened at home and she needed to go back to deal with it. I haven't seen Mr. You since then." Jiang Xu replied.

"Where did you find her then?"

"Return to Your Majesty, Jin Alley."

"Where is Jinlongtang?"

"Your Majesty, Jinlongtang is a place where each mansion seeks tutors for their daughters. Only those with superb skills and clean backgrounds can be hired as tutors."

Emperor Zhao took out a portrait from under the desk and said, "Look, is this the Mr. You you mentioned?" Eunuch Du took the portrait and handed it to Jiang Xu.

Jiang Xu was shocked the first time he saw the portrait. How could the emperor have...

"Really?" Emperor Zhao asked again.

Jiang Xu closed the portrait and handed it to Eunuch Du, "Your Majesty, Mr. You and the person in this portrait... are the same person."

"Why are you so hesitant?"

Jiang Xu knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Mr. You said before that if someone holds the portrait and asks if it is her, he hopes that I can keep it a secret for her. But since Your Majesty asked, I dare not lie to you."

"Get up." said Emperor Zhao.

Ye Zhengde helped Jiang Xu up. "Your Majesty still can't forget it?" Ye Zhengde asked.

"How could I forget?" Emperor Zhao smiled bitterly, "If I hadn't made the wrong choice, she probably wouldn't have... Well, I'm already very happy to know that she's still alive."

After a long while, Emperor Zhao spoke, "It's getting late. You should go back. If Jiang sees her again, please say sorry for me."

"I (the minister's wife) take my leave." Ye Zhengde and his wife bowed and left. Eunuch Li led them out of the palace.

*

Ye Ziyu was taken to a room. "Miss Ye San, please sit for a moment. The director will be here soon." The clerk from Huizhengsi said this and left.

Ye Ziyu looked around the room, then sat down and poured a glass of water, but just played with it in her hand.

"Miss Ye San is quite calm." After a while, someone pushed the door open and a male voice sounded.

Ye Ziyu turned around and saw a masked man, about 1.8 meters tall, wearing a black official uniform.

Ye Ziyu: Tsk, this figure looks like that of a armed police officer.

The masked man walked past her to the table and sat down. Ye Ziyu also sat down. The masked man paused while pouring water and looked up at Ye Ziyu.

Seeing that he was looking at her without moving, Ye Ziyu spoke first, "Master Si Zheng, just ask whatever questions you have. After you ask, I can go home. Otherwise, my family will be worried."

The masked man laughed and said, "Miss Ye San is not worried at all."

"What do I have to worry about? A person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear." Ye Ziyu said.

"But the maid was killed after she went out with you."

"So? If someone gets killed when she goes out with me, I'm at most a suspect but not the murderer, and I have absolutely no reason to kill her."

The masked man stared at Ye Ziyu's face for two seconds and said, "Then tell me what happened after you got out."

"I felt stuffy, so I asked the maid to take me out for some fresh air. She took me to the pool and I gave her some silver as a reward, and asked her to wait aside. When I came back, I didn't know where she had gone, so I went back by myself."

"She didn't tell you where she was going?"

"Why would she tell me where she was going?"

"Do you have any enemies?"

Ye Ziyu: ??? This span

"No... maybe." Ye Ziyu thought for a moment, "I just came back, I never leave the house, how could I have any enemies?" Ye Ziyu thought for a second, "Lord Si Zheng suspected that someone wanted to kill me, and that palace maid just helped me to block the disaster?"

"The interrogation is over, please get out." said the masked man.

Then a clerk came in and gestured for invitation, "Miss Ye San, please."

Ye Ziyu stood up with a confused look on his face and followed the clerk out.

Ye Ziyu: Is the Huizheng Division so casual in questioning when handling cases?

The clerk sent Ye Ziyu to the door and said, "Miss Ye San's elder brother has been waiting at the door, so I will send her here." After saying this, the clerk turned and left.

"Ayu." Ye Quanyong saw Ye Ziyu coming out and ran towards her. "How was it? Did they not do anything to you?"

Ye Ziyu shook her head. "No, they just asked me a few questions and let me go."

"Well, but it's strange that the Huizhengsi actually came to question you. Shouldn't they be interrogating the little eunuch?" Ye Quanyong took Ye Ziyu into the carriage.

"Maybe it's because the maid followed me out, and they want to know where the maid went."

"Yeah." Ye Quanyong always felt that it was not that simple. Ye Quanyong handed the meat bun in his hand to Ye Ziyu. When he was waiting for her at the door just now, there happened to be a meat bun shop. Ye Quanyong thought that Ye Ziyu might not be full, so he bought two.

"Let's not think about those troublesome things anymore. Big brother, what are our plans for tomorrow, the first day of the Lunar New Year?" Ye Ziyu happily took the meat bun, took a bite and asked.

"In previous years, Jiaxuan and I would go with my parents to pay respects to our grandmother, but other than that, we don't have any other plans."

"That's so boring. You guys just stay at home for so many days without going anywhere? No activities?"

Ye Quanyong shook his head. When his father had his day off, he would always stick with his mother. He would definitely take a good rest when he finally had a vacation. Jiaxuan was mostly nowhere to be seen, and as for Ayin, it seemed that she just stayed at home, embroidering and writing.

Ye Ziyu shook her head. "Boring, you guys are so boring."

"Oh? Then what did Ayu do during the Chinese New Year?"

"Emmm... visiting relatives and friends to wish them a happy New Year, playing mahjong and bullfighting with friends." Ye Ziyu counted them one by one, and suddenly realized something was wrong. "I remember dreaming about doing these things during the New Year." Ye Ziyu tried to smooth things over.

"In a dream?"

"Yes, didn't I tell you before that I have forgotten a lot of things from the past, and all I remember are things that happened in my dreams."

"Oh~ Then let's make arrangements this year according to what happened in my sister's dream." Ye Quanyong said with a smile. "By the way, I forgot to tell you about the two things you asked me to check before."

"Well, brother, tell me."

"The first one is about A-Yin. After A-Yin was taken away by her father, Shi Encai had a son. The whole family doted on the child so much that he became a playboy when he grew up and hurt many people. Later, they used money to settle the scores. Now, only Shi Encai and his wife and the child are left in their family. But the child committed a crime and went into hiding. We haven't found out where he is hiding yet."

"Silver?" Ye Ziyu frowned. She remembered that her elder sister had said before that the Shi family was not rich.

"They were lucky and got a house demolition subsidy, so they received some money," Ye Quanyong explained.

"It's really God's fault that they got a lot of money from this."

"Boom!" Thunder sounded in the sky.

“……”Ye Ziyu raised her eyes and looked at the sky.

"What about my business?"

Ye Quanyong looked at Ye Ziyu apologetically.

“??? Can’t find anything?” Ye Ziyu couldn’t believe it.

"Well, your case is the same as what we have been investigating before, there is no trace." Ye Quanyong was also very puzzled. If he couldn't find Ye Ziyu before because he didn't know where she was, now that he knew where she was, he still couldn't find out about the past.

"So no one around me knows me or anything?"

"We have asked everyone around your house, and they all know that there is a woman living there. We showed them the portrait and they confirmed it was you, but they all said that you just moved there not long ago and you're very mysterious." Ye Quanyong was also puzzled.

Ye Ziyu looked dejected, "How could this happen? I can't find any trace at all. And it's been so many days. I have never returned to real life and can't see the development of the novel."

Ye Quanyong thought that Ye Ziyu was worried that her family would disown her, so he consoled her: "Don't worry, Yu, we have confirmed that you are really our parents' daughter and our sister."

Ye Ziyu looked at Ye Quanyong, thinking of everything that had happened since she returned home, "Yeah." She smiled and nodded heavily. "No matter what the truth is, I am really happy now. I have family and friends who love me. Even if it is just a dream, it can make her feel the love of her family again, that is enough."

Ye Quanyong reached out and touched Ye Ziyu's head. "Okay, I didn't think too much about it."

*

After Ye Zhengde and Jiang Xu returned home, they heard about Ye Ziyu's situation. Jiang Xu was extremely worried, but Ye Zhengde was very calm, "It's okay, Ayu will be back soon."

Not long after, the doorman came to report that Ye Quanyong and Ye Ziyu had returned, and several people went to greet them and happened to meet them on the road.

"Mother, Father, why haven't you rested yet at this late hour?"

"I'm back with your father. How could I sleep when I heard that you were taken away for questioning by Huizhengsi?" Jiang Xu walked forward and took Ye Ziyu to have a look. He felt relieved to see that Ye Ziyu was fine.

"It's just a question. It's okay. Besides, a person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear. I haven't done anything wrong. Why should I worry about it? Does your mother really think that her daughter would kill someone?" Ye Ziyu joked.

"Of course mother knows you won't. How could mother not know what kind of person you are? You are my child." Jiang Xu pinched Ye Ziyu's nose.

Ye Ziyu walked forward and hugged Jiang Xu, burying her head in the crook of Jiang Xu's neck.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling wronged?" Jiang Xu asked.

Ye Ziyu shook her head and said, "I just want to hug my mother."

Jiang Xu patted Ye Ziyu's back and said, "Okay, hug me if you want."

Ye Ziyu just kept holding him like that. It was not a good idea for the others to just stand there. "You all should go back first. It's so late, you should get some rest early." Jiang Xu asked the others to go back first.

Ye Qingyin originally wanted to talk to Ye Ziyu, but seeing Ye Ziyu like this, she could only ask tomorrow.

Ye Quanyong still had something to say to Ye Zhengde, so he stood nearby.

After standing for a while, Ye Zhengde couldn't help but speak, "Ayu, your mother must be very tired if you stand and hug her like this. How about we go back to the room and hug her in a different position?"

Seeing that Ye Ziyu didn't respond, Ye Zhengde stepped forward and patted Ye Ziyu.

Ye Ziyu's head tilted slightly and she breathed evenly, while Jiang Xu's neck was already wet.

Just now, Ye Ziyu was hugging Jiang Xu and she hadn't started crying. But when Jiang Xu patted Ye Ziyu's back and said those words, Ye Ziyu couldn't help crying. Then, while crying, she thought of everyone still there, and she was too embarrassed to look up, so she leaned against him and fell asleep.

"How could this child fall asleep like this? Your mother must be so tired. Send your sister back to her room." Ye Zhengde instructed Ye Quanyong.

Originally, Ye Quanyong wanted to say something to Ye Zhengde alone, but now there was no chance. Ye Zhengde put Ye Ziyu on Ye Quanyong's back, and then Ye Quanyong carried Ye Ziyu back to the room.

At this time, Jiang Xu stretched and rubbed his arms. "Why is this child different after going to Huizhengsi? He never cried like this before. Did he suffer some injustice?"

"He probably wasn't wronged in Huizhengsi, otherwise he wouldn't have waited until he came back to see you to act like this. I saw Quan Yong had something to say just now, maybe it was about Ayu."

"Then why don't you let Quan Yong speak first?" Jiang Xu tapped Ye Zhengde's arm.

"Don't you see what time it is now? He doesn't want to rest, but his father needs to rest too." Ye Zhengde picked up Jiang Xu horizontally.

"What are you doing? We are still in the yard." Jiang Xu exclaimed and put her arms around Ye Zhengde's neck.

"What are you afraid of? My wife is tired too. Can't you carry her back to rest?" Ye Zhengde said.

Jiang Xu stopped talking and buried her head in Ye Zhengde's neck.

The maids on night watch all laughed secretly when they saw this, "The general still loves his wife so much."

Because maids were not allowed to be brought to the palace to attend the banquet, Liqiu and Lixia were both in the yard. They were very worried when Ye Ziyu did not come back for a long time. When they saw Ye Quanyong carrying Ye Ziyu into the yard, Liqiu went to greet him and Lixia hurriedly opened the door.

"Master, what happened to the young lady? Is she hurt anywhere?" Li Qiu asked worriedly.

"Hush, Ayu is fine, she just fell asleep because she was too tired." Ye Quanyong walked into the room and carefully put Ye Ziyu down. "You guys take good care of her, be gentle, don't wake Ayu up."

"Yes." The two replied in a low voice.

Liqiu helped Ye Ziyu put on her slippers and cover herself with a quilt, while Lixia wet a towel with water and gently wiped Ye Ziyu's face. After they finished, they blew out the lights and left.

"Young Master." The two went out and found Ye Quanyong was still in the yard.

"From today on, when you are serving her, pay attention to Ayu's mood. If you feel anything is wrong, remember to tell me immediately. If you can't find her, I will go find the Second Young Master."

"Yes." The two replied.

After giving the instructions, Ye Quanyong left.