Hooligan? Beggar?

  Hooligan? Beggar?

  After this period of long-distance bumps, Ye Feng felt a slight fatigue. At this moment, his mood was a bit nervous and excited. The excitement was because he was about to see his relatives soon, and he would see his grandfather soon. The nervousness was that he didn't know how to explain to his family, should he say that he had retired from the army?

  Ye Feng hadn't seen his family for ten years and he even had some doubts. Today, ten years later, when he appeared in front of his family, would they still recognize him?

  After a long and arduous journey, the sadness of leaving Longhun had faded with time, and now Ye Feng felt more joy in returning home.

  It's been ten years, and human life is so short-lived, how many decades can one have?

  Anyway, I've already retired now, rather than rushing to find a job, it's better to give myself a long vacation and spend some quality time with my family and grandfather.

  Ye Feng's feelings for his grandfather are the deepest. His grandmother passed away early, and his parents were often away on business, leaving behind only his grandfather, sister, and Ye Feng at home. As for his memories of his grandfather, Ye Feng still remembers them vividly to this day, and their relationship is not ordinary because from a very young age, Ye Feng was raised by his grandfather.

  Grandpa is also eighty years old this year, I don't know how his body is doing? Oh no, I was in a hurry to come back and forgot to buy something for grandpa.

  Ye Feng muttered to himself, and then the car shook violently, Ye Feng knew that he should have arrived at his destination.

  Before long, the taxi stopped in front of a gate. Ye Feng paid the fare and thanked the driver before getting out of the car.

  After getting off the car, Ye Feng looked up and saw that the red gate was very bright. The gate was about four meters wide, with high stone walls on both sides, covered in ivy. In front of the gate stood a pair of massive stone lions. He remembered when he was very young, his grandfather would often hold him and sit on the lion's head to play.

  That's right, this is the Ye family ancestral home, covering an area of 20 acres. Although the house and walls look very old-fashioned, even a bit retro. But Ye Feng knows that the house is very solid, even if another century passes, it will still stand intact here.

  The old mansion of the Ye family has been standing for over two hundred years, and the Ye family had been merchants for generations until Ye Feng's generation. His grandfather sent him to join the army. What nobody expected was that Ye Feng would be in the army for ten years, during which he only wrote a few letters back home in the first two years, but then there was no news from him at all.

  Ye's ancestral home, it is called an ancestral home, but in fact, it looks a bit like a quadrangle courtyard. Of course, his house has many more things than a quadrangle courtyard. A huge fish pond, artificial hills, gardens, everything you need, this place is absolutely a paradise on earth.

  After thinking for a while, Ye Feng walked forward and knocked on the door. The door was quickly opened by an old man with white hair all over his head. Just as Ye Feng was about to call him "grandfather", he realized that this old man was not his grandfather.

  "Hey young man, who are you looking for?" The old man looked at Ye Feng and asked.

  "I'm looking for Ye Tianzhan, is he here?" Ye Feng said with some curiosity.

  Ye Tianzhan is Ye Feng's father. Although Ye Feng rarely saw his own father when he was a child, the impression of that strong and dignified, well-dressed father is still quite deep.

  "He moved away." Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, the old man's face quickly turned cold and he prepared to shut the door.

  Just as he was about to close the door, Ye Feng blocked him and asked, "Moving? May I ask where did he move to?"

  "After hearing Ye Feng's words, Lao Zhai's response was quite fashionable: 'I'm not Baidu, you ask me, I ask who?'"

  Ye Feng was rejected at the door, and Ye Feng did not expect that ten years later he would return home to encounter such a scene. This is still quite different from what he imagined, and he never thought that he would be eating closed doors in front of the Ye family ancestral mansion.

  Soon, Ye Feng thought of some inconsistencies. When he was a child, his grandfather told him that no matter how poor the descendants of the Ye family were, they could not sell the ancestral home of the Ye family.

  This is an ancestral training. Ye Feng knew it when he was very young, but now the Ye family's old house has changed owners. Something must have happened in between. Did something unexpected happen to the Ye family?

  Ye Feng is such a clever person, he can see the clues in small things, let alone something big happened, if he couldn't see anything, it would really make people feel strange.

  Move?

  Thinking of this, Ye Feng thought to himself that guessing here wouldn't solve the problem.

  He knew that something had happened at home. Although Ye Feng was the King of Soldiers and the Chief Instructor of the Dragon Soul Battalion, he wasn't a god, so how could he know what kind of things could happen at home?

  Rushing to the Ye family's ancestral home to change his name and surname, Ye Feng already knew that this matter was absolutely not small. What he needs to do now is to first find his own family members and ask what exactly happened.

  Then Ye Feng walked to the neighbor's house next door. When he was a child, Ye Feng often ran around here, and everyone knew him.

  "Aunt Wang, I'm Ye Feng. Can you tell me where my family moved to?" Ye Feng walked up to the two-story building next to his old home and saw a woman in her forties washing vegetables at her front door. At a glance, he recognized who she was.

  "What? You... are you really Xiao Feng? Xiao Feng, how did you come back?"

  When Ye Feng appeared, the woman washing vegetables felt a little surprised. The vegetable she had just washed didn't make it into the basin and fell down instead. Just as the vegetable was about to hit the ground, Ye Feng took a swift step forward and caught it just in time.

  In Ye Feng's opinion, this was just a small matter, but Ye Feng's speed had scared Wang Shu to death.

  "Thank... thank you." Wang Shu said somewhat nervously.

  Is this really Xiao Feng? How come there's been no news of him all these years? No wonder, I remember he went to join the army back then. It seems like it's been over a decade, why has he only just returned?

  Wang Aunt thought to herself, many things were not something she could understand. Why did Ye Feng suddenly appear? Why did he appear at this time? No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't figure it out. She could only sigh for Ye Feng, his return was ill-timed!

  "Aunt Wang? Aunt Wang?" Looking at Aunt Wang who was in a daze, Ye Feng softly called out.

  "Ah? Oh, look at me, Xiaofeng is standing in front of me, and I didn't even recognize him. Hmm, it's been many years since we last met, you're getting more handsome as the years go by." Wang aunt praised.

  "Aunt Wang, how did my family move away? Do you know where they moved to?" Ye Feng asked Aunt Wang.

  "Oh, I only know that your dad moved to the county town's Cross Street, nothing else do I know, I really don't know anything. Alright, I have something to attend to, I'll leave first."

  After finishing speaking, Wang's aunt hurriedly walked towards her own home, completely ignoring Ye Feng.

  Seeing Aunt Wang's actions, Ye Feng was even more certain that something had happened at home, and it wasn't a small matter. In fact, Ye Feng had already guessed that something was wrong at home, the ancestral mansion of the Ye family would not be sold unless absolutely necessary, because the Ye family's ancestors' teachings were very clear, even if they were poor to the point of begging for food, they could not sell the ancestral mansion.

  Thinking of this, Ye Feng didn't bother with Wang Shu and ran quickly towards the village entrance. He was going to go to Shi Zi Street now to find his family members and ask them clearly.

  "Master, County Town Crossing." Ye Feng hastily said to the driver.

  "Little brother, what are you doing going to the Crossroads? That's not a place you should be going!" The driver started the engine while looking at Ye Feng in the rearview mirror.

  "Why can't I go?" Ye Feng asked somewhat strangely.

  Shizijie? Ye Feng didn't have much impression of this place, he only knew that Shizijie was in the central area of the county town ten years ago and was very prosperous. But why can't he go there now?

  "The Cross Street is a notorious dirty and chaotic area, it also has another name, the gathering place of hooligans and beggars. The people living there are either hooligans or beggars. I think you look quite honest, so that's not a place for you to go." The driver said in a low voice.

  "What? A dirty and chaotic area? Thugs and beggars?" Ye Feng said in surprise.

  After hearing the driver's words, Ye Feng knew that something big must have happened at home, otherwise they wouldn't have moved to Shizijie Street. As for what kind of person his father, Ye Tianzhan, was, Ye Feng was naturally clear: he was a businessman, not a hoodlum. Just now, the driver said that the people living in Shizijie Street were either hoodlums or beggars; if that's true, then wouldn't his father be...

  Thinking of this, Ye Feng didn't dare to think further. He now knew why the old man was so fierce towards him and also knew why Wang Auntie spoke incoherently before leaving dejectedly.

  Ye Feng didn't dare to imagine, he was afraid of what he would think of if he continued. The once prosperous Ye family, how did it become like this now? Was there a big change in the family?

  Grandfather, father, what happened to them in the end?