Chapter 204: Crazy Girl
Zhao Yulin found it strange that he met him at the foot of Mount Emei, so he went out and welcomed Qigong in and asked him to sit down.
After the old beggar stretched out his hand to feel the girl's pulse, he kept shaking his head and repeatedly exclaimed that the crazy girl was just a crazy girl. The old beggar was really convinced.
Zhao Yulin smiled apologetically, saying that he was unconscious at the time and didn't know anything. If he knew that the head girl had given him all her skills, he would definitely stop her. But when he woke up, she was gone. He came here specially to thank her.
The old beggar took a sip of Wu Gu Feng and said, “Why should I thank you? We are already a family, and yet…” He suddenly stopped talking, burped, and then immediately said, “I should thank you very much,” haha, “Drink, drink.”
Chen Chen nodded and said that she would arrange a team of craftsmen to repair Mount Emei and ensure that her junior sister would live comfortably.
The girl was quick-witted. Knowing that the headmaster's daughter had saved Zhao Yulin and that Qi Gong valued her so much, she immediately raised the headmaster's daughter's status by one level.
Qigong said proudly: At least it can't be worse than Yuyangzi's Qingchengshan. How can the virtue of that Ox Nose compare to that of our crazy girl.
Chen Chen immediately said that she would go back and ask the master chef from Jiading to come and consult, and use more colored glaze and ceramic tiles from Jiajiang, and she would definitely make the decoration beautiful for her junior sister.
Qigong was so happy after drinking that he wanted to test Chen Chen's martial arts, and asked Zhao Yulin to leave, saying that the Dog Beating Stick Technique was the secret of his Beggar Gang.
Of course Zhao Yulin respected him and went out to chat with the captain of the guard.
He asked Feihu if there were any brothers who wanted to stay and serve as coaches in several military camps. The new recruits of our Shenwei Army needed people with strong military skills like them to lead them.
Feihu said no, they all wanted to follow the young master.
He sighed and said that the older brothers should stay behind. They had followed him all over the country and had neglected their families. He was being unfair to them.
Today he made the decision and left thirty old brothers to settle in Chengdu based on their age, sowing seeds for our guard.
Feihu agreed with a sob, and when he saw that they were far away from the inn, he pulled him back.
When Zhao Yulin entered the yard again, the old beggar had already left without saying goodbye. He could not help but shake his head repeatedly.
Chen Chen came over happily and said that her master had taught her two more moves.
Zhao Yulin said that if Qigong came a few more times, she would be able to perform all the dog-beating stick techniques. The woman happily pulled him to take a bath and change clothes.
The next day, the couple returned to Jiading. After only one day of rest, Chen Chen arranged for someone to send Guanghui back to Yibin and accompany him on the road.
The couple ate and played all the way and finally arrived in Chengdu three days later. Zhao Yulin invited Mr. Ding to Wenjun Restaurant for a drink.
The old man happily attended the appointment and asked Qu Tao to accompany her father, the shopkeeper Qu. Liu Fengxian could not resist her daughter's pleading and also came to sit at a table.
The little girl was very happy and kept calling him Brother Yulin, and put her favorite food into Zhao Yulin's bowl.
Qu Tao still looked as cold as ice as she sat with her father. Mr. Ding said with a smile that it was thanks to the help of Brother Yulin that Manager Qu was able to clear his name.
Shopkeeper Qu immediately stood up to toast Zhao Yulin and his wife, thanking him for saving his life.
Zhao Yulin quickly stood up to stop them, and the two drank a glass and sat down. Manager Qu then took out a gift list and asked Zhao Yulin to accept it as a token of his appreciation.
How could Zhao Yulin accept his gift privately, so he firmly refused.
At this time, Qu Tao stood up and told her about what she had seen in Yibin, saying that Brother Yulin was devoted to serving the country, and that although her father could not help much, he also wanted to do what he could for the Shenwei Army. The so-called gift list was just some gold and silver, just to raise some money for the Shenwei Army, and Brother Yulin must accept it.
After Qu Tao explained it this way, Zhao Yulin couldn't refuse.
Seeing him nod, Chen Chen took the money from Qu Tao and opened it to take a closer look. It turned out to be a considerable amount of money. The little woman immediately smiled and said, "That's great. The government just extorted a huge sum of money from our Shenwei Army. We are worried about this."
With Mr. Qu's generous help, our Shenwei Army will not have to worry about military pay this year. Tomorrow she will personally deliver the silver to Jiading to mint coins.
Then, Chen Chen picked up the glass and asked Zhao Yulin to toast the shopkeeper together.
Even Mr. Ding secretly admired that Zhao Yulin's woman was not simple. She was really good at both being a lady in the living room and a good cook in the kitchen.
On the way home, Shopkeeper Qu kept praising Chen Chen, saying that Zhao Yulin was really lucky to have such a virtuous woman.
Qu Tao angrily said that there were many smart and virtuous women, and he had already married five or six of them. He shouldn't have learned etiquette from the nanny, and people called him an ice sculpture...
At night, Chen Chen squeezed him like crazy, and the two of them fought on the big flower bed until they lost their temper and fell asleep in each other's arms. At dawn, he asked, "Are you not going to Hanzhong? Are you going to escort the silver yourself?"
Chen Chen bit his face gently twice, and said happily that she had no intention of leaving, and she pulled him out because she knew that the north was in a hurry. She would stay in Jiading to wait for her brother to come back.
Only then did Zhao Yulin understand the woman's good intentions.
He hugged the woman tightly in his arms and said, "But if you leave now, I'm afraid you won't be able to come back for a year or two. The Mongolian army is very powerful."
The woman was still determined to stay, so she got him up and helped him get dressed.
The couple said goodbye at the entrance of the post station. He watched Chen Chen's carriage go away before leading the guards to the South Parade Ground. There, thirty old guards lined up to perform a military boxing exercise for him, and then left the guards after shouting "Young Master is mighty" three times.
Zhao Yulin explained to Zhang Guoan that these were old brothers who had been with them for a long time. They were strong in military skills and had strict military discipline. They should be allowed to take on the responsibility. The key was to solve the problem of settling down. If they didn't have money, they could ask Chen Chen's wife for help.
Guoan gave him assurances with a repeated “yes”.
As soon as Zhao Yulin left, the kid changed his mind. He called the brothers together and said that the situation in Chengdu was very complicated, so they should not separate and form a special task force to deal with emergencies.
As for women, it’s up to each person to find one with their own luck, but no one is allowed to break the rules by force.
All the brothers looked at him with a grin.
He stepped forward and kicked them, saying that there was no resettlement allowance, and he would not bother Chen Chen's wife for such trivial matters. But we brothers agreed that whoever got a woman, we would raise money for him to buy a house.
The brothers all agreed with a laugh.
He said the South Parade Ground is very big, and if it doesn’t work out, we can just live in the military barracks. The military barracks is my home, hahaha.
Zhao Yulin was about to leave the city when he saw Ding Gong standing at the city gate with a small group of people. The old man asked, "You haven't seen the iron chain bridge yet, are you leaving now?" He smiled and waved to him.
Haha, the governor invited him to ride in the same carriage.
Zhao Yulin dismounted and handed the reins to the guard. He quickly got on Ding Gong's carriage and the group headed towards Dujiangyan.
The old man cheerfully asked him how it felt to sit in the carriage, was it nice?
He felt that this old man was like a naughty boy, always making people laugh. It must be comfortable to sit in the carriage, especially since it was equipped with his spring shock absorbers, which made it more bumpy than sitting in a sedan chair carried by eight people.
Zhao Yulin saw Ding Gong, who was smiling and resting, and thought that his brother who had just arrived at the military camp had no place to stay, so he could make some money from him. He complained to the old man, saying that his brother had followed him all over the country, sleeping in the open air, and now he had gone to the South Parade Ground penniless, and asked the governor to take care of him.
The old man was amused to hear his pleading like a young wife, and said with a smile that the finances this year were not so tight, and he would send people to the South Parade Ground to renovate the houses in the military barracks.
Zhao Yulin was now short of money , so he would take advantage of anyone he could get. He immediately thanked them first.
There was gold and silver next door, and a scale at home. Zhao Yulin knew that he would make a lot of money from the auction of their real estate and jewelry. It would be unreasonable not to spend some of it.
The old man heard people outside saying that they were close to Guankou, so he ordered them to find a place to eat and rest. There were only a few restaurants in the small town of Guankou, and they were immediately packed with their entourage and guards.
Mr. Ding led him to a riverside restaurant called Liuhe Zhiwei, where they found a clean room to sit down. Seeing the fresh and elegant layout, Zhao Yulin marveled that the old man knew there was a good place here.
Later, when the food and wine were served, the old man asked everyone to step aside so that he could have a good chat with the young man.
Zhao Yulin guessed that the old man wanted to mark out some important points, so he asked the captain of the guard to stand guard outside the house.
Ding Gong drank two glasses of wine and spoke. He saw that the court had spent huge amounts of money in recent years with little effect, was becoming increasingly corrupt, and the people were living in poverty, so he became increasingly worried.
Zhao Yulin asked him with a smile, didn't your Excellency say that we have the Shenwei Army and there is nothing to worry about?
Mr. Ding smiled and said that he believed Chengdu could worry free, but what about Jinghu?
What about Lianghuai?
What about our Song Dynasty?
Then there was another sigh, saying that only one Huai was left of the two Huai regions, and Jinghu was also in danger. There was news that the northern barbarians had not retreated after robbing the south, and they would ride their horses south again at any time.
He smiled faintly and said that the Mongolian army conquered the world on horseback. In the dead of winter, the Yellow River froze, so they could cross it just like riding horses on the grassland. It didn't matter whether they crossed the Yellow River or not.
Mr. Ding said very seriously that it was different. The Mongolian army was stationed in Henan and occupied the Jin territory, which meant they were directly next to us as neighbors.
Zhao Yulin laughed in his heart. It turned out that the old man only knew it now?
It has been like this for a long time. After the Mongolian army destroyed Western Xia, it confronted and fought against the Song army. Why did he only feel a sense of crisis today?
After thinking about it carefully, they seemed to understand that it was because the Mongolian army occupied the Central Plains and penetrated into the heart of the Song Dynasty that these old scholars felt the pain.
He said that in the past two years, due to the adjustment of the military strategy of the grassland empire, the struggle between us and the Mongolian army has become a tug-of-war between the two sides. However, the Mongolian army is still strong, and this balance may be broken at any time. However, Lord Ding can rest assured that the Shenwei Army will be stronger after a year of training, and it is certain to defend Sichuan and Shu.
Lord Ding nodded and told him that someone in the court had proposed moving the capital to Sichuan and making Chongqing or Chengdu the new capital.
However, some old officials were strongly opposed to it. Some powerful officials, including Scrooge, had purchased a large amount of land in Liangzhe. They were worried that moving the capital would cause the land to depreciate and their property to shrink significantly.
