Because he had the information network provided by Guo Rong, Luo Youdu had a general understanding of the internal situation of Southern Tang Dynasty.
Chai Kehong now had a high status in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Jing directly transferred him to the court as a general and granted him the position of Jiedushi, responsible for the layout of Jinling's defense line along the river.
This kind of treatment can almost be said to be the first among military personnel in the temple.
With Chai Kehong's status, he only brought two people to Luzhou. Luo Youdu had to be curious about his purpose and planned to meet him for a while.
If Guo Rong was a very jealous king, Luo Youdu would not make such a decision, but after spending time together, he still had a certain understanding of Guo Rong's temper.
This Great Zhou Shizong is really a bit like Li Er in his demeanor.
He has not yet approached the tea shed.
An old man with a rosy face had already walked out of the tea shed quickly. His face was a little excited and he called out: "Huwazi?"
Luo Youdu paused, and a long-lasting memory suddenly emerged from the depths of his mind. Even though more than ten years had passed, many scenes had emerged.
"Uncle Chai!"
There is no Chai Kehong in Luo Youdu's memory, but there is an uncle Chai who often teases him.
Huwa is Luo Youdu's nickname, and the only people who call him "Huwazi" are his parents and Uncle Chai.
"Haha! It's really you, great!"
Chai Kehong stepped forward excitedly, grabbed Luo Youdu's shoulders, looked up and down, with some tears in his eyes, and was as excited as a child. He held him in his arms, patted his back, and choked with sobs: "Listen in Jiangnan
When I heard your name, I kept wondering if it could be you. God is really wise. If Brother Luo knew that his son had such achievements, he would be able to smile."
Luo Youdu did remember that when he was in Sizhou, there was an uncle who treated him very well, but he never imagined that he would still be so warm in the past ten years or so.
Little did he know that Chai Kehong had injured his lower abdomen on the battlefield when he was young. Although he was a normal human being, he was destined to have no future.
When he was in Sizhou, he made good friends with Luo's father, and he had the idea of recruiting Luo Youdu as his adopted son.
But before the matter could be concluded, he demoted Song Qiqiu back to Jinling.
Jinling and Sizhou are adjacent to the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, so there is no communication between the two places.
By the time I learned that Luo's father had passed away due to illness, it was already more than half a year later.
He sent people to Sizhou with the intention of bringing Luo Youdu's mother and son back to Jinling. However, Luo's mother knew that Song Qiqiu was narrow-minded and did not want to harm her old friend, so she went north to find her natal family.
Chai Kehong felt deeply resentful about this incident.
In a blink of an eye, more than ten years passed.
Chai Kehong has always been ostracized by Song Qiqiu in Jinling. However, Chai Kehong's father Chai Zaiyong was a famous general of Yang and Wu and had a certain prestige in the army. Song Qiqiu did not have any serious enmity with him, and he only marginalized him.
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As a result, Chai Kehong remained unknown in Jinling for more than ten years, until the Zhou Dynasty invaded Huainan, and many generals went north to fight, leaving many positions vacant.
Only then did the officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty discover that there was another Chai Kehong who had been living in Jinling for more than ten years and had done nothing with his salary for more than ten years. They sent him to Fuzhou to serve as the governor of Fuzhou.
With this unintentional appointment, Chai Kehong instantly became famous and defeated the Wu and Yue troops in Changzhou.
Luo Youdu's name had already spread to the south of the Yangtze River, but Chai Kehong was no one in Jinling at that time, and no one had heard of him.
It was not until Luo Youdu defeated Liu Yanzhen that the word "Luo Youdu" officially resounded throughout Jiangnan and reached Chai Kehong's ears.
He had always wanted to confirm whether this Luo Youdu was the one in his memory, and he had always wanted to lead the army northward and come to Luzhou to see him in person.
It's just that Li Jing wanted him to guard Jinling and refused to let him go until he couldn't help but went to find Li Jing, which led to today's trip.
Luo Youdu felt that Chai Kehong was indeed showing his true feelings and bowed deeply to him.
Chai Kehong helped him up, pulled him towards the tea shed, and said, "Tell uncle how you got here all these years."
Luo Youdu briefly talked about his own situation, when talking about Huber.
Chai Kehong laughed and said: "Lao Hu is still here. If I remember correctly, he must have been in his seventies. It's great. I still miss the pancakes he made."
He seemed to be missing those days, and suddenly cursed: "Damn Song Qiqiu, if it weren't for him, we wouldn't have been separated from my uncle and nephew for more than ten years before we could see each other today."
"By the way! Have you ever married a wife to provide for the Luo family?"
Chai Kehong suddenly asked with some expectation.
Luo Youdu smiled awkwardly and said: "I haven't married yet."
Chai Kehong looked regretful and said: "Your father promised me at the beginning that if he had another son, he would adopt him as my adopted son. If he can't do it, you will bear the burden. You are already twenty-three, how can you continue to do it?
The family is not yet complete.”
Luo Youdu couldn't say a word. The two old guys were really capable. How old was he then?
Luo Youdu said: "But the official family has arranged a marriage for me. Now that the war is over, it's time to get married when we get back."
Chai Kehong asked hurriedly: "Who is my mother's family? The emperor is personally acting as a matchmaker this week, so he must be from a good family."
Luo Youdu nodded and said, "She is the second daughter of King Wei."
"King Wei? Fu Yanqing?"
Seeing Luo Youdu nodding his head in confirmation, Chai Kehong said with a smile: "Then you really value it very much, very good, very good. Ha, compared with Fu Yanqing, who is Zhou Zong?"
Luo Youdu looked strange and said, "What does this have to do with Zhou Zong?"
Chai Kehong asked: "Do you remember that you are engaged to Zhou Zong's daughter?"
ha?
Luo Youdu was a little confused, why did this great Zhou queen in history have an engagement with him?
"My nephew doesn't know!"
Chai Kehong snorted and said, "I think so. With Zhou Zong's snobbish temperament, even if there was an engagement, after your father was demoted, he would not admit it. Now that I see you prospering, my strength in Jiangnan has declined.
It is really ridiculous and shameful to bring up the engagement again."
Luo Youdu prided himself on his quick thinking and his ability to analyze things and see through the key points, but what Chai Kehong said about Zhou Zong's saucy operations left him baffled.
He was in Zhou Dynasty and he was in Jiangnan, not belonging to the same country. To whom should he propose the engagement again?
Little did he know that this was a big mistake.
Zhou Zong was waiting for a price and wanted to marry his daughter Zhou Ehuang into the royal family of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It was assumed that there was a marriage contract so as not to offend the suitor.
As a result, Song Qiqiu, in order to disgust Zhou Zong, said in public that Emperor Zhou E's fiancé was Luo Youdu of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
It’s not that Zhou Zong didn’t have an explanation, it’s just that no one believed it. They thought Zhou Zong was just trying to prove his innocence by proving that he had no dealings with Zhou Dynasty.
This matter even reached the ears of Li Jing.
Of course Chai Kehong didn't know the inside story, but he knew Zhou Zong better and knew that he was definitely not the kind of person who sticks to an engagement, so he thought he had fallen in love with the current Luo Youdu.
Song Qiqiu's nonsense about attacking political opponents has unknowingly turned into a mess.
Chai Kehong looked at the young man in front of him with joy and said with a smile: "I can see you again today, Huwazi, and I know that you are living a good life. I have no regrets. I am leaving. You and I have special status and it is not appropriate to get together for a long time."
He stood up and was about to leave, but thought of something, took a secret letter from his arms, handed it to Luo Youdu and said: "This is my uncle's mission here, and I can't take it back. Don't read the letter, just give it to Emperor Guo directly." Well. In the future...if we meet on the battlefield, there will be no need to show mercy."