Chapter 143: A dilemma
Zong Ze said: "Don't thank me first, I still have something to ask you." ”
Wan Linggen smiled: "Old man, you are still polite to me, just tell me something." ”
Zong Ze showed a rare smile, "You've seen my son Ying'er, she likes to dance with knives and guns since she was a child, you can arrange a position for her in the women's camp." ”
Wan Linggen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Old man, you still don't know, my women's battalion has long followed Hongyu, and I don't know where they went." ”
Zong Ze frowned, "I don't care, you can figure it out yourself." ”
Wan Linggen said in embarrassment: "What can you do?" You can't form another one, can you? ”
Zong Ze nodded and said, "Yes, I'll pay for the food!" ”
"Huh? All right! Wan Linggen quietly pursed his lips, and said in his heart, is this considered a use of power for personal gain?
Zong Ze suddenly shouted: "Ying'er, Xin'er, come out!" ”
Wan Linggen said in his heart, why does this old guy always like to hide people behind? He was thinking about it, and sure enough, he saw Zong Ying walk out with a taller young man.
Zong Ze said: "Ying'er, Generalissimo Wan has agreed that you will take the lead in organizing another women's battalion, and it will be under his unified command. ”
Zong Ying was overjoyed, and bowed deeply to Wan Linggen: "Thank you for your humble position!" ”
Wan Linggen raised his hand and said, "No, no! There is no need to be humble, the red jade used to ......" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, his eyes scattered, and he looked thoughtful.
Zong Ying had obviously heard about Liang Hongyu and others, and asked, "How is Sister Hongyu, how am I!" ”
Wan Linggen said that Hongyu called me Xianggong, do you also want to call me Xianggong? Thinking of this, when he looked at Zong Ying's tall figure again, he couldn't help but shudder, smiled and said, "Hongyu, they haven't come back from going out to run errands, and the women's battalion you formed is also under her command." ”
"Yes!" Zong Ying stood aside happily, but Zong Xin kept glancing at his father. Zong Ze smiled again: "My son Zong Xin, brave and good at fighting, let him serve in your army." ”
That Zong Xin immediately clenched his fists and slammed them to the ground, "Please give orders to Generalissimo Wan!" ”
Wan Linggen stepped forward and pulled him up, and took a closer look, this Zong Xin Xiang was eight points similar to Zong Ze, he nodded and said, "Since the old man doesn't want you to annoy him by his side, then you can follow me!" He burst out laughing.
Zong Xin and Zong Ying were dumbfounded, secretly glanced at the expressionless Zong Ze, lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak.
Zong Ze glared at him and said: "Since you join your army, you have nothing to do with the imperial court, and life and death are all dependent on their creation." ”
Wan Linggen stuck out his tongue and quickly lowered his head.
His action made Zong Ying and Zong Xin over there look stupid, especially Zong Ying, whose little face was flushed, and he couldn't laugh out loud until he endured it.
Wan Linggen accepted his two children, Zong Ze was in a good mood, ordered someone to prepare a sumptuous banquet, and called his wife out to sit together, which was clearly a family banquet, which made Generalissimo Wan feel extremely awkward.
But that's just the beginning. Soon he found out that although Zong Ze was cold, he was well-informed, and he knew almost everything, and the brothers and sisters Zong Xin and Zong Ying were respectful to him and never interjected casually, but it could also be seen that they respected the old father from the bottom of their hearts, and they did not have much fear in it.
And Zong Ze's wife, Chen, made Wan Linggen feel good. Although she has passed the age of Shao and has gray hair in her temples, she is very kind and enthusiastic, constantly giving him vegetables, and her eyes are full of love when she looks at him.
Zong Ze is naturally like a river, gushing endlessly, Wan Linggen is basically an audience. But the conversation eventually came back to the current situation.
"The emperor must regain control of Kaifeng!" Zong Ze took a sip of wine, put the wine glass on the table and said, "That way can I revive the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty and boost the morale of the army and the people!" ”
Wan Linggen shook his head and said, "Old man, I advise you to save the province, that Emperor Gaozong will not come to Kaifeng if he dies." ”
Except for Zong Ze, who was unimpressed, the others were very puzzled by Wan Linggen's indispensability towards the emperor in his tone. Zong Ze frowned and said, "The emperor has the courage and knowledge, the mind and ambition, I think he will do this." ”
Wan Linggen shook his head and said, "I advise you to dispel this idea as soon as possible, and it is better not to mention it again." ”
Zong Ze asked, "Why is that?" Isn't that the wrong idea? ”
Wan Linggen said: "For him, there are already lessons from the two emperors in front of him, Kaifeng has become a nightmare place, he can't avoid it, how can he come back?" He thought of the meeting and conversation with Zhao Gou in Kaifeng, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Zong Ze said: "You don't respect the imperial power, I don't force you." But current events are like this, what can I say. If you can really go north to the Yellow River, take Datong, and then go straight to the Yellow Dragon, old man, I ...... To you! As he spoke, he stood up with his glass in his hand.
Wan Linggen hurriedly got up and said, "Old man, sit down, I can't stand your wine." Saying that, he pressed Zong Ze down.
Zong Ze put the wine glass on the table, and said with a gloomy expression: "Actually, I don't know what the emperor thinks, but as a minister, I eat the king's fortune and solve the king's ......worries," Wan Linggen interrupted him and said: "The old man is right, since this is the case, then what you should worry about is to help the emperor stabilize the power and quell the rebellion of the people, as for the Jin people, they are not in a hurry." ”
Zong Ze looked at him with blazing eyes, and only sighed for a long time before he said, "It seems that I am really old, and I can't see things as clearly as your junior." Wang Yan, Liu Hao, Zhang Jun and others were all sent to suppress the civil uprising, but most of those people were loyal and brave, and most of them were willing to join forces to resist Jin......"
Wan Linggen said in his heart that this old man really got into the tip of the horns, raised his wine glass and said: "Old man, you can guard Kaifeng with peace of mind and be your mansion, and I will help you with other things, how about it?" ”
"And us!" Zong Xin and Zong Ying also raised their wine glasses at the same time.
"Good!" Zong Ze raised his glass and touched them and said: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, the sky is high and the earth is wide, you can play it to your heart's content." After speaking, he raised his glass and drank it all.
Wan Linggen and Zong Xin Zong Ying, brother and sister, also raised their glasses and drank to their heart's content, feeling full of pride and feeling extremely happy.
Zong Ze and his wife Chen sat for a while, then left the three of them to continue drinking and chatting, and went back to the room to rest. Without the presence of the elders, Zong Xin and Zong Ying immediately became active, and the three of them pushed the cups and changed the lamps, which was also very enjoyable.
When I came out of Zong Ze's mansion, it was already dusk. Zong Xin and Zong Ying sent him out of the mansion, and Wan Linggen briefly explained a few words about tomorrow, and then returned to the house alone.