Xu Fanming watched Chen Jinjun put away the imperial edict: "This thing is much more useful than that piece of marriage paper."
Chen Jinjun also nodded with approval.
"Go on your way early. I always feel uneasy until I reach Yongzhou."
Xu Fanming put away the escort flag and looked at the sky, feeling strangely uneasy in his heart: "Why don't we rush to the gate of Yongzhou City in one go, rest for a while, and find out the news before entering the city."
Chen Jinjun also looked at the sky and nodded. This method is indeed safe and will not miss the auspicious time.
After walking like this until dusk and then dawn, the large army finally arrived outside Yongzhou City. After settling down for a while, Xu Fanming and Chen Jinjun both sent people to lead the troops into Yongzhou City.
"My boss, my wife and I will go first." Yu Ce from Buzhuang saluted Chen Jinjun.
"Everything must be done carefully." Chen Jinjun nodded and warned.
Yu Ce led the ox cart, took his wife and the finest cloth carefully selected from his family in the capital, and entered the city under the escort of bodyguards.
Xu Fanming didn't know when he walked behind Chen Jinjun and looked at the retreating back of the convoy: "We will be in Yongzhou from now on."
Chen Jinjun sighed: "Yongzhou is a good place. Now that the world is so chaotic, only Yongzhou can be more stable."
"Safe? We can't be safe anywhere now." Xu Fanming snorted.
Chen Jinjun put his hand on the sedan chair beside him and teased Xu Fanming with a smile: "Isn't the Taipingshan Villa of the escort chief just to maintain peace?"
"Taipingshan Villa is where I brought my brothers from the Qinghong Society to the capital in order to have a place to stay." Xu Fanming rubbed the riding crop in his hand, "Later, I thought that one day I would return to Qinghong with my brothers.
meeting."
"Is the name of Qinghonghui that important to you?" Chen Jinjun looked at the towering walls of Yongzhou City, which was so dark that it made people breathless.
"My boss's surname will always be Chen, and my surname will always be Xu." Xu Fanming followed her gaze and looked at the city wall, his gloomy eyes filled with determination to win.
"What the escort said is right, you and I are indeed the same kind of people." Chen Jinjun didn't know what he thought of, and his eyes became deep.
"My boss." Shen Xiaoxiao called her.
Chen Jinjun turned around and walked over: "What's wrong?"
"Your dowry has been counted. Please take a look." The accountant handed over the account book.
Chen Jinjun took the account book and looked at the gorgeous precious wooden boxes one by one: "When I go to the city the day after tomorrow, Xu Sheng, you take the token and pay a visit to the Huo Mansion. Let them prepare it and go through the process to avoid trouble."
Xu Sheng mounted his horse and headed towards the city.
"My boss, you should go and rest after reading this. I haven't slept for two days and one night." Shen Xiaoxiao looked at Chen Jinjun's slightly blue eyes and couldn't help but feel distressed, and hurriedly persuaded her to rest.
Chen Jinjun rubbed his forehead and sighed. He was indeed a little tired. When he was doing business in the past, he often didn't sleep for three days, but now he wasn't particularly tired.
But when she thought about having a head-on confrontation with the Huo family the day after tomorrow, she couldn't help but rub her temples.
That was the Huo family who dared to take off the Qing Dynasty uniforms and establish themselves as warlords in the early days of the revolution, when the court still had some strength left.
Chen Jinjun was lying on the bed, thinking over and over again in his mind what would happen next, until he fell into a deep sleep.
When she woke up, it was early the next morning, and she heard someone knocking frantically on her door.
Chen Jinjun frowned and got up and opened the door. When he saw Xu Fanming panting in a panic, his heart began to beat for no reason: "Why are you so anxious? Is something big going to happen?"
Xu Fanming calmed down his chaotic breath after rushing all the way, with a look of panic and disbelief on his face, and finally said a complete sentence: "It's a big thing, a big thing."
"What's the big deal?" Chen Jinjun had known Xu Fanming since he was ten years old when he was doing business with his parents. This was the first time he had seen him look so anxious.
Xu Fanming took another breath and told the bad news.
"Huo Pingyan is dead."
He had been watching Chen Jinjun's reaction, hoping to see something on her face.
Chen Jinjun's heart skipped a beat, but he was not shocked. He just showed an expected look: "Death is not a big deal. Once it comes, let's make peace with it."
Xu Fanming quickly waved his hand and denied Chen Jinjun: "He died a long time ago. There will be a funeral tomorrow. Huo Tingyu has been suppressing the news. If you hadn't asked Xu Sheng to go to Huo Mansion yesterday, I'm afraid your sedan chair would have collided with your fiancé's coffin tomorrow.
superior."
Chen Jinjun's expression became solemn. She had long expected that Huo Pingyan might die, but she did not expect that he would die before the marriage.
"What should I do? Tomorrow is an auspicious day." Xu Fanming looked at Chen Jinjun. How much he hoped that Chen Jinjun would say that he would not marry, but he also knew in his heart Chen Jinjun's purpose of marrying into the Huo family.
"Tomorrow," Chen Jinjun gritted his teeth, his expression resolute and a little paranoid, "everything will be business as usual."
Then, with Xu Fanming's disbelieving but sure eyes, Xu Sheng was asked to inform the Huo family.
In the Huo Mansion, Huo Tingyu, the leader of the Yongzhou warlord wearing a black cloak, sat in front of a large desk and listened to the adjutant's report.
"She wants to get married?" Huo Tingyu wiped the gun in his hand.
The adjutant nodded: "The second master's funeral will be held tomorrow, this..."
Huo Tingyu narrowed his eyes and smiled meaningfully: "I'm afraid it's not for the imperial edict, but for my Huo family."
He put the cleaned gun on his waist, stood up and walked around the table, his tall and muscular body almost blocking the entire window.
"Ping Yan is going to the funeral. This is his last journey. We can't waste time. As for the bride of the Chen family..."
He paced back and forth, a sarcastic smile appeared in his resolute eyebrows: "Now that she's here, don't let her enter the Huo family's gate."
"Yes!" The adjutant hurried down to make arrangements.
There was no emotion in his sharp and clear eyes. The engagement was made ten years ago and Mr. Chen was ready to be an orphan. He knew it, but the Chen family was still there and the Qing Dynasty was dead. Can the marriage given by Yu still count?
But Chen Jinjun didn't know that the Huo family planned to shut her out tomorrow.
She was sitting on the Taishi chair, drinking tea while flipping through the list of merchants in Yongzhou she had researched, thinking about how to capture a market as big as Yongzhou.
Xu Fanming was already furious with her nonchalant look: "Dong Chen's family, it would be a huge shame if you were thrown out by the Huo family tomorrow!"
His voice was so loud that even the dust on the beams of the inn was shaken by his voice.
Chen Jinjun drank all the tea in the cup, and while the maid was adding tea and water, she raised her eyelids and glanced at him, with a smile on her lips, as if she was making fun of Xu Fanming's anxiety: "How big can it be? How big can it be?"
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Her smile made Xu Fanming feel suffocated. Does she know her current situation?
"The whole Yongzhou will know that you, Chen Jinjun, came from the capital with a dowry of 108 to marry the second young master of the Huo family. Then the second young master went to the funeral and you got married, and you still wanted to enter the Huo family.
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"Then what?" Chen Jinjun lowered his head and continued flipping through the information in his hand, obviously not listening to what he said.
"You will become famous. People all over Yongzhou and the whole world will look at you, Chen Jinjun, and see the jokes made by your imperial merchant Chen family." Xu Fanming was so angry that he slammed the table.
But Chen Jinjun smiled even brighter: "Isn't this just right? Why are you so anxious?"
Xu Fanming was confused: "How can this be just right? This is a big deal! Why don't you take it to heart at all?"