Chapter 526: Xuchang without rebels (5)
I don't know if it was because I was too happy last night, so that Zhao Yu slept for half an hour more than usual today.
Fortunately, he is young and vigorous, but he does not feel tired.
After waking up, he turned his head to look at the pillow, Zhao Yu found that Jing Nu was not there, and then looked, Jing Nu was sitting at a dressing table in the room, holding incense in her hand and cheeks in a daze, that quiet and elegant, as if she was the daughter of a large family who had received relevant education, it was hard to imagine that she was born in a poor family.
Of course, all this is thanks to Zhao Yu's mother, Zhou, who taught Jingnu in the past.
"Ahem."
In order not to frighten the quiet girl who was in a daze, Zhao Yu coughed lightly.
Jing Nu came back to her senses at this time, hurriedly got up to greet Zhao Yu, and greeted gently: "The young master is awake?" ”
"What are you doing?"
When Jingnu was dressing Zhao Yu, he asked with a bit of jokingness.
He originally thought that Jing Nu was reverie about the identity of the mistress of his 'Duwei Zhou Mansion', but he didn't expect Jing Nu to say with a complicated expression: "I...... I miss Madame......"
Hearing this, Zhao Yu suddenly lost his mind to joke, and after sighing secretly, he reached out and hugged Jingnu into his arms, patted her back gently, and whispered comfortingly: "One day, you and I will take that Tong Yan's head to worship my father and mother." …… It won't be too far from that day. ”
Indeed, according to Zhao Yu's impression, that Tong Yan is just the governor of Liangjun, and he is now the commander of Yingchuan, regardless of the forces behind the two sides, the status of the two is equal.
Considering that the rebel army led by Jiangxia Yishi Qu Shuai Chen Miao is heading towards Liang County in a big way, maybe not long after, that Tong Yan will ask him for help from Yingchuan County, and the time will be ......
Zhao Yu's eyes flashed with a hint of gloom and killing intent.
After a few moments, the two of them were fully dressed and walked out of the bedroom.
The master's bedroom is located on the east side of the north house, also known as the east house, and when you walk out of the bedroom, you will be greeted by a wide corridor connecting the main hall of the north house, and on the west side of the main hall, there are several relatively small rooms, or for side rooms, maids and other people to live.
When Zhao Yu and Jingnu came to the corridor, they immediately saw three maids standing in the corridor, probably between fourteen or fifteen years old and eighteen or nineteen.
The maid who greeted the Silent Maiden this morning was among them.
"Captain, Madame."
The three maids bowed their heads and greeted in unison, as if they were a little afraid.
"Hmm."
Zhao Yu replied casually.
It's not that it's a shelf, it's just that the remaining domestic servants and maids in this mansion are all planned to be replaced, who knows if there are still loyal servants of the former Captain Cao Suo?
After two days of settling down, send a severance money to the remaining servants and maids in the mansion, and let them leave on their own, so naturally there is no need to deliberately envelop them.
Seeing Zhao Yu and Jingnu walking away, the three maids breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately walked into the master bedroom.
“……”
Probably aware of it, Zhao Yu and Jingnu glanced back, and then walked back to the door of the bedroom with a tacit understanding.
However, the three maids were just tidying up the bedroom.
And strangely, two of the maids who were making the bed were also blushing for some reason.
『……』
Recalling last night's intensity, Jingnu couldn't help but bite her lip and felt her face burn a little.
She hurriedly pulled Zhao Yu away.
Walking through the corridor and coming to the main hall of the north house, Zhao Yu saw He Shun sitting in the hall with a blue face, his right hand constantly rubbing his forehead.
Zhao Yu thought something had happened, but when he asked, he found out that this guy was feeling unwell purely because he had drunk too much.
However, He Shun's situation is still good, at least he still walked away from the banquet last night, in contrast, Niu Heng, Wang Qing, Chu Yan, Ju Sheng, Cao Wu, Qin Yu, Liu Tu and others were all carried into the Xiyuan guest room by the Black Tiger in the end.
Even, including Zhang Feng and Ma Hong, who are going to Yingyin and Changshe counties today to take up the post of county lieutenants.
For this reason, He Shun said: "Last night, after all the guests said goodbye one after another, Boss Niu had to pull the right commander of the king to compete again, and everyone from the side also coaxed, and the result was ......."
"The result is a vote of people?"
Zhao Yu was angry and funny.
After thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Forget about the others, you call Zhang Feng and Ma Hong for me." ”
"Yes!"
He Shun hugged his fists, and immediately took the two black tigers to call people, and soon took Zhang Feng and Ma Hong to the main hall of the north house in the backyard.
Obviously, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong also learned about the situation from He Shun's mouth, and when they saw Zhao Yu, they looked sneering: "The big leader ......"
"Nonsense!"
Zhao Yu scolded lightly: "Forget about the others, you two are going to Yingyin and Changshe counties to take up their posts today, and you will also mess around with them?" ”
Don't look at Zhang Feng and Ma Hong, both of whom are in their thirties, but at this moment, they lowered their heads in front of Zhao Yu and didn't dare to reply.
Fortunately, Zhao Yu did not have the idea of heavy responsibility, and after a few words of reprimand, he advised: "Why are you in a hurry to ask the two of you to go to Yingyin and Changshe two counties to take up your posts, I have already said yesterday, although the two counties currently have garrisons, but you must also immediately recruit a group of county soldiers, and after two days, the county guards sent by the county guard will arrive in the second county, and the two of you must cooperate with them wholeheartedly to properly deal with the problem of the 'illegal field', this is the first thing you wait for to take office, although it is not serious, but it is of great significance, and you must not slack off." …… Got it? "Pen in Chinese
"Understood, understood."
Zhang Feng and Ma Hong nodded again and again.
Seeing this, Zhao Yu also nodded with satisfaction and greeted, "Let's go after breakfast." ”
Seeing that the two had no objections, Zhao Yu then instructed He Shundao: "He Shun, ask Sun and Yang to prepare breakfast, just make it simpler." ”
The two cooks Sun and Yang in his mouth were the cooks he temporarily borrowed from Chen Lang's mansion, and they were more trustworthy than the original servants in this mansion.
Considering that after moving into this mansion, a large group of people in the mansion would have to eat, Zhao Yu decided to borrow it for a while - or simply not pay it back, anyway, Chen Lang seemed to have taken this into account, and simply asked Sun and Yang to move to his mansion with their wives and children.
When the group finished breakfast, Niu Heng and the others had not woken up, so Zhao Yu simply took Jingnu, He Shun, Zhang Feng, and Ma Hong out of the house.
He first took Zhang Feng and Ma Hong to the Governor's Office, asked the two to be familiar with the up and down of the official office, and then immediately asked the two to set off for Yingyin and Changshe County.
On the same day, the county guard government sent someone to send the list of county officials of Yingyang, Yingyin, and Changshe counties to the Governor's Office, namely Cheng Ding Hui of Yingyang County, Cheng Chen Qun of Yingyin County, and Cheng Wang Rui of Changshe County.
According to the remarks on the list, these three people are all officials who have served in the county guard mansion for more than four years, and Chen Qun among them is even more 'outspoken' as 'Chen Juncheng's cousin', obviously, these three people should be Chen Lang's cronies.
Of course, Zhao Yu naturally has no opinion on this.
Around the time of Shen Shi in the afternoon, the scholar Liao Guang came to Zhao Yu's room, and asked Zhao Yu with a smile: "Captain, if you are free today, please be sure to come to the cold house with a face." ”
It turned out that since Zhao Yu was rescued from the rebels, Tian Qin and Liao Guang invited Zhao Yu to drink many times to express their gratitude - of course, there was also the purpose of showing favor to Zhao Yu and getting closer.
I have to say that Cao Suo's defection to the rebels not only completely ruined his future, but also buried his friendship with Tian Qin and Liao Guang for many years.
This example made Zhao Yu have to be more cautious in his relationship with the rebels, otherwise, Cao Suo would be a lesson for him.
As for Tian Qin and Liao Guang, considering that these two people do have skills, Zhao Yu continued to use them as soldiers, anyway, he never thought that he had many subordinates.
"Eat and drink? Where to eat? ”
Niu Heng, who slept until after noon, was napping in Zhao Yu's room, and suddenly came to his senses when he heard the words.
“……”
Zhao Yu glanced at Niu Heng angrily, but he didn't mean to blame.
After all, Chen Mo, Guo Da, Niu Heng, and Chen Zu were the people who helped Zhao Yu the most, and the other three were all easy to do, but Niu Heng's head was not very good, and Zhao Yu really didn't dare to arrange an official position for him and let him go out to be an official.
Therefore, he took Niu Heng with him, just thinking that when he was socializing, he would take this brother to eat and drink spicy food as compensation.
The second is to let Niu Heng protect him - in most cases, Zhao Yu's escort is handed over to He Shun.
But today, Zhao Yu had to politely refuse Liao Guang's invitation.
"Today? I'm afraid I won't be able to spare time these days......"
In the face of Liao Guang's invitation, Zhao Yu spread his hands and explained very casually: "You know, I just moved into that mansion yesterday, and there are many things to take care of up and down the mansion, and I don't trust the original domestic servants very much, and I am going to change them all......"
"Huh?"
Liao Guang glanced at the Jing Nu standing aside with a strange expression, and said with a little hesitation: "I thought that the commander would hand it over to you...... This lady is here to take care of it. ”
When addressing 'Madam', his tone was a little hesitant, obviously he couldn't understand the relationship between Jingnu and Zhao Yu, but he privately guessed that this woman was most likely the red face of this Zhou Duwei.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the house became a little delicate.
Seeing that the situation seemed to be a little wrong, Liao Guang was very knowledgeable, and hurriedly said goodbye and left: "That...... The lowly first went back to the party room and waited for the reply of the captain. ”
With that, he hurried away.
At this time, Niu Heng, who was still instigating Zhao Yu to go to the banquet and drink, also closed his mouth at this time, and looked at Jingnu cautiously with He Shun beside him.
Jingnu, on the other hand, still stood there quietly, bowing her head slightly, as if she had not had any impact because of Liao Guang's words.
Well, she's just pretending to be calm on the surface, but in fact, she's pounding her heart at the moment.
You know, taking care of the mansion is the power of the lady of the main room.
Although Zhou had taught her back then, Zhou's original intention was to hope that Jing Nu would assist Zhao Yu's wife in taking care of family affairs in the future.
And now, Jingnu seems to be mistaken by Liao Guang for Zhao Yu's main room......
This misunderstanding made Jingnu's heart beat nonstop, and she seemed to bow her head and say nothing, but in fact, she was waiting for Zhao Yu's reply with bated breath.
Her young master, will it be clarified? Still is......
Just when she was suffering from gains and losses, she suddenly heard Zhao Yu say slightly ridiculously: "Madam, heh, this is also true...... Madame, if I leave this matter to you, will you be able to take care of it? ”
Glancing at Niu Heng, who was smiling evilly beside her, Jingnu endured the shyness of being ridiculed by Zhao Yu in public, nodded seemingly calmly, and said in a low voice: "Hmm." ”
"I'll let He Shun help you." Pointing at He Shun, Zhao Yu said meaningfully: "At present, you can take care of the mansion in the name of Zhao Jing, as my main room." ”
"Zhao Jing, main room......
Although Zhao Yu said with a bit of relaxation and smile, Jing Nu still nervously held her breath consciously.
After a long time, she nodded.
“…… Well. ”