Chapter 021 His poor cub
"Don't eat so fast, be careful not to choke."
Seeing Zhang Qiling like this, Zhang Moyu thought that he was living a hard life outside with one meal hungry.
Although in his time, members of the tribe would be allowed to live in the wild for ten years when they turned 100, and no one else was allowed to help during that time, but because of the teaching and training in various skills they had received before that, no one really did badly.
Now, when he first saw such a pitiful kid, Zhang Moyu couldn't help but feel pity for him while worrying about the family's basic education.
"What's your name? Do you know what's happening with the Zhang family now?"
He wandered around for two years before he found a clue by chance and found Zhang Qiling. Zhang Moyu had some vague guesses about the current situation of the Zhang family.
He found that the coverage rate of Zhang family members outside the family is approaching zero, and there are no contact points for family members outside the family in major cities. There are only two possible reasons for this phenomenon.
One reason is that the population is small, with maybe only two or three cats left.
The reason for this situation is easy to find. Exorcising evil spirits is dangerous and if you make a mistake, casualties can easily occur.
There are also members of the tribe who are indifferent in nature and have difficulty in giving birth. As the concentration of spiritual energy decreases, the Qilin bloodline gradually becomes dormant and their lifespan decreases, eventually causing a lack of successors in the tribe.
Another situation is that a major change occurs, which leads to the destruction of the family, or the concentration of bloodline decreases sharply, and after a few generations it becomes obscured by the public.
There are many reasons that could lead to this situation, including enemies who covet their family bloodline, evil natural disasters that are beyond human control due to a series of coincidences, secret attacks from other scattered bloodline owners, attacks from both inside and outside by those in power and outsiders, and so on.
However, it was useless for Zhang Moyu to ask. Zhang Qiling, who had lost his memory, also had no idea about the current situation of the Zhang family. He could only get a glimpse of it from the occasional fragments in his memory.
"Zhang Qiling, I don't know."
After giving a brief answer, Zhang Qiling lowered his eyes and stared at the dead leaves on the ground bathed in moonlight. His gaze was a little absent-minded, and his thoughts drifted to who knows where. His mouth was still bulging as he chewed the food.
Zhang Moyu, who has only been back for two years, is not optimistic about the current situation of the clan, let alone Zhang Qiling, who has been alone on the road to searching for his memories for so many years?
He had already prepared himself for the worst situation in his family.
Meeting Zhang Moyu this time was beyond his expectations.
He had originally planned that this was a trap specifically targeting him, thinking that even if it was a trap, his enemies should know his past or have information about other members of the tribe.
It was worth it for him to get hurt a little more just to get the news.
Although judging from the clues found so far, he has lost his memory more than once, and each time he loses his memory he has to start over again. Zhang Qiling often feels confused and helpless, but he has never stopped.
Because deep in his memory, a faint voice told him that he still had a very important task to do and that he had to take good care of his people...
"You are... the current patriarch of the Zhang family?"
He remembered that before he took the throne, the old patriarch had set up a scheme for Xu Fu, the imperial tutor who wanted to plot against them. From then on, until the scheme was resolved, all subsequent patriarchs would use the name "Zhang Qiling" in public. He was the second in line.
Unexpectedly, the name "Zhang Qiling" has remained until now. Zhang Moyu didn't know whether it was because the plan had continued until now and had not been completed, or whether the family had mistakenly regarded this name as a part of the inheritance during its two thousand years of inheritance.
But... is even the clan leader in such a miserable state?
Furthermore, according to clan rules, when the clan leader goes out, he should be accompanied by at least six personal guards. If the original twenty-four personal guards died unexpectedly, at least twelve clan members would follow him. Unless the clan members were completely wiped out, the clan leader would never be left alone...
The original bad prediction seemed to have become a reality. Zhang Moyu's heart sank. Seeing Zhang Qiling who was also in a low mood, he wanted to say a few words to comfort him, but he opened his mouth and couldn't say anything.
Zhang Qiling seemed not to notice that he was hesitant to speak, and nodded slightly at him, then continued speaking in a rather calm tone.
"Amnesia, I don't remember. I'm looking for it too."
"It's okay, I'll be with you from now on."
Zhang Moyu suppressed the sadness in his heart and gave him a gentle smile, thinking that he should change the subject now and not always talk about these sad things with the child.
He sat closer and pulled over the hand that Zhang Qiling had cut and bled from, which was wrapped in bandages. He took out the medicine bottle from the Qilin bracelet and began to untie his bandages, wanting to re-bandage him with better medicine.
"Speaking of which, your anti-tracking skills are quite good. When I was the clan leader, children your age were the most energetic in the family. They were often chased and beaten by the older generation. Even those who hid themselves were not as good as you.
I followed you around for two or three months before I finally found you."
"Um."
Zhang Qiling responded dully and let him remove the bandage and re-bandage it.
What he kept in his heart and didn't say was that in the first few years after he lost his memory, he was often hunted down by people from an unknown force wearing human skin masks.
During that time, Hei Xia Zi took him to hide from place to place, saying that he had gone through untold hardships to rescue him from these people, and after rescuing him, he raised him for a long time before he became a human being.
Although Hei Xia Zi's intention in saying this was to get him to give him all the money he earned in the future, Zhang Qiling also realized that if he fell into the hands of that group of people, he would definitely not have a good ending, so he focused on studying the ability to hide his tracks, and later no one could follow him.
"You seem to be here with other people. Are you in trouble? Do you want me to help you?"
It seems that their goal has not been achieved yet. So much blood was lost at the beginning. Zhang Moyu was a little worried about his condition.
"Need not."
Although the two are now related, Zhang Qiling does not trust Zhang Moyu too much for the time being and refuses his help.
The two of them were silent. Zhang Moyu applied the medicine to him and bandaged it carefully again, then stuffed most of the remaining ointment into Zhang Qiling's pocket.
Zhang Qiling, who had already finished the third cake and seemed a little full, froze slightly when his hand reached out, but did not take out anything else.
Seeing that he had nothing else to say, he stood up and was about to go back.
"Wait a minute, take these two leftover cakes with you. They can be kept for a long time. Take them out and eat them when you are hungry."
Zhang Moyu rewrapped the remaining two pancakes and placed them in Zhang Qiling's hands.
This kind of dry food cake specially made by the Zhang family can give people a strong sense of fullness and is especially effective in resisting hunger.
He saw that Zhang Qiling could still eat three more after dinner, and thought that he was the kind of person who could eat a lot, so he thought of giving the leftovers to him so that if he didn't have enough breakfast tomorrow, he could still have a few bites and not go hungry.
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