Five days later, on April 14, He Angelica, who had run away from home after drinking Meng Po soup, was still not found. Meng Xuan searched the nunnery within a radius of 100 miles, but he couldn't find the person he was looking for.

I didn't get the news I wanted, but the news I didn't want to hear came one after another - there were small groups of wandering aliens in Qingzhou, who surrounded the prefect's yamen, and the government soldiers were evil and killed each other, and those aliens captured the Qingzhou prefect Wang Qi as a hostage, gave orders, and dispatched money and food, and the situation in Qingzhou was chaotic and became an independent kingdom. When the saint heard this, he was furious and wanted to send troops to suppress it, and the preferred general was Li Jinglong, who asked him to personally lead 30,000 garrison soldiers from Huguang and Shaanxi to Qingzhou to quell the rebellion.

That Li Jinglong is the son of Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Li Wenzhong, who was named the Duke of Cao Guo by his father, he is in his early thirties, although he was born in a family of military generals, but he is an out-and-out gentleman, since he was called to Beijing, he was stumped by the gentle township of Yingtianfu, where he was willing to go to such a dangerous expedition, no matter how he thought about it, this is a thankless, and there is no oil and water to fish "Pingxi Generalissimo".

So he had an idea, recommended the "Eleven Tigers of the Meng Family", and said to the emperor respectfully that there was the virtue of "letting the virtuous" in ancient times, and he was entrusted with a heavy task by the emperor's grace, and he wanted to mention the most suitable candidate for Pingxi. That Baoding Hou Mengshan has four sons-in-law, seven concubines, the oldest thirty, the youngest twelve, all of them are a hundred pioneer generals, among which the seventh son Meng Xuan has the highest talent, there are handsome people who dispatch troops, and they have been trained by Baoding Hou for many years, and they are together for this expedition.

The emperor pondered for a long time and summoned Mengshan, the Marquis of Baoding, who had returned to Beijing to report on his work for a year, to enter the palace.

It is said that last month, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang went out on patrol to inspect disaster relief matters, but encountered assassins in Qingyuan in Yangzhou. Zhu Yuanzhang had seen the assassin's face at least twice, and he still had a vague impression, although the assassin shouted before he died, "His Royal Highness King Yan, your great kindness, I will repay it in the next life!" But old Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that this face had been seen under the command of his seventeenth son, Zhu Quan! It turned out to be Old Seventeen, and it turned out to be him!

And the assassin did not assassinate the holy driver, but Han Fang, the son of the prefect Han Fei. That Han Fang, without his father's permission, secretly gathered a team of government soldiers, and went to the rich area on the outskirts of the city to "scrape the rich" and forcibly collect cheap grain. Don't look for other homes, just find a clear garden. According to Meng Xuan's concubine He Shiyan, Qingyuan was the title deed that her husband Meng Xuan personally went to complete. That is to say, Han Fang knew that this garden belonged to the Meng family, and it belonged to the category of knowing that there were tigers in the mountains and preferring to go to the tiger mountains, so he made a special trip to bring troops to find fault.

Now that Han Fang has been killed, his purpose for doing this is no longer known, but the black hand of the mastermind of this incident is aimed at the Meng family, which is reused by the emperor's trust. Once something makes a fuss, once the Meng family is detained, and the emperor is old and faint, and he disposes of the Meng family with partial listening, who will be the next target of the masterminds behind the scenes?

Thinking of this, Lao Zhu Yuanzhang sweated on his back, and no longer inspected the distribution of food for the victims, combined with the two Tang newspapers submitted by Lu Jiangbei from the south, it is not difficult to see that some of the princes already thought that he died too slowly, and he couldn't wait for him Lao Tzu to swallow his breath and secretly make small moves! And it's not just one or two! Okay, it's really worthy of his Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, all of them are eagles with lofty aspirations!

Zhu Yuanzhang thought in his heart, although the assassin's matter has nothing to do with King Yan, but the military power in the hands of the fourth is too heavy, and among the vassal kings, except for him, he is the seventeenth. The words shouted by the assassin before his death may not reach the ears of the fourth child, and his old man must do something to appease the fourth child, Zhu Di.

At that time, he thought of these things in Qingyuan, Meng He's service stood in front, and the words of the answer were quite in line with his heart, and he heard that the matter of her distributing grain to the hungry people was rumored to have a certain influence, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately decided to match the bridge, so that the daughter-in-law of the Meng family recognized Zhu Di as her father, on the one hand, it could reassure Zhu Di's heart, on the other hand, the Meng family and Zhu Di became in-laws, and in the future, the soldiers in Zhu Di's hands were transferred to the Meng family station in Shanhaiguan, so it was easy to find an explanation.

After the holy driver returned to Beijing, he heard that the imperial city was not very peaceful, and Meng Shangang suppressed two things that had not yet surfaced. Zhu Yuanzhang had the intention to raise the Meng family and deter those tigers, leopards and jackals, so he promoted Meng Shan's title from Baoding Bo to Baoding Marquis by rewarding him for teaching a good daughter-in-law, the county lord of Qingning.

Meng Shan understood the emperor's intentions, but he still accepted the affection of the county lord of Qingning, and specially asked the family who came from Yangzhou about the situation of the county lord of Qingning. The family was arranged by Meng Xuan, and only said good things about He Angelica, saying that it was Lu Jiangbei's niece, because she was young and married outside, so she was temporarily accepted as a concubine.

Meng Shan was very satisfied after hearing this, coupled with the relationship between King Yan, although the He family was only a daughter who recognized him halfway, but the words "the daughter of King Yan is a concubine in the Meng family" are not elegant to hear, so he intends to let Meng Xuan Ming Media marry once, and the ceremony that should be made up is complete, so that He can be Xuan'er's main room.

can take this decision to his wife Su Shi, but Su Shi has a different opinion, saying that the private hired outside is also raised into the main room, wouldn't it set a bad example for Xuan'er's brothers who have not married, one of them; Second, the niece of the Lu family entered the door of the Meng family, only let her be a concubine, and turned around to recognize King Yan as her father, and the Meng family immediately straightened her.

Meng Shan was silent after hearing this, knowing that his wife's reasons were all "unwarranted" possibilities, "maybe" bring a bad influence on the pure goodness of other children, and "maybe" be gossiped about. And this He family is not Xuan'er's outer room, it is a good family woman who was a matchmaker for Xuan'er in Yangzhou a few months ago, and the elders and matchmakers are all available, and there is no such alarmism as Mrs. Su said.

However, Meng Shan understands Mrs. Niang's intentions, Xiao Qi is Mrs. 's most beloved son, Xiao Qi's wife, of course she wants to check it herself, if she doesn't care about Qi and let them operate internally, Mrs. She is afraid that she will be unhappy for more than half a year. Finding a good woman for a few sons has been her greatest pleasure in recent years, and the entire Meng family, who dares to take it away?

So Meng Shan made some plans, first carried the Qingning county lord to make Xiao Qi's side room, asked the family to send a message to Yangzhou, and invited her to come to the capital in the summer to escape the summer and eat the melons and fruits here, implying that the mother-in-law would be the daughter-in-law. And the best candidate in Mrs. Su's heart does not belong to the county lord of Qingning, a woman who has stumbled Xiao Qi in Yangzhou for nearly half a year and doesn't even touch the serious family, no matter how she thinks about it, she looks a little foxy. And the lord's title has been upgraded by one level, and there is also the credit of the county lord of Qingning, if she is raised to be the seventh grandmother for this, it is inevitable that she will be used to being proud and disobedient to her elders.

Therefore, Mrs. Su immediately made a decision and called on the most popular matchmakers in the capital, asking them to pay attention to the good daughters of each family.

In ten days, three families were really picked out, Mrs. Su compared the portraits handed by the female family, listened to the matchmaker's tongue and lotus, and couldn't help but be moved, and was hesitating whether to hire directly, or wait for Xiaoqi to go home and pick it herself, whether it is a long-faced one that looks pleasing to the eye, or a round-faced one that looks cute, or all three, and hire them together to add a little popularity to Qifang. She hasn't made up her mind here, and a holy decree has been sent from the palace, which is received by the old man Meng Shan, and it is the emperor's holy decree that Meng Xuan, Meng Xian, and Meng Qi transfer the garrison soldiers from Huguang and Shaanxi to Qingzhou to quell the chaos.

After the old man accepted the order, he went to Mrs. Su's place, and there was no joy on his face, so he shook his head and sighed again and again. Mrs. Su is very strange, isn't it a good thing that the emperor reuses the children of the Meng family? Isn't he happy that Xuan'er has the opportunity to take charge of the handsome seal? Is he worried about his son's safety? It's impossible, in the past, Xuan'er and a few of them fought a lot of tough battles, but this time I heard that it was just a small group of rebels of less than a thousand people, and it was very easy to hear it, why did the lord have such a solemn face?

Meng Shan wanted to speak and stopped, and finally only called the deputy general Wen Yuan and asked him to follow the second son, Meng Qi, and go to Huguang to transfer troops with the holy decree. Meng Qi is also a concubine, twenty-three years old this year, but his biological mother died early, is the first son raised by Mrs. Su, mother and son have a deep relationship, so Meng Qi came to kowtow to Mrs. Su, Mrs. Su told him not to be impatient, slow things are round, and when he sees his seventh brother, he also tells Xiao Qi like this. When Mrs. Su saw the old man get up and go to change his clothes, she whispered a few words to Meng Qi, who respectfully remembered it and retreated.

Since receiving the holy decree, Mrs. Su has not been very happy to see the master, and she has no mood to find a main room for Xiao Qi, so she temporarily put the matter on hold, hoping to hear the news of Qingzhou's victory as soon as possible, and widen the heart of the master and her.

Before Meng Xuan went north from Yangzhou, although he was specifically looking for He Angelica, who disappeared with Liao Qing'er, he reported to his family that he was going on a study tour, and the people who served around him also reported on the fifth day to send a letter to Meng's house to tell the old lady their whereabouts. Therefore, the holy decree to Meng Xuan Qingzhou to quell the chaos was transmitted to Luzhou the next day, and it also came with a letter from the old man Meng Shan, telling Meng Xuan to leave for Qingzhou immediately, no need to go back to the south, and the matter of transferring troops was all handed over to his second brother Meng Qi to do.

When Meng Xuan heard about these court events, it was the evening of April 14, when he was holding the lamp, and he had just recovered from the fifty-fifth temple.

He secretly regretted giving He Angelica the fourth uncle's Laoshzi medicine, and he had already repented of a whole intestine. The fourth uncle is really good at deceiving people, saying that after washing away her memory, she will fall in love with the first man she sees when she opens her eyes, and from then on she will only follow him wholeheartedly. So after feeding her medicine, he guarded her inch by inch, and bathed himself evenly, applied grease and powder, and dressed up so that her love could be more intense.

Who knew that the fourth uncle was a liar, after Qing'er woke up, she opened her pair of Qinglingling's autumn eyes, and saw his smiling big face close at hand, not only was he not fascinated, but he was also so frightened that he screamed and slurped. He loved her in every way, but she wrapped a burden and left the house the next day, which shows that Meng Po soup is a bad medicine, and it can be seen that the fourth uncle cheated him and took away his Qing'er.

Regret the regret, regret the late!