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Chapter 854: One wrong step, one wrong step

Zhang Taizheng always believed that his father's illness was just an excuse for the outside world. However, when he really stepped into the house and came to his father's dormitory, he saw Zhang Siweina's face in bed, and suddenly realized that he was outrageously wrong. Since he was sent back to his hometown with his younger brother Zhang Jiazheng and moved into the old house of Zhang's family, he had not taken a step forward in Puzhou in the past three years. In his impression, his father, who was in his early fifties, was strong and healthy, but now he has lost much thinner when he sees him again, and his face is not bloody at all. When he thinks about the devastating impact of his father on the entire family, he kneels down.

The Zhang family is a large family in Puzhou. Zhang Taizheng's grandfather Zhang Yunling had a total of five sons. Zhang Siwei was the eldest son. The other four younger brothers all started their business. Although some of them donated official positions, the wealthy businessmen in Puzhou were married to those rich and wealthy merchants in Puzhou. Even Zhang Siwei's own wife, Zhang Taizheng's mother, Wang, also came from businessmen. Although through the third generation of children, the Zhang family finally expanded their power from the business world to the political world, they were not as good as those of the scholarly family in the past generations like the Sun family in Yuyao. The most important thing is that except Zhang Siwei, the Zhang family did not have a second Jinshi.

From this point of view, compared with the Wang family in Songmingshan, who are also from merchants, the Zhang family is already behind!

Zhang Siwei just heard from his servant that his eldest son Zhang Taizheng had arrived. At this moment, he saw an imperial physician sitting on a wooden pier in front of the bed, looking respectfully serving the disease. He said, "Doctor Jin, my Dalang comes from Puzhou. Can I allow me to say a few words to him? I know you have worked hard these days and have a life of your best, but I know my physical condition myself. I think you don't want to be at this critical moment. One of the second assistants of the cabinet will return to their hometown and the other will die, right?"

Doctor Jin was choked by Zhang Siwei and his face turned pale. Seeing Zhang Taizheng kneeling on the ground with his eyes red. Thinking about the fact that the father and son had not seen each other for many years, he quickly agreed and then got up and went out.

When he left, he saw that the door was immediately covered. Zhang Taizheng immediately staggered up and ran forward, stepped on the bed and knelt down again. However, before he could ask his father how he was, one hand was suddenly grabbed by Zhang Siwei: "Why did you suddenly enter Beijing? I will tell you carefully about it, and you can't fool a word!"

Unexpectedly, his father didn't even have greetings, he immediately asked himself how he came from, and his throat was bitter. However, Zhang Siwei was the eldest son in the family and the only Jinshi in the family. He was extremely authoritative. Even if he knew that he would be scolded and punished, he had to bite the bullet and secretly fight with his step-grandmother and his wife who was the housekeeper. After entering Beijing, he found that Zhang Siwei was "rehabilitated". So he sent someone to go out to find out the news and contact Qin Yiming. However, Wang Fulin learned about it and sent him back to the Zhang Mansion. He said all the stories, and finally he almost lowered his head to the ground.

"You actually went to find Qin Yiming... Haha, you know that Zhang Taiyue had a crush on love last year, and no one came forward. Instead, there were a lot of righteous people in the Hanlin Academy? There were no gentlemen in the Censorate now. They were all people who were tempted by the flames and possessed the power. All the people who dared to speak were removed!" Zhang Siwei said, and then pounded the bed board heavily and shouted sternly, "If you want to find it, you should go to Ma Gan'an!"

Ma Gan'an? Ma Ziqiang?

Zhang Taizheng suddenly fell silent. After a while, he said, "I also know that the Zhang family and the Ma family are in-laws, but Ma Ge Lao offended Yuan Fu's wishes last time because of the Hanlin incident. He was reluctant to enter the cabinet. Moreover, his father was not in the cabinet, so he and Mr. Shen were afraid that he would be busy all the time, so I..."

"Why do you think Zhang Taiyue suddenly added someone to the cabinet before? Who else should I choose? But he chose Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing?"

Zhang Siwei also knew that he was in the safety of the Zhang family alone, and hoped that his sons could grow up as soon as possible. But seeing Zhang Taizheng's desire to speak but stop, he knew that the eldest son must have only guessed halfway.

"Shen Shixing has always had a good relationship with Zhang Taiyue, but Ma Ziqiang is different. He offended Zhang Taiyue before because he tried to protect the two Hanlins who opposed the robbery. He added the two to the cabinet because he left, and I was the only one left in the cabinet. He was even more afraid that someone would raise Gong and Yin Shidan! But he also wanted to comfort me a little, so he chose Ma Ziqiang. In this way, others praised him for being generous, and I felt at ease because Ma Ziqiang was a marriage."

Generally speaking, the new Jinshi may not be from a wealthy family before passing the exam, but since he has become a high-ranking official, the choice of marriage between his children is naturally different. Zhang Siwei's eldest daughter married Ma Ziqiang's son, and the two families are in-laws. This is because Ma Ziqiang and Zhang Siwei have been colleagues in the Hanlin Academy for a long time, and they are both from the northwest. However, the two people's personalities are different, so if Zhang Siwei and Ma Ziqiang are really the first-class friendship, it is impossible to say. Because of this, Zhang Taizheng did not want to make his eldest sister difficult, so he didn't even want to go to find Ma Ziqiang.

At this time, he was scolded by his father, but he was still a little dissatisfied and couldn't help but whisper: "But Mr. Ma didn't say anything when his father was sent back..."

"That's because Feng Bao was firmly watching me at that time and had no ability to explain the whole story to him! But since you are outside and can talk from the eunuch in the palace and piece together the general details, you should go to find this in-law. You should know that this is related to Zhang Taiyue's absence and the balance between the cabinet and the Silijian. Even if Ma Ziqiang is not my in-laws, your eldest sister's father-in-law will consider it carefully and stand on my side. Isn't this much safer than finding a slicker person like Qin Yiming? After returning to his hometown for three years, you are just conspiring!"

Zhang Taizheng finally woke up, and at this moment he couldn't help but feel ashamed to raise his head. However, now the big mistake has been made, he had to repeat the words that Wang Fulin said when he came to find him shyly and humiliatedly, and then said with fear: "Dad, will Wang Fulin take this opportunity to chase and fight again and take the opportunity..."

"He is Zhang Taiyue's man." Seeing Zhang Taizheng's face full of confusion after hearing this sentence, Zhang Siwei said in a stronger tone, "The reason why he did not hesitate to have a breakup with Wang Daokun is that he must firmly stand on Zhang Taiyue's side is because he understands that his career has been marked with the word Zhang from the beginning, and he knows that he is Zhang Taiyue's man. Because of this, before Zhang Taiyue left Beijing, he had already made it clear that the three cabinet members were the main ones. Even if I was suddenly plotted against Feng Bao, and Wang Fulin would say such things as public than private in the court. In addition to Chen Sanmo, it provides those big men with a benchmark against Feng Bao."

"Dad is saying that even if we do nothing, he will not add any harm to the point of being a slaughter. Instead, he will do it..." Before he finished speaking, Zhang Taizheng's heart sank when he saw Zhang Siwei's affirmative expression.

He did something smart!

Seeing that Zhang Taizheng was in a state of dismay, Zhang Siwei knew that if he blamed him again, his eldest son would be depressed and depressed for a long time. Moreover, Wang Fulin might not do anything to him this time, but he would definitely take revenge on Zhang Taizheng. He didn't even have to take action himself. As long as the words of criticizing Zhang Taizheng for being unfilial in the inn before were spread, Feng Bao, who had already had a grudge against him, would further spread rumors and completely ruin Zhang Taizheng's reputation.

His eldest son was trapped in Wang Fulin again and again, and he already had an inner demon. This time, he took a wrong step and would probably take it for the rest of his life!

Despite his regret, regret and resentment, Zhang Siwei did not show any of it. Even Zhang Taizheng proposed to stay in the house to serve the disease, but he did not refuse. He soon called Doctor Jin in again. Although he was still trapped in the mansion to recuperate, Zhang Taizheng's return finally made him know a lot of news that happened outside, and he no longer caught blindly like before. Therefore, he keenly felt that the reason why Feng Bao did not take further measures after sending him home to recuperate was not just because he was frustrated in the court discussion before, but probably there were other reasons.

For example, the person who framed him with such an anonymous letter had already revealed his flaws!

If he had a choice, Zhang Siwei's mastermind who most wanted to make him fall to such a level was Wang Fulin. In that case, he would have the means and methods to fight back, but now he no longer had such extravagant hopes. Since Feng Bao must have offended him, he naturally put his hope on the little emperor Zhu Yijun.

However, although he was never stingy because of his wealthy family, he was quite willing to inform the eunuchs, but in order to avoid arousing hostility from Feng Bao, he never dared to hand over people like Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng. At this moment, he passed the people he had dealt with in his heart, and finally he could only focus on the middle and lower eunuchs.

"But after all, can everything be done when I recover from my illness?"

Wang Fulin, who caused an uproar in the evening that evening, finally returned home after working in the Censorate for three consecutive days. Although he had not been home for the past three days, things outside were one after another, and in the end, even Zhang Taizheng had come out to plot against him. He was really exhausted. If Gao Xiaoren had not been stupid, even if he could not have started a rashly and fought with Qin Yiming, he would have been suspicious. After getting excited and having dinner, he would immediately take a shower. When he finally went to bed, he didn't even want to move a finger.

When Xiaobei entered the house, he heard even snoring. Even if there were so many words to say to him, it turned into a sigh. She was holding a letter from home that had just been sent from Huizhou. She originally planned to read it for her husband, but at this time she could only sit on the edge of the bed and dial the lamp cover that had landed on the ground to her.

The letter was written by her daughter-in-law Shen, so the beginning was the father and mother Jin An, who looked extremely subtle. However, when she saw Shen write about the letter that when did her brother-in-law, Ah Mao, turn over, when would she crawl, when would she often cry, and when would she squeak, her brows gradually spread out, but her eyes turned a little red.

After so many years of marriage to Wang Fulin, she has the first child. Both men and women are the most precious. But now, her mother can only put the child in her hometown and hand it over to her parents-in-law, go to Beijing to accompany her husband, and throw the responsibility of being a mother and daughter-in-law aside. If we meet again in the future, the son will already call people and speak. Will he feel extremely strange when he looks at their parents?

However, she really couldn't let go of Wang Fulin, and she really couldn't let go of her husband who was too good at causing trouble and too personal...

Xiaobei gently stroked Wang Fulin's unshaven chin with his hands. Thinking that he often shaved his beard after returning to Beijing and had no intention of maturity at all, she finally lost the interest of reading the letter, so she simply folded it and put it in the drawer under the bed, and then took off her clothes and went to bed. However, Wang Fulin took the outside side as always, and when she had to step over his body and sleep in, she inevitably made a little movement. Therefore, when she finally lay down, she heard a sound like a dream coming from the pillow.

", I'm almost ready..."

Xiaobei thought it was her own movement that woke Wang Fulin up, but when she looked at her head, she saw her husband sleeping evenly, and there was no sign of awakening. She then breathed a sigh of relief. However, she leaned against him and replied seriously: "I'm not worried. As long as you are there, everything will definitely be fine. No matter where you go, I will follow you!"

A night of dreams, when Wang Fulin opened his eyes, it was not dawn. He fell asleep after eating last night. Although he didn't know the time, the maids and servants outside did not get up, and he knew it was still early. He was sleeping on the other side of the bed, tiptoed over and got out of bed. Just when he was about to put on his clothes, he turned his head and saw Xiaobei holding the big pillow tightly. He couldn't help but smile and pressed her slightly frown brows, and then quietly went down to the ground. When he pulled his shoes to the outside room, he couldn't help but feel ashamed when he saw the sword hanging on the wall.

Now as the chief censor, **** went in and out of the Censorate and other yamen. The swords he wore every day when he was away were less and less useful. It's really a pity for Tan Lun's collection...

When he was excited, Wang Fulin changed his clothes in a few seconds. After reaching out and taking off the sword, he danced his sword in the yard in the dark sky, and sweating all over his body. When he finally pulled the sword, he felt that the resentment and anger accumulated in his heart for several days were all expressed cleanly. After banging the sword body, he heard a pleasant whisper, and he thought in his mind that Jin Bao, who was already a son-in-law of the Shen family, often went to the Shen family to ask for martial arts. It is important to know that the uncle and nephew of the Shen family are all masters, who can be both literary and martial, and are much stronger than those weak scholars who have no power to tie a chicken!

When he turned around, he saw Xiaobei wearing clothes and standing at the door. He stood in front of the door with his sword in his arms and said with a smile: "How about it, let's practice together?"

Xiaobei was just watching the fun, but when he heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "You wait!"

When Yan's mother held up the window and saw the two flying figures in the yard outside, she couldn't help but laugh, and then turned around to stop Jiayi and Jiawen who were about to go out. These were the two new girls she brought besides Fangrong and Fangshu around Xiaobei.

"Hongshu didn't go to court today, let them relax for a while and don't disturb them!"
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