Volume III Chapter 10 The Daughter-in-law
The sun sets, the hooves roar, at dusk this day, more than 50 horses suddenly appeared near the Liutang Station more than ten miles north of Jinling City.
Although these more than 50 horsemen did not wear uniform uniforms, the team was very neat, except for a few people who led the team in front, the rest of them lined up in a neat four-way column, without a trace of messiness.
This group of people, at first glance, are not ordinary people, because many of them have weapons in their hands, the spears that are two people high can be seen from a few hundred paces away, and there is a strange weapon that does not look like a mace, and the branches are not like branches, which makes people's hearts hairy.
This Liutang Station is also a big post station, but the post guards are not as exaggerated as more than fifty, and the post guards outside the gate saw this posture, so frightened that they hurriedly ran to the post station.
After a while, the post keeper of Liutang Station ran to the door of the post station with more than a dozen post guards carrying knives.
At this time, there are no chaotic people in Nanzhili, let alone bandits and horse bandits, and the people who come are obviously not soldiers of the Ming army, this postman is still thinking there while running: "TNND, who dares to be so presumptuous, don't treat the post soldiers as officers and soldiers, uncle, I don't blackmail them for a few taels of silver today, so I won't be surnamed Zhao!" ”
However, when he ran to the gate to see, he immediately turned pale with fright and trembled.
Oh my God, what kind of person is this, the weapon is so long, if you want to stab it at once, I'm afraid it can skewer several people!
He looked at the waist knife in his hand, which was less than four feet, and tears almost fell, this length difference is too far, how can he play with others?
Fortunately, the more than 50 riders did not rush straight into the post station, when there were about 100 steps away from the gate, the leader raised his right hand, and the people behind him slowly slowed down, and when there were more than ten steps away from the post station gate, more than 50 riders had stopped neatly.
Seeing that everyone had arrived at the gate, the post man had to go up and stammer: "Who dares to go straight to the post station with a weapon, don't you know that this is the military aircraft of the imperial court?" ”
A military location? This statement is really fresh, Zhang Bin rolled his eyes, and directly took out the official document in his arms and handed it to Xie Zhenggang next to him.
Xie Zhenggang took the official document, stepped forward, and shouted at the post: "Presumptuous, the governor of Fujian took office, passing through here, you can't wait to come out to kneel to greet you, and you still block the gate, do you want to die?" ”
When the Yi Cheng heard this, he was frightened out of cold sweat, he stepped forward quickly, glanced at Xie Zhenggang's official document in his hand, and immediately knelt on the ground in fright and said in fear: "The villain doesn't know that the governor has arrived, and he has missed the distance, please forgive me." ”
The Cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of War jointly issued a document, just by looking at the seal on it, you can know that it is true, this is really the governor!
When Zhang Bin heard this, he shook his head and said softly: "Forget it, those who don't know are not guilty, get up, hurry up and tell them to get out of the way, the official still has something to do." ”
Hearing this, the post hurriedly got up and shouted to the back: "What are you doing lying there, hurry up and die." ”
After roaring, he quickly stepped aside, pulled his hand in, bent over and said, "My lord, please come inside." ”
Zhang Bin led everyone into the post station, and then said to the post man: "You arrange for them to stay, eat, drink and greet each other, and then take good care of the horses, and we will leave the morning after tomorrow." The official still has to go to Jinling to do some business, so he won't live here. ”
When the Yicheng heard this, he hurriedly nodded and made arrangements, and Zhang Bin said to the Qi brothers on the side: "Yuan Gong, do you want to go to Jinling with me to play?" ”
The Qi brothers naturally nodded again and again, happily responding, at this time, a delicate voice behind Zhang Bin excitedly shouted: "Go to Jinling City to play, I want to go too!" ”
When Zhang Bin heard this, his face was suddenly full of black lines, he didn't hate Qi Fanghua, the problem, tonight he wanted to take the Qi brothers to Meixianglou to be chic, it seemed that he couldn't go, he nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, go together, go together." ”
He originally wanted to pick up the Qi brothers and go straight to Jinling City, but he didn't expect that Qi Yin not only asked the Qi brothers and Qi Changshan and other four team leaders to follow him, but also selected four teams of forty-eight strong guys for him, saying that he would follow him to make meritorious contributions, and Zhang Bin naturally couldn't ask for it.
In order not to delay time, he also ordered someone to go to the Dongshengtang branch in Dingyuan County overnight to take more than 50 war horses for the young man in Qijiabao to be mounted, fortunately, he had the idea of establishing a private army earlier, so he deliberately asked Dongshengtang to add a business of selling war horses, otherwise, he really couldn't find so many war horses for a while.
However, this time, the original team of more than ten horsemen suddenly increased to more than fifty horsemen, and they also held spears, boring palladium, wolf and other long weapons, if all the brains were brought into Jinling City, I was afraid that it would cause unnecessary trouble, so he simply placed the young man from Qijiabao in the post station first, and then went into the city to do errands.
As for Qi Fanghua, Zhang Bin didn't think about taking her to the battlefield, purely she wanted to come with her, it seemed that after she heard that she was still unmarried, she faintly felt a little affection, Zhang Bin didn't deliberately pursue or oppose, everything is just as fate would be, this troubled world is about to come, and he really doesn't have time to spend time on his children's private affairs.
A group of more than ten rode in less than half an hour to arrive at the Zhang family's mansion in Zheliu Lane, at this time Zhang Bin's mother and Xiaoyun have not returned to Dajin, they are still waiting for Zhang Guan to bring someone to pick up, after all, Jinling to Fujian is a long way, if the group is all female dependents, there is still a possibility of accidents.
This move is not an urgent matter, and Zhang Guan can't bring all the cavalry, so Zhang Bin has gone to the capital to fight back and forth, and Zhang Guan has not yet rushed over from Fujian.
Zhang Bin didn't expect that the family was still there, he didn't come to Jinling to take his mother and Xiaoyun and them together, but to find Bi Maokang and Zhang San.
Huang didn't expect his son to come back from the capital so soon, and he also brought a beautiful little girl, she was so surprised that she almost jumped up, caught Zhang Bin and covered her face and asked: "Oh, fifth girl, why did you come back so soon, and besides, who is this girl, she looks so well-behaved!" ”
The Qi brothers almost didn't laugh out loud when they heard this, but Qi Fanghua was unusual, blushing, really like a well-behaved little girl.
Zhang Bin was so embarrassed, he hurriedly pulled the Qi family brothers and introduced: "This is the commander of the Qi family's army, the son of Qi Wulie, Yuan Gong, Yuan Fu, and Yuan Bi." ”
The Qi brothers immediately bowed down to say hello, and the Huang family nodded in response, but his eyes kept staring at Qi Fanghua who was standing on the side, and Qi Fanghua's face was almost red.
Seeing this, Zhang Bin had no choice but to introduce: "This is the niece of Duke Wu Lie, the daughter of the old general Qi Yin, Fanghua." ”
When Huang heard this, he opened his eyebrows and smiled: "It turned out to be Fanghua, this name is really good, it is still a famous family, five girls, you have a really good eye!" ”
Qi Fanghua didn't refute, but just saluted shyly and said hello, but Zhang Bin said helplessly: "Mother, what kind of vision is good?" ”
Huang said matter-of-factly: "Isn't this the daughter-in-law you found for me?" ”
The Qi brothers didn't say anything, they just smiled vigorously, and Qi Fanghua didn't say anything, but blushed even more.
Zhang Bin didn't dare to be angry, he was all pitted by Hong Xianchun and Wu Wenjie and became an older leftover man, and this mother was naturally anxious to find a daughter-in-law.