Chapter 15: Investment

Zhang Yueshan had traveled through secret channels to the border between Sang Country and Mian Guo, accompanied by fifty formidable guards.

These guards were the Red Guards, totaling only one hundred in number. They were the hidden force passed down through generations of the Zhang Family Marquis Mansion, a regiment that had existed since the founding Marquis himself. They were true loyal retainers, far more core to the family than household servants like Zhu An. This time, Zhang Yueshan had brought fifty of them to ensure his security and, when necessary, to penetrate enemy lines to either rescue or kill Zhang Xiaoting.

Although such mental preparations had been made, both Zhang Zhenhai and Zhang Yueshan actually hoped that what Zhu An had said was true.