Just when Xu Shiqiu's will to be promoted to an official was issued, and the young people who followed him into the army were all awarded the official position of military attache of seven or eight grades, the news that Mrs. Jiang was seriously ill suddenly came out of the Jiang family in the capital.

Originally, no one who heard this incident took this matter to heart, after all, it was not the first time that Mrs. Jiang had been sick this year, and there had been news that she was seriously ill before.

Including the in-law Xu family, after learning the news, they didn't take it to heart, until Xu Yanzhu asked Cuihua to personally return to the Xu family to deliver the news.

"So, is Mrs. Jiang really seriously ill?" Dong Shu looked at Cuihua standing in the middle of the hall with a look of disbelief, she really didn't expect that Mrs. Jiang was really dying.

After Cuihua heard Dong Shu's question, she first nodded seriously, and then said: "Originally, the eldest girl didn't believe it, but after the eldest girl came back from a trip last night, she was in a trance for some reason. Until early this morning, the eldest girl asked the servant to come back to visit the old lady and the lady, and to send the news back by the way. ”

As soon as Cuihua finished saying this, Mrs. Xu felt her heart skip a beat, she subconsciously glanced at Dong Shu, and saw that Dong Shu didn't notice anything, but she was afraid that she wouldn't figure it out so quickly, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Xu was still glad that Dong Shu was finally slowly being transferred a moment ago. I understood a lot of things, and in the next moment, Dong Shu had already figured out what Xu Yanzhu meant by letting Cuihua come back through Cuihua's words just now.

"Mother, is there anything hidden in Mrs. Jiang's matter?" Dong Shu wasn't sure about her conjecture, but she couldn't think of any other possibility.

Hearing Dong Shu's words, Mrs. Xu first nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "You didn't guess wrong, I'm afraid Yanzhu really found something." After saying this, Mrs. Xu paused and continued: "You told Yanzhu before that her third uncle wanted her to come to the banquet at the promotion's house to help, so I took this opportunity to let her come back to help, and I just asked her what she found by the way." ”

Dong Shu got Mrs. Xu's instructions, and immediately got busy, and by the way, she also asked Cuihua to bring back news to Xu Yanzhu and ask her to come back early in a few days to help.

Not to mention what Xu Yanzhu thought after receiving the news from the third aunt in the Jiang family, the Xu family was promoted because of Xu Shiqiu, but it was lively for a few more days.

In fact, Xu Shiqiu's promotion this time is different from others, and some people in the capital know the previous agreement between Xu Shiqiu and Rui Kangdi, so seeing that Rui Kandi not only generously promoted Xu Shiqiu, but also asked him to recruit new recruits, I guessed that the recruits trained by Xu Shiqiu were really good.

Otherwise, Emperor Ruikang would not have ordered him to recruit new soldiers again, although this time to recruit new soldiers, he must first select from other generals in the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing.

Now that Xu Shiqiu's official position has been promoted, the officials who were at the same level or one or two levels lower than him before have naturally become his subordinates.

With Rui Kangdi's words, even if they were unwilling to hand over the soldiers in their hands, they could only patiently let Xu Shiqiu choose under them.

However, Xu Shiqiu's selection criterion was that these people they selected wanted to win against the auxiliaries in his hands.

Not to mention that although the one they took out for Xu Shiqiu to choose was not his confidant, he was also a soldier who had been in the army for many years, but now he had to compete with the auxiliaries in Xu Shiqiu's hands.

This made some people who were already unwilling to look at Xu Shiqiu even more unhappy, because of this incident, there were one or two who held their breath and wanted to teach Xu Shiqiu a good lesson.

There are two ways they came up with, one is that since Xu Shiqiu doesn't give them face like this, then they don't need to give Xu Shiqiu face. Didn't Xu Shiqiu let his auxiliary soldiers come out as the object of the competition? Then they sent out their best soldiers, but they said to the outside world that these were just ordinary soldiers under their own hands.

As long as these people thought that their 'ordinary' soldiers had won over the soldiers under Xu Shiqiu's men, then Xu Shiqiu, who had been rewarded by the Holy Lord for his excellent training of recruits, would naturally be doubted about his authenticity.

Of course, they will also ask people to help publicize it, and when the time comes, as long as they operate well, who can know if the ordinary soldiers they send under their command are still the best soldiers. What's more, Xu Shiqiu's subordinates who were sent for assessment naturally couldn't just be auxiliaries, and they must be passed on to other words.

I am afraid that no one will believe that they are the Iron Eagle Brigade under Xu Shiqiu, but they must be ambiguous to let the world know that Xu Shiqiu's ability to train recruits is not so good at all.

In addition to this, another method is Xu Shiqiu himself.

They all guessed that Xu Shiqiu was promoted two levels in a row this time because he married a lady who was liked by the queen, especially this lady was still blessed.

Since this is the case, they naturally want to take Xu Shiqiu to feel the gentleness of other women in Beijing.

As long as Xu Shiqiu is contaminated with other women, when the time comes, they will release the rumors, presumably according to the queen's appearance of protecting Fukang Township, they will definitely teach Xu Shiqiu a lesson.

Xu Shiqiu didn't know that he was already being remembered by others at this time, and he was completely busy when he got Rui Kangdi to ask him to recruit troops again and train more soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade.

Coupled with the hint given by King Duan before, Xu Shiqiu also understood that he was afraid that he would have to leave the capital and go somewhere else after a while.

Time was short, and he wished there were twenty-four hours in a day.

On this day, Xu Shiqiu had a busy day, and he didn't plan to go home tonight, but his family sent someone to send a message to say that he had something to discuss, so he ended his training half an hour earlier than the day before yesterday and prepared to go home.

Before he walked out of the barracks, several generals in the barracks who were not familiar with him came to him with smiles on their faces and invited him to drink at the Jingzhong Restaurant.

The reason is to celebrate his promotion.

If these people asked him to drink when he first came here, maybe Xu Shiqiu would have agreed.

Moreover, it has been several days since his will to be promoted has been out, and they have only made a move, which seems a little unreal.

But now that his official position is much higher than theirs, and now he wants to poach people from them, how can these people be so kind to invite themselves to drink and celebrate?

Xu Shiqiu is not stupid, he has also been carefully raised by his family, although he has been staying at home before, but the twists and turns in this officialdom are understood.

Xu Shiqiu knew that today's wine must not be drunk.

"You have a good intention, but today the family sent a letter saying that there is something at home waiting for the general to go back to discuss. Another day, another day, there will be a banquet to entertain you. Xu Shiqiu originally wanted not to tear his face with everyone, and left quickly after explaining his meaning.

Who knew that after he finished saying this, one of the bearded generals immediately pretended to be displeased and said, "Could it be that General Xu is unwilling to give my brothers a face?" I can hold a banquet for General Xu today, is it possible that there are so many of us, please don't move General Xu? ”

"Yes, General Xu is unwilling to give me the face of my brother today?" After the bearded general's voice fell, another long-faced military general opened his mouth, "I have already set a place in the restaurant in the city for today, and General Xu looks down on our brothers like this?" ”

As soon as the long-faced general's voice fell, the remaining other generals echoed one after another, saying that if Xu Shiqiu was unwilling to go to the banquet, he would look down on them.

If Xu Shiqiu was just suspicious at the beginning, then now it is certain that this group of people is not good.

Since this group of people is not pure-minded, then Xu Shiqiu will naturally not continue to stay with this group of people, with this time, he might as well go home early, play with Yuan Xi and make love to the little lady.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiqiu looked at everyone in embarrassment: "I'm afraid you have forgotten, the general has had a strange life since he was a child, and now he can stay in the military camp safely because of his wife at home." It's just that Master Xuanling has explained a lot before, so that Ben Jiang will stay with his wife at home as long as he has time. Today, Ben will notice that something is wrong, so he will prepare to go home early to accompany his wife. After saying this, Xu Shiqiu sighed again: "If you don't mind, Ben Jiang is willing to go to the banquet with you, but if Ben ......."

There is no need to finish speaking, as soon as Xu Shiqiu's words came out, the people who were originally surrounding Xu Shiqiu immediately retreated half a step back in fright.

During this time, Xu Shiqiu was so normal that they all forgot how terrifying his rumors were.

Seeing their movements, Xu Shiqiu understood that this group of people definitely did not really intersect with him, otherwise they would not have avoided this because of this uncertain thing.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiqiu continued: "It's really unfortunate today, Japan will set up a banquet in the best restaurant in the city to entertain you. After saying this, Xu Shiqiu took the opportunity to walk forward a few steps quickly, and then turned his head to them and said, "You don't have to send each other, it's better to stay away from Benjiang in the past two days." ”

Dropping these words, Xu Shiqiu didn't care what these people thought in their hearts, and strode directly forward, and when he walked to his own soldiers, he immediately took the reins of his horse, turned over on his horse, and left the barracks without looking back.

After Xu Shiqiu left, the group came back to their senses.

The long-bearded military general said: "Xu Shiqiu's words today, is it true or false?" They all knew Xu Shiqiu's bad luck, but they didn't see who he affected in the past few months, so they almost forgot about it today.

"Even if it's not true, be careful, after all, what happened to Xu Shiqiu at the beginning was not fake." After the long-faced military general said this, he sighed and continued: "This trick is still inappropriate, it really doesn't work, it's better for us to only use another method, and it is not appropriate to have too much contact with Xu Shiqiu." ”

As soon as the long-faced military general finished saying this, several other generals nodded one after another, agreeing to his proposal.

It's just that they didn't know that as soon as Xu Shiqiu left the barracks, he ordered him to go down and find out what this group of people had plans for today, except for wanting to take him to a restaurant in the city to drink, there were no other plans.

After ordering this, Xu Shiqiu didn't say much, rode directly on a horse, and led a few guards back to the mansion in Beijing.

As soon as Xu Shiqiu arrived at home, she heard Dong Shu say that Xu Yanzhu had returned home today, but she was reluctant to speak, and she had to wait until Xu Shiqiu came back before she was willing to say what she had discovered.

Hearing Dong Shu's words, Xu Shiqiu immediately said: "Since this is the case, then let's go to the main courtyard to see Yanzhu and listen to what happened." After saying this, Xu Shiqiu left and walked towards the main courtyard with Dong Shu.