No matter what these people think, they are guests. No matter where they come from, Huai Haijun makes them feel at home.
The Huaihai Navy is no longer the small force it once was. Now there is probably no big force like Dong Shuheng in the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng’s wedding should reflect the atmosphere of Huai Haijun.
We welcome visitors from all over the world and smile at the distinguished guests from three mountains and five mountains.
Jiangning City has not yet undergone urban reconstruction, and it does not look as good as Yangzhou from the street. However, as an ancient capital with a thousand years of history, Jiangning City has its own majestic scene with dragons and tigers dominating the city.
Its nearly 40 kilometers long city wall alone is enough to shock people.
The first livelihood project Dong Shuheng carried out after entering Jiangning was to build Xuanwu Lake into a park.
Guests who came early these two days were arranged to visit Xuanwu Lake.
Today is the last day before the wedding.
According to the arrangement, Dong Shuheng will first pick up Wei Yuzhen tomorrow morning to come to the church to complete the ceremony, and then send a sedan to pick up Yang Ximei.
Dong Shuheng has no say in this aspect and can only be at the mercy of others.
This arrangement seemed to be a bit unfair to Yang Ximei, but in fact it relaxed the etiquette to the maximum limit.
Moreover, this process has already been discussed with the woman. Since both women agree, Dong Shuheng is not willing to interfere anymore.
At this moment, Dong Shuheng is in his study, drinking tea and reading official documents. Even if he is to welcome his bride tomorrow, he cannot completely put down his official duties.
In the past few days, Wei Yuxiang went home to help, and it was Hui'er's turn to wait in the study.
Seeing Dong Shuheng approve the official document and put it aside, Hui'er interjected softly: "Master, you are getting married tomorrow, why don't you see any reaction?"
Dong Shuheng rolled his eyes at her: "Young master, what's my reaction? Do you want to show more excitement?"
Hui'er chuckled and said, "Shouldn't you be a little more excited to be married to two beautiful ladies all at once? I see your hand holding the pen is very steady."
Dong Shuheng felt more relieved when he saw that Hui'er could still joke with him here. He always felt that he felt sorry for Hui'er because of his past life thoughts.
"No, I'll wait for the young master to take a bath, and rest early today. I'll be busy tomorrow." Dong Shuheng said and whispered a few words into Hui'er's ear, which made Hui'er blush.
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Liang Xiaoru returned to the guest house, lying on the bed tossing and turning. This time the plan seemed to be going smoothly.
Both she and Yun Si are making good progress. As long as she doesn't make any mistakes while sneaking into the kitchen tomorrow, there won't be any big problem.
Yun Sishi will be arranged to go to Dong Shuheng's ordinary wife tomorrow to help.
Wei Yuzhen's pick-up time was relatively early, and people had already been arranged.
Yun Sizhui seemed to be very confident in her skills. In her opinion, since Dong Shuheng's ordinary wife was Yang Xiuqing's sister, she must be a delicate eldest lady.
Liang Xiaoru was lying on the bed. For some reason, the shadow of a young boy always flashed through her mind.
During today's rehearsal, she seemed to see that familiar shadow again.
Liang Xiaoru once wondered if she was hallucinating.
However, she didn't even have the courage to look back and confirm.
She knew that her brother was in the palace in the capital, and she had confirmed it when she went to the palace a few years ago.
It was precisely because of this that she agreed to those people's requests and became a secret agent of the imperial court regardless of her own reputation.
She became a lackey of the court she hated.
The scene of my parents being framed and tragically killed by an adulterer is vivid in my mind.
It was this mediocre court that ruined her family and made her Gao family unable to succeed.
It was they who personally destroyed their family and their lovely brother.
But for her brother, she had to sacrifice her life for these people. She was just a weak woman, how could she have her own choice?
She waved away the shadow in her mind. The palace where her brother was in the capital was a prison. It was impossible for a young brother to escape from there.
Unable to sleep, she concentrated on planning tomorrow's mission and thinking about every detail. She could not fail, otherwise her brother would be tortured to death by those people.
Not far from the guest house where she lives, there is a mansion that serves as a temporary dormitory for the staff.
Lying in bed, Gao Xing also had some insomnia. He recalled his childhood, when he followed his sister all day long, like a little follower.
My sister is a few years older than me, and she loves me very much. My parents are a little biased towards me. Sometimes I get delicious food, but my sister doesn't. He will give half of it to his sister when no one is around.
But my sister always said she didn't like the food and gave it back to him.
Gao Gao imagined the warm scene of meeting his sister in his mind and gradually fell asleep.
Deep in the Taihang Mountains, through the mouth of a valley called "One Line of Sky", there is a hidden valley.
There is an impact plain in the valley with beautiful scenery. A mountain stream flows down from the mountain and is blocked by a dam to form a small reservoir.
Relying on the reservoir, a large amount of farmland has been reclaimed. It is now the autumn harvest season, and the fields are golden yellow.
There is a beautiful small city in the middle of this valley plain. The people in the small city are mainly the militiamen of the Taihang Column. The land outside the city is also cultivated for farms.
There is a mansion in the city. It doesn't look big from the outside, but it is quite exquisitely decorated.
The female bandit leader who was offered 100,000 taels of silver by the Manchu Qing court for her head was reading a book in her room.
Since becoming the commander of the Taihang Column, Lu Feiyan began to pay attention to study.
It is impossible for a female bandit leader to become a general all of a sudden. Dong Shuheng gave her the ability to be the commander.
Therefore, when it comes to commanding the army, she pays great attention to listening to the opinions of the staff.
Especially after the Taihang Column expanded in size, she rarely intervened in command.
She knew very well that controlling the Taihang Column by herself was just to ensure the loyalty of this army to the Huai Navy.
This is indeed a very suitable place to develop into an independent force. If someone else were to be the commander, it would inevitably lead to unwanted thoughts.
At this time, Lu Feiyan no longer had the valiant and heroic appearance of the past. She was pregnant with Liujia and her belly was swollen, which was caused by the last time she left Yangzhou.
I still remember Dong Shuheng complaining to Lu Feiyan in bed about why he always leaves seeds and doesn't germinate.
These words made Lu Feiyan feel soft-hearted for a moment, and she did not use the contraceptive method commonly used by Jianghu people.
I didn't expect it to become dark like that.
Calculating the time, it was almost time to give birth. Famous women from several counties around the Taihang Mountains had been "invited" by the women's camp.
Lu Feiyan's pregnancy was not told to anyone else, only the female battalion around her knew about it. After entering the Taihang Mountains, she spent most of her time coordinating the rear areas, and there were no opportunities for her to lead troops.
The Huai Navy officers under his command also knew about the relationship between the commander and the president, so why would they let the commander go into battle?
Moreover, after entering the Taihang Mountains, the Taihang Column basically did not have any major battles, and usually small groups of troops dispersed to attack.
In a battle of this level, the staff will basically formulate a plan and then hand it over to the troops below to execute it.
Only major decisions need to be made by her.
At the beginning, she was wearing a cloak and no one could tell. Only in the past two months, she rarely showed up, and some documents were passed around by Juan'er.
She only told the public that she was not feeling well. However, the situation in the Taihang Column has been very stable recently.
Since the Second Regiment went deep into the grassland, the Taihang Column has fully shifted to defense to prevent the Qing army from retaliating. Therefore, there has been no fighting in Taihang recently.
The army was on defense and the militiamen had to hurry up to participate in the autumn harvest. There was really nothing to bother her, which was just enough for her to relax and raise her baby.
The Taihang Column is currently divided into four defense zones: southeast, northwest and northwest. Everyone is divided into responsibilities. She will only be found here when major things happen. Most matters can be decided by the staff of the column.
Because the delivery date was approaching, Juaner basically stayed with her in the past few days.
"Commander, aren't you thinking about him again? It's been so long since I came to see you. Let me tell you, no man is good." Juan'er looked at Lu Feiyan sitting there in unrequited love,
He said sadly.
Other women's husbands accompany them when they are pregnant and have babies. It's better for me as a sister, who has to go out to lead the troops to fight. She doesn't even say a word to the man about such a big thing as her pregnancy.
Lu Feiyan knew that as Dong Shuheng, it was best not to come to a remote place like Taihang Mountain. On the one hand, it was his safety. On the other hand, the transportation here was inconvenient, which was not conducive to Dong Shuheng's control of the overall situation outside.
"Juan'er, don't talk nonsense. I don't blame him, but I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity. If it were someone else who would keep me in a deep compound, would you be willing to live like that?"
"But, but, sister, he is getting married tomorrow, so he should marry you first."
"It's just a title!" Lu Feiyan sighed quietly.
At this moment, there was a messenger reporting outside the door.
"Battal Commander, Jiang Ning sent a box over. It was sent to the commander by name. It was sent by the president himself."
Juaner opened the door and took the box.
This is an exquisite box made of sandalwood, measuring thirty to forty centimeters in length, width and height. It is bright red in color and has festive patterns on it.
Juan'er put the box on the table and was about to open it.
But she was stopped by Lu Feiyan: "Juan'er, I'd better do it myself!"
Lu Feiyan not only stopped Ju'er, but also sent her away. She wanted to reveal on her own what exactly Dong Shuheng had given her.
After Juan'er left the room, Lu Feiyan held her waist with one hand and walked to the table with a big belly.
She carefully tore off the big red seal on the box and opened a corner of the box.
Under the illumination of candlelight, several gemstones were first revealed, reflecting colorful light.
She opened all the lids on the box, and inside was a phoenix crown made of gold and gemstones.
In recent years, the Huai Navy has developed Nanyang and mined a lot of gems.
This time Dong Shuheng specially found someone to make this phoenix crown.
This is a testimony to the relationship between him and Feiyan.
There was another letter inside the box. Lu Feiyan opened the letter holding back the uncontrollable tears in her eyes.
There is only one poem in the letter:
The female swordsman in white,
Wu Gou Shuang Xue Ming.
The silver saddle shines on the white horse,
Whispering like a shooting star.
Entering Jingxing on a snowy night,
Merciful grace spreads Wan Pavilion.
Hongyan sent a message,
Live up to the love of a chivalrous woman.
After reading this poem, Lu Feiyan finally couldn't hold back the tears in her eyes.
Tears of lovesickness burst out of my eyes and fell on this love letter sent from thousands of miles away, and all the grievances in my heart were swept away.
She called to Juan'er to help her comb her hair, and then put on the phoenix crown.
Looking in the mirror, Lu Feiyan stroked her bulging belly with one hand, with a happy smile on her face.
Juan'er, who has always been quite prejudiced against Dong Shuheng, rarely complained this time.