Zhang didn't know what to do for a while. She didn't have the slightest good impression of Zhao Jue's family, and she also knew that Zhao Ze committed the felony of killing her brother when she was very young, but she repeatedly denied it later, so she knew that Zhao Ze was still a child, and she couldn't convince herself that she wanted to treat the other party as a great-grandson.

However, after all, Zhang is a person who has been chanting Buddha and fasting for many years, thinking that Zhao Ze was still a half-grown teenager, he was beaten by his father until he was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and he felt a little unbearable. Besides, now it's not to recognize Zhao Ze back to the Zhao clan, just to be a kind person passing by. So she asked her grandson to reply: "Let the sect send two people over to take care of Zhao Ze, and when he recovers from his injuries, send him back to his grandfather's house in the capital, and it's over." He Lao Tzu has no loving heart, it is his own business, let his uncle's family quarrel with his Lao Tzu. ”

Zhao Wei responded, Zhao Xiu thought about it, and reminded again: "Let Brother Jing pay attention, don't send Aunt Liu's people over." Although Aunt Liu is Zhao Ze's grandmother's person, but now that Zhao Ze's father is going to beat him to death, who knows what Aunt Liu will think? Don't let Zhao Zeren not be killed, but let a few ill-intentioned people die. ”

Zhang frowned and said, "Why is this so? In the end, it is father and son, although Zhao Jue has no heart for his son, it is impossible for him to put his eldest son to death for no reason. Let Yushi know, where can he keep his official position? That Zhao Ze is not an honest and obedient person, maybe he made some mistakes and annoyed him, but I don't know. ”

Zhao Xiu didn't think so: "God knows why their father and son fought?" If he just wanted to teach his son a lesson, why did Zhao Ze escape? and the two girls next to him were killed. What is the reason for that? What about the other people who followed to Chuansha City? Are those people dead or alive? Previously, Brother Jing said that Zhao Ze's master and servant hired a boat to go over after Zhao Jue left. Could it be that Zhao Jue's consent was not obtained at all? But it would be strange if he wanted to kill his son because he had gone to his temporary residence to join him. Although these are just private matters between their father and son, but now, there are people behind Zhao Jue, and his actions are sneaky, and it just so happens that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come to Shanghai. Let's be vigilant. Don't you really have some ulterior motives, right? ”

The words reminded Zhang, and she thought for a while: "It's okay, send one of our people over." Take care of Zhao Ze's injury, and when he wakes up, he must ask the whole story. If it was really his own mistake, he provoked him to beat someone. I don't care. ”

Zhao Wei smiled: "Why do you have to send someone away? According to me. We simply took the boat and followed the prince's boat. The prince patrolled all the way, and there was always a time to stop, and then it was better to find an opportunity to deliver the post than to stay here and wait. Sun Er looked at the palace manager who seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally preventing his grandmother from seeing the prince, and I don't know if it was at the instigation of Hong Wencheng, or because we thought that the silver we gave when we handed over the post was less. He had to stay in the palace and couldn't travel with the prince. Let's just go along. Since the prince of Guangping has been following the prince, if he can see him. Ask him to say a good word to the prince, are you afraid that you won't be able to see the prince? Even if he can't see it, he can also help to send a message to the prince and ask the prince to mention Fang Wencheng. ”

Zhang's heart was moved when he heard it, and Zhao Xiu also felt that this was a good idea, the prince was difficult to see, but it was much easier to ask to see the prince of Guangping, no matter what his brother said, he also had a little friendship with Gao Zhen, he was better than the head of the palace or the grandson of the king of Fenyang.

The three grandparents began to pack their bags again. This trip, compared to when he first came to Jiatime, he came specially to see the prince of Jin, so many big dresses and everything had to be brought, and there were also a bunch of male and female servants. This time, they only packed up a set of dresses each, took a few entourages such as Lu Ma, Wang Shuangfu, Bilian, and Lu Mingzhang, and went to the six-room business in the city to borrow a larger boat, and a few boatmen, and set off.

The Prince's ship sailed out to sea along the waterway, walking very slowly, and always stayed for one to half a day at each place so that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his entourage had time to inspect the dam. Therefore, it only took Zhao Xiu's ancestors and his party half a day to catch up with them. Helplessly, the officers and soldiers blocked the surrounding water and did not allow civilian ships to approach the prince's fleet, so Zhao Xiu and the others could only stay far behind, always a few miles away from the prince.

Although they could not get close to the prince, they could still hear some wind from a distance watching the movement of the fleet. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inspected four or five dams in succession, but there were no major problems, and the so-called cracks were obviously due to disrepair, and the gaps were not large, and it was impossible to cause the kind of catastrophe mentioned in the Shanghai prefect's notebook. Moreover, as seen along the way, although the disaster was quite serious, the people were not so miserable that they were starving everywhere. The prince asked his attendants to randomly find a few people to question, and learned that although this year's harvest in Shanghai was not good, there were rich families who were willing to give rice and porridge; Second, Nanhui Port needs a lot of manpower, and the victims can go to find work and earn money to support their families; Third, the weather is warm this winter, and it is still like spring in the lunar month, and the victims of the disaster have rushed to spin and weave cloth overnight, and exchange the cloth for food and daily necessities, plus the price has dropped sharply, so everyone's life is quite passable.

The prefect of Shanghai "confessed" in front of the prince that he had spent a lot of effort and effort to help the people in disaster relief. Seeing that he was working hard for the people, the prince didn't want to pursue him too much, but he just rebuked him a few words, and then praised him. The prefect of Shanghai then reported that the most problematic place on the dam was not the few places that the prince had already visited, but the section of Chuansha City on the seaside, and the prince had no choice but to continue his inspection trip.

When the news spread, the nearby officials and people were privately talking about the prefect's cheekiness, although he was busy in the yamen all day long, but where was he busy relieving the victims? That is obviously the credit of Tongzhi and several county magistrates, but these adults are not present, only the general judgment who is deeply trusted by the prefect and is in-law with him, it is naturally impossible to demolish the in-laws.

When the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhang family heard these rumors, they also felt speechless. Zhao Wei felt that the prefect of Shanghai was incurably stupid: "If you lie at this time and let the prince believe in his merits for the time being, will His Royal Highness the Crown Prince never summon other officials and local people?" Someone will always reveal the truth, how will he end up then? ”

Zhao Xiu's attention was elsewhere: "The prefect asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go to Chuansha City?" How is this place again? Is there anything special about it? ”

Zhang frowned: "Just take a look." It's getting late. His Royal Highness wants to rest here for the night, and then go to Chuansha tomorrow. We simply hurried overnight to take a look there. By the way, I asked how Zhao Ze's injuries were. ”

After the prince's fleet docked, only a forbidden area was left on the nearby water, and other seas were no longer forbidden to sail, so Zhao Wei ordered the fleet to sail away, and finally arrived at the waterway outside Chuansha City in the middle of the night.

The city gate has been closed, and Zhang's party cannot enter the city, but there is a foothold for the outer six rooms near the inland wharf. So they stopped their ships at the berth in that area. Wang Shuangfu was ordered to go to find someone to inquire about Zhao Qixuan's whereabouts, but he didn't expect that when he turned back, there was nothing but Zhao Qixuan behind him. also followed a group of people, and two powerful guys carried a stretcher and carried the seriously injured Zhao Ze to the boat.

Zhao Wei personally inspected Zhao Ze's injuries and was taken aback. He came back and said to Zhang, "Grandmother." It seems that Zhao Jue seems to be intent on killing this son, and several of the injuries on his body have fallen on the vital points, if it weren't for the timely treatment, I am afraid that he would have died early this time. ”

Zhang's face was solemn, and he retreated, leaving only his grandchildren and Zhao Qixuan, and asked the latter: "Before Zhao Ze fainted." What the hell is it said? Have you woken up in the past few days? ”

Zhao Qixuan lowered his voice and said, "When my nephew saw him, he was simply a bloody man. It seems that when I first came to Chuansha, I recognized the signboard of the Wailiufang store on the road, and I didn't think much about it at the time, and after I was injured, I thought I could come over for help. He only said that his father was going to do a bad thing, and he found out, and he did not know what to do, but when his father found out, he had to kneel down and beg his father to dispel his mind, and who knew that he was beaten badly. Because Yicheng heard the movement, his father spared him for the time being, but ordered him to be kept under his watch, and he was not allowed to see anyone. His maiden overheard that his father had ordered someone to do something to him in his wound medicine, and quickly reported to him that he wanted to escape. The nephew asked him what bad things his father was going to do, but he refused to answer, but cried and begged his nephew to save his two girls, saying that when he escaped, it was his two girls who dragged the pursuers to let him escape. The nephew quietly asked someone to inquire near the inn, but he heard that his two maids and two other servants were found to have stolen the master's belongings and asked the master to sell them, but that night by the waterway behind the house, a small boat carried away four corpses. There is still one servant left, and now he is waiting by Zhao Jue's side......"

Zhang's face turned pale when he heard this, and Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu thought of their previous guesses, and their hearts were uneasy.

Zhao Qixuan said again: "Zhao Ze fled to the shop in the outer sixth room, and happened to meet me. I think Zhao Jue is an official, and I don't know why, I don't even let go of my own son, what if it affects me? So he hid him and asked his fellow to have a trustworthy doctor to heal him. A few days later, Zhao Jue claimed that a servant had stolen the property and fled, and asked the government to search the whole city, to find the person who had been injured by the stick, just because Chuansha City wanted to welcome the prince's ceremonial drive, and the government did not want to make trouble at this time, Zhao Jue stopped, but he still inquired about the whereabouts of the so-called thieves in the city every day, and the shop in the outer six rooms also came, but he didn't dare to search. Zhao Ze has been in a coma for many days, and only woke up once this morning, and when he heard that the girl was dead, he refused to say anything more. Although I was annoyed that he was silent, but I was worried that he would be found sooner or later, so I took the opportunity of transporting the goods and quietly sent him to the dock outside the city. In the past two days, Zhao Jue has been busy with official business, and he can't take care of finding someone for the time being, so I'm afraid that as soon as the prince leaves, I won't be able to hide people. ”

Zhang nodded: "You leave him and the medicine behind, just go back and do your thing." Tell the people below to hide it, don't reveal a word for Zhao Jue to know. ”

When Zhao Qixuan heard this, he knew that she intended to rescue Zhao Ze, so he hurriedly agreed and hurriedly went ashore again.

Zhang's face was very ugly, and he instructed Zhao Wei: "Think of Zhao Ze to wake up." ”

Zhao Wei hesitated, walked to the unconscious Zhao Ze, and screamed softly, but the person didn't wake up. Zhao Xiu turned around and went back to his cabin, took a small porcelain bottle, opened it and shook it under Zhao Ze's nose, a strong and choking aroma came out, Zhao Ze coughed lightly twice, woke up faintly, and saw the three ancestors and grandchildren of the second room standing in front of him, he was stunned.

Zhang lowered his head and asked him, "What does your father want to do?" ”

Zhao Ze's lips moved slightly, he didn't say anything, his eyes immediately turned red, he closed his eyes, and silently wept.

Zhao Xiu snorted: "Do you think that if you don't say it now, it's just for his good?" When he fails, you can wait for your whole family to be unlucky! Since ancient times, who has had a good end for rebellious ministers and thieves? It's not that if you die at the hands of the people they want to kill, you will be killed by your accomplices, right? When the time comes, it will not only be your family, but I am afraid that even your mother, your maternal uncle's family, and your grandmother's family will all suffer! Even if you want to be filial to your father, do you disregard the lives of your mother and sister? ”

Zhao Ze's tears flowed even more, but he still clenched his teeth tightly and refused to let go.

Zhang frowned, and suddenly asked him: "Tomorrow, the prince is going to inspect the seaside dam outside Chuansha City, could it be that what your father is going to do has something to do with this?" ”

Zhao Ze opened his eyes suddenly, looking at Zhang's eyes as if he had seen a ghost.

Zhang's face was very ugly, and he called Mother Lu to come in to take care of Zhao Ze, and then turned around and left the cabin. Zhao Wei followed closely: "Grandmother, we have to send a letter to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he will arrive tomorrow." ”

But things were unexpected, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not arrive tomorrow, after listening to the words of the Shanghai prefect, he did not stay overnight, but sailed overnight, only a few hours later than the ancestors and grandsons of the Zhang family, and arrived in Chuansha City. By the time the early morning sun hit the water, he was already standing on the dam outside the city. (To be continued......)