Chapter 0024 Homecoming
Under the guidance of the old man, Han Zhan found the old mansion of the Central Changshi Zhao Zhong. As soon as he arrived outside the gate, he saw the patch coming out of the door. Seeing whether the patch had not noticed him, he raised his voice and shouted: "Patch!"
When the patch heard someone calling him, he was stunned at first. After looking around for a moment, he saw Han Zhan riding on the horse's back immediately with a surprise expression on his face. He ran over quickly and grabbed the horse's reins and asked in surprise: "Young Master, when did you come back? I'm still worried that you can't find our new home."
"I'm back today," Han Zhan turned over and dismounted, and said to the patch: "I just went to the provincial governor's mansion, but the Junhou who was guarding the gate told me that his family had moved here." Patch called a servant standing outside the gate and asked him to take the horse Han Zhan rode away, and then accompanied Han Zhan in.
Han Zhan’s new residence was in the second yard. As soon as he walked into the yard with Patch, he met Lihua who was walking outside. Seeing Han Zhan suddenly appear, Lihua exclaimed and rushed straight over. But two or three steps away from Han Zhan, she suddenly stopped again and asked timidly: “When will the young master come back?”
"I arrived at noon today," Han Zhan saw that it was too late. He wasted too much time on the road because he got lost. If he didn't explain it clearly to Lihua, he would complain again. So he was silent for a moment and said, "I originally wanted to go home immediately, and even heard from the soldiers guarding the gate that my family had moved here, so he immediately rode over here. Unexpectedly, he was not familiar with the path and got lost halfway and didn't get home until now."
"Stop talking, you must be hungry and tired after a day's journey." Lihua immediately interrupted the words behind him when she heard this, and pulled him into the room without saying a word, and at the same time ordered the patch standing aside: "Patch, hurry up and prepare hot water for the young master, the young master needs to take a shower and change his clothes."
Han Zhan followed Li Hua into the room, and it was messy here, and there were even several large boxes piled on the ground. Seeing that Han Zhan's eyes were staring at the boxes, Li Hua quickly explained: "Young Master, we just moved here two days ago, and many things have not been packed, so it seems very messy. Please sit down, and the maid pours you a glass of water first."
Lihua walked to Han Zhan with a bowl of water and said, "Young master, I'll prepare for you." After that, she handed the water to Han Zhan, turned around and walked out of the room quickly.
Han Zhan was outside for almost a day before the water and rice was in. He was already hungry and thirsty. When Lihua left, he quickly picked up the water and took a sip. He felt that the water tasted sweet, so he took another sip, and then he realized that it was honey water.
Just as Han Zhan was drinking water, there was a rush of footsteps at the door, as if many people were coming. The patch came first, followed by two servants carrying huge wooden barrels. After the three of them came in, the patch said to an empty space: "Put the bucket here."
As soon as the servants put the wooden barrels in, a group of people came in outside the door, each carrying a bucket. They walked forward one by one and poured the hot water from the bucket into the bucket.
After a dozen servants ran back and forth with buckets twice, the patch waved to let them leave, and then said respectfully to Han Zhan: "Young Master, the hot water is ready."
"Well, I understand." When Han Zhan was not used to taking a shower, someone next to him looked at him and waved his hand to the patch: "You go down first."
He thought the patch would say: Young Master, let me stay and serve you in the shower. But the patch didn't say anything, and bowed slightly, turned around and walked out of the room, and took it to the door.
Han Zhan had just started to wear a loose dress and was about to take a shower in the wooden bucket, when the door was suddenly pushed open from outside. He thought it was a patch and had something to be added, so he asked impatiently: "Is there anything else?"
Unexpectedly, the answer to him was a female voice: "What else can I do if I have to do? Of course, I will serve the young master in a bath!"
Han Zhan turned his head and saw that it was Li Hua who came in with a food box. He quickly stopped the movement of his hands and said embarrassedly: "It turned out to be Li Hua. Put down the food box and go out. I'm going to take a shower."
Lihua put down the food box, not only did not go out, but instead stepped forward to help Han Zhan take off his clothes. At the same time, she asked in a strange tone: "Why should I go out?"
"Men and women are not allowed to share their feelings," although Han Zhan could not confirm whether there was such a statement in this era, but he still said with a tough bullet: "I want to take a shower, it is not convenient for you, a woman, to stay here."
"What's inconvenient?" Lihua smiled and said, "When did you take a bath, you didn't serve me?" After that, he stepped forward and stripped Han Zhan naked.
Han Zhan's face turned red. This was the first time he faced a girl naked, not to mention that he remembered the custom of having a maid accompanying his master to bathe together in ancient times. The initiator of Lihua, who started, ran to the wooden barrel, reached out to touch the water temperature, then turned his head to Han Zhan and said, "Young master, the water temperature is just right, come and take a shower quickly!"
Han Zhan sat in the wooden barrel, but Li Hua did not follow him. She just stood beside the wooden barrel, unbuttoned the bun on Han Zhan and washed his hair. At the same time, she also asked Han Zhan if he had encountered any interesting things on the road on this mission.
Lihua asked this, and she couldn't help but reminded Han Zhan of his assassination experience. After sending Yuan Shao, Chunyu Qiong, and Gongsun Zan, he turned his doubtful eyes to Jizhou. He believed that the assassin wanted to kill his purpose was to prevent Han Fu from giving up Jizhou to Yuan Shao. So would anyone do this by those who had the most objections at the time?
But as soon as this idea came out, he denied it. As far as he knew, among the three people who had the strongest opposition, Geng Wu and Min Chun had reached a consensus with him, and did not take any action, but only maintained a wait-and-see attitude. This can be seen from the fact that Yuan Shao entered the city today and was not assassinated by Geng and Min.
As for Ju Su, this is a gentleman who doesn't want to do anything assassination. What's more, he has no grudge against him in the past, so he has no reason to kill himself.
Since all the suspicions of civil and military officials in Jizhou have been ruled out, would someone in the family want to kill him? He thought about all four younger brothers, and his five sisters are females and do not threaten him at all; the third brother Han Qian and the fourth brother Han Yue are still young, so they can be ruled out directly.
The only suspect is the second brother Han Bing. He is fifteen years old this year. Although he is a concubine's son, his mother is quite favored by Han Fu. Maybe he has blown a lot of pillow style so that Han Fu can pass the position of the Jizhou Mu to Han Bing a hundred years later. If he wants to take over, he must kill himself.
Thinking of this, Han Zhan opened his eyes and asked Lihua tentatively: "What are the second young master doing during the time I was not at home?"
Lihua thought for a while and replied: "The second young master fell in love with martial arts. The Duke specially hired a master for him to come to the mansion to teach him. He danced guns and rods in the garden every morning and evening."
Chapter completed!