He returned to the tribe silently without disturbing anyone.
Then, at the entrance of the family meeting hall, I met my cousin Cheng Huaiyan.
"Cousin." Cheng Jinyang whispered.
He was a little embarrassed and sad because his second and third uncles went with him, but in the end he was the only one who came back alive.
"It's fine if you're fine." Cheng Huaiyan patted his shoulder.
"Third uncle's affairs..."
"That's not your fault." Cheng Huaiyan comforted him, "Father is God."
"He died in the battlefield, and the warrior was destined to be. He had written his suicide note before he set off."
My cousin sighed and pointed upstairs:
"The moon fairy is on it."
Cheng Jinyang understood what he meant, so he said goodbye to his cousin and walked into the family meeting hall.
When he arrived at the second floor, he saw Cheng Yuexian turning his back to him and cleaning up the documents in the filing cabinet.
"Cousin." Cheng Jinyang shouted.
Then he saw his cousin smearing his face twice before turning around, with tears still on his face.
"Jinyang?" She let out a long sigh, "You are finally back."
"The past few days you were hospitalized, the clan has accumulated a lot of things and has not done it. If your body recovers, you can deal with it as soon as possible..."
"Cousin, are you okay?" Cheng Jinyang asked hesitantly.
Cheng Yuexian fell silent.
"I'm sorry about my second uncle..."
"Well, I didn't blame you." She turned around, "I just... need to slow down."
She walked to the bathroom. Cheng Jinyang followed him to the door and heard an uncontrollable crying sound coming from inside.
"Yes." Xing Yuanzhi said, "You can wash away the disease."
"What kind of illness..." Cheng Jinyang was speechless. As soon as I was discharged from the hospital, you would have to hold a banquet, and I always felt a little strange.
However, due to the sacrifices of the second uncle, third uncle, and two other tribe members, the atmosphere in the tribe is really too low now, so it is better to have a banquet to increase morale.
"Forget it, do it." He agreed.
"Then I'll go and prepare." Cheng Yuexian said.
After her cousin left, Cheng Jinyang asked Xing Yuanzhi in a low voice:
"What's going on? Before, the whole clan was still alive, but now he suddenly holds a banquet? What are you trying to do?"
"This is my idea." Wang Wanrou's voice sounded from behind.
"Wanrou?" Cheng Jinyang was a little surprised, "Why are you here too?"
"My father wants to see you." Wang Wanrou said concisely.
In normal times, Cheng Jinyang might tease her and say, "Why should my father-in-law meet my son-in-law in advance?" But now he really doesn't feel like hesitating and sighs:
"In the name of a banquet, I will let me meet him privately? There is no need to be such a trouble, just let me go and find him?"
"My father doesn't want the emperor to know about this." Wang Wanrou said.
Cheng Jinyang pondered.
"Okay." He finally said, "but I ask you to be there too."
Wang Wanrou said without hesitation:
"That's of course. I don't feel at ease that you communicate with him alone."
"Do you know what he is asking me for?"
"I don't know, but I can roughly guess." Wang Wanrou said, "Jinyang, how much do you know about your mother?"
"My mother..." Cheng Jinyang said, "is an academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences?"
"That's right." Wang Wanrou said, "but few people know her other identity."
"Another identity?"
"The first Shendu Cheng family mistakenly estimated the attitude of the five surnames, thinking that they were afraid of Xie Guyan's royal background, so they tried their best to stop your parents' marriage." Wang Wanrou said coldly, "But it is not actually
That way... I can't tell you the specifics, I'll tell you after confirming it."
"Is she the emperor's sister?" Seeing that Miss Wang refused to say it explicitly, Cheng Jinyang tentatively guessed.
"Why do you say that?" Wang Wanrou was surprised.
"Sister Xinnan once told me that my mother was her teacher before." Cheng Jinyang said in a thought, "If my mother was just an ordinary academician of the Academy of Sciences, how could she become the princess' teacher? But if she had another one
Identity, such as Sister Xinnan’s aunt, wouldn’t it make sense?”
"In that case, your Sister Xinnan will become your cousin." Xing Yuanzhi suddenly said, "So are you a sister-in-law?"
"Well, I just said it casually." Cheng Jinyang quickly clarified.
On the afternoon of that day, the banquet at the Cheng clan was held as scheduled.
Because the place is too remote and the Cheng family has no fifth-grade supernatural powers, only the Hejian Xing family and Sanchuan Zhu family responded to the invitations sent.
Considering that the younger generations are easier to talk to each other, the Xing family of Hejian sent Xing Yuanzhi to the meeting, while Zhu family of Sanchuan sent Zhu Xinchu. In addition, although the Chu family of Yangdi and Yang family of Hongnong did not respond in public, there were young people in private.
He came to the public and was secretly introduced by Cheng Yuexian and did not appear in front of his clan members.
"Xinchu, I heard that you have joined the Yulin Army recently?" Cheng Jinyang asked politely.
"Yes." Zhu Xinchu, a young man from the middle school in the past, had already changed into the military uniform of the Yulin Army at this time, looking serious, "Brother Jinyang, I have heard of your feat the day before yesterday, but it's a pity that I failed to defeat the rebellion.
Military mothership.”
After saying that, he poured a glass of wine: "I will help you with your husband."
Cheng Jinyang hurriedly returned to the drink, but was embarrassed to say that he was just watching the game throughout the whole process. He was finally shot with a main gun and stayed in the hospital with a concussion for three days. It was really not a feat.
The two continued to be polite for a moment, and Zhu Xinchu went to find Cheng Huaiyan. His arrival was not purely social, but the Yulin Army hoped to temporarily second some people from Tianluo, so he asked Zhu Xinchu, the new officer, to try to go from Shendu.
The Cheng family opened a gap.
Cheng Jinyang turned around and sighed:
"The changes in him are so big. But you and me don't seem to have changed much compared to when they first met."
"I haven't changed much." Xing Yuanzhi also sighed, "He has changed from a family child who is ignorant of the world to an officer of the Yulin Army. What about you? You have gone from a poor family with nothing to now taking charge of the entire god.
The head of the Cheng family, isn’t such a change enough?”
"Enough is enough." Cheng Jinyang smiled, "It's just that the future is so unpredictable and confusing, which makes people uneasy."
"No matter how many difficulties and obstacles," Xing Yuanzhi also poured a glass of wine, "Jinyang, I would like to spend it with you."
"Send together." Cheng Jinyang clinked glasses with her.
The two of them drank quietly for a while, and Cheng Yuexian came over quietly and whispered:
"Here you come."
"Yuanzhi, I'll go back first, you can do it yourself." Cheng Jinyang said goodbye to her.
Xing Yuanzhi knew that he was going to see Wang Wanrou's father, so she nodded and went to find Miss Qingqing and the others.
When he arrived at the inner room of the family meeting hall, Cheng Jinyang saw the chief assistant Wang Maohong standing by the window, looking at Shishou Mountain in the distance.
Wang Wanrou stood behind him and nodded slightly without hesitation.
"Cheng Jinyang." Wang Maohong turned around and smiled gently, "Actually, I have wanted to see you for a long time, but I have been busy with work and have no time to withdraw. Now that I have temporarily resigned from the court, I finally have time to do something."
"Sir, Master." Cheng Jinyang bowed and bowed.
"Don't call me the chief minister." Wang Maohong waved his hand, "I am older than your father, you can call my uncle."
Wang Wanrou raised her eyebrows. You should know that the children of other aristocratic families respected their father as "princes". He was actually willing to let Cheng Jinyang call him uncle?
"Well, my nephew has met my uncle." Since the other party expressed his closeness, Cheng Jinyang naturally took it immediately.
"I heard that you were hospitalized for three days after returning from the battlefield the day before yesterday. Are you feeling better now?" Wang Maohong asked with a smile.
"Thank you for your concern, it's almost done now."
"Yes." Wang Maohong stroked his beard, "Has there ever been any strange body?"
"Nothing is wrong."
Somehow, although there was no clear evidence, Cheng Jinyang seemed a little disappointed when he noticed that Wang Maohong seemed to be a little disappointed.
After finishing the conversation, Cheng Jinyang left in confusion.
From beginning to end, Wang Maohong just asked him some daily trivial matters, such as the current situation of the Shendu Cheng family, the current business status of Tianluo, and the future plans of the clan, etc.
However, he felt that Wang Maohong didn't care about these things. What the Chief Auxiliary asked seriously from beginning to end was just the first sentence "Has there ever been any strange body?"
Watching Cheng Jinyang go to entertain guests in the courtyard, Wang Maohong stood by the window with his hands behind his back, as if he was thinking a little.
"Father." Wang Wanrou whispered, "You doubt Cheng Jinyang and inherited it from his mother..."
“…that kind of power?”
"It's not that I doubt it." Wang Maohong replied, "It's the emperor who doubted it."
"As early as three years ago, after Cheng Qinghe and Xie Guyan died in the demon attack in Wujiang Town, the gentry did not continue to pay attention to their orphans."
He sighed long:
"But if he really inherited that power, then the disaster of the court this time..."
"I haven't mentioned the troubles of the court yet. What does my father feel like the common people?" Wang Wanrou asked softly, "Is it a blessing or a disaster for this world?"
"I don't know."
"There is something my father doesn't know?"
"Why can people know everything without sages?" Wang Maohong chuckled, "Wanrou, if there is really a day, can you see his heart clearly for your father?"
"I will go and see it." Wang Wanrou said with her head down.