Zhang Yu said: "There are some things, it's better for you not to know about them now. Just do your own thing."
"Master, I don't want you to know. Of course I have his reasons, so don't ask." Jingxiang stopped Zhang Lin who was about to chase Zhang Xi and dissuaded him: "It's not like you don't know the master's temper. You can tell me the truth.
If I say I won’t let you take care of it, I won’t let you know anything.”
Zhang Lin heard this and said: "Compared with you, I am like an outsider, but you are more like his daughter. You still know my father better."
Hearing this, Jingxiang was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and said, "Master, these words are not a joke, they will kill people."
"Okay!" Zhang Lin helped Jingxiang up and said: "It's just you and me here, and you grew up in Zhengnan Mansion. Everyone treats you as one of their own, who will punish you for a joke?
Besides, you are mine, and only I can punish you if you do something wrong, not even my father. I have long regarded you as my sister, so you don’t have to do this."
Without waiting for Shizuka's reply, she uncovered her burned arm. Seeing a lot of burn blisters on her arm, she couldn't help but feel distressed and asked: "It's so serious..."
"I don't dare to use these elixirs. Master, let me go back to my room and apply the burn medicine myself."
Seeing that Zhang Lin didn't say anything, he took out a low-grade spiritual healing powder for himself to use, which made Shizuka panic.
Her kind of tea burn was far beyond the scope of needing such medicine, and although she had grown up in Zhengnan Mansion and had been Zhang Lin's personal maid for several years, she did not need this kind of medicine.
Zhang Lin smiled when he heard this and said indifferently: "It's the elder brother who scared you after all."
Zhang Lin gave Jingxiang good medicine and comforted her for a while before letting her leave.
On the other side, Zhang Hao and Zhang Hao, who had not caught anyone, returned to Zhengnan Mansion in depression and went to Zhang Xi's study.
In the study room, after hearing the feedback from Zhang Hao and Zhang Hao, Zhang Xi couldn't help but frown and said: "It's such a short distance, so Hao'er can't even catch up with you, Hao'er, in the later stages of Jin Dan's strength? It seems that the other party is a master who is good at speed and stealth."
"Father, brother, you think this person is not in the Nascent Soul realm!" Zhang Ye was very frustrated and said with some confusion: "I am also good at speed, but I haven't seen any ghosts."
Zhang Hao said: "I'm not worried about the other party's state. What I'm worried about is how much the other party heard about our conversation with the third child. If the other party spreads it out..."
Hearing this, Zhang Xi frowned and asked the masked man in black beside him: "Ye, what do you think?"
The man in black said: "Master, there is nothing unusual about the people we monitored. Come to think of it, in addition to those few rats, there are many more secretly lurking in Zhengnan Mansion.
Although the prince and the second young master did not catch each other, we did not gain nothing."
"Oh!" Zhang Yu said, "What new discoveries did your shadow guards make?"
"Master, although this person is well hidden, he has forgotten one thing. He wears night clothes and walks around Zhengnan Mansion in broad daylight, just like a fish swimming around.
This is enough to show that he is absolutely familiar with the terrain of Zhengnan Mansion, because only those who are well aware of the positions of open and hidden sentries in various parts of the mansion, as well as the deployment of guards and patrol breaks, can do this."
Zhang Yu said: "What do you mean, this person is most likely to be from the Guards and also holds an important position?"
Ye shook his head and said: "Not necessarily in the Guards. Some old people who have lived in the house for decades also know. Even if they don't know the time and password for the Guards' patrol today, they know where the Guards will go and the number of people. More
Not to mention those fixed whistle posts, there are places where hidden whistles can be placed.
Therefore, the scope of our inspection has been extremely narrowed, mainly focusing on the elderly people in the mansion, the guards who are patrolling around the third young master's yard today, as well as those who have taken leave but have not left the mansion, and those who are not staying in the guard house during their rest."
Zhang Hao added: "I think we can also check all the servants on the line from the gate to father's study, and from father's study to Lao San's yard when we come back, even where this line can be seen.
Because only if the other party knows that we have found our father and where we went to the third child, he will take the risk to eavesdrop.
Otherwise, it would be such a coincidence that the four of us, father and son, were discussing something together, and the other party came to eavesdrop."
Zhang Ye heard the words and said: "What the eldest young master said is absolutely true. I will continue to tell you. I must destroy these rats who dare to covet our Zhang family."
Zhang Xi nodded and asked: "Where is the secret guard? What's going on with Dongying? Is there any news?"
Zhang Ye said: "Master, the Dongying people seem to have made up their minds this time, and they have kept it very tight. The secret guards have broken down one heavenly secret, three earthly secrets, and more than a dozen mysterious secrets, and they only know
, those coming are the Koga and Ito families, as well as several young masters from the sword dojo. The secret guards speculate that there are most likely Nascent Soul-level special ninjas accompanying us."
"Special forbearance!" Zhang Xi nodded slightly, with a solemn expression.
The special ninja is an existence in the Nascent Soul Realm. This kind of existence is already at the level of a country in Dongying, the pillar of the country. They may actually send two of the three top ninja families who can't deal with it to join forces, and there are representatives
There are also people accompanying the shogunate's sword field, so the Dongying people's plans in Bashu this time are definitely not small.
After thinking about this, Zhang Yu said: "Inform Fusang Mountain and send them the situation so that they can make their own decisions.
At the same time, all the temple owners surnamed Zhang in Bashu were notified to strictly prevent outsiders from entering the temple, and all the secret guards were mobilized to closely check all the distinguished guests who were qualified to go to Fusang Mountain to observe and worship, and to prepare the guards. No one was allowed at that time.
A leave invitation to enter.
Also, in the past twenty years, the reasons for the changes in Taoist temple owners in Bashu must be found out one by one, and all branch temples that have arisen must be investigated. This matter is extremely urgent, and at night, I will bring the shadow guard to personally supervise and handle it."
"Yes! I'm resigning." Zhang Ye got the order and disappeared from the room in an instant.
Seeing Ye leaving, Zhang Haofang said: "Father, do you think the Dongying people came straight to the fusang tree this time?"
Zhang Xi sneered and said: "They have been advocating that fusang should be the sacred object of their country of the rising sun. Moreover, the first emperor asked their ancestor Xu Fu to take fusang to the east to win. However, our Zhang family intercepted it for thousands of years.
Come on, did they ever give up the idea of ​​bringing Fusang back to Dongying?
They came all the way to Bashu, not for the innate spiritual plant and hibiscus, but what else?"
"Hmph!" Zhang Ye snorted coldly: "Why didn't they say that Xu Fu fled with the guards because of the destruction of Fusang? If the First Emperor hadn't been busy pacifying the six kingdoms that had resurrected due to the meteorite falling from the sky,
There was no time to deal with Xu Fu, Dongying had already been defeated.
Later, the First Emperor died, and the Second Emperor of Qin helped Su succeed to the throne. He lived with the people. Although the situation in the Qin Dynasty improved slightly, the rebellion of the Six Kingdoms was still difficult to quell. In the end, the Overlord of Western Chu was the first to break through the realm of Jindan and entered.
Hangu Pass is invincible in the world, so that the Qin Dynasty can be destroyed.
The capital of Qin was destroyed, and Qin II Fu Su had no choice but to lead his army to retreat westward to the Western Regions. Finally, watching the Central Plains change hands, Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu with the help of a group of capable people and strangers, and established the Han Dynasty.
Seeing this, Fusu took the initiative to express his gratitude to Liu Bang in order to stop the chaos in the Central Plains and reunify the country, and to fulfill the centuries-old wish of the Ying royal family. Also to thank Liu Bang for handing over the body of Xiang Ji, the executioner who dug up the tomb of the prince and prince of the Ying family, to the Ying family, he took the initiative to express his gratitude to Liu Bang.
From beginning to end, no one in the Ying family had time to hold Xu Fu accountable.
As time passed and hundreds of years passed, they finally had the courage to mention the good deeds done by their ancestor Xu Fu.
Moreover, this Fusang was born in Fusang Mountain and does not belong to the First Emperor, let alone that Taoist scum like Xu Fu?"
"No words!" Zhang Yu glared at Zhang Ye and said, "This matter has been going on for a thousand years, and the right and wrong have been complicated for a long time. Please don't make any unnecessary criticisms about this matter.
What we have to do at this time is to solve this trouble. Since the third child has no problem, his crowning ceremony will naturally be held in the clan..."
Before Zhang Xi finished speaking, Zhang Ye said excitedly: "Father, do you finally agree?"
Zhang Hao held down Zhang Ye and said helplessly: "Second brother, calm down and listen to what father has to say first."
Hearing this, Zhang Ye sat down under Zhang Yu's stern gaze. Seeing this, Zhang Ye breathed out and said, "It is natural that Lin'er's crowning ceremony should be held in the clan, but what I fear is that Dongying people
Seize the opportunity and destroy it.”
Zhang Xi said, looked at the two of them and said solemnly: "I think you still understand what happened a hundred years ago."
When Zhang Hao and Zhang Ye heard this, they both nodded solemnly to express their understanding.
A hundred years ago, people from Dongying took advantage of the young people of their grandfather's generation to hold a crowning ceremony, and sneaked into the crowd of spectators to carry out an attack.
Which time, although they were eventually suppressed, it also brought considerable losses to the Taoist sect.
From then on, if there is any abnormality in Zhang's crowning ceremony every year, the Taoist sect will strictly investigate it.
This time, Dongying people sneaked into Zhengnan Mansion, and now that they have been discovered, they continue to act, which can be said to be arrogant.
Arrogant people either have no brains or must have something to rely on.
People from Dongying obviously belong to the latter group, especially the fact that Zhang's secret guard is already in operation in Dongying, but they have not been able to find out any useful information, which further illustrates this point.
The Dongying people must have something to rely on, so they are so confident.
Seeing the two of them nodding, Zhang Xi furrowed his brows and said: "This year's crowning ceremony seems to be uneventful again. You two have made preparations early. No matter what, the crowning ceremony of the third child cannot be interrupted."
"Father, don't worry!" Zhang Hao promised: "When the time comes, Erlang and I will personally lead the red-armored cavalry to guard the foot of the mountain. Zhang Ye will lead the secret guards to ensure that the ceremony will be held. If there is any change in Dongying's people, I will also let them
Stillborn."
Zhang Xi nodded and said: "I'm still relieved that you are doing things, but it would be better to nip them in the bud and solve these problems before the ceremony.
Therefore, it would be best if you work hard during this period and cooperate with the Shadow Guards to clear out those rats in the dark as soon as possible.
After all, if Dongying people really take action during the crowning ceremony, it would be detrimental to the majesty of my Zhang family."
"Yes, Father!" When the two heard this, they straightened up and raised their hands in agreement: "We will go all out to make the third brother's crowning ceremony complete and progress smoothly."
Chapter completed!