Zhang Yan followed his mother into the house. What he saw was minimalist furnishings. Apart from tables and stools, there was nothing else. Even the paint on those tables and stools was seriously peeled off, and some obvious signs of repair made them look even more old. Zhang Yan
In Yan's memory, there has never been such shabby furniture in the house. It must be the old furniture that he brought with him when he rented this house.
But the house is very clean. Not to mention spotless, it is definitely much cleaner than the inns that Zhang Yan stayed in along the way. Even the musty smell of the house was covered up by the fresh lemongrass on the table.
Lost most of it.
"Mom! Who is it?"
Zhang Yan heard the sound, then glanced at the old mother next to him, and quickly followed the sound into the back room. He saw a skinny man sitting next to a wooden bed, with a stubble on his face and nothing below his knees.
He was tied tightly with a rope and looked outside with a worried expression.
Who else could it be if he wasn't Zhang Yan's eldest brother Zhang Shun?
"Brother, I'm back!"
"You! Zhang Er?! Zhang Er! You, you are finally back!" Zhang Shun's eyes suddenly turned red. He opened his hand, put his arm around his brother's shoulders, and patted him hard several times.
"It'll be good if you come back, it'll be good if you come back!"
Not long after, the door was knocked open, and the younger sister Zhang Huiyuan also came back, with another tearful greeting.
At noon, the little girl went out to buy some delicious food and came back. After a while, she had a sumptuous meal. She even drank fruit wine, a sweet wine. It seemed that Zhang Yan was aware of Zhang Yan's drinking capacity.
"Zhang Er, you have settled the military matters now, but we have to thank our family for the favors they owe." Zhang Shun is also a family man, and he knows that the longer the favor is owed, the more troublesome it will be. How can he pay it back?
If so, I'd better return it as soon as possible. What's more, the big shot like the city guard couldn't afford to neglect it.
These words were actually stuck in Wang Lanping's heart, but she didn't have time to say them first. Only the young Zhang Huiyuan didn't understand these things. Anyway, when her second brother came back, she was happy, and other things were better than before.
Worse?
"Brother, mother, you don't have to worry. What I established on Yubei Mountain is a serious military achievement. Whether it's the farmland I exchanged or the money coupons I just gave you, you can use it with confidence. There won't be any trouble.
, there won’t be any talk of owed favors, it’s all what our family deserves.”
"Second brother, what achievements have you made? Even if you are cleared, can you exchange for so much land and a lot of money?" Zhang Huiyuan blinked curiously, wanting to know where her second brother was in that scary Yubei Mountain.
What exactly happened in the fortress, and how did he accomplish his feats?
"Haha, little sister, do you still remember when you and I went to catch rabbits in the mountains and got lost?"
"Yeah, remember!" Although the old thing was old, Zhang Huiyuan remembered it very clearly. She was frightened at the time and is still scared now, so Zhang Yan nodded repeatedly when he mentioned it.
"You should also remember the old man who saved us when we were lost in the forest, right?"
"Remember, remember! Later, my parents wanted to find him to thank him, but they couldn't find him."
"That's right, that old man is extraordinary. He is a strange man who travels all over the world. After that, he secretly came to see me many times and taught me many things. He was able to achieve meritorious service in the army this time because of what the old man taught him.
.”
"ah?!"
The whole family was actually curious, but they never expected that Zhang Yan would come up with such an explanation.
"Then why haven't you said it before?"
Zhang Yan said with a smile: "When the old man taught me before, he said not to expose the things he taught unless absolutely necessary. After arriving at Yubei Mountain Fortress, it was really like a desperate situation. It would be too difficult to come back and just fight hard, and it would also take too long.
, so I looked for opportunities to use what I learned to solve several problems in the army, and then I was cleared of crime."
It's not that Zhang Yan is too hasty, but the only solution he can think of at the moment is this. Moreover, the "miscellaneous knowledge" he knows will one day need a clear source, and it is better to think about it sooner than later. Moreover, in the face of
There is no point in hiding it from family members, either emotionally or rationally. It would be better to let this "mysterious" experience spread from home first, so as to increase the "credibility" of the outside world in the future.
Doubt? This is not the emotion that the family would have on this matter. Their doubts naturally found an outlet after Zhang Yan told this matter.
"Ah!? No wonder you always couldn't find anyone later, and you didn't tell me where you were when asked. So there is another reason?!" The first person to spontaneously look for "traces" for Zhang Yan was the younger sister Zhang Huiyuan, who stared.
Zhuzi had a look of surprise and relief on his face, as if he had understood the huge truth.
In fact, Zhang Yan's memory at that time was because he simply avoided his sister and went to see her in Hualou. How could he say this?
"Then what tricks did you learn?"
"I don't know either, but there are all kinds of them. This time it was used in Yubei Mountain Fortress with good results. General Song said that these are my methods of the "Xue Xue lineage"."
"General, General?!"
"That's right. General Song Qinghe. This time, the relationship between Langyuan City Guards Zhou Cang and General Song Qinghe was a close confidant of General Song Qinghe. He was also my direct supervisor at the time. Lin Zedong took the whole situation and circled it around Zhou Da.
Talented people will take care of our family."
"Miscellaneous studies? This, this knowledge seems to be very powerful!"
The younger sister, Zhang Huiyuan, was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She blinked and looked at her second brother as if he was looking at something strange. But the eldest brother, Zhang Shun, had detached himself from his duties as "general" and "general boss" and arrested subordinates like "general".
Two key words stuck out: miscellaneous studies.
The miscellaneous studies should be the key to Zhang Er's ability to survive death this time.
Zhang Yan saw that these seemingly hasty explanations were accepted smoothly in front of his family, so he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to push the matter forward, diverting everyone's attention away from the "adventure" and said
: "I got rid of Mr. Lin to take care of the family before. In return, I taught some of the essentials of miscellaneous studies to Mr. Lin. So Mr. Zhou's favor will be repaid by Mr. Lin. We won't owe anything.
However, the relationship with Mr. Zhou still needs to be maintained. For the sake of face, I will take care of you later. Mom, brother, you don’t have to worry anymore."
"Okay, okay, Yan'er, just make your own decision. Mom will feel at ease now that she sees you." Wang Lanping suddenly realized that her youngest son had really grown up to be a man, and was even more stable than before, especially
The light and airy aura on her body gave Wang Lanping a subtle, unfamiliar but comforting feeling, which was very strange.
"Hmm, second brother, Mr. Zhou is so kind. Remember to thank him. If it weren't for him, Xiao Chongwen and the others don't know how long they would have made trouble in our house!"
"Xiao Chongwen?" Zhang Yan frowned when he heard the name.