74. Chapter 74
"What??I'm going to your fiefdom tomorrow?!" Su Jinbao's exclamation sounded in an elegant private room at the Shikai Hotel: "Haha, there are still more than ten days before the opening of the college, and it's okay to be idle, I'll go shopping with you!"
"I'm going too!"
"And me!"
As soon as Su Jinbao said that he wanted to follow, the others shouted one after another, and Du Long could only say helplessly: "I just personally arranged for people to go to take over the fiefdom, not to go to the mountains and rivers! You can go if you want to, but remember that the time is limited, and the road is so far away, I am afraid that you will have to hurry up! Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to return to the Royal Academy to report!"
"Cut! You truant king still cares if the report will be late?! It's okay to be a few days late, yesterday Tutor Zhao Yan and the old dean came to your engagement banquet, this kind of trivial matter is not a matter of your words to the princess!" Zeng Wan'er teased with a smile.
"That's it!" the others listened and coaxed, and at this point, the matter of bringing a large number of people to the fiefdom was almost a foregone conclusion, and a group of young people began to discuss the trip to Fengli County while eating!
Everyone has been chatting for a long time before they dispersed, each went home to prepare for tomorrow's trip, the men are good to say, a few girls want to go out of the door to get the consent of their families, everyone said that they will gather outside the south city gate tomorrow, subject to the hour, if you can't come in time, you should not participate in this trip!
Back at Du Mansion, Du Zhentian was not at home, so Du Long found his mother and said that he wanted to take advantage of the holiday to go to the fiefdom with a group of friends tomorrow.
"Boy, you have to have a trustworthy person come forward to take over the fiefdom, and you can't stay there for a long time, after all, you have to go back to the Royal Academy to take classes, do you want to find your mother and ask for some talents who can manage things?!" Zhou Ruoxue understood her son's intention on the spot, in fact, she didn't need him to mention it, she, a mother, had already thought of it for him.
"Hehe, it's worthy of a mother's mother, it's a little bit thorough!" Du Long slapped his ass without hesitation.
"Grease tongue!" Zhou Ruoxue scolded with a smile: "As early as Chinese New Year's Eve, I learned that you were going to be engaged to the princess, and at that time the mother and mother would consider this problem for you, and I will also help you find a candidate, what do you think of Fubo?!"
"Do you mean Fu Bo, the deputy steward of our Du Mansion?! I heard that he was brought by his mother from his mother's house, so he can naturally be trusted! I just don't know if Fu Bo is willing to rush all the way to Fengli County to take over that mess of things?!" Du Long's eyes lit up, obviously very satisfied with this Fu Bo.
"Fu Bo has been in your grandfather's fief for a few years, and he is very familiar with all the matters of the fief, so it is most appropriate to send him there, I mentioned this matter to him a few days ago, and Fu Bo agreed on the spot! After all, it is the chief steward of a fief, which is much better than being a deputy steward in our Du Mansion!" Zhou Ruoxue said with a wry smile.
Du Long immediately saw that his mother's expression was different, so he asked, "Isn't it very comfortable for Fu Bo to be this deputy steward in our Du Mansion?!"
"You little slippery head, nothing can escape your eyes!" Zhou Ruoxue shook her head and smiled bitterly: "That's right! You also know that the situation in our Du Mansion is more complicated, a large family is crowded together and there is no separation, Fu Bo is really not happy in our family! Therefore, as soon as he heard that he was asked to go to your fiefdom, he immediately agreed!"
"That's a good dare!" Du Long slapped his thigh and smiled: "Haha, God really helps me!" Mother, send a few more young and capable subordinates to Fu Bo, in short, I dare not guarantee anything else, this treatment is definitely more than twice as much as here, as long as people are loyal enough!"
In this way, the two of them selected the person on the spot, and Du Long ran to find his grandfather again, and as soon as he told him about the matter, Old Man Du immediately said: "I think it is! Ah Fu's loyalty is absolutely no problem! Grandpa will send Lao Ma to you again, and let him bring an elite team of 100 people with you!"
"Grandpa, you have to rely on Lao Ma to help you eat and live in retreat, and you also need a master to help you protect the Fa, and your grandson can't take him away!" Du Long refused on the spot.
"Stinky boy, I still know that I feel sorry for my grandfather!" Old man Du smiled with a relieved face: "Hehe, you can put a hundred hearts, with grandpa's decades of operation in the capital, will there be no people around you who can use it?! Besides, Lao Ma is only temporarily borrowing you for a few days, and when you come back to school, he will continue to follow me!"
"In that case, then the grandson will obey Grandpa's arrangement!" Du Long nodded in acceptance.
Early the next morning, Du Zhentian and his wife, plus Mr. Du and others personally sent Du Long and his party out of the house, Zhou Ruoxue took Du Long's hand and told her over and over again, before Du Long went out of the house to play for three or five days, she didn't feel strange, this time there was a kind of worried posture of a thousand miles of mother.
Obviously, the son has grown up and become sensible, and he has become a court colt again, and his weight in the eyes of his father and mother has also become much heavier!
After dealing with his mother's nagging, Du Long turned over and got on his horse, and after saying hello, he led more than 100 people and horses to rush straight to the south city gate.
In addition to Xia Qinglian, Du Caini, Su Jinbao, and Yuan Yu, there were also more than a dozen people led by Lao Ma, a master of martial arts, and Fu Bo, and finally the 100-person elite team, these people are all elite generals trained by Du Mansion!
More than 100 people rode horses and galloped, along the spacious main road of the capital, and arrived at the south gate in only half an hour.
Out of the South City Gate, I saw that there were already more than a dozen people waiting outside the gate, Yue Xiaoshan, Zeng Wan'er, Lin Shi, Xu Luyin, and even Yang Yunfeng, the San Lang of the Yang Family, also followed, they all brought one or two entourage guards to escort them, but Princess Huofeng and Liu Zixin had not yet arrived!
"I said brother! It's only been one night, and you've come with such a large group of people?!Haha, you really deserve to be the master of the dynasty!" Seeing Du Long leading a team of men and horses out of the city gate, Yue Xiaoshan patted his horse with a look of envy and greeted him.
"Let Brother Xiaoshan laugh!hehe!" Du Long smiled with the horsewhip in both hands, then glanced at Yang Yunfeng in the distance, turned his head to Du Caini and smiled: "Hehe, Sister Caini! Your flower messenger is also here! It can't be that you went to invite people last night, right?"
Du Caini blushed on the spot, glanced at him but didn't answer, waved her whip and slapped the horse towards Yang Yunfeng, and said softly: "Yunfeng! Why are you here?!"
"Hehe, I met Xiaoshan on the way home yesterday, and when I heard about your long-distance travel plans, I decided to go and have a good time together, anyway, I have nothing to do when I am idle after the New Year!" Yang Yunfeng explained the reason why he would appear here.
Only then did Du Long and the others understand how he, an unplanned person, could appear here, and it was better to dare to come sooner rather than just in time!
"Wan'er, you're so early! Hehe!" Su Jinbao had already targeted Zeng Wan'er, a talented girl, and slapped his horse and greeted her.
Zeng Wan'er was speechless about his cheeky character, gave him a blank look, but ignored him, pretended to chat with Lin Shi and Xu Luyin on the side, and hung Su Huobao directly there!
Fortunately, a hurried sound of horses' hooves relieved him and attracted everyone's attention!
I saw Princess Huofeng leading an elite palace guard to rush out of the south city gate, she was dressed in fiery red, riding on a blood-red war horse, mixed up and down neatly, even people and horses gave people a heroic feeling, the whole person appeared in everyone's sight like a ball of fire!
"Ahh
"Except for you, Zixin didn't come!" Du Caini said loudly.
"Zixin?!Her father is a Chinese book order, and he has always been strict, so he probably won't let him out!" Princess Huofeng replied a little depressedly, and after two sentences, her war horse had already run to Du Long.
The result was really guessed by her, everyone waited until the hour and did not see Liu Zixin appear, and after waiting for another half an hour, they could only leave as a team, all the way along the official road to the southwest quickly.
This pedestrian galloped quite conspicuously on the official road, and many pedestrians along the way avoided it, curiously watching them pass by majestically at high speed, in order to hurry, Du Long and others had to move forward so brazenly.
There is no way, from the capital to Fengli County, it is necessary to pass through the boundary of the two state capitals, a total of more than a thousand miles, even if the war horses in this world are very strong, it will take two or three days to reach the destination in a hurry!
If they rely on walking, it will take more than ten days to reach their destination, and they don't have so much effort to waste on the road, after all, they have to rush back to the academy to report after ten days!
A group of more than 200 people went out of the capital boundary, and the scenery along the way was beautiful, after all, the country had been peaceful for so many years, and the people under its rule lived and worked in peace and contentment, and there was a peaceful natural landscape everywhere.
After having lunch in a small town on the way, they took a short rest, and after feeding the horses enough to drink water and fodder, they continued to hurry up, and in the afternoon they basically crossed the city without entering, and went directly around the city, and ran more than 200 miles to the southwest, and watched the sun set, and everyone began to prepare to find a place to rest and settle tonight.
I never thought that Du Long and the others had no experience and missed a city where they could have gone in to rest, and seeing that it was getting dark, they didn't want to go back and run twenty or thirty miles back to that city.
The group gathered together to spread out the map, discussed for a while, and then came to a decision, there is a village in front of here, just in time to rest there for the night!