Fenghou

Chapter 257 Coincidence
Chen Qing picked up the wine glass and said calmly: "If you have something to say, just say it directly. If you should be angry, I will be angry, and if you should not be angry, I will not be angry."

"Hey! This matter has been in my heart for a long time, not to mention that I feel uncomfortable."

"Then just say it!"

Hu Yantong asked hesitantly: "Is there something wrong with your marriage with Miss Lu?"

Chen Qing's heart clicked! 'Ah, did Hu Yantong hear any rumors?

He said calmly, "Why do you ask that?"

"It's like this. Last month Zhang Jun celebrated his birthday and invited more than a thousand celebrities from Lin'an. I went with my father. At the birthday banquet, I saw Miss Luxiu. She came with her grandfather. Of course, the birthday banquet There are also a lot of ladies on the Internet, but Miss Lvxiu performed amazingly. No matter her calligraphy, poetry, painting, or appearance, she was beyond the reach of other young ladies. A dozen young literati were jealous and almost fought to please her. Among them was a young man who seemed to be quite appreciated by Miss Lu, and we chatted with him for a while."

Chen Qing smiled and said: "It means that she is excellent, and it also means that my eyesight is not bad. Since she is an excellent woman, many people will like it. There is nothing wrong with her chatting with people who are pleasing to the eye. "

"But this young man has already stated publicly that he will not marry a girl other than Lvxiu!"

"Oh?"

Chen Qing was somewhat interested, "What's his name, is he very capable?"

"This man is very, very powerful. This year's imperial examination candidate is called Shen Gai. He was born in the famous Shen family of Wuxing in the south of the Yangtze River. I don't know how many powerful and high-ranking officials want to recruit him as his son-in-law. Go to Luxiu."

"He has taken a fancy to Lu Xiu, so what is Lu Xianggong's attitude?"

"I don't know what Lu Xianggong's attitude is, and I don't know if the Shen family has invited someone to come to propose marriage. I just want to remind you that you are fighting alone in the front, and you must not catch fire in the backyard."

Chen Qing shook his head, "I don't think much of women. Who Lu Xiu likes is her business. I actually have nothing to do with her."

"What do you mean it doesn't matter, you have a marriage contract!"

Chen Qing already understood that it was probably because Lu Yihao took a fancy to Shen Gai that he began to distance himself, wanting to give up on Lu Xiu voluntarily, in order to let him quit in spite of difficulties.

After a moment of silence, Chen Qing sneered and said, "I really don't have any marriage contract with Lu Xiu. The person who has a marriage contract with her is not me, but Zhang Shuye's grandson. I'm just someone her grandfather once liked, that's all. , there is neither a matchmaker's words nor an engagement ceremony, so how can we talk about a marriage contract?"

"What's the matter, did Lu Yihao regret it?" Hu Yantong suddenly heard something in Chen Qing's words.

"Perhaps! In fact, from the very beginning, I felt that I was not suitable. I don't know which muscle of Lu Yihao is swollen, but he actually took a fancy to me?
I am just a military general, I have killed tens of thousands of golden soldiers, I have experienced many life and death battles, and now I am only a sixth-rank official.

However, the civil servants in the imperial examination passed the sixth rank easily after a few years, especially the children of the big families in the south of the Yangtze River who had family backgrounds were promoted faster.

And she is Xiangguo's granddaughter, so many heaven's favorites are pursuing her, and their Lu family may continue to choose a general who has offended the queen mother and has no future? "

"You're right. Military generals really have no fucking status. I experienced it especially deeply in the capital. The final marriage was intermarriage between military generals and civil servants. There is a clear distinction between civil servants and civil servants. Hey! My grandfather liked it." You, you marry my Wu Niang!"

Chen Qing couldn't help laughing, "Your family's Wu Niang likes scribes, and twisted melons are not sweet!"

"But the scribes looked down on her, and after many kisses, the other party was frightened and ran away when she heard that she was not good at needlework, calligraphy and painting, could not read much, and could only wield knives and sticks. Grandfather is very anxious about her marriage."

"She has her fate, and it's useless to be anxious before the fate arrives!"

At this moment, a low-pitched horn sounded from outside the restaurant, and Chen Qing's face changed, "Why are there Jurchens?"

He was too familiar with it. This was the Jurchen's antler horn. The drinkers rushed to the window, and someone shouted, "It's the Jurchen envoy!"

At this time, a group of Jurchen cavalry rushed over, pointed their knives at the windows on the second floor on both sides, and yelled viciously, "Close the windows, or there will be no mercy!"

The people on both sides were so frightened that they closed the windows one after another, but no one dared to open them. The Jurchens killed people when they said they would, but they meant it.

Chen Qing walked slowly to the window and pushed open a window. The shopkeeper was so frightened that he was about to go forward to persuade him, but Hu Yantong grabbed the shopkeeper and shook his head at him, signaling him to leave it alone.

On the street, groups of Jurchen cavalry came in a row, a row of three, as many as [-] rows, in the middle was an open carriage, and the person sitting on it was Wan Yanchang.

"Who opened the window above, don't you want to live?" a Jurchen centurion roared angrily.

Wan Yanchang looked up and saw Chen Qing, he couldn't help being startled, Chen Qing raised his glass and smiled at him.

Wan Yanchang also laughed, stopped the centurion and said, "It's an old friend, if he wants to kill me, he won't open the window!"

Wan Yanchang also raised the wine gourd and said loudly: "Chen Tongzhi, let's drink the sheep bar!"

"Drinking sheep wine every day, if you get tired, it's better to drink sake."

"Then don't go back to Ganquan Fort for now, and stay in the capital for a few more days."

Chen Qing shook his head, "I'm afraid that the fourth prince will be a guest at Ganquan Castle. If I'm not here, I'm afraid you won't be able to entertain me well!"

"If you're not here, of course he won't go."

"really?"

"I Wanyan Talan is upright and upright, and I never lie!"

"I don't believe you. In Zhongnan County, you didn't come to see me upright."

Wan Yanchang's expression changed. In Zhongnan County, he was intercepted by Chen Qing and had to pretend to be a small soldier to escape. He was shot and almost died. This was the shame of his life.

Wan Yanchang snorted coldly, "Sooner or later, I will return it!"

After finishing speaking, he shouted sharply: "Go on!"

The brigade continued to set off, heading towards the Jin Guo Pavilion opposite Da Nei. Wan Yanchang glared at Chen Qing, but Chen Qing was always smiling.

There was no sound in the restaurant, and everyone was dumbfounded.

At this moment, someone ran down from the third floor and bowed in front of Chen Qing, "Chen Tongzhi, my husband-in-law is here upstairs!"

Chen Qing was startled, Xianggong is the prime minister!Who is on the third floor?
He quickly asked: "Which gentleman is it?"

"Master Zhang!"

It turned out that Zhang Jun was upstairs, so he was really rude.

He hurriedly informed Hu Yan of his guilt, and quickly went up to the third floor.

Chen Qing walked into an elegant room on the third floor, and saw two people sitting at a small table by the window, both dressed casually in green clothes and caps, one of them was Xiangguo Zhang Jun, and the other was Chen Qing. do not know.

Chen Qing hastily bowed and saluted, "Chen Qing, who is a lowly official, sees Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Jun waved his hands and laughed: "I also said who could make Wan Yanchang give face like this. It turned out to be Chen Tongzhi. It seems that face has to be won with fists."

"Let Xiangguo laugh!"

Zhang Jun then introduced the officials next to Chen Qing, "This is Xu Xiantu, a senior scholar, and he talked to me about you just now."

Xu Xiantu was about fifty years old, and he was very thin and handsome. He smiled slightly and said, "Today I saw the treasures donated by Chen Tongzhi in the royal study of the official family. They are all old things from the imperial palace! It made the official family lose their composure." .”

"This is the job of a courtier!"

Xu Xiantu frowned, and said to Zhang Jun, "Chen Tongzhi is very reasonable! What did Zhu Shengfei say that Chen Tongzhi despised the system and didn't follow the way of the top and bottom?"

Zhang Jun snorted coldly and said, "If he wanted to take someone out, he would naturally choose the one I promoted. Wu Jie and Liu Ziyu were too hard for him to move, so he had to pick the softer Chen Tongzhi to pinch him, but he kicked the iron board again." , and the wicked came to sue first.”

"So that's the case. I want to mention it to the emperor when I have a chance. Don't believe in one-sided words."

Zhang Jun said to Chen Qing again: "Your work report will probably be put on the day after tomorrow. I heard that you will be asked to choose the topic yourself. What kind of things do you plan to talk about?"

Chen Qing thought for a while and said: "I want to talk about how to deal with the fortress problem in Qinzhou, which exists in every prefecture on Xihe Road, whether it is mild or serious, and Qinzhou is the most serious. I want to talk about this aspect. experience."

Zhang Jun was once the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi. He was well aware of the hidden dangers of the fortress issue, so he nodded, "That's right! This point is well cut, and then what? What about the military?"

"I want to talk about the importance of guarding Oasis Castle."

"It's okay. Fort Ganquan involves the Song, Jin, Xixia and Puppet Qi. It is really important. You should prepare well today, and then you can relax a little bit."

"Is there something wrong with your husband?"

"That's it. Tomorrow is my mother's [-]th birthday. I will hold a birthday banquet. You can come too! You don't need to prepare presents, and I won't give you invitations. You can just come."

Xu Xiantu smiled and said, "Without an invitation, he might not be able to enter the mansion!"

Zhang Jun was right after thinking about it, so he untied a piece of jade pei and gave it to Chen Qing, "This is my jade pei, and I gave it to you. You can enter my mansion with it!"

"Thank you for your kindness, the younger generation will definitely come!"

(End of this chapter)