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"Going to Wu? You are not planning to return to Fujian?" Xiao Zhen was puzzled.

Zhen Wuduo sighed: "Even if I tell you now, you won't understand. You are too young. I won't say it anymore."

Xiao Zhen: "Then you can go to Wudi by yourself. I'm very busy."

Zhen Wuduo: "Okay, okay, I said, I want to go see my daughter. I'm old now, and I don't know when I'll fall asleep and never wake up. I can't die without knowing what my daughter looks like."

Xiao Zhen became interested: "You have a daughter? You actually have a daughter?"

As everyone knows, Zhen Wuduo has more than a hundred sons, real or fake, but no one has ever heard of him having a daughter.

Zhen Wuduo sighed again: "Everyone thinks that I like sons, so I have so many sons. In fact, they are all wrong. Having too many sons is useless. One or two capable and filial ones are enough. The extra ones are all money-losing goods."

Xiao Zhen sat down next to Zhen Wuduo, pulled out a short knife and started to wipe it. The cold light reflected his stern brows.

Zhen Wuduo glanced at his expression and felt in his heart that how great it would be if this boy was his own son.

The first time he saw Xiao Zhen, he fell in love with him and wished he could stuff that arrogant little brat into his woman's belly and then give birth to him.

Of course, even if he had more money, he couldn't do it.

So he chose to cheat and deceive people and made the young Xiao Zhen his godson.

He gave Xiao Zhen a badge, with which he could collect money from Wanjinhao every year.

But for a full ten years, Xiao Zhen never used that badge once. It was not until he came to the capital and saw the resurrected Xiao Zhen that the guy asked for a loan of his money for the first time.

The boy was talking about borrowing, the kind of borrowing that requires repayment.

Zhen Wuduo sighed again. He found that he always sighed whenever he was with this boy.

"My father had eighteen sons, but in the end all his wealth fell into my hands. Guess why?"

Xiao Zhen knew some past events of the Zhen family. From their ancestors, the Zhen family had more boys than girls, and most of the boys did not live long.

This is a very common thing for any family that makes its fortune by being a pirate. The tip of the knife is like blood and life is like morning dew.

"That's because you are the luckiest and most ruthless one among them." Xiao Zhen said.

Zhen Wuduo shook his head: "No, no."

At this point, he lowered his voice seriously and said, "I'm only telling you this, you have to keep it a secret, this is our family secret."

Xiao Zhen laughed: "Okay, I'll keep it a secret."

Zhen Wuduo sighed again: "When I was young, I was very good-looking, white and fat, and my father liked me very much.

So when I was five years old, my brother tied me up with stones and threw me into the sea.

Fortunately, not only did I survive, I was rescued by a fisherman, and I became that fisherman's son.

Later, my brothers and sisters fought and quarreled. They got powerful weapons and poisons, and used them all on their own brothers. When I was eighteen, guess what, of my father's eighteen sons, only two were left, one was me, and the other was my third brother. As for the brother who threw me into the sea, he had already died.

My third brother somehow found out that I was still alive, so he broke into the fishing village, captured my adoptive parents, and forced them to hand me over. In order to force me out, he killed Xiao Cui, who was engaged to me.

I went out to sea to fish that day. When I came back, I saw Xiao Cui's dead body and her parents who were beaten to death.

That was my first time killing someone. I rushed over like a madman with a harpoon in my hand. He probably didn't expect me to go crazy, so he was caught off guard and was stabbed by me.
I killed him and I was also seriously injured. Just when I thought I was going to be chopped into pieces by his men, guess what, my biological father showed up!
Isn't it ridiculous? He knew clearly that his son was going to kill his other son, but he didn't stop him. Instead, he watched us kill each other.

He saved my life and hugged me and cried my heart out, bah!

As you all know, I took over everything of the Zhen family later on, and brought them to the mainland to build a new world.

My father was mad at me. He wanted me to get married, but I refused. One day, I brought back seven women with big bellies. Those women were flirting and you could tell at a glance that they were prostitutes. I told my father that these women were sold cheaply by the brothel owner because they accidentally got pregnant with their patrons' children. Now I brought them back to let them have children. The children in their bellies will be your grandchildren. From now on, they will all have the surname Zhen, and I will write them in the family tree.

The women surrounded him and called him "father-in-law" and pulled his hand to touch their stomachs. He died without being able to catch his breath.

Xiao Zhen was stunned. Aren’t the children born by these women Zhen Lao Da to Zhen Lao Qi?

Legend has it that these seven are Zhen Wuduo's biological children.

Zhen Wuduo guessed what he was thinking and said smugly, "That's right, none of the things born by these cousins are my own. Later, the children born by those women, in fact, I don't even know if some of them are mine, but these seven are definitely not mine. At that time, I was still a virgin.

If I tell you, you won’t believe me, but I stayed chaste for Xiao Cui for more than ten years, until I was in my thirties, when I met Yu Zhu, and then I got married.”

Xiao Zhen frowned: "Have you ever been married?"

Among the five "mores" of Zhen Wuduo, one of them is the number of women.

However, Zhen Wuduo had neither a wife nor concubines, and none of these women were from good families; most of them were prostitutes.

A rare look of desolation flashed across Zhen Wuduo's face: "It's been almost forty years. That year, I already had the idea of developing onshore, but in our line of work, how can we change careers all of a sudden? So I still wanted to make money in the water, so I went to Wudi and wanted to take over several docks in Qingjiang.

At that time, most of the people in Qingjiang were known as the White Sharks in the Waves. They were ruthless characters. Although I brought a lot of people with me, we were outsiders after all, and we were beaten badly. I was also separated from my brothers.

I was seriously injured, and it was Yuzhu who saved me. You don’t know, when I opened my eyes and saw her for the first time, I thought I had met a fairy.
Later, Yuzhu and I got married, and we lived a happy life in that small village.

Until one day, my men found me, and I learned that when I came to Wu, something happened in the base camp in Min, and those bastards wanted to set up a new camp while I was away.

I asked my men to wait for me at the entrance of the village and I would leave tomorrow. But when I turned around, I saw Yuzhu looking at me in disbelief.

Then I remembered that I didn't tell her my real identity, even my name was fake.

I persuaded her for a long time, swore to heaven, and told Yuzhu that I had decided to mend my ways and do good deeds, and would never engage in violence again.

Yuzhu told me that she was pregnant and asked me to keep my word for the sake of our child.

The next day, I left. I told Yuzhu that I would be back in three months at most, but I was gone for a whole year.

I was tricked by those bastards and narrowly escaped death. I hid on a remote island. It was a year later when I finally regrouped and took everything back.

I couldn't leave for the time being, so I sent someone back to Wu to pick up Yuzhu. After calculating the date, we found that our child was already born.

The people I sent out came back soon. They didn't find Yuzhu because a few months ago, there was a flood in Wudi and the village was gone.
In the following years, I kept looking for Yuzhu, but what I finally found was the news that she was dead.

An aunt whom I had met in the village before told me that when the flood happened, Yuzhu was still in confinement after giving birth. She took our daughter and fled with the villagers. Yuzhu's parents were no longer alive. As an orphan with a child, she was often bullied by the refugees. One day, those starving people wanted to snatch our daughter and roast her for food. In order to protect her daughter, Yuzhu fought with them.

When the aunt and her family rushed over, Yuzhu was already covered in bruises.

Before she died, she asked the aunt to take care of her daughter. But under the circumstances at the time, the adults couldn't even get enough to eat, let alone a baby who was only a few months old?

At that time, a family happened to pass by there. They were a young couple and their child. Perhaps because they were both mothers and could empathize with each other, the wife of the couple immediately told Yuzhu that she wanted to adopt the child.

Yuzhu's body was collected by that couple. Later, I followed the guidance of that aunt and found Yuzhu's grave. I discovered that there was a tombstone on the grave. The person who erected the tombstone was named Fu Xiaoying.

When I married Yuzhu, I used the alias Fu Long. Everyone in the village thought my last name was Fu. Before I left the village, although I told Yuzhu my real name, she probably didn't tell the villagers.

After Yuzhu died, the couple once asked the aunt, and the aunt told them that my surname was Fu, so Fu Xiaoying must be the name of my daughter.

The couple must have come back after settling down and erected a monument for Yuzhu in the name of my daughter."

Zhen Wuduo was talking until his mouth was dry and he stopped cracking melon seeds. He looked at Xiao Zhen eagerly. He was thirsty.

But his eldest son did not have the self-consciousness to serve tea and water to his godfather. Instead, he asked unhappily, "You even know your daughter's name. You haven't looked for her in all these years?"

Zhen Wuduo lowered his head like a child who had made a mistake: "I looked for her, but I couldn't find her. In the process of looking for her, I was careless and was tricked by someone and lost my virginity. Later, I returned to Fujian and sent people to continue looking for her in Wu. This search lasted for ten years, but there was no news of her. During this period, I was deceived several times and found several fake daughters.

As a result, this matter was discovered by my enemies. I was looking for someone, and they were looking for someone too. I was looking for someone to find my daughter, and they were looking for someone to blackmail me.

So later I stopped looking for him and even spread the word that I didn't want a daughter, I only wanted a son. When the woman who came to me with a bulging belly, I also told her that if it was a son I would acknowledge him, but if not, I would not.

After all this, the matter of my search for my daughter was put to rest, and even my enemies thought it was a misunderstanding.

As for me, I dare not look for her anymore. I console myself by thinking that she is very happy in her adoptive parents' home."

This time, Xiao Zhen finally brought him a cup of tea as if to show his kindness.

"Do you dare to look for her now?" Xiao Zhen asked.

Zhen Wuduo drank the tea in the cup and said, "I am old now. I have lived a ridiculous life. I killed my brother, angered my father to death, and turned the genealogy of the old Zhen family into stinking manure. It feels good, right? I feel great. But if I have any regrets in this life, it is that I have let down three people.

One is Xiao Cui who died for me, one is Yuzhu who I married, and the other is my daughter whom I have never met.

Ah Zhen, please accompany me to Wudi. I am worried that if I die in Wudi, I will not have any relatives around me. No matter what, she is your sister. Although she is about the same age as your mother, she is still your sister. "

It was the first time that Xiao Zhen saw Zhen Wuduo begging for help. He couldn't help but ask, "Besides knowing that her name is Fu Xiaoying, do you have any other clues?"

Zhen Wuduo nodded: "The aunt said that she heard the wife tell Yuzhu with her own ears that her last name was Chen and her husband's last name was Shi, and that they both spoke with Wu accents."

Xiao Zhen finally agreed: "Okay, wait for the news. I'll take care of the things on hand and then go to Wu with you. But I can only give you half a year at most. After half a year, I must return to the capital."

In fact, even without Zhen Wuduo's request, Xiao Zhen was ready to leave the capital temporarily. Besides, the fish had already taken the bait, and it was time for him, the fisherman, to hide.

Zhen Wuduo was overjoyed and grabbed Xiao Zhen's hand: "Good son, godfather knows that you are the most filial."

Xiao Zhen pulled his hand back from Zhen Wuduo's clutches with a look of disgust: "How can you pull and tug at me? Can't you be more steady?"

Zhen Wuduo: I am already old, and now a little brat thinks I am not stable enough? Who can I go to for justice?

Zhen Wuduo suddenly felt some sympathy for Princess Jiayi and Prince Consort Xiao. No wonder when he introduced himself and said that he was Xiao Zhen's godfather, the two of them looked like they were gloating.

Zhen Wuduo now deeply suspected that the eldest princess and her husband had already been trained like dogs by Xiao Zhen.

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

This was the second time Zhao Shiqing left Liang. The last time he went to the capital, and this time he went to Wu.

A few days later, they arrived at a small town called Zhaoting.

This place is no longer under the jurisdiction of Liangdi and does not belong to any other vassal state. Compared with the places Zhao Shiqing has been to, Zhaoting looks very poor at first glance. It is a poor place.

There was only one inn in the town, which was shabby. It was raining when they arrived. It was raining outside and inside the inn as well. There were large and small clay pots and jars in the hall, and even a pot, all of which were used to collect rainwater. There was nothing they could do as the house was leaking.

Ling Bo quickly opened the umbrella that he had folded when he entered the door and used it to protect Zhao Shiqing's head.

Fortunately, the room they lived in did not leak, but when they opened the door, the damp air hit them in the face. (End of this chapter)