I heard Mr. Ye is a good dragon?

Ye Yiheng began to wait happily, and at the same time contacted the matchmaker, preparing to go to a good family with a girl for his son.

Unexpectedly, the day before the Lantern Festival, Ye Heng came to the door again, but brought a boy with him.

Ye Yiheng looked surprised, asked the servant to give the child some tea candy, then pulled Ye Heng aside and said, "Who is this?"

"It's a child from my natal family. His mother met a bandit when she went back to her natal family to visit her relatives. Unfortunately, she died. His father went mad after hearing the news, so it's hard to raise him."

"Oh..." Ye Yiheng sighed, because he thought of his son's loss of his mother.He felt compassion for such a child, and he could understand it.If you raise one at home, it would be good to be a companion to his grandson in the future.

Ye Heng nodded, and continued: "This child's parents were very loving, and they taught this child to be cute and cute, but it's a pity that now he can only eat a lot of food in the clan, and no one raises him seriously. The good seedlings were about to die, and I felt sorry for it, so I brought them back."

Having said that, he waved to the boy: "Shiyuan, come here to formally greet him."

The boy immediately put down the teacup, walked over respectfully, and bowed to Ye Yiheng: "I've seen the old man."

Ye Yiheng saw that he was very sensible, his voice was clear, and he was not stage frightened, so he asked him, "Your name is Shiyuan? How old are you this year?"

"It's Shiyuan, the life of life, the yuan of Yuanxiao." The child is a little thin, but his eyes are big and energetic, "I am nine years old this year."

"Have you read?"

"I have read The Book of Songs and The Analects of Confucius."

When Ye Yiheng heard that the child was good at reading, he was very happy: "Then are you good at arithmetic?"

Shiyuan blinked his eyes, and said cautiously: "I haven't passed the examination by my husband, so I dare not say yes, but I have read "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and I have gained a little."

To be able to read "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" at such a young age, no matter how much you understand, is considered pretty good. Ye Yiheng patted him on the shoulder: "Young people are awesome!"

Ye Heng saw that his father was satisfied, so he gave Shi Yuan a look, and asked him to go play in the yard, and stayed behind to strike while the iron was hot: "Father, I told my grandfather that I want to adopt him as my son. The grandfather's family They all agreed."

"What?" Ye Yiheng's joy immediately froze on his face, "Adoption?"

"Yes." Ye Heng gritted his teeth and said the words, "Marriage is a big deal. Since I want to marry, I must marry someone who suits my heart and be responsible to her to the end. But I don't like women. Wouldn't it be harming her to marry a girl and not be able to give her husband's love and care?"

Ye Yiheng was also in a hurry: "Why can't you give her husband's love? You raised her and gave her all the rituals of husband and wife, isn't that just giving it? You and Bailong's matter should be kept low-key, and it won't hurt people's hearts." !"

"This is deceit." Ye Heng shook his head, "Father, you were unwell before, which is not unrelated to what you did wrong. My son doesn't want to do this kind of thing that is detrimental to morality, and let you experience the pain again."

"You..." Ye Yiheng still wanted to say something, but when he thought of the pain he felt before, he was a little frightened, so he didn't say anything for a while.

"Father, I know you are concerned about blood, but the most important thing in life is to have someone who is amiable. A good boy like him will be liked no matter who he brings. Besides, he is so good at arithmetic. , we will definitely make our shop bigger in the future, or study for fame, which will also add glory to the Ye family. Besides..." He took a step forward and whispered, "You want to repair the relationship with your grandfather's family, Now that I am adopting Shiyuan, isn't it an opportunity for you to get back together? Anyway, half of the blood in this child's body is related to me and his mother. He is my son. What's wrong? OK?"

"The problem is that he doesn't have parents. His real father is still alive! You are only about ten years older than him, and you are almost his brother. Will he really regard you as his father?"

"Father and son are just names, and I don't really regard him as a son, but as a younger brother." Ye Heng nodded.

Ye Yiheng glanced at his son half annoyed: "Then you see who he will turn to in the future!"

Ye Heng hurried over to give him a break, and helped him to sit on the grand teacher's chair: "To be honest, I just value him and his father. This is what makes him valuable."

Ye Yiheng frowned: "Huh?"

"He doesn't have a mother, and his father has become a madman. How hard is it for him to take care of his father at such a young age? If it were a child with a weaker conscience, he would probably feel ashamed of his father and refuse to take good care of him. But when I went to see my poor uncle, he was clean and not crazy at all, he just sat quietly and couldn't communicate with others." Ye Heng said while pouring two cups of tea, one cup Pushing it to Ye Yiheng, he picked up a cup and took a sip to moisten his throat, "Besides, when I proposed to take him away, he refused me at first because he was afraid that no one would take care of my father when I left—— This kind of perseverance cannot be pretended.”

"So where is his father now?"

"In the Zhuangzi in the suburbs, there are servants and mother-in-law who take turns to take care of him and cook for him." Ye Heng replied, "I have promised Shiyuan that I will let him go there once or twice a month, and I will also give him a meal. Dad invites a doctor to see if there is any way to cure it."

Ye Yiheng felt that his arrangement was too good-natured, but in terms of reason, he seemed to have done nothing wrong. After a long silence, he put down his empty teacup: "You promised everything, and you still have to discuss it with me? Advocate brat!"

Ye Heng knew that he had basically compromised, but he still felt uncomfortable in his heart, so he coaxed him for more than ten days in a row, and only then did he dissipate the anger in his heart.

For more than ten days, Bailong has become the main force to accompany the child.

In fact, it is not accurate to say "accompanying", Bailong just stayed in the same room with Shiyuan after returning from the shop, and occasionally said a few words in a casual way, and then each went his own way - Bailong practiced calligraphy, Shiyuan reads books.

Moreover, as a child who has been in charge of the family early and knows that it is not easy to live under the eaves of others, Shiyuan does almost everything by himself silently. ——Although there is such an opportunity to study in front of him, he will be sent back at some point, so he is cautious, neither wanting to cause trouble for others, nor wanting others to underestimate him, or think that he is shallow and ignorant, and want to jump Branches become phoenixes.

In fact, Bailong didn't think much of him at all, he didn't look like a bad seed, and Ye Heng was willing to cultivate him, so he treated him politely, just like he did to those little kids in the temple who were catching fish and catching shrimp.

No, maybe there is still a little liking, because of his existence, he finally doesn't have to worry about Xiao Yezi's descendants inciting Xiao Yezi to marry a wife and have children.

Speaking of this, he was a little annoyed——his method of dual cultivation has been in his heart for many days, and he hasn't used it yet. Why hasn't Xiao Yezi come back to study with him!

As soon as he thought about it, there was a movement in the yard, it was Zhaocai calling "Master"!

Bailong immediately opened the door and rushed into the yard, Shiyuan also put down his book, and followed him to see Ye Heng—even though he is still not familiar with him, but anyway, his adoptive father ran for him, he It's time to go out to greet them, and check to see if the situation is as the foster father said, Master Ye has allowed their father and son to stay in the capital.

Bai Long didn't know what he was thinking. He hadn't seen Ye Heng for several days, so he went up to him and hugged him three times: "You're finally back! I've been alone in an empty room for many days!"

He spoke so loudly that he could almost hear him from the backyard to the front yard, and probably through the courtyard wall, so that his neighbors could hear him too.When Ye Heng thought of this, he felt embarrassed at first, but after he stopped, Ye Heng took a closer look, and saw Shi Yuan who was slightly turned sideways, as if consciously avoiding suspicion, and immediately lightened Bailong's shoulder. Tapped a note: "There is a child here, can you be ashamed too? Let me down!"

Bailong turned his head to look at Shiyuan, and had no choice but to let him down.

...Although he still didn't understand, there was nothing to be ashamed of what he did.

Ye Heng adjusted his clothes, walked towards Shiyuan, and put on a more amiable and solemn expression and voice: "You will live here for a long time, and in a few days I will take you to change your surname to naturalization, and pay a visit to Master by the way, and formally learn. "

Shi Yuan bowed deeply to him: "Thank you foster father."

"Yeah." Ye Heng patted his arm, "You haven't seen your father for several days, are you very anxious? Tonight, you go to Zhuangzi to accompany him first, and by the way, talk to the doctor sent to discuss the cause of the illness , I will pick you up in two days. Well, go. There is a carriage waiting for you outside."

Shiyuan nodded, thanked him again and ran away quickly.Ye Heng looked at his back, thinking that he really had been patient for a long time, but in fact, he couldn't wait to check his father's condition.

After Shi Yuan's figure disappeared at the courtyard gate, Ye Heng turned his head and wanted to enter the house arm in arm with Bai Long. Unexpectedly, Bai Long was one step ahead of him, this time directly carrying him on his shoulders and rushing into the house. Kicked the door.

"Hey..." Zhao Cai's outstretched hand stopped in the air not far away.

He also wanted to ask the young master if he came home so late, if he had eaten, or if he would drink tea, but the two of them went in like a whirlwind. He also heard the young master's half-annoyed voice from inside the room: "I am also a Young master! Don’t do that in front of people from now on! Oops!”