Chapter 1306: The Daughter Abandoned During Escape (End)
But Xiang Yuanzhang wanted her to be full of affection for her hometown, so she couldn't show indifference to Qing'an City, so she asked cautiously and tentatively: "Yuanzhang, why are you suddenly interested in Qing'an City?"
Xiang Yuanzhang said with a gentle smile: "Because that is your hometown, I want to see if Qing'an City is really a place with many talented people and beautiful scenery to nurture a talented person like you..."
Hearing his words, Chang Shuzhen's face flushed. She couldn't help but be overwhelmed by his sweet words and believed him. However, when it came to returning to Qing'an City, she shook her head and said, "Qing'an City is indeed very good, but that was only before the massacre. After the massacre, I haven't been back. I don't know if it has been destroyed a lot and whether it has been rebuilt... Yuanzhang, maybe it's still a mess there. Why don't you go there?"
"No!" Xiang Yuanzhang blurted out. As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he had overreacted. He quickly picked up his smile and gently persuaded Chang Shuzhen, "Shuzhen, I really want to know more about the place where you grew up. I have missed more than ten years of your life. I want to revisit the old place to imagine what you were like when you were a child..."
He spoke with such affection that Chang Shuzhen was immediately moved by him and believed his words. She no longer cared about her fear of the massacre in Qing'an City and said shyly, "Since you said so, I can only go back with you to take a look."
Xiang Yuanzhang was delighted to see that she finally agreed. In fact, he went to Qing'an City not just to visit the place where Chang Shuzhen grew up, but had other purposes.
After the massacre, Qing'an City was in a state of anarchy for a long time, and the survivors were left to fend for themselves. The first officer sent to the city disappeared within a few days, so Qing'an City returned to a state of no one in charge. It was not until the second officer was sent that the city slowly began to return to a normal state of management.
During this period, because everyone knew that Qing'an City was impoverished after the massacre and there was nothing worth fighting for, no military or warlord wanted to gain actual control. As soon as the second commander took office, it was obvious that he wanted to bring Qing'an City back on track, so the military and warlords began to move.
As the son of the East China Army commander, Xiang Yuanzhang naturally wanted to investigate whether there was a need to take over Qing'an City, a place that needed to be redeveloped. However, such matters could not be made public, so it was reasonable for Xiang Yuanzhang to go to Qing'an City in the name of accompanying his fiancée back to her hometown, and no one noticed.
After returning home, Chang Shuzhen told her first wife Li Fupei that she and Xiang Yuanzhang were going back to Qing'an City. Li Fupei was a little worried: "Return to Qing'an City? We know everything about the current situation in Qing'an City. Can you guarantee your safety when you go back?"
"Of course I can, Mom. Don't forget whose son Yuanzhang is! Doesn't he need someone to protect him?" Chang Shuzhen said confidently.
Li Fupei nodded: "You are right, I forgot because I was in a hurry. Since your safety is guaranteed, I don't need to worry too much."
Then she suddenly remembered something, and a look of disgust appeared on her face. She said, "Be careful when you go back. Don't run into the third girl, or she might recognize you and pester you. That would be so embarrassing!"
"The third girl?" Chang Shuzhen thought for a long time before she remembered that it was her third sister who was claimed to have died of illness while fleeing, but was actually abandoned by her family. No one had mentioned her for a long time, and she had long forgotten this sister.
When she first heard Li Fupei mention this, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, as if to cover up her indifference and selfishness, and hurriedly said: "If my third sister was still alive now, how could I really ignore her? I have to take care of her..."
"Why do you care about her? And you want to settle her down? Even her own father doesn't care about her. Don't be silly. It would be fine if she died. If she doesn't die, your father will kill her with his own hands when she comes back!" Li Fupei said with disgust.
"This..." Chang Shuzhen was a little embarrassed. She frowned, as if she was struggling with something. "Mom, if I really don't recognize her, won't it make her even more desperate?"
"She is desperate, this is her fate! She can only blame herself. I tell you, don't be soft-hearted!" Li Fupei was afraid that her daughter would really bring Chang Shichu back, so she hurriedly warned her.
Under the strong request of the eldest lady, Chang Shuzhen had to "helplessly" promise not to bring her third sister back to Shanghai and embarrass her family.
Afterwards, she and Xiang Yuanzhang returned to Qing'an City.
Looking at the city gate of Qing'an City, Chang Shuzhen felt as if she was in another world. There were quite a few people entering and leaving the city gate. Although it had not yet returned to the hustle and bustle before the massacre, their spirits were still good, and not as depressed and decadent as Chang Shuzhen had imagined.
"It seems that Qing'an City has almost recovered." Xiang Yuanzhang said with some surprise when he saw this scene.
"It's been so long since the massacre, it's normal to recover." Chang Shuzhen laughed dryly, then remembered something and said excitedly, "I'll take you back to my old home. I wonder if the house is still there..."
Chang Shuzhen and Xiang Yuanzhang soon returned to the gate of the Chang family's house. She said happily: "Yuanzhang, my house is still fine! I wonder if there is still anyone living in it?" She immediately went forward and knocked on the door.
The door opened quickly, and a man looked at them warily and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
"I, I'm looking for Chang Shichu, is she there?" Chang Shuzhen realized that she was impulsive when she was asked, but she quickly remembered her third sister whose whereabouts were unknown, so she used her as an excuse to ask.
"Chang Shichu? I don't know him! This is the Zhou family, there is no one with the surname Chang!" After saying that, he closed the door and ignored everyone.
"It seems that my house has been occupied by someone." Chang Shuzhen said to Xiang Yuanzhang embarrassedly.
"That's normal. They probably thought this was an ownerless house." Xiang Yuanzhang said without surprise.
Since it was no longer their home, the two of them left and stayed in a restaurant that seemed to have just opened, and then asked about the situation in the city.
Unfortunately, the boss behind the restaurant is Chang Shichu, who was bored and started a new business.
When she was tasting food in the kitchen, she saw Chang Shuzhen, who still looked like a gentle and noble rich lady. She was accompanied by a tall and handsome man. The couple was obviously living a good life.
Chang Shichu did not go out to recognize Chang Shuzhen. Their sisterhood had been severed when she was abandoned by her blood relatives. Now they were just strangers, so there was no need for them to recognize each other.
So, until Chang Shuzhen left Qing'an City, she didn't know that she and her own sister had been so close.
(End of this chapter)
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