In the front hall of Liuzhuang, hearing that Zhang Liangji, the new governor of Hubei of the Qing court, had arrived, Chen Zhiming and others were taken aback, and looked at the beautiful woman together, only to see that she was still sitting and drinking tea, unmoved, and everyone seemed to be relieved.

Zhou Yi showed off his wisdom, and in his eyes, he already understood in his heart that the real leader of this group of people was not Chen Zhiming, but this beautiful woman who was sitting upright and drinking tea, and only then did he pay attention to her, only to see that she had a beautiful face, but between her eyebrows was an indelible heroic spirit.

"I don't know what to call this little girl? Is it also our Zhou family? Zhou Yiduan slowly walked up to the beautiful woman and asked with a smile, staring at the beautiful woman with a pair of beautiful eyes.

The beautiful woman put down the teacup, stood up with a smile like a flower, and said with a slight salute: "Little sister Wang Xuanjiao is the niece of your cousin's family Sister Zhou, Sister Zhou may not know me, but Sister Zhou's famous name is very popular among us distant cousins." She couldn't tell where she was in the official language.

Zhou Yiduan asked suspiciously, "My cousin's niece?" Do I have a cousin? ”

The beautiful woman smiled faintly, sighed lightly and said with a bitter face: "Sister Zhou's rich family, where will we, poor relatives, remember?" Then he said: "Sister Zhou, if you have a distinguished guest, let's welcome the distinguished guest first, and we will talk about our own recognition later." ”

Seeing that Wang Xuanjiao looked determined, Zhou Yiduan was a little puzzled, could she really be her distant cousin? The Zhou family has a big business, and there are many intertwined cousins, maybe it is really Wang Xuanjiao's family that is too poor, and his parents are not happy to associate with their family, and they don't mention it much, so they don't know.

After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, so Zhou Yiduan had to get up and go out with Zhou Ren'an to greet Zhang Liangji first, and the governor of a province came to the door in person, so Zhou Yiduan had to go out to greet him in person.

After Zhou Yiduan and Zhou Ren'an left, only Wang Xuanjiao and Chen Zhiming and others were left in the hall, Chen Zhiming hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Xi Wangniang, there is a Qing demon coming, what should I do?" ”

This beautiful woman is Hong Yun'er, who possessed Hong Xuanjiao, the mother of the West Wang, and she pouted: "What are you panicking about? I almost showed a flaw just now. Then he said in a deep voice: "Yao Yuan, you take two people out quietly, go to the ambush outside the village to inform Aunt Hu and them, and let them prepare to move, if they see the arrows fired here, they will raise troops to kill them and respond to them." ”

Yao Yuan didn't speak Hunanese, so like other Guangxi brothers, he didn't open his mouth, pretending to be Chen Zhiming's entourage and following behind, he was already a little depressed.

There were also male soldiers Li Tianxi, female soldiers Li Xuanji, Yang Dongqing and a female soldier guard, Hong Yun'er turned to the female soldier and said: "Go to the side hall of the barn to inform the big guy, prepare the blade, if it is broken by the Qing demon, we will fight!" The female soldier turned and went away.

Hong Yun'er turned back to Yao Yuan, Li Tianxi and the others and said: "Later, if the Qing Demon recognizes me and the others and fights, you two will protect Sister Xuanji and Holly Sister to go first, and after I come to break off, let's go to the barn field to gather brothers and kill them." If the Qing Demon doesn't make any moves, let's wait until tomorrow, or abduct Zuo Zongtang's family in general. Speaking of this, Hong Yun'er chuckled: "If everything goes well, maybe we can catch the new governor of this Qing Demon together, this is called wanting to shoot a horse and hit a deer by mistake." The crowd laughed.

After a while, I saw Zhou Yiduan leading several people to the hall, the first person was dressed in a horse coat and a long robe, wearing a bowler hat, about forty years old, with a beard on his lips, a wide forehead, but very small eyes, a very solemn expression, and a strong official authority, guessing that it should be Zhang Liangji. …,

There was another person behind him, in his thirties, in a coarse cloth robe, dressed very ordinarily, like a merchant, with a beard on his lips, a thin and timeless face, quite a bit of a solemn atmosphere, but he didn't know who it was. The two were followed by four companions, all of whom were strong and powerful men, and at a glance they knew that they were the governor's Goshha. Several people were not wearing official uniforms, thinking that they were patrolling in micro-clothes, but the shelves that could not be hidden on their bodies knew at a glance that they were from the official mansion.

When a group of people entered the house, Zhou Yiduan introduced everyone to him, Hong Yuner gave a generous salute, and Chen Zhiming and others were unwilling to give Zhang Liangji and others a reluctant salute.

Zhang Liangji squinted his eyes and smiled: "It turns out that there are relatives in Madame's house visiting, and it is a bit abrupt to disturb Madame's relatives to talk." ”

Zhou Yiduan bowed slightly and said: "Zhang Futai is polite, the cold house is simple, and the hospitality is not thoughtful, please take a seat to speak." ”

Zhang Liangji smiled and didn't shirk, and sat at the head of the hall, the businessman-like person sat opposite Chen Zhiming, and the four Goshha stood behind the two of them.

"This official visit is to invite Mr. Zuo here." Zhang Liangji didn't talk nonsense, and said to Zhou Yiduan slightly: "This official has the emperor's order, and he planned to go to Changsha in the near future to intercept the long-haired traitors, but he didn't expect to arrive in Yuezhou, and he heard the news of the fall of Changsha. A few days ago, there was news that the assistant minister Luo Huandian and the admiral Bao Qibao had failed to raise troops to counterattack Changsha. Every time this official thinks that the people of Changsha are still being ravaged by long-haired thieves, he feels that everything is burning, and he can't eat well, and he only thinks that he can overcome the provincial capital as soon as possible and return the people to a prosperous future. It's a pity that this official is only shallow in learning, and there are only thousands of soldiers and horses around him, and there is no one to help, so I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve great things. Mr. Zuo said that he was bright today, and he had the talent to govern the world, so he followed the example of the ancients and invited Mr. to go out of the mountain to help the official overcome the national difficulties and alleviate the people's grievances. ”

Before Zhou Yiduan could answer, Hong Yun'er on the side burst out laughing, everyone was stunned, Zhang Liangji was very well educated, and he didn't have a seizure, but Goshha behind him shouted angrily: "Bold woman, dare to laugh at adults?" ”

Hong Yun'er was still not afraid, and said calmly: "Lord Zhang, a little woman from the countryside, I haven't seen the world, please forgive me for any offense, but I heard that the allusion quoted by Lord Zhang was wrong just now, so I laughed." ”

Zhang Liangji sighed, his small eyes narrowed, and he twisted his short beard in his hand and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Hong Yun'er coughed lightly and said: "I have also heard the story of the three visits to the thatched house, Mr. Storyteller said, my brother-in-law is brighter than today, and he does have real talent and real learning in his chest, and it is understandable, but it is a little inappropriate for Lord Zhang to compare himself to Uncle Liu Huang, could it be that Lord Zhang has bad intentions and wants to learn from Liu Bei to call himself the king of Hanzhong?" If this word is spread, I am afraid that it will be very bad for adults. ”

A big hat was covered, Zhang Liangji almost didn't sit still, his own metaphor is indeed somewhat appropriate, Liu Bei is a relative of the emperor, and later called himself the king of Hanzhong, it is indeed inappropriate to compare himself to him, and he blushed at the moment and said: "Well, this, this is true, the official lost his words, everyone forgot about it." ”

Hong Yun'er said again: "Well, sister, the adults let us forget what he just said, then let's forget, we don't remember anything about inviting my brother-in-law out of the mountain." ”

Zhang Liangji was furious in his heart, and the woman who came out of nowhere made a lot of nonsense here, as if she was here to stir up the situation.

The businessman-like man on the side arched his hand and said: "Two ladies, Zhang Futai means to forget the allusion and invite Mr. Zuo out of the mountain. "This person's Hunan accent looks like a character in central Hunan, and it is obviously a lot of ability to come with Zhang Liangji. …,

Hong Yun'er didn't interject this time, tasted tea with a smile, and Zhou Yi returned the salute and asked, "Who is this?" ”

The man arched his hand and said: "No, Hengyang Peng Yulin, is now Zhang Futai's staff." ”

Hong Yun'er was slightly startled, and guessed that this person was not small, but she didn't expect that it would be Peng Yulin, the future commander of the Hunan Army's naval division! Looking at him as a businessman, he can't see the spirit of commanding tens of millions of sailors in the future.

Zhou Yi said with a sigh: "It turned out to be Mr. Peng, who was in turmoil from Hengzhou Association a few years ago, my lord once talked about Mr. Peng's deeds, Mr. did not want an official position after the rebellion, and quietly returned to Leiyang to do business, and I can see that Mr. is high-spirited." ”

Peng Yulin smiled slightly and said: "Madame is polite, I originally helped Yang Zichun, the son of a wealthy businessman, to run a business in Leiyang, but this year, Changmao North committed Xiangzhong and poisoned more than ten prefectures and counties, and he only came out of the mountain in Xia. didn't think that when he arrived in Changsha, Changmao had already captured the provincial capital, so he had to go north to Yuezhou and join Zhang Futai. In the lower mountain is not for his own selfishness, but in order to save the people of Hunan from fire and water, Mr. Zuo's name has been heard for a long time, so I came to ask Mr. Zuo to go out of the mountain to help. ”

Li Xuanji on the side couldn't help but say: "The officials and soldiers are burning and looting everywhere, they are more fierce than long hair, to save the people, you officials should take care of those unscrupulous soldiers first!" ”

When Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin heard this, their faces changed color together, Hong Yun'er hurriedly smiled and said: "Two adults, don't worry about our country women, my sister is from Liuyang, a few days ago, the official army was defeated and crossed the border, the old mother at home was killed, and the rice and grain property were robbed. ”

Zhang Liangji looked at Peng Yulin slightly embarrassed, Wang Jialin and Taqibu had already been reported to Zhang Liangji by Liuyang officials, but they didn't pay attention to the chaos, but they didn't expect that among the people who were harmed were Zuo Zongtang's relatives.

After Peng Yulin pondered for a moment, he stood up and respectfully saluted Li Xuanji and said: "This matter will definitely be dealt with by the imperial court after the war, and what I Peng hate the most is these rebellious soldiers and evil generals, they can't kill thieves and calm the people, but harm the people." Please rest assured, after pacifying the thieves, I will definitely sue the court to punish these bandits and give you justice! No matter how many great feats they have, they will be convicted of this life if they fight for their lives! ”

Hong Yun'er shrugged and said: "We understand Mr. Peng's kindness, as the so-called officials protect each other, I don't believe that the imperial court will hunt down meritorious generals for a few of us untouchables, and when the time comes, it will not be good to take Mr. Peng's life in vain for our grievances." ”

Peng Yulin was speechless, Zhang Liangji coughed lightly, resolved the current embarrassment, and said loudly: "Madam, let's get back to business, I don't know where Mr. Zuo is now?" ”

Zhou Yiduan frowned slightly, glanced at Hong Yun'er and replied: "My lord is not at home, he went out to travel a few days ago, and I don't know when he will come back." ”

Zhang Liangji sighed in disappointment: "It's really unfortunate, do you really have to come three times?" ”

Peng Yulin frowned and looked at Zhou Yiduan, then at Hong Yun'er, turned back to Zhang Liangji and said, "Lord Futai, since Mr. Zuo is not at home, then we will come back another day." ”

Zhang Liangji seemed to listen to Peng Yulin's idea, nodded at the moment, clapped his palms and stood up and said, "I'm sorry to disturb you, madam, if Mr. goes home, please pay respects to the next post and wait for Mr. to come." ”

After saying that, Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin said goodbye, and Zhou Yiduan was sent to Zhuangwai. Hong Yun'er and the others also followed, and they were relieved to watch Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin ride away with more than a dozen entourages.

Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin walked out of Lixu, Peng Yulin suddenly reined in the horse's head and said to Zhang Liangji: "Lord Futai can quickly go back to mobilize soldiers and horses, I think the men and women of the Zuo family are not like Mrs. Zuo's relatives, but like the fine work of long hair." ”

Zhang Liangji was shocked when he heard this: "How can you see it? ”

Peng Yulin said in a deep voice: "Those women have good knowledge, how can ordinary women have the courage to speak in front of Lord Futai?" The men looked at us with great disgust, and some of them had fake braided hair! ”