Zhang Zongyuan looked at the girl in red and then at the meat. He knew that he couldn't resist the temptation of meat, so Zhang Zongyuan said thank you softly and took the plate from the girl's hand.
It was the first time for Zhang Zongyuan to eat such delicious meat. The roasted golden wild boar meat still maintained a soft and glutinous texture even after it had cooled down. The aroma of the meat and the strange fragrance lingering on the plate made Zhang Zongyuan eat so much that he almost lost his plate.
All eaten.
After Zhang Zongyuan finished eating, he ran to the stream, washed the chopsticks and handed them to the girl in red.
"You don't want to eat?" The girl tilted her head and glanced at Zhang Zongyuan, seeming a little confused that he ate so little, even though he was so hungry just now.
Zhang Zongyuan shook his head, "I rarely eat meat. This wild boar meat is too oily. If I eat too much, I will get sick."
The girl in red looked at Zhang Zongyuan in surprise. The young man looked silly and had quite a lot of self-control. The girl immediately became interested in him.
"Looking at what you are wearing, you are a disciple of the Zhang family, right? You have no cultivation at all and yet you dare to come to the north of the city. Are you lost with the family elders?" The girl in red walked around Liu Zheji a few times. When she saw
Zhang Zongyuan immediately overturned his idea when his disciple uniform was still wearing many patches.
"I...have to leave." Zhang Zongyuan couldn't help but say as he felt uncomfortable being stared at by the girl in red.
The girl looked like a person with good cultivation, and her repeated attempts to take things out of thin air seemed to Zhang Zongyuan to be a fairy trick. Zhang Zongyuan knew that he could not get involved with such a person, otherwise he would die without knowing how.
Zhang Zongyuan said sorry and left in a hurry. The girl in red looked at Zhang Zongyuan who was leaving with an intriguing smile on her lips.
After Zhang Zongyuan left here, he ran directly to his home. Although no one would miss him, it would be bad if he disappeared for a day and a night if the elders of the clan had trouble with him!
When Zhang Zongyuan arrived home, the door to the yard was open. Zhang Zongyuan was stunned. He seemed to have closed the door. When Zhang Zongyuan entered the yard, the figures inside were so frightening that he could hardly breathe.
"Zhang Zongyuan!"
Three old men were sitting on simple stone chairs in his courtyard. Behind the old men stood a burly servant with fierce eyes. The first old man was the eldest elder of the Zhang family, and the other two were also members of the clan elders' hall. Everything in the hall was important.
It's up to them.
"Disciple is here..." Zhang Zongyuan's legs trembled when he saw these three people. Although these three people were nominally his grandfathers, in fact he had only met them a few times.
I saw the elder stroking his long beard and staring at Zhang Zongyuan. At the same time, he murmured, "Jiaxing has an average appearance, but the sons he didn't expect to have are all outstanding. Humph! The blood of my Zhang family competes with each other."
But a brothel girl is also a joke!"
The great elder's voice was undisguised, which made Zhang Zongyuan feel very uncomfortable. But under the eaves, he could only bury his head lower to prevent others from seeing his facial expressions.
"Since you are a bloodline of the Zhang family, you must abide by the family orders. Now the Zhang family has a small matter to ask you for help. Is Zongyuan willing to agree?" The fat elder next to the eldest elder asked Zhang Zongyuan with a smile.
Zhang Zongyuan felt nervous when he heard this, but then he thought about it, he was of no use in the Zhang family, and it was his blessing to have three elders ask him for help.
"I don't know if the elder can help me with anything. I have no merits. If there is someone I can help with, I will definitely not refuse."
The three elders looked at each other with a smile on their faces.
Thinking that Zhang Zongyuan was so easy to talk to, they didn't need to waste their time. At this time, the fat elder smiled and walked up to Zhang Zongyuan and patted his shoulder.
"Zong Yuanna! According to seniority, you are still my nephew. We are all Zhang family members! From now on, we will not be divided between you and me. It is very simple for us to ask you to help us this time. How old are you... this year?"
The fat elder suddenly remembered that he didn't even know Zhang Zongyuan's age, and the situation suddenly became awkward.
Ignoring the embarrassed look on the fat elder's face, Zhang Zongyuan said honestly: "I have reached the weakest level this year."
"Already so old?" The fat elder didn't expect that twenty years had passed in the blink of an eye. At that time, he had also met Zhang Zongyuan's mother. The two were almost carved from the same mold. He remembered that many people, including himself, were like Zhang Zongyuan.
Jiaxing Zhengfeng was jealous, and now that he thinks about it, he really regrets not persisting.
"Nephew Zong Yuan has grown up, and the clan is going to arrange a marriage for you. You will be married to the youngest daughter of the Li family. Now go and get ready. Someone will pick you up and take you back to the master's house tomorrow." The elder said with a blank expression.
Expression.
"Getting married?"
Zhang Zongyuan raised his head blankly. He had never considered getting married, and he knew that no one would take a fancy to him. He was already in adolescence. Zhang Zongyuan was looking forward to and panicking about the suddenly arranged marriage. He was stunned for a moment.
He stood there and didn't even notice that the three elders had left.
The next day, several tall and round servants came to Zhang Zongyuan's yard. These servants were very respectful to him and bowed their heads when talking to him. Zhang Zongyuan was not used to being treated like this for the first time. When he arrived at the master's house, he
Not used to it anymore, maid
He and his servants really regarded him as a young master, serving him delicious food and drinks every day. The meat that he didn't dare to ask for before was now available for every meal. There were also dedicated teachers to teach him various etiquette. Zhang Yongyuan's own temperament and quality were outstanding.
Very good, I learned etiquette and other things very quickly.
In the blink of an eye, on the day of the wedding, Zhang Zongyuan was dressed in red and green by a group of maids early in the morning, and then they surrounded him and got into the motorcade for the wedding.
Where Zhang Zongyuan didn't pay attention, several of his nominal brothers were also riding horses behind and sneered.
"This boy is dressed like a monkey. It really damages the reputation of my Zhang family!" A tall young man was riding on a tall horse. He was wearing a wedding dress and had a red flower pinned to his waist.
"Brother, stop talking. If it weren't for this guy, you might have divorced your sister-in-law and become a monkey. I advise you not to show off. Others see you as a groom. What if the Li family chooses you but doesn't?
Boy, what should I do with you?"
Behind the tall young man, a skinny young man covered his mouth and snickered. The tall young man seemed to have some sense. If the truth about the Li family came to light, something bad would happen to him.
Thinking that the eldest son of the Zhang family had specially changed horses with his servants and deliberately lowered his body to hide behind everyone, this series of actions made the skinny young man and his other brothers burst into laughter.
"Ziliang, you said that if we marry someone else and choose a concubine, will they be happy? If they knew that Zhang Zongyuan's mother was a brothel girl, the Li family would not be able to overthrow our Zhang family?"
The more Young Master Zhang thought about it in the crowd, the more something was wrong, so he kicked the horse's belly and drove the carriage to Zhang Ziliang's side and said to him.
"Don't worry, as you can imagine, my father and I have already thought of it. The matter of the brothel girl cannot be hidden, but the family background can be forged. We forged the identity of a southern royal princess for his mother. When the king went to the west,
, many royal families have come to escape here, and there are so many southern princesses that there is no trace at all."
Young Master Zhang raised his thumb and admired Zhang Ziliang very much. Among all his brothers, the one he admired the most was his younger brother. In addition to being talented, he also had the talent for cultivation! You know, every warrior with the talent for cultivation will be praised by the family.
, let alone a direct descendant?
Zhang Ziliang smiled on the surface, but he rolled his eyes countless times in his heart. If he hadn't asked for help from the Zhang family now, he would have left here long ago to find a holy land for cultivation.
Zhang Zongyuan was sitting on a tall horse, listening to the continuous playing of ritual music in his ears, and his head was so dizzy that he didn't know where he was.
"Zongyuan, we will remind you of the process in a moment. Don't be nervous. You can just stay at Li's house at night." The fat elder said next to Li Yongyuan.
"Li's house? This..." Zhang Zongyuan suddenly felt something bad, "Why do I live in Li's house?"
When he arrived at the Li family, Zhang Zongyuan's guess was correct. The Li family's enthusiasm for him was too much.
"You think of me as your son-in-law." Zhang Zongyuan smiled bitterly.
In the marriage between the Zhang family and the Li family, Zhang Zongyuan was actually the son-in-law who stepped in. Of course, this was unreasonable for the Zhang family, which had a large business, but when the person who stepped in was Zhang Zongyuan, everything became reasonable.
Next, Zhang Zongyuan's head was in a state of drowsiness and dizziness. His only impression was that the bride seemed to be a tall and fat woman, but it didn't matter. Zhang Zongyuan had given up, and the whole person was like a marionette being manipulated by Zhang Li.
The two families walked hand in hand.
The young masters of the Zhang family almost cried out in joy when they saw this newlywed couple with completely disproportionate figures. The eldest son of the Zhang family was also very happy at this time. Fortunately, Zhang Ziliang came up with such a trick, otherwise he would have been unlucky.
Just like that, on the wedding night, Zhang Zongyuan, who looked confused, was pushed into the room by the "happy" Zhang and Li families.
Zhang Zongyuan stood blankly in the room, while the daughter of the Li family sat at the head of the bed, her huge figure almost occupying the entire bed.
"Girl...you." Zhang Zongyuan opened his mouth to say something, but he sighed and turned his body away.
"Why don't you, my husband, come and take off your hijab? Does your husband think Qiao'er is ugly?"
There were crisp sounds coming from behind, and the sound of beads falling on a jade plate made Zhang Zongyuan's heart move. If he only listened to the sound, he would have thought that Li Qiaoer was a beauty.
"No...that's it. Since you and I are already married, and I, Zhang Zongyuan, am not a greedy person who loves wealth, you, Li Qiaoer, will be my wife from now on, and I will treat you well."
Zhang Zongyuan sighed, now that the matter has come to this, he has no choice.
When Zhang Zongyuan gritted his teeth and turned around, a stunning face appeared in front of him.
"Are you Li Qiao'er?" Zhang Zongyuan was stunned. This girl was clearly the girl he met a few days ago.
"What's wrong? You just got married and you don't recognize me anymore? We just met a few days ago." Li Qiaoer jumped off the bed, causing the whole room to tremble.
"But you..." Zhang Zongyuan pointed at Li Qiaoer, asking why she was so fat.
"snort!"
I saw Li Qiaoer's nose wrinkled, a burst of red light filling her body, her whole body instantly shrunk into a petite figure, her loose clothes automatically fell off her body, and a hint of blush suddenly appeared on Li Qiaoer's face.