Oh my god, can you play like this?

Hearing Gu Lanzhi's question, Feng Ran avoided his gaze and said embarrassedly: "Master, you..."

As soon as he saw Feng Ran's reaction, Gu Lanzhi knew that he agreed.

Gu Lanzhi smiled and patted the back of Feng Ran's hand, "Anything can happen to a person in his life. You can't deny everything just because you encounter something bad, right?

I'm not saying anything good about Lao Zhang, but he has been with our Gu family for so many years, so I have some understanding of him.

Although I cannot guarantee that your feelings for him will not fade during this life, I can guarantee that he is definitely not such a beastly person.

At least I won’t treat you badly just because our feelings have faded, or let you suffer the same hurt as before.”

Feng Ran didn't say anything, but lowered her eyes slightly and listened to Gu Lanzhi's words.

"I don't know how far your relationship with Lao Zhang has progressed, and I don't know whether Lao Zhang has ever told you about his past.

As for me, I will tell you everything I know about Lao Zhang.

Mr. Zhang is not young anymore, he is almost 40 years old this year.

When he was young, there were many children in his family and his parents didn't care much about him. They just let him live if they could support him, and die if they couldn't.

He was not full at home, so he always went up the mountain to find food to fill his stomach.

Later, he went up the mountain one time and rescued an old hunter from their village.

The old hunter thanked Lao Zhang for saving his life. He also knew Lao Zhang's family situation. The old hunter didn't have any children, so he spent one or two taels of silver to buy Lao Zhang from Lao Zhang's parents and took him home to raise as his son.

But for hunters, going up the mountain is dangerous. The old hunter gradually taught Lao Zhang some hunting skills. He only raised Lao Zhang for more than three years before he was bitten to death by a wolf on his way to the mountain to hunt.

Old Zhang was only eight or nine years old at that time.

No one took care of the eight or nine-year-old child, so Lao Zhang made a living by hunting in the mountains relying on the skills taught by the old hunter.

Maybe Lao Zhang has a talent for hunting. Every time he goes into the mountains, he can catch a lot of prey, so at least he has no problem feeding himself.

Later, his parents saw that Lao Zhang had hunting skills and could always eat meat and make money, so they took Lao Zhang back.

Children of eight or nine years old still expect to be loved by their parents. Lao Zhang was also young at the time and did not understand his parents' thoughts, so he happily went home with his parents.

After returning home, his parents always urged Lao Zhang to go into the mountains to hunt and never cared about Lao Zhang.

Old Zhang would take the prey he hunted to the town to sell, and all the money he earned would be taken away by his mother.

At that time, Lao Zhang didn’t think much of it. After all, they were his parents, so the money should be given to them.

Lao Zhang's three elder brothers also used the money from their younger brother's selling of game to marry and have children, and their family lives better than other families in the village.

But Lao Zhang was growing up day by day, and his parents had no intention of finding a wife for him. Lao Zhang himself didn't care and he was not in a hurry to get married.

Later, when Lao Zhang was returning home after hunting, he met a girl who had been bitten by a snake.

Old Zhang was kind-hearted, and without thinking twice he carried the girl home for treatment.

Of course his parents were unhappy and said that Lao Zhang was looking for trouble.

When the girl who was bitten by the snake woke up, it was discovered that she was speechless.

The girl was from the neighboring village of Lao Zhang and his family. She could speak when she was born, but later she became unable to speak because of illness and fever.

The girl is an orphan. Both her parents died of illness, leaving her alone. In order to survive, she has to go into the mountains to find food.

Lao Zhang carried the girl back to the village on his back. Many people in the village saw it, which ruined the girl's reputation.

Fortunately, the girl was the only one left in her family, so Lao Zhang married her directly.

But Lao Zhang's parents were very dissatisfied with Lao Zhang's marriage and they tortured the girl in every way.

The girl not only has to cook for the whole family every day, but also has to wash the clothes for the whole family every day. No matter what happens at home, the girl does it.

Old Zhang always went up the mountain to hunt and spent very little time at home, so he couldn't take care of the girl too much.

Lao Zhang's mother beat and scolded the girl every day because she had not gotten pregnant two years after marrying into the family.

After seeing the injuries on the girl's body, Lao Zhang went to argue with his parents and said that if his parents were not happy, he and his wife would separate and live on their own.

When his parents heard this, they were furious and disagreed, saying that Lao Zhang had separated from them just because he got married, and now he was actually saying he wanted to separate.

Anyway, since he kept insisting on not agreeing, there was nothing Zhang could do, so he had to let the matter go for now.

But because of this incident, Lao Zhang's parents stopped beating or scolding his wife for a while.

Not long after, his wife really became pregnant, but he didn't know how this offended his mother.

His mother did not beat or scold Lao Zhang's wife, but as long as Lao Zhang was not at home, Lao Zhang's mother would not give his wife enough food to eat. She would deliberately bully her every day and deliberately find things for Lao Zhang's wife to do.

Lao Zhang's wife had to work with a big belly.

Perhaps because she was always hungry and sleepy, and had endless work to do every day, Lao Zhang's wife gave birth prematurely. Not only did she not survive, but the baby in her belly also died not long after she was born.

Old Zhang was in the mountains when his wife gave birth and didn't know about this.

When Lao Zhang came back, his wife and children had already been buried.

Old Zhang didn't know about these things at first. It was only when he went to the mass grave alone to pay tribute to his wife that the villagers told him about these things.

In a fit of rage, Lao Zhang went home to find his parents and had a big fight with them.

It was during this quarrel that his parents expressed their true thoughts.

They brought Lao Zhang back from the old hunter's house because they saw that Lao Zhang could earn money for the family by hunting. They didn't let Lao Zhang get married before because they were afraid that Lao Zhang would not give all the money to his family after he got married.

The reason why he tortured Lao Zhang's wife was that he didn't want her to live.

In the eyes of their family members, Lao Zhang is there to make money for them and he will have to make money for their family members all his life.

After knowing this, Lao Zhang became disheartened and immediately broke off ties with his parents and no longer had anything to do with them.

Just over a year had passed since they severed their relationship. The imperial court went to recruit soldiers in Lao Zhang's village. Lao Zhang felt that he was alone anyway, so he decided to join the army directly.

But his parents wanted to squeeze out the last bit of benefit that Lao Zhang had brought to their family, which was to let Lao Zhang tell the conscripts that Lao Zhang was still their child, so that Lao Zhang's brothers would not need to be conscripted.

Anyway, Lao Zhang had already decided to join the army, so he agreed to his parents' request.

The only condition is that from then on, we will be strangers when we meet again."

Listening to what Gu Lanzhi said, a flash of heartache flashed across Feng Ran's eyes, which was seen clearly by Gu Lanzhi.