After leaving the county jail, Zhang Jiusheng did not return to Zhang's mansion, he still carried the portrait of Xiao Hengyan in his arms, dangling on the street alone, and unconsciously swayed to the sunset.

One by one, the vendors on the street began to pack up their stalls and prepare to go home, and slowly, as the night fell, only Zhang Jiusheng was left alone hanging there, like a lonely ghost.

When I arrived at the door of Baishitang, it was already past dinner.

Zhang Qiye rarely goes home for dinner, he focuses on Baishitang and curing diseases and saving people, and the two elders of the Zhang family know that Zhang Jiusheng is a commodity who does not learn and has no skills, so he doesn't put too much hope on him, but he suffers Zhang Qiye.

Studying medicine is boring, Zhang Jiusheng can't bear it, and he can't learn well.

Baishitang naturally fell on Zhang Qiye's head, Zhang Jiusheng was too lazy to rob his eldest brother of any family property, in his heart, he didn't even want to wear the black gauze hat of this county lord, and even wished that his father would be angry and demote him to a foreign country, and just give him a house and a few acres of thin fields.

But his father said he had to save his life.

The county lord's hat has been worn for so many years, and he has thought of many ways to take it off, such as ignoring the people's reports, such as turning a blind eye to the things that Xiao Ting'an did, thinking that the new emperor would take the throne and would randomly check the political performance of the county below, if he was found to be derelict in his duties, maybe he would take off his hat, but he didn't expect the new emperor to ignore him at all and let him be a local snake in Fan County.

Perhaps, part of the reason why the Xiao family will fall to this point may be because he is too laissez-faire.

In the past, when the Xiao family's crime fell into his hands, he just asked the family to apologize in court, and then apologized to the victim's family, which was forgotten.

It also led to the fact that when the people were oppressed by the Xiao family, although they still dared to resist and could get some money, they still couldn't get the Xiao family's repentance, they became more and more serious every time, and Zhang Jiusheng didn't care.

The cool breeze blew in his face, Zhang Jiusheng shivered, and when he looked up again, he found that he had already walked to the door of Baishitang, the night was not too deep, there was a lamp lit in Baishitang, and there was a faint figure shaking inside.

Zhang Jiusheng raised his long legs and crossed the threshold, and sure enough, it was Zhang Qiye.

"Brother." He shouted softly.

Zhang Qiye, who was inspecting the medicinal herbs, didn't expect Zhang Jiusheng to come, and raised his head and looked a little hurried: "Why are you here?" Don't worry, Yun Sheng is watching Xiao Hengyan alone in the mansion? ”

"Nothing happens, she's smarter than me."

Zhang Jiusheng casually copied a stool and sat down, holding his chin, watching Zhang Qiye check the medicinal materials on the counter, and did not speak, the smile on his lips was also shallow, and he couldn't see any emotion.

Zhang Qiye frowned slightly, took the time to raise his head and glance at him, and said, "If you really don't have anything to do, help me decoct this medicine." ”

"Brother, are you sick?" Zhang Jiusheng stood up and took some medicine bags from the counter, and was just about to open them when Zhang Qiye stopped him: "What?" ”

"Demolished in the past, what should you do if you spill it if you demolish it here?"

"Where am I so clumsy?" Zhang Jiusheng muttered, but he obediently walked to the medicine stove before dismantling it, he glanced at it to see what kind of medicinal materials it was, but suddenly found that he couldn't identify the medicinal materials at all, so listening to Zhang Qiye's words, he poured all the contents of the medicine bag into the medicine stove.

"Start a small fire." Zhang Qiye reminded.

Zhang Jiusheng took out the fire fold from his arms, carefully lit the stove, and followed the steps Zhang Qiye said, doing it step by step, and the originally slightly irritable mood gradually calmed down in this dim and quiet environment.

There was only one candle lit in the house, the shadow of the candlelight swayed slightly on the wall, neither of them spoke, only the medicine stove was beeping under the whole room, and occasionally the night breeze blew in from outside the door, which was slightly cool.

"Brother......

"I'm not sick." Before Zhang Jiusheng could speak, Zhang Qiye blurted out.

"No, I want to say, I'm a little suspicious of Xiao Hengyan who is now in our house, not Xiao Hengyan." Zhang Qiye stared at the medicine stove in front of him with a solemn expression.

Hearing this, Zhang Qiye raised his head and glanced at Zhang Jiusheng, half-squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then lowered his head to continue to check his medicinal materials, and said while checking: "You have such suspicions, you shouldn't have told Yun Sheng, right?" ”

"No, she cares so much about that Xiao Hengyan now, how could I tell her?" At the mention of Yun Sheng, Zhang Jiusheng's brows furrowed even tighter.

"So let me guess, you must have gone to find Lu Zhi today, right?"

Zhang Jiusheng smiled a little embarrassedly: "I went to find him, and I also asked him to draw a portrait of Xiao Hengyan." ”

"Show me."

Zhang Jiusheng obediently took out the portrait from his arms and handed it to Zhang Qiye who walked over.

Opening the portrait, Zhang Qiye's slender fingers lightly touched every detail, he had never had direct contact with Xiao Hengyan, and he had seen Xiao Hengyan passing by in a hurry from the door of Baishitang in the past, but now when he searched carefully in his mind, he couldn't even tell what he looked like.

There is only one point, Lu Zhi's paintings are indeed vivid.

Even people who have never seen the person in the painting before will definitely be able to recognize it when they see a real person, and Lu Zhi's observation of the details of the characters is very well captured. After just looking at this painting, Zhang Qiye already had a vivid Xiao Hengyan in his mind.

"No wonder Xiao Ting'an values this distant relative so much." Zhang Qiye muttered.

"Indeed." Zhang Jiusheng responded and said.

"Since you suspect that Xiao Hengyan, who is now in the house, is not the real Xiao Hengyan, then go to find evidence, you have to keep this painting well, don't let Yunsheng and Xiao Hengyan see it." Zhang Qiye re-wrapped the scroll and handed it back to Zhang Jiusheng.

Zhang Jiusheng took the painting, and his mood was still a little uncertain.

In the past, he always supported any decision made by Yun Sheng, but now this is the first time he has really disagreed with her, and he feels a little empty in his heart, and even feels a little sorry for her.

"You're doing it for her good, don't feel guilty." As if seeing through Zhang Jiusheng's inner thoughts, Zhang Qiye patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Xiao Hengyan is the same as her, when her family changes dramatically, she will naturally have different feelings about him, and she has not really been exposed to what Xiao Hengyan was like before, so she will naturally be affected by the current Xiao Hengyan, even if she has heard about the evil things that Xiao Hengyan has done in the past from other people's mouths, it has no substantive meaning for her." ”

"I know."

"And what are you going to do?"

Zhang Jiusheng opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't plan to tell Zhang Qiye, he only said: "It's a little late, brother, I'll go back first, you rest early." ”

"Well, go ahead." Zhang Qiye didn't plan to ask, just gave a few simple instructions, and then went to his own again.

The next morning, before the rooster crowed, Zhang Jiusheng woke up, and he didn't sleep well this night, and he dreamed of quarreling with Yun Sheng over and over again, and even Yun was so angry that he left Zhang's mansion with Xiao Hengyan.

Zhang Jiusheng, who got up in the morning, had a pair of panda eyes.

Yun Sheng had the habit of getting up early, and in the past, he always went to the door of Zhang Jiusheng's room first and waited for him to get up, but now he went to the door of Xiao Hengyan's room first. When he opened the door and didn't see Yun Sheng, Zhang Jiusheng woke up angry, and the mess in his brain that was originally caused by not sleeping well also disappeared at this time, and breakfast was useless, so he went out with a portrait.

"Second young master, second young master......" After Yun Sheng came to the dining room with Xiao Hengyan, he found that Zhang Jiusheng was not there, so he went to the door of Zhang Jiusheng's room without thinking about it, but after knocking for a long time, he didn't see anyone inside.

"What's going on?" Just as he was about to push the door in, a maid came over to the side, Yun Sheng grabbed her and asked, "Where is the second young master?" ”

The maid blinked, a little strange: "The second young master went out early in the morning, didn't he tell you?" ”

Yun Sheng was stunned, her mind didn't know how to turn all of a sudden, she thought about it, it seemed that she had indeed gone a little far with Zhang Jiusheng recently, and she didn't even know that he went out early in the morning, she pinched her sleeves, and felt a little uncomfortable.

When he returned to the dining room, Xiao Hengyan hadn't moved his chopsticks yet, and when he saw Yun Sheng coming, his lips raised slightly: "What about Master Zhang?" ”

Yun Sheng was still a little stunned, but when he heard him speak, he came back to his senses and smiled: "Let's eat first, don't wait for him." ”

"Are you going to the Yamen today?" Xiao Hengyan asked again.

"Why should I go to the Yamen?" Yun Sheng asked rhetorically.

Xiao Hengyan frowned: "Aren't you the master of the yamen?" Don't follow the adults to the yamen to deal with trivial matters? ”

Yun Sheng was stunned again, yes, every time Zhang Jiusheng went to the yamen, he would call her, and I don't know when Zhang Jiusheng stopped calling her, and he didn't even tell her what he was going to do when he went out in the morning, did he have other helpers outside? Don't need her anymore? Is she useless?

When thinking like this, Yun Sheng's expression became heavier and heavier, and her already thin hand grabbed the chopsticks, getting tighter and tighter, she pursed her lips and didn't say a word.

"Did you quarrel with Master Zhang?" Xiao Hengyan pushed the stunned Yun Sheng and asked.

Yun Sheng came back to his senses, a little at a loss: "No, probably the adults are busy, let's eat first, I'll go back and ask him." ”

Xiao Hengyan nodded, and didn't ask any more.

After leaving Zhang's Mansion, Zhang Jiusheng took the portrait and came all the way to the vicinity of Xiao's Mansion. He inquired, Xiao Ting'an's family is not wealthy, his parents died when he was a child, there was a family who had a baby kiss with him since he was a child, and he was divorced because of the death of his parents, just because the family thought that he was alone, helpless, and had no wealth, afraid that his daughter would suffer hardships when she married her, and she was even more afraid that her daughter would not be able to give her parents any benefits if she married her.

Xiao Ting'an has been crawling and rolling for decades, and he can get to this point, it is impossible to say that he has not had blood on his hands, but now that the person is dead, Zhang Jiusheng has no intention of continuing to fall into the well.

After all, people are dead and scattered.