Go to ancient times to catch fast

"Why did Zhang Cheng remove you from slavery? What deal did you have? After Zhang Cheng died, why did you flee?"

Every question of Chu Xiaoyun pointed to the vital point, even though Zhang Tian had already prepared himself mentally, he still couldn't help being nervous.Rubbing the corners of his clothes with his hands, he quickly ran through the past experiences in his mind before speaking slowly.

17 years ago, there was a flood in Hejing County.

The only thatched hut and the only piece of land that He Tian's family lived in were destroyed by the flash flood, and the mother and son escaped by chance.However, because of the flood, the family not only lost their crops, but also no longer had a place to live. They could only live in a cave.Due to the blow of the destruction of the family property and the dampness and coldness of the cave, He Tian's dependent mother soon fell ill and died soon after.

The family couldn't afford to bury his mother underground, so He Tian went to the market to sell his body to bury his mother, but everyone's situation was not good back then, and he knelt in the market for three days but failed to find a buyer.Just when he was desperate and wanted to go with his mother, it was Zhang Cheng who rescued him.Zhang Cheng spent ten taels of silver to buy He Tian as his slave, and He Tian had the money to buy land, and buried his poor mother who died of illness and starvation.He Tian was very grateful to Zhang Cheng for his kindness.

After the old lady was buried, He Tian became a slave in Zhang's mansion. According to the custom, he changed his surname to that of his master's family and changed his name to Zhang Tian.

Zhang Tian always kept Zhang Cheng's kindness in mind, and felt that he had nothing to repay, so he could only work hard to repay.Originally thought that in Nuo Da's mansion, the owner Zhang Cheng didn't remember him being such a famous person at all, but he didn't expect that Zhang Cheng could still remember him after entering Zhang's mansion, and treated him very well.

Zhang Cheng told Zhang Tian in private that he was the person he trusted the most, and kept his eyes closed to others. Zhang Cheng also often gave Zhang Tian various rewards, and he would only let him do many things.But for various reasons, Zhang Cheng never used Zhang Tian on the bright side, and always let him do the most inconspicuous work in Zhang's kitchen.

It's too late for Zhang Cheng to repay his kindness, so there is no need for reuse.He knew all Zhang Cheng's secrets, but he worked in the back kitchen of Zhang's family, doing the most inconspicuous work, lowering his sense of existence, for more than ten years.In the eighth year after he sold himself to the Zhang family, Zhang Cheng also took a wife for Zhang Luo and told him to keep his family outside the Zhang residence and not to mention it to anyone.Zhang Tian is even more grateful to Zhang Cheng.

When he was in the Zhang family, he completed all the matters that Zhang entrusted without any compromise, and strictly kept the secrets, never leaking anything, until Zhang Cheng's accidental death.

In the year before Zhang Cheng's death, Zhang Tian obviously felt more anxious than before.One day, he was rewarded with an inconspicuous hairpin, and told him unreservedly that his wealth and life were hidden in the hairpin, and he swore to protect it with his life.And said: "If I have a child in the future, and one day I die accidentally, you must take my son and your wife and children and escape. Leave Zhang's mansion, leave Hejing County, a place of right and wrong, keep your name incognito, and live a normal life Live your life."

"It is said that the most eye-catching place is the safest place, so you take them to the capital to live. I have already applied to the Yamen to remove your slave status. From now on, you will be free." Zhang Cheng thought, He said in detail, "I deposited a sum of money for you in the Longji bank in Qingzhou Prefecture; your personal deed is also in the secret cabinet of that bank. After leaving Hejing County, Don’t take the official route, quietly go to Qingzhou to get the bank note and personal deed, and then take the family to the capital to live well.”

Zhang Tian didn't know why Zhang Cheng suddenly said those ominous words, so he knelt down and begged Zhang Cheng to take care of himself, saying that good people are rewarded with good things.But Zhang Cheng said with a smile: "What kind of good people will have their own rewards. People like me will go to hell after death. Wealth and wealth are in danger. I choose this path myself, so I have to bear it. What will happen? I can't help it. What I want most now is to have a son who can inherit my blood, but how difficult it is!"

Zhang Tian has stayed in the Zhang Mansion for more than ten years, so he naturally knows how fierce the headed mistress is.Even so, he still couldn't help complaining: "Master, if you are so determined to marry a concubine, what can the mistress do?"

Zhang Cheng shook his head and said sadly: "I used to raise someone outside, and I have been hiding and raising him for 8 months, and I was pregnant. In the end, I still have two dead bodies, let alone marry into the mansion. She disagrees. I married someone. People can't survive the night."

Zhang Tian was secretly startled when he heard this: "The young master is so aggrieved, why can't he divorce her?"

Zhang Chengcheng looked at him like a fool: "Divorce her? Then I might as well die myself."

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhang Tian mysteriously: "She is a barbarian, don't you know? Most of the people in the mansion belong to her. Steward Pei is her cousin, and there is a plaque of 'Zhang's Mansion' on the gate of this house , but few people in the house listen to me."

Zhang Tian stayed in the mansion for many days, knowing that there are always some strange people coming and going in the mansion, but he never thought that they were barbarians.

Zhang Cheng said sadly: "Although I really want to have a child, it's too difficult."

After finishing speaking, the wind changed: "Don't spread the matter of today, you must agree to what I tell you. You swear!"

Zhang Cheng made a poisonous oath and gave the hairpin to his wife to wear in order to keep it safe.

In the following year, the conflict between Zhang Cheng and Zhang's mistress became more and more intense, and Zhang Tian's life was extremely shocking.But for some reason, Zhang Cheng and his wife finally reached an agreement.

The young mistress of Zhang's family finally agreed to Zhang Cheng's concubine, but she could only marry Shuang'er, and her people had to handle it.When Zhang Tian knew about this, he was surprised but also genuinely happy for his master.

Zhang Cheng himself was ecstatic. He fell in love with a pair of children with a deep red pregnancy mole. After reporting to his wife, the housekeeper Pei Jin also went to contact him according to Zhang's mother's wishes, and soon learned that the other party was already pregnant. Qi's fiancé bought the pair.Zhang Cheng dreamed that he had a successor, and for the next few days his whole face looked rosy.Unexpectedly, there is not much time left, and on the day of their wedding, the twin would rather die than marry, and jumped into the well to declare his will.

Zhang Cheng also died that day for unknown reasons.

After Zhang Cheng died, Zhang Tian was so frightened that his three souls came out of his body.Fortunately, with Zhang Cheng's prior arrangements, he quickly controlled his emotions.The days that followed became more and more careful, and he fled hurriedly with his wife and daughter after Zhang Cheng's funeral was over.It's just that she never thought that on the day she left Hejing County, she bumped into that Shuang'er who was shopping with her fiancé.Immediately, I felt uneasy in my heart, wondering if it was a sign.Afterwards, although there were no pursuers to catch up and reveal their identities, they still met again in the end after a detour.

Maybe it was fate.

When Zhang Tian said this, Wei Chengyi asked suspiciously: "Why, could it be that Shuang'er's fiancé later repented and killed Zhang Cheng and then took him back? Even if few members of the Zhang family listened to Zhang Cheng's commands, Could it be that after his death, no one in the Zhang family cares about him, and he doesn’t even pretend to be? If that’s the case, you don’t need to run away!”

After Wei Chengyi finished asking, Zhang Tian's eyes flickered, and he stood there in embarrassment, his hands seemed to have nowhere to rest.Muttering in his mouth: "This, this..."

Besides him, there was another person in the room who was full of embarrassment, and that was Chu Xiaoyun.Seeing that Wei Chengyi happened to pick up this point to ask, he was embarrassed and could only forcefully change the subject: "Well, Brother Wei, this is not the point, and it has nothing to do with the mystery behind Zhang Cheng. Let's figure it out first. Zhang Cheng's wife is a barbarian's business."

As he spoke, he asked a question that was irrelevant: "Are Zhang Cheng's wife and the housekeeper of Zhang's house cousins? Not lovers?"

Wei Chengyi listened to Chu Xiaoyun's suggestion, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Is the couple with Zhang Chengzhi related to the death?"

Zhang Tian muttered: "Should...none...let's close it...I heard that the county yamen master has found out the real culprit afterwards."

"Since that's the case, then listen to Brother Chu. You answer Chu Butou's question." Wei Cheng suggested.Chu Xiaoyun is a policeman from Hejing County, so he naturally knows Zhang Cheng better than him.

Zhang Tian then replied to Chu Xiaoyun: "They are cousins. The young master said that Steward Pei got married in Hu country, and he just came to Dacheng to assist the young mistress to monitor the young master, and he has no personal relationship."

Zhang Tian answered his particularly inappropriate and embarrassing question, and Chu Xiaoyun became even more embarrassed.He suppressed the embarrassment, changed the subject, and asked the question he was most concerned about: "What's the matter with Zhang Cheng's wife being a barbarian? Does it have anything to do with Zhang Cheng's death?"

Some things seem to be repeated over and over again.Zhang Cheng was born in a poor family on the border of Dacheng. He had the same experience as Zhang Tian when he sold himself to bury his mother.After a barbarian raid on the border, Zhang Cheng's mother died of serious injuries while escaping.It's just that he was not as lucky as Zhang Tian, ​​and he met someone like Zhang Cheng to help him.The person who enabled him to bury his mother back then only found out afterward that it was a barbarian lurking in Dacheng. After the other party sponsored him, he said that he would not want him to be a slave, and married his daughter to him, and gave him money to develop in Dacheng.

Zhang Cheng thought his luck was coming, but he didn't expect to become a chess piece manipulated by others all his life.

According to the other party's instructions, Zhang Cheng came to Hejing County to lurk, collected pig iron for the Hu people, and started the process of Zhang's fortune.Originally, he thought that if he had no conscience, he could end his life like an ordinary person.

But the sins committed must be repaid. Zhang Cheng's barbarian wife can't bear children, and he can't tolerate him taking concubines.It is also because of this that there is an indelible gap between Zhang Cheng and his wife.Zhang Cheng had the idea of ​​getting rid of the control of the barbarians, and he continued to work hard for it.He began to hide some of the collected pig iron, and gradually used various reasons to withhold all the collected pig iron as a bargaining chip in the game with the barbarians.

It's just that things backfired in the end. He managed his whole life, but in the end, he did not have a good death as he himself said.

Zhang Tian shook his head: "Whether the young master's death is related to the young mistress, I don't know. But thinking about what the young master told me before he was alive, I think his death must have something to do with the barbarians. After the young master passed away, I I was very scared, so I asked my daughter-in-law to pack her bags immediately, and only waited for the young master to be buried and fulfilled her loyalty before leaving the Zhang mansion according to the young master's instructions."

Zhang Tian is still one young master at a time, which has aroused some memories and puzzles of Chu Xiaoyun.

"Zhang Chengcheng is so old, why does everyone in the Zhang family still call him Young Master?"

This is really funny.

Suddenly someone asked such an insignificant question, Zhang Tian said silently for a moment: "No heir is the young master's heart disease, this title is what he insisted on, and it is a way for him to fight with the young mistress. If you want to use this, others may feel more uncomfortable It's a funny name, attract the attention of others, and put pressure on the young mistress. Unexpectedly, the young mistress is also a ruthless person, so she won't let go of her mouth no matter what."

It turns out that behind Zhang Cheng's funny name, there is such a reason.Just like behind many seemingly unimaginable things in this world, there are unknown and normal reasons.

Chu Xiaoyun recalled Zhang Tian's dictation, and asked, "What secret is hidden in that hairpin that Zhang Cheng gave you?"