Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 400 Fang Yunze's Thoughts

“Since you’ve made up your mind, tell me about the situation in Babao Lane.” Yunyi raised an eyebrow slightly.

Su Mu's expression froze.

Yunyi didn't urge him. She glanced at him and walked away, saying, "Come back to me when you've thought it through."

Su Mu was really conflicted. This matter was the Earl's secret. If he... if he told him, it would be betraying his master, since his master was still the Earl.

However, Su Mu thought again that since the young lady already knew about Babao Lane, it wouldn't be considered a betrayal of her even if he told her. After making up his mind, he relaxed.

Yunyi led Yunlu on a tour of the entire Earl's mansion, which was pretty much the same as the original owner's memories, with no major differences.

The courtyard where the original owner lived is now closed and is no longer as lively as before.

"Let's go back, it's time for lunch." Yunyi turned around and walked back, but she hadn't gone far when she saw a young man in a blue robe walking towards her, followed by a page carrying a schoolbag.

It was Fang Yunze, the original owner's younger brother.

To be fair, Sun Qingli was very lucky. She gave birth in the same year as Qi Miao'er, but Qi Miao'er only had a daughter, while Sun Qingli had twins.

However, Fang Yunze arrived a quarter of an hour later than Fang Yunduo.

"Big sister." Fang Yunze also saw Yun Yi and walked over to greet her.

"Hmm." Yun Yi nodded, not intending to speak to the other person, and walked past them to leave.

"Big sister." Fang Yunze stood up and called out to Yunyi.

"Is something wrong?"

"It's so good that you're back. I've been really worried about you for the past year or so." Fang Yunze said with a sorrowful expression.

"Thank you very much." Yunyi turned around and smiled. "But... are you really worried about me?"

Fang Yunze's eyes flickered: "Of course, after all, we are family members connected by blood."

"Well said." Yunyi nodded. "No wonder you are a young scholar."

Fang Yunze almost lost his composure. He had been a candidate for the imperial examination for three years and should have passed the county-level examination last year, but he failed. Although his father did not say anything, the disappointed look in his eyes made him very sad.

Now this older sister, who should have been dead outside, is actually making fun of him, it's unbelievable...

"Big sister, I'm not very smart, so please don't laugh at me." Although Fang Yunze tried his best to control himself, he was still young and lacked skill. So, he tried to smile calmly, but in reality, his smile was distorted and looked a bit ferocious, and even his voice was somewhat shrill.

Yunyi, however, seemed oblivious to the other person's unusual behavior, and instead nodded with a grin: "Alright, then I won't make fun of you anymore."

Fang Yunze's lips twitched, somewhat choked up. He was just being modest; didn't this person understand? Although he used to be loud and boisterous, he wasn't like this. Then, his lips drooped: "Big sister, you used to be very good to me." As he spoke, his eyes reddened with grievance.

"Are you good to your older sister?"

"what?"

"You said yourself that I used to treat you very well, so how did you treat me before?"

"I……"

After your mother sold me, did you ever look for me?

"Nonsense, how could she be my mother? You're the one who ran away from home."

"Tsk tsk." Yun Yi curled her lips. "Well, you're quite clever, aren't you, young scholar?" With that, she walked away.

Fang Yunze watched Yunyi's retreating figure, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. Finally, he turned around and went to Qingli Courtyard.

Sun Qingli had already lost her temper, so she was very calm at this moment.

Fang Tang said she was under house arrest, but she didn't forbid others from visiting her.

Her daughter wasn't home, and her son was at the academy, so no one had come to see her these past two days.

Seeing her son approaching, she was overjoyed: "Aze, you're home from school? Come here quickly, are you hungry? I'll have Pearl..."

"Mother," Fang Yunze interrupted Sun Qingli impatiently, then glanced at Pearl, "You may leave."

Pearl glanced at Sun Qingli, then curtsied and withdrew.

"Aze, what's wrong?"

"Mother, eldest sister... how did Fang Yunyi disappear?"

"Why are you asking this?" Sun Qingli felt a little guilty upon hearing this.

"You really sold her?" Fang Yunze's eyes widened. "How dare you..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? You..."

"Mother, since you were willing to sell her back then, why couldn't you kill her?"

"what?"

Fang Yunze took a deep breath: "To cut the weeds, you have to pull them out by the roots."

After her initial surprise, Sun Qingli's expression turned fierce: "I told them I was to kill her, but I don't know why I didn't. It must be that the human traffickers thought she was pretty, so they decided to sell her."

"Now that she's back, do you think she won't seek revenge?" A hint of annoyance flashed in Fang Yunze's eyes.

"She's an orphan..."

"Mother," Fang Yunze interrupted Sun Qingli irritably, "how did you scheme against Qi Miao'er back then?"

"Aze, what do you mean?"

“Back then, you were cautious and meticulous, taking every step with care.” Fang Yunze sighed. “But what about now? You’ve started to get arrogant. In the past year, have you still tried to win over Father like you did back then?”

"I……"

“Mother.” Fang Yunze reached out and pressed down on Sun Qingli’s hand. “If you want to do it, you should do it to eliminate any future troubles, instead of dragging things out.”

"So what do we do now?" Sun Qingli sighed. "Now that your father has brought her back, we probably can't do anything about it."

"If we can't do it ourselves, let others do it." Fang Yunze's eyes flashed, he withdrew his hand, picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and placed it in front of Sun Qingli.

Sun Qingli picked up her teacup and took a sip of tea.

"Mom, you can't just sleep with someone for free, can you?"

Clang, snap.

Sun Qingli dropped her teacup, which hit the corner of the table and then fell to the ground, shattering into pieces: "You..."

“Mom, I’m not a child.” Fang Yunze glanced at Sun Qingli.

“Sigh.” Sun Qingli knew she couldn’t hide it anymore, so she simply stopped hiding it. “More than ten years ago, I helped him once by chance. I never expected to run into him in the capital later, only our identities were different.”

Fang Yunze's eyes flickered: "Mother, did you two sleep together before? I mean before you gave birth to me and my second sister."

"You...what do you mean?"

"You said, what if I were his son..."

"You can't say things like that." Sun Qingli quickly covered her son's mouth.

“Mother, the Chen family has power and money, which is better than this empty shell of a marquis’s mansion, right?” Fang Yunze pulled Sun Qingli’s hand away. “Besides, the Chen family is very short of offspring. The eldest son only has Chen Jiakun, who is a good-for-nothing wastrel. The second son is an idiot. Tell me, if you tell him that you were actually pregnant when you were forced to marry Fang Tang, what do you think he will do?”