It's just that Xiang Yuanzhang wanted her to be full of affection for her hometown, so she couldn't show her indifference to Qing'an City, so she tentatively asked cautiously: "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 a place with many outstanding people, so that it can raise such a beautiful person like you..."
When she heard what he said, Chang Shuzhen's face felt hot. She couldn't help being overwhelmed by his sweet words and believed what he said. However, when it came to returning to Qing'an City, she still shook her head and said, "Qing'an City is indeed very good. But that was just before the massacre. After the massacre, I never went back. I don’t know if it was a lot destroyed and whether it was rebuilt... Yuanzhang, maybe it’s still a mess there, so why not go somewhere else? Have you gone?"
"No!" Xiang Yuanzhang blurted out. As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he had overreacted. He quickly smiled again and gently persuaded Chang Shuzhen, "Shuzhen, I really want to know more about your appearance. In a big way, I have lost more than ten years of your life, and I want to imagine what you were like when you were a child by revisiting old places..."
He spoke affectionately, and Chang Shuzhen was immediately moved by him. She believed her words and ignored her fear of the massacre in Qing'an City. She said shyly: "You said so, then I I can only go back with you to take a look."
Xiang Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he saw that she finally agreed. In fact, he went to Qing'an City not just to visit the place where Chang Shuzhen grew up, but for another purpose.
Since the massacre, Qing'an City has been in a state of anarchy for a long time, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves. The first officer who was sent disappeared within a few days, so Qing'an City returned to ruins. It was in a human-managed state until the second officer was sent, and then it slowly began to enter a normal human-managed state.
During this period, because everyone knew that Qing'an City was destitute after the massacre and had nothing worth fighting for, no military or feudal faction wanted to gain actual control. As soon as the second chief took office, he obviously wanted to take over Qing'an City. Back on track, the warlords began to get ready to take action.
As the son of the commander of the East China Army, Xiang Yuanzhang naturally wanted to investigate whether there was any need to consolidate the wasteland in Qing'an City, but this kind of thing could not be disclosed carelessly, so Xiang Yuanzhang Going to Qing'an City in the name of accompanying his fiancée back to his hometown is very common sense and no one will pay attention.
After Chang Shuzhen returned home, she told the eldest lady Li Fupei that she and Xiang Yuanzhang were going back to Qing'an City. Li Fupei was a little worried: "Go back to Qing'an City? We know everything about the current situation in Qing'an City. Can you guarantee safety when you go back?" "
"Of course, mother, don't forget whose son Yuan Zhang is! Doesn't he still lack someone to protect him?" Chang Shuzhen said with confidence.
Li Fupei nodded: "That's what you said. I forgot about it in a hurry. Since your safety is guaranteed, I don't need to worry too much."
Then she suddenly remembered something, a look of disgust appeared on her face, and said: "Be careful when you go back and don't run into the third girl, lest she recognize you and pester you. How embarrassing!"
"Third girl?" Chang Shuzhen thought for a while before remembering that it was her third sister who claimed to have died of illness on the way to escape, but was actually abandoned by her family. No one mentioned her for a long time, and she had long forgotten about this sister.
When she first heard Li Fupei mention it, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. As if to cover up her indifference and selfishness, she quickly said: "If the third sister is still alive now, how can I really not care about her? She must be settled well... …”
"What do you care about her? How do you care about her? Her biological father doesn't care about her. Don't be stupid. It would be okay if she dies. If not, your father will kill her with his own hands when he comes back!" Li Fulipei said in disgust.
"This..." Chang Shuzhen was a little embarrassed. She frowned, as if she was struggling with something, "Mom, if I really disown her, wouldn't it make her even more desperate?"
"She is desperate, she is desperate, this is her life! She can only blame herself, I tell you, you must not 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 no choice but to promise not to bring her third sister back to Shanghai to 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 going in and out of the city gate. Although they had not returned to the bustle before the massacre, they were in good spirits and were not as good as Chang Shuzhen. As depressed and decadent as imagined.
"It seems that Qing'an City has recovered to some extent." Xiang Yuanzhang said with some surprise when he saw this scene.
"It's been so long since the massacre, and it's normal to recover." Chang Shuzhen laughed dryly, then remembered something and said excitedly, "I'll take you back to my old home to see it. I didn't know that house is still there. Not here..."
Chang Shuzhen and Xiang Yuanzhang soon returned to the front door of Chang's house. She said happily: "Yuanzhang, my home is still fine! I wonder if anyone lives inside?" She immediately went to knock on the door.
The door opened quickly, and a man looked at them warily and asked, "Who are you two 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 soon remembered her third sister whose whereabouts were unknown, so she used her as a reason to ask.
"Chang Shichu? I don't know you! This is the Zhou family, there is no one named Chang!" After saying that, he closed the door and stopped paying attention to the people.
"It seems that my house has been occupied by someone." Chang Shuzhen said to Xiang Yuanzhang sarcastically.
"This is normal. They probably thought this was an ownerless house." Xiang Yuanzhang said without any surprise.
Since it was no longer their home, the two of them left here and went to stay at a restaurant that looked like it had just opened, and asked about the situation in the city.
Unfortunately, the owner behind this restaurant is Chang Shichu who got bored and started business again.
When she was testing dishes in the back kitchen, she saw Chang Shuzhen. She still looked like a gentle and noble young lady with a lot of money. She was accompanied by a tall and handsome man. He was handsome and beautiful, and she was obviously living a good life.
Chang Shichu did not go out to meet Chang Shuzhen. Their sisterhood had long been broken when she was abandoned by their blood relatives. Now they are just strangers, so there is no need to meet each other.
Therefore, Chang Shuzhen didn't know that she and her biological sister had been so close until she left Qing'an City.
