In the middle of the night, everything was silent, except for the dim stars in the sky, and only the inn in the city still hung lanterns. The sound of bangzi "dangdang" was knocked, and in such a dark night, several horses rushed through the city gate and galloped into Lantai.

For the sake of Zhang Tingyu's treasure cheats, it was necessary to reduce the rush time that was not necessary to be wasted, and Zhang Qining was finally forced to ride with him.

I saw her consciously leaning on her brother's arms, closing her eyes and sleeping all the way to Lantai. It wasn't until she entered the city that she opened her eyes and yawned, "Almost there?" ”

"Awake? Can you still sleep at night after sleeping so much? ”

Zhang Qining: "I go to the ancestral hall at night, and I don't have to sleep." ”

"Kneeling in the ancestral hall? You're good. Zhang Tingyu chuckled, "I advise you not to think too simply, Sister is angry this time, you can ask for more blessings." ”

Zhang Qining moved his gaze to the side, noncommittal.

The horse was a good horse, and the figure flashed in front of him, and he could barely see Zhang Qining's appearance.

"That's the reincarnation of the Lord of Pingning..."

The woman on the second floor of the inn looked young but wore a woman's bun, only a simple orchid hairpin in her hair, and her whole body was unusually quiet, her skin was fair, and she was like warm porcelain under the soft light, but the black green at the moment made her a little haggard.

"The third lady of the Zhang family... This identity is not very close. Closing the window, she lowered her eyes and looked back.

The people in the city almost fell asleep, but the Zhang family did not have the slightest appearance of resting at night.

There was a lit lantern hanging in front of the door, and the people in the house had obviously received the news a long time ago, and they were all staying at various posts as usual at the moment, and the attendants also waited in front of the door deliberately, and immediately greeted the people when they saw them coming back.

"Young master, third miss."

Zhang Tingyu: "The eldest sister hasn't rested yet?" ”

The attendant secretly raised his eyes and glanced at Zhang Qining: "The eldest lady is waiting, please come with me." ”

"It's been more than a month since I left, and this home is still so boring." Zhang Qining chuckled, his deep eyes were obscure, and without saying much, he walked inside.

The three of them walked through the corridor, and the servants who passed by all lowered their heads, and Zhang Qining walked in front of them a little numbly, until he came to the outside of Zhang Shihua's study.

The room was brightly lit, a figure was sitting by the window, even the attendant reported that she didn't move, she seemed to be indifferent to what was happening outside, who was coming, but what was going on was probably only known to Zhang Tingyu.

The attendant withdrew, with great discernment.

Zhang Tingyu stepped forward and knocked on the door, "Sister, we're back." ”

The people inside did not speak, but looked up quietly through the window to look at the people outside, and the figures cast dignified and elegant silhouettes on the window paper.

Zhang Qining lowered his eyes with a cold expression, hooked the corners of his lips self-deprecatingly, and knelt down on the ground.

"A-Ning, what are you doing here?" Zhang Tingyu gave her a look and told her to hurry up.

I saw her hands raised, folded in front of her, her eyes staring at the bluestone slab on the ground, and said, "Eldest sister, Qi Ning is back." ”

The door squeaked open, Zhang Shihua stood in the room, the tassels in the black hair swayed gently in the candlelight, and saw Zhang Qining kneeling there with a cold face, and reprimanded: "More and more spineless, since you want to kneel, go to the ancestral hall to kneel enough." ”

"Sister, A-Ning just came back, this is taking the initiative to admit his mistake and give in to you, what are you doing?" Zhang Tingyu persuaded him on the side, and was just about to go over and help the person up. Zhang Qining got up first, and he said that this girl was okay and would not find hardship for herself.

"I pleaded guilty. I won't have to work for others to accompany me to suffer, otherwise in the future, the people in the house will still have a lot of complaints about me. Leave. ”

"Qi Ning, come back! What are you most afraid of going to the ancestral hall, what are you doing so actively? Zhang Qining! ”

Zhang Tingyu followed, and Zhang Shihua shouted: "Let her go!" ”

Zhang Tingyu was uncomfortable sandwiched between the two, thinking to himself, how could the two sisters get along like this?

A boss with a face, a temper like a stubborn donkey who refuses to give in, she usually talks about people, why shouldn't she use it when she should use it?

"Young Master." The female envoy beside Zhang Shihua came over and said, "The eldest lady asked the kitchen to prepare a supper, and someone has already sent it to you." ”

"I don't need it, you can bring one in a food box. A-Ning didn't eat dinner, she definitely wanted it. In the last sentence, he deliberately raised his voice and said it to Zhang Shihua.

"Go ahead and do it."

"Yes."

The supper is for A-Ning, the eldest sister has always been very concerned about A-Ning's affairs, why do you have to make it like this? Tell A-Ning directly that the relationship between the two will not be like this.

In the ancestral hall, the flames of the ever-bright lamps were stacked layer by layer, and Zhang Qining knelt there, looking at the two sets of tablets attentively.

"A kind word can kill you? I have to come to the ancestral hall, my father and mother do not lack your filial piety, and come back to accompany them in the middle of the night. ”

Zhang Qining put on the incense, and the curling green smoke drifted in front of him. Zhang Tingyu put the food box aside, looked at the tablet on it with his negative hand, and sighed softly.

"Is it so difficult for you to give in to Sister A?"

Zhang Qining opened his mouth and said lightly: "She asks for benevolence, what else should she do?" ”

"Do you think she really wants you to kneel? What is she trying to do? ”

"Then you'll have to ask her."

Zhang Tingyujun's eyebrows furrowed slightly: "Zhang Qining, don't be so yin and yang weird with me in front of my father." ”

"Where do I have?" She looked at the ancestral tablet above, and hooked her lips without a smile in her eyes, leaving a desolation under her eyes even more deeply. "The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. I haven't set foot here for many years, so it's hard to come over... I don't have to embarrass you in front of his second elder. ”

"Can't you even call Daddy? A-Ning, what happened back then has nothing to do with you, you don't have to..."

Zhang Qining interrupted him, "Brother, it's not early, go back and rest." ”

Zhang Qining stayed alone in the ancestral hall, and when she was pregnant with her, Mrs. Zhang was frightened, she was born prematurely, her body was very depleted, and her original health was not very good, and she died not long after giving birth to her.

The ancient and huge ancestral hall of the Zhang family seemed to devour her whole. Zhang Tingyu suddenly felt a little unbearable.

Zhang Qining is very smart, Zhang Tingyu knew it when he was a child, and he even doubted for a while whether A-Ning could remember things when she was just born, otherwise how could she be so obsessed with the past?

Time passed little by little, dawn, the sun and moon were shining, and the dark blue sky was washed with water, revealing a little white from the horizon.

Zhang Qining stood up on the ground, and there was a feeling of soreness in her kneeling knee, and she stumbled. Watching the dark shadows in front of him gradually converge into one place, an adult man fell to the ground, and only a pair of eyes could be seen staring at her, full of hatred.

The candlelight of the ever-bright lamp flickered, the spirit cards were neatly arranged, and there was a solemn dead silence, passing between the spirit cards and the spirit cards, I saw Zhang Qining frowning impatiently.

She stood up and avoided those eyes, closed her eyes and spat out, "Get out." ”

The shadows immediately dispersed and vanished into smoke.