lerbook #578 - Zhang Gaoqiu
#578 - Zhang Gaoqiu
Chapter 575 Zhang Gaoqiu
Zhang's words couldn't hide her inferiority complex.
Only by truly living in this era could one understand the difference between ordinary people and powerful families.
As the great family that controlled 70% of the shipping in the world, the Shen family of Jinling was unspeakably wealthy and powerful.
Their influence spread throughout the land, making them a top-tier force.
The number of their descendants holding official positions was countless, otherwise, they would not have had the opportunity to marry into the Zhang family of Kyoto.
At least in Jinling City, the Shen family was the wealthiest and most influential.
As an ordinary village woman who had been instilled with various feudal ideas for many years, Zhang's anxiety in the face of the wealthy Shen family was imaginable, like an ordinary person facing a top leader in later generations.
Zhang was only Zhang Kecheng's later wife, and had no kinship with the Shen family, so how could she not worry?
Zhang Chen, of course, knew Zhang's concerns.
Looking at the worried Zhang, Zhang Chen comforted her softly, "Don't worry, you raised us siblings from childhood.
You are our own mother.
I will handle everything, so don't worry, I will arrange everything."
Zhang Chen's attitude was firm, not allowing Zhang to refuse, and Zhang could only obey helplessly.
The group followed the Shen family's carriage from a distance.
Zhang Chen said to Zhang Fei, who was leading the horse, "Keep a distance, lest we cause any misunderstandings."
Hearing this, Zhang Tuowei slowed down the horse's pace, and after the Shen family's carriage disappeared from sight, Zhang Chen observed the wheel tracks on the ground and followed unhurriedly.
After about an hour, the Shen family's carriage stopped in front of a lake, and a group of servants set up tents and began preparing for a picnic.
Zhang Chen stopped the carriage in the distance, and the family waited quietly for Jiang Nan's arrangements.
Jiang Nan was chatting and laughing with a woman in red.
With Zhang Chen's eyesight, he could easily see that the woman in red was about a year younger than Jiang Nan, but her face was exquisitely beautiful.
The woman in red and Jiang Nan were very close, and their relationship seemed unusual.
Around the two women were seven or eight young masters, who were also young, the older ones being seventeen or eighteen years old, and the younger ones being fifteen or sixteen years old.
Among the young masters, one stood out the most, and Zhang Chen took a few more glances at him.
That young master was surrounded by wisps of black air, and he was obviously not an ordinary person.
"What an evil aura, it's rare!
It's even heavier than the gloomy aura on that guy who controls the Yama Banner."
Zhang Chen was a little curious.
However, he didn't think much about it, after all, even if the power and supernatural powers possessed an evil aura, it didn't necessarily mean that the person was evil.
"Are those the Shen family members?"
Cheng Yu lifted the curtain and looked at the young men and women picnicking in the distance, showing a curious look.
"Yes, they are the Shen family members."
Zhang Chen nodded.
Seeing the other party wearing luxurious clothes, Zhang Tuowei said, "They are even better than what we wore in the Inspection Department."
"That's for sure, the Shen family of Jinling is the richest in the world, so naturally they don't lack money."
Zhang Chen replied.
"Let's unload the car!
We won't need this carriage after we enter the city, and we don't need many of the items in the car either.
We'll be starting a new home in the city."
Zhang Chen said with a smile.
The family began to unload the car, picking and choosing the items that must be carried.
Zhang Tuowei, who was on the side, looked at the fifth-order demon horse and said, "Brother, your horse is getting uglier and uglier.
It looks like a donkey, and a bald donkey at that.
The hair on this guy's body is about to fall out."
The fifth-order demon horse had already gained intelligence.
Hearing Zhang Tuowei say it was ugly, it immediately became unhappy, and arched its head directly, causing Zhang Tuowei to stagger, and Zhang Tuowei pointed at the demon horse and cursed: "Good beast, how dare you be rude to me.
When this grandma's cultivation level improves, I will definitely extract your soul."
Zhang Tuowei cursed and cursed, and Zhang Chen was too lazy to pay attention to him, just picking out a few sets of his own clean clothes, and then waiting for Jiang Nan's arrangements.
After the family was ready, they waited quietly, and then they saw small boats coming from a distance, and then they saw a group of young men and women leading their family servants onto the small boats.
Jiang Nan said something to everyone, but did not get on the boat, but watched the group of young men and women leave, and then waved to Zhang Chen and his party from afar.
Zhang Chen led his skinny horse and said to Zhang and others, "Let's go!"
The family walked towards the gathering camp, and before they got close, servants wanted to stop them, but Jiang Nan stopped them and directed a group of servants to disappear into the dense forest.
"It's you?"
Jiang Nan's little maid 'Rice Cake' showed a look of surprise after seeing Zhang and his party.
"Miss Jiang, we are going to trouble you again."
Zhang hurriedly stepped forward after seeing Jiang Nan, wanting to kneel down and kowtow, but was stopped by Jiang Nan: "We are all family, no need to be polite."
After seeing Zhang Chen, Jiang Nan's face couldn't help but blush slightly, and then said:
"I have temporarily dismissed the servants in the camp, you can hide in the carriage, and Rice Cake will take care of you at the carriage."
Jiang Nan said.
Zhang said thousands of thanks again after hearing this, and then the family got into Jiang Nan's carriage.
Zhang Chen was about to get into the carriage, but was stopped by Jiang Nan: "Cousin Zhang, you have a relative here, do you want to recognize him?"
"Relative?"
Zhang Chen, who wanted to step into the carriage, stopped and turned his head to look at Jiang Nan with a surprised expression.
"Before, when everyone gathered here, there was an oldest teenager, do you still remember?"
Jiang Nan said.
Zhang Chen recalled the young man who was surrounded by a cold aura, and nodded: "Of course I remember."
"This person is a disciple of the Zhang family in Kyoto, and is the seventh direct son of the current head of the Zhang family, named: Zhang Gaoqiu!
He is your cousin, do you want to recognize him?"
Jiang Nan looked at Zhang Chen with a smile.
Zhang Chen and Zhang Gaoqiu had three points of similarity between their eyebrows, after all, they were bloodline families, and the power of bloodlines was so strong that it was inevitable that family members would look similar.
"I am a criminal, I am afraid that I recognize people, but people do not recognize me."
Zhang Chen smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said: "There will be opportunities to recognize each other later."
He still had resentment towards the Zhang family in Kyoto in his heart.
His family was exiled to the north, and the Zhang family in Kyoto did not ask or say anything, and secretly colluded with the Prince of Pingbian in an unclear manner, and even his father was demoted from Kyoto, involving various secrets, and he did not want to have any involvement, lest he involve his family.
He felt in his heart that the Zhang family in Kyoto was not reliable, and may not have good intentions towards himself and others.
Jiang Nan was a smart person, and naturally knew Zhang Chen's difficulties, so she smiled and changed the subject: "Then forget it!
There will naturally be a time to recognize each other in the future.
But you came at the right time this time, there is a creation, you just caught up.
The inner courtyard of the Mysterious Academy in Kyoto has opened, specializing in recruiting geniuses with mysterious bloodline power to join it, to help the Dasheng Dynasty solve all kinds of creations.
Your cousin Zhang Gaoqiu, when he participated in the selection in Kyoto, was blocked out because of insufficient strength.
His coming to Jinling this time is to participate in the selection in Jinling.
In Jinling and other major cities, there will be branches of the inner courtyard of the Mysterious Academy.
If you can perform well in it, you can get the opportunity to enter the Mysterious Academy in Kyoto to study.
You must seize this opportunity, I heard people say that if you can join the Mysterious Academy, you may have the chance to return to your ancestors' bloodline, or get the legendary mysterious recognition of the master, this opportunity is rare, you must not miss it.
And I heard people say that there is also the opportunity to enter the legendary spiritual world with your physical body, you must seize it."
Zhang Chen's face was surprised when he heard this, and then he nodded: "Thank you, Sister, I know."
Jiang Nan nodded with satisfaction, then turned around and stepped on the small boat, and her figure disappeared from Zhang Chen's sight.
Zhang Chen saw Jiang Nan's back disappear, so he stepped into the carriage.
The space inside the carriage was very wide, not to mention his family of five, even if there were five more people, they could easily sit down.
The little girl Rice Cake sat in front of the carriage, boredly dangling the green grass back and forth, and poked her head into the carriage to look at Zhang Chen curiously: "Are you really alive?
I haven't heard of people who can be resurrected after death."
Zhang Chen looked at the tiger-headed little girl and tapped her little head with his finger: "You little girl are quite curious."
Rice Cake rubbed her head and said with a curious face: "People are just curious, I haven't heard of people who can be resurrected after death!"
Zhang Tuowei, who was on the side, looked at Rice Cake and was very kind.
He went up to talk to Rice Cake: "My brother's methods are simply earth-shattering, what is resurrection?
Even those gods are just ants that can be crushed to death at will in front of my brother."
"I think your young lady is good, and my brother is also good.
Let them get married, and it will be good for you in the future."
Zhang Tuowei started running the train with his mouth again, listening to Zhang Chen's black lines, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
His little sister loves to brag and fool people.
He remembered the scene when Zhang Tuowei pretended to be a ghost in the small village and fooled the children in the village to offer food from their homes.
Now that he has finally come into contact with people, he has started running the train with his mouth again.
Too lazy to pay attention to the two of them, Zhang Chen was thinking about the Mysterious Academy that Jiang Nan said, which made him quite moved.
"I should go to the Mysterious Academy, the Mysterious Academy must not lack mystery, if I can collect some useful skills, that would be great."
Zhang Chen was excited in his heart, he knew that it was not easy to come into contact with mystery these days.
Although he has many skills, Zhang Chen does not dislike having more skills, he wishes he had countless skills.
"I will live in seclusion in Jinling for ten years, enough to make my skills reach the twelfth level, and then take the opportunity to become a disciple of the academy, and see if there are any surprises inside."
Zhang Chen was happy in his heart: "It doesn't delay at all!"