Chapter 451: Extremely perfunctory
In the next half a month, Ling Rongjin completed all the procedures for the engagement, and he was just about to get married. Then, Ling Rongjin's Prince Hejin and Bruce Dodge, with a large group of entourage, followed the envoys of the Crow Country, rode on the road, and went to the Crow Country on behalf of the Qing Dynasty.
I don't know how long it took, in the evening of this day, Tao Ziyun accompanied Liang Zhangju and Zhu Shiyan, who came to visit the door, to drink tea in the hall. Their wife, and Tao Ziyun's daughter-in-law, said intimate things in the room that the female companions only said when they were together.
Tao Ziyun was surprised to find that Ling Rongjin had returned to China!
Ling Rongjin hurriedly walked into the hall and shouted to Tao Ziyun: "Master Tao, take me to see your wife!"
Liang Zhangju said to Ling Rongjin with a stern expression: "Lord Ling, you are too reckless, aren't you? Mrs. Tao, the official and Lord Zhu's wife are talking privately in the room, isn't it too abnormal for you to see Mrs. Tao as soon as you come in?"
"Ladies and gentlemen, please forgive Ling's abrupt offense. Ling Rongjin himself went to the table where Tao Ziyun was sitting and sat down, "Master Tao, I met your wife on an island!"
"Wait! You met my lady on an island!?You tell me clearly, what's going on?!" This situation surprised Tao Ziyun! Because he knew that during this time, except for going to Mrs. Liang and Mrs. Zhu to visit the door, Moss Yu and Yuyuan had never left Tao Mansion in the Maze City!
Ling Rongjin was steady for a moment, and then said to Tao Ziyun: "Here's the thing, our envoys from the Qing Dynasty followed the foreigners and rode to the beach. The local admiral, in accordance with the emperor's holy decree, took all of our men and horses on a large ship provided by them, and let his officers and soldiers. Brought us a lot of daily necessities and food. Of course, they also sent a lot of daily necessities and food to the big ship of the foreigners, and then the two big ships set sail together and went to the country of crows from the sea. ”
"What's so strange about that? you accept the Emperor's order, and that's your business. Liang Zhangju muttered disappreciatively.
Ling Rongjin ignored Liang Zhangju's complaints, and he then recounted: "When we passed by a small island, we found that there were many birds on that island, and the big boat that was walking side by side with us, the female interpreter shouted to us. They said they wanted to go hunting on the island, and let us anchor together on the shore of that island. We followed the foreigners, all of them landed on the island, and the foreigners all brought long guns or short guns, and raised their guns to shoot at all kinds of birds in the trees, and the sound of banging gunshots attracted the people on the island!"
"Do you want to say that you are there, meeting my wife?" Tao Ziyun understood a little in his heart!
Ling Rongjin just nodded to Tao Ziyun: "'You are not allowed to shoot birds!' A little girl in their arms, each of them, appeared next to them and shouted at the foreigner who shot the birds. I took a closer look and recognized one of them. It's the guy who went to the prairie with you back then!"
Sure enough, it was them! That was He Meimei, who had taken him to the prairie! Ling Rongjin had only seen He Meimei's true face there. With her, of course, is He Keren, and the little girl they are holding must be He Ke's daughter. And they're twins!" Tao Ziyun suddenly had mixed feelings in his heart! He asked Ling Rongjin solemnly but softly, "What happened to them later?"
"Haha, I'm not wrong, I saw it there. It's your wife!" Ling Rongjin got Tao Ziyun's approval, and narrated more vigorously: "I heard that they were not allowed to shoot birds, so those foreigners had to stop shooting, and they discussed it for a while, and the female translator said to your wife: 'We can give you gold and silver, and the birds that shoot down are even if they are bought by you.'" ’”
"Your wife firmly objected, saying, 'No, we don't sell the birds here!, we live here to hear the birds and flowers!' the female interpreter retorted to your wife unwillingly: 'If you live on this island, don't you catch birds to cook and eat?' Your wife replied proudly: 'We can grow our own food on the island, and when we go to the mainland to buy all kinds of things, we will buy all kinds of food! I knew that it was your wife, and that I could not let the foreigners offend her, so I instigated Prince Jin and the male translator we brought with me to dissuade the foreigners. As a result, the foreigner had no choice but to beckon us to get on the boat and leave, and did not even pick up a single bird that had been killed. When Ling Rongjin said this, he was secretly smug in his heart.
"So, the four women on the island, no, those two adults, do you recognize you?" Tao Ziyun asked Ling Rongjin anxiously.
Ling Rongjin pondered and replied, "You should have recognized me." Before I left, I greeted your lady and said, 'Mrs. Tao, I didn't expect to see you here. I greet you on behalf of Tao Ziyun, you should hurry back to your home, lest Lord Tao worry about you. When your lady heard my greeting, she said nothing, and I found that your lady and the adult beside her had changed their faces and struck a spirit! When I came back from the Raven Country, I had the whole ship go up to the island again to see if they were still there, and if they were, I would force them to come aboard and come back with us, so that you could be reunited. We found a thatched hut on it, it was empty, and when we searched again, we searched all over the island, but we couldn't find them, and the island was really an uninhabited island. I thought at the time: Your wife has returned home. So let everyone get on the boat immediately and hurry back to Beijing. The first thing I did when I returned to the capital was to see what was going on after your wife returned. You said that because your wife was with Mrs. Liang and Mrs. Zhu, it was inconvenient for me to go to see her. It's okay if I don't see them, and you sue me, and when they come back, have you been repnoked by you for going so far away?"
"Oh, they've only been there for a while, and they've already come home. It's good to come back, I didn't quarrel with them because of it. Tao Ziyun's heart was surging, and his thoughts had already flown away.
He Keren and her two daughters and He Meimei's whereabouts just now, but found that they had already left the island! He could only try his best to perfunctory Ling Rongjin, and he couldn't even show him that Moss Yu and Yuyuan were in the Lost City. (To be continued......)