Chapter 1824 An awkward meeting
"dad."
"Uncle Chengzhen."
In the corridor, Zhang Yingye and Jin Jingcheng greeted Zhang Chengzhen. When they first met Zhang Chengzhen, Jin Jingcheng called him the Supreme Court directly. Later, they became familiar with each other. Zhang Chengzhen asked Jin Jingcheng to call him Uncle, and Jin Jingcheng began to call Uncle Chengzhen to distinguish him from Zhang Chengyuan.
Zhang Chengzhen nodded and gently patted Jin Jingcheng on the shoulder to express his elders' appreciation for the younger generation.
Zhang Yingye then looked at Zhang Yingzhan with an embarrassed look on his face.
Although Zhang Yingye is very powerful and majestic outside, he is very respectful of Zhang Chengzhen's father. This was developed since childhood. Until now, Zhang Chengzhen still scolds Zhang Yingye from time to time, so that every time Zhang Yingye faces Zhang Chengzhen, he feels a little embarrassed.
At present, there is someone who makes Zhang Yingye even more embarrassed, that is Zhang Chengzhen.
Zhang Yingye knew that his father had such an illegitimate son when he was very young. Zhang Yingye had also specially met Zhang Yingzhan several times in the past 30 years. However, the scenes of these meetings were very awkward and bad. Zhang Yingye knew that this half-brother not only hated Zhang Chengzhen, but also hated him.
Zhang Yingye looked at Zhang Yingzhan awkwardly, while Zhang Yingzhan looked at Zhang Yingye calmly.
After a few embarrassing seconds, Zhang Chengzhen spoke: "You have seen it, say hello."
Although Zhang Chengzhen never intended to recognize Zhang Yingzhan as his illegitimate son, and his status did not allow him to recognize him as his illegitimate son, he still hopes that the brothers Zhang Yingzhan and Zhang Yingye can be harmonious, even if they will not have brotherhood, at least they should not meet like enemies, and he will feel uncomfortable when he sees them.
Of course, Zhang Yingzhan would not listen to Zhang Chengzhen.
But Zhang Yingye habitually followed and squeezed out a dry greeting: "Hello."
"It's right for you, I'm not good." Zhang Yingzhan said with a smile, but even Jin Jingcheng, who was unknown, could see that the smile was fake and cold.
Zhang Yingye was even more embarrassed.
Jin Jingcheng thought silently: "There is something strange. I rarely see Zhang Yingye so embarrassed."
Zhang Chengzhen sighed softly and took Zhang Yingzhan into the suite.
When the door of the suite was closed, Jin Jingcheng looked at Zhang Yingye who was still embarrassed: "Brother Zhang, is he your cousin?" Zhang Yingzhan looks at least five points similar to Zhang Yingye, and was brought to the hospital by Zhang Chengzhen himself, Jin Jingcheng felt that it was mostly Zhang Yingye's cousin.
Zhang Yingye responded bitterly as he walked: "It's my dear brother."
Jin Jingcheng was stunned for a moment: "Don't you only have one girl? When did another brother appear?"
Zhang Yingye sighed and said, "The half-brother of the same father appeared more than 30 years ago."
The two of them were walking and talking. When they walked out of the hospital, Jin Jingcheng roughly understood the story and was not surprised. Life experience told him that it was not a strange thing for people like Zhang Chengzhen to have illegitimate children, but he was a little happy because Zhang Yingye was willing to share such private matters with him.
Since Zhang Yingye was so calm, Jin Jingcheng didn't beat around the bush and asked with concern: "Is it meant that the old man wanted Zhang to accept him today by Uncle Chengzhen to visit the old man?"
Zhang Yingye shook his head: "I don't know, if the old man really wants Zhang to accept him, he might threaten my status in the family."
Zhang Yingzhan is more than one year older than Zhang Yingye. If he can be recognized by Zhang, he will be the eldest son of the younger generation of the Zhang family!
Jin Jingcheng patted Zhang Yingye on the shoulder: "Don't worry, he is not likely to enter your Zhang family. Even if he really enters Zhang family, at most he will get some property and live a wealthy life, and it is impossible to get much power and cannot be reused. Don't forget that his identity is an illegitimate child. This illegitimate child is too sensitive to your father. If he is exposed, your father's reputation may be ruined. Once the reputation is ruined, your career will be destroyed. Your old man has been smooth all his life. Even if he is leaving now, I believe he will not make such a mistake."
Zhang Yingye suddenly nodded and smiled awkwardly: "I'm confused."
Jin Jingcheng nodded in understanding and thought to himself: "Zhang Yingye is a very smart and powerful person. Now he can't even think of such a thing. It seems that the authorities are confused. He minds the existence of Zhang Yingzhan, the brother."
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Zhang Chengzhen took Zhang Yingzhan into Zhang Shunhuang's ward.
Emperor Zhang Shun looked at Zhang Yingzhan first and said to Zhang Chengzhen: "You go out first."
Zhang Chengzhen walked out of the ward and closed the door. Only Emperor Zhang Shun was left in the room, Zhang Ying fought against the grandfather and grandson who had no feelings for grandfather and grandson.
Zhang Shunhuang, who was lying down, sat up with difficulty with his body.
If it was not Zhang Yingzhan's grandson standing in the ward at this time but Zhang Yingye, then Zhang Yingye would definitely come forward to support Zhang Shunhuang as soon as possible.
Zhang Yingzhan would not do such a thing, but just looked at Zhang Shunhuang, the old and weak figure of the hero Zhang Shunhuang for a lifetime.
Emperor Zhang Shun finally leaned against the head of the bed and said to Zhang Yingzhan weakly: "Sit down."
Zhang Yingzhan was not polite and sat down on the sofa.
There were two comfortable chairs beside the bed, but Zhang Yingzhan deliberately sat on the sofa slightly far apart.
Emperor Zhang Shunhuang was a little depressed. He didn't like the feeling of young people competing with him, not to mention that the other party was the blood of the Zhang family, and his grandson.
Holding down the depression, Zhang Shunhuang looked at Zhang Yingzhan carefully, and Zhang Yingzhan's appearance when he was a baby appeared in his mind.
For more than 30 years, Emperor Zhang Shunhuang has only seen Zhang Ying fight once, and he looks like Zhang Ying fights in his baby.
At present, Zhang Yingzhan's appearance when he was a baby appeared in Zhang Shunhuang's mind. Zhang Yingzhan, who was in his thirties, appeared in front of Zhang Shunhuang's eyes. In his mind and eyes, babies and adults, the two images overlapped together, and the layer between them was called time. More than 30 years of time was very thick, but very thin.
"Oh, more than thirty years have passed!" Zhang Shunhuang sighed, silently sighing in his heart, "More than thirty years ago, I took Chengzhen to meet the woman holding a baby. I had to see the two of them break off their relationship with each other before I could feel at ease. Although that woman was very beautiful, I didn't like her at that time, but who would have thought that she would die young in twelve years? Now that I think about it, she is very pitiful, and I am very hateful."
Do you regret it? No, Emperor Zhang Shun did not regret it. Even now, he still felt that his actions were correct. The woman named Lin Huishan was not qualified and should not marry Zhang Chengzhen. If the two got married at that time, it would destroy the marriage between the Zhang family and another political family. Then, even a high-ranking official would not be the chief justice, and there would not be the current brother and sister Zhang Yingye and Zhang Yingxi.
The older you are, the harder it is to get friends, because it is difficult for you to be willing to surrender and compromise with others. Therefore, many people easily gather together to drink and eat, talk about it very much, and even if it is left alone, they have no nostalgia in their hearts. This is a way to socialize animals. As long as you don’t talk about feelings, it is very straightforward. The solemn and nostalgic treatment between people may be a luxury, but it is worth pursuing.
Not only is Zhang Shunhuang already old, but he is almost dead. For such a person, the only thing he misses is family affection, but Zhang Yingzhan really has no family affection for him, and his so-called grandfather has never given him family affection.
Emperor Zhang Shunhuang did not regret it, but felt guilty, owing Lin Huishan and Zhang Yingzhan the poor mother and son.
When Zhang Yingzhan silently lamented that time was rushing and felt guilty, Zhang Yingzhan was also looking at him while thinking about his thoughts.
When Zhang Yingzhan saw Zhang Shunhuang's old, weak and sick look almost dead, he felt no sadness. To him, the person in front of him was not his grandfather, but an old man who was both strange and hateful. Zhang Yingzhan felt a little happy in his heart when such an old man was about to die.
He realized: "I love my mother and I love my grandparents a little. Because of my mother's death, I lived with my grandparents at the age of twelve. Although I suffered a lot of grievances in this life, the two old people loved me a little and raised me to adulthood. But I don't love my surname. On the contrary, I hate Zhang, hate the so-called grandfather Zhang Shunhuang, father Zhang Chengzhen, younger brother Zhang Yingye, younger sister Zhang Yingxi... I hate everything related to this Zhang!"
This is a meeting that both sides feel and feel.
This was also a very embarrassing meeting, so embarrassing that when the two looked at each other for nearly a minute, neither of them knew what to say.
Emperor Zhang Shunhuang had imagined the meeting before, and prepared some things he wanted to say and questions he wanted to ask, so he arranged this meeting. However, when he really met Zhang Chengzhen, the old man could not even say the words and questions he prepared.
The meeting between the two has only been called "Sit", how embarrassing.
Emperor Zhang Shunhuang felt this embarrassment and didn't like it very much, so he prepared to end the meeting immediately.
You must have had this feeling. When you are worried and eager to talk to someone, that person is here, but your conversation has become two twisted curves, extending so desolately and exhaustedly. You are perfunctory, smiling, and pretending to be very speculative. However, you long for him to leave in your heart, let you calm down and sniff the loneliness that belongs to you.
The situation that Zhang Shunhuang faced was similar to this. He originally wanted to come and meet Zhang Yingzhan and the two could have a good talk, but Zhang Yingzhan came, but he felt that this junior did not look like a grandson at all, and that he felt that this junior was indifferent or even hatred for him. So, Zhang Shunhuang decisively wanted Zhang Yingzhan to leave so that he could calm down and savor his own thoughts by himself.
Zhang Shunhuang suddenly thought of something that happened yesterday.
Yesterday, Emperor Zhang Shunhuang forced Zhang Chengzhen, the eldest son, to take him to see his birthplace. Zhang Chengzhen could not resist the old man's stubborn temper and agreed, because Zhang Chengzhen knew that the old man wanted to take a last look at his birthplace before his death. As the eldest son, there was no reason not to satisfy his father's wish.
So, with the help of Zhang Chengzhen, Zhang Shunhuang came to his birthplace, which was in Seoul. However, the birthplace that was considered very wealthy at the time seventy or eighty years ago has now become a backward civilian area.
Zhang Shunhuang walked through a street where he often played and played when he was a child. When he was a child, he thought the street was very wide and long, but now he has experienced many prosperity in his life. After seventy years of looking at this street and alley, he suddenly realized that the street and alley were so narrow and short, and it was already very dilapidated.
The house that Zhang Shunhuang lived in when he was a child is still there. It was once a luxury house, but now it also seems backward and dilapidated. The Zhang family was once born here, and now there are several civilian families living here, one of which is still in rags.
So Emperor Zhang Shunhuang thought that his birthplace was old, his streets and alleys were old, his residences were old, and he was almost dying.
Although he was confused and heartache, Emperor Zhang Shunhuang did not regret returning to his former birthplace to take a look, because this was his birthplace after all.
Similarly, although Zhang Shunhuang was confused and heartbroken when he saw Zhang Yingzhan, he did not regret seeing this.
In fact, one of the wishes of Emperor Zhang Shunhuang's current ones was fulfilled, that was, to see Zhang Yingzhan once before his death. Although he never intended to let Zhang accept Zhang Yingzhan, the other party was indeed his grandson and his direct bloodline.
Zhang Shunhuang's other wish is to make up for his debts to Lin Huishan, Zhang Ying and his mother and son before his death.
What to make up for?
Care? It’s impossible. Emperor Zhang Shun is about to die. What kind of care can you fight for Zhang Ying?
Power? Although Zhang Shunzhan can gain power as long as Zhang Shunzhan says a word to Zhang, Zhang Shunzhan will not do this. Just as Jin Jingcheng judged, once Zhang Yingzhan gains power because of Zhang, his identity as an illegitimate son will be exposed, and then Zhang Cheng’s true reputation and career will probably be destroyed. The hero of the lifetime, Mr. Zhang Shunzhan, has never made such a mistake in his life, and will not make it before his death.
Then there is only the option of money left.
In Zhang Shunhuang's view, life is nothing more than love, power, and money. This is true for men and women.
So the old man was prepared.
I saw Zhang Shunhuang take out a check with a large amount from under his pillow and say to Zhang Yingzhan: "Please take this, it is considered the Zhang family property I gave you in advance."
Zhang Yingzhan walked up to take the check and took a look, thinking of the scene more than 30 years ago.
When Zhang Shunhuang met him more than 30 years ago, he was still a baby held in Lin Huishan's arms, but his mother told him the scene when Zhang Chengzhen gave him a check, which Zhang Yingzhan could imagine, so he said: "More than 30 years ago, you asked Zhang Chengzhen to give a check to my mother like this?"
Chapter completed!