Daughter Reborn as the Head of the Family

Chapter 68 Illusion

Returning home?

Her in-laws?

But she has already made an engagement... She will get married in July next year!

Song Jinyue returned to Mingzhuxuan. Since Mrs. Shen was not in the mansion, the manager heard her mention that she wanted to leave the mansion. Although he was a little embarrassed, he still prepared the carriage according to the second lady's instructions.

The Duke of Guo has not returned from the previous court.

Song Jinyue still took Qiu Yun out of the house today.

She specifically ordered the driver to take the long street and went to Zhang Mansion in an honest and fair manner.

When the carriage stopped in front of the Zhang Mansion, Qiu Yun helped her young lady get out of the carriage, and the nuns of the Zhang Mansion welcomed Song Jinyue to the old lady's courtyard.

While walking along the corridor, Song Jinyue asked the nanny, "Is my aunt still in the house?"

The mother-in-law shook her head and replied, "Early this morning, Madam went to the palace to accompany the Queen, and Miss also came back before you."

Song Jinyue didn't ask any more questions, thinking that her aunt had specially replaced Cousin Zhi.

After entering her grandmother's courtyard, Mrs. Zhang ordered her personal steward, Aunt Jia, to guard the door in person. Inside the house, Zhang Dingzhi was having tea with her grandmother.

Aunt Jia lifted the curtain herself and invited the cousin in.

"Qiu Yun, just stay outside the door with Aunt Jia." Song Jinyue turned around and ordered Qiu Yun.

"yes."

She now entered the main room, and Grandma Jia slowly closed the door.

As soon as Mrs. Zhang saw her granddaughter coming, she hurriedly got up and came forward to ask questions. However, Zhang Dingzhi grabbed her grandmother and advised her, "Grandma, don't be anxious. Let my cousin have a sip of hot tea first."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Mrs. Zhang waved her hand and signaled Song Jinyue to sit in front of her.

Zhang Dingzhi personally brought tea to her.

Song Jinyue smiled and refused, "I just had tea on the way here. Cousin Zhi doesn't need to go to such trouble."

Zhang Dingzhi then put the tea in his hand on the table, "Then tell me quickly, what is going on?"

Last night, my cousin sent someone to send Dr. Xu and the old man who were knocked unconscious to Zhang Mansion. Now the two people are still locked in a secret prison.

The mother was worried that she could not be of much help, so she entered the palace and replaced herself.

Not many people know about the secret prison of Zhang Mansion.

Just a foot deep underground in the unused courtyard of the back house, there is a dark cell without windows.

At first, when our ancestors set up a secret prison in their mansion, they were worried that one day they would lose the emperor's favor and end up killing the nine tribes. This secret prison might be able to preserve a trace of the family's bloodline at a critical moment.

After all, the Zhang family has been military generals for generations.

Unlike civil servants who are thoughtful and considerate, military generals have always been more bold and bold. I am afraid that what I said that day will make the emperor angry.

"Girl Yue, what's going on?" Mrs. Zhang asked anxiously.

"Mr. Xu used my aunt's prescription to poison the dragon fetus. After I found out, I ordered people to keep an eye on the Xu Mansion. Yesterday, I heard that Dr. Xu left the city early and went to the place where he met the man in black. I thought, Xu

The imperial doctor must have gone to look for that person, so he sent people to guard them and captured the two alive."

Song Jinyue said everything, but Mrs. Zhang's heart trembled when she heard it, and Zhang Dingzhi frowned as she listened.

"Have you found him yet?" Mrs. Zhang asked after the person was imprisoned in a secret cell last night because of the smear campaign. No one had ever gone to see him.

Song Jinyue shook her head, "I came here today to interrogate Imperial Physician Xu."

"Why don't we call your cousin back for another trial?" Mrs. Zhang was worried. Her granddaughter is so fragile that she doesn't know how to interrogate prisoners.

But then I thought about it, now my granddaughter is so thoughtful. Just after she returned to Beijing, she was aware of the Queen's illness and secretly sent people to keep an eye on the Xu Mansion.

The granddaughter kept these things secret, and she kept it so tightly. If Xiang Wu hadn't come back yesterday and came to ask for a guard, Xie asked about it, and she concealed it from Xiang Wu and said that Song Jinyue was going to capture Dr. Xu.

Mrs. Xie and her mother-in-law were waiting for the letter in fear. They dismissed all the servants in the house early, fearing that if they wanted to bring someone back, Mrs. Zhang took her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xie and Aunt Jia, to the secret prison in person to wait.

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Until Xiang Wu came back with the two of them.

Only then did I learn some of the reasons.

Now that she has learned the whole story from her granddaughter, Mrs. Zhang has begun to explore her granddaughter a little bit. How on earth did Yunquan Villa raise her granddaughter to be like this... as if she has changed into a different person in the past five years?

"Grandma, don't worry, I can handle these things now." Song Jinyue comforted her grandmother.

Mrs. Zhang didn't stop her anymore.

He ordered his granddaughter Zhang Dingzhi to accompany Song Jinyue to the secret prison.

Along the way, Grandma Jia had already sent away the servants who were waiting on her. Therefore, no one in the Zhang family saw her young lady sneaking into the deserted courtyard in the backyard with her cousin.

After pushing open the abandoned door, Zhang Dingzhi closed the door and locked it.

Walking down the corridor, a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the bluestone floor.

The weeds that grew on the bluestone floor in the yard are now dry, but they are still ankle deep.

A courtyard of depression and dilapidation.

The door was closed tightly, and the oil paper on the window was covered with dust.

When the two of them reached the door of the room, Zhang Dingzhi motioned to her cousin to step back. Then she opened the door. Fine dust floated in the air, making her throat feel itchy.

After Song Jinyue entered the room, Zhang Dingzhi closed the door. There were desks, tables, chairs and soft couches in the room, and green gauze curtains were scattered on both sides of the soft couch.

Zhang Dingzhi walked over to the soft couch, and a black lacquered round stool was placed beside the couch.

She stretched out her toes and tapped the bluestone slab under the round stool twice.

"Rumble"

There was a sound, and the soft couch was slowly moved backwards, and a dark passage suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

Zhang Dingzhi took out the fire fold from his arms and blew it, then took an oil lamp from the desk beside him, lit the lamp with the fire fold, then looked at his cousin and said, "Cousin, let's go."

Song Jinyue nodded, said "Yeah", and followed Cousin Zhi into the secret passage.

Both of them wore veils on their faces.

After entering the secret passage and going down twenty or thirty steps, there was another long corridor that could only accommodate one person. After walking for another ten meters, a wooden door suddenly appeared, and at the end of the corridor, there was another wooden door.

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There happened to be two secret rooms in this secret prison, and Imperial Physician Xu and the man in black were imprisoned separately.

When Zhang Mansion turned off the lights, a guard came forward to bring food to the two of them.

Zhang Dingzhi pointed to the wooden door in front of him and said, "Mr. Xu."

After saying that, he took out the key from his arms and opened the wooden door.

I saw Imperial Physician Xu with his hands tied to a chair. They hadn't seen him for a few hours. The current Physician Xu looked extremely decadent, no different from a beggar in the market.

"Mr. Xu, have you thought about it?" Song Jinyue asked softly. There were no windows in the secret cell, and her voice had a slight echo floating in the secret cell.

Doctor Xu raised his head suddenly, without any light in his eyes, and stared at Song Jinyue dully.

Silly and stupid.

It actually caused Song Jinyue to have some illusions. Could it be that Imperial Physician Xu was stupid?

(End of chapter)