Chapter 274: Defying God’s Debt

Chapter 274: Defying God’s Debt

Chapter 274: Defying God’s Debt
Shao Quanzhong's former residence was built randomly by him and Zhang Siwen without paying attention to any layout. It faces Chaobai River and sits east and faces west, so that you can walk less when crossing the bridge to go to work in Shunyi County.

The door opened and the visitor stood at the door. The warm sun of the early winter afternoon shone from behind the visitor, making his body seem to be rimmed with a circle of gold.

The man was wearing a beautiful marshal's uniform, with a belt slung across his body, a Western command knife slung under his ribs, a revolver on his waist, white gloves on his hands, and big leather boots on his feet.

The Qing Dynasty was not the Rakshasa Kingdom described by Pu Songling, and the descendants of the Yehe tribe were also human beings.

People's aesthetic tastes are basically the same, and the way Shao Quanzhong dressed made Cixi's eyes light up. Then, she saw clearly the handsome face that she had thought of countless times in her dreams at midnight.

He was no longer the low-ranking yamen runner of 20 years old, but a 27-year-old general with an army of 100,000.

Power is the best beauty product for men. Shao Quanzhong now has two small mustaches on his lips, and his handsome face has become more mature and majestic. With the marshal's uniform, command knife and pistol, his handsomeness is accompanied by an explosive masculinity.

What would be Cixi’s reaction if she suddenly saw the person she had been thinking about day and night appear in front of her?
"Ah—ghost!"

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was majestic in front of outsiders, was also a woman. Her first reaction was to be frightened to the point of shaking like a sieve - she saw a ghost in broad daylight.

Shao Quanzhong never expected that the person he saw when he opened the door was not the half-naked homeless man who was staying in his house, but the "palace maid" he met unexpectedly in the middle of the night seven years ago. He couldn't help but exclaimed, "Huh?"

He had no respect for the palace maid, and then he cursed in a low voice, "What are you yelling about? I am a man who stands tall and upright, and I am alive and well, how can I be a ghost? What's wrong with you? I only go home once every seven years, how come I met you again? You are relying on me, right?"

Cixi pointed at Shao Quanzhong with a trembling index finger, "How could you get in?"

This question made Shao Quanzhong confused, "Of course I walked in. Can't I go back to my own home?"

The imperial guards were on duty for the Empress Dowager, but they slipped away and let in outsiders with swords and guns? A murderous look flashed across Cixi's face, and she suddenly rolled her eyes.

Those useless guards are so good at slipping away.

It seems that this yamen runner was urgently transferred to fight in the war and just happened to escape death. Now looking at his foreign officer uniform, he must have joined the Huai Army or the Ziqiang Army.

Shao Quanzhong had only worn the marshal's uniform not long ago. Except for the Huai Army soldiers, no one knew who this marshal's uniform represented.

Cixi could only see that the former yamen runner had become an officer, but she could never have imagined that he would become such a high-ranking official, and that he had made his own decision to be appointed.

This is the misunderstanding caused by Shao Quanzhong wearing a military uniform. If he had worn a top hat, decorated with four oriental pearls of a duke, and a three-eyed peacock feather, Cixi would have known who he was at a glance.

The runner escaped from the pursuit by joining the army, and became an officer of the Huai Army or the Ziqiang Army. On the eve of the military parade, he returned to his old home to visit. It happened that the useless imperial guard was absent from duty and ran into him by chance. This explanation is reasonable and basically conforms to the actual situation, except that the loyal guard was a little wronged...

The explanation made sense, and Cixi's fear passed, and her eyes suddenly fixed greedily on Shao Quanzhong's handsome face.

At the age of thirty, he is in his prime. With Sister Ci'an watching over him in the palace, he has no chance to cheat on his wife. He has been enduring this for seven years.

Now I am able to unexpectedly meet my old lover in the old place - ahem, let’s just call him an old lover.

Although there is no emotional connection, the relationship is there and Chengguo is staying in the villa next door, so Shao Quanzhong can't deny it even if he wants to.

This is definitely a godsend opportunity given to me by the Buddha because he felt sorry for me for having to stay alone in my empty room for seven years.

This stupid yamen runner is now a stupid officer, who doesn't know his own identity. This encounter was made without anyone noticing...

Shao Quanzhong had no idea what Cixi was planning and felt frightened by her stare.

"Why are you staring at me? I'm telling you, I risked my life to help you catch up with the Northern Hunting Group, and now we're even. You can't blame me, I'm--"

Shao Quanzhong's mouth was suddenly covered by a soft, well-maintained hand.

Cixi chuckled, "Who can know better than me whether you are a serious person or not?"

Cixi twisted her waist and took a light step. With a creak, the newly installed door panel was closed. When Shao Quanzhong was lazy in building the house, he didn't install windows. The house suddenly became dark. Only the faint light coming in through the crack of the door shone on the faces of the two people, and the atmosphere became ambiguous for a while.

"Master, now that we are home, I will wait for you to have a good rest."

Cixi had just been talking to Shao Quanzhong, and she still had the air of a superior who was commanding her, but suddenly her voice became as gentle as water. The contrast made Shao Quanzhong dazed.

Suddenly, he saw the other party smiling at him tenderly and glancing at him, and Shao Quanzhong's vision immediately went dark.

It's not that Shao Quanzhong had never seen women before, he had seen a lot of them. Both Rong Hui and Wen Xiu were prettier than Cixi. In terms of appearance alone, even Hu Liuniang was better than Cixi.

But Rong Hui is cheerful and modern, Wenxiu is noble and elegant, Hu Liuniang is heroic and valiant, and among the women Shao Quanzhong has married or is planning to marry, none of them is a vixen.

After three years of the Western Expedition, the sow became as beautiful as Diao Chan.

Shao Quanzhong swore an oath to march westward in Fengyang on the tenth day of the seventh month in the third year of the Tongzhi reign. Now he has returned triumphantly to the capital on the fourth day of the eleventh month in the sixth year of the Tongzhi reign. So the expedition had already lasted for more than three years.

During this period, he only met Wenxiu for a few days in Lanzhou. When he stationed troops in Suzhou and waited for the severe winter to pass, he returned from the front line to Hailing to visit his relatives.

These two encounters with his wife were fruitful, resulting in the birth of his daughter Xiaoqi and third son Ji Zeng.

Since the third day of February in the fifth year of the Tongzhi reign, when he left Hailing and returned to Suzhou to start the western expedition to Yili Province, he has not touched a woman for one year, nine months and one day.

Hu Liuniang is a straight-forward woman who doesn't know any harem tricks and acts straightforwardly. If she wants to marry Shao Quanzhong, she will take him to the village and will never flirt with him.

If Hu Liuniang had been more sensible, a little gentle, or more charming, Shao Quanzhong would not have been able to hold out for a year and nine months.

It's a pity that Liu Niang was born as a woman with a beard. With this talent, she doesn't have any brains. She has a pair of long legs and a good figure, but her ability to seduce men is negative.

Rong Hui assisted many times, left handwritten letters, and gave instructions in telegrams. The silly Liu Niang still keeps Rong Hui's letter in her arms and has not shown it to Shao Quanzhong.

So even though Shao Quanzhong has a beautiful personal secretary, he has actually remained chaste for almost two years.

Shao Quanzhong is a real man, an absolutely normal man.

But when I was fighting, I was fully focused, and when I was sleeping, I was thinking about how to deal with the enemy. More than a year as a monk passed by in a flash, and I didn't feel anything.

Now that the battle was won and they were victorious, suddenly a mature vixen came up to him. Shao Quanzhong, who had been holding back for a long time, could no longer hold back.

I watched as the palace maid untied his belt like she was serving a husband returning from the war, carefully put his saber and pistol aside, helped him sit down, and bent down to take off his big leather boots.

Shao Quanzhong wanted to stop him, but he kept something in his mouth but never said it.

Damn it, I made the mistake that all men make only once in my life. I swore that I would never make it a second time.

However, if the person who made the mistake is the same person, can it be combined and counted as one, so that I don't break my oath and owe God a debt?
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In the villa next door, the imperial brother Zai Yi was tired of reading the little notebooks that his emperor brother never tired of reading, but still couldn't see anything good about them.

He put the notebook in his pocket, touched the small pill hidden in his inner clothes, and shook his head. Now is not the right time, this thing must not be discovered by my mother.

My mother has been gone for a long time. Didn’t she say she would take me to pay homage? It’s really inexplicable. Why hasn’t she come back yet?

Zai Yi stretched, yawned, and strolled out of the villa with his hands behind his back.

Ping'er, Cixi's personal maid who was responsible for looking after him, hurried out. She turned around and waved her hand, and two young eunuchs on duty followed her.

(End of this chapter)