Chapter 487: He's my real father!

Mu Yuanzhi also did not stop the deputy escort head from threatening Fei Yi.

Necessary intimidation is also needed.

This boy looks sly no matter how you look at him.

Mu Yuanzhi always felt he looked a bit like someone, but she couldn't remember who for a moment.

Fei Yi pressed his lips, his gaze continually shifting between Mu Yuanzhi and the deputy escort head, and he said: "The surname Yi after all is the national surname; as an ordinary commoner, I should avoid it…… that's why I concealed my surname……"

"The court's statutes do not stipulate that commoners need to avoid the imperial surname." Mu Yuanzhi said.

"I just don't want to attract attention." Fei Yi said.

The deputy escort head gave a cold snort: "You brat, still not telling the truth; you must have some scheme!"

He said while picking up the big knife on the table.

Fei Yi immediately shuddered and kept stepping back, and the door behind him slammed shut with a bang!

The atmosphere in the room became even worse for him.

"Fine! I'll speak!" Fei Yi, throwing caution to the wind, said: "Actually I also don't know why I concealed my surname."

Deputy escort head: "Still spouting nonsense, right?!"

"No, first hear me out!" Fei Yi said anxiously.

Mu Yuanzhi: "Let him speak."

"I have been an orphan since childhood; my foster father took me in. He seems to have many secrets, never told me anything, only repeatedly urging me not to reveal my surname Yi when I'm outside." Fei Yi said sincerely.

"What you said is as good as saying nothing!" the deputy escort head gave another cold snort.

"Really! I really don't know anything at all! I really am not a suspicious person!"

Mu Yuanzhi: "Then why did you react to my surname?"

Fei Yi: "Because there is a jade pendant in my home engraved with a 'Mu' character, so I react to the surname Mu."

"What is your foster father's name?" Mu Yuanzhi asked again.

"I don't know; everyone calls him Old Yi." Fei Yi said.

"Where is your home?"

"A very remote small town called Wall Ford."

After Fei Yi finished speaking, the deputy escort head brought out a map and unfolded it for Mu Yuanzhi to see.

They searched for a while before finding that place called Wall Ford, in a very inconspicuous corner.

"This place isn't just……"

Mu Yuanzhi suddenly lifted her gaze to look at Fei Yi; she finally realized who this boy resembled!

Pei Shangyan!

Fei Yi met Mu Yuanzhi's gaze and blinked in confusion.

Could it be that this small town of Wall Ford has some problem?

He had deliberately distorted the distance between two towns, made up a place; could it be that he just happened to hit a snag?

Surely he couldn't be that unlucky!

Mu Yuanzhi turned to look at the deputy escort head: "Do you have a portrait of Pei Shangyan?"

"Princess, I don't have something like that……"

"Forget it, I'll draw it."

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"Could it be that the Princess suspects this boy has some relation to Pei Shangyan?"

The deputy escort head looked at Fei Yi again.

He had never met Pei Shangyan a few times, so he had no idea whether Fei Yi resembled Pei Shangyan.

Mu Yuanzhi had already started drawing.

Fei Yi was completely bewildered.

Who is Pei Shangyan?

He didn't know either.

But they both have the surname Yi; could he be some member of the imperial family?

Then what relation does that have to him?

No matter how many doubts Fei Yi had in his heart, he could only wait.

Fortunately, Mu Yuanzhi drew quickly and finished it right away.

He hesitantly took the portrait Mu Yuanzhi handed him and asked uncertainly: "Is this handsome young lord called Pei Shangyan?"

"How does he look a bit like him?"

"You don't know him?" Mu Yuanzhi narrowed her eyes, her gaze full of inquiry.

Fei Yi shook his head.

Mu Yuanzhi fell silent for a moment, took back the picture from Fei Yi's hand, added a few strokes, making the originally youthful noble look weathered and old.

When Fei Yi looked at the picture again, he immediately gasped: "Isn't this my father?!"

"Your father?!" the deputy escort bureau shouted loudly.

He naturally recognized that the person Mu Yuanzhi drew was Pei Shangyan.

"My foster father!" Fei Yi corrected.

Mu Yuanzhi thought she had indeed guessed correctly; the so-called foster father was actually his biological father!

"He is not your foster father; he is your biological father." Mu Yuanzhi said firmly.

"……" Fei Yi's face was full of shock and doubt; he shook his head: "Impossible, he himself said he wasn't my father; why would he make up such a lie? It makes no sense!"

No, hold on—my dad is exactly that guy named Pei Shangyan, so doesn't that mean he knows the Princess and her people?!

Fei Yi felt his clever brain wasn't quite up to the task.

Mu Yuanzhi said, "Because he didn't want you to know your birth father is an exile criminal."

Bi Jin must be the place that brat was blabbing about—Pei Shangyan's exile location is right near Bi Jin.

Fei Yi fell silent all at once.

My dad being an exile criminal is something he naturally knows, and he's never minded it; even if he grew up in that environment since childhood, he has no complaints, because he thinks he was originally an orphan—just being alive and raised by someone is already good enough, so why be picky and ungrateful?

But he never imagined that his dad was actually his own birth father……

Fei Yi's heart was instantly flooded with mixed feelings.

"What crime did he commit?" he asked cautiously.

"Rebellion." the deputy escort chief said.

Fei Yi: a bolt from the blue!

Rebellion?!

How could my dad possibly rebel?!

He still thought his dad was just someone dragged down by others—after all, as a kid he often heard sarcastic remarks; though he didn't understand them then, later, when he grew up and recalled them, he seemed to grasp a bit.

After he turned ten, his dad kicked him out, forcing him to make a living on his own.

Naturally, he couldn't leave smoothly—he had to flee.

But after all, he wasn't an exile criminal, so the authorities didn't put out a warrant for him.

Fei Yi stared at Mu Yuanzhi for a long time before asking again, "Princess, what's your relation to my father?"

"No relation." Mu Yuanzhi didn't want to talk about it, "You may go."

The deputy escort chief thought he'd misheard, "Princess, you're really just letting him go?!"

This is Pei Shangyan's son, after all!

You're just going to let the tiger return to the mountain?

"Let him go."

The saying goes, misfortune doesn't extend to wife and children—there's no reason to implicate his son just because Pei Shangyan is a serious criminal.

This kid doesn't look like a bad person; he's just a bit slick-tongued.

"All right." The deputy escort chief nodded, then threatened Fei Yi: "Kid, you're being let go thanks to the Princess's mercy—but if you dare do anything evil, this blade will be at your throat!"

Fei Yi still hadn't processed everything—it happened too suddenly, overturning his seventeen‑year life, and he hadn't digested it yet.

"Hurry up and get lost! Get out of Jingcheng! Don't let me see you here again!" the deputy escort chief continued to threaten.

After all, Fei Yi may be just a young lad, but he's been roughing it since childhood—he's no greenhorn, so he wasn't scared witless; putting on a show of fear, he hurriedly slipped away.

After he left the escort bureau and breathed in the fresh outside air, his mood finally calmed a bit.