As the carriage slowly stopped at the door of Zhang's mansion, Zhang Yian still felt like a dream and got off the carriage in disbelief.

"Brother Yi'an, let's go. In addition, I will send someone to send you the scriptures and books you need to study, so there is no need for Brother Yi'an to spend any more money." Gu Shun lifted the curtain next to the window of the carriage and shouted to him.

Zhang Yian looked back and bowed deeply to Gu Shun, "Thank you Brother Gu for sending you off, Yian is very grateful."

"Driving" the coachman shook the reins.

The carriage slowly drove away from Zhang's mansion.

Until the carriage left, Zhang Yian looked at the waiter of Yuelai Teahouse behind him carrying the tea leaves and made a special trip to pack the food from Yuelai Teahouse, and his nose felt sore.

He was so happy that he had become Gu Shun's subordinate and was recognized by Gu Shun. He was finally able to make a name for himself in the future.

I want to tell my mother about this good news immediately and make her happy.

At this time, the guard guard at the door saw Zhang Yian and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sixth Master, the head of the family asked you to come back and go to him."

"I see."

After Zhang Yian finished speaking, he said to the clerk who came to Yuelai Teahouse behind him: "Take these things here, I'll take them in later."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, this thing is heavy, be careful." The waiter said, handing over a three-layer lacquered wooden lunch box to him.

Zhang Yian held tea in his left hand and lunch box in his right hand, and walked through the side door of the servant and entered the Zhang family's mansion.

The Zhang family is much smaller than that of Gu's mansion. From the main door to the backyard, there are only four entrances.

After all, not everyone can be as rich as the Gu family, and has so much land and houses in Jiangnan City, where every inch of land is valuable.

Zhang Yian and his mother's residence was in the villa where they entered the second gate. The house was not big, and it was even less than the houses of some servants in the mansion.

This starts with Zhang Yian's biological mother. She was originally a maid in the family. She was lucky because Zhang Peien was drunk all night.

I thought that this matter would pass, but I didn't expect that Zhang Peien would hit the ground. A few months later, the maid gave birth to a baby boy, which was Zhang Yian.

No matter what, Zhang Yian is also Zhang Peien's son, so his mother is also a concubine of the Zhang family because of her son.

But Zhang Peien didn't like her, and she was just a whim after being drunk.

After barely taking him a concubine, he never came to Zhang Yian's mother again, and he never even saw him again.

Although the big family is not as good as the palace, it is not inferior to the intrigue and factional disputes.

Seeing that Zhang Yian and his son were obsessed with the identity of a concubine and a young master, they could not get the care of the head of the family, and even the trusted people around the head of the family were not as good as those of the head of the family. Gradually, the servants at home treated them coldly.

A concubine who is in power is always excluded everywhere, let alone a large family with fierce competition.

Although Zhang Yian's mother was a wife and concubine of the Zhang family, she had to work like a servant to supplement the household income every day and save money to allow Zhang Yian to have a full meal.

Due to malnutrition, Zhang Yian was weak and thin since childhood. When he was a martial arts age, his brothers all came to teach martial arts by the Zhang family. His eldest and second brothers even came forward by his father to become the leader of Huo Pai of Shunfeng Escort Agency.

As an unpopular young master of the Zhang family, he has no future and status, and is even less than some family members of the collateral bloodline. Naturally, no one is willing to teach him martial arts.

Zhang Yian himself was not interested in martial arts, or dared not have any interest. He spent a lot of money on martial arts. In order not to make the already poor family worse, he flatly refused the path of martial arts.

He just wants to make money to support his family, and it is enough for his mother to live a life of food and clothing with him.

Over the years, the mother and son have depended on each other and endured humiliation.

Zhang Yian, who is only seven years old, has seen through many human feelings and developed a deep scheming and extremely tolerant character.

Since his mother taught him to recognize words since childhood, Zhang Yian's favorite things were to study, read hundreds of classics and business strategies, and think about studying in the future to get fame or buy a business.

My mother also supported him in studying, so she used the money she had saved to buy books for him to read.

I originally thought that such a life would last until Zhang Yian became an adult.

Unexpectedly, a turning point suddenly appeared.

Gu Shun, the son of the Gu family, went out to have fun in the city of Jiangnan. In order to win him over, Zhang Peien prepared to send his son to make friends with him.

Before his youngest daughter Zhang Guiqiu married him as his wife, consolidate the relationship between the Zhang family and the Gu family so that others can get into trouble and increase variables.

After all, the Gu family is famous. Not only is the business of the escort agency growing bigger and bigger, it has become the largest escort agency in Jiangnan Road. Mrs. Gu's business is also famous throughout Jiangnan. The various rare goods sold are still unmatched, and the business is naturally unparalleled.

A wealthy family is not enough to describe the wealth of the Gu family.

What really makes the Gu family unshakable is not only money, but the large number of warriors, disciples and Shunfeng Escort Agency under the Gu family are becoming increasingly high in the martial arts world.

In addition, the prefect of Jiangnan City had a strong relationship with the Gu family. Not only did he take Gu Shun as his godson, but he also let Gu Shun play in the government office.

A child is in and out of the important places in government halls like the government hall, and the officials in government halls are respectful to him, which is enough to see many opportunities.

The Hu people's official position was hereditary system, and the son of the Tartar prefect died of illness. In order to leave a legacy, the officials naturally knew that Gu Shun might become the future prefect, so they would treat each other with courtesy and try their best to please.

I am naturally eyeing the Gu family every day, especially Gu Shun's martial arts sects and aristocratic families.

The reason is that the Gu family is too special, with wealth, force, status and reputation in everything, and everyone wants to flatter and please.

The most important thing is that the Gu family has the magistrate of Jiangnan and the nobles in the capital to provide protection. Otherwise, if any family had such background and strength, they would have been deliberately rebelled, and they would have been cut off or directly exterminated.

It is absolutely impossible for the court to sit idly by and watch such families rise and threaten the rule of the court.

Gu Shun is the legitimate son of the Gu family and the only child. All this in the Gu family will be his in the future. If anyone brings him, his son-in-law, home, the family will naturally become prosperous.

Therefore, as soon as Gu Shungang showed up outside the mansion, he was ready to go. The family and forces that had coveted for a long time began to send people to contact him like a cat that smelled fishy. Zhang Peien naturally was not willing to fall behind.

However, after several observations, Zhang Peien found that Gu Shun was protecting him and stopped all the people who tried to get close to him.

Not to mention they were trying to please Gu Shun, they couldn't even get close to Gu Shun.

So Zhang Peien had a plan to get his son closer to Gu Shun with a friend's relationship, thus setting up a line and directly bringing the relationship with the Gu family closer.

Since you are friends, you must always have common topics and you must never have too many age differences.

Among his sons, they either were too old or had a rough personality, were not disciplined, and were afraid that their friends would not be able to make friends, and instead offend Gu Shun.

While anxious, Zhang Peien remembered that he also had a young son, Zhang Yian, who had not met many times since childhood.

Zhang Yian is only one year older than Gu Shun and is usually very calm and low-key, so he decided to send him to make friends with Gu Shun.

Perhaps it was God who favored him, but Zhang Yian actually made a conversation with Gu Shun. After a while, the two of them became familiar with each other and often played together.

What he didn't know was that he could be one of the few friends who could get close to Gu Shun among so many people was not because of how lucky he was, but because Zhang Yian's forbearance and ambition in his heart, he was attracted by Gu Shun, which made him think of taking Zhang Yian under his command.

So a mutual calculation has begun from the beginning.

Zhang Yian's life was completely changed because of Gu Shun's appearance. Because he had a conversation with Gu Shun, Zhang Peien was very happy. His youngest son had improved a little in the Zhang family.

He has also followed Gu Shun in the past few months, and has enjoyed the addiction of a rich young master. He has seen many things that he never dared to think about in his dreams, and his horizons have been broadened.

‘I must get a good exam and live up to Gu Shun’s grace and respect for me.’

Zhang Yian thought, and came to the door of the main house of the Zhang family in the backyard.
Chapter completed!