Jiaohua

Chapter 1040 Minister of Rites ([-] more)
Their voices were very low, Zhang Yunyun couldn't hear them upstairs, her eyes followed Su Yumei's back, and she looked back at Zhang Caiyun.

Zhang Caiyun stood on the side of the road with a frowning brow, thinking for a while, he turned around and wanted to go back, stopped after a few steps, turned around again, walked back seven or eight steps, and then stopped again.

"He seems to have a lot on his mind..." Xiao Jing said in a low voice.

As soon as the voice fell, Xiao Jing said softly: "My lady, it seems that the master is here."

Zhang Yunyun followed his eyes, and sure enough, it was his father's sedan chair.

Zhang Yunyun took a deep breath and said slowly: "It's time to come, but I can't hide."

Zhang Xunzhi's sedan chair stopped at the back door of Taochun Building, and when the shopkeeper heard that he was coming, he went to greet him in person.

Just based on the people who came to urge me a few times today, the shopkeeper can guess that the situation is not serious, and said proactively: "Master, the third lady is in the attic."

Zhang Xunzhi didn't say a word, and went up with a calm face.

Xiao Jing was already waiting at the door, and when she saw him, she saluted him: "Master."

Zhang Xunzhi gave her a cold look, raised his hand and opened the door, and saw his daughter sitting behind the Eight Immortals table, looking like he was waiting for him to come up.

The lights in the house were not lit yet, and the twilight of the setting sun made her face dark and gloomy, but her eyes were calm and composed, Zhang Xunzhi frowned, feeling strange.

His entourage closed the door outside, Zhang Xunzhi walked up, Zhang Yunyun got up from behind the table: "Father."

"Why didn't you go back to the house?" Zhang Xunzhi asked angrily.

"I'm waiting for someone."

"Waiting for someone now? Who?"

Zhang Yunyun lowered his head slightly: "A benefactor."

"Benefactor?" Zhang Xunzhi raised his eyebrows, "How can I be kind to you?"

"It's not me, but our Zhang family."

"What?" Zhang Xunzhi was confused, he pulled out the stool and sat down, "Being kind to the Zhang family? What kindness?"

"Father, do you remember Pang Yonggen?"

Zhang Xunzhi heard it familiar, but after thinking about it for a while, he was stunned: "In the 21st year of Xuanyan, who died of a strange disease... the Minister of Rites?"

"Then, do you still remember Ren Qingshu?"

Zhang Xunzhi felt chills all over his body: "Remember."

"The palm of Ren Qingshu's left hand was chopped off." Zhang Yunyun said.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"The third one is Lin Hongru," Zhang Yunyun looked at him, "Father, his Lin family was wiped out in Jingzhao."

Once the sun sets, the sky darkens extremely fast, at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The afterglow on the window lattice faded, the curfew began on the street, and there were fewer people. The street lamps were turned on one after another, but the lights were not enough to illuminate the attic. Zhang Yunyun's voice in such a faint light made Zhang Xunzhi cold from head to toe.

"The fourth one is us, the Zhang residence," Zhang Yunyun continued, "Father, have you ever thought about why the Zhang residence is safe and sound?"

Zhang Xunzhi broke out in cold sweat one by one.

I still remember that when Zhang Puxiang was promoted to Minister of Rites, the whole family was not happy at all, and everyone was surrounded by a horrible atmosphere like ashes.

Fortunately, after a day or two, a year or two, until Zhang Puxiang retired and returned home, nothing happened.

"You, know the reason?" Zhang Xunzhi said.

"Didn't my daughter say that there is a benefactor?"

"Who?" Zhang Xunzhi asked immediately.

"I don't know," Zhang Yunyun said, "I haven't seen them, and I often communicate with them by letters. I do things for them, and they block robbery for us."

Zhang Xunzhi was stunned, and said for a while, "Could it be some kind of benefactor, but this 'benefactor' is the one who murdered all the members of the Lin family?"

"I know they are not kind, but no matter what, our Zhang family is safe."

Zhang Xunzhi felt a little hard to accept what his daughter said at the time. Listening to what he meant, it seemed that she had borne a lot of it alone.

There was a knock on the door, and Xiao Jing said, "Miss, do you need a lamp?"

"Point." Zhang Yunyun said.

Xiao Jing entered the room, holding a small candlestick covered with jade-colored silver-patterned hibiscus lantern paper in her hand.

After placing it on the table, she greeted Zhang Xunzhi and Zhang Yunyun and withdrew respectfully.

The light of the candlestick illuminates the attic, and Zhang Yunyun's face is calm and extremely calm: "The Ministry of Rites has removed layers of red tape, and also handles ritual utensils, national sacrificial offerings, talisman seals, book orders, and elegant music. There are many contacts with the Tianjian, Qin Tianjian Tai Shiling Kong Zefeng Kong Jianzheng, has always been the person my father admired, and my father will never forget it."

"Is this matter related to the Taishi Bureau?"

"In the Zhaixing Building in the palace, there is a great hall for seeking opportunities. There are 120 hidden compartments in it, which make up a huge sky and star map, showing the Grand Canal, mountains and rivers, and the universe. Its astrolabe is handed down from generation to generation, only Dingguo Gongfu Xia Daqian and Kong Jianzheng are able to determine, but they don't know that Kong Jianzheng's star-fixing technique comes from the Chongmen family. The benefactor I am talking about is the Chongmen family."

Zhang Xunzhi got up from the stool in shock, annoyed that so many things had happened, yet his daughter didn't say a word.

Considering her age again, she was only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time!

"What did they want you to do?" Zhang Xunzhi hurriedly asked, "You were still young, so you were useful?"

"Because I was young, my parents at home never fortified me," Zhang Yunyun bowed his head and said solemnly, "I have stolen the official seal of my grandfather, the key to the ritual utensil storehouse, the books of the ceremony hall's clothes and crowns, the roster of the dining department, etc. .”

"You, you..." Zhang Xunzhi was dumbfounded, "Then what about now? The person you sent to provoke the street was also their arrangement?"

"They want me to lure Ali out."

"How dare you!!" Zhang Xunzhi said angrily, "That's someone you can afford to provoke?!"

Zhang Yunyun clenched his palms tightly: "I stole all the great ceremonies of the country, just a pear, why not be afraid?"

"You are playing with fire..." Zhang Xunzhi stopped talking and waved his sleeves angrily.

What can he say, what else can he say.

After the Zhang family's house was peaceful, it was actually the daughter who was carrying it all by herself.

He already loved this daughter very much, and now he was even more unwilling to say words of blame to her, and his face was flushed red with anger and powerlessness.

Zhang Yunyun's voice softened: "My daughter is not reckless. I have already taken care of all the major officials in Xizhou Prefecture, so the street has been in trouble for the past few days. After the trouble is over, the story can be turned over. I just didn't expect that, People from Rongguo Mansion will come to Xizhou at this time."

"There is such a big disturbance in Mingtai County, how could the imperial court not send someone?"

"But I heard from someone sent by my father that my grandfather has already handled it properly."

"5000 taels of snowflake silver," Zhang Xunzhi said with chest tightness, "5000 taels!"

"so much……"

"Fortunately, your grandfather didn't ask too much. He has the right to think that Mu Tingyu directed and acted this matter to blackmail him. Don't let it slip when you go back."

Zhang Yunyun smiled: "Yes, my daughter obeys."

"Then," Zhang Xunzhi looked out of the door, "are you waiting for a 'benefactor'? I want to meet."

"He..." Zhang Yunyun opened his mouth, but there was more to say.

The person she is waiting for now is Quan Jiuwei, but to be honest, Quan Jiuwei is not considered a benefactor.

The so-called "benefactor" is actually not a "benefactor", but an organization.

It's just that when she was young, she didn't know how to call this group of people, so she used these two words, which are still used today.

(End of this chapter)