Zhu Shize's jaw was slightly raised, and he looked at the young man who was serving tea next to him, and when he saw his appearance clearly, his brows instinctively tightened.

Familiar.

This should be a young man who has no possibility of acquaintance with him, but he has an inexplicable familiarity, a name, ready to come out, but he can't shout it, as if, by some irresistible external force, choked his throat.

"Your father, are you okay?"

Zhu Shize's lips twitched, and he wanted to talk several times, but they all ended in failure, and in the end, he finally sighed and asked the young man, which sounded inexplicably well.

"Years ago, it was gone."

The young man's eyes seemed to be dyed with a dark color, but soon, this dark color disappeared, and in its place, it was the same dead silence as before.

"Why aren't you there?"

Zhu Shize's right hand holding the teacup trembled unconsciously.

"A young master from the Chengguo Mansion came and sent some silver taels and snacks, saying that he wanted to thank them for saving his brother's life."

"They felt that it was the general who deterred the foreigners and blessed them, so they confiscated the silver taels and only kept snacks to taste."

"The snack was delicious and they had a great time."

"Their sons, seeing that their father and mother liked it, were reluctant to eat their share, and planned to stay and give them the second day to eat, but they never thought that not long after eating that snack, they would bleed and die of poison."

The young man said unhurriedly, as if it was someone else's business that had nothing to do with him.

He is not tall, and his shoulders are even thinner like a girl.

But at this time, he stood beside Zhu Shize so quietly, which made Zhu Shize unconsciously have the illusion that he was overwhelmed.

"After I returned to Yanjing, I didn't meet a good doctor, and my leg injury dragged on for more than half a year, and when it was serious, I couldn't even walk on the ground."

"At that time, I was in a low mood, and there were not many reliable and useful people around me, so I didn't think about sending someone to southern Xinjiang to find your family to thank you."

"Later, my leg injury healed, and then to the south of Xinjiang, your house has been abandoned for a long time, I see that the remaining utensils in the house are intact, so you have to give up looking for them when you moved elsewhere."

Many years ago, Zhu Shize was killed by someone, surrounded by enemies, and when he was seriously injured, he hid in the mountains and forests, and was rescued by a hunter, so he was lucky to save his life.

And the Orion who saved him, poured all his wealth for him, and returned to Yanjing was the young man's father, surnamed Zhong, with a single name and a filial piety character.

"Zhong Yu, I'...... I don't know...... How could it be...... I ......"

Knowing that his life-saving benefactor was ruined because of himself, Zhu Shize suddenly became a little incoherent.

This is not the outcome he wanted, nor is it the outcome that a good person should have.

"You were then, why didn't you come to me then? I was at that time, I should have been in Yanjing at that time, or, maybe you went to the camp in southern Xinjiang to find my former adjutant, or you could ......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Shize's eyes were completely red.

He raised his right hand and slapped himself in the face.

What is he talking nonsense?

Southern Xinjiang is thousands of miles away from Yanjing!

At that time, Zhong Yu was only a six or seven-year-old child, his parents died suddenly, and his family wealth was scattered, even if he still dared and was willing to believe him, it was impossible for him to walk such a long way to find him on his own, who only knew his name and identity, and did not even have a token, right?

"I went to the camp in southern Xinjiang and told them that I was looking for you, my father and mother saved you who were seriously injured, and your brother killed them."

"They called me and beat me up."

Seeing Zhu Shize slapping himself, the corners of the young man's lips seemed to be involuntarily, and he raised slightly, and his eyes also seemed to have a little brilliance.

He took a step forward, picked up the teapot, filled Zhu Shize's teacup with cold tea, and then, "politely", returned to the position where he was standing before.

"I thought, I have to find you and ask you to give me an explanation, and give my father and mother an explanation."

So, I went all the way to Yanjing."

"I used to be a pickpocket, I was a liar, and then I was caught and broke my leg, so I had to rely on begging for food, and the speed of my movement slowed down."

"Three years."

"When I walked to Yanjing, I was just in time for you to marry Miss Yan of Depingbo Mansion."

"I went to your house to look for you, but the people in your house thought I had broken my leg and was unlucky, so they poured me a basin of hot water that had just been boiled."

"I was burned with half of my skin, and I was carried back to the ruined temple outside the city by the begging people, and that night, I began to have a fever."

"One of the people who begged with me was a good friend of me, and he was afraid that I would die so inexplicably, so he ran to smash the city gate, and begged the city guards to open the door, let him in, and find a doctor to come and show me."

"The soldiers who defended the city, thinking that he was troublesome, tried to make bows and arrows scare him away, but they did not think that he would not retreat even a step, and was shot through his shoulder blades and nailed to the ground."

"If it weren't for God's eyes, it happened that my grandfather returned to the city, witnessed this scene, and was moved by his loyalty, went to the broken temple, and took me back to the city for diagnosis and treatment, at this time, we should have been reincarnated for many years."

Xu has experienced too many ups and downs before, and when the young man talked about these things, which made Zhu Shize hate to apologize for his sins with death, he was calm and made people's backs cold.

He seems to have let go of his grievances and feelings a long time ago, and he didn't even have the interest to spit it out, or rather, at this time, if Zhu Shize hadn't asked him about it, he wouldn't even have the idea of making a statement.

"In this world, there is no more Zhong Yu, Seventh Young Master."

"Zhong Yu has died on the night of your wedding with the basin of hot water spilled by the people in your house."

"Now, my name is Zhishui, my grandfather's new name."

After that, the young man had a respectful attitude, bowed deeply to Zhu Shize, and said to him without pleading.

"My father and mother saved your life, and your old friend saved me from danger, we can be regarded as indebted.

"Your adjutant indiscriminately beat me with 37 military sticks and 20 leather whips, and I mistook his future and made him go far away in the northwest, and he was not promoted for ten years.

"Your younger brother harmed my father and mother, I will take advantage of this and destroy your younger brother's lineage, there are a total of thirty-seven young and old, and we don't owe each other."

"Now the turmoil is settled, and I am willing to be loyal to my benefactor for the rest of my life, serving tea and pouring water, or swords, mountains and fires."

"The Seventh Young Master is a hero, he can't stop the water and climb high, and he doesn't want to climb high."

"It's Zhu Shilang who harmed your father?"

About two years ago, Zhu Shize's half-brother, Zhu Shilang, the twelfth young master of the Chengguo Mansion, was convicted of collaborating with the enemy, with 27 children and eight wives and concubines in the backyard, along with his mother, Jiang Shi, the wife of Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, were all sent to the guillotine in the west of the city.

Zhu Xizhong, the prince of Chengguo, was also fined for three years because he had no way to teach his son, and he thought about it behind closed doors for half a year.

Over the years, the ceremonies presided over by Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, were also handed over to Depingbo Li Ming to do it on his behalf.

Although in the second year, Emperor Longqing issued an edict to return the presiding matter of the ceremony to Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, but once the momentum is lost, it is difficult to recover as before.

It was at that time that the Chengguo Mansion was a turning point and went downhill.

"Yes."

Zhishui replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, if it was like a Hong Zhong, it was almost unbelievable that his small body could make such a sound.

This is his glory.

A lifetime of glory.

No need to twist and hide.

"Zhu Shilang really collaborated with the enemy?"

Zhu Shize has almost no impression of Zhu Shilang's younger brother, naturally, there is no emotion.

He asked Zhishui whether Zhu Shilang was really collaborating with the enemy, not to help him exonerate, but to know that Zhishui stabbed such a big matter, and he needed to mediate as soon as possible, in case the truth was re-revealed in the future, and he was retaliated against because of this.

Paper, always can't contain the fire.

Zhu Shilang is indeed dead.

His wives, concubines, children, and even his mother were guillotined.

But Zhu Shilang's maternal grandfather's family, the Jiang family, will not let Zhong Yu go, and Zhu Shilang's maternal family of wives and concubines will not let go of Zhong Yu.

In front of many intertwined Yanjing families, Zhong Yu, and even the person who saved his life as Zhong Yu said, is very likely to be as small as an ant.

There are only a handful of people who are willing to call him "old friends" despite his disrepute, and he does not want to lose any of them.

"I just got the opportunity, and I used my old pickpocket skills to stuff the collaborator letters that he was going to burn and destroy into his clothes, so that the people who were ordered to investigate his Dongchang were stolen and captured!"

"Do you really think that just a prince of the Chengguo Mansion who has never been in the army can stir up the storm and cause you to be surrounded by the enemy?"

Zhishui did not directly answer Zhu Shize's inquiry.

Instead, he raised his lips and smiled, and gave him a salty and indifferent description of the scene at that time, and at the end, he still did not forget to "remind" him that the root cause of the horse's loss of front hooves was not what he thought, and he was betrayed by his brother-in-law Zhu Shike.

"The one you said, the one who saved your life, my old friend, who is his name?"

Listening to Zhishui, Zhu Shilang was a real collaborator, he was just a "pusher" who urged his life, and Zhu Shize's hanging heart was slightly let go.

It's not that he didn't suspect that Zhu Shilang was the one who killed him in the past and was surrounded by enemies, Zhu Shike was just a scapegoat for his father to calm the anger of his mother's family, but helplessly, no evidence was found.

Zhu Xizhong is a long-sleeved person who is good at dancing, and he is very good at balancing the relationship between many famous families who marry with the Chengguo Mansion, and exchange the life of an insignificant concubine for the "harmony" of the mother family of the two sisters-in-law, this kind of trick he has always used easily.

"When the Seventh Young Master should know, he will naturally know."

"No comment."

Today's Zhishui is already the tea servant of De Shui Xuan, the person who saved his life and was called "benefactor" by him, naturally, is the owner of this De Shui Xuan.

He is no longer a simple teenager in the past, so naturally he will not be tricked by someone just by being excited and causing trouble for Ling Jun, even if this person is called an "old friend" by Ling Jun, it is not good.