Being a Lady of an Influential Family: 38、Ms. Zhuo’s Extra Story: Shaohua is full of romance (10)
Zhang Bi just came back from a foreign place, but he grew up in the capital, and even though he has been there for more than a year, he is not at all unfamiliar with the capital. His wife was also from a famous family in the capital, and she was an extremely elegant woman.
Mrs. Zhang Shao is already three or four months pregnant. Although she still can't see anything, she has already acted with obvious caution. Fu Zheng looked at Mrs. Zhang Shao who was standing beside Zhang Bi, and couldn't help but look at Zhuo Lin.
Of course Zhuo Lin knew what he was thinking, but it was hard to say what he was doing in front of outsiders. She just gave him a faint glance.
What surprised Zhuo Lin and Fu Zheng was that Zhang Bi did not only bring his wife to the banquet, but also Zhang Zuo, the second young master of the Zhang family. It's not that Zhuo Lin felt uncomfortable seeing Zhang Zuo. After all, she and Zhang Zuo weren't even engaged at the beginning, not to mention that Zhang Zuo got married earlier than her. In fact, the two of them had nothing to do with each other.
It's just that the second young master of the Zhang family has always been very low-key, and Zhuo Lin just met Zhang Bi twice at school before leaving the capital, and she stayed behind Zhang Bi without saying a word. Haven't had any conversation with him. Today, Zhang Zuohui came with Zhang Bi, which really surprised Zhuo Lin.
As for Fu Zheng, he doesn't know Zhang Zuo at all and doesn't care who he is.
"Alin, Brother Fu, please take a seat." Zhang Bi pulled his wife and smiled to the couple who had just entered.
Fu Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly because of his name, but didn't say anything.
Zhuolin smiled generously, "It cost the seniors money, congratulations to the seniors and Mrs. Sister-in-law."
Mrs. Zhang Shao smiled warmly and said, "We have heard about Sister Zhuo's demeanor in other places, but unfortunately I didn't see it with my own eyes in the capital. Everyone will communicate more in the future. Don't dislike me, Sister Zhuo."
Zhuo Lin smiled, "Mrs. Sister-in-law is joking, I will rely on you in the future." The two ladies looked at each other and smiled. Although their personalities and aspirations were completely different, they both had a good impression of each other.
When the two sat down, Zhang Bicai seriously introduced Zhang Zuo to the two of them.
Zhang Zuo is several years younger than Zhang Bi. He looks thin, pale and reticent. Zhuo Lin and Fu Zheng just glanced at each other and seemed to have no intention of making friends with them.
Seeing him like this, Zhang Bi couldn't help frowning slightly. His younger brother has been frail and ill since childhood, and has a quiet and introverted personality. It was better to follow him in the past, but this time I came back and found that he became more and more taciturn. His father was busy with official business and didn't have the time to take care of him, so Zhang Bi brought him out hoping that he could make more friends. However, although he visited a lot of people in the past few days, the results were not satisfactory.
Today, Zhang Zuo took the initiative to come. He thought it would be better, but he didn't want Zhang Zuo to still look like this.
"Azuo." Zhang Bi said solemnly.
Hearing his brother's slightly displeased voice, Zhang Zuo raised his head to look at the two of them, and nodded to them as if they had met.
Zhang Bi's face darkened slightly, and Mrs. Zhang Shao, who was next to him, pulled him to signal that there were still guests, and Zhang Bi sighed lightly and turned his head to the two of them to chat with Fu Zheng.
Zhang Bi and Fu Zheng didn't know each other. Zhang Bi was surprised when he heard that Zhuo Lin married Fu Zheng. After all, Zhuo Lin was the woman who rejected the Zhang family. He always thought that even if Zhuo Lin got married, the person she chose would be a rare dragon and phoenix.
It's not that Fu Zheng is not good enough, but Zhang Bi himself doesn't dare to say that he can do it. But in the eyes of the vast majority of people in this world, compared to those noble families, Fu Zheng is really nothing.
This is also the reason why Zhang Bi took the initiative to entertain Zhuo Lin and his wife. He was a little curious about what kind of man Zhuo Lin could choose among countless suitors.
At first glance today, Zhang Bi felt a little bit understood. Fu Zheng is indeed a rare and heroic figure. such a character.
Not to mention, Fu Zheng is still the deputy of the governor of Wang, who has monopolized the Jiangyong two states, and he is just over thirty years old.
Zhang Bi can naturally see that Fu Zheng is by no means a person who lives under people for a long time. Sooner or later, this person will definitely be a hero who dominates one side.
With a calculation in mind, Zhang Bi became more polite to Fu Zheng.
At the banquet, they exchanged cups and exchanged their views on the current situation. After saying goodbye to the Zhang family, Fu Zhengcai couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
Zhuolin looked up at him, somewhat amused, "What's wrong? What's your opinion on Zhang Bi?"
Fu Zheng looked up at the vast sky, squinted his eyes slightly and said, "I have too many eyes and it's too tiring to get along with this kind of person."
Zhuolin raised her eyebrows, "Aren't you mocking me?" In essence, she and Zhang Bi are actually the same kind of person,
Fu Zhengyi stretched out his hand and took her into his arms, turned to block the night wind for her, and said, "How about that? You are my wife, who is he?"
Zhuo Lin couldn't help laughing, raised her hand and took care of his messy collar and said, "This kind of person will inevitably be among the people you will deal with in the future, so you should get used to it earlier."
"I know." Fu Zheng was a little depressed. He didn't like people like Zhang Bi, and it was annoying to watch. It's a pity that Zhuo Lin is right, Zhang Bi is indispensable among the people he will deal with in the future.
Zhuolin smiled: "Go back and read the book I picked for you."
"Arlene, it's not like you don't know, I hate reading." Fu Zheng was dissatisfied.
"Then do you see it?" Zhuo Lin looked up at him and asked.
"Look!" Fu Zheng said, "Do you read it to me?"
Zhuolin couldn't help but chuckle, leaned forward and gently dropped a kiss on his cheek.
Actually, Zhuo Lin knows that although Fu Zheng looks a little big and doesn't like reading, he has his own way of doing things, otherwise he wouldn't be where he is today.
It's just inevitable that he will always worry about him, and he will make a few comments from time to time.
Fu Zheng stretched out his hand to wrap her in his arms, bowed his head and kissed her bright red lips.
For a long time, he lowered his head and rested his forehead against hers, and said in a low voice, "Arlene, Zhang Bi is about to hug his son, let's have a baby too?"
Zhuo Lin had a headache. She had guessed what he was thinking when he saw Mrs. Zhang Shao's expression earlier.
"Didn't you say you won't have children for the time being?"
Fu Zheng was also a little distressed, "Yeah, I don't feel relieved that you are alone in the capital. I originally thought that we could live together in two years."
Zhuolin pushed him close to her forehead, "Forget it, even if we live together, you can't be at home every day." Fu Zheng now spends most of his time in the army, even if Even if Zhuo Lin and him returned to the south, they couldn't be together every day.
Fu Zheng's eyes lit up, "Then ask my mother to take care of you?"
Zhuolin said, "Let's talk about it later."
Fu Zheng immediately became happy when he heard the words, "Then let's work harder!"
"..." Zhuo Lin was speechless.
Fu Zheng stayed in the capital for more than a month, and was urgently recruited back by Governor Wang a few days before the Chinese New Year. Fu Zheng was very dissatisfied with this. He originally planned to stay in the capital to accompany Zhuo Lin during the Chinese New Year.
Zhuolin is also very helpless, but of course she can't be too casual as someone's subordinate, so she can only persuade Fu Zheng, who was trying to delay the time, to go back on the grounds that she can go back to spend the New Year with her parents.
Fu Zheng originally wanted to take Zhuolin back to Yongcheng, but now that the year is approaching, Guan Zhuolin is busy, and it is too hard to go on the road temporarily and has to give up.
Fu Zheng was sent away, and Zhuo Lin had a quiet New Year in the capital.
Just after the new year, Zhuo Lin faintly felt that the situation in the capital was not very good. In the past two years, the contradictions between the emperor and courtiers and warlords in various places have become more and more intense. At the worst time, Xiao Zhu, who was the emperor, and the royal family of important officials in the court could no longer maintain the surface peace.
Xiao Zhu was also very helpless about this.
"Your Majesty is like this, does it really matter?" Zhuo Lin took a sip of coffee in a newly opened coffee shop outside Jingcheng University. The mellow but bitter taste made her frown slightly.
Xiao Zhu elegantly stirred the coffee in front of him and smiled, "For now, it shouldn't matter."
Zhuolin sighed slightly, not to mention that she was a little worried that Xiao Zhu might be usurped at any time.
"I understand some of His Majesty's thoughts, and Zhang Xiang also seems to support it, but..."
Xiao Zhu said with a wry smile: "But most of the dignitaries in the court and the royal family have objections."
Zhuolin nodded, looked at Xiao Zhu and couldn't help but said, "Actually...I don't understand, is it worth it, Your Majesty?" Reform is never easy, because it is destined to touch to the benefit of many in power. And Xiao Zhu, as the ruler of a country, is precisely the biggest beneficiary.
Xiao Zhu's expression was calm, "Arlene thinks, if this continues, how many years can An Xia last?"
Jolyn was silent.
Nowadays, generals from all over the world are embracing their own troops, and although no one has blatantly rebelled, they almost don't take the court seriously. As long as the warlords from all over the world have been reshuffled several times to expand their power, sooner or later someone will challenge the royal family.
Xiao Zhu put down the metal spoon in his hand, looked at Zhuo Lin and said: "Just last year, there were seventeen local wars in Daxia, four generals who were separated from one side died, and three of them were annexed. At present, there are still ten generals in Daxia who support their troops.
Zhuo Lin's expression became a little more solemn, Xiao Zhu smiled and said, "I guess Fu Zheng also finds Wang Derui disliked?"
"..." How would she say that Fu Zheng didn't like the surname Wang because he delayed his Chinese New Year in the capital?
After thinking about it, Zhuo Lin still said, "Fu Zheng he..."
Xiao Zhu raised his hand to stop her and said, "I know, he doesn't mean that right now." It's hard to say whether it will happen in the future.
Zhuo Lin was silent, and had to admit what Xiao Zhu said, every general was not rushing to rebel at the beginning.
Xiao Zhu sighed and said, "Actually, I discussed this topic with Fu Zheng and Long Xiao a few years ago. It's a pity... I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint them."
Zhuolin said: "This is not something you can decide."
Xiao Zhu smiled and said, "Fu Zheng will come back today? Would you be upset to hear that I invited you for coffee?"
Zhuolin was a little helpless, nodded and said, "He's not that stingy either."
Xiao Zhu disagreed, "Really? Only you think so?"
A guard came in outside the door, walked to Xiao Zhu's side, leaned over and whispered a few words.
Xiao Zhu stood up and reluctantly said to Zhuo Lin, "I really have no time to spare. I'll go back first. Arlene, thank you for drinking coffee with me."
Zhuolin glanced at the coffee in front of him that he hadn't sipped. Daxia people still prefer tea. Although coffee is not a new breed, it has only really become popular in the past few years.
"Your Majesty's words are serious, walk slowly."
Xiao Zhu nodded, turned around and walked away.
Zhuo Lin was sitting in the shop, watching Xiao Zhu take people out of the car from the glass window. She realized with hindsight that Xiao Zhu seemed to have lost some weight in the past year. It was great.
After sitting in the cafe for a while, Zhuo Lin got up and left to go back to school to get something and hurried home.
As soon as I walked to the school gate, I saw Zhang Zuo and a young woman talking with their heads down. The woman turned her back to her and lowered her head as if she was sobbing. Zhang Zuo had a gloomy and impatient look on his face, but when he looked up and saw her, he was slightly stiff and quickly eased, but he was a little uncomfortable. Nodding at her.
"Second son Zhang?" Zhuo Lin thought about it and walked over.
Hearing someone coming, the girl immediately stopped crying, but the traces of crying just now could not be concealed.
Zhuolin looked at the two of them, "What are you two?"
Zhang Zuo lowered his eyes and said, "Mrs. Fu, what a coincidence."
The woman couldn't help but raised her head to look at Zhuo Lin when she heard the words, and then lowered her head again.
Zhuolin said: "Second Young Master Zhang, what a coincidence. You two... Is there anything I can do to help?"
Zhang Zuo shook his head, "No, this is a girl from a relative's family of Xing Xuemei, who came to the capital to marry. I got lost when I came out, I'll help find someone."
Zhuo Lin was a little surprised. When did Zhang Zuo become so helpful?
However, she is not familiar with Zhang Zuo, and she and Xing Wei have only met occasionally at some banquets. Just looking sideways at the woman, the woman hurriedly whispered: "Zhang... Second Young Master Zhang is right, don't bother this lady."
Zhuolin nodded, "That's good, I still have something to do, sorry."
Zhang Zuo said, "Mrs. Fu walk slowly."
Zhuolin said goodbye to the two and walked quickly to the school gate.
When I got to the door, I couldn't help but look behind me for some reason. There were no traces of the two of them at the door of the store where two people were standing. Zhuo Lin raised her hand and pressed the light between her eyebrows, feeling a little upset for some reason.