On the ninth day of December in the 14th year of Chongzhen, early in the morning, Cai Wu, the official of the south gate of Penglai City, changed into an official uniform and came to be on duty. Penglai is near the sea, and the wind from the sea carries a strong water vapor, so the winter weather is colder, and there is a lingering moisture.

In the two years since Zhu Ping'an's arrival, Penglai City alone has been expanded twice, once when Zhu Ping'an first arrived, and he wanted to use Penglai as the capital yamen and the general military office; The other is the establishment of the trade zone, coupled with the expansion of the water division, the expansion of the original Penglai Water City, the renovation of the three forts in the east, west and north of Danya, and the addition of a series of water division base construction projects.

Therefore, the area and scale of Penglai today are not inferior to that of Dengzhou Capital. With the strength of the sailors, the sea became more and more calm, and the pirates, pirates, and pirates of the past disappeared without a trace, but the merchant ships coming and going from the south to the north became more and more prosperous. Penglai has also become the most prosperous place in Shandong.

"Maybe it should be the most prosperous place in the entire Ming Dynasty!" This is what Cai Wu has always believed.

The sun had just jumped out of the horizon, and there was already a lively boiling sky outside the city gate, and the noise was not good, Cai Wu thought that this must be the daughter of a Shandong official and a wealthy squire who came to pay homage to the wife of the chief soldier. The wife of the chief soldier is waiting to give birth, this is the top priority event in Shandong today, these days, not only people often come to the Beijing division, but also the state capitals of Shandong continue to come to visit. But no matter who came, Cai Wu didn't dare to break the rules set by the General Military Mansion, and he couldn't open the city gate before the time.

Cai Wu handed over to his colleagues on duty at night, carefully counted the number of soldiers under his command, and prepared to open the door and let him go as soon as the hour came.

But while speaking, there was a group of people galloping on Chang'an Avenue in the city, led by a person dressed in blue, with a clouded leopard complement in a thousand household costumes, and after a closer look, it was the general military palace guard right thousand households Wang Jinfa personally brought people over.

Dozens of fat and strong war horses stopped at the city gate in unison, and the knights and war horses spewed out streams of steaming white gas from their mouths, Cai Wu didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly walked up to meet them.

"Wang Qianhu, this early in the morning, are you going to go out of the city?"

Wang Jinfa nodded, "Seeing that the handsome man is going back to Penglai in the next few days, this official is on the order of his wife to go to Laizhou to greet him!" Wang Jinfa looked up at the sky, "How is it, but it's time to open the door?" ”

"It's a coincidence that you're here, and the little one is about to open the city gates!" Cai Wuyi agreed repeatedly, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to open the door immediately.

The gates creaked open, but there was nothing of the crowd that had been rushing in. Cai Wu also planned to ask the soldiers to open a way for Wang Jinfa and ask them to go out of the city first, but he didn't expect that no one would enter the city at all.

Take a closer look, but outside the city gate, there are several rows of black-armored cavalry with more than 200 people, and the surrounding people cheer and constantly send breakfast snacks, but the cavalry just smile and return the salute, neither speaking nor receiving food from the people. The one in the center is Zhu Ping'an, the chief soldier of Shandong who is covered in dust and slightly tired.

Cai Wuda was taken aback, and before he could wait to come forward to salute, Wang Jinfa exclaimed, immediately turned over and dismounted, galloped to Zhu Ping'an's horse, and bowed and saluted, "When did the uncle arrive, Mrs. also ordered the little one to go to Laizhou Mansion to greet him, but I didn't think that the uncle would arrive today!" ”

Shen Ke beside Zhu Ping'an smiled, "Wang Qianhu, the handsome man has already arrived outside Penglai City before dawn, just waiting for the city gate to open!" ”

The bold people on the side took over and shouted, "Yes! The marshal has arrived outside the city early in the morning, I am waiting to call the city gate, but the marshal is unwilling in any case, and the city gate is opened when the Daochen is the regulations set by the general military office, and it must not be violated! ”

When the people said so, Cai Wu was bitter. Let the marshal wait in the cold wind in front of the city gate for more than an hour, how can this be reasonable.

"Blonde, get up and talk back!" Zhu Ping'an waved his horsewhip, "What's going on in the house?" ”

"Back to Uncle's words. This morning, the inner house Cao Ye ordered the little one to go out of the city to greet the uncle, and Zeng Yan said that Mrs. had some abdominal pain, counting the days, it should also be the number of days, what is the specific situation, the small one is not clear! ”

Zhu Ping'an suddenly became nervous, he handed over the soldiers and horses to Zhang Yaoxian, Yang Tinglin, and he and Zhang Dingbian, Shen Ke and others led the light cavalry first, that is, he calculated that his wife was about to give birth, so he hurried back to Dengzhou, in order to be by his wife's side, and saw the birth of his first child in this era, but he didn't expect it to come so coincidentally.

The people next to them heard this, and immediately cheered, and some women couldn't wait to run to the temple outside the city, saying that they wanted to pray for the lady and the eldest prince who was about to be born.

Thousands of people had gathered inside and outside the city at this time, and they immediately consciously moved out of the way, "Dashuai, hurry back home!" I wish you a happy handsome! ”

Zhu Ping'an's return made the people of the entire Penglai and even the entire Dengzhou suddenly find the backbone. During this time, it was rumored that the Tartars were going south again, especially the two consecutive defeats of the imperial court in Henan and Guanwai, which also made the people worried, but now, seeing Zhu Ping'an come back in high spirits, the hearts of the people also fell back into their stomachs in an instant.

Zhu Ping'an threw his hand around, and then he whipped his horse and went straight to his mansion. Along the way, the people were on both sides of the street, and the members of the urban management brigade rushed to maintain order, and some well-informed merchants had even begun to put up lights, and individual merchants even hung up signs - "Congratulations to Zhu Dashuai for his happy Lin'er, all goods in our store will be 20% off from now on." Looking at these words, Zhu Ping'an couldn't cry or laugh.

ran all the way, and finally came to the door of his mansion, the door of the mansion opened, and a group of subordinates Yue Jinfeng, Qiu Ze, Hong Fatzi, Sun Heding, He Changshui, Mafu Wang, Shen Mingxian, Tong Wenhuan and others were already waiting outside the gate early.

Zhu Ping'an's mount had just stopped, and Hong Fatzi had already grabbed it and taken the reins.

"Why aren't you in office, why are you all running away from Penglai!" Zhu Ping'an turned over and dismounted, and specially asked Yue Jinfeng and Qiu Ze, both of whom are now military attaches stationed there.

"As soon as the handsome man has been gone for half a year, I naturally want to come to visit, especially when you are happy again, we old brothers will also come to congratulate!" Yue Jinfeng said with a smile. This guy finally got married at the beginning of the year, and married the daughter of a good family surnamed Bai in Dengzhou, and after marrying a wife, this originally cold temperament actually took a 180-degree turn.

"Joy of Zhang!" Zhu Ping'an said, "Your old man married a wife, and he was very particular about what he said, how do you know that it must be a boy?" ”

"This!" Yue Jinfeng was speechless for a while, "The handsome man is invincible and invincible, this son is naturally invincible, and his wishes ......come true!" ”

A crowd burst into laughter.

As he spoke, Cao Wuxian had already rushed out, "Young Master, hurry up, my sister is about to give birth!" ”

This reminded everyone in one sentence, Zhu Ping'an turned his head and ran towards the house, and everyone behind him was also busy following closely. As soon as they entered the main hall, Lu Xiangsheng, Zhao Guangluan, Wang Pin, Yin Shigang, Guo Chai, and Zhou Mian were drinking tea and chatting.

Zhu Ping'an was just about to greet everyone, but he was slapped on the shoulder by Zhou Mian, "What kind of ceremony, there will be time to talk later, now that your wife has entered the delivery room, why don't you go and know it, so that she can know that you have returned!" ”

"Oh! Oh! Zhu Ping'an nodded mechanically and agreed, confessed, turned his head and staggered towards the direction of the inner house, and tripped over the threshold when he went out, and almost fell down.

Lu Xiangsheng and the others couldn't help but smile.

When she arrived at the gate of the inner house, Mrs. Zhang's righteous daughter, Sun Youniang, was anxiously looking forward to it, and when she saw Zhu Ping'an's figure, a big stone in her heart fell to the ground, "Brother-in-law, hurry up!" ”

After Zhang Ergou died on the battlefield, Sun Youniang's parents died of illness, so they have been staying with Mrs. Zhang. Since she and Zhang Ergou were not officially married, Mrs. Zhang persuaded her to remarry, but Sun Youniang insisted on refusing. So Mrs. Zhang regarded her as a righteous daughter and stayed by her side, and Zhu Ping'an and his wife also liked her filial piety, thrift, and simplicity, so they regarded her as a righteous sister. This time, Mu Yuling's pregnancy was taken care of by her and Mrs. Zhang in the inner house.

Zhu Ping'an waved his hand to wipe the sweat off his face, and the heart in his chest thumped, "Young lady, how is your sister-in-law?" ”

"Brother Yi, rest assured, everything is ready, and my sister-in-law has just entered the delivery room ......!"

"That's good!" Saying that, Zhu Ping'an wanted to enter the door, but was blocked by Sun Youniang.

"Brother Yi, you are still wearing armor, how is it appropriate to go in like this?" Sun Youniang explained: "I have ordered someone to prepare fragrant soup, my brother should bathe first before entering the inner house!" ”

Only then did Zhu Ping'an realize that he was inappropriate, it was indeed extremely inappropriate to enter the inner house in military uniform, so he immediately went to the courtyard next to him to bathe and change clothes according to Sun Youniang's arrangement.

It's just that Zhang Dingbian, who came behind him, was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he had to say to himself for a while: "Sister, then I, then I'll go back to the front yard first!" ”

Sun Youniang smiled, "My brother followed my righteous brother back thousands of miles, tired all the way, and the little sister in our yard has already been arranged, my brother might as well bathe and change clothes, and come to the house with some food!" ”

"That's, that's!" Sun Youniang's smiling face made Zhang Dingbian's heart tremble for no reason, and he hurriedly lowered his head at the moment, turned his head and ran, not daring to turn back along the way, Jia Ye shook loudly.

After bathing and changing clothes, Zhu Ping'an entered the inner house with some food, Mrs. Zhang, Yin Shigang's wife Cao, Lu Xiangsheng's wife Wang, Zhao Guangluan's wife Yang and other female dependents, seeing Zhu Ping'an's arrival, all the female dependents hurriedly retreated.

Looking at Zhu Ping'an's anxious and restless appearance, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but smile, "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, a woman giving birth to a child is a ghost gate, how many hours have passed, and sometimes there is a whole day." We have invited the best Wen Po and Lang Zhong, Yu Ling's temperament is kind-hearted, God will definitely bless her! ”

Mrs. Zhang didn't say much, but her peaceful smile and warm words allowed Zhu Ping'an to slowly calm down.

"The old body has also sent the message to Guangdong, and I expect that your father-in-law, Mr. Mu will also rush back soon...... day!" Old Madam Zhang said slowly, but before she finished speaking, a loud baby cry suddenly sounded in the closed room.

Old Madam Zhang stroked her chest and let out a sigh, "It's okay, it's okay!" Zhu Ping'an was weak in his legs and almost sat on the ground.

Not long after, Sun Youniang, who had been waiting in the delivery room, walked out with a smile and bowed to Zhu Ping'an, "Congratulations to my brother, I am happy to have your son, mother and son are safe!" (Want to know more about "Lieming"?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! )R1152