Dongli drinks wine after dusk

Chapter 202 Good things keep coming
The Jiang family’s old house is decorated with lanterns and festoons today, ushering in the last happy event before the year.

Ning secretly thumped her sore waist, and soon put on a happy smile, and stood on the second door to welcome the guests.

The marriage of the younger generation of the Ning family kicked off this year, and there will be many in the next few years. The second wife is out and not at home. As the elders of the direct relatives, they should spend all their time and effort.

Sending away the eldest girl and the second girl to go out, the eldest son and the second son also got married, although this time was a bit hasty, but the etiquette was not lost at all, which comforted the old lady's heart.

Today is a good day for Jiang Wensheng to marry his wife, the old lady smiles like an old chrysanthemum, no one can find the old lady unhappy on a happy day, of course everything should be perfect.

Ever since he learned that the woman he had loved for many years even had a false name, Jiang Wensheng laughed up to the sky, and after being drunk for a while, he knelt down in the old lady's room and begged his mother to forgive him for being ridiculous for so many years. I really want to marry a wife and live a good life.

The old lady was afraid that he would change his mind again, so she hurriedly helped him make arrangements. At the age of 30, he is also a well-known and well-known writer, and he married his first wife. Naturally, there are women who admire him like crucian carp in the river.

My dear boy, it turns out that the ancients were so crazy about chasing stars. My fifth uncle is more handsome and famous. After all, he is already thirty. His peers are not only good at playing soy sauce, why are there so many young children? What about girl crushes?There is too much age difference, can we talk together?You must know that Uncle Wu pays great attention to spiritual communication.

Sure enough, among the candidates, the one who finally stood out was a second-married princess, who was twenty years old and was one of the most ardent suitors of the fifth uncle. with.

A woman's flowering period is short, so naturally she can't delay it, even if she is a royal relative, she must not violate the ancestral etiquette.

Princess Chen Yu of Xiangyang is an orphan, but her status in the clan is not low.

His father, King Zhong, is the uncle of the current emperor and the younger brother of the previous emperor.

20 years ago, there was a crisis in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Mobei Grassland had a continuous blizzard throughout the winter, and countless people froze to death. The spring is still frozen for thousands of miles, and there is no sign of improvement.

Nomads live entirely on cattle and sheep. This winter, ten rooms will be empty, and there will be no food left at home. In the middle of spring, there is not even a little green on the grassland. I don’t know how many cattle and sheep that have survived the cold winter will starve to death in spring. .

Seeing that there is no food and no livestock, not to mention ordinary herdsmen, even the chief nobles cannot survive.

Raising troops to invade the frontier and looting the pass has become their only way to survive.In the face of life and death, all border treaties and mutual market regulations are bullshit. They raised their butcher knives and swung their troops south.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it has been emphasizing culture and restraining military affairs. Not to mention the low status of military generals, they have no autonomy and are controlled by civil officials. Over time, it is difficult to find generals.Unprepared, several border cities were thrown away. Wherever the Tartars passed, the people suffered heavy casualties, including the old and weak, women and children.

The frontier is in a hurry, and they are approaching the capital, but there is no general to send in the court. At this time, someone thinks of King Zhong.

King Zhong is one of the rare people in the royal family who likes swords and guns. He has learned good martial arts. However, the clan is not allowed to be an official. .

At this time, the opportunity came. A good man could go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and fulfill his long-cherished wish. King Zhong almost took the lead in everything and rushed to the first place, which greatly boosted morale. He took back two lost cities in a row. The arrogance of foreign enemies was suppressed.

Fengtian City is built on the mountain, easy to defend but difficult to attack, there is a large plain inside, and there are continuous mountains outside the city.

After recapturing the city, King Zhong did not continue to attack in a hurry. The remaining two cities had already become empty cities, and the terrain was not conducive to defense.The victories in the two battles did not make him dazzled. He also saw the huge casualties and the bravery of the enemy.

Defense is the best way. The biggest weakness of the enemy is the lack of food and grass, and his own food supply line is very safe. He has the strength and capital to fight a protracted war.

He was calm, but in the court, someone did not allow him to calm down, and one after another urgent order was sent to the front line, scolding him for being a coward, not daring to fight, scolding him for wasting food and grass, and depleting the treasury. Even the supplies were not delivered in time.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were short of food and clothing, the weather was cold, and there were complaints in the camp. In the end, if there was no more battle, these soldiers might no longer be able to hold weapons.

As a result of the hasty battle, the Great Zhou Dynasty paid the price of more than [-] soldiers' lives before finally recapturing the two empty cities, and even the main general was beheaded by the enemy in the chaos.

Concubine Zhong had just finally given birth to her daughter, and when she heard the sad news that her husband died in battle, she died in a fit of rage.

As a result, there was no sound in the court hall, and the Zhongwang and Wangfei were buried in the imperial mausoleum as princes. The two lives were pitiful, and they only won the title of princess and the honor of raising the palace for their newly born daughter.

Fortunately, no one in the two generations of kings treated this poor orphan harshly. She raised her carefully until she was 16 years old. She married the first county horse, and the husband and wife respected each other as guests. It's a pity that this county horse is a poor man, and he went back to his hometown to visit relatives within two years. When I met a bandit, I lost my life.

Everyone said that the Princess of Xiangyang's life is too hard, punishing the six relatives, whoever gets involved will be unlucky, although the royal family intends to choose another husband for her, but everyone is in danger and avoids them like snakes and scorpions. Yu is proud of himself, so he delays it.

I didn't expect it, to keep the clouds open to see the moonlight, and when Jiang Wensheng wanted to marry a wife, he sent someone to come together. Mrs. Cui was unwilling, but Jiang Wensheng himself was willing, he was thirty I'm dead, and looking for a teenage girl, isn't that bringing a daughter.

The nieces in the family had to be as old as his wife, and he couldn't accept it in his heart, a little older was just right, so he begged Mrs. Cui, and finally settled on the princess of Xiangyang.

Regardless of the fact that it was a second marriage, the ostentation was no worse than that of the first marriage. The palace also specially rewarded the head and carried the dowry, which was also to show the bride's face that there was someone behind her to support her.The old concubine who raised her has passed away, but no one can bully her loyal ministers.

This is the second time for Chen Yu to get on the bridal sedan chair. As long as she thinks that the person she is marrying this time is her idol when she was young, she will not be too excited until she sits in the new house, picks up the hijab, has a bridal chamber, and the groom goes out to accompany the guests for a drink. , can't calm down.

"Mommy Tao, do you think my makeup is bad?" Xiangyang looked at the bronze mirror, but felt that it was not clear enough, so he turned around and asked the old nanny beside him.

"Don't worry, princess, everything is fine."

"Well, then you put the reward money first, and then go down to rest, I'm here, two people are enough."

Mother Tao smiled and said yes, after finishing the work, she walked towards the front yard. The princess's dowry had not been counted and put into storage after it was delivered, so all these things had to be done quickly.

(End of this chapter)