It's his flesh and blood. It's actually his flesh and blood.
Zhang Fu couldn't explain what he felt in his heart.
His daughter will be sixteen tomorrow, and he has only spent her sixth birthday with her... He thought she was gone and went to spend time with her mother.
And his son...he never knew that he had another son. His and Rou'er's son.
When he heard that Rou'er died in childbirth, he was sad for a long time. Unfortunately, he didn't know whether it was a daughter or a son. Unexpectedly, Rou'er left him a son.
And he didn't know anything about it.
As for this son, he had met him a long time ago, but he didn't recognize him.
Zhang Fu thought about Huo Nian's eyes, and how he was attracted to him when he first met him. He thought he was kind-hearted, and asked people to teach him, and he went to see him from time to time...
It turned out that there was really a blood attraction somewhere, Rou'er led him to meet his son, but he didn't even recognize it.
Zhang Fu put one hand on the door frame of Huo's house, lowered his head and closed his eyes. The door frame was blown like ice by the cold wind, making Zhang Fu shiver all over.
It felt cold to the core.
After a long time, he turned around and walked towards the carriage.
"Sir? Why don't we knock on the door?"
Zhang Fu shook his head. He was in such a mess now that he had no shame to see the two children.
Zhang Jin looked at the door of Huo's house, sighed, winked at his two sons, and the carriage left quietly.
Come quietly and leave quietly.
In Zhang's Mansion, Mrs. Wu couldn't help but look outside, "Where has Mr. Guo gone? All the people have disappeared."
Glancing around the hall, the Wang family and Liu family were all in the hall, and it was impossible for the Duke of Guo to go to their courtyard. Besides, during the first month of the year, the Duke of Guo never went to his concubine's room. Mrs. Wu said coldly
He glanced at Wang and Liu.
Mrs. Wang shrank in fear, Mrs. Liu pretended not to be seen, and ate fruits and drank tea with her second and third-bedroom concubines, chatting and joking.
Mrs. Wu snorted and called her servants: "Let's go and see where the Duke has gone. It's almost time and we still need him to take charge of the overall situation."
The servants left in response.
The madam raised her eyes and glanced in her direction, keeping silent and immersed herself in playing leaf cards with her grandchildren.
The few children were already sleepy-eyed and staggering around on their mothers or wet nurses, but the Madam and the Duke did not say a word, and the whole family was still guarding the hall.
As soon as Zishi is over and the New Year begins, the whole family will go to the ancestral hall to offer incense to their ancestors, and then go back to their respective houses to sleep.
No matter how sleepy I was, I just found a place to wander, and everyone would still gather in the hall again when we got there.
Not long after, a servant reported that the Duke was not in the house.
Mrs. Wu was stunned. The Duke was not in the house on New Year's Eve? What could happen? The Yamen were all sealed.
The madam was also alarmed. She glanced around the room and saw Zhang Jin's wife An, "That person at home isn't here either?"
Anshi hurriedly replied: "I don't know."
"You go and see."
"yes."
Not long after, Mrs. An came back to report, "The one at my slave's house is not here either." Neither were her two sons. Mrs. An was a little puzzled, but she did not say anything about the absence of her two sons.
The madam frowned.
Wu's heart skipped a beat when she heard that the Duke of Guo was really not here. On this New Year's Eve, the Duke of Guo was actually not in the house. This was not the case in previous years, and he quietly left the house without telling everyone?
Could it be...
The Duke of Guo has raised a baby outside!
Mrs. Wu sat up straight. She glanced at Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Liu. The two aunts were no longer in their glory. They smiled with wrinkles on their faces. Did the Duke really hide it from her and raise a baby outside?
Wu couldn't sit still and was about to ask someone to go out and have a look. Zhang Fu came back.
He looked like he had been drained of three souls and seven souls.
Zhang Fu didn't want to say more about Mrs. Wu's and Mrs. Wu's inquiries, so he muttered a few words. As soon as the hour passed, he led his family to the ancestral hall to burn incense, and then returned to the courtyard. He even distributed rewards to his servants.
None of them hosted.
Wu followed Zhang Fu to Zhang Fu's courtyard, but the servant who guarded the gate stopped her, saying that the Duke had not given any orders and would not let her in.
Wu was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She glared at the two servants hatefully, turned around and left with a long stride.
Who in the family is like her? The Duke of Guo has his own courtyard and she has the same courtyard? It’s not often seen outside. Wu’s heart was full of resentment and she had been fighting for many years, but Zhang Fu was not moved.
On the other side, Mrs. Tai called Zhang Jin for questioning.
"Where did you take the Duke?"
Zhang Jin knelt down with a plop. Why did he lead the Duke of the country to where he was?
The coolness of the floor tiles was refreshing, and Zhang Jin knelt on the ground, the coldness running straight down his body. "The Duke of Guo suddenly remembered the information he would submit to the emperor after the new year, and thought that he needed to get some information, so he went back to the Yamen."
"Isn't the Yamen sealed?"
"The guard at the gate is still here."
The lady looked at him steadily and said in a cold voice: "Is there something important that cannot wait until the sealing ceremony is completed after the new year? Do you have to go by yourself? There is no one in the house who can help you run errands?"
Zhang Jin broke out in a cold sweat, "This matter involves military secrets. The Duke of the State said that we cannot rely on others."
After asking a few questions, Zhang Jin couldn't get anything out of him, so Wang waved him off. Then she called the man from the stable. The man from the stable said that the Duke did not call the groom, and that it was Zhang Liang and Zhang Dong who were driving the carriage.
Father and son all went together? Wang's eyes flashed.
In Mu's mansion, Mu Yan offered incense to his ancestors, went back to his room, turned off the quilt, and was getting ready to go to bed when Gan San ran over.
"Did the British Lord know?" Mu Yan's eyes lit up and he sat up from the bed.
The British father was unsteady on his feet and even shed tears? Oops, it’s a shame that I couldn’t be there.
But then I thought about it, he was at the scene? Does his sweetheart still want to be there? I'm afraid the British Duke wants to beat him to death! I can't think about it. What if the British Duke has a grudge?
Then will he be able to see the little liar again in the future?
He collected his thoughts and said, "Didn't the British Master knock on the door?"
"No. The British father stood at the door of Huo's house for a long time before leaving."
Mu Yan clicked his tongue. Is this too hard to believe, or do you want to investigate further?
After hearing this, he told Gan San: "Go and clean up the tail. Say hello at the city gate and say that you have never seen the British Duke leave the city."
"yes."
When a few people came out, Kan Er and Li Yi talked about it, thinking that the young master's instructions were a bit redundant. Who would go to check whether the British Duke was out of the city or not.
Li Yi ignored him.
The next day, Kan Er was slapped in the face.
It turned out that his young master really walked a lot at night and encountered more ghosts than others. The next day, Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Wu really sent people to the city gate to ask if the British Duke had left the city.
When Mu Yan found out, he was sarcastic.
Now that the British Duke has not recognized the little liar and Huo Nian, you have to be careful about everything. The woman in the back house will do anything for profit.
In the ninth year of Yongkang, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Huo Xi's sixteenth birthday was celebrated.
When I woke up early in the morning, I found a box beside my bed. I asked Vanilla and Xia He, but they didn't know who put it there.
Who gave her a birthday gift early in the morning? A surprise?