Mu Shaoling spoke very seriously, but Ye Zi’an shook his head, "I have never met my mother, and my father passed away quickly, leaving me no instructions or any special belongings."
"You..." Mu Shaoling’s eyes widened, "Don’t tell me you’re thinking of embezzling it for yourself?"
"I would really like to embezzle, but what am I supposed to embezzle?" Ye Zi’an responded coldly, "I don’t even know what you’re looking for, so how can I embezzle it?"
After saying this, Ye Zi’an added, "Besides, just because you say my mother is someone, doesn’t mean she is. I haven’t even met her, so how could you know? How many people have the same name and surname? Just make sure you don’t find the wrong person."
"Speaking of Young Master Mu!" Yang Chuxia curiously asked, "According to you, has the crisis of the Luo family not been resolved?"
"It has been resolved!" Mu Shaoling snorted, "Unfortunately, although it has been resolved, that concubine daughter of the Luo Family never returned to the Capital City! The people who were sent out couldn’t find her either; they only knew that her last whereabouts were in Quanya County."
"Are you guys too stupid?" Yang Chuxia stared incredulously, "Brother An’s father is a native of Quanya County, so why didn’t you look for her in his hometown?"
Mu Shaoling scoffed in response, "You can go and find her for me then, try finding someone who deliberately concealed their name and household registration? Ye Bosheng’s name back in Capital City wasn’t even his real name!"
Upon hearing this, Yang Chuxia felt that something was not quite right.
Suddenly, she asked, "I’m curious, why would a prominent family marry their daughter to someone who concealed their name? Even if it were a concubine daughter from a large household, they would not make such a hasty decision, right? As far as I know, in large households, most concubine daughters are either sent to high officials as concubines or married to minor officials. How could they easily marry a poor scholar with no background? Is there some hidden truth behind this?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Shaoling was taken aback, and his expression turned sour.
"Heh," Ye Zi’an sneered in response. He then said, "The thing that Young Master Mu is looking for, I don’t know what it is, and I don’t have it. As for my mother and father? Hahaha, I’m afraid that Young Master Mu might have missed one detail. My mother was actually bought by my father. And my father never went to the Capital City to take the imperial examination."
After saying this, Ye Zi’an ignored Mu Shaoling and stomped down the stairs.
Seeing this, Yang Chuxia quickly went after him, leaving Mu Shaoling behind, lost in thought.
"Brother An! Wait for me, don’t walk so fast!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Zi’an stopped in his tracks.
"Brother An, do you believe what Mu Shaoling said?" Yang Chuxia didn’t ask him whether or not he knew about his parents’ matters.
Ye Zi’an paused for a moment, then took Yang Chuxia’s hand and walked forward, saying as they walked, "Xiaxia, my mother was bought by my father. A few years ago, when my father died, he told me that my mother was given to a swindler by her legitimate mother. That swindler sold her at Quanya on his way through the town. I heard that at the time, my mother had just developed a rash, or else she would have been sold to a brothel. My father brought her home, and later, I was born. However, my mother did indeed die while giving birth to me. As for other details, my father never mentioned them."
Upon hearing this, Yang Chuxia felt very unhappy and sorrowful for her future mother-in-law, whom she had never met.
"Hmph, this means that Mu Shaoling’s words are false," Yang Chuxia said, "I knew it, even if a prominent family didn’t value their concubine daughters, they wouldn’t marry them off to a poor scholar. They wouldn’t even marry them off without investigating the scholar’s background fully."