"Qiaoqiao girl, Zhang Gongzi lost the knife to save me, please transfer this knife to him, it is my thank you gift to him."

"Zhang Eighteen lost his father's knife?" Lin Pingping next to him was stunned, "Sister! What the hell is going on? ”

Lin Qiaoqiao glared at her, smiled at Cui Ning and said, "This is the sister of the house, who came from her hometown only the day before yesterday, and she is open-mouthed, please Miss Don't be weird." ”

Cui Ning listened to Lin Pingping's tone, it seemed that the knife was very important, she bowed to her apologetically: "Miss Pingping, Zhang Gongzi lost the knife to save me, I'm really sorry!" ”

"Nothing! It's nothing! Lin Pingping scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, and said with a smile: "That broken knife, I stole it out to play when I was a child, and my father beat me, and I lost the best, so I'm not a pity!" ”

As she spoke, she took the knife from her sister's hand, pulled out the sheath, her eyes lit up, and she praised: "Good knife!" "She pulled a knife flower, 'Hoho!' The ground slashed twice, several guards knew the power of this knife, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly dodged back, the knife was too heavy, she danced twice and her hands were a little sore, and she cut down a small tree at the door, 'Click! The little tree was cut in two, and fell down with a bang, almost hitting the shopkeeper who had just come out.

"Aunt Ping, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, you don't want to learn, but you want to learn from those reckless men who dance knives and guns....."

The shopkeeper patted the dust on his body and complained at the same time, and as soon as he looked up, he saw that the soldiers in helmet and armor around him were staring at him viciously, so frightened that he swallowed back the second half of his words, turned around and ran back in a panic.

"You're a lady from an official family!" Ping Ping saw that Cui Ning was protected by hundreds of guards, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, my name is Cui Ning."

Cui Ning saw that she was refreshing, and she couldn't help liking it in her heart, she thought about it, then pulled out a peony golden hairpin from her head, handed it to Lin Pingping, and said, "First time we met, this is for you!" ”

"Miss can't help it!" Lin Qiaoqiao saw that the peony flowers were made of pure gold, especially the flower core was a finger-sized sapphire, dazzling, she hurriedly stopped, but Lin Pingping didn't care, she saw that the golden hairpin was exquisite, and her heart was happy, so she took it unceremoniously, but took off the small bronze mirror on her waist and handed it to Cui Ning and said, "This is for you!" ”

The guards next to him couldn't help but cover their mouths, 'Flutter! Laughing out loud, Cui Ning took the bronze mirror with both hands, and thanked Lin Pingping from the bottom of her heart, she turned back to the guards and said coldly: "Things are not expensive or cheap, but in the heart, you men all know that righteousness comes first, but why do you want to laugh at a woman?" ”

All the guards were ashamed, and bowed down to apologize together: "Miss is right! ”

Cui Ning saw that she was standing at the door and talked for a long time, and she didn't see Zhang Huan come out, she was extremely disappointed, but she didn't dare to ask more, at this time, Lin Pingping put the golden hairpin in her hair and said with a smile: "I'll show Zhang Eighteen." ”

But after taking two steps, she suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but say in frustration: "I forgot, Zhang Shibai went out." ”

Cui Ning's heart fell, she saw Lin Pingping on the left and Zhang 18 on the right, and suddenly remembered that he had also let him call him like this, so she asked her tentatively: "Miss Pingping, why do you call Zhang Gongzi Zhang 18?" ”

Lin Pingping laughed, "I called him like this since I was a child, and he refused at first, but then I was scared, so I had to agree!" ”

Cui Ning felt a surge of sweetness in her heart, she got into the carriage in high spirits, beckoned to Lin Pingping and smiled: "Miss Pingping, you are welcome to come and play with me!" ”

Seeing Cui Ning's carriage disappear, Ping Ping happily asked Lin Qiaoqiao, "Sister, who is she?" I love it. ”

"She! She is a stupid person like you, go ask your Zhang 18! Lin Qiaoqiao stuffed the knife into her and walked away, leaving only a confused Pingping.

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Zhang Huan went out early in the morning to pay New Year's greetings, but instead of going to the mansion of the head of the family, he went to the mansion of the Taishi Zhang Potian, although Zhang Potian was also born as a concubine, but it was a little different from Zhang Huan, Zhang Potian's father was the concubine of Zhang's mansion, and he was his father's concubine, his mother was a maid, he died soon after giving birth to him, he lived alone in the outermost part of Zhang's mansion since he was a child, and it happened to be the house where Zhang Huan lived, and he grew up to eighteen years old, and he didn't even have a name.

Later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, he ran to join Li Guangbi's army, in the Taiyuan counterattack, he led his team of forty brothers from the tunnel into Shi Siming's handsome tent, for Li Guangbi to defeat Shi Siming's 100,000 army with 5,000 troops to make the most critical contribution, so he was promoted to a partial general, and was named 'Breaking the Sky' by Li Guangbi, that is, breaking the sky from the tunnel.

In the later wars, he repeatedly made military exploits, and slowly rose up, in the later stage of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guangbi was scared to death by the eunuchs of the prison army, and his generals were disbanded, and he was also named the deputy envoy of the river festival.

Soon, the Hui army attacked Tang in a big way, Zhang Potian also led his troops to Shaanxi County to assemble, but unfortunately Yu Chaoen's command was not effective, the main force of the Tang army was defeated by the Hui army, Zhang Potian collected tens of thousands of defeated troops to return to Taiyuan, and defeated the Hui cavalry in Changshan County three times, and finally founded the Hedong Army, which made great contributions to the Zhang family's squeezing into the seven great families.

As for later, because he was from a humble background and was not allowed by the Zhang family's sisters-in-law, he broke with the Zhang family in a fit of anger, and Zhang Potian didn't want to mention these things to Zhang Huan anymore.

"Zhang Ruoho's willingness to abolish the rule that non-sons-in-law cannot inherit the head of the family shows that he still has some vision and courage, but this is just the beginning, and the real battle is still to come."

Zhang Potian poured Zhang Huan a glass of wine and said with a faint smile: "In fact, the reason why Zhang Ruohao made this decision is really unavoidable, you don't know how serious the crisis of the Zhang family is. ”

Zhang Huan silently drank the wine, and also filled Zhang Potian with a glass of wine, Zhang Potian picked up the wine glass and sighed leisurely: "Zhang Ruohao's five brothers, in addition to the fifth brother who died early, the other Jin, Feng, Qiang, Jun, that is not a group of wives and concubines, as well as Zhang Ruohao's father and brothers, so that there are more than 50 sons in law in your generation, how can they allow the concubine to inherit the position of the head of the family, but this is still a trivial matter, the key is that the Wang family and the Cui family have intervened, this is the real crisis of the Zhang family." ”

Zhang Huan nodded and said: "A few months ago, the head of the family ordered me to be in charge of the finances, and I found out that Zhang Ruofeng privately allocated 400,000 yuan to the Wang family, and I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. ”

"Zhang Ruofeng, that idiot, thinks he is smart, but in fact, he was pinched by Wang Yanluo." Zhang Potian said coldly: "Do you know where all the money ended up?" Tell you, it was Shandong, which fell into the pocket of the Cui family to feed his 150,000 Shandong army, but in the end, the Zhang family had no money to recruit troops, Cui Yuan's methods are not something you can understand, and killing people with a knife has always been his method. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Potian got up and closed the door of the study, came back and said to Zhang Huan in a low voice: "Let me tell you a secret of the Zhang family, the so-called eldest son Zhang Xuan is very likely not Zhang Ruohao's biological son." ”

"You mean.... Is he the son of the third uncle? Zhang Huan suddenly thought of Zhang Ruofeng.

"Nope! It's not that simple. Zhang Potian shook his head slightly, "Wang Yanluo seduced Zhang Ruofeng, that was after Zhang Ruohao became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Xuan was ten years old at that time, in fact, many elders know that twenty-five years ago, Wang Yanluo married Zhang Ruohao and gave birth to Zhang Xuan only seven months ago, at that time, the Wang family insisted that it was a premature birth, and the midwife also said that it was a premature birth, but only three months later, the midwife drowned and died, which is really strange! ”

"On the wedding night when the head of the family married Wang Yanluo, didn't he test red?" Zhang Huan interjected and asked.

"How do I know that?" Zhang Potian shrugged his shoulders and said with an ambiguous smile: "If Wang Yanluo has the intention to fake, it is actually easy, and Zhang Ruohao was still young at the time, so he couldn't think of so much." ”

Zhang Huan nodded silently, I'm afraid that the head of the family also knows it in his heart, so he will be so cold to their mother and son.

Zhang Potian glanced at him, and continued: "The real crisis of the Zhang family I just said is here, the Zhang family has no army in their hands, if Wang Yanluo's mother and son make an accident, Wang Ang can be threatened by force under Cui Yuan's instructions, Zhang Ruohao has already seen this, so he took advantage of Cui Yuan's opportunity to concentrate on seeking re-election as the right minister, and suddenly went home to visit relatives, setting off this storm of the heir of the family, he is actually betting that Cui Yuan will not dare to attack the Zhang family at this sensitive time." ”

"But...," Zhang Huan hesitated for a moment and said, "But I don't understand how the head of the family can take a fancy to me?" Before that, I was also unknown, and he could have set up another son-in-law, so that he could avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. ”

"You're right! This is also something I have been unable to figure out, and I also know that you are very good in the academy, but this is really insignificant compared to the price you have to pay to establish a concubine, with Zhang Ruohao's foresight, he will not be unexpected, so there must be another reason for this. ”

Zhang Potian also gradually fell into contemplation, after a while, he shook his head and smiled, then patted Zhang Huan's shoulder and encouraged him: "Anyway, I also regard you as the hope of revitalizing my Zhang family, and the New Year will be a big day in a few days, this Cui Xiong's meritorious incident will inevitably become the focus of the struggle, I hope you will hold your head high, so that everyone in the world can see that the future head of the Zhang family is none other than you." ”

Zhang Huan drank all the wine in the cup, squinted his eyes and said slowly: "Please rest assured, Fourth Uncle, I will never back down!" ”

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