one's door

"Yan'er get up quickly, the ground is cold, let's go inside and talk, your elder brother will be very happy if he knows you are back."

"Good mother." Looking up, Zhang Yan realized that his face was already full of tears, but he didn't know it.At this time, the old woman in front of her was no longer "strange" at all, so how could there be any false connection between blood?

Before entering the door, Zhang Yan looked back at the people around who were sticking out their heads to watch the excitement, nodded to these people, and then followed his mother into the house.

"Is that Wang Lanping's youngest son?"

"Didn't it mean that arson is beheading? What's going on?"

"I heard that he was exiled into the army? Could it be that he escaped from the crime and came back?"

"Tsk, escaped crime? It's possible in a small place. We in Langyuan have never heard of escaped death row inmates coming in. It's probably because they were exonerated after being exiled from the army, right?"

"It's possible! No wonder this kid is so ruthless. When he entered the alley, he was stopped by Liu Ganzi and asked a question. Without saying a word, he slapped all three of Liu Ganzi's back molars. This anger looks like he came back from the frontier." .”

……

There have never been any secrets in Zhuzui Alley, and the news of the beheaded Zhang family reached everyone's ears faster than wings.Even Qing Pi, who came to inquire about the news at the alley, soon found out the news, and trotted back to invite someone.It turned out that he was just a soldier, so he thought he was great because he knew how to punch and kick?Don't take them seriously!This time, let him taste the power!

Also receiving the news were some people who had been paying attention to Zhang Yan's news.

For example, the thin young man who was drinking with his arms around a singing girl in the flower building, the smile on his face became cold when he heard the words of the entourage below.

"He's really back? Heh heh, it's not easy to attack in other places. Now that we're back in Langyuan, let's kill him again. Go find Xiao Chongwen and the others, and say that I'm looking for them for a drink." .”

Chapter 60 Adventure

Zhang Yan followed his mother into the house, and what he saw was the minimalist furnishings, except for tables and stools, there was nothing else.Even the paint on the tables and stools is badly peeled, and some obvious repair marks look even more old.In Zhang Yan's memory, there has never been such a dilapidated piece of furniture at home, presumably it should be the old furniture that he brought with him when he rented the house.

But the house was very clean, not to mention spotless, it was definitely much cleaner than the inns that Zhang Yan stayed in along the way.Even the musty smell in the house was mostly masked by the fresh lemongrass on the table.

"Mom! Who is it?"

Hearing the sound, Zhang Yan glanced at the old mother beside him, then quickly followed the sound into the back room, and saw a skinny man sitting beside a plank bed, with a beard on his face, and the empty space below his knees. Tie it tightly with a rope, and look outside with a worried expression.

Who else could it be if it wasn't Zhang Yan's big brother Zhang Shun?

"Brother, I'm back!"

"You! Zhang Er?! Zhang Er! You, you are finally back!" Zhang Shun's eyes turned red.He opened his hand, put his arm around his brother's shoulder, and patted him hard several times.

"Just come back, just come back!"

Not long after the door was knocked open, the younger sister Zhang Huiyuan also came back, and there was another tearful greeting.

At noon, the little girl went out to buy good food and came back. After a lot of preparation, it was a hearty meal. She even made fruit wine. That kind of sweet wine seemed to know Zhang Yan's slag wine capacity.

"Zhang Er, you have settled the affairs in the army cleanly now, but we have to thank our family for the favors we owe." Zhang Shun is also a family man, and he knows that the longer the debts are owed, the more troublesome they will be.Return it sooner if you can.What's more, that big man like a city guard can't be neglected.

These words were actually stuck in Wang Lanping's heart, but she didn't have time to say it first.Only Zhang Huiyuan, who was still young, didn't understand these things. Anyway, she was happy when her second brother came back. Could other things be worse than before?

"Brother, mother, you don't have to worry. I have made serious military achievements on Yubei Mountain. Whether it's the fertile land I exchanged or the money tickets I gave you just now, you can use them without any worries. , and there will be no saying that we owe favors, they are all things our family deserves."

"Second brother, what credit have you made? Let alone clearing your crimes, you can still exchange so many fields and have a lot of money?" Zhang Huiyuan blinked curiously, wanting to know how her second brother lived on that scary Yubei mountain. What happened in the fortress, and how did they make meritorious deeds.

"Hehe, little sister, do you still remember the time when you and I went to catch rabbits in the mountains and got lost?"

"Yeah, remember!" Although it was a long time ago, Zhang Huiyuan remembered it very clearly. She was terrified at the time, and she is still afraid, so Zhang Yan nodded repeatedly when he mentioned it.

"You remember the old man who saved us when we got lost in the forest, don't you?"

"Remember! Later, my parents wanted to go to him to thank him, but they didn't know where to go."

"That's right, the old man is not ordinary, he is a strange man who roams around. Afterwards, he came to me secretly many times and taught me a lot of things. This time he was able to make meritorious service in the army because of what the old man taught. .”

"what?!"

The whole family was actually curious, but they never expected that Zhang Yan would come up with such an explanation.

"Then why didn't you say that before?"

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "When the old man taught me before, he said that it is absolutely necessary not to expose the things he taught. After arriving at the Yubei Mountain Fortress, it is really hopeless. It is too difficult and too long to come back and fight alone. , so I found an opportunity to use what I learned to solve a few troubles in the army, and then I made meritorious service and cleared my crime."

It's not that Zhang Yan is too hasty, but the only solution he can think of right now is this.And the "miscellaneous knowledge" he knows will one day need a clear source, and it is better to think about it sooner than later.And in front of the family, there is no point in concealing emotion or reason.It would be better to let this "mysterious" experience spread from the family first, so as to increase the "credibility" of the outside world in the future.

Suspect?This is not the emotion that the family members would have on this matter. The doubts in their hearts naturally found an outlet after Zhang Yan told this matter.

"Ah!? No wonder you always can't find anyone later, and you don't tell me where you went. So there is such a reason?!" The first one who spontaneously looked for "traces" for Zhang Yan was the little girl Zhang Huiyuan, staring Zhu Zi, with a look of surprise and relief, seemed to understand the truth of the greatness.

In fact, in Zhang Yan's memory at that time, it was because he simply avoided his sister and went to Hualou to see her. How could this matter be said?

"Then what tricks did you learn?"

"I don't know, but there are all kinds of them. This time, it works well in the Yubei Mountain Fortress. General Song said that these are the means of 'Miscellaneous Learning'."

"General, general?!"

"That's right. General Song Qinghe. This time, Langyuan City Guard Zhou Cang's relationship is General Song Qinghe's confidant, and also my direct Shangfeng Lin Zedong at the time. The general contemporaneity, such a circle 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 too shocked to speak, she blinked and looked at her second brother as if she was curious.On the contrary, the boss, Zhang Shun, separated himself from the subordinate positions of "general" and "general manager", and grasped the key two words: miscellaneous learning.

That miscellaneous learning should be the key to Zhang Er's ability to survive this time.

Zhang Yan saw that these seemingly hasty explanations were accepted smoothly in front of his family, so he was relieved and at the same time continued to push the matter forward, diverting everyone's attention from "Adventure", saying : "I asked Boss Lin to take care of the family before. In return, I transferred some of the essence of miscellaneous studies to Boss Lin. So Mr. Zhou's favor will be repaid by Boss Lin. We will not owe anything.

However, the relationship with Mr. Zhou still needs to be maintained. In terms of face, I will take care of it later. Mom, brother, you don't have to worry anymore. "

"Okay, Yan'er, it's good that you have your own opinion. Mother will feel at ease when she sees you now." Wang Lanping suddenly found that her youngest son had really grown into a man, even more stable than before, especially The breezy aura on her body gave Wang Lanping a subtle strange but comforting feeling, which was very strange.

"Yeah, second brother, Mr. Zhou is fine, you remember to thank him. If it wasn't for him, Xiao Chongwen and the others don't know how long they'll be making trouble at our house!"

"Xiao Chongwen?" Zhang Yan frowned when he heard the name.

Chapter 61 Stable

The memories about the previous life are not all gathered in front of Zhang Yan. They will only come out to let Zhang Yan know when they encounter some key information points.

About the name Xiao Chongwen, Zhang Yan didn't recall much before, but he knew that the death penalty of his predecessor was inseparable from this person.

"Xiao Chongwen? What are they doing here?"

Along with Xiao Chongwen were three other people, namely Ma Shan, Liu Chang, and Yang Lin.These four people used to be "friends" of Zhang Yan's predecessor, had frequent contacts, and played a key role in fueling many important decisions of Zhang Yan's predecessor.

For example, after Zhang Yan's predecessor took over the Zhang family's business, he chose to sell a few pieces of fertile land in his family and replaced them with two shops in Langyuan City.

Moreover, in the memory of "how he was convicted", although Zhang Yan's predecessor did not know the specific details, he was beaten into a trick and pleaded guilty in the end, but the day before the incident, he remembered very clearly that he was Xiao Chongwen and the others found him for a drink, but when he woke up, he was in a dilapidated, unfamiliar room. Before he could figure out the situation, he was captured by the yamen servant who broke into the door. After that, he went through a set of procedures in the yamen He became a death row prisoner for arson.

The whole thing would feel wrong to anyone, let alone Zhang Yan at this moment.This is also the reason why he asked Lin Zedong to help take care of his family when he was in Yubei Mountain, because Langyuan City was not safe for the Zhang family.

No matter what Zhang Yan thought in his heart, the Zhang family, who felt that the family had the backbone again, didn't think too much about it. They just told Zhou Cang's visit and drove away the four Xiao Chongwen who had been pestering the family.In addition to letting Zhang Yan remember Zhou Cang's goodness and find an opportunity to return the gift, I also hope that Zhang Yan can see clearly the dirty virtues of Xiao Chongwen and the four, and I don't want Zhang Yan to walk with those people again.

"Yan'er, don't blame my mother for talking too much. Xiao Chongwen and the others are really not good people. Before your accident, my mother felt that they had something to do with them, but she couldn't argue with her. Afterwards, they said they were your "friends" but never came to the door. I saw it, and later I found out that you traded military merits for good land and came to the door to break the attention. After being rejected by us, you have been pestering and talking to your sister frivolously. If Master Zhou didn't come forward in time, your elder brother would have wanted to fight them desperately .

So Yan'er!You narrowly escaped death this time, please don't have anything to do with them anymore, our family can't take it anymore! "

As Wang Lanping spoke, tears came down again, and she grabbed Zhang Yan's arm with both hands, for fear that her second son would make friends with those bad guys, and the Zhang family would really be hopeless.

Zhang Yan patted his old mother's hand to reassure her, and said gently: "Mother, don't worry, my son is not stupid. I thought about that matter a lot later, and the strangeness was too obvious. Xiao Chongwen and the four of them definitely gave him I fell into the trap. It should be for the two shops at home. How can something so inferior to an animal be worthy of being my friend?

Before I asked Lin to take care of the relationship with the general manager and take care of the family, it was because of this consideration. "

boom!Zhang Shun patted the table vigorously, and he finally let out a sigh of relief when he heard his second brother personally say that there was something wrong with the previous conviction. His brother was indeed not the villain who committed the murder, and Xiao Chongwen's four beasts Sure enough, it has something to do with it.

"Dog! I knew they had a problem!"

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "Brother, don't be angry, you have already said that those few are dogs, and there is no reason to be angry with them. And they are so wicked, so they just want to take the things they took from our house with profit Take it all back."

"Yan'er, don't do stupid things!" Although Wang Lanping was relieved that her second son had finally seen Xiao Chongwen's thieves, but she heard that there was something in that remark that seemed to be going on with Xiao Chongwen and the others, so she unconsciously became worried .I was afraid of turbulence at home, so I tried to be safe, and I really didn't dare to toss about it.

Looking at the concerned eyes around him, Zhang Yan suddenly enjoyed this emotional bond.Family love is indeed something that is hard to let go.

"Mother, don't worry, the most important thing for our family now is that you guys live well, and I won't use my family's stable life to fight with a few bastards who can't get on the table. But the things that were taken from our family must also be To get it back, I have my own plan in this regard, mother, you don't have to worry about it."

Zhang Yan's words were very steady, and his self-confidence was so strong that it infected everyone in the Zhang family sitting around.It seems that Xiao Chongwen's dog things are really worthless in front of Zhang Yan today, and what the Zhang family lost will definitely be taken back.

The Zhang family will not know that the "Zhang Er" in front of them is no longer the person they used to be very familiar with.With the change of the soul, the only thing left is the physical body and the blood relationship that is constantly involved with the physical body.

As a successor who traveled across time with the Wanxiang Pearl, a fairy artifact sent by Longhushan Town, Zhang Yan never thought that he would be caught in a mere Langyuan City.He will eventually get back the things belonging to the Zhang family, and he will bring back the money with interest. Not only those bastards like Xiao Chongwen, but even the black hands behind them, he will also kill them all.

……

That night, five people sat around a room in the newly opened "Yue Ying Fang" in Hongshu Street where flower houses gathered in Langyuan City less than half a year ago. Xiao Chongwen, Ma Shan, Liu Chang, Yang Lin who never forget.

Sitting at the top of the middle was a young man, less than thirty years old, very thin, with a pale complexion, a jade crown on his head, and a brocade robe, although luxurious, but because he was too thin, he looked empty and unattractive.This person is Wu Qingling, the only son of Wu Yuan, the governor of Langyuan City.

In Langyuan City, no matter whether it is in business or as an official, no one does not know Wu Qingling's name, he is notoriously the leader of the domineering dandy, and it is a trouble that most people in Langyuan City avoid.

Wu Qingling has a nickname, "Political Second Official", or "Second Lord".It means that in Langyuan City, Wu Qingling's father, Wu Yuan, is the most useful person to speak, so Wu Qingling is the second most effective person.Although the meaning of it is unclear, it can also be seen that Wu Qingling's weight in Langyuan City.

"Did you go to the venue to play money recently?" Wu Qingling waved her hand when she saw that the wine had passed three rounds, and cleared all the singers from the room, leaving one of her own guards standing by the side, looking for a talk to prepare Get down to business today.

"Hey, to tell you the truth, Young Master Wu, money is tight recently, we haven't played in the venue for a long time, and I'm worried about causing trouble for you."

"Trouble? Didn't I tell you? If you don't have any money, come to me to get it. What are you doing out of sight?" As he said, he waved and asked the guard to hand over a box the size of a palm.

"There are some bills in here, you can use them anyway. If you don't have enough, just ask me for it."

Chapter 62

When the box was opened, it was full of money bills, so thick that Xiao Chongwen and the other four people at the table couldn't move their eyes.The money in this box has already caught up with their usual expenses for less than half a year when they are well-off.It's a lot of money.

No one has trouble with money, but Xiao Chongwen and the others understand what money should be taken, what money should not be taken, and whether there will be any trouble after taking it.They are not green-skinned bastards, they all went to school and studied, and their family also has some family business in Langyuan City, belonging to the so-called "upper class".

But the four of them are all concubines, and they don't have to count on their family fortune, so they just dawdle their days and die, so they are full of rotten problems and become dandies wandering around.It was precisely because he was also in the dude circle of Langyuan City that he met Wu Qingling.

Who is Wu Qingling?His money is so easy to get?

In the eyes of Xiao Chongwen and others, this Wu Qingling is a temperamental master, black-hearted and ruthless at all.They used to like to go to Wu Qingling's money stall to play, relying on the fact that they had done a big event with Wu Qingling, so they borrowed a lot of notes and refused to repay them, and they almost got a pair of eyeballs gouged by debt collectors After the payment, the four of them knew their identities from then on.I no longer dare to claim that "I am the second master's man".

Even this time when Wu Qingling asked them to come for a drink, they felt rather uneasy.Not to mention putting a large sum of money directly in front of them after a few words after meeting.There's definitely something for them to do, as it was more than two years ago.

The four of Xiao Chongwen looked at each other, and it was still Xiao Chongwen who spoke. He said, "Young Master Wu, you are too flattering. The four of us are idlers and have no skills, so we dare not take your money."

"Hahaha, ability? Don't you guys like making friends the most? What is this ability? Do you still remember the two shops that you helped to build more than two years ago? Now the business is booming, but it all depends on the help of the four of you That's what I have. This little money is worthless, use it!" Wu Qingling pushed and slid the box in front of Xiao Chongwen while speaking.

Seeing that Xiao Chongwen still didn't go to get the box, Wu Qingling's expression turned cold, and she said in a deep voice, "What? Did you meet me? Still think my money is dirty?"

"No, no, no! What did Young Master Wu say? It's just that the money is too much, and I was stunned for a while, and I was stunned, hehe, I was stunned." No matter how bitter Xiao Chongwen was in his heart, he could only hold back, with a smile on his face. With a flattering expression on his face, he hurriedly took out the money notes from the box, quickly divided them into four parts, and carried one copy in his pocket.

Seeing Xiao Chongwen collect the money so neatly, the smile on Wu Qingling's face came back again. He laughed and pointed at Xiao Chongwen, and then said: "You, you, I thought you looked down on me, Wu Qingling! Still enough friends! Remember, these are small money this time, it’s nothing for you to play in the venue. In the future, just come to me for it when you run out.

But today I come to you because I want to ask you something else.That friend of yours, Zhang Yan, came back from Yubei Mountain, you know about that, right? "

Xiao Chongwen and the others thought in unison: Here we come!

"Ah? Zhang Yan is back?" Xiao Chongwen and the others were also taken aback when they heard it.

"You don't know? Just this morning, Zhang Yan came back to Langyuan City. As his friends, aren't you going to visit him to catch up on the past?"

Xiao Chongwen and the others froze when they heard this, they didn't dare to visit Zhang's house.But how should I tell Wu Qingling about this?

Wu Qingling was keenly aware of the changes in the expressions on the faces of the four people opposite, but how could he not know what these four people did?Asking this is intentional.So he continued: "What? Are you still afraid that Zhou Cang will trouble you?"

"Hey, Young Master Wu, you, you know all about it?"

Wu Qingling poured herself a glass of wine, gulped it down, and said with a smile: "This matter has been spread all over the mouths of those untouchables in Zhuzui Lane, who do you expect not to know? Besides, it's about Zhou Cang, a knife-handler. The muddleheaded people will naturally spread faster.

But yours is true, you dare to fight even Jun Gongtian's idea, do you think that the Jun Wu group has no brains to bully? "

"Young Master Wu, we have nothing to do. Let's try it out. We're not really going to mobilize the military field, but we just want them to sell the field, so we can reap some benefits from it. You also know that the military field is our source The best top-grade fields here, as long as there are sellers, there will be plenty of buyers.

But who would have thought that the Zhang family was stubborn, they just didn't want to sell it, and in the end they happened to fall into Mr. Zhou's hands. "

This incident is a joke in the dandy circles of Langyuan City, but few people have mentioned it after such a long time.But that doesn't mean it's all forgotten.

The four of Xiao Chongwen didn't want to take advantage of the Zhang family's two military fields, and they didn't have the guts to do so. They just hoped to encourage the Zhang family to sell the land so that they could gain some benefits from it.But they were lucky enough to run into the hands of Zhou Cang, who just took office two years ago. Not to mention their noses and faces were bruised and swollen, and they were asked to find their way.

Wu Qingling said with a smile: "I'm not in the mood to see your jokes, I just sweat for you. It is said that Zhang Yan's temperament has changed a lot when he came back from Yubei Mountain. He is no longer as stupid as before, and he has a lot more careful thoughts. , it’s not easy to deal with. You didn’t mention the previous things with him, and later you went to get his family’s ideas, do you think he will take advantage of Zhou Cang’s power to deal with you?”

"Ah? Young Master Wu, can't it? Even if Zhang Yan is lucky in the army, it's impossible for him to rely on Mr. Zhou's backing?"

"Don't tell me that you don't know Zhou Cang's reputation in Langyuan City for more than two years. Then why should a smelly and stubborn person help Zhang Yan? It doesn't matter. If it were you, you could help for no reason ?”

"This..." Xiao Chongwen and the others also turned ugly.Zhou Cang has not been in Langyuan City for a long time, but he has a good reputation.That is a master who does not get in, and no one should try to get on him.The only private matter in Langyuan City that Zhou Cang took the initiative to come forward was that of Zhang Yan.It's hard to say whether Zhang Yan really leaned on the big tree of Zhou Cang.

Wu Qingling waved her hand very righteously, and said seriously: "But don't worry, although Zhou Cang is great, but there is no one in Langyuan City who can check and balance. My old man is not a vegetarian either. You are my brother Wu Qingling, Naturally, it won't let you suffer.

But...you are also aware of Zhang Yan's matter, and his return will be a hidden danger after all.Now counting Zhou Cang, the variable is really hard to say.

In my opinion, if you don't want to worry about it all day, you still have to do your best. It is the best policy for us to completely solve this hidden danger together. "