Rebirth: Thousand Miles of Smoke

Who celebrates their 50th birthday the day after the anniversary of the death of their deceased wife?With such a big fanfare, fearing that others would send out invitations without knowing it, Lin Ziyao felt a little intimidated, even disgusted.

"Young master, you are much taller than Hualien." Hualien gestured with her hands, remembering that she was only a little taller than her before winter, and now it is almost half a head taller. Hualien immediately found a ruler and gave it to Lin Ziyao Measuring the body shape, "It seems that this year's clothes have to be changed again."

Lin Ziyao let her torment, but he wondered whether he should go to see tomorrow: "Hualian, do you think I should go?"

"Master Lin's birthday?" Hua Lian gestured the ruler, then memorized it in her mind, and said with a frown, "If you don't want to go, then don't go, most people will say you are an unfilial son, anyway, the son has so many stigmas, I don't mind Such a one."

"You girl, you don't care about my reputation at all, do you?"

"Young master is not a woman, what reputation do you want, can you still be like that young master Qinglian, don't count on it."

This girl, Lin Ziyao smiled and nodded her forehead: "Filial piety must be fulfilled, besides, elder brother protects me so much, I will go to Lin's house tomorrow, and I will also drop by my elder brother to see how he is doing recently."

"Your eldest brother seems to be 27 years old, right?" Hua Lian asked. In his memory, Lin Ziyao and Lin Feng were ten years apart in age. So based on this calculation, Lin Feng should indeed be 27 years old.

I probably heard Hualien’s doubts. Indeed, many 27-year-old men have become fathers at the moment, but Lin Ziyao also feels strange. Why do I feel that the people I know around me are all over [-] years old but have never been married? , there may be many concubines, but none of them have children or regular wives.

He did know that his elder brother had a concubine, and two concubines arranged by his father when he was an adult, and they are still childless. If that's the case, aren't Mrs. Lin and the others in a hurry?

With such doubts, Lin Ziyao bought an inkstone as a birthday gift and attended the birthday banquet.

But coming back this time is quite different from the last New Year's Eve. Everyone looked at him differently. After all, the Lin family had such a big incident last time, and it was all thanks to him. Beware of Lin Ziyao. It was reasonable, but this evasive appearance was too obvious, Lin Ziyao didn't care, walked in, and saw Miss Lin directing the people above to hang up the plaque.

I didn't see Mrs. Lin, nor did I see Lin Feng and Master Lin.

Lin Ziyao simply wanted to deliver the gift and then left. Everyone in the Lin family was so wary of him, and it was not easy for him to stay. The sharp-eyed Second Miss Lin saw him and immediately stopped her raised hands , looked a little sarcastically: "I still have the face to come here, if it wasn't for you last time, would we have to live those few days in fear?"

Lin Ziyao glanced at his second sister, but didn't respond, but looked around, then turned and walked towards Lin Feng's wing, but the second miss Lin stopped Lin Ziyao, pointed outside with her chin slightly raised and said : "Get out of our Lin family, a bastard like you, if it wasn't for..."

"Xinxin!" Master Lin shouted, he was originally a military general, but his sound in the mid-term almost shocked everyone, and the person standing on it with the plaque almost fell off, it was still Master Lin He quickly caught the falling plaque, the servant was so frightened that he knelt down to beg for mercy, but Master Lin waved his hand and said, "Go down, it's just a birthday."

"Father!" Lin Xin stomped her feet, ran over, took his hand and said coquettishly, "Father, look at him, he dares to disrespect me as an elder, and he doesn't even call out to my second sister, he is simply arrogant."

"You are the one who is arrogant." Master Lin is not ignorant of right and wrong, but he loves this daughter more relatively, so he didn't scold her too much, but warned her with his eyes, and told her to leave first. Lin Xin refused. Excuse me, when Master Lin gave him a sideways glance, he opened his mouth and left.

But when he was carrying Master Lin behind his back, he glared at Lin Ziyao fiercely. That gaze was still the coquettish Second Miss Lin just now, who wanted to swallow Lin Ziyao alive, but Lin Ziyao couldn't make Lin Ziyao look at him. One glance, so the second young lady went back angrily.

"Your second sister is like that, just ignore her."

"I didn't worry about it." In fact, he didn't worry about the whole Lin family. If he didn't think that he hadn't seen his elder brother for a long time, he would come here.

Master Lin was stunned for a moment, and a sense of guilt suddenly surged in his heart. This son is obviously the youngest son in the family, but he is always deliberately ignored by him. Looking at his mother's eyes, Master Lin even turned his head away, Don't dare to look again.

"Ziyao, come with me for a while." Master Lin said.

Lin Ziyao raised his head to look at the other party, but Master Lin had already walked in, so Lin Ziyao had no choice but to follow. The two came to the study, Lin Ziyao took them with him, and then put the inkstone in his hand on the table.

"It's a good inkstone." Master Lin opened it, nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Going to the academy, is it still suitable?"

"It's okay." Every day is too fulfilling. Speaking of it, it's neither good nor bad, except for some students who make things difficult.

Master Lin looked at Lin Ziyao carefully. He hadn't seen Lin Ziyao for a long time, and found that his eyebrows had begun to grow gradually. Unlike the facial features of his youth, which were so pale that people could easily ignore them, the front of his eyebrows was very similar to himself, very heroic, and his face was slow. Slowly opened, and looked more handsome, but those slender eyes were very similar to Su Ya. Few people have this kind of special red phoenix eyes. In his memory, the more impressive ones are also Only her own concubine, Su Ya.

Seeing him sizing him up, Lin Ziyao didn't ask too many questions, probably looking for the shadow of his mother in himself.

"Yesterday was your mother's death day."

"Ah."

Master Lin sighed deeply: "You are the only one who remembers me. Originally, I celebrated my birthday casually, but I couldn't beat your aunt and your second sister."

"You don't need to give me the invitation if you know." Lin Ziyao looked directly at the other party, and Master Lin sighed while covering his forehead, took out a picture scroll from the bookshelf beside him, and said, "I know you hate me. , I am concerned that their brothers and sisters are more than you."

"I can't talk about hatred, after all, you are my father." Lin Ziyao said honestly, he actually has very complicated feelings for the Lin family. This family can't be said to be very bad to him. The only one who hates it is probably the father's indifference, who often let his mother wash her face with tears. When he was young, when his second sister and his aunt bullied his mother, he would turn a blind eye and never ask.

Spreading out the scroll, Master Lin looked at the woman on the scroll, his eyes filled with tenderness, and he murmured the name Su Ya in his mouth. With just one glance, Lin Ziyao recognized that the woman in the painting was his mother, even though he was His memory was blurred, but just seeing this painting, he already guessed that this woman with eyes very similar to his was his mother.

No, it should be said that my eyes are very similar to the person in the painting.

"The one who painted this painting was a court painter who retired from his old age and returned to his hometown. Your mother doesn't have many paintings, but this painting is extremely vivid."

Looking at the painting, Lin Ziyao had to admit that the artist was of a high standard, but the woman with her lips curled up in the painting was unfamiliar to him. The mother in his impression rarely showed such a smile.

Probably guessing what Lin Ziyao was thinking, Master Lin looked at the picture scroll as if recalling the past: "That year I..."

When he came out of the Lin Mansion again, Lin Ziyao looked at the golden plaque of the Lin Mansion, he couldn't say he was relieved, but it made him understand his father better. He never thought that the two of them still had that past.

But what shocked him the most was that his mother's identity was actually a medical girl in the army of the Ling country. Back then, when the head of the Lin family was still a marshal, the Ling country was defeated, and his mother Su Ya was forced to become a prisoner. After being spotted by Marshal Lin, he brought him back and gave birth to Lin Ziyao. There has never been love between them. Although Master Lin liked Su Ya, he was still in high spirits back then. Seeing that Su Ya ignored him, It's just a matter of seeing what's out of sight.

This also caused Mrs. Lin to make things difficult.

Under such circumstances, Su Ya missed her hometown more and more, and washed her face with tears all day long, which made Lin Ziyao only have the deepest impression of her mother's tears in her childhood.

When Lin Ziyao returned to the courtyard, he remembered, no wonder Ling Chentian wanted to tell him about his own mother. It turns out that he also has the blood of half a Ling countryman. Is this Ling Chentian planning to recruit him or use him?

"Coming back so soon?"

Lin Ziyao raised his head suddenly, and sure enough, he saw Ling Chentian sitting under the apricot tree, looking leisurely, Hualien and the others served in a similar manner, the old wine on the table was given before, and even the appetizers were prepared. Fell asleep, Ling Chentian squinted his eyes, seeming to like this little wine and side dish very much.

When Hua Lian saw Lin Ziyao coming back, she immediately went up to meet him: "My lord, you're back so soon? How is it? Did they make things difficult for you?"

"Why are they embarrassing me?" Lin Ziyao smiled, "I left after giving the gift."

In the end, I didn't even see my eldest brother, thinking about my mother all the way, I always felt something was wrong, Lin Ziyao sat opposite to Ling Chentian, and asked: "How much do you know about my mother?"

"I know more than you, and there must be some discrepancies with what you know. Did your father tell you just now?"

Lin Ziyao nodded.

But Ling Chentian sneered and caught a piece of cow