Chapter 112 Zhao Yun's Expedition
Adolescent children never know what forbearance is and what the future is.
They will do countless unexpected things when they are so angry that they will do. Zhao Yun feels that it is better to help him than to arouse his rebellious mentality. But the premise is that Zhang Liao must make contributions on the battlefield!
Otherwise, he would not be worthy of being with Hong'er.
That's right, now it seems that Hong'er is just a maid in Zhao Yun's mansion. Zhang Liao is the son of the Zhang family. Although he is also a retainer of Zhao Yun, his status is absolutely incomparable.
If we look at this aspect, Hong'er is not worthy of Zhang Liao, and she is not even qualified to be a concubine.
However, if Zhao Yun took Hong'er as his "adopted daughter", it would be different.
Although the adopted daughter was not his biological daughter, she was very valued in ancient times. In terms of status, it was not very different from her biological daughter. Unless it was an imperial family, it was like this everywhere.
Once Zhao Yun takes Hong'er as her adopted daughter, she will no longer be a maid, but a lady from the Zhao family. Zhao Tong and Zhao Guang both want to call her sister. Moreover, Hong'er has no name, so after taking her as her adopted daughter, she can still follow the surname Zhao Yun!
Hong'er is a maid now. Whether she can be a concubine depends on the situation and whether Zhang Liao really likes her. But if Zhao Yun takes her as her adopted daughter, then I'm sorry, Zhang Liao must marry her as his wife!
This is the gap.
As for the issue of Zhao Yun's adoption daughter in his early twenties, he was completely out of his mind. Is he afraid of a bird?
The main reason is that if it is not an adopted daughter, but an adopted sister, Zhao Yun doesn't know if it is suitable for her... Anyway, Hong'er is younger than him, so he thinks this is good.
Zhang Liao was very happy to think that Zhao Yun was considering him and everything was for his own good, but he didn't know that he had fallen into the "trap". Although he is now called Lord Zhao Yun, he is of his peer generation. Once he really marrys Hong'er and Zhao Yun is Hong'er's adoptive father, he will be one generation short of him!
In addition to taking advantage of the famous historical generals, if Hong'er really marrys Zhang Liao as his wife, then Zhao Yun's relationship with him will go further... This is what Zhao Yun's main consideration!
"Okay, from today on, I will give you a subordinate general, leading 5,000 troops to guard Qingjiang City! Qingjiang is only seventy or eighty miles away from Qinghu Lake. If the Xianbei comes to attack, the two cities can just support each other. With your age, I can be regarded as a heavy responsibility to you! If you can complete the task successfully, when this battle is over, I will personally marry you!" Zhao Yun said with a smile.
Zhang Liao nodded excitedly: "Don't worry, lord, I will definitely not let your high expectations down!"
"But..." he frowned, "Although the lord has spoken publicly, my father is probably still in trouble. Lord, you know that although my Zhang family was not considered a prominent family in Mayi before, it was at least a wealthy family. My father didn't agree to marry Hong'er's sister even though he died."
Sister Honger...
Zhao Yun couldn't help but twitch when he heard this title, but he still said, "Don't worry, I will accept her as my adopted daughter. At that time, you will not marry my maid from Zhao's family, but my daughter of Zhao Yun! In this way, your father has no reason to disagree, right?"
"Really?" Zhang Liao's eyes lit up, "Then won't you become my adoptive father?"
"Don't scream!" Zhao Yun said contemptuously, "What does it matter if you call Hong'er as her adopted daughter or not? I tell you that when Hong'er becomes my adopted daughter, you may not be worthy of her. If you don't work hard, hehe... do you believe it or not, I betrothed her to Lao Dian?"
Betrothed to Lao Dian!
Zhang Liao instantly remembered Dian Wei's "magic" appearance, nearly two meters tall, burly and strong body, muscles like dragons, dark skin, and when he grinned, he was shocking and "smiling like flowers" that was so shocking...
Thinking about the scene where the little bird leaned against the other, Dian Wei grinned.
Zhang Liao suddenly shivered and said excitedly: "My lord, don't! Hong'er is so petite and gentle, so... If she marry Dian Wei, she will be useless!"
"So, everything depends on your performance!" Zhao Yun looked at him calmly and said.
Zhang Liao stood at attention in an instant and saluted: "Please ensure that the task is completed!"
This is what Zhao Yun taught when he was training. He stood in a military posture, marching in a straight line, and marching in a straight line. Anyway, he taught everything he could think of. Now the soldiers under his command are like this.
After patting his shoulder, Zhao Yun left leisurely with his hands on his back.
Zhang Liao stood there and clenched his fists, secretly swore that he must seize the opportunity and must not let his lord down. The most important thing is that Hong'er must not marry Dian Wei's pickled goods!
Zhao Yun has never been a person who likes to procrastinate. Since he decided to accept Hong'er as his adopted daughter, he went on a thrill.
Li Shilan complained about this because she and Hong'er were like sisters, and she was no more than a few years older than Hong'er. If Zhao Yun accepted her as her sister, Li Shilan would definitely agree with it, but now she changed from "sister" to "daughter", Li Shilan would be a little unacceptable.
However, this matter was obviously not something she could decide to change. Zhao Yun still has a very strong say in this family. Not to mention Li Shilan, even her father Li Xu listened to Zhao Yun very much.
After all, it was a happy event, but Li Shilan agreed. Under the witness of everyone, Zhao Yun and Li Shilan drank the tea handed over by Hong'er.
Zhao Yun also changed her name to Zhao Hong on the spot.
Afterwards, everyone under Zhao Yun bowed to Hong'er: "I've seen the eldest lady!"
Among them, including Zhang Liao's father Zhang Feng, who felt bitter, but he could only smile bitterly and shake his head.
He didn't think that Zhao Yun would take advantage of it. Instead, he felt that Zhao Yun had good intentions for Zhang Liao. Otherwise, who would take a maid as his adopted daughter? Isn't it for Zhang Liao?
So Zhang Feng and Zhang Liao were very moved.
A small episode ended like this, and Huang Cheng's scout came to report that five days ago, Na Loudan, Helian Chong and Siloo had led 50,000 troops from their respective tribes, as well as 150,000 troops from the small tribes under their respective tribes, a total of 300,000 troops from the depths of the grassland.
A distance of more than three thousand miles, in about one month, will arrive at the border of the Han Dynasty and launch an attack on Yunzhong County!
Without further ado, Zhao Yun led 20,000 cavalry out of the city as planned, and Huang Zhong was the deputy general, and left the city in a mighty manner and disappeared into the vast grassland.
After seeing him off, the rest of the people quickly returned to their positions.
Gao Shun led 10,000 troops to guard Qinghu City, with Xun You as his military advisor. In the border Green Willow City, about 200 miles away from Qinghu City, Dian Wei led 10,000 troops to guard, with Cheng Yu as his military advisor, Zhou Yu and Tian Chou followed.
Zhang Liao led 5,000 troops to guard Qingjiang City. Qingjiang City was more than 70 miles away from Qinghu City and east of Qinghu City. Green Willow City was west of Qinghu City, which means Qingjiang City was more than 300 miles away from Qinghu City.
There are 25,000 people left. Except for the necessary defenders in other cities in Yunzhong County, they all gathered in Qinghu, the second defense line, which is not far behind Qingjiang and Luliu. It is temporarily managed by Xun Qian. Once the front line is in urgent need of support, troops will be sent immediately.
The garrison is only about one hundred miles away from the three cities, and reinforcements can arrive within three hours!
Everything is ready, just waiting for the Xianbei army to arrive...
Chapter completed!