After several hours of difficult trekking, Su Ziheng and his party finally returned to Sujiazhuang before lunch.

Ma Lao Liu and the others were sent to the canteen to eat, and Su Ziheng personally led Zhang Wanru back to his courtyard. Since she agreed to teach at Bailu Academy, she was bound to prepare a place for her to stay.

Obviously, Bailu Academy is not suitable, because there is no accommodation area yet, and it is not good for her to live alone as a weak woman, so Su Ziheng thought about taking her back to her courtyard and letting her live with her sister-in-law Zhang Wanqing, Xiaoya and Xie Qingxuan for the time being.

When Zhang Wanqing heard that Su Ziheng was back, she hurriedly put down the needlework in her hand and went out to greet her.

Since Xining City moved back to Sujiazhuang, a lot of servants have been added to the house, and many things have servants to do, and she doesn't have to do it herself, but she has been used to it in the past few years, and she still feels quite unaccustomed to letting her be idle all of a sudden.

Seeing that it was already autumn and the weather was gradually getting cooler, she was sewing warm clothes for Su Ziheng and Xiaoya. Su Ziheng once persuaded her that she didn't have to work so hard, and to make clothes, she went directly to the ready-to-wear shop to buy them, or found a tailor to make them custom.

However, Zhang Wanqing felt that the clothes she bought outside were not close to her own and were uncomfortable to wear. Su Ziheng couldn't resist her, so he went with her.

"Uncle, you're back, are you okay on the road?" Zhang Wanqing greeted softly, and then found Zhang Wanru following behind Su Ziheng, she asked curiously, "......Who is this girl?" ”

At that moment, Zhang Wanqing had an indescribable feeling in her heart, why did the uncle bring back a handsome girl younger than herself after going out? Could it be the two of them......

Su Ziheng introduced her with a smile: "Sister-in-law, this is Miss Zhang Wanru, she is my newly hired teacher in the academy. Hey, speaking of which, the names of the two of you are quite similar, one is Zhang Wanru, the other is Zhang Wanqing, maybe the two of you were a family five hundred years ago. ”

Speaking of the back, he couldn't help but laugh.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Zhang Wanru's eyes flashed, and she stepped forward to be blessed, "Little sister is like seeing Sister Wanqing, I don't know where my sister is, maybe you and I really have something to do with each other." ”

Su Ziheng shook his head, this Zhang Wanru wanted to find relatives, she probably thought it was crazy, and when she heard someone else's surname Zhang, she thought it was related. Is there such a coincidence in the world that you can find it by asking?

What's more, he has some understanding of his sister-in-law Zhang Wanqing's life experience, and knows that she is a person from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and she was exiled to Xining because she was chased by the enemy. The two families are thousands of miles apart, so it is impossible for the two of them to have a relationship.

Zhang Wanqing said with a smile: "I am a local from Xining, I don't know where Wanru's sister is, can my home be nearby?" ”

Zhang Wanru said: "My sister's expectation is good, my sister was born in a hidden mountain village in Helan Mountain, and it is not very far from here, and she can arrive in a few hours." ”

"Helan Mountain Village?" Zhang Wanqing suddenly looked excited: "The small mountain village that my sister said, but is there a stone gossip array?" ”

Zhang Wanru looked suspicious, "How does my sister know, has she ever been there?" ”

Zhang Wanqing exclaimed "Ah", grabbed Zhang Wanru's hand tightly, and said in a trembling voice: "Can my sister take my sister there?" ”

Zhang Wanru shook her head, with a sad look on her face, "Last night, the mountain village was raided by horse thieves, and the village was destroyed in a fire. ”

Zhang Wanqing's face suddenly turned pale, took a few steps back, and said in a trembling voice: "What...... How so? Are all the people in the village okay? ”

At this time, Su Ziheng on the side also saw that something was wrong, and secretly thought in his heart, could it be that his sister-in-law still had anything to do with the people in that small mountain village?

Zhang Wanru's eyes were red, she sniffed, and she was full of fear, "Fortunately, Lord Shenlong arrived in time and spared the villagers." ”

"Lord Shenlong, who is that?" Zhang Wanqing asked curiously.

Zhang Wanru said: "Lord Shenlong is not a human, it is a dragon ......" so she told Zhang Wanqing what happened last night.

After listening, Zhang Wanqing was also shocked, "It turns out that there are really dragons in this world......"

"Sister, I don't know where you got the news of our village? Generally speaking, people who are not very familiar with the village will not know that there is a stone gossip array in the village. Moreover, the people who go out of our village will not easily reveal any news about the village. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Wanqing suddenly asked, "Sister Wanru, I don't know that you are in the village, but you know a person named Zhang Taiming?" ”

"Zhang Taiming, he is Xiaomei's grandfather, I don't know where my sister learned this name?" Zhang Wanru was so excited that she asked repeatedly.

"What? Zhang Taiming is your grandfather, so who is your father? Zhang Wanqing was also emotional and asked loudly.

Zhang Wanru replied quickly: "My father is Zhang Chengen, I don't know if my sister has ever heard of it?" ”

Zhang Wanqing nodded vigorously and said: "When I was a child, I heard my father mention that he had a younger brother named Zhang Chengen, but unfortunately after he left the village, there was no news of him. ”

"Ah......" Zhang Wanru's eyes glistened with tears, and she couldn't cry: "Sister, your father's name is Zhang Chengzhi?" ”

Zhang Wanqing covered her mouth with one hand, nodded incessantly, looked at Zhang Wanru speechless, and let the tears roll down.

Su Ziheng was stunned on the side, do you want to be so bloody? This kind of coincidence can happen in reality, shouldn't it only exist in legends?

After glancing at the many people nearby who looked over with surprised eyes, Su Ziheng coughed lightly, "Sister-in-law, Miss Zhang, why don't we go in and talk about it." ”

Back in the living room, Su Ziheng instructed the maid to serve tea, and then asked the reason for the whole thing. In Zhang Wanqing and Zhang Wanru's complementary explanations to each other, Su Ziheng understood what had happened at the beginning.

It turned out that when Zhang Wanqing's father Zhang Chengzhi was traveling, he met her mother Gu Rushuang, and the two accidentally fell in love. Zhang Chengzhi returned to the village and wanted to marry Gu Rushuang as his wife, but was opposed by his father Zhang Taiming.

Because the Zhang family is a guardian family, they have been trapped in the mountain village for hundreds of years to protect the natural uranium mine and wait for the arrival of the dragon. Zhang Chengzhi is the eldest son of Zhang Taiming, the patriarch of the Zhang clan at that time, and he will inherit the position of patriarch in the future and lead the Zhang clan to continue to guard, so naturally he can't marry a woman of unknown origin outside.

In order not to be separated from Gu Rushuang, Zhang Chengzhi chose to break away from the Zhang family and eloped with Gu Rushuang. At that time, the two of them lived in seclusion in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and after giving birth to a daughter Zhang Wanqing, they did not expect that more than ten years later, they were attacked by the enemy and wiped out. only escaped Zhang Wanqing and her maid, who were playing outside at the time.

After escaping from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Zhang Wanqing remembered that her father had told her that her ancestral land was in Xining, so she and her maid traveled thousands of miles all the way from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to Xining.

It's a pity that after arriving in Xining, Zhang Wanqing's maid was about to give birth because she was pregnant, so in order to hide her identity, she had to find someone to fake her marriage, which was later Zhang Liuzhi.

Regarding the search for the ancestral land, Zhang Wanqing only vaguely heard her father Zhang Chengzhi mention the existence of a stone gossip array in the village, where it was located, she was still young at the time, so she didn't know the specific road.

Later, she inquired in Xining for a long time, but there was no news, and after her maid gave birth, her body has been very weak, and later after she died of illness, she was married to Su Ziheng's brother Su Jian.

Zhang Wanqing gradually gave up the idea of looking for relatives, but she didn't expect to meet her cousin unexpectedly today.

How did this make her unhappy, anyway, now that the village was no longer able to go back, she decided to let her cousin live with her.