Chapter 286: Martial Arts Competition
At this time, there were only three people left in the room, and the other was Mrs. Tang's maid, Shen Feng saw that she was silent, so he simply stood aside and did not speak, and after a long time, Mrs. Tang said in a deep voice: "Don't act in front of me, I know the purpose of your trip, and it's not impossible to marry Xue'er, I'll give you a chance, as long as you don't interact with other women, I won't stop you." This sentence was deliberately embarrassing him, Mrs. Tang knew more or less about his temperament and knew that he could not listen, so she deliberately said this, taking retreat as advance.
Shen Feng didn't understand in his heart, deliberately played Tai Chi with her, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Tang, I really came to find you this time, and it's not for the eldest lady, let's not talk about the eldest lady today, and don't talk about it in the future, so that you and I can rest assured." β
It's strange, he never mentioned Xue'er, what kind of calculation did he have, Mrs. Tang frowned, and said suspiciously: "Then why did you come to me?"
Shen Feng smiled and said, "I'll ask Madame to do me a favor." β
Mrs. Tang asked, "What's the hurry?"
Shen Feng cleaned up his expression for a while, and turned serious: "I ask my wife to be a middleman and propose marriage for me to the prefect Liu's house!"
Mrs. Tang was stunned and said in disbelief: "You want me to help you propose a ?!" Is this kid stupid, as long as he still has some thoughts about Xue'er, he shouldn't say this, did he really give up Xue'er.
Hehe, be stupid, just want this effect, this is called the opposite, Shen Feng glanced at her expression, and said with a smile: "I am in love with the prefect's daughter, but I have no elders in my family, and people are the official lady, I can't wronged others, so I want to ask Mrs. to propose marriage for me, Mrs., you are noble, if you can help me with this, I will be grateful." β
Mrs. Tang said unconvincedly, "Do you really want me to help you propose?"
Shen Feng said solemnly: "Really, I came to find Mrs. today, just for this matter!"
Mrs. Tang said again: "You are to Xue'erβ"
Shen Feng immediately interrupted: "Madam, we have a word in advance today, and we will not mention the eldest lady again, I will say a word from the bottom of my heart, I have not looked at her until I entered the door, isn't it just what you want when I do this?"
What is this kid's idea, Mrs. Tang was confused in her mind, pondered for a moment, and asked: "Why do you want me to help you propose, I think Mrs. Lin can also do it." β
Shen Feng had already prepared the wording, and said calmly: "Mrs. Lin is the wife of a businessman, but the Liu family is a family of eunuchs, and it is not related, and if it is spread out, I am afraid that the idlers will say that it is collusion between businessmen and officials, so it is best for Mrs. Tang to help me in order to calm the scene." β
Mrs. Tang suddenly smiled slightly: "It's okay, I'll help you with this." β
Shen Feng smiled and said, "Thank you, madam!"
Shen Feng turned to ask, "Why didn't you see your son when you came to the Tang family today?"
Mrs. Tang smiled slightly: "Wei'er has already gone to the barracks, I heard that your relationship is very good, and Wei'er has mentioned you in front of his grandfather many times." β
Shen Feng hurriedly took the opportunity to say something nice: "I met Major General Tang in Yiling, your son is indeed a dragon among people, and it is my honor to get acquainted with him." β
Praising her son is also tantamount to praising her in disguise, just ask which parent in the world doesn't like to be praised for his son, Shen Feng smiled and continued: "In addition to asking my wife for help this time, there is actually another thing. β
Mrs. Tang asked, "What else do you have?"
Shen Feng just wanted to speak, but suddenly stopped, hesitated in his heart, and suddenly changed his words: "I heard that General Tang Wei is going to attack the Manichaeism next year, I came to tell him to be careful, the Manichaean Sect is currently roughly estimated to have 120,000 people, if you pack up the remnants of the army, it should be able to reach fifteen people, please Madame inform him of this matter." β
Madame Tang was surprised: "There are 150,000 people--how did you know?"
Shen Feng said with a smile: "I heard it when I was in Yiling, I believe that General Tang will know it sooner or later, and I have already received the news that the Manichaeism is ready to abandon Jingzhou, and use the two cities of Yiling and Xiangyang as strongholds, and recruit troops and horses under the banner of Emperor Wen of Qin in the previous dynasty." β
"I think there must be someone behind this, otherwise a small Manichaean wouldn't dare to make such a big fanfare, creating civil strife is fake, and the invasion of foreign invaders is real, and I also ask Mrs. to let the two generals of the Tang family have a psychological preparation. β
These news and speculations were obtained when Yiling was obtained, and when he sat in the position of the king of Zuo, he could naturally listen to a lot of news, as for the assumptions that were speculated, it was not groundless, Manichaeism was not a public rebellion before, and now it is even fanfare to play the banner of the previous dynasty, which is tantamount to a public rebellion, if there is no one behind him to support him, who will believe it.
And whoever wants to see civil strife in Dahua the most, it must be a foreign enemy who covets the rich land of the Central Plains, so Shen Feng's speculation is also somewhat reasonable, and this is also Sister Shu's idea.
Mrs. Tang suddenly fell into a long contemplation, and Shen Feng didn't bother her, quietly exiting the room and preparing to go back.
After walking out of the room, Shen Feng thought about how to solve the problem of the eldest lady, the best way at the moment has been given up, and he can only think of another way, just now he originally wanted to use the Manichaean matter to let Mrs. Tang marry the eldest lady, but when the matter came, he changed his mind, not that this method was not feasible, but that he did not want to use national affairs to achieve private affairs.
Thinking of this, I sighed in my heart, I don't know how to explain to the eldest lady, I swore to her before, but now I messed things up - I don't want to, I will think of a way after I go back, I don't believe that it is so difficult to marry a wife, Shen Feng shook off his thoughts, and was about to walk out of the Tang family, but when he looked up, he saw Tang Kaitai leading two soldiers to hurriedly come in from outside.
It's really up and not looking down, I've had an unpleasant relationship with him before, but he is his quasi-father-in-law, at least go over to say hello now, Shen Feng stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Hello General Tang!"
Tang Kaitai gave an expressionless sigh, Shen Feng didn't say too much, smiled and said, "I'll leave first." β
Tang Kaitai suddenly said, "Wait!"
Shen Feng turned around and wondered, "Is there anything else with General Tang?"
Tang Kaitai pondered for a moment and said, "I heard that Wei'er said that your strength is greater than usual, but is there such a thing?"
Shen Feng smiled with a rare smile: "It's just a little bit more than the average **, and it can't be on the stage." β
Tang Kaitai looked at him carefully a few times and said, "Your figure is indeed good, although you are not very burly, but you do feel very powerful, and I haven't seen you for a while, you seem to be much stronger and taller than before." β
Shen Feng said nonsense: "I've done a lot of rough work recently, so I'm stronger than before." β
Tang Kaitai suddenly said: "You have a few moves with me to see how strong your strength is." β
Shen Feng was startled, his eyes widened and asked, "General, aren't you joking, I'm an ordinary citizen who doesn't know martial arts at all, how can I fight with you, just let you beat you up"
Tang Kaitai snorted coldly: "How can a soldier have jokes, don't worry, I promise not to hurt you"
Just kidding, he is a great general, and his martial arts are definitely extraordinary, so let yourself fight him, isn't it looking for abuse! Shen Feng smiled helplessly: "No, no, the general thinks too highly of me, and there are many people with great strength, but if I can make a few moves with the general, I still don't want to be bored." β
Tang Kaitai smiled rarely, hurriedly put away his smile, and said in a deep voice: "I just want to test your strength, not to learn martial arts with you." β
"Daddy!"
"Xianggong!"
At this time, Mrs. Tang and the eldest lady walked out, and the eldest lady ran to Tang Kaitai's side and said sweetly: "Dad, why did you come back, it's not that it will take at least a year to come back this time." β
Tang Kaitai said: "Dad has something urgent to come back this time, and he will go back as soon as he comes." β
Mrs. Tang asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
Tang Kaitai paused and said, "I'll talk about it later."
Shen Feng saw the stitches and said: "Since the general has an urgent matter, then I won't delay your time, if you want to learn martial arts, you should wait for the general to finish his business, I will leave first."
Tang Kaitai shouted: "Wait, it's not too late for us to compete first!"
Shen Feng was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly smiled and said: "It turns out that the general is here specifically for me, and he actually bothered the general to come back, so I have no choice but to be respectful and obey my fate." β
How could Tang Kaitai give him such a big face, and snorted: "Who said that I came specifically for you, I just heard Wei'er talk about it, and I happened to meet you, so I made the effort to compete with you." β
Shen Feng smiled: "Then come on"
Miss Tang beside her heard that they were going to compete, and hurriedly stopped them and said, "Dad, aren't you bullying, Shen Feng has never learned martial arts at all, but you asked him to compete with you." β
Tang Kaitai said in a deep voice: "You girl is actually facing outsiders, my father is just competing with him, and he won't hurt him." β
Mrs. Tang said, "Xue'er, come back!"
"I don't!" Miss Tang snorted: "Dad wants to bully people, a dignified general actually wants to bully a civilian, I'll call grandpa and let grandpa judge it." β
This little girl is really getting more and more cute, and she actually turned her elbow to me, and I decided to kiss her more every day in the future to repay her affection.
Seeing this daughter facing outsiders, Tang Kaitai couldn't help but shout: "You go back to the room for me!"
Miss Tang was not afraid, and shouted crisply: "Grandpa-grandpa-come out--dad is going to beat someone!"
At this time, General Tang Lao came over and said with a smile: "Xue'er, what are you calling grandpa for?"
Miss Tang hurriedly ran over to support her, and said with a sweet smile: "Grandpa, your six senses are really spiritual, as the saying goes, the sky is not spiritual, and the earth should not be, but as soon as Xue'er called grandpa, you came, grandpa, you are really Xue'er's favorite grandfather." β
General Tang smiled lovingly and said, "Where did you learn your half-baked words, I sound weird!"
Yes, why am I talking more and more like that villain, Miss Tang glanced at Shen Feng coquettishly, and said with a smile: "This is Xue'er self-taught, specially used to make grandpa happy." β