Mrs. Deng is a widow, and she is still a pretty widow who is only three years older than Zhang Xi.

Deng Ai followed Zhang Xi to Jiangxia, this is a disciple following the teacher, which is reasonable. She went with a widow, what's the matter?!

Besides, when the village elder told Zhang Xi about the matchmaker, Mrs. Deng was not a little embarrassed when she heard about it.

That's why Mrs. Deng blushed.

In practice, even if these concerns are put aside, Mrs. Deng is reluctant to leave Xinye.

Mainly because of the ownership of the Shinno Deng family.

She is in Xinye, as the widow of the former head of the Deng family, to keep this family business for her son, and when Deng Ai returns from school in the future, she can directly inherit the position of the head of the Deng family.

Although the current Xinye Deng family has no assets left, this is what her husband left to her and her son, even if there is only one grass house, Mrs. Deng does not want to give it up easily.

But if she followed Deng Ai to Jiangxia, then these assets left in Xinye might not be anyone's.

At least the village elder will definitely take the title deeds of these assets from himself in the name of managing on his behalf, and it is hard to say whether he can get them back when Deng Ai comes back from his studies.

This is the main reason why Mrs. Deng can't leave Xinye and go to Jiangxia.

Of course, it is impossible for Mrs. Deng to tell the truth to Zhang Xi, this is a family matter of the Deng family, and it has nothing to do with Zhang Xi.

Mrs. Deng can only find a past statement to hint at Zhang Xi.

"It's not that the little woman doesn't want to." Mrs. Deng thought for a while and said to Zhang Xi, "It's just that the little woman has never been far away, and her husband's grave is here, so it is inconvenient to travel far every year, so please forgive me." ”

Hawkers, what I said, high-sounding, Xiao Deng Ai believed it anyway, with a look of loss.

Zhang Xi heard some doorways, and then wondered in his heart whether he should intervene in this matter.

This is the family matter of the Deng family, Zhang Xi is not qualified to say anything, even if he hears the meaning of Mrs. Deng's words, he should not talk too much.

But. This is Deng Ai.

Even if he takes Deng Ai away now, if Cao's army goes south and Xinye falls in the future, Mrs. Deng will still be migrated to Runan by Cao Cao, so Deng Ai will not be in a hurry to go home.

Isn't this back to the original line of history?

Although Zhang Xi feels that with his own existence, Ji Han's future fate may not go to the old path, but what if?!

After pondering for a while, Zhang Xi decided that it would be better to take Xiao Deng Ai away and have a good talk with Mrs. Deng.

Xiao Deng Ai is gone, but the housekeeper is still there, but Zhang Xi doesn't need to avoid the existence of this person, and speaks directly.

"Madame asked Elle to worship me as a teacher, what is the so-called matter, Xi has a slight guess. It's just that Mrs. thinks that after Ai'er goes to Jiangxia with me, Mrs. stays in Xinye, can she really keep this family business?! ”

Don't talk nonsense anymore, just point to the topic.

Deng Ai is by Mrs. Deng's side, and the village elders will have some scruples, after all, Deng Ai's surname is Deng and he is the son of the previous head of the family.

But if Deng Ai is not by Mrs. Deng's side, and he is far away in Jiangxia in this year, what will happen, it's normal, right?!

"If Mrs. follows Ai'er to Jiangxia, one, can be all Ai'er's name of benevolence and filial piety, and two, even if she loses her family business for a while, when Ai'er completes her studies, she will be able to spread her name all over the world, with the name of Liu Zhijun, with Ai'er's ability, how dare the village elder not return the family business?!"

This so-called "saving land and losing people, people and land are lost, saving people and losing land, people and land are gained". ”

In order to convince Mrs. Deng, Zhang Xi even brought out such a simple and clear reason for the words of the great man, Zhang Xi didn't believe that Mrs. Deng didn't understand.

Mrs. Deng hesitated for a long time and never responded.

Zhang Xi saw that it was not a problem to wait like this, so he could only get up and say goodbye, and let Mrs. Deng think slowly.

In the next few days, Zhang Xi was packing up his salute and arranging for Xiao Qibao to go shopping on the street, after all, Xinye is quite far from Jiangxia, and he has to prepare for this journey.

Then I have to go to General Zuo's Mansion often, on the one hand, Liu Bei often asks Zhang Xi to contact feelings, and on the other hand, this is to discuss with Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu to see if there is anything missing.

After seven or eight days of preparation, Zhang Xi was finally about to set off.

And Zhang Xi's team, from the Zhang Xi family at the beginning, has now become two families.

Mrs. Deng finally figured it out and decided to accompany Deng Ai to Jiangxia. The village elder smiled, like a chrysanthemum, and personally sent it to the entrance of the village.

Of course, Mrs. Deng nominally went to Jiangxia to visit relatives, and she and Zhang Xi just happened to be on the way, not together. You have to pay attention to the impact.

Although it is not new for widows to remarry these days, Mrs. Deng still wants Deng Ai to come back to inherit the family business, and it is better to avoid talking about it.

As for Zhang Xi's family, it is Zhang Xi, Xiao Qibao, plus Xiao Qi and Xiaoba, a total of four people.

Of course, there is also Kou Feng, which is barely half of this Erha.

Erha is very unhappy now because he has been demoted.

Of course, it was impossible for Liu Bei to directly send Zhang Xi to take office under his own banner, so Kou Feng temporarily left his military post and led a 150-person escort team to escort Zhang Xi to Jiangxia as the captain of the guard.

But three days before leaving, Kou Feng was demoted, from the main position of the captain of the guard, to the deputy captain.

Now the captain of this escort team is a big man with a height of more than eight feet.

Kou Feng was very unconvinced, but it was useless, he couldn't beat this big man.

Zhang Xi was also very unhappy, because this big man was called Wei Yan.

Zhang Xi doesn't understand, what did the lord send this bastard with negative EQ for?!

Although let's say it, with Wei Yan leading the troops, it does make people feel more stable than Kou Feng leading the troops.

But we don't have a good relationship, my lord, don't you know?!

Fortunately, Wei Yan didn't show Zhang Xi's face this time, but he silently undertook the escort task with a black face, and even listened to Zhang Xi about the camping and rest arrangements along the way, which made Zhang Xi feel a lot more at ease.

After a long journey of more than ten days, Zhang Xi and his party finally arrived at Xiling County, the seat of Jiangxia.

Xiling County was the seat of Jiangxia in the former Han Dynasty, and when Huang Zu was there, Xiling County was run vividly, the height of the city, the style, Zhang Xi looked much stronger than the small city of Xinye.

After Zhang Xi arrived in Xiling County, he first asked Wei Yan and others to wait outside the city, and then entered the city by himself and went to see Liu Qi with Liu Bei's letter of recommendation.

Liu Qi was in his Taishou Mansion at this time, and when he heard that Zhang Xi was coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

It's not that Liu Qi has heard of Zhang Xi's name, in fact, Liu Bei has already written to Liu Qi to explain that Zhang Xi will go to see Liu Qi in the name of carrying Xiangyong to Liu Qi, and Liu Qi is doing this to go through the motions, and by the way, establish his attitude as a corporal of courtesy.

After entering the Taishou Mansion, Zhang Xi handed over Liu Bei's letter, Liu Qi laughed after reading it, chatted with Zhang Xi for a while, and asked his subordinates to contact Wei Yan and others to enter the city, so that they could make arrangements.

As for Zhang Xi, Liu Qi appointed Zhang Xi as the governor of Jiangxia County on the spot.

Because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as soon as the post supervision is mentioned, the image of a dead fat man who failed to ask for bribes and was tied by Zhang Fei with a whip appeared in everyone's minds. Zhang Xi's first reaction was like this.

A superintendent, Zhang Fei can smoke it casually, and he feels okay after smoking. This gives the illusion that the post superintendent is not an important position.

But in fact, the post governor is a military attache of a county, responsible for the military affairs of the entire county, and theoretically speaking, it is second only to the position of Taishou and Juncheng.

In the Romance Line, the reason why the post supervisor asked Liu Bei for bribes was to thoroughly investigate the behavior of taking the lead in the Yellow Turban Uprising, which was a military affair, so the post supervisor went to inspect it.

Therefore, the post superintendent is really not a petty official, if you exaggerate and say that it is the third-in-command of a county, no one will refute you.

Liu Qi first appointed Zhang Xi as the post supervisor to take charge of the military affairs of Jiangxia County, and then set up a dinner party to introduce Zhang Xi to Jiangxia civil and military officials.

At the banquet, Zhang Xi met Su Fei, Huang Jie, Chen Zhi and the new Jiangxia County Commander Chen Zhen.

When Zhang Xi heard Liu Qi introduce that Chen Zhen was Jiangxia Juncheng, he was taken aback, after all, Chen Zhen was still known to Zhang Xi, Liu Bei's old friend.

I heard that Chen Zhen hadn't been in Jiangxia for long, and he had served as Jiangxia's deputy as soon as he came. Zhang Xi seemed to understand something.

When Liu Bei told Zhang Xi about coming to Jiangxia, he said that Liu Qi asked Liu Bei for two talents, one was a government talent and the other was a military training talent.

And Zhang Xi should belong to the military training talent, so the government talent should be this Chen Zhen.

Although Chen Zhen and Liu Bei have a good relationship, and the two met when they were under Yuan Shao's account, on the surface, Chen Zhen and Liu Bei really have nothing to do with each other.

Chen Zhen is a native of Nanyang and is a standard Jingzhou native scholar.

He had been working for Yuan Shao before, and as Yuan Shao's staff, this had nothing to do with Liu Bei.

Now that Yuan Shao is defeated, Chen Zhen has returned to Jingzhou, as a celebrity, Liu Qi has recruited him to be the commander of Jiangxia County, which is completely reasonable and logical.

Not to mention Huang Jie, Su Fei and others, even if Liu Biao knew, he would only say that Liu Qi did the right thing this time, and invited a capable celebrity to help him deal with government affairs.

Zhang Xi greeted Chen Zhen, but when the two looked at each other, they both saw the banter in each other's eyes, and they both guessed each other's identities.

Sometimes Zhang Xi is really worried about Liu Qi's IQ.

You say that you are a dignified son of Jingzhou Mu, a dignified Jiangxia Taishou. Government affairs are handled by Liu Bei's people, military affairs are handled by Liu Bei's people, and even the people who lead the troops to fight are sent by Liu Bei.

Aren't you afraid that one day, you will die in bed for no apparent reason?!

In this way, I still fantasize about taking over Liu Biao to govern Jingzhou every day, no wonder in the end, Liu Biao and the Jingzhou family did not choose you as the successor.

This is too lacking.

A person like Liu Qi is good to be born in the world, but he is also a rich man by relying on his family background.

Can be born in troubled times. Alas, it's a pity.

(End of chapter)