Xiangguo Duke's Mansion

"I wonder if my grandfather is looking for his grandson to come, but what's the point?" A tall young man stood under the desk, lowered his head slightly, and his hands were obediently hanging down on both sides.

Duke Zhang Cheng of Xiangguo stood in front of the window with his hands in his arms. His long hair was gray, but his figure was still straight and extremely strong, not like an elderly person at all. He looked at the sunshine outside and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Our Zhang family has few descendants, your father is no longer in charge, and there are not many people left in the Zhang family who can support the market. I can only hope that you and Jing'er will compete for some excitement."

Zhang Cheng's life-long decision was a decisive decision. He never knew what it was like to admit defeat. Otherwise, he would not have pushed the Zhang family to this point. Both queens came from the Zhang family, and the royal family was always favored. Although the power was too great and it was easy to attract fear from the superiors, he would never leave any sufficient punishment for the royal family.

Zhang Cheng's back was stubbornly straight, but a faint worry had already appeared between his always cold eyebrows and eyes.

"Why did grandfather say this?" Zhang Lun didn't expect to hear such frustrated words from Zhang Cheng's mouth, and couldn't help but be surprised.

"I, Zhang Cheng, have never made any mistakes in my life. Everything can be done seamlessly and perfectly. Only Zheng Jing is blamed for being too arrogant and using the wrong person, otherwise such a big mistake would not have been made."

"He took Zheng Jing's fault by himself. The Zhang family gave him a chance, but he did not make good use of it, but instead implicated the Zhang family. I believe His Majesty also knew this."

The sunlight made his eyes sore and his eyes turned pale. Zhang Cheng couldn't help but lower his head and stared at the spotless windowsill on the window ridge.

"Lun'er, although Your Majesty has the blood of the Zhang family, he is not a person who values ​​love. He has not attacked us so far, he is just waiting for an opportunity. There is also His Highness, Your Majesty, you must send someone to pay attention to him. Your Majesty's actions are still traceable, but he is unpredictable." Zhang Cheng's eyes suddenly became sharp, like the sharpest knife. If they could be formed, they would definitely be deeply inserted into the windowsill.

Zhang Lun was quiet for a while before saying, "Grandfather, do you believe that Your Majesty and King Yu will attack the Zhang family?"

Zhang Cheng smiled coldly, turned around slowly, looked at Zhang Lun, and shook his head gently, "You are one less cruel and one more honest than your father. You have to know that now we need not only His Majesty and King Yu, but also the Qin family. They hated us because of Qin Yue's affairs. If they grabbed their braids and didn't bite us to pieces, they would never give up."

"Grandfather, what should I do when talking about the Qin family? " Zhang Lun was not worried about the Qin family's grudges. The soldiers came to stop them and the water came to cover them. As the four tribes of Yong'an who were famous side by side, the open and secret struggles between each other have been around for many years. The most feared thing is that they are in the wrong.

Zhang Yue lost Qin Ke, the grandson of the Qin family. Although he did not open his mind for the sake of the two families, due to Zhang Yue's implication, the Zhang family has not had a good life recently. He spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to find it, but there was no trace at all. In front of the Qin family, it was a loss that he could not be blamed for any more. Whenever they saw the face of the Qin family a little ugly, they would be trembling for a long time, for fear that the Qin family would be extremely angry for a moment, so they would publicize the matter.

"What should I do? I advised her not to always run to the Qin family before. Did she listen? She ran harder and more diligently, for fear that others would not be suspicious of the relationship between Zhang and Qin families. Now something happened, and I knew I would rely on the Zhang family back." Zhang Cheng snorted heavily from his nose, feeling a little disappointed. After all, he was also his own granddaughter. No matter how hard he was, he couldn't say he didn't want it.

Zhang Lun sighed: "Don't blame her grandfather, she already regrets and blames herself too much."

"If she really knows and regrets, she will get closer to the Qin family in the future."

"The grandfather's words must be conveyed to Yue'er. She is a wise man and will correct her mistakes."

"Um."

"Also, there seem to be several cases of missing children in the city recently. The prefect of Jingzhao Li Xian did not make any statement, but was just investigating secretly. Grandfather, do you think this will be related to Qin Ke's disappearance?"

Zhang Cheng looked stern, "This matter is not easy to confirm. The child has been missing for about ten days. Since the day he disappeared, we have set up people at various city gates. Even if he is really caught, he must have not left. As long as he is still hiding in this city, there will be no one that our Zhang family cannot find. It would be better that the child has nothing to do with the disappearance case, otherwise the Qin family will be furious."

Zhang Lun naturally realized the seriousness of the matter, was tense and had a little dull mood.

"Okay, I don't need to think about it anymore. I have to hurry up and find someone. Take a step at the future. Also, let me keep a close eye on Zhang Bang, so that he can give me peace of mind during this period and have many thoughts. He is going to take the imperial examination. There must be no more mistakes at this critical moment."

"The grandson knows."

After leaving Zhang Cheng's study, Zhang Lun went straight to Zhang Yue's residence. Zhang Yue had not come back to the girls' yard yet. After asking about the time, he should have been back almost soon. He waited in the yard for a while, and he soon heard a light or heavy footsteps.

Zhang Lun looked over and saw the maid limping in with her helping Zhang Yue.

"What's going on?" He hurried over and held it, and his inquiring eyes shot at the maid next to him like a knife.

The maid quickly knelt down, "Go back to the eldest son, it was a carriage that collided. The second girl didn't sit firmly and accidentally sprained her ankle."

"What carriage collided?"

"The Shen family's carriage hit a child on the street, and our carriage followed them. They suddenly stopped and ran into it without a police message."

"Child? What kind of child is it?" Zhang Lun is now extremely sensitive to the word "child" and quickly asked. But as soon as he finished asking, Zhang Yue reached out and pressed her hand on his arm, shook her head slightly, and signaled him not to ask again.

He waved his hand and asked the maid to pick up the ice. Zhang Lun helped Zhang Yue into the house and sat down.

The maid came in with a piece of ice wrapped in a thin scarf, knelt down in front of Zhang Yue, took off her shoes and socks, and swollen a large piece of her naked snow-white ankles. The maid held her ankle with one hand, and held the thin scarf wrapped in ice with the other hand and applied it to the wound. The sudden stimulation and pain made Zhang Yue unable to help but raise her leg and want to kick it, but Zhang Lun quickly reached out to hold it down.

Seeing her little face wrinkled and in great pain, Zhang Lun felt a little distressed. His sister had never suffered much since she was a child, but she had been neglected and blamed recently, and now she has sprained her ankle, which is so heartbreaking.

"Your foot injury is serious and you have to apply it for an hour to heal."

Zhang Yue bit her lip tightly, and suddenly her eyes turned red and shed tears, "Why is it me?"

"Yue'er, brother knows that you have suffered a grievance, but this matter is your fault after all." Zhang Lun didn't know how to answer her, so he could only comfort her.

Zhang Yue didn't want to listen, "It's okay for the Qin family, but her family scolded me and blamed me. I just walked away for a while, but I didn't expect that the child would be gone in such a while."

The ice gradually melted and wet her ankles. The crystal droplets of water fell down her heels, forming a small puddle on the ground.

The maid took off the scarf and went out to change the ice cubes.

Zhang Yue reached out to wipe the tears from her face, but couldn't help but choke and said, "Even the young uncle... it's His Highness, King Yu, he knows it. How could this be my fault? But when he looked at me, he was clearly blaming me."

"King Yu? What do you mean? He knows what he means?" Zhang Lun noticed something was wrong in her words.

Zhang Yue could no longer suppress her aggrievance, and she said softly with red eyes: "I didn't walk away on purpose. At that time, the young uncle suddenly appeared with blood. I was frightened and didn't care about Qin Ke. Almost all the servants and servants of the Qin family were busy in front of him. There was no one around. The young uncle fell to the ground and shouted dizzy. I wanted to call someone over. I only remembered that the young uncle appeared in the backyard of the Qin family covered in blood, but was still in the Qin family's master.

If it was spread on Zi's birthday, if it was spread, the younger uncle could ignore the eyes of the world, but what about the Zhang family? I was all thinking about the Zhang family. When I went back, Qin Ke and the younger uncle disappeared, and there was no trace. Later, I heard that the younger uncle was making trouble in the Shen family, and I..." At the end of the day, he covered his face with his hands, buried all the grievances and resentment, and sobbing sounds in his palms, and refused to reveal any trace.

Zhang Lun patted her back to show comfort, but his expression had already become a bit solemn. Zhang Yue had never revealed any matters about King Yu. It turned out that King Yu had a very deep relationship with this matter. Could it be that King Yu stolen the child silently? But doing so would only bring disaster to the Zhang family. According to his grandfather, the emperor also wanted to suppress the Zhang family. So would King Yu do this for the sake of the emperor?

At this time, the maid came in with her changed towel, pretended not to see what was happening inside, knelt down, raised Zhang Yue's ankle again and applied it to her, and the cold attacked her. She subconsciously arched her instep, but the sob slowly stopped.

Lifting up her embarrassed face full of tears, she murmured: "After that, I quietly went to the Yu Prince's Mansion. The escorts of the Yu Prince's Mansion did not allow me to go in. They said that King Yu was sick again and could not see anyone. I didn't know what to do, and I didn't dare to find Allian. She blamed me that day. She entrusted Qin Ke to me for care. Maybe she didn't want to see me anymore."

Zhang Lun looked at Zhang Yue's lifeless look, no longer as arrogant and unrestrained as before, and sighed softly: "I understand, don't worry, brother will find Qin Ke quickly and give you an innocent person."

Zhang Yue smiled bitterly, lowered her eyes slightly, as if she was in a daze and didn't say anything.

In the private room of a small inn on the street, three girls from the Shen family were sitting around the table, looking at the other side of the table, a child stuffed something into his mouth like a starving ghost. He ate the food on the table so well, and almost half of it went.

"Eat slowly, be careful to choke"

"Child, what's your name?"

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