But Ye Fan remained unaffected by Li Er's pitiful and desperate pleas.
He picked up the pot of freshly brewed tea, poured some tea into a cup, then passed it to Li Er.
"Mr Chu, this is not the time to be drinking tea! Trouble is already nearly at our doors! Don't you feel any pressure at all? If you already have a plan, then tell me about it so that San and I don't feel so jittery!" Li Er was on the verge of a nervous breakdown already.
He didn't think Ye Fan would still be able to drink his tea this calmly at a time like this.
Didn't Ye Fan know that he was going to die if he didn't come up with a plan now?
"Li Er, have some tea and calm down. We can talk again after you're done with drinking this cup," said Ye Fan calmly with a faint smile on his lips.
Li Er didn't have any choice. He took the cup from Ye Fan and downed it in one gulp.
After that, he anxiously asked, "Mr Chu, can you tell me what plan you have now? Don't tell me we're just going to sit here and wait to die?”
Li Er looked hopefully at Ye Fan.
But Ye Fan merely chuckled. "There's no need for any plan. If they want to attend my wedding, so be it. They can choose where they want to go and there's nothing I can do about that. Alright now, I've said everything I should. Go back and rest. You have to wake up early for the wedding tomorrow morning too." Ye Fan seemed reluctant to discuss this matter and waved his hands as he shooed Li Er home.
Li Er looked hopelessly at Ye Fan and his heart was beginning to despair. But since his own commander-in-chief wasn't anxious, there was nothing a subordinate like him could do.
Li Er had no choice but to go home sadly.
On his way home, he received a call from Lei San. "Er, how did it go? Has Mr Chu thought of how to handle tomorrow's banquet? Does he have a plan on how to deal with the Lu and Xur families?" asked Lei San anxiously. He had obviously heard a thing or two about the situation in Yunzhou.
Li Er sighed. "What plan do you think he would have? Mr Chu looks more like he's ready to take on whatever is going to come his way and hope for the best. I just hope that the storm will come a little later. Once the wedding banquet tomorrow is over, we could possibly still persuade Mr Chu to leave Yunzhou and lie low for the time being."
Li Er thought that Mr Chu refused to leave Yunzhou because of the wedding that was happening the next day.
Everyone knew how much Ye Fan indulged his wife.
Three years ago, he hadn't been able to give Qiu Mu-Cheng a grand wedding, so if he ran away before this one as well, then he would definitely feel like he had let Qiu Mu-Cheng even more.
So once the wedding was over, Li Er was sure that Mr Chu would have no reason to insist on staying in Yunzhou anymore.
But would they be able to finish the wedding without a hitch?
Li Er's expression was grim and his heart was filled with anxious thoughts.
Many people couldn't sleep that night.
Li Er tossed and turned in bed, while Lei San's heart was heavy.
Chen Ao was still under house arrest in Jianghai. His eyes looked out of the window worried as well.
He could see the dark clouds gathering quickly and covering the sky in darkness.
A howling wind began to gust and blew the fallen leaves in all directions.
"It looks like a huge storm is about to hit.”
The night went past quietly.
When the sun rose the next morning, the quiet city of Yunzhou started to come alive again.
But anyone familiar with this city would notice that Yunzhou was different from usual.
There were many cars from out of town, and the city itself looked prettier than before.
The main road that went through the heart of the city was covered in flowers.
The trees along both sides of the road were also covered in bright and beautiful decorations.
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