Chapter 161 Family Infight (Part 2)

As Xu Changqing's Taoist state deepened, his understanding of various magic arrays in the Dao map and his improvement in the Nine-Rank Dao made his magic weapon more and more proficient and more powerful. Although the bamboo was just an ordinary green bamboo, under Xu Changqing's operation, the material of the pillar has completely changed, and the bamboo is filled with almost solid wood spirit energy. If it is used in Xu Changqing's hands, its power is no less than those best magic weapons. Compared with the dry bamboo before, this bamboo stick is much stronger now.

Xu Changqing saw that it was too late and night had already fallen. The dark clouds in the sky filled the sky, and felt that it was time to go to the ancestral temple to see it. When he was about to get up, he suddenly heard footsteps outside the building. When he opened the door, he saw Zhang coming over with a meal box several floors high.

"Xu..." Zhang saw Xu Changqing standing at the door and wanted to call him, but he didn't know what to call him.

Xu Changqing smiled indifferently and said, "You might as well call me Changqing! The name Xu is the surname of his master, so I will follow his surname."

Hearing Xu Changqing's words, Zhang looked happy and tears couldn't help but burst into tears in his eyes. She turned her face, wiped her tears, smiled and put the food box on the ground, then took out all the refined side dishes, and said, "I heard from the servants that you haven't eaten yet, so I specially made a few side dishes for you, but I just don't know if it suits your appetite."

Xu Changqing looked at the side dishes underground and suddenly asked, "Have my mother eaten these dishes before?"

Zhang nodded and said, "When the lady was happy, she liked to ask me to make these side dishes for her the most."

A warm current flowed out of Xu Changqing's heart. He sat on the ground and took the chopsticks handed over by Zhang. He tasted every side dish. Even the braised pork that he had never eaten before was eaten. He put down the chopsticks until he tasted all the dishes.

At this time, Zhang suddenly said, "Changqing, tell me the real cause of the lady's death!"

Xu Changqing was slightly stunned, then said calmly: "Why do you think my mother didn't die of illness?"

Zhang smiled bitterly and said, "Although the lady and I were named Master and servant, they were like sisters. And we grew up together, even my ancestors and two masters did not know her character. The lady is very arrogant and extremely strong. After suffering such a great humiliation, she had the desire to die at that time. How could she live as safely as you said!

"It seems that my mother has a close sister." Xu Changqing felt a little relieved for her mother, and then said bluntly: "Indeed, my mother died long ago! And it was more than 20 years ago, before I was born."

Xu Changqing then repeated the truth that he had told the two elders of the Zhou family. Zhang felt heartbroken and tears flowed downwards. Then he looked hateful and said, "All this is blamed on Zhou Ranfeng's lineage. If it weren't for Zhou Ranfeng's introduction, Shen Yangming wouldn't have come to the Zhou family to be a western class, and the lady wouldn't have fallen in love with the man surnamed Shen. If Zhou Ranfeng hadn't instigated him from the side, the lady wouldn't have been driven out of the house by the master and eventually died in a foreign land."

"Zhou Ranfeng? It's that third cousin!" Xu Changqing asked with a gloomy face.

Zhang said in pain: "Who else can be so vicious except him!"

"Since you already know that Zhou Ranfeng has participated in these things, why don't you ask him for justice?" Xu Changqing said coldly: "As far as I know, that third cousin was later promoted to the chief foreign affairs manager by the old master of the Zhou family. Until now, he still holds real power in the Zhou family and is glorious."

"Oh, you don't know anything! The master and the others actually want to avenge the lady, but..." Zhang seemed to have something unspeakable, paused for a moment and said, "It's not that they don't want it, but they don't dare. If Zhou Ranfeng is punished, the entire Zhou family will collapse!"

"How do you say this?" Xu Changqing frowned slightly and asked.

"Although the Zhou family seems to be the head of the direct line, in fact, the real one is under the direct line. Apart from the Zhou family, most of the industries that maintain the fundamental Zhou family belong to the sidelines. Zhou Ranfeng is now the head of the sidelines." Zhang hesitated for a moment, and then told the truth: "The sidelines of the Zhou family have always been eyeing the Zhou family's direct line. Under Zhou Ranfeng's operation, they spared no expense to tempt the young masters and ladies of the direct line to develop various bad habits. If it weren't for the young master Zhenglin later, Zhou Zhuang would have fallen into the hands of the people in the sidelines."

After hearing Zhang's words, Xu Changqing showed a sneer on his face and said, "Okay, very good! I didn't expect that the reason why my mother died was the Zhou family's internal strife." Then he looked at Zhang coldly, with the previous warmth no longer in his eyes, and said, "Who told you to say these words? I think they should be the two masters of the Zhou family!"

When Zhang heard the sound, his face suddenly turned pale, and he hurriedly said, "What I said is the truth, you must believe me!"

"I believe you are telling the truth, but your motive is not simple." Xu Changqing felt a kind of fatigue that he had never felt before, and said with a little sadness in his tone: "You or the two masters of the Zhou family want to use my hatred for the cause of my mother's death to retaliate against the Zhou family's side. I originally thought that the Zhou family could still have something worthy of my nostalgia, but now I seem to be wrong." As he spoke, his expression became extremely cold and he said to Zhang: "Aunt Zhang, it is not too much to call you Auntie according to your relationship with my mother! I hope you don't come to Hanyue Xiaoyuan again. At least during the period when I lived here, please pack up your things and leave now!"

"Changqing, I..." Zhang wanted to explain urgently.

However, Xu Changqing did not mean to listen. She immediately used her body skills and rose up from the ground, disappeared instantly from Zhang, and flew towards the ancestral hall. Zhang did not see Xu Changqing's whereabouts clearly, but saw Xu Changqing suddenly disappear, her face suddenly became ugly. She sat on the ground and sobbed for a while, then packed up the dishes on the ground and walked out staggeringly. At that moment, she seemed to have grown a lot older. After Zhang left Hanyue Xiaoyuan, the two elders of the Zhou family who had already been waiting outside the garden gate came up and asked urgently about the situation, but Zhang stared at them angrily and said, "If you ask me to do this again, I will die in front of the old lady!"
Chapter completed!