Same day, same morning......

On the other side of the Qing Empire, in the courtyard of a relatively remote village in Qinzhou, Guangxi, Xu Wei sat with Zhang Qi and their brothers at a stone table for breakfast. They were enjoying the few foods on the stone table, because the food they had brought before was not very sufficient, not to mention that some time ago, in order to entertain Xu Wei's organization, they had only kept the amount of less food that had been maintained for less than a few days now.

They picked up the few dry corn cobs left on the table and put them to their mouths to chew on, while they seriously discussed a series of itinerary plans for leaving the place where they were staying in the future.

"Xu Wei, it's time for you to be everywhere. At this time, I don't know which of the brothers present at the time unintentionally made this unintentional voice that interrupted the heated discussion at that time, and also made Xu Wei instantly become very shy and quiet, his face became very red, and the air at this time seemed to condense for a few seconds... For nearly 1 minute, no one made any sound, and everyone, including Zhang Qi and Xu Wei, sat there stunned.

"Yes, Xu Wei, you don't seem to be young now, it should be time to find a better girl and make some preparations for your family and business in the future. Zhang Qi nodded and said earnestly.

At this time, Xu Wei was really a little flustered, causing his hand to accidentally touch the water cup in front of him, and shattered from the table to the ground, and the pants he was wearing were also wet with a large area of white water that was originally filled with the cup.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Xu Wei apologized, ignoring his already soaked pants, and immediately bent down to pick up the fragments of the water cup on the ground.

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about this for now, go back to your room and get a new pair of pants. Zhang Qi immediately walked over and motioned for Xu Wei to hurry away, and he came to help "clean up the mess".

Then Xu Wei immediately stood up and left the courtyard in a little panic.

Closing the door, Xu Wei took out one of the few pants that had been prepared for him from the closet in the room...... He took off his soaked pants while thinking about the scene and the sudden "greeting".

"What the hell am I doing? That guy just wanted to care about himself, and at that time, he had indeed been discussing the future itinerary before, which made everyone too serious, and that guy probably just wanted to adjust the tense atmosphere because of this, why was he so panicked at that time?" Xu Wei muttered to himself.

He smiled a little embarrassed, a little helplessly, and then put on a brand new pair of pants.

The capital, the reception hall of the prince's mansion...

After a sumptuous breakfast, the prince brought General Shen from the original table to the reception hall, and they sat down on two mahogany chairs separated from each other, and then the prince immediately ordered one of his attendants to make tea for them, and they began to chatter while they waited for the tea after the meal.

"General Shen, how long have you been working with me?" asked the prince.

"It's been almost 12 years, since the first emperor Aixin Jueluo Minning, that is, in the Daoguang period, I have worked with your prince to work hard for Chaotian. General Shen replied sincerely.

"Yes, I think there have been almost ten years of our two serving the Qing Empire together. The prince sighed a little: "A long time ago, at that time, you were really young and vigorous, Yushu Lingfeng, heroic and chic, I have heard a lot of middle-aged women want to make their daughters your wives, but it is a pity that you were busy with the affairs of the court at that time, and even now, and have not been idle to deal with your love life." ”

At this time, the prince felt a little sorry for the general in front of him who seemed to have been devastated for a long time and seemed to be more mature and stable.

"It's okay, Lord Wang, I am willing to follow the imperial court for the rest of my life, as long as my Qing Empire can regain its majesty, even if I have no partner in my life, I will die without regrets!" General Shen said excitedly.

At this time, the attendant handed the tea that had been brewed to the prince and General Shen, and they all took a few sips of tea after they got the water cups.

"Good tea, Lord Wang, who made this tea?" At this time, General Shen was attracted by the moist and refreshing tea, and couldn't help blurting out praise.

"This is not the tea that my adopted daughter Gu Ying made for the two of us all day long, because the reactionary rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion were doing anything in many places in my Qing territory, so I asked my entourage to take special care of her, and not let her go out of the capital for a few weeks without returning home as often as before. The prince shook his head helplessly as he spoke.

It is said that Gu Ying was originally just an abandoned baby, abandoned in a small alley in the capital, and one day was inadvertently discovered by the prince who was searching, and since then she has adopted her, originally planned to use her as her maid servant, but she is more and more beautiful, even if she does not wear makeup at all, her facial features, and face shape can be called exquisite and lovely, when she was less than 10 years old, she was already used by many ministers and guest officials who came to visit the prince and planned to take her for herself at a high price, but the little woman is active by nature, and she has been taken care of by the prince as an adopted daughter since she was a child, so she did not take those important ministers and guest officials in the court in her eyes at allUsually at that time, the prince wanted her to come out to meet those objective people, she just looked at the visitors with a very contemptuous look, and quickly left the prince's mansion as if she didn't care about others, those guests were deeply attracted by the extremely sweet and moving Gu Ying, and didn't take Gu Ying's seemingly impolite behavior seriously at all, and the prince could only stay next and shake his head helplessly Since Gu Ying has grown up, she has been 19 years old, but the prince asked her to learn the craft seriously, that is, making tea, Gu Ying also lived up to expectations, and learned to be able to make a good cup of tea, which can be regarded as satisfying the prince's own selfish desires。

"If General Shen doesn't dislike it, I want to introduce my adopted daughter to you, although Gu Ying is not my own, but I raised her as my own daughter when she was very young, and now she is an adult, and it is time to get married, if the general can be accommodating, I will immediately agree on a big day for you." The sudden words of the prince made General Shen, who had planned to drink a few more sips of good tea, stunned for a moment, and the teacup in his hand was held motionless in the air.

Within a few seconds, General Shen immediately placed the teacup on the wooden table beside him, and then knelt on his knees in front of the prince.

"I am very grateful to the prince for his great concern and the prince's heavy love, general, I will definitely not live up to the prince's love, and will never let the prince your daughter, my favorite wife in the future suffer a little grievance and pain, the emperor is above, if there is betrayal, I will die without a place to be buried!"

Seeing that General Shen knew how to be grateful and handle things like this, the prince was very pleased, and immediately stood up and helped the general up from the ground.

"The little girl should be in the back garden of the mansion now, and she must be messing around alone again, I will find someone to invite her to meet the general now, and discuss the marriage of the two of you with her by the way, general, what do you think?" asked General Shen with a smile.

"Lord Wang, what you say is what you say, I will never have any opinion. At this time, General Shen responded like a flower, but in his heart he was very eager to see the big beauty who had made him feel tempted very early.

"Steward Sun, you go to the back garden now to see if that guy is there, if you find her, let her come over to see the general immediately, no matter what method you use, you have to let him come to me!" The prince immediately ordered Steward Sun Fan, who was standing beside him at this time.

"Hey, Lord Wang, I'm going to find Grandma Gu. After saying that, Sun Fan immediately trotted out of the hall of the prince's mansion