Chapter 10: Xiling Qiao's Clan

Since the arrival of the new county order in Yuhan County, the whole county has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the most talked about is that the county order Zhou came out to ride a donkey and lead the people in the county to reclaim wasteland around the county.

The image of the diagonal donkey around has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people, and the name of the donkey county order does not know when it will go away.

On the other hand, Zhou Cheng led the servants to exterminate one cottage after another, and the large and small cottages that were originally scattered and sweaty continued to be destroyed, and finally even those remnants of Shanyue, who lived in the mountains and only disobeyed the teachings, were also beaten and destroyed.

Soon, there were no more bandits and people in Yuhan County, and Wang An, the county lieutenant, praised Zhou Cheng as omnipotent in heaven and earth.

The people of Yuhan County also vaguely know that there is a capable person in the county monarch's mansion to assist, this person is called 'Mr. Cheng', it is rumored that he can spit out sword pills, and the flying sword kills people thousands of miles away, and a sword can split mountains and cut mountains.

It has been more than three months since Zhou took office as the commander of Yuhan County. Now the county is peaceful, there is no trace of thieves, and there are thousands of acres of reclaimed fields, and they have all been sown, just waiting for the harvest in a few months, and everything in Yuhan County is developing in a good direction.

This night, Zhou Di was still alone, dealing with official documents in the study, and since the appearance of the white star, Zhou Di has not revealed his aisle magic in front of people.

"Knock knock..."The wooden door of the study made a sound, but someone was knocking outside.

"Come in. Zhou was still burying his head, although he didn't open the door, he also sensed that it was Zhou Cheng outside the house.

Zhou Cheng pushed open the door and walked gently to the desk in Zhou, standing on the side but not speaking.

After a while, after Zhou finished processing the last document and putting it together, he asked, "It's so late, what is the matter with Brother Cheng looking for me?"

In the past half a month, Yu Khan's government affairs have been on the right track, and there is no cottage that needs Zhou Cheng's help, during this time he has been cultivating in the backyard, sometimes for a few days at a time.

Seeing that he was so keen on cultivating, he didn't arrange anything for him anymore, and the two hadn't seen each other for a few days.

"Now Yu Khan's government affairs are in order, and the reputation of the lord is also rising. There is indeed something today, and my subordinates have to say!" Zhou Cheng bowed to Zhou with a serious expression, looking extremely solemn.

"Why do you want you to be so formal?" Zhou Chu also became interested, and looked at Zhou Cheng with great interest and asked.

"When the old lord was still alive, he set a family affair for the lord. Xiling Qiao's family, there is a female Yuwei, who is your fiancée. At that time, the lord excused himself for various reasons, so that the marriage date was postponed again and again, and then the old lord passed away, and this delay was another three years. Now Miss Yuwei is also twenty-three.... The subordinates shouldn't have said much, but what the lord did in this matter is really inappropriate..."Zhou Cheng has never spoken to Zhou Zhi so seriously, and there is even a faint hint of blame in his words.

It's no wonder that Zhou Cheng is like this, just because Zhou is almost thirty years old, and he hasn't started a family at such an age in this era, which is simply a big rebellion. And Qiao Yuwei, Zhou's fiancée, is now twenty-three years old, and a woman of this age is not married, Qiao Yuwei has actually endured too many gossip.

Zhou Cheng conceived for the Zhou family, and Zhou's marriage was Zhou Yi's heart disease, and now it is also Zhou Cheng's heart disease. In the first two years, it was good to say that Zhou Yi kept filial piety, but now that the period of filial piety has expired, Zhou has also come out, and they have gained a firm foothold in Yu Khan, and if they don't marry Qiao Yuwei, they really can't say anything.

And the Xiling Qiao family is not an ordinary family, and there are two big and small Qiao in its clan, which can be regarded as a real royal family.

Qiao's beauty is also recognized by the world, and Zhou Yi was also a generation of capable ministers in Soochow back then, so he asked for a fiancée like Qiao Yuwei for Zhou. But by chance, their marriage has been delayed again and again, and it has been delayed to this unprecedented age.

Zhou Zhiyan's face also changed, and after a long time, he sighed and said: "There is indeed such a thing, Qiao's family is a big family, I have heard that Qiao Yuwei is also a talented woman in the world, proficient in poetry and articles, her talent is far and wide, and there is an endless stream of suitors." This marriage has been delayed for seven or eight years, but I am disappointed by her....."

"The subordinates implore the lord to go to Xiling as soon as possible and marry Miss Qiao's family. Zhou Cheng bowed deeply to Zhou Chu and said, in his eyes, everything now is not as important as getting Zhou Chu married.

"It's a pity.... Yu Khan is nearly a thousand miles away from Xiling. Now that I am the commander of Yuhan County, I can't leave this place without permission. Zhou also showed guilt for Qiao Yuwei, but he also had to abide by the rules of the imperial court, and now he was a little embarrassed.

"Otherwise, now I am also a person with an official position, and Yu Wei seems to be just a side branch of Qiao's family. Brother Cheng will hold my handwritten letter and marry Miss Yuwei on my behalf, okay?" Zhou Chu thought for a while, and then continued, but he came up with a compromise solution.

In this era, the road is inconvenient, and some families marry wives, but they do not necessarily have to be greeted by the groom in person, especially those young and promising young high-ranking officials and generals. They can assign their cronies to welcome their relatives at will, and there are even examples of the woman's mother's family taking the initiative to send the woman to marry and walking thousands of miles to her husband's house.

"The lord commanded, and the subordinates will live up to the trust. Zhou Cheng also felt that this was feasible, so he nodded and agreed.

"I'm going to write a letter, and this time when you exterminated those cottages, you got a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, choose more to bring, we can't be bad at etiquette. Zhou Chu picked up the pen and said, and continued to instruct while starting to write the letter.

"Don't worry," Zhou Cheng nodded solemnly.

This matter of welcoming relatives is naturally also the face of the Zhou family, once it is related to the Zhou family, no matter how big or small, Zhou Cheng is very concerned.

"In addition.... If Qiao's wants to dissolve this marriage contract, or Miss Yu Wei also belongs to another family, you can dissolve this marriage contract on my behalf. You should have kept the marriage contract as well, right?"

"This.... The marriage contract has indeed been collected by the subordinates for the lord, but if the marriage contract is really dissolved, where is the face of the Zhou family?" Zhou Cheng showed some reluctance to this.

"Alas, it's that we're sorry for others in front, and these faces don't fight!" In this kind of thing, Zhou Cheng is more open-minded than Zhou Cheng.

Zhou Cheng is the kind of person, he doesn't care about himself, but once it is related to Zhou's face and reputation, he becomes a tendon.

"What's so reluctant about this? Besides, if I marry a wife and not you, take it as my command. Is this okay?" Zhou Chu saw that Zhou Cheng was very reluctant, and said with a deliberate straight face.

"Subordinates obey!" Zhou Cheng bowed his head respectfully and did not argue again.

After a while, Zhou Cheng retired, and Zhou Cheng meditated and rested directly in the room.

In the second half of the night, Zhou suddenly opened his eyes, shook his head helplessly, and then muttered to himself: "Brother Cheng is really sincere..... In such a hurry, he went to Xiling. ”

Sure enough, under the dark night sky, a black shadow jumped and appeared on the beam of the county office, and then a few flashes went towards the outside of the city.

This black shadow is naturally Zhou Cheng who has cleaned up properly, anyway, he doesn't need to rest, in his opinion, if he goes to Xiling a moment earlier, he will be able to welcome back Qiao Yuwei a moment earlier.

Yu Khan was thousands of miles away from Xiling, but Zhou Cheng didn't even ride a donkey this time, but kept using the power of Neidan and ran all the way to Xiling.

Early on the morning of the third day, he appeared outside Xiling City.

And this day and two nights of travel, Zhou Cheng stimulated the power of Neidan, and consumed nearly a year of longevity.

Outside Xiling City, Zhou Cheng had already changed into a suit. The decent robe has silk thread embroidery lace, and the hair is tied with a hosta on the top of the head, and the whole person looks stable and decent, without losing the elegant demeanor.

found the location of Qiao's mansion, and Zhou Cheng directly sent the name post, explaining his intention. The porter did not embarrass him, and respectfully welcomed him into Qiao's mansion.

In the lobby, Zhou Cheng sat in the guest seat, drinking the fragrant tea served by the maid. But none of the people in charge of Qiao's Mansion have not arrived.

The tea was added one after another, and Zhou Cheng gradually felt that something was wrong, and he didn't know how to do it at this time, it was obvious that Qiao Fu was embarrassing himself.

Originally, Zhou Cheng still had some scruples, thinking that this was Zhou's fiancée's maiden family after all, and he didn't use Shen Nian to snoop at will.

However, just as Zhou Cheng's divine thoughts were about to come out of his body, a middle-aged man about forty years old outside the main hall walked in surrounded by several servants.

"I'm sorry, I'm really busy with official business, so I've kept my husband waiting for a long time!" said the middle-aged man as he walked, his tone still a little sorry.

"Under Qiao Heng, is this Mr. Cheng?" The middle-aged man Qiao Heng is Qiao Yuwei's father. He reported his name and asked Zhou Cheng again, and seemed to know some about Zhou Cheng.

"Don't dare to be it, Zhou Cheng does things for my father-in-law, and I don't dare to be called a gentleman. Zhou Cheng hurriedly got up and returned the salute, he didn't know what medicine was sold in this Qiao Heng gourd, so he could only answer according to the number of courtesies.

"Hehe, Yu Khan for two weeks, now it is also famous, and it is rumored that Mr. is even more able to fly to the sky and the earth, and spit out flying swords. Qiao Heng said with a smile.

Zhou Cheng didn't expect that even Xiling knew the name of himself and Zhou, and it was no secret that Zhou Cheng had Taoist powers.

However, Zhou Cheng thought too much, not that he and Zhou Chu really had such a big reputation, but because Zhou Cheng had a marriage contract with Qiao's after all, so Qiao Heng had always been more concerned about the news about Zhou.

And because Zhou Cheng has never really shown his magical powers in front of people, the world doesn't know that he is different, they only think that Zhou Chu is still a gentleman, and Zhou Cheng is the person who helps Zhou Chu behind the scenes.

"These are all rumors, and I came this time to marry Miss Yuwei on behalf of my father-in-law. Zhou Qiao's two families had a marriage contract, but they were delayed because of some things a few years ago, which was the marriage contract made by Zhou Qiao and his family that year. Zhou Cheng responded lightly, and then solemnly took out the marriage contract, and held it up with both hands in front of Qiao Heng's eyes.

"Oh, you came here for the marriage contract, this is really unfortunate....." Qiao Heng glanced at the marriage contract in Zhou Cheng's hand, and looked at Zhou Cheng with great meaning.