One hundred and twenty-four guests in Ningfu
came to the door of Ningfu and handed the greeting post in his hand to the concierge, Wu Zheng immediately stood aside, meaning to wait for the concierge to report.
I didn't want to, the porter took the post and took a look, and immediately said to Wu Zheng:
"Lord Wu, please come in, the master has already commanded, and there is no need to report when the adults arrive. ”
The more this is the case, the more apprehensive Wu Zheng becomes. followed the gatekeeper into the front yard, and then a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy stepped forward, bowed to Wu Zheng and said:
"The master is waiting for Lord Wu in the small study in the backyard, Lord Wu please. ”
As he spoke, he led the way in front lightly, passed the aisle on the east side of the front yard, and came directly to the door of a spacious study in the west of the backyard.
"Master, Lord Wu has arrived. ”
"Please come in. ”
The little guy lifted the door curtain, Wu Zheng raised his feet and walked in, and saw that Ning Yunju, the inspector of the Eight Mansions, had already stood up from his seat. Just about to step forward to salute, he suddenly found that there was still a person sitting on the chair in the middle, who was the right prime minister he met in the Qinzheng Palace.
Hurriedly taking a few steps forward, Wu Zheng hesitated in his heart, but still knelt on the ground and said:
"Wu Zheng, the scholar of Linshan Mansion, knocked to see the Prime Minister. ”
"That's it, that's it, please sit down and talk. ”
Ning Yunju stepped forward to pull Wu Zheng up on the ground, and motioned to be on the chair opposite.
Wu Zheng still bowed to Ning Yun first, and then walked to the opposite chair and sat down.
For a while, Prime Minister Right and Ning Yunju did not speak, but casually picked up the tea and drank it while carefully observing Wu Zheng.
couldn't help but be restrained, under the gaze of the two, Wu Zheng could only take a sip of tea to hide the tension in his heart.
"Young and promising, young and promising. ”
The right prime minister sitting on the top praised two sentences one after another, although everyone knew that he was praising Wu Zheng, but because he didn't name him, Wu Zheng was really not easy to understand.
"Looking at Wu Xuezheng's origin, it is Lizhuang Township, Tongluo County, Linshan Prefecture, do you know Wujiabao in Yi County, which is separated by a mountain?"
Sure enough, his true identity was already known to the other party, at least he began to doubt it.
Wu Zheng put down the teacup in his hand, bowed slightly and replied respectfully:
"Prime Minister, the student has been studying hard since childhood, although I heard that there is a place called Wujiabao in Shanbei, but I have never been there. ”
"Oh, that's right. ”
"Who is Wu Xuezheng's family?"
Ning Yunju's very straightforward question undoubtedly told Wu Zheng that the right prime minister in front of him must be his grandfather Ning Zezhong, and Ning Yunju is his own maternal uncle. Otherwise, there is no reason to inquire about the origin of the surnames of people's mothers and grandfathers when they meet for the first time.
"The student's family is of the same clan as Ningda, and he is from Taicang County, Jiangning Prefecture. ”
Wu Zheng obviously found that when he heard the first half of his sentence, both of them had mixed expressions of surprise on their faces. After the second half of the sentence was finished, it immediately turned into a look of disappointment.
It should be that after her mother ran away from the Xiao family, her grandfather's family searched for her mother's traces. It's just that Wu Zheng is not sure when the Ning family found out that his mother went to Wujiabao.
Xu didn't get the result they wanted, and under the emotional loss of Ning Zezhong and Ning Yunju, the conversation was not so strong.
said a few words briefly, which was nothing more than Wu Zheng's age, study experience, and so on. Knowing that he couldn't stay any longer, he stood up and politely declined the offer to eat in Ningfu, and Wu Zheng got up and said goodbye.
I have already made up my mind, as long as I don't figure out the reason for my mother's departure for a day, especially the rights and wrongs, Wu Zheng, who will not recognize my grandfather and grandfather for a day, will eat something casually on the street while thinking about it, return to the inn, first pack my luggage, and then lie down on the bed and fall asleep.
Seeing Wu Zheng away, the Ning family father and son did not have dinner immediately, but stayed in the study in the backyard.
"Father, regardless of age or appearance, Wu Zheng is indeed very consistent with the situation of the little sister. ”
"If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have asked you to ask him to come to the house. ”
"Is Wu Zheng lying?"
Ning Zezhong looked at the increasingly thick night outside through the window, pondered for a while, and then asked Ning Yunju:
"I heard you say that when they were in Boye City, Xiao Qian and Xiao Kun once met a girl surnamed Tie?"
"Yes, the same age as Xiaoqian Xiaokun, called Tie Ning. Moreover, it was Wu Zheng who made trouble in Liufu in Shuntian City, the girl who was rescued from the water prison in Liufu. ”
"You really don't know martial arts?"
"It's true. ”
"According to the report of the secret agent of Dali Temple, the Tie family's personnel left in the liaison office in the capital suddenly decreased a few today, including Chang Qingjian, one of the directors of the liaison office. Moreover, someone saw Chang Qingjian lead someone to send a girl and her two personal maids out of the capital. ”
"Does my father suspect that the girl who was sent away is Tie Ning?"
"It would be nice if Xiao Qian and Xiao Kun were here. ”
However, Ning Xiaoqian and Ning Xiaokun have never come back since they destroyed the Sword Sect four years ago and went to the Lingxiao Sect with the senior sister and brother in the sect.
"If the girl who was sent out of the city by Chang Qingjian was really Tie Ning in Boye City four years ago, then Wu Zheng in front of him must be Wu Zheng from Wujiabao. ”
But why would he lie? If you know your background, why lie?"
"Father, according to the report of the person who came back from Wujiabao, the little sister passed away on the day she gave birth to Wu Zheng after returning to Wujiabao with Wu Lipeng. And Wu Lipeng also disappeared when Wu Zheng was nine years old. Although there is no exact news, according to the local population about Wu Lipeng's personality, it is impossible not to go back to take care of his elderly mother and young son Wu Zheng if he is still alive. ”
"You mean, Wu Zheng is very likely to not know his background yet?"
Xiaomei didn't have a chance to tell him, and Wu Lipeng was suddenly lost, so there shouldn't be a chance. ”
"Then why did he lie?"
"Wu Zheng was fortunate to be able to leave Wujiabao alive, and so far the people of Wujiabao and Liulinbao have not given up looking for him. In this way, he changed his identity by chance, first, he was worried that he would be found by Wujiabao and Liulinbao, and secondly, perhaps because he was worried about his future, and it was possible that he did not dare to expose the impostor. ”
"Well, there's some truth. ”
After a pause, Ning Zezhong shook his head again and said:
That means that Wu Zheng doesn't know his true identity, or he doesn't know Yunyan's true identity. ”
Yes, it's no wonder that Ning Zezhong, the right prime minister, thinks so.
If Wu Zheng is really as Ning Yunju analyzed, he is just worried that he will be found by Wujiabao and Liulinbao, or that he is worried that he will ruin his future by fraudulently using the identity of a child in Lizhuang Township, it is absolutely a reason to recognize him as the grandfather of the right prime minister of the current dynasty.
Just imagine, who else in the world can protect his safety better than the prime minister of the dynasty?