On the vertical day, the spring was shining, and Ling Wanwan took the token given to her by Emperor Xiaoheng before her death and went out of the palace and returned to Ling's house.

When Zhang learned that Ling Wanwan was back, he hurriedly asked Zhang Nianzhu to help her go to the front yard to see Ling Wanwan.

Zhang Nianzhu is Ling Wanwan's cousin, and since his uncle's family was killed, a pair of children left behind by him have been fostered to Ling's family. Zhang Nianzhu is fifteen this year, and her brother Zhang Nianqi and Ling Wanwan's eldest brother Ling Jinxiao are working together in the military department.

At that time, Ling Wanwan was standing under the porch in the front yard, looking at everything in this mansion. She couldn't remember any of the memories of the original owner.

"Juan'er, when I saw that you were safe, my mother was relieved." When Zhang saw her, he stepped forward to hold her hand and led her into the hall.

There was a burst of warmth in his palm, which made Ling Wanwan's cramped and uneasy expression gradually relax.

"Cousin, you can taste the Biluochun soaked in Zhu'er, which was just transported to the house from Hangzhou yesterday."

Zhang Nianzhu obediently handed her a cup of tea, Ling Wanwan smiled and was about to take it, but Chunying snatched it in her hand and said, "Thank you, Miss Biao, it's good that the slave maid will serve you." ”

"Oh... Good. ”

Zhang Nianzhu lowered her eyebrows and cautiously retreated to Zhang's side.

Chunying took the tea before carefully handing it to Ling Wanwan.

Ling Wanwan was puzzled, but it was not easy to ask her in front of the Zhang family at the moment, so she had to press it in her heart first.

"Wan'er, why didn't I see you come back with your luggage?" Zhang's mind is all on Ling Wanwan. I saw her and Chunying come back, but they didn't see anyone bring their things in for a long time.

"Mother, I still have to stay in the palace for a while, and I want to ask you something when I come back this time." She was a little embarrassed.

"What?"

Zhang asked urgently.

"On the day your daughter was sent to the palace last year, you mentioned to your daughter that your father had set a family affair for me, but is there such a thing?"

"Bang-"

As soon as Ling Wanwan finished asking, there was a sound of a tea cup breaking on the ground.

"Pearl, why are you so careless?"

Zhang and Ling Wanwan turned their faces at the same time, and found that the back of Zhang Nianzhu's hand was burned red by tea, and the tea cup in her hand was shattered.

"Auntie, the tea cup is too hot, and the beads are not held, so I will clean it up." She quickly crouched down and reached out to touch the sharp shards on the ground.

Zhang hurriedly stopped her: "Don't mess around, let the subordinates clean up, you hurry down and deal with your wounds." ”

"Okay."

She stood up and saluted the two of them before walking out of the hall, her steps slightly flustered.

"I don't know what's wrong with this kid today." Zhang shook his head, and then thought of what Ling Wanwan had just asked, so he asked her, "Why did you remember to ask about this?" ”

Ling Wanwan didn't dare to tell the Zhang family what the Empress Dowager Cao told her, so she had to make up a reason to reply to her: "My daughter is an abandoned concubine, and it is not good to live at home since she came out of the palace, so I thought that if this family business is suitable and the other party does not dislike it, my daughter can marry as soon as possible." ”

Hearing this, Zhang's pity comforted her, "Silly child, you can live in this house for as long as you want, no one dares to say anything about you." ”

"But you don't want your daughter to never marry again for the rest of her life, do you?" Although Ling Wanwan and Zhang's relationship is not deep, she knows a mother's feelings for her children, otherwise Su Rou would not have been talking in her ear all day long about urging her to marry.

Zhang thought about her current situation, and it was a good thing that she could remarry as soon as possible while she was still young.

After thinking about it, Zhang's lips and teeth hesitated: "Your father was a classmate of the cabinet minister Lu Henian when he was young, and the two families said that they wanted to get married, so after your mother gave birth to you, your father married you to Lu Zhiheng, the second son of the Lu family. This family affair was valid before you entered the palace, but after you entered the palace, the Lu family was angry that your father sent you to the palace, and now the two families have very little contact..."

Ling Wanwan hurriedly asked her, "Do you have a marriage letter?" ”

"Yes, my mother will go back and look for you."

Seeing that she was in a hurry, Zhang immediately stood up.

"I'll go with you."

Ling Wanwan's eyes lit up and helped her go out together.

The eavesdroppers outside the hall hurriedly retreated to the corner of the wall to prevent them from seeing her.

Zhang searched in the room for a while, and finally handed a piece of paper covered with old dust to Ling Wanwan's hand.

"Thank you, mother."

Ling Wanwan took it in her hand excitedly.

With this paper in-law, she has a reason to reject Murong Ye's proposal to marry.

Ling Wanwan was thinking about how to show the marriage book to the Empress Dowager Cao, and when she was about to walk to the door of the mansion, she suddenly heard a familiar voice outside.

"Juan'er?"

Ling Tianchao saw her come back and happily called her.

"Daddy."

Ling Wanwan called him absentmindedly.

What was parked next to Ling Tianchao was Zhao Huaiyi's carriage. She saw that his bony hands were lifting the curtain, and those deep eyes fell on her, and the whole person stared at her indifferently.