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Chapter 694 Falsification
Chapter 694 Falsification
Everyone, including Lu Qing and Zhu Yu, was waiting for Hong Liu'er in the outer room. So, no one wanted to avoid his scrutinizing gaze.
Hong Liu'er looked everyone in the room over and over, her gaze finally lingering between Zhu Yu and Chang Yu with some hesitation.
Of all the people in this room, only these two were the same age as the missing young master from back then. However, looking at these two faces that bore no resemblance to the Lan family, Hong Liu'er couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
After confirming that the door was closed, and with Fu Wenfu proactively going to the doors and windows to keep watch, Lin Kun gratefully bowed to the two of them, turned around, and in front of Hong Liu'er, slowly peeled off the fake skin from his face, revealing his true appearance.
Hong Liu'er was somewhat dazed when he saw Lin Kun's face. Although he already knew Lin Kun's identity when he came, seeing that familiar face that he hadn't seen for more than ten years appear in front of him again still made him feel a little at a loss.
"Brother Lin, it's been more than ten years, and you haven't changed at all!" He quickly came to his senses and excitedly grabbed Lin Kun's arm, looking him over carefully. "After you left, the prince wanted to send us out to search for you, but then he changed his mind and sent those guards who had joined the prince's mansion later to search instead."
He said that the guards who came to the mansion later might not recognize all of you, so he asked the old men in the mansion to draw portraits of you so that they wouldn't make a mistake.
We felt something was off about this, but we couldn't quite put our finger on it. It just felt a bit awkward, so when we were drawing the portrait... we did something a little tricky.
The portrait was then shown to the prince, who didn't see anything wrong with it and just let those people use it.
We've served you for many years without hearing from you again. At first, we still thought about you, but over time, we became numb to it.
"It's so good to see you alive and well now!"
"Of course he can't let you people search for us. What if you collude with us? Wouldn't that ruin his plans?" Lin Kun sneered. "Back then, you people were afraid that we were betraying the prince and refused to believe that the current prince was an imposter."
More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye. Now, what's your take on this?
Hong Liu'er sighed and shook her head: "Over the past ten years, the prince's behavior has become increasingly unorthodox, completely different from what he used to be."
We old folks still living in the manor have thought about it, but... the young masters have been dead for many years, the crown princess was killed by bandits, and the young master is nowhere to be found. We suffer every day.
Initially, I wondered if there were treacherous people instigating the prince, but after some observation, I found that there was no one around the prince to stir up trouble for him. Many things were the prince's own ideas from beginning to end...
We were at a loss, unable to betray our lord, yet unwilling to watch the Lan Kingdom be destroyed..."
“That’s a complete imposter. We’re here this time to do everything in our power to stop him from continuing to wreak havoc on Lan Di, and to take back everything that rightfully belongs to our young master.” Lin Kun’s voice was low, but the hatred in it was impossible to hide.
“Young Master…” Hong Liu’er turned her gaze to Chang Yu and Zhu Yu once again.
Chang Yu slowly took a step forward, and like Lin Kun, peeled off the fake skin on his face bit by bit, revealing his true appearance.
Liao Yu and the others behind him all kept their eyes on Hong Liu'er. They appeared to make no move, but in reality, they were wary of anything amiss with Hong Liu'er, prepared to quietly eliminate him at Lu Qing's command. Hong Liu'er watched as the fake skin on Chang Yu's face was gradually removed. When he finally saw Chang Yu's face clearly, he knelt on the ground with a thud. His face was no longer filled with doubt, only tears streaming down his face.
"Young Master!" His voice choked with emotion, and he had to try hard to keep his tone from rising involuntarily. "You...you've grown up so much now! You look exactly like your father did back then!"
"It is my incompetence that has caused the young master to suffer all these years!"
"Uncle Hong, get up quickly." Chang Yu was a little nervous just now, but he calmed down now. He stepped forward and helped Hong Liu'er up from the ground. "Now is not a good time to catch up. Let's sit down and get down to business."
As Hong Liu'er wiped away her tears with her sleeve, she got up with him, her face full of excitement and relief.
After they sat down again, Lin Kun quickly made Hong Liu'er understand Lu Qing's identity and the purpose of their trip.
"What do you usually do for that imposter? Is it just delivering messages?" Lin Kun asked.
"More or less," Hong Liu'er nodded. "It feels like the prince thinks we old folks are reliable and handle things well, but he doesn't want us to know too much about what he's doing elsewhere. So most of us either stay in the prince's mansion to serve, or do things like delivering and picking up messages."
"Where do you usually deliver letters for him?" Lu Qing asked.
Hong Liu'er replied, "Most of my time is in Jin Kingdom, and I occasionally go to Fan Kingdom, but I've hardly gone there in the last two years."
Sometimes I deliver the letters myself, and other times I also have to go to the border of Jin Kingdom regularly, where someone will bring me the letters, which I then take back to the Prince.
As he spoke, he couldn't help but look at Chang Yu again, his emotions still hard to calm down: "Seeing the young master today, I can finally feel at ease!"
With a worthy successor to the Lan Prince's mansion, we need not worry about future changes in Lan, which would only worsen the plight of the people!
"Does he really look that much like the late Crown Prince?" Zhu Yu asked.
“Exactly the same, not a single detail different!” Hong Liu’er answered decisively. “Anyone who sees it will have no doubt. It’s impossible for two completely unrelated people to have such a likeness!”
“But even so, it’s still not enough.” Zhu Yu didn’t seem particularly optimistic about Hong Liu’er’s reaction.
"What do you mean?" Lu Qing asked her.
"Even if we can prove that Chang Yu is indeed the young master who has been missing for many years based on his appearance, so what?" Zhu Yu spread his hands, somewhat helplessly. "Back then, which of Lan Wang's four sons wasn't a legitimate descendant of Lan Wang? In the end, weren't they all murdered one by one?"
Simply proving that Chang Yu is the true grandson of the Prince of Lan will not only prevent us from immediately reclaiming what rightfully belongs to you, but will also put us in danger.
Therefore, rather than proving that Chang Yu is the real grandson, it is more important to prove that the imposter is indeed fake.