Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four: Plenipotentiary Welcome Ambassador
At Maozheng, when the sun rises, a round sun with a red halo rises slowly from the mountains and forests in the east.
Zhang Cheng, who was extremely thirsty, woke up from his sleep and lay on his back on the bed. After drinking last night, he had tossed up to three or more, and his whole body was still sore.
He wanted to get up, but he woke up Liu Ying next to him, and a delicate voice came from his ear: "General, wake up."
Liu Ying stood up obediently and gently. She wore a light gauze dress and slowly moved to the couch. She gently took out the teapot, poured a cup of herbal tea and handed it over.
Zhang Cheng took the cup of herbal tea and drank it all. Looking at the curvaceous beauty in front of him, he swallowed and said, "Let's have another cup."
Liu Ying took the tea cup and filled it again and handed it to Zhang Cheng. After drinking two cups of herbal tea, Zhang Cheng gradually regained his energy. He said to Liu Ying: "I'm a little tired and I don't think about it. Sister, please stay with me for a while."
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Liu Ying smiled sweetly, climbed onto the bed slowly, and lay down next to Zhang Cheng. She heard her sister Liu Yan murmuring sleepily: "General, don't move, let me sleep for a while..."
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At the beginning of the day, in the corner, it was already past meal time. The sunlight outside the window shone through the window edges into the hall of the ear room, but Zhang Cheng was having lunch with the Liu sisters.
"It's all your fault, General. You missed saying good morning to the old lady." Liu Ying complained to Zhang Cheng while eating, but she didn't forget to put a large piece of beef into Zhang Cheng's rice bowl.
Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "How about I wait until we get back to the house to decide the outcome?"
"Again……"
Liu Yan exclaimed in surprise, causing even the mother-in-law who was waiting nearby to look sideways.
"Silly sister, don't listen to the general teasing you. He has so much military affairs to deal with all day long, how can he have any free time to spend with us sisters?"
Zhang Cheng heard a trace of resentment in Liu Ying's mouth. He put a piece of scrambled eggs into Liu Ying's bowl and said softly: "Eat more eggs to replenish your body. When you are free, I will come to accompany you. How about it?"
At this time, a woman hurriedly came from the front yard. Seeing Zhang Cheng having a meal, she stood by the door and waited politely, not daring to enter the side room.
"Go and ask what's going on, why you're in such a panic." Zhang Cheng asked the woman standing behind him to go over and take a look.
After a while, the woman came back and reported: "Come back to the general, Mr. Jin has returned from the capital and is waiting for the general in the front hall."
"Oh!" Zhang Cheng muttered, "You're back so soon."
He simply ate some more food, then got up and walked to the front hall of the back hall of the General's Office. Liu Ying sat at the dining table, watching Zhang Cheng's tall figure fading away, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes.
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"Thanks to Lord Admiral, Jin's mission went smoothly!"
In the front hall of the back hall of Dushikou Fort City, Jin Xinpeng, the commander of the Kaiping Guards who had just returned from the capital, finished speaking and took up the tea on the desk to drink.
"Master Jin hasn't even returned to his home yet, so he came straight here to check in?"
Zhang Cheng looked at Jin Xinpeng, who had a dusty look on his face. He was nearly fifty years old, yet he was so busy with his own personal affairs, and he felt a little moved by it.
"Xinpeng was afraid that the admiral would be impatient, so he came straight to the general's office. It is true that he has not returned home yet." Jin Xinpeng put down his tea cup and spoke with a very respectful expression.
Zhang Cheng smiled and said: "This makes Zhang Cheng really feel bad. For my own personal affairs, I have made the boss run around and work so hard, but I shouldn't."
"Well, Xin Peng has said long ago that the Admiral is the pillar of our Northern Road. For my Northern Road, no matter how small the general's affairs are, they are still big things. It is my wish to serve the General.
, how dare you talk about hard work." Jin Xinpeng still said humbly.
Zhang Cheng smiled and cursed in his heart: He is really an old fox, but I like it very much!
Jin Xinpeng is indeed an old fox, or an old fox who is about to become a spirit. But the key to the problem is not whether he is cunning or not, but which side he is on, which is more important.
He is now on Zhang Cheng's side. As long as he can do things and is loyal, he will be a general beside Zhang Cheng. Naturally, his cunning will be used on his enemies. In Zhang Cheng's view, such a person should be a superior person.
The more the better.
What's more, there is still a secret hall watching them, and they are afraid that they will not be able to go to heaven. Furthermore, the key now is the army. As long as the military power is firmly in their hands, the rest will be clowns.
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"That being the case, if I were to be polite again, I would be out of touch. Come on, tell me, how was your trip to the capital?" Zhang Cheng stopped being polite and asked straightforwardly about his trip to the capital.
Jin Xinpeng said with a smile on his face: "Okay, we have successfully completed the two major events this time. The Admiral will treat us to a drink tonight!"
Zhang Cheng was also a little excited. These two things were of great concern to him. The first was his personal life-long event. The customs at this time were different from the modern times where he was born.
In the late Ming Dynasty, family status was still very important. I think Zhang Cheng was only from a military family. Even if he had some rough knowledge of literature and calligraphy, he was still looked down upon by those scholars who had no power to restrain themselves. In the eyes of the literati, he was still a martial artist.
But Ji Zhiheng came from a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River, and even served as a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. If he could marry him, he would not only raise the lintel of his family, but also bring glory to his ancestors and empower his descendants.
What's more important is that Miss Xuanzhu of the Ji family is a peerless beauty. She traveled through time, so why is she working so hard for it?
Why don't you just want to have a beautiful wife and concubine, dominate one side, and feel free and at ease?
Zhang Cheng calmly took a sip of tea and then asked lightly: "What did you say?"
"According to your Majesty's wishes, Mrs. Wu Langzhong from the Ministry of Industry and Mrs. Yu Yushi came to the door to perform the wedding ceremony on your behalf. Mr. Ji and Mrs. Ji didn't say anything. They also agreed on the wedding date. The good day is set for the 26th of next month.
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Now, there is only less than two months left, so we have to move quickly and start preparing everything that needs to be prepared, so as not to be stretched by then and make people laugh."
"Oh, this is really embarrassing. Marrying a wife is a big deal, but this is indeed the first time for me and you, a eldest daughter, to get on the sedan chair! Even when King Qin fought against the Tatars,
He didn’t make anyone so sad.”
Seeing the wry smile on Zhang Cheng's face, Jin Xinpeng took advantage of his courage and made a big offer: "If you can trust me, the Admiral, I, Lao Jin, can take full responsibility for all the wedding matters by asking Yan Qingrong and Yan Qianshi."
I’ll take care of it for you to the end.”
"Okay, then let's make it up. From today on, you, Jin Xinpeng, will be the admiral's plenipotentiary ambassador, and Yan Qingrong will be the deputy envoy. You two will be responsible for all the wedding affairs on the North Road, including me.