Chapter 284: Seeing the World
Huo Wu, Uncle Huo, and Huo Hong were eating tea and chatting.
Huo Wu talked to Huo Hong about the teenagers of the Scouts: "Hou Xiaoming followed Xiaobao in March, he is a native of Jinling Mansion, and he is a farmer in Jiangning County, but his parents died, and he became a homeless person in the spring famine this year...... Now he is a 5,000-strong lieutenant general, leading thousands of men and horses; There is also Qiu Wei Boy, who is the nephew of Marshal Tang, the head of the Chuzhou Army, and now leads his uncle's thousands of men and horses under Xiaobao, and will become a separate army in two years; Wu Yuan is the former general of the Wu family, and several uncles in the family are also in the Chuzhou army; Song Qianzhi is the eldest grandson of Lord Song of Jinling Prefect, and the youngest son of a scholarly family; There is also a Zhu Qiang boy, is a child of Black Python Mountain, his father was the governor of Luzhou before, and then transferred back to Jinling, this kid is two years younger than the previous ones, this year is fourteen, and his brother follows Xiaobao, his eldest brother is Xiaobao's personal guard captain, and he is the prime minister of logistics in Xiaobao's army......"
Even if Huo Hong is the family of Huo Wu's father and son, there is no reason to bring a row of teenagers to him to choose.
After talking about the general conditions, Huo Hong felt that it was almost the same to arrange each other.
Hojon listened carefully.
According to his original intention, it is natural to do the right family affairs properly.
Their family is a scholarly family, and it is best to find relatives in the scholarly family.
Daughter's family affair......
There is nothing to depreciate about Shuijin's character, but Huo Hong has always had some deficiencies in his heart.
But the girl made it clear that the time was in turmoil......
If you really want to say that a scholar who is powerless is difficult to protect himself, how can he protect his wife and children?
Huo Hong entrusted his granddaughter's affairs to Huo Wu, and he was ready to marry the soldiers again.
Unexpectedly, among Huo Wuti's people, there was also the Song family......
The Song family is one of the most popular families in the entire Huainan Province, and Huo Hong has naturally heard of it.
It's just that...... Qi Dafei ......
Huo Hong didn't have the arrogance to feel that he was the uncle of the Huo Wu clan, and he still regarded his house as a mansion.
As for Qiu Wei and Zhu Qiang, they were born in Black Python Mountain......
This is something that Hokhon could not accept in his heart......
Before the Shuijin rebellion, he was a good citizen, even if he was a poor family, he was also a well-behaved family in the countryside.
The bandits of Black Python Mountain, but there were them before the famine year.
Even if they went down the mountain and became a member of the Chuzhou army, the banditry in the root was still there, and the Tao was different.
Except for these three people, Hou Xiaoming and Wu Yuan are left.
Wu Yuan's ancestors are famous and have been silent for many years, but now several uncles and nephews are in the Chuzhou army, and they obviously have great ambitions.
Such a person really wants to marry a daughter of the Huo clan, and he will definitely treat it well.
But Huo Hong knew that such an ambitious snob was not necessarily a good thing.
The Huo family has always been beautiful, but if there are really ups and downs, those who suffer will say that they are granddaughters.
The rest is Hou Xiaoming.
The death of both parents sounds hard, but his granddaughter also has no father, but no one has to pick anyone.
Although he was born in a farmer's family, he was better than a businessman's family.
Huo Hong directly mentioned Hou Xiaoming to Huo Wu: "Five years older than Zhen'er, will Zhen'er be too young?" ”
Huo Wu waved his hand and said, "Five years old is not bad, turn around and let Xiaobao take him around." ”
Naturally, Hojon had no objections.
Such a child, even if he marries his granddaughter, but there is no one else there, it is almost the same as having an extra person in his own family.
Uncle Huo was listening, and he disagreed: "Why did my uncle choose him?" Not to mention a high-ranking family like the Song family, others are better than him. If my uncle doesn't pick on orphans, and Qiu Wei is more likely to have a thicker foundation than Hou Xiaoming......"
Huo Hong couldn't say that he didn't want to marry a bandit-born family, so he only said: "Zhen'er is not as sensible as her aunt, and people with a small population are worry-free." General Qiu Xiao has no parents, but he has an aunt to support......"
Tang Guang is one of the fathers of the Chuzhou Army, and his family members have heard of it.
Now in the Tang Mansion, in addition to the widow Tang Niangzi, there is also a concubine who raises a fetus.
In order to appease Concubine You, the You family, who had been sent to Bozhou by Huo Wu before, was also picked up.
Before, the You family still wanted to compete with Concubine You's belly, but they were scared by Huo Wu's faction once before they became honest.
As for Qiu Wei, he took care of it too much, and it was not good to attack the You family directly.
Regardless of whether Concubine You's widow is male or female, the responsibility of supporting widows and raising children over there in the future will be on Qiu Wei.
Uncle Huo listened, so he didn't say anything about it......
In front of the hanging ancestral genealogy, a simple sacrifice was carried out, and everyone had lunch in the Huo Mansion.
After lunch, Huo Wu and his son went back to Taiwei's Mansion.
Hou Xiaoming and Shi San, who lived temporarily in Taiwei Mansion, were pulled by Zhu Qiang to Zhu's house as guests.
estimated that Shen Zheng was touched, and several people came to the Taiwei Mansion to look for someone.
Today, Hou Xiaoming and Shi San have a treat, and they have already asked someone to book a large private room in Wangjiang Tower.
In addition to several leaders of the child soldiers, Hou Xiaoming, Qiu Wei, Li Yuan, Zhu Qiang, Shi San, Wu Yuan, and Song Qianzhi, Huo Bao's uncle and nephew, Liang Zhuang, deputy of the firearms battalion, Niu Qing, the captain of the guard of the Taiwei Mansion, and Guo Wei, as well as Huo Bao's companions An Changsheng and Li Yu.
The An family has moved to Jinling.
The Li family also has another courtyard in Jinling, and Li Yuben took the Spring Festival holiday, and in the past two days, he has caught up with this excitement with President Li coming to Jinling to pay New Year's greetings.
Among them, Liang Zhuang, Niu Qing, and Guo Jian were invited by Shi San, and An Changsheng and Li Yu were brought by Huo Bao and Zhang Luo.
After a year, among the teenagers, the eldest Niu Qing was eighteen years old, the youngest An Changsheng was also thirteen years old, and the rest except Huo Bao and Zhu Qiang were fourteen years old, everyone else was sixteen years old.
The big guy eats well, and it looks like a ding.
There were more than a dozen people, and they went to Wangjiang Tower.
……
When they arrived at Wangjiang Tower, everyone was welcomed to the third floor.
In the largest box, there is a large table for more than a dozen people, and there is still most of the empty space, and there is a screen of eight immortals crossing the sea, and in front of the screen are two pots of five-foot-high spring flowers, which are in full bloom.
It's cold outside in winter, but it's warm inside.
Everyone has been in Jinling for several months, and they have all come to Wangjiang Tower, but it is the first time to see this kind of large private room.
"This room is bright!"
Shi San said, feeling a little puzzled in his heart.
He sent someone to the room, but he didn't expect it to be such a room.
Huo Bao nodded with satisfaction.
It was he who sent someone to say hello to the shopkeeper of Wangjiang Tower and change the private room.
Shi San won a bonus of one hundred taels of gold at the New Year's banquet, and he was also willing to share the profits with his brothers and partners, and he was happy together.
For the sake of excitement, fourteen people did not share a table, but sat directly at a table, ordering the "ninety-nine seats" of nine taels and nine dollars.
Before the change, everyone had already grabbed food, but in the past two days of the New Year, the big fish and meat have come down, and everyone has no shortage of oil and water in their stomachs, and the food is more gentle.
As for the wine, there is none.
With Huo Bao here, no one is so open-eyed and has to eat and drink.
When the food was almost finished, Huo Bao beckoned Xiao Er to withdraw from the table, and served tea and fresh fruit to relieve greasy.
Everyone looked at Huo Bao.
Huo Bao is usually not a troublemaker, and he is assigned more things on weekdays.
At the moment, it is mainly anti-customer, which seems a little strange.
Huo Bao looked at everyone: "Yesterday, I heard that you were curious about Qin Huai Fengyue, so I asked someone to arrange some to satisfy your curiosity." ”
Zhu Qiang's eyes lit up: "Bao Ye is so good!" ”
Shi San was a little sneering, and it was estimated that he was frivolous yesterday anyway.
Niu Qing was a little nervous.
The reason why he was invited to come out was that he was not worried about a large number of children coming out, for fear that they would abduct Huo Bao and not learn well.
Unexpectedly, no one abducted Huo Bao, and Huo Bao arranged it himself......
As for Huo Bao, he didn't know what to think of, and shivered.
Li Yuan blinked, showing a bit of watching the show.
Hou Xiaoming is similar to Wu Yuan, but there is no response.
Song Qianzhi was dumbfounded, a little confused, probably because he couldn't understand how a bunch of people could see Qin Huai Fengyue.
Liang Zhuang smiled "hehe", a little embarrassed.
Guo Qian was at a loss, embarrassed.
An Changsheng is Li Yu glanced at each other, each thinking about it.
Compared with the boy scouts, one of them is a child of an official family, and the other is a young son of a wealthy businessman, who has no experience in the affairs of men and women, and they both know about the same, but they are not so curious.
To their surprise, Huo Bao usually looked at the extremely square character, and actually arranged for everyone......
Huo Bao watched everyone's reaction, and couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.
Where did you think of it?
Could he really bring everyone to prostitution?
Huo Bao greeted people all over the place, and then a few old prostitutes holding musical instruments came over behind the screen.
It's obviously full of wrinkles, but it's a white face, blood-red lips, walking with a twisted hip, looking like an old goblin in a painting, with very spicy eyes.
The beautiful thoughts of the young men before were gone.
Everyone looked at each other, but they really didn't understand Huo Bao's intentions.
Everyone wants to see Qin Huai Fengyue, but it's not such a Fengyue.
At this time, several old prostitutes had already sat down, stroking the piano and playing the pipa.
Although they are old and decrepit, they have real kung fu under them.
With the sound of music, a group of women slowly curled out of the screen.
It was obviously the cold winter season, and they were dressed lightly, and the person at the head was seventeen or eight years old, with a flowery appearance and a moon-like appearance, and affectionate eyebrows and eyes.
"I've seen all of you."
All the women are blessed, and their voices are as crisp as yellow birds.
All the teenagers held their breath and condensed, for fear of accidentally disturbing the beauty.
Huo Bao said: "I have heard of Cao Kui's whirling dance, and today Cao Kui's first meeting also let us see and understand." ”
"Childe's orders, the slave family will not obey their orders."
The man at the head replied in a coquettish voice.
When Huo Bao heard this name, he thought it was a dance from the Western Regions, but when Cao Kuishou danced, it was a kind of water sleeve dance, but there were more rotations in the middle.
The two-color water sleeves, which rotate with the dancers, are dizzying to watch.
After the tune of the song, the beauty had a light sweat on her forehead and a delicate pant in her mouth.
In the room, there was the sound of saliva swallowing.
Huo Bao rolled his eyes, waved his hand at the women, and sent them down.
Many of the young people in the room looked at the door, and some of them had a suspicious luster on the corners of their mouths.
"I know what a beauty is!"
Zhu Qiang is young, he dares to speak, and swallows his saliva.
Huo Bao looked at him and said, "Do you know what 'a pair of jade arms and a thousand pillows, half a red lip and ten thousand tastes' are?" ”
"Huh?"
Zhu Qiang was dumbfounded, and said for a while: "This ...... That's not how it should be, who made them do this......"
Song Qianzhi said it clearly yesterday, but today he was a little bookish, and said: "Although it is said that it fell into the dust, it is not all ushered in, isn't there still a Qing Qi person?" ”
Li Yu also nodded and said: "Yes, there are families in Yangzhou who specialize in raising Qing people, and they train and raise their daughters to sell them as concubines." ”
Huo Bao didn't argue with them, but said: "Everything is black and white, you have seen the posture of a beauty, and you will follow me to see the other side." With that, he got up and led everyone out of Wangjiang Tower
"Isn't that old age and ugliness the other side?"
Shi San said curiously.
Everyone was fifteen or sixteen years old, and the old woman who looked like a fairy startled them.
Huo Bao said: "No, these are all good things in the Fengyue field." ”
When the average life expectancy is in the thirties, it is not a good life to live to be forty or fifty years old, and there is still a skill.
Everyone followed Huo Bao for half a street and arrived at a remote courtyard at the end of the alley.
Niu Qing and Huo Bao both couldn't help but go to Huo Bao's side to guard.
When they reached the gate of the courtyard, they heard the moaning of a woman from inside.
Everyone was red-faced and uncomfortable, but Huo Bao looked calm and pushed the door in......