Chapter 284: The country is at war, so the call must be made

Chapter 284: The country is at war, so the call must be made

Chapter 284: The country is at war, and I must return when summoned

There was an old man who was addicted to gambling. He owed money to a young man of mediocre appearance. The debt kept increasing until he was unable to repay the money. He had no choice but to marry his daughter to the young man.

The daughter was very unwilling to be used as collateral for the debt, and when she got married, she looked down on the young man, "Who would marry you if it wasn't to save your father?"

The next day after the wedding, the new bride woke up early and began to manage her new home and plan her life. Suddenly, she asked her husband, "How much money does my father owe us? We can't just let it go like this!"

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In the early morning, at the mansion of Prince Jingyuan of Hailing, Shao Quanzhong, the Prince of Duoluo, was lying in bed. The bride, Hu Liuniang, showed her magical powers and lifted her husband up with one arm.

"Yuting, we have to get up early. Ping'er and I have to serve tea to my parents-in-law and Sister Xiu'er. If you delay, my parents-in-law will think that we two concubines are lazy and are vixens who harm people."

You are so brave, you dare to carry me... Well, this is not the first time. Six years ago in Wolf Alley of Fengyang Prefecture, I was held under the ribs by Liu Niang and carried to the mountain stronghold in one breath.

She has been waiting for me for six years, and I feel guilty about that. I should grit my teeth and listen to my wife and get up.

Hu Liuniang helped her husband dress skillfully. In fact, she had been doing this job as a personal secretary for several years and was very good at it.

Now, after being a personal secretary for six years, she finally got what she wanted and was brought into the Shao Mansion with much fanfare, becoming a concubine who was canonized by the imperial court.

Even though Hu Liuniang was born into a Hu family, the Hu people were not traitors. They were very feudal in nature and still attached great importance to the status of concubine.

Ping'er huddled at the end of the bed, hugging the quilt. She had just put her hair up into a girlish style yesterday, revealing her fair swan neck. Her face was as rosy as morning dew, and she looked pitiful.

She is the kind of harmful vixen that Hu Liuniang mentioned.

Seven years ago, she had already stood out among the skinny girls trained in a courtyard in Yangzhou and was selected to be brought into the palace to be presented to Emperor Xianfeng.

After seven years of growth, she is now twenty years old and has become a mature vixen.

She also wanted to help Liu Niang with Shao Quanzhong's dressing, but her physical strength did not allow it.

Shao Quanzhong spent three years on the Western Expedition and basically stayed away from women. He was full of energy and strength, and the Empress Dowager could not handle it all by herself.

Just married yesterday, Marshal Shao is still as brave as ever.

Hu Liuniang was a martial arts expert, so she could still resist. But as a professional seducer, she was really weak and could not bear it. I am afraid she could not even walk today.

Ping'er was gathering her strength to get out of bed, and suddenly she realized why she was not liked by Shao Quanzhong, since she was so charming and beautiful, the ultimate pursuit of all lustful men.

This matter is not Shao Dashuai's fault, but my own. I was sent to Shao Dashuai as the old Buddha's confidant, and my mentality all along was to help the old Buddha to watch over Shao Dashuai.

After the wedding night, she became Marshal Shao’s woman, and her mentality suddenly changed.

I am the legitimate concubine of Shao Dashuai, and the old Buddha is just Shao Dashuai's lover without a name. I have already entered the Shao Mansion, why should I be a spy for the old Buddha?
Of course, the Empress Dowager is now in control of everything and is the top leader of the Qing Dynasty. It is reliable that she got to the position with the support of her husband.

I don't know if my husband has the ambition to be the emperor. He seems to be running rampant in the Forbidden City, and he doesn't seem like a loyal minister. So can I become the Empress of the West Palace in the future? By then, the Empress Dowager may have to rely on me to save her life.

The ladies in Prince Shao's mansion all have their own abilities. Madam Wenxiu is in charge of a family fortune worth hundreds of millions, Madam Ronghui is a university president who has temporarily resigned, and Liuniang is an excellent martial artist who can protect the Marshal and is also Shao Quanzhong's right-hand man at work.

I can only use my beauty to please others now, but this is not good enough. I have to quickly familiarize myself with the environment and find my own position in the palace. The old Buddha used beauty to please others in the beginning, but later he also relied on scheming and scheming to keep his position. I have to learn from him.

Thinking of this, Ping'er struggled to get up and quickly dressed up. No matter what, she had to make a good impression on the master, his wife and Sister Wenxiu.

This time, Shao Quanzhong took longer to dress than usual because he had to kowtow to his parents, so he could not wear the general's uniform and had to wear the prince's suit.

No matter what you think, the old man just likes the Qing Dynasty official uniform. You are powerless to change the old man and the old lady's ideas, so you have to go along with them and make the two old people happy.

The clothes of the Manchu princes were much more complicated to wear. The clothes were decorated with colorful embroidery of five-clawed dragons, matched with court robes, tied with court belts, hung with court beads, covered with colorful embroidered collars, and changed into court boots.

This was the first time that Shao Quanzhong wore this outfit. Whether he was in the capital, meeting the emperor, or running rampant in the Forbidden City, he was always unique, wearing a large marshal's uniform, and this time he wore it specifically for his parents and Wenxiu to see.

When the preparations were complete, Ping'er came over to help, helping Shao Quanzhong put on the warm hat with a ruby ​​top and four large oriental pearls, and inserting the three-eyed peacock feather.

The hat given by the court is made of glass, and you can exchange it for a ruby ​​if you have money.

Zeng Guofan was low-key, and the red hat he wore was made of glass. Shao Quanzhong certainly had money, and Liu Niang had replaced it with a top-grade ruby ​​from Central Asia, which looked quite different. The most handsome prince of the Qing Dynasty was born.

Shao Quanzhong and Liu Niang were both surprised to see Ping'er coming to help. Liu Niang was still wearing a female lieutenant colonel's uniform, with a belt tied around her waist, looking heroic, so of course she dressed quickly.

Ping'er has been following Shao Quanzhong all the way from the capital, and Liu Niang already knows her style. She always takes a long time to dress up, and I thought I had to wait for her, but why did she come so fast this time?

When they looked back, Shao Quanzhong and Liu Niang were both stunned.

Ping'er didn't wear the delicate fox spirit makeup, but had a plain face and chose the simplest clothes. Of course, Ping'er was born beautiful. Not to mention in the Shao Mansion, even in the beauty pageant in the Qing Dynasty, the winner depends on the judges' taste, and there is no doubt that she will be selected as the top ten seeded contestants.

So even without makeup, she is a truly beautiful woman with no blind spots.

Shao Quanzhong rolled his eyes. This little vixen was not simple.

When she is showing it to herself, she is a vixen, but when she is about to meet her parents and the first wife, she changes to a simple image. She accurately grasps the mentality of the two old people and Wenxiu, and her mind is comparable to mine.

Shao Quanzhong took the two new brides to kowtow to their parents, and the brides had to offer tea to their parents-in-law and Wenxiu.

Shao's father and mother were very satisfied that Shao Quanzhong had brought back two more daughters-in-law. Seeing Shao Quanzhong dressed like a top official, they were even more delighted.

Shao Quanzhong now has three sons and one daughter, and there is also a concubine's eldest son in the palace. Shao's father and mother all know about this.

No matter how unsophisticated and slow-witted they were, they realized that their son was heading straight for the throne. Smoke was coming out of the Shao family's ancestral graves, and an emperor was about to be born.

Five children are too few, so no matter how many wives their son brings back, Shao's father and mother will support him.

The old man and the old lady are no longer the same as they used to be. The gift that Shao Ma gave to the new bride was luxurious, far superior to the two low-quality bracelets they gave to Ronghui and Wenxiu.

However, Wenxiu wore the bracelet on her hand today to accept tea from her two sisters. This is the proof of the direct descendant of the Shao family, and the value of the item cannot be judged.

Shao's father, Shao's mother and Wenxiu were all very satisfied with Shao Quanzhong's prince's suit. Only Ronghui would like the marshal's suit, as Wenxiu still held old-fashioned ideas.

This is almost one step away from reaching the summit, just changing the dragon into a golden dragon, adding a few more dragon claws, and yes, the color also needs to be changed...

Wenxiu originally thought that the phoenix coronet and bridal robe of the first-rank imperial decree was the pinnacle of her glory. Now that she has changed into the concubine's suit, she is even less satisfied. The queen's suit doesn't seem so far away anymore.

Wenxiu behaved like a legitimate wife and did not embarrass Shao Quanzhong at all in front of Ping'er, a woman who came from the Forbidden City.

If Rong Hui was here, it would be completely different. Even if Shao Quanzhong became the emperor, Rong Hui would probably still be that lively and fearless person.

The parents had to be met first, and then the feudal man Shao Quanzhong changed into a general's uniform and went to the military camp. He hadn't even met his daughter Wen Xiaoqi yet, and she was ruthlessly ignored by him.

Thirty-six thousand five hundred Huai troops had already gathered and were waiting at the former military camp and training ground outside Shaojiawei.

Before Shao Quanzhong spoke, he shouted, "Emery, step out!"

Emery took a half step forward, touched his heels together, and saluted.

"Xiao Ai, I will take you and Grant with me on this trip and bring you back home in glory. After you return from the trip, you will go to the Baoding Army Officers School to serve as the chief instructor. This is a heavy responsibility, so I will give you the rank of general."

"Thank you, Marshal, for your cultivation!"

Shao Quanzhong turned around, took the shoulder badge with three gold stars from the tray brought by Hu Liuniang, put it on Emery himself, and turned to face the soldiers.

"Brothers, you followed me all the way to Central Asia, recovered our territory, and made us Chinese people stand up straight and become a great power. I am grateful to you. On behalf of China, I thank you brothers!"

After saying this, he saluted the soldiers solemnly.

Tens of thousands of soldiers stood at attention and saluted, "We are willing to die for Marshal Shao!"

"Now, we have to temporarily reduce our forces. After fighting for so long, it's time for you to take your rewards and return home to reunite with your families. I declare that today we will pay you double your salary!"

After a round of sincere cheers from the crowd, the voices gradually calmed down, but Shao Quanzhong had not yet finished speaking.

"But the war is not over yet! When we Chinese can dominate the world and foreigners have to be respectful and envious when they see Chinese, then it will be time for us to turn swords into plowshares.

It won't be long before I recruit you back. We will fight in the future not just for promotion, wealth and rewards.

If our descendants want to enjoy a good life, we must put our heads in our pants and fight with guns! Our generation must use our blood to fight for the dignity of China and the foundation of our descendants. This is our destiny!

When China needs you, please come back to help me, brother. Please!"

Shao Quanzhong took off his military cap and bowed deeply to the soldiers.

Lin Bozai, who was standing in the audience, raised his command knife and led the crowd in shouting, "When the country is at war, we must return when called!"

More than 30,000 honest soldiers had sacred expressions on their faces, raised their guns and shouted along.

The roar of "When the country is at war, I must return when called" spread far away, and the whole city of Hailing was shocked.

(End of this chapter)