Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 208 is not a good person
"I know that my wife and the others had prepared for the worst, so they cried goodbye immediately when they arrived in Jinzhong, and entered the Hu family as servants incognito.

"Later, I saw the girl for the first time when your adoptive mother was visiting your relatives, and the servant's love for the girl from the heart naturally won my wife's favor.

"As time passed, I also revealed that I wanted to follow her. But I didn't expect that my wife would have her own plan, and she asked me to come into the mansion to serve the master.

"I weighed it over and over again, and finally agreed.

"Because I thought that not only would I be able to keep the girl by my side forever, but it would also be justified. However, no one would have thought that such a thing would happen later..."

No one would have thought that Shen Chongxin and his wife would die because of saving Qi Jiu.

No one would have thought that the aunts of the Zhang family who had been dead for 50 years would be reincarnated in their descendants.

"Before my mother died, she called my aunt into the house, shouldn't I have said all of this?"

Shen Xi caressed the curtain beside him, his nails seemed to be digging into the wood: "They were able to hide me so tightly, they must not be idle. So they must have seen the difference in you."

"Yes." Aunt Pei said in a low voice, "I promised to protect the girl for her."

Shen Xi looked at the fallen leaves outside the window, and became as silent as the world.

No wonder Aunt Pei knew the rules of etiquette like the back of her hand. How could the maids around Madam Zhang, who could be entrusted with such important tasks, not understand these things?

"Did I ever have brothers and sisters?"

What she knew about the past of the Zhang family was only when Ah Shan was three years old.Fortunately, there is Aunt Pei now, who can fill in the gap in her understanding of the Zhang family in the past 50 years after her death.

"Yes." Aunt Pei said: "You have two older brothers and two cousins, you are the youngest, the master only got you in his 30s, you are considered a middle-aged girl.

"Master and wife have two sons together. Our uncle is the eldest son, and the second master also gave birth to two young masters. It's just that you won't have time to get to know each other in the future."

It turned out that behind her, the Zhang family had so many descendants.

But now everyone is gone except her.

As Aunt Pei said, she didn't even have time to get to know them.

"Then, have my grandmother and mother ever told me to revive the Zhang family?"

"No," Aunt Pei supported her shoulders and shook her head, "No, my wife, grandma, and me, everyone only hopes that you will grow up safely!
"It's not easy for you to live alone, how can they have the heart to let you bear these?"

Shen Xi's eyes were sour, and he lowered his head.

She has never had a moment where she wanted to cry like she is now.

Even though they have passed away long ago, she can still feel the warmth from Aunt Pei's words.

She suddenly reached out to hug her, and then went out the door.

The sun is shining outside the door, and the sun shines through the old osmanthus tree in front of the door and under the verandah, and it is golden everywhere.

The courtyard is exquisite and elegant, completely different from the vicissitudes and melancholy still lingering in the house.

Time has turned her into another person, but her blood and soul still belong to the Zhang family.

She looked up at the top of the tree, her vision blurred by tears.She suddenly looked away again, raised her skirt and ran back into the house: "I don't know how the Zhang family's old house is now?"

Aunt Pei was stunned.

When talking about the Han Mansion earlier, I said that Beicheng is a place of wealth and honor for the capital, and more than [-]% of the court officials and relatives of the emperor live here.

In terms of location, from east to west, Yujifang, Zhongtaifang, and Jinwufang are the best, Ziyunfang, Yudaifang, and Wuyangfang are the second, and the rest are the third.

The Han family can own such a large piece of land in Lu'er Hutong in Zhongtaifang to build a mansion, let alone the Zhang family who opened the mansion in Beijing as the number one counselor around King Helian back then.

The location of Yuci is in the first-class Yujifang, which is only three miles away from the imperial city, with the Prince's Mansion on the left and the Duke's Mansion on the right.

There are only these three houses in the whole Yujifang, and the avenue in front of the gate can allow the triumphant soldiers to pass through.

Qi Jiu parked the carriage at the entrance of the small alley opposite the gate of the Zhang Mansion, Shen Xi was accompanied by Aunt Pei and sat in the carriage without lifting the curtains, except for the sound of the wheels coming from outside, the carriage was as quiet as if no one existed.

But even without lifting the curtain, she can accurately describe the surrounding scenery.

How could 16 years of memory be erased in just a few months?

She could even tell how the red plum blossoms at the gate were blooming before she left?
I remember that the wooden clogs under the hanging flower door should be changed, because they are no longer heeling.

The narcissus in her room is full of flower buds, and she asked the maid to put them in the warm pavilion, and once reckoned that they must be in full bloom after she comes back from offering incense.

But right now, the mansion across the street is as silent as a huge lonely grave in the setting sun.

It is tall and magnificent, but vicissitudes and decadence are written everywhere. The vermilion lacquer has long since peeled off in the wind and rain at the gate of the Zhang Mansion, which was once crowded.

The two large lanterns under the eaves are now only faded and dilapidated skeletons.

The red plum tree under the door has already grown a lot thicker than when she was there in the past, but it has grown wantonly without pruning, and it has become like a monster with teeth and claws.

As for the houses on the east and west sides that can only be seen from a distance, the Qin Family Prince's Mansion and the Duke's Mansion were equally prominent at that time, and now they are still crowded with people, and they already have new owners.

"Han Ruoju was instrumental in the Zhou army's attack on Yanjing, and because Wen Chan was the adopted daughter of the Zhang family, the Zhang family's house was given to their family after they established the kingdom.

"But there have been no people living in these years."

Aunt Pei looked at the opposite house through the tulle and said.

Although her tone was quite calm, it could be seen from the way she called Wen Chan that she was extremely contemptuous of this aunt of the Zhang family.

Shen Xi was not surprised by this result.Wen Chan is the adopted daughter of the Zhang family, and the Han family has become Da Zhou's lackeys, so it is logical that this house should be given to them.

As for the fact that no one lived there, it was naturally because Wen Chan had ghosts in her heart.

She frowned and said, "Did Wen Chan see you later?"

"I've never seen it before." She shook her head and said, "The slave girl entered Zhang's house at the age of six and stayed there for nine years. During those nine years, Wen Chan came back to Zhang's house very rarely.

"It's not that she doesn't want to come, it's that the master and wife don't really want to see her.

"The master's superficial statement is that seeing people thinks of others, because she was very close to Miss Yinggu in the past, and the master said that seeing her would remind her of her younger sister who died young.

"But later, the maidservant heard grandma mention it occasionally, saying that the wife said that Wen Chan is not a good person.

"Sure enough, the entire Zhang family was destroyed, and Han Ruoju not only helped the Tuoba people fight the Helian people, but Wen Chan herself also enjoyed the imperial order of the Great Zhou!

"Han Dun, who has studied in the Zhang family for many years, is still showing off his power in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty, turning a deaf ear to the Tuoba people's plundering and killing of the Helian people!"

(End of this chapter)