Chapter 52: Marriage (1)

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"Xiao Yu, you are doing well now! actually became a county magistrate before the age of the weak crown, which is really beyond the imagination of the teacher. Lu Shaobei rolled over from his mount, took a few steps to help Shang Yu up from the ground, and said with a smile.

"Uncle Lu, Xiao Wan greets you." Lu Wan stood on the side at this time, and gave Lu Shaobei a light salute and said crisply.

"Xiao Wan, aren't you missing? Why is it here, and still with Xiao Yu? Lu Shaobei recognized Lu Wan who was wearing men's clothes at this time, and asked with some surprise.

"Master, many things are difficult to explain in one word, and when I return to the mansion, I will allow my disciples to come to you one by one. Xiao Yu missed the opportunity to meet you twice before! I've finally met you this time. Shang Yu looked at Lu Shaobei with tears in his eyes and said, his voice was already choked.

After the separation in Quanzhou, everything changed unexpectedly. His mother was shipwrecked at sea, and his father's whereabouts were unknown, and the escort Lu Wan was attacked by Quanzhou volunteers, and escaped from death, from Quanzhou to Hangzhou, and then to the Shen family in Zhouzhuang, Suzhou, and then mysteriously arrived in the Chuzhou rebels.

For a teenager, his age is the time when he needs to be scolded by his relatives the most, but he is alone in the world for more than 2,000 miles, although the experience of more than half a year has made him much more mature, but he misses his relatives even more, especially Lu Shaobei, the master who regards him as a parent, naturally can't help but shed tears when he meets today.

"Men don't talk lightly when they have tears, the master has returned, are you the one who greeted you with tears? Don't cry, and wait until your county office to speak. Lu Shaobei put away his smile and said.

This time he came to Chuzhou, mainly to find Zhu Yuanzhang in the Chuzhou Righteous Army to resolve the contradiction between Liu Futong and Chen Youliang, Liu Futong and Chen Youliang were competing for the position at this time, and the two did not give in to each other in charge of the Longfeng Imperial Court, almost to the extent of fighting each other, which made Lu Shaobei very worried, so he wanted to come to Zhu Yuanzhang to discuss the matter.

In addition, he also wanted to come to see Shang Yu, a beloved disciple, Shang Yu's father disappeared and his mother was shipwrecked at sea, and he missed this disciple very much, but he didn't expect Shang Yu to become a county magistrate at such a young age, and he heard that it was well governed, so he naturally came from the north and the south in an urgent manner.

But when he saw Shang Yu's weak expression, he was very displeased, so he reprimanded Shang Yu so harshly.

"Yes, Master! We'll talk about it back in town. Seeing Lu Shaobei's serious expression, Shang Yu immediately wiped away his tears, and then got on his horse and galloped parallel to Lu Shaobei to Lai'an County.

Lu Wan and several yacha who accompanied Shang Yu followed, while the caravan behind was escorted by Luo Biqing and his subordinate dart masters.

"Xiao Yu is now a famous county commander, and I don't know if he still remembers me, the master who taught him light body kung fu." Luo Biqing saw Shang Yu from a distance, and saw that Shang Yu had grown much taller than what he saw in Quanzhou last time, and the whole person looked much more mature and had a bit of an official taste, so he couldn't help muttering.

"Xiao Yu, I didn't expect that the five-string bow that captured Xia An was made by you, this kind of bow and arrow is not easy to make, and the materials are not easy to prepare, and only in Chuzhou can there be this kind of good material, no wonder Marshal Zhu values you so much." Lu Shaobei was in the study room in the courtyard where Shang Yu lived, playing with the iron pear wood five-string bow made by Shang Yu and said with a smile.

At this time, Shang Yu had already told Lu Shaobei in detail about the things that had happened in the past half a year, all the circumstances made Lu Shaobei nod and sometimes angry, Shang Yu's experience of these days may never be imagined by ordinary teenagers, but it did happen to this disciple.

After hearing that Shang Yu was smelting iron, making ballistas, arranging crossbows, and had also routed the Yuan army that had crossed the river not long ago, Lu Shaobei took a closer look at this disciple and took down the five-string divine bow hanging on the wall to look at it.

"Master, if you like it! I'll give you this bow, and I'll probably never be able to pull it anyway. Shang Yu said with some frustration.

When Lu Shaobei heard this, he shook his head, hung the five-stringed bow back on the wall, turned his head and asked, "Master has heard what you have experienced, but what is going on between Xiao Wan and you?" Why hasn't she come to the Shen family to marry Shen Fu yet? ”

"Master, Xiao Wan and I made a wedding vow on the cliff, and the process is like this......" Shang Yu will immediately tell the matter between him and Lu Wan, and also tell Li Yanhong's identity and Li Yanhong's identity.

"It turns out that the mother of the Lu family is still reincarnated, and she is also a descendant of the royal family of Minyue Kingdom, no wonder the head of the Lu family always refuses to tell her the past completely, and she still wants to return to the country after more than a hundred years. Xiao Yu, since you swore an oath with Xiao Wan on the cliff, and the Shen family did not pursue this matter. The teacher said that he had to take care of the matter. ”

"The Lu family is just a branch of my business alliance, Lu Weixuan was the previous alliance leader, because of Xiao Wan's mother's affairs and anger, suffering from a serious illness, not only lost all his martial arts, but also physical strength to the extent that he could not manage the business alliance normally, this is the turn of the deputy alliance leader to be in charge of the alliance, and Quanzhou is the largest business city in our business alliance, so he went to Quanzhou to pretend to be committed to the Lu family."

"With your status as the heir of the business alliance, why can't you talk about marriage with Xiao Wan? It is absolutely impossible for Minyue to want to restore the country, but I didn't expect Xiaowan's mother to be so unreasonable, this mother and daughter have very similar temperaments. Lu Shaobei nodded after listening to Shang Yu's speech, and said in a deep voice.

"Master, thank you for being able to call the shots for Xiao Yu! It's just that my mother is in Dali at this time, and it may take some time for the people sent out to invite her back to the old man's house, and if my mother comes back, Xiao Yu can decide this matter. Shang Yu was very excited when he saw Lu Shaobei supporting his marriage with Xiao Wandi so much, but he had to say this after thinking of his mother.

"If your mother is still alive, of course it is your mother who decides your marriage. What? So your mother already has a whereabouts? Where is it? Lu Shaobei was surprised.

As far as he knew, Shang Mei met the double dragon in the sea and was sent two sea ships by the dragon king? Eaten, and still alive at the moment, how could he not be surprised.

"My mother is now in Dali, I will immediately send some more people to find the whereabouts of the old man of the Lu family, I think I will always find some clues, maybe I can find his whereabouts......" immediately told Lu Shaobei the news that Ma Xiuying told him.

"I see, since your mother is still alive, then Brother Lu must also be alive, you don't need to send anyone to this matter, I will immediately order someone to visit Dali." Lu Shaobei said in surprise after hearing this.

In the next two days, after Lu Shaobei and Li Yanhong met, it was rare to get the same thing about the marriage between Shang Yu and Lu Wan, and the final condition was not to help Shen Fu restore the country, but with the help of the Shang Alliance, so that Shen Fu could spread the business all over the world.

This is the maximum amount that Lu Shaobei can promise, how Shen Fu operates is always under the control of the Shang Alliance, not afraid that he will rebel, and the life enjoyed by the rich world is no less than that of the emperor and nobles, this is one of the reasons why Li Yanhong finally listened to Lu Shaobei's persuasion.

In fact, Li Yanhong is in the hope that as long as Shang Yu and Lu Wan get married, they will actually become relatives with Shen Fu, and they will have to step on a boat in the future, and her daughter Lu Wan will follow Shang Yu to make her a wish, she is ready to transfer the trace of internal force that still exists in her body to Lu Wan, anyway, the meridians in her body will not be able to gather internal force in the future, it is better to give it to her daughter before it gradually dissipates.

Two days later, Lu Shaobei led the caravan to Chuzhou in the southwest, Shang Yu knelt outside the city in civilian clothes and saw off him with tears, and Lu Wan also knelt on the ground and saluted Lu Shaobei's disciples.

After more than ten days, the collection and storage of grain in the county has also ended, the second season of rice planting has also begun, and the first batch of craftsmen have been recommended by Liu Wei from Quanzhou and secretly brought back by people sent by Ma Xiuying.

The newly built iron-making tandoor-furnace is also fired again, there will be no danger of explosion again, if it is fully refined, there will be nearly 1,000 catties of fine iron every three days, if it is made of five tandoors, the annual output of hundreds of thousands of catties of fine iron, if it is used to make weapons, it can supply 100,000 soldiers and horses, which is unimaginable in the past.

Shang Yu was even more busy on this, and the production of the same shock items encountered a bottleneck, one was not enough precision, it was difficult to achieve the effect of more than a dozen appliances to send out the same shock, and it took half a month to make a group of fifteen same shock hanging bells.

The bell was placed on a wooden shelf, the size of a child's fist, and struck at miles apart, with an excellent effect of simultaneous shock.

The production speed of the ballista is even slower, it is very simple to change from iron ore to coarse iron, but it takes a month to change from coarse iron to fine iron, and when the tenth ballista is made, Shang Yu also only made more than 100 ballistas for ballistas to launch ground crossbow arrows, all because the materials for making gunpowder are difficult to find, and the production process is prone to danger.

Shang Yu was afraid that he would not have enough time to make it alone, so he hired two craftsmen to make fireworks to help, and one of them died because of the sudden explosion of the suppressed gunpowder.

"Lord Xianzun, Lord Lingtang has been escorted to the mansion by a team of soldiers, please rush back to the mansion immediately!" A messenger jumped off his horse and half-knelt on the ground to report to Shang Yuyu.

Shang Yu raised his head in joy on the hillside, and put away the earth fire fold that was being lit, and beside him was the last ballista to test whether it could fire normally.

"My mother has already arrived? Great, I'll go back right away. As he spoke, Shang Yu took a few steps and grabbed the reins of the horse in the hand of the yacha, and immediately flew on the horse.

"Drive! Mother, Xiao Yu will be back soon. Shang Yu rode alone and immediately went to the road down the slope, and as long as he traveled for an hour along the road, he could rush back to the city, and he could see his mother's relatives Shang Mei, Shang Yu was extremely excited at this time, and his thoughts about his mother became more and more intense every day.

"Hey! The county lord is really a little juvenile now. The official shook his head and said.

However, the hundreds of soldiers in the vicinity were still standing still, guarding the ballistas on the slopes, which Shang Yu attached great importance to, and there were two thousand soldiers stationed near the experimental ballistae and ironworks to protect everything in the area.