"I have already found someone to settle my affairs with. The auspicious day will be in five days. Shu'er's mother has prepared everything early. If you don't have any objections, just marry Shu'er!"
In the study, Li Wenquan raised his eyes and stared at Tang Ji before adding another sentence.
Tang Ji's face was dull. There were only five days left before the challenge time agreed between him and the mysterious man. Unexpectedly, they bumped into each other. It seemed that these five days would indeed be a good day. He raised his lips lightly and without thinking any more, he handed him back.
He said: "I will obey the prince's arrangements."
"Hahaha, okay!" Li Wenquan laughed loudly, and then continued: "During these days, you don't need to worry about the county government affairs. You can work hard on your black powder. If you need anything, you can tell Zhou Huan."
"Yes!" Tang Ji responded with his hands raised.
Zhou Huan, who was standing aside, followed closely behind.
Afterwards, the three of them chatted for a while, and Tang Ji and Zhou Huan left the back hall together.
As soon as he returned to the front yard, Zhou Huan put his hand on Tang Ji's shoulder: "Congratulations, Mr. Tang, I will have to call you Prince Consort from now on!"
"General Zhou, you can just call me Tang Ran." Tang Ji responded with a slight smile.
Zhou Huan laughed twice, then lowered his voice and sighed: "It's a pity that the princess is not smart, otherwise you will definitely be a good couple, but it doesn't matter. With Master Tang's ability, even if he wants to take a concubine in the future, the prince will not
be opposed to!"
Tang Ji shook his head: "Tang will only marry and love one person in his life, and will not take concubines."
This is the promise he made to Jiang Ran.
"I didn't expect Mr. Tang to be an infatuated person. I admire him, I admire him!" Zhou Huan raised his hands and clasped his fists casually, then continued: "Are you free tonight? Zuixianlou, I'm treating you. Firstly, I'm here to congratulate you. Secondly,
I came here to thank you for sending me the elixir!"
At first, he looked down on those weak scholars, but Tang Ran gave him a different feeling. He couldn't tell specifically, but it was definitely to his liking.
Tang Ji raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said in return: "Then it would be better to obey Tang's orders than to be respectful!"
"You're welcome. By the way, you can make that black powder. If you need manpower or materials, you can always come to me." Zhou Huan said another polite word and walked towards the gate of the palace.
Watching the other party's figure gradually go away and finally disappear, Tang Ji also put away the smile on his face, frowned, and after standing there for a long time, he sorted out the plan in his mind and called Cheng Tie to go out together.
Beidu Palace.
...
At noon, in a tavern in the east of the city.
"It seems like we haven't been together for a long time. We must have a good drink today!"
There were many tables in the lobby, but not many guests. There were four people sitting on one of the tables. A man in gray clothes raised his wine glass high and said with a raised voice.
After finishing a glass of wine, Hua Yuan'er did not forget to glance at the two people who were staring at them from the distance with his peripheral vision.
Cheng Tie also cooperated and said: "If I had known that I would go to the military camp with you, I would not feel comfortable at all staying in the palace all day. I would be suffocated to death!"
Tang Ji didn't pay much attention to it, he just ate the food naturally, and then lowered his voice and asked Su Qing: "Is the food ready?"
Su Qing raised her brows slightly and explained calmly: "Well, Yang Nian found an old man who was good at craftsmanship. His son was killed by the guards of the Beidu Palace. He hated Li Wenquan deeply, so he worked day and night to help us.
It's a pity that the old man's health... Well, I'll give you the stuff later."
Tang Ji narrowed his eyes slightly, then nodded.
Hua Yuan'er raised his glass and laughed: "Xiao Tang, come here, I wish you and the princess have a son soon, hahaha!"
Tang Ji also raised his glass in response, and then said: "Master Hua, Li Wenquan plans to send troops to sneak into the imperial army first. In order to prevent accidents from happening, I will arrange for you to leave the city the day after tomorrow. You go back to Heilong Village to find the leader of Fang Village to get the jade order.
Go to Yuezhou and lead the Xiaolin Army to follow the Xizhou Army. If something happens in Yingzhou, you should adapt accordingly. It is best to destroy the Xizhou Army and buy some time for the imperial army."
Hearing this, Hua Yuan'er frowned slightly, nodded in response, and continued to smile: "Yes, yes, yes, you are a golden boy and a beautiful girl, a perfect match!"
Then, taking advantage of his time eating vegetables, he whispered back: "I understand, then you should also pay attention to safety. I also want to follow you to sit on the top of the city and drink and eat meat after taking Yingzhou!"
"Don't worry, I need you to do me a favor tomorrow." Tang Ji picked up a dish with chopsticks and glanced at Cheng Tie: "And you, Lao Cheng, you two are also one of the starring roles!"
At this time, Cheng Tie nodded in response and continued to ask in a low voice: "There are only five days left. Brother Tang, are you still in time?"
"Maybe!"
To be precise, there were only four days left. Tang Ji had seen many TV dramas where similar plots were set on the wedding day, but he felt that would be too cruel to the little girl Li Yushu, and besides, according to his plan, it was not necessary.
On the fifth day, after answering, he picked up the wine flask and filled the wine for several people: "Let me see how much you drink today, so that I can't get you drunk on the wedding day and make you three fools."
The goods caused trouble in the bridal chamber!"
"Hahaha, we still want to make a fuss. I have a big belly. You can drink whatever you want without getting drunk..."
In this way, the four of them ate and drank for about half an hour before finally leaving together with their arms around their shoulders.
During this period, Su Qing also took the opportunity to stuff something wrapped in a handkerchief into Tang Ji's hand. Among the four people, only Tang Ji was not drunk, or he was very sober, because he had to go to Zhou Huan's appointment that night.
!
...
The next day, Tang Ji slept until very late before getting up, put on his clothes, walked outside the door, stretched out, and murmured: "That guy Zhou Huan is really good at drinking!"
Just at this moment, he saw Li Chengyang and Cheng Tie sitting by the stove in the courtyard. The former was waving a cattail leaf fan vigorously. He looked at each other and smiled at Cheng Tie, then stepped up and said, "Your Highness, what are you doing? It smells so good.
Ah, can you let me try it first?"
After saying that, he raised his hand to touch the casserole on the stove, but was stopped by Li Chengyang: "No, Brother Tang, this is for my father, you can't drink it."
After hearing what he said, Tang Ji shrugged helplessly, then pinched his face and praised: "I didn't expect His Royal Highness to be so filial. If the prince knew about it, he would definitely be very happy."
Li Chengyang looked very mature, but his mind was like that of a child. When he heard that his father would be happy, he immediately became happy and worked harder to make the soup.
Tang Ji didn't say anything more and immediately returned to the house to wash up.
After a long time, Li Chengyang successfully cooked the soup and planned to give it to Li Wenquan to taste. But as soon as he blew the bowl of hot soup to warm it up, a figure walked over through the stone archway.
"Yang'er, I heard that you prepared delicious food for your father?" Because of the black gunpowder Tang Ji presented, Li Wenquan was in a very good mood these two days, and he walked with wind.
Tang Ji frowned slightly, focusing on the wet white stone slab not far in front of Li Wenquan. He rubbed his hands, took something out of his sleeve and squeezed it tightly, planning to wait for the other person to fall and then immediately greet him.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Li Chengyang suddenly stood up with the bowl in hand and ran towards Li Wenquan quickly. He happened to step on the white stone slab and suddenly lost his balance and fell forward suddenly. Fortunately, he was finally caught by Li Wenquan.
He held on, but the bowl of still steaming soup splashed all over the latter's cheeks and body.
Seeing this, Li Chengyang suddenly felt at a loss: "Father, I, I didn't mean it."
"It's okay, just as long as Yang'er didn't fall down." Li Wenquan responded with a smile, then touched the sticky soup on his face and said with a smile: "Father, go wash your face first, change clothes, and Yang'er will make some chicken soup."
Bring it to the main courtyard."
After saying that, he turned around and left, but as soon as he reached the stone arch gate, he was knocked to the ground by the oncoming Hua Yuan'er.