Sima Lang, who was appointed by Cao Cao, was reporting his duties in Yecheng at this time. After he had not been at Sima's home for a long time, he learned about the relationship between Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua, he was very worried about Zhang Chunhua.

He knew that Sima Yi was exhausted due to the fact that he was mixed with military and national affairs and family trivial matters, so he planned to go out and mediate the relationship between the two himself.

For Sima Lang, Zhang Chunhua is a special existence, and more of it is guilt and self-blame for what happened back then.

Zhang Chunhua, who had never known him for so many years, respected him as his own brother, so he would naturally be convenient for him to speak.

Sima Lang, who was standing at the door, saw Zhang Chunhua helping Sima Zhao sew clothes. Seeing that she was full of worries, Sima Lang reached out and knocked on the door gently. Zhang Chunhua raised her head and saw that it was Sima Lang who was back, and a long-lost smile immediately appeared on her face.

"Brother...why are you back?"

She put down the needle and thread in her hand and stood up to meet the door. Sima Lang looked at her with a kind smile as usual:

"Of course I'm back. You are my sister. Besides, I haven't seen my two good nephews in a long time."

When Zhang Chunhua heard that Sima Lang was worried about Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, he quickly prepared to go out and call them:

"They should be playing in the front yard, I'll call them to come..."

Before she could finish speaking, Sima Lang interrupted her softly:

"I've seen them just now, and I'm here to see you."

"I... I'm pretty good lately, don't worry, brother."

Although Zhang Chunhua intends to leave with the army for the first time, he intends to deliberately continue to conceal the problems between him and Sima Yi, Sima Lang, who knows the details, still sees her thoughts at a glance:

"I raised you by myself when you were in your infancy. Will you see if you have any worries?"

Seeing Sima Lang mentioning this, Zhang Chunhua obviously didn't want to answer the conversation, so he lowered his head and turned around and returned to the collapse.

Sima Lang followed in and sat opposite her, lowered his head and sighed:

"I have been a match between you and Zhongda. I thought you two could live happily together for the rest of my life, but I never thought that there were so many things in the period when I was away."

After saying that, Sima Lang raised his head and looked at Zhang Chunhua's eyes and advised:

"Brother knows that when I advised you to agree to let Zhongda marry Miss Fu, it was already a great harm to you. Later, you had a friction with Zhongda again because of Yuan Mai's incident. From your point of view, Big Brother fully understands what you did, but sometimes Big Brother also hopes that you will understand Zhongda more, after all... he wants you to consider much more."

After hearing Sima Lang's words, Zhang Chunhua, who had always pushed all the mistakes on Sima Yi and closed his heart to him, realized that he seemed to have not truly understood Sima Yi and did not consider the problem from his standpoint. Therefore, his regretful expression couldn't help but look on her face.

Seeing that Zhang Chunhua was already reflecting on himself, Sima Lang felt that the knot between them and their husbands should be resolved by themselves:

"Brother advises you to have a good talk with Zhongda. The ancients once said that couples 'quarrel at the head of the bed and the bed'. You and Zhongda have experienced a lot of hardships and life and death. So many ditches have passed, what else is there to be scary?"

I have to say that Sima Lang's persuasion was somewhat convincing to Zhang Chunhua, but the psychological trauma caused to her by Fu Ruoxin and Yuan Mai cannot be healed in a short while. Thinking of this, she suddenly found that Sima Lang was about to travel far to Wu, so she wanted to take this opportunity to leave home temporarily to calm down:

"Brother, I want to go south with you..."

This idea was unexpected to Sima Lang. To be fair, except for Sima Yi, the one who did not want Zhang Chunhua to be damaged the least was Sima Lang. If it were normal, he would never agree. However, he thought about it and left here and jumped out to think carefully to sort out the relationship between her and Sima Yi. Moreover, Sima Lang's position was to mobilize military funds in the rear, and would not get involved in the front line of war and blood flowing, so he let go:

"However, Shi'er and Zhao'er cannot live without their mother. Are you willing to leave them?"

As a mother, Zhang Chunhua naturally couldn't bear to part with her two sons, but after so long, she had a deep understanding of Fu Ruoxin and believed in her character. She could feel at ease when she handed over Sima Shi and Sima Zhao to Fu Ruoxin.

When Sima Lang told Sima Yi that he was going to take Zhang Chunhua to Ruxu with him, he couldn't help but feel a little worried, but Sima Lang comforted him and said, "So many things in a short period of time make Chunhua breathless. You should also give her a certain amount of space to think about it carefully, and perhaps it will easily open her heart."

Although she felt reluctant and worried, Sima Yi was relieved to hand Zhang Chunhua over Sima Lang to take care of her.

At this time, in the Wuqi Temple in Qishan, southwest of Yecheng, the old beggar who was taken care of by Zhang Chunhua, was focusing on what was engraved on the bamboo slips. Soon he noticed something strange behind him. He put down the bamboo slips and turned to face the "Liu Ji" who appeared at some point, and asked in a cold tone: "What are you doing here?"

"Liu Ji" saw that the old beggar seemed to not welcome him, but he was not angry and laughed:

"No matter how I say that I am also the benefactor who helped you reunite your father and daughter. You are not suitable for me, right? Zhang Wang..."

Zhang Wang snorted coldly and then touched the crutches on the ground and stood up:

"Don't talk about yourself like a great charity. The reason you do this is just to use us to help you deal with the Sima family like Yuan Mai. I, Zhang Wang, are not the kind of person who can fool you."

"It would be too sad to use it. After all, the enemies we have to face are consistent, right?"

Regarding the words "Liu Ji", Zhang Wang seemed to have no room for refutation:

"Next, let's see how Chunhua chooses..."

Before leaving, Zhang Chunhua thought of the old beggar who had often visited Wuqi Temple in Qishan. She thought that she might not be able to come back for a long time when she went to Juchao this time, so she wanted to visit her last before leaving.

After preparing some winter clothes and food, she came to Wuqi Temple alone.

"Old sir?"

When she walked into the temple as usual, she found that the old beggar did not seem to be here, and the grass she slept every day was piled up with shabby bamboo slips. Zhang Chunhua was very curious that the old beggar actually had the habit of reading, so Zhang Chunhua went up to put food and clothing next to her, squatted down to sort out the bamboo slips.

Curious, she unintentionally unfolded one of the volumes. After reading the content, she realized that these were not engraved with classics from famous historical masters, but notes engraved by someone.

"I really didn't expect that the old man actually had this writing style. I really underestimated him..."

After putting down the bamboo slip notes in his hand, he took out the previous volume with interest. Unexpectedly, it was the volume in her hand that made Zhang Chunhua feel extremely shocked and confused...

The beginning of the notes read an event in February of the first year of Chuping:

At that time, the head of Wen County Zhang Wang was ordered by Dong Zhuo to secretly monitor Sima Lang who returned to Wen County with his terminally ill brother. As a result, the secret letter he sent was discovered by Sima Lang. In order to avoid the leak of the news, Sima Lang bribed the bandit Zhang Kai and brutally killed Zhang Wang's family. Fortunately, Zhang Wang escaped by chance, but more than ten people in the Zhang family were killed by Zhang Kai...

As the content continued to deepen, Zhang Chunhua's hands holding the bamboo slips began to tremble involuntarily.

After all, what I saw in front of me was different from what Sima Lang and himself described at the time...

Since he had a clear and independent consciousness, Zhang Chunhua was wondering who his family was, why they were not by his side, and why he was adopted by Sima Lang.

This question became even stronger after following Sima Yi back to Tangyang. She finally couldn't help but ask Sima Yi and Sima Lang. When Sima Lang suddenly asked such a question when he was facing Zhang Chunhua's sudden question, he couldn't help but feel a little difficult to say, because what he was most afraid of and reluctant to recall over the years was the killing of Zhang Wang's family back then.

Fortunately, Sima Yi was also beside him, so he fabricated the false fact that the Zhang family was invaded by bandits and was tragically destroyed.

There is no doubt that Zhang Chunhua believed in the words of Sima Yi and Sima Lang at that time.

However, the content recorded in the current notes played a subversive role in the words of Sima Lang and Sima Yi.

"I didn't expect that I would see you again, nor did I expect that you would become a member of the Sima family..."

Just as Zhang Chunhua was indulging in the extremely shocking notes, Zhang Wang walked from behind with a cane and sat cross-legged: "You are so old...Daughter..."

This sentence instantly destroyed Zhang Chunhua's heart. She didn't want to accept such a basisless fact, and she was even more unlikely to accept that her brother who had taken good care of her for many years was the culprit of the Zhang family's destruction...

She gritted her teeth and threw the bamboo slips in her hand to the ground:

"You're talking nonsense! This is not true! I finally understand why you took the initiative to get close to me. It turns out that your real purpose is to use me to harm the Sima family. Who are you!"

Faced with Zhang Chunhua's sharp vision of his motives, Zhang Wang nodded with a smile:

"I am really worthy of being my daughter. I reacted so quickly... You are right. I did approach you on purpose. The reason I took Yuan Mai in was because he met you. All this is to prevent you from being deceived by Sima Lang's brothers."

However, Zhang Chunhua was not convinced by his words. At this time, she still firmly believed in her husband and brother:

"Do you think I'll believe what you said?"

The result of not believing in what he said was also under Zhang Wang's expectations. He pulled out a short knife from his arms. Zhang Chunhua thought he was angry and wanted to be unfavorable to him, so he involuntarily took a step back:

"What do you want to do?"

The scene that Zhang Chunhua expected did not appear. Zhang Wang pulled out the dagger and slashed his palm, then placed his palm on the side of the water jar filled with clear water, and blood fell into the clear water drop by drop. He then raised his head and looked at Zhang Chunhua and said, "If you really believe in your heart that what I said is a lie, then do you dare to gamble with me?"

At this time, Zhang Chunhua was nervous. She decisively rejected Zhang Wang's proposal and turned around to leave:

"I won't do such stupid things with you, so you can do it yourself in the future..."

Just as she turned around and walked a few steps, Zhang Wang, who was sitting behind her, shouted loudly:

"Are you afraid? You are afraid that once what I said is the truth, then you will face the painful choice of your closest relatives becoming mortal enemies. If you think doing so can make you feel at ease for the rest of your life, then you can leave!"

Zhang Chunhua, who was standing at the entrance of the temple, clenched his fists, struggled for a long time, chose to turn around and return to Zhang Wang, took the dagger in his hand and cut his left palm.

Blood dripped into the water jar along his palm, and the next scene made Zhang Chunhua completely desperate:

My own blood is completely fused with the blood that Zhang Wang dripped in the water jar before...

Zhang Chunhua, whose eyes widened, could no longer avoid this cruel fact. She overturned the water jar and hugged her head with both hands and began to roar. She could no longer suppress the joy of seeing her father again and threw herself into Zhang Wang's arms:

"Father! It turns out that my father is still alive..."

After a brief reunion of father and daughter, Zhang Wang immediately pushed Zhang Chunhua in his arms forward:

"The Sima family has an irreconcilable grudge against us. Now that you marry Sima Yi is a great opportunity. You can use your identity to kill their brothers to avenge your mother and the innocent people in our family..."

Although he had verified his father-daughter identity with Zhang Wang, Zhang Chunhua still couldn't believe the matter of Sima Lang's command to destroy the entire Zhang family: "My daughter and her brother Sima Lang have been together for many years and found that he was a generous and humble gentleman, not like a traitor and evil person. How could his father know that Zhang Kai, who destroyed our Zhang family, was ordered by his brother?"

As soon as she finished speaking, footsteps came from behind Zhang Chunhua. She saw that Zhang Wang had turned her gaze to her back, so she turned her head and looked in the direction of his gaze. She found that Guo Pei was dragging a man's back collar on the ground, and she let go of her hand when she dragged it to the ground when she dragged it to the front of their father and daughter.

Looking at the man on the ground who was already dying and covered with scars, Zhang Chunhua looked up at Guo Pei, who had never lived for life, and turned to look at Zhang Wang. Zhang Wang knew what Zhang Chunhua was thinking, and stood up with a crutch and walked to the man who was lying on the ground, and knocked the man on the face with a crutch.

The unconscious man opened his eyes. When he saw Zhang Wang's face, he was so scared that his face turned pale. He moved his already scarred body regardless of everything and avoided him, looking like he was fooling around.

"It seems that so many years have passed, do you still remember what I look like, Zhang Kai..."

When Zhang Wang heard that the man in front of him was Zhang Kai, the executioner who had destroyed his whole family back then, Zhang Chunhua's pupils immediately magnified. The right hand holding the dagger couldn't help but increase the strength, as if he was about to crush the hilt of the dagger.

"It's not my business! Lord Zhang and you have no grudges. It was Sima Lang who asked me to do it! Please spare me..."

Before Zhang Wang and Zhang Chunhua could ask him, Zhang Kai pushed all the responsibility to Sima Lang in order to save his life.

Zhang Wang looked at Zhang Chunhua who was completely at a loss, walked up to her and looked down at her and said:

"In order to find out the truth over the years, I have been wandering around incognito and even broke my right leg. However, the emperor finally relied on his hard work. However, in order to let you hear the truth with your own ears, I did not kill him when I found him. Now, the people who killed your mother and even our whole family are in front of me, and I will leave him to you for disposal..."

When I think about the person in front of me, I have lost my mother's care and love since I was young, and my father has been displaced all year round to pursue him. My father and daughter have been separated for many years, and the murderous aura in Zhang Chunhua's eyes became stronger and stronger.

Her murderous eyes were staring at Zhang Kai's fearful eyes. After a long silence, she finally stood up and held the dagger in her hand and walked slowly to Zhang Kai, glaring at him with her cold eyes:

"I have a question to ask you at the end. Was it really Sima Lang who instructed you to destroy my Zhang family?"

Zhang Kai nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I'm willing to swear to the sky..."

"That's how..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Kai showed a very painful expression, because before the ending of the "swear" he said was dragged, the dagger in Zhang Chunhua's hand was quickly inserted into his heart...

Soon, Zhang Kai died in extreme struggle. After lying on the ground, Zhang Chunhua pulled out the dagger. Blood splashed on Zhang Chunhua's face from the wound. She roared and stabbed Zhang Kai with a dagger several times. The blood stained her hands and sleeves red...
Chapter completed!