After leaving Yuming to stay in the barracks, Fu Yuchen took Zhu Sheng, Qin Yue, Dong Anping, Liang Shan, Qi Runyang, Xu Yazheng and Fu Liu, seven captains, and rode to the ferry port in the southern suburbs of Luoyang to meet Yinghe and Qin Yushun.

In addition to carrying 60,000 troops, Yinghe and Qin Yushun also escorted the twenty red-clothed cannons across the river.

Seeing Fu Yuchen coming to greet him in person, Yinghe and Qin Yu hurriedly greeted him and saluted.

Fu Yuchen was not at all interested in Ying He's handsome little black face and Qin Yushun's generous face, his eyes only wandered to the team behind them, and the first thing he said was: "Where is the red-clothed cannon?" ”

When Yinghe saw Fu Shuai at first glance, he was excited, his little black face turned red, and his lips trembled and he couldn't speak.

Qin Yushun was still a little older and much calmer, he pushed away the excited Yinghe, and said with a smile: "Dashuai, please go this way with the standard!" ”

He led Fu Yuchen to the south, stopped in front of a row of cars covered with black raincloth, and looked at Fu Yuchen with bright eyes: "Dashuai, it's here!" ”

Qin Yushun stretched out his hand and forcibly pulled down the black rain cloth wrapped in the cart in front of him, and a large cage made of wood nailed appeared in front of Fu Yuchen's eyes, and inside the big cage was a cannon wrapped in a red velvet cannon suit.

Fu Yuchen reached out to touch the cannon body, his phoenix eyes were shining, and his thin chest rose and fell.

Yinghe followed closely behind him, seeing that Fu Shuai was so happy, he was also excited in his heart, and said: "Dashuai, the silver spent to buy artillery from Portugal is much less than buying it from Persia through the Takke tribe!" ”

Fu Yuchen's eyes were fixed on the red-clothed cannon in the car in front of him, and he couldn't say: "You write down the specific expenses into a note and hand it over to Tingyu." ”

Yinghe replied "yes" and continued to introduce Fu Yuchen.

Zhu Sheng and Qin Yue, who followed Fu Yuchen, also stretched their necks to listen to Yonghe's introduction, and their eyes were full of uncontrollable excitement.

Qin Yushun took him and Yinghe's 60,000 troops into the Sun Qitun military camp, and Yinghe and others rode horses and hugged Fu Yuchen back to the big tent.

When they arrived at the tent, they sat down according to their ranks.

Yinghe got up and reported to Fu Yuchen on various matters, such as the number of muskets and artillery purchased, the number of muskets in the army, such as the movements of the Jade Star Department and the Lanyun Department that drove behind him, and the military expenditures.

Fu Yuchen didn't speak, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly and listened quietly, and when Yinghe finished reporting, he asked a few questions in order.

Yinghe answered them one by one, and he felt satisfied with this slight bow.

Because a banquet was to be held in the evening to reward the three armies, Fu Yuchen asked Yinghe and others to go back to the various departments to organize the soldiers first, and then come to their own tent in the evening.

Qi Yujing, the commander of the Yuming Ministry, stayed.

Fu Yuchen entered the back tent, waited by Tingyu and Guanxue, took off the golden armor, changed into a dark blue satin robe, and wrapped a black jade belt, and then walked out slowly.

He sat behind the bookcase, took a sip of tea, and then looked at Qi Yujing who was standing in the big tent.

Qi Yu saluted respectfully and said, "Lord Wang, my grandmother is very happy to learn that the princess came to Luoyang with you, and her old man has already taken the daughter of the family to visit the princess in Beizhuang today." ”

Fu Yuchen nodded when he heard this, but he didn't bother to speak.

Xu Cancan followed him to Luoyang, and usually only had a maid and a woman to accompany her, so he was a little lonely, so he asked Qi Yujing to pass the word and asked the fourth aunt in Luoyang to choose a few stable female dependents to accompany her.

Qi Yujing glanced at him quietly, and saw that Fu Yuchen was in a trance, so he said again: "Lord, mark what you said to grandmother, and grandmother said that she must follow your instructions and choose the person who will accompany the princess." ”

Fu Yuchen bowed slightly, and said, "Okay, you can step down!" ”

According to the seniority of relatives, Fu Yuchen is Qi Yujing's cousin. However, because Fu Yuchen has always been serious and majestic, Qi Yujing was also very respectful when he saw him, and he didn't dare to make a mistake when he was idle. Fu Yuchen asked him to step back, and he honestly retreated.

Outside the tent, Qi Yujing let out a long breath and wiped the fine sweat on his forehead.

Xu Cancan held the pen in his hand and glanced up at Biyun: "Old Madam Qi? The aunt who is the fourth in the prince's ranking? She remembered that Fu Yuchen had an aunt who married into the Luoyang Qi family, but she never met.

Biyun hurriedly said: "Exactly! ”

Xu Cancan thought for a while and said, "Please come in!" ”

After Biyun went out, Zhu Yan took a makeup box to help Xu Cancan fix her hair bun, and inserted a sapphire lotus flower inlaid with red gold in Chaoyun's incense bun, and re-applied peach balm on her lips to blur away, and then helped her to go to the hall.

Old Madam Qi walked in with Biyun with her two daughters-in-law and two granddaughters-in-law.

As soon as they came in, they had to salute Xu Cancan and make a posture to kneel.

Old Madam Qi is Fu Yuchen's aunt, so Xu Cancan hurriedly Biyun helped Old Madam Qi up, and said, "Everyone is your own relatives, no need to be polite!" ”

Old Mrs. Qi was an old man in his sixties, chubby, with a suitable smile on his face, but he was very polite, and he had to force her daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law to salute Xu Cancan, so she was willing to sit down on the carved mahogany high chairs on the east and west sides.

Luo's mother took the two mothers to wait for tea under the porch, and had already made the tea for the guests, and when she saw Biyun coming to ask for it, she handed it to Biyun with a teacup and teapot on a tray.

Biyun served tea, and the old lady Qi got up with a smile, first bowed to Xu Cancan, called "princess", and pointed to the middle-aged woman under her: "This is the eldest daughter-in-law of the old body, Qin." Qin's stature is medium, quite thin, and her long face looks quite serious, listening to her mother-in-law's introduction, she hurriedly got up and saluted: "The concubine has seen the princess!" ”

Old Madam Qi pointed to another middle-aged woman with a slight figure: "Princess, this is the fourth daughter-in-law of the old body, Ding!" ”

She also introduced the two daughters-in-law who came over: "The tall and thin one is the eldest granddaughter-in-law Yan, and the shorter one is the sixth daughter-in-law Wen, who is older." ”

Mrs. Qi and her husband have many heirs, and there are nine granddaughters-in-law alone, and the Yan family and the Wen family are the two of them that are most satisfactory to her, so they brought them to see the princess.

Yan is about twenty-one or twelve years old, tall and thin, with a fair and beautiful face, and in terms of appearance and temperament, he is definitely at the level of a goddess.

When her mother-in-law introduced her, she got up and bent her knees and looked at Xu Cancan with an amiable smile.

Wen looked seventeen or eighteen years old, with two deep pear vortices on the cheeks of a small round face, and his body was petite and plump, and he was a sweet little beauty. Her eyes were small but very charming, and she squinted at Xu Cancan, and Xu Cancan looked a little tempted.

Xu Cancan didn't know what they meant, so he listened with a smile and didn't talk nonsense, looking extraordinarily graceful and quiet.

Old Madam Qi and the two daughters-in-law were extremely nervous about Dabin, while the two granddaughters-in-law were much more relaxed, looking down with a smile on their faces to listen to the princess talking to her mother-in-law and mother-in-law.

Mrs. Qi is a concubine, and the sisters are all married to families with titles, but she is the only one who is married to the concubine of the Qi family in Luoyang. After she got married, she was very stammering with her brother Dingguo and his wife, but Mrs. Shu had always been lukewarm to her when she was in charge, and now the princess is so close to her, Mrs. Qi reciprocated the favor and perfunctory Xu Cancan.

At noon, Xu Cancan asked them to stay for lunch, but Mrs. Qi resolutely resigned, and gave Xu Cancan a proper salute, saying: "The princess gave me food, but I didn't dare to resign, but the princess just arrived, and now I'm afraid it's not very convenient." When everything is in order here for the princess, the old body will come to receive the meal again! ”

Xu Cancan saw that she was resolute, so he had to order Zhu Yan Biyun to offer a return gift of proposing and preparing Lu.

The gift sent by Mrs. Qi was two small baskets of Poria cream.

Xu Cancan heard that this Poria cocos cream is produced in Yunnan, and it is mixed with milk or white water, which is a good product for nourishing beauty and nourishing blood, and it is very precious.

Therefore, when they said goodbye, each of the five ladies of the Qi family returned a gift - Mrs. Qi was a black velvet forehead, embroidered with gold thread, and decorated with a few pieces of agate; What was given to the Qin family was a pair of green jade bracelets, the water color was clear, and at first glance it was a good jade material; For Ding was a ruby red gold bracelet with a cluster of soybean-sized rubies; For Yan was a pair of earrings set with emeralds, the pendants of which were teardrop-shaped and green; What was given to Wen was a red gold sapphire anklet with small red gold bells hanging from it.

As soon as Xu Cancan sent the Qi family and his party out of the hall and walked to the porch, Old Madam Qi stopped Xu Cancan: "Princess, you are thin, don't come out to blow the wind, lest the jade body get cold!" "I insisted on sending Xu Cancan back to the house.

Xu Cancan said with a smile: "Aunt is too polite!" ”

He also said: "I live here every day, if my aunt has time, please bring more cousins and nephews and daughters-in-law to come over and be closer to me!" ”

Old Madam Qi immediately agreed.

After the last one, they pushed each other again, but Xu Cancan couldn't help it, so he had to stop and stand under the porch, watching Qi's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law leave.

When he got up from a nap in the afternoon, Xu Cancan called Luo's mother in, and said with a smile: "Luo's mother, I want to pick a few maids." ”

Luo's mother hurriedly said: "There is a small manor in the west of Beizhuang, called Xizhuangzi, which is the place where the palace trains people, and now there are more than 200 girls there!" I just don't know what the princess wants to choose? ”

Xu Cancan thought for a while and said, "Be honest and diligent, between the ages of fourteen and seventeen, and don't care about anything else." As a woman, Xu Cancan feels that if you choose a maid who waits for you, if you have a good character, your appearance is secondary.

Mother Luo smiled: "Then the old slave will go and choose some according to your conditions and bring them over, and you will choose them yourself." ”

Xu Cancan looked at her face that was very similar to Fu Liu, and was very close to her, so she smiled and said, "Let Biyun go with you!" ”

Luo's mother is also an old man, and she has gradually seen that this Biyun probably has thoughts about her son Fu Liu, and her family is the prince's house slaves, so although Fu Liu has the rank of general, she is also willing for her son to marry the princess's personal maid - the prince loves the princess so much, and she doesn't dare to stammer with the cold-faced and cold-hearted prince, but who doesn't want to be close to the gentle and amiable princess?

Listening to the princess's instructions, Mother Luo kindly beckoned Biyun to go with her.

Expecting that Luo's mother and Biyun would not come back soon, Xu Cancan took Zhu Yan and a few mothers, and asked Shui Han to take people to follow and tour this village.

This village is very large, and there are quite old poplar and locust trees planted everywhere in it, Xu Cancan thought: if it is summer, it must be very cool in the shade of the sun.

Zhuangzi is surrounded by deep water and high walls, which can be said to be easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The high wall around Zhuangzi is like the Great Wall, the wall, the female wall, the battlement, the city tower and the corner tower are all complete, there is a moat on the periphery, and the high wall can also be walked.

Xu Cancan and his entourage walked on the high wall around the village.

Walking to the west of Beizhuang, Xu Cancan's feet were so painful that she couldn't walk, she stood there, looking west, hoping to see Fu Yuchen's military camp.

As the sun sets, the setting sun casts a golden halo on the field, and in the distance, where the sky meets the earth, seems to be the majestic mountains.

Xu Cancan only saw the mountain, not Fu Yuchen's military camp.

Knowing that Xu Cancan couldn't walk on his feet, Zhu Yan immediately said, "Princess, let the slave carry you!" ”

Xu Cancan looked at her thin body, and then looked at her not thin body, she really didn't have the courage to let Zhu Yan carry herself.

Shui Han stood on the side with the guards, lowered his eyes and was silent, his hands hidden under his sleeves clenched and loosened, clenched and clenched, but he couldn't help but make no sound.

Xu Cancan thought about it, and then called a mother-in-law over: "You go to the housekeeper Fu Yang and ask him to send an over-the-shoulder to pick me up!" ”

After receiving the order, the mother-in-law walked forward for a distance, found a wall ladder to go down the wall, and went down.

Xu Cancan and Zhu Yan lay on the battlements on the high wall and looked out, gossiping while watching, guessing where the mountain was behind the west side.

Her feet were sore, so she chatted, alternating between her feet and resting for a while.

Shui Han stood behind her, looking at the edge of the garnet-red skirt exposed under Xu Cancan's white fox cloak.

Faintly under the skirt is Xu Cancan's feet wearing red satin embroidered shoes. Her feet weren't as big as some of them, but they weren't big.

Shui Han looked at her embroidered shoes, and silently imagined in his heart that Xu Cancan's feet must be white, tender, fat, soft, petite and exquisite.

As night fell, everything around was swallowed up by twilight, and occasionally a bird or two would pass by, making a quack.

Although there were many people around him, Xu Cancan was a little scared and shrank in the cold wind.

At this moment, a sound of footsteps came from far below, and Xu Cancan followed the sound and looked over.

Shui Han took out the fire fold and lit it, gave it to a guard, motioned him to go down and take a look, and lit another fire fold himself.

As soon as the guard reached the top of the stairs, he called out "Lord Wang" and hurriedly curtsy.

Xu Cancan's heart was excited, and he looked at Fu Yuchen who was getting closer and closer.

The fire fold in Shui Han's hand shone out Fu Yuchen who came over with Fu Liu Tingyu and others.

Fu Yuchen seemed to be a little drunk, and his face was slightly red in the firelight, and his phoenix eyes were watery, and he looked very good-looking.

When Xu Cancan saw Fu Yuchen approaching, he couldn't help but feel very aggrieved, and said coquettishly: "Fu Yuchen, my feet hurt so much!" ”

Fu Yuchen walked up to her, didn't speak, turned around and squatted down with his back to Xu Cancan.

Xu Cancan was surprised, delighted and embarrassed: "Didn't you drink......"

Fu Yuchen: "It's no problem to carry you!" ”

Xu Cancan lay on Fu Yuchen's thin back, her body swayed with Fu Yuchen's footsteps, it was actually uncomfortable, but her heart was full of satisfaction and warmth.

Fu Yuchen carried Xu Cancan on his back and walked under the city wall, and the little guy was already carrying a double shoulder to wait below.

Xu Cancan slipped off Fu Yuchen and pulled Fu Yuchen: "Fu Yuchen, you sit with me!" ”

Although Fu Yuchen felt that it was strange for a big man to sit on his shoulder, he could see Xu Cancan's bright eyes in the night, and he no longer objected at the moment.

Xu Cancan waited for Fu Yuchen to lie down on the brocade couch, had a simple dinner on the small kang table, rinsed his mouth with black tea, and asked Luo's mother and Biyun to bring in the maids who had been selected, and she was ready to choose a few.

There are two lamps in the hall, which illuminate the room as if it were daylight.

Xu Cancan sat on the brocade couch, his eyes swept over the four rows of sixteen maids standing in front of him, but his eyes widened when he saw the easternmost maid in the second row.

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