Strategy to develop champions

Chapter 565

Old General Cheng heard the words, so he hurriedly asked someone to hand over the letter, raised his eyes and said to Madam Cheng: "I said that this matter is not that simple, maybe it's tricky."

The letter was written by General Xiao. It turned out that General Xiao had written this letter after Xiao Yiming returned to Beijing with Carpenter Qian.Although Carpenter Qian made a mistake back then, General Xiao knew that Carpenter Qian was originally General Cheng's personal soldier, and he had saved General Cheng's life, and now he has saved Xiao Yiming. If anything goes wrong, you have to tell the Cheng family.

Old General Cheng read the letter, but the expression on his face became more serious, and he couldn't say a word for a while.For Qian Hao, he admired him to the extreme at first, and then hated him to the extreme, but now that he knew he was going to die, Old General Cheng realized that his heart was in extreme pain, and he couldn't speak for a while. Come on, just frown and say nothing.

Mrs. Cheng saw that General Cheng's face suddenly changed, she just stepped forward to take the letter and read it, and said in surprise, "He... is he going to die?"

Old General Cheng shook his head, but his expression didn't look much better, he just sighed: "He is very fateful, he was seriously injured back then, and he was able to carry me out of the pile of dead people, so nothing will happen this time."

Mrs. Cheng was a little puzzled by the old General Cheng's words, she just shook her head and said: "Impossible, if he is about to die, why did General Xiao write this letter, it is clearly begging us to let Lanzhi send him off?"

"Don't talk nonsense. General Xiao doesn't know these things at all. He probably just wanted to tell me. After all, Qian Hao used to be my personal soldier." He sighed and said: "Back then I had thirty soldiers, only five were left in the Swallow Valley battle. In the end, when I disarmed and went back to hiding, now only three are alive, he is the third!"

Madam Cheng looked at Old General Cheng with tears in her eyes, and frowned, "You...would you not let Lan Zhi go?"

"Ma'am, now that we have the emperor's imperial decree to bestow marriage, what are we afraid of? If Lanzhi is willing to recognize him? Then let her recognize him. Does Madam really want to be Lanzhi's mother for the rest of her life? Ma'am! You are just Lanzhi's grandma. "Old General Cheng's words pierced Mrs. Cheng's chest like a sharp knife.

Madam Cheng burst into tears again, and sighed: "Yes, you are right. I am only her grandma, and you... are only her grandpa. We can fool the world, but we cannot fool ourselves."

But on the first day of the Lunar New Year, although the emperor did not go to court, he heard a wonderful story. He just lay on the warm couch in Concubine Xiao's palace, and said with a smile: "These boys of the Xiao family, you have always been the most beloved ones. Even the third child, I still don’t understand, the elders always love the eldest or the youngest, where there is one who loves the middle one, today I think he is kind of cute.”

Concubine Xiao Gui put the boiled soft and glutinous sesame glutinous rice balls into the emperor's mouth, she just smiled and said: "The emperor doesn't know now, because everyone thinks the same as the emperor, for fear of treating the third child badly, so everyone I deliberately loved him more, but he became the most loved one."

When the emperor heard it, he felt that there was some truth, so he just smiled and said: "Sure enough, my concubine is smart, isn't that the reason?"

Concubine Xiao Gui fed the emperor another glutinous rice ball, and only sighed: "Who would have thought that there was such a story behind this request for medicine? The carpenter surnamed Qian sounded bloody, and he rushed all the way to the border for his daughter. It's really pitiful to the parents of the world!"

The emperor and Concubine Xiao were not affectionate, they always felt that the girl from the general's family was too hard and cold, but now that Concubine Xiao said that, she felt a little more humane, so she just smiled and said: "It's a pity to be a filial son-in-law for your youngest son-in-law. , I also lost an elixir, how will you compensate me?"

Hearing this, Concubine Xiao Gui put down the white jade porcelain bowl in her hand, leaned on the emperor's chest, and said softly: "The emperor can compensate you as much as you want? The concubine's elder brother and several nephews are all fighting for the emperor at the border." The enemy, the courtiers and concubines are also serving the emperor in the palace, our ancestors of the Xiao family have been your loyal servants of the emperor for generations, is this not enough compensation?"

Hearing this, the emperor was really happy, and the smile on his face increased a bit, and he just said: "I have been planning to give General Xiao a title, but I am afraid that those old families whose titles will be cut off by me will be jealous. So this matter has been dragged on until now, but with General Xiao's current military achievements, I will definitely allow him to be a Duke when he returns from victory this time!"

Concubine Xiao became more and more happy when she heard the words, she thought that what happened this morning would make the emperor unhappy, but who knew that the emperor was following this trick, not only did not make it self-defeating, but it actually helped a lot.Concubine Xiao Gui hurriedly stood up and thanked her with blessings.

The emperor was naturally happy with the news of good news ahead, and General Xiao also mentioned Carpenter Qian who was the guide of the army in the good news.The emperor benevolently gave medicines to win people's hearts. As for those miscellaneous housework, what does it have to do with the emperor?

(End of this chapter)