Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 158 The Uncle in Memories
Because of the intelligence network given by Guo Rong, Luo Youdu has a general understanding of the internal situation of Southern Tang.

Chai Kehong has a very high status in the Southern Tang Dynasty now. Li Jing directly transferred him to the central court as a general, and awarded him the position of Jiedushi, responsible for the layout of Jinling's defense line along the river.

This kind of treatment can almost be said to be No. 1 in the military in the temple.

With Chai Kehong's status and status, he only brought two people to Luzhou, Luo Youdu had to be curious about his reason for coming, and planned to meet for a while.

If Guo Rong was a very suspicious king, Luo Youdu would not make such a decision, but after getting along with him for a long time, he still has a certain understanding of Guo Rong's temper.

This Great Zhou Shizong really has a bit of Li Er's demeanor.

He was not near the tea shed yet.

An old man with a red face walked out of the tea shed quickly, his face was a little excited, and he called out: "Tiger boy?"

Luo Youdu stamped his feet, and a long-lasting memory suddenly emerged from the depths of his mind. Although more than ten years have passed, many scenes have emerged.

"Uncle Chai!"

Luo Youdu does not remember Chai Kehong, but there is an uncle Chai who often teases him.

Huwa is Luo Youdu's baby name, and the only ones who call him "Huwazi" are his parents and Uncle Chai.

"Haha! It's really you, that's great!"

Chai Kehong stepped forward excitedly, grabbed Luo Youdu's shoulder, looked him up and down, with tears in his eyes, excited like a child, hugged him in his arms, patted him on the back: choked up and said: "Listen in Jiangnan When I heard your name, I kept wondering if it could be you, the heavens really have eyes, if Brother Luo knew that his son had such achievements, he would be able to smile at Jiuquan."

Luo Youdu did remember that when he was in Sizhou, there was an uncle who treated him very well, but he never imagined that in the past ten years or so, he was still so enthusiastic.

He didn't know that Zhai Kehong injured his lower abdomen on the battlefield when he was young. Although he was normal and humane, he was destined to have no future.

When he was in Sizhou, he made friends with Luo's father, so he came up with the idea of ​​adopting Luo Youdu as his adopted son.

It's just that the matter has not yet been settled, so he let Song Qiqiu be demoted back to Jinling.

One of Jinling and Sizhou is next to the Yangtze River, and the other is next to the Huaihe River. There is no news between the two places.

It was already more than half a year later when I learned that Father Luo died of illness.

He sent people to Sizhou to take Luo Youdu's mother and son back to Jinling, but Luo's mother knew that Song Qiqiu was narrow-minded and didn't want to involve the old man, so she went north to find her mother's family.

Chai Kehong deeply regretted this matter.

In a flash, it is more than ten years.

Chai Kehong was always pushed aside by Song Qiqiu in Jinling, but Chai Kehong's father, Chai Zayong, was a famous general of Yang Wu and had a certain prestige in the army. Song Qiqiu did not have any serious enemies with him, but he was marginalized. up.

As a result, Chai Kehong remained unknown in Jinling for more than ten years, until the Great Zhou invaded Huainan, and many generals went north to fight, leaving many seats vacant.

Officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty discovered that there was another Chai Kehong who had been in Jinling for more than ten years and had done nothing with his salary for more than ten years, and threw him to Fuzhou as the governor of Fuzhou.

This unintentional appointment made Chai Kehong a blockbuster in an instant, defeating the Wuyue army in Changzhou.

Luo Youdu's name had spread to the south of the Yangtze River long ago, but no one cared about Chai Kehong in Jinling at that time, and no one had heard of it.

It wasn't until Luo Youdu defeated Liu Yanzhen that the word Luo Youdu officially resounded all over the south of the Yangtze River and reached Chai Kehong's ears.

He always wanted to confirm whether this Luo Youdu was the one he remembered, and he always wanted to lead the army north to come to Luzhou to meet him in person.

It's just that Li Jing wanted him to guard Jinling and never let him go until he couldn't bear to find Li Jing, so he made today's trip.

Luo Youdu felt that Chai Kehong was really showing his true feelings, and bowed to him deeply.

Chai Kehong helped him up, dragged him to the tea shed, and said, "Tell Uncle how you got here all these years."

Luo Youdu roughly talked about his own situation, when talking about Huber.

Chai Kehong laughed loudly and said, "Old Hu is still there. If I remember correctly, he must be in his seventies. That's great. I still miss the pancakes he baked."

He seemed to miss the old days, and suddenly cursed: "Damn Song Qiqiu, if it weren't for him, you and my uncle and nephew wouldn't have been separated for more than ten years, and we only saw each other today."

"That's right! Have you ever married a wife to keep an empress for the Luo family?"

Chai Kehong suddenly asked with some expectation.

Luo Youdu smiled awkwardly and said, "I haven't married a wife yet."

Chai Kehong looked regretful, and said: "At the beginning, your father promised me that if he had another son, he would let his step-step be my adopted son. If he can't, you will bear the burden. It's twenty-three, how can you even The family is unfinished."

Luo Youdu couldn't say a word, the two old guys are really capable, how old was he at that time?

Luo Youdu said: "However, the officials told me about a marriage. Now that the war is over, we should get married when we go back."

Chai Kehong hurriedly asked: "Who is your mother's family? This week, the emperor personally acts as a matchmaker, so he must be a good family."

Luo Youdu nodded and said, "It's the second daughter of King Wei."

"King Wei? Fu Yanqing?"

Seeing Luo Youdu nod his head to confirm, Chai Kehong smiled and said: "That is really very important, very good. Ha, compared with Fu Yanqing, what is Zhou Zong?"

Luo Youdu looked strange, and said, "What does this have to do with Zhou Zong?"

Chai Kehong asked: "Do you remember that you have a marriage contract with Zhou Zong's daughter?"

ha?
Luo Youdu was a little inexplicable, why did the Empress Dowager in history have a marriage contract with her?

"Nephew doesn't know!"

Chai Kehong snorted and said, "I think so. With Zhou Zong's snobbish temperament, even if he had a marriage contract at the beginning. After your father was demoted, he would not admit it. Now that you are so prosperous, my strength in Jiangnan is declining. It is ridiculous and shameful to bring up the marriage contract again."

Luo Youdu prides himself on being quick-witted, and can often see through the key points when analyzing things, but what Zhai Kehong said about Zhou Zong's coquettish manipulations baffled him.

I am in Dazhou, he is in Jiangnan, and does not belong to the same country, who will he show the marriage contract again?

But I don't know that this matter is a big oolong.

Zhou Zong wanted to marry his daughter Zhou Ehuang into the Southern Tang royal family, assuming that there was a marriage contract so as not to offend the suitors.

As a result, Song Qiqiu, in order to disgust Zhou Zong, publicly said that Zhou Ehuang's fiancé was Luo Youdu of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It's not that Zhou Zong didn't explain, it's just that no one believed it. They only thought that Zhou Zong's words were self-proving innocence in order to prove that he had no relationship with Da Zhou.

This matter even reached Li Jing's ears.

Of course Chai Kehong didn't know the inside story, but he knew more about Zhou Zong's personality and knew that he was definitely not the kind of person who would stick to the marriage contract, so he thought that he had taken a fancy to the current Luo Youdu.

Song Qiqiu's nonsense about attacking political opponents has unknowingly turned into a mess.

Chai Kehong looked at the young man in front of him with relief, and said with a smile: "I can see you again today, Huwazi, and I know that you are doing well, so I have no regrets. Let's go, you and I have special identities, so it is not appropriate to get together for a long time."

He got up and was about to leave when he thought of something, took a secret letter from his arms, and handed it to Luo Youdu, saying, "This is the mission of my uncle, so I can't take it back. Don't read the letter, just hand it to Emperor Guo." Right. In the future...if we really meet on the battlefield, there is no need to show mercy."

(End of this chapter)