Under the persuasion of the Princess of Chu, Nie Zefeng finally held a wedding in the camp and consecrated Sun Shangxiang as his side concubine. Sun Shangxiang's family was all in Jiangdong, so Cao Jie used his palace as Sun Shangxiang's natal home, because now they recognized her.

sisters.

However, as the sister of the leader of Jiangdong and an equally majestic military commander, Sun Shangxiang did not learn any rules.

At this time, the palace deacon came to Cao Jie's palace to try on the wedding attire for Sun Shangxiang, who was about to become the concubine.

Sun Shangxiang was wearing a bright red Qiwan wedding dress.

The tailors in the Chu Palace were busy around him, carefully measuring Sun Shangxiang's figure.

Princess Cao Jie also looked on with great satisfaction.

Sun Shangxiang asked in confusion: "Sister, do I have to dress like this and walk into the king's chamber?"

Princess Cao Jie nodded slightly, then suppressed her voice and replied: "Of course."

Sun Shangxiang suddenly said: "Where will the King of Chu welcome his bride?"

Princess Cao Jie gently picked up the comb on the table and prepared to put it up for Sun Shangxiang's hair, and then said: "As a rule, your carriage should go out of the gate to patrol the city first, and then the King of Chu needs to go inside Sima Gate.

Welcome." Sun Shang

Xiang asked curiously: "When I was in Jiangdong, why did I see other people coming to the bride's house to welcome the bride?" Princess Cao Jie gently combed Sun Shangxiang's hair and sighed: "Others can, but he can't.

Yes, because he is the King of Chu."

Sun Shangxiang said dissatisfied: "Then I'm still the concubine. No, I have to ask him to come here to greet her. Why should I send her to the door? It seems that no one wants her."

Princess Cao Jie comforted her and said: "Sister, what are you talking about? You are the envoy of Jiangdong. You married King Chu because you have a mission. Your life is directly related to the entire Sun family in Jiangdong, just like me.

, I also carry the lives of Cao’s entire family, so don’t act out of emotion.”

Sun Shangxiang retorted: "How could I say crazy things?"

Princess Cao Jie tried to persuade her: "This is the traditional rule in the palace. This is a representative of the emperor."

Sun Shangxiang stood up and said dissatisfiedly: "The rules can be changed, otherwise why would he be the King of Chu? Well, who is more powerful, the rules or the King of Chu?"

Princess Cao Jie grabbed the sister she had just recognized, then gently put down the comb, and then suddenly became violent and said: "Don't be so messy..."

However, Sun Shangxiang, who was more stubborn about one thing, suddenly changed his face and shouted to the tailors around him: "Take off this clothes and give it to me! If the King of Chu doesn't come to greet you, I won't get married..."

Princess Cao Jie finally got so angry that she yelled: "Sun Shangxiang! I've told you so much, but you didn't even stop to say a word. You will definitely regret it today!"

Sun Shangxiang took off his wedding clothes by himself, and finally shouted: "It's fine if the King of Chu doesn't leave Simamen, but you can make me a piece of silk that stretches from our house to Simamen! If not for that day, I will never leave our house until my death."

Home door!”

Sun Shangxiang, wearing only her underwear, ran out of the inner compartment and slammed the door.

On the ground were the bright red costumes.

Nearby are a group of bewildered palace tailors.

There was also Princess Cao Jie who was trembling with anger.

Cao Jie quickly passed this information to Chu King Nie Zefeng. Nie Zefeng learned from the latest battle report that Sun Ce had just pacified the entire Jiangdong and was directly confronting Jingzhou and Huainan. Now Nie Zefeng had changed his name from the previous use to win over Sun Ce.

This is the little overlord of Jiangdong. Nie Zefeng waved his hand and said, just agree to this princess of Jiangdong!

Throughout Simamen, drums, golden bells, and the grand performance of the royal band sounded.

A long wave of silk runs through the inside and outside of Sima Gate.

The wedding car stopped in front of the door

The ceremony officer held one end of the silk in his hand and waited.

Hundreds of girls lined up to hold the silk ribbons, and Chen Sun Shangxiang, who was dressed in a wedding car, was supported by people.

The ceremonial palace handed the silk to Chen Sun Shangxiang.

A long stream of fluttering silk passed through the city gate, and hundreds of girls held it and slowly moved inward.

At this end, Sun Shangxiang, who was in full dress, was surrounded by ceremonial guards and moved slowly in the direction indicated by the silk.

The ceremony of welcoming the bride was grand.

Nie Zefeng, who was dressed up in full attire, stood sternly surrounded by people.

The girl held silk and walked slowly and solemnly through the city gate.

One end of the silk was held by the courtesy officer as he approached Nie Zefeng.

Nie Zefeng slowly closed his eyes and stretched out his hands inch by inch.

This end of the silk was handed over to Nie Zefeng.

Nie Zefeng's fingers clenched tightly.

The rippling silk and the innocent faces of the girls are like a rushing wave connecting the two ends of the King of Chu and his concubine at the wedding ceremony.

A grand wedding reception.

The royal band played on the carpet.

The princes, nobles, princes, ministers and ministers exchanged cups and plates, drank and talked with laughter.

At this moment, a man suddenly shouted: "The King of Chu is here!"

After hearing these words, there was immediately no sound in the hall. Nie Zefeng walked in through the side door dressed in casual clothes.

All eyes showed surprise.

Nie Zefeng, who walked into the main hall, took the wine bottle from the attendant and said with a smile, "I am late, so I will punish myself by drinking three glasses of wine!"

Nie Zefeng raised his face and drank it all, then changed to another bottle and drank it all.

Nie Zefeng, who drank three glasses of wine in a row, spoke in a lively voice, and then shouted loudly: "Play some music! On my happy day, what I want is this sound of nature to communicate between the world and the sky..."

The royal band played again with great thunder.

The main hall covered by music immediately became cheerful.

At the banquet, there were naturally those generals who came from all directions, and of course the new upstarts. However, this was a backyard where most of the women were women. Nie Zefeng saw a woman again among the crowd. The woman was dressed in dark blue.

The long brocade skirt is embroidered with white plum blossoms, and a white brocade belt is used to tie up the uncontrollable slender waist.

Then her dexterous hands danced between my long hair, and she tied the black hair into a wishful bun, only inserting a plum blossom white jade hairpin. Although it was simple, it looked fresh and elegant. She washed herself in the mirror. She applied a thin layer of pink and white on her face, and she was dressed in white.

Wearing a light blue silk double-combed Yunyan palace dress, a newly picked white plum hairpin is slanted on her head. In addition, she only has an exquisite jasper hairpin decorated with thin silver wire beaded tassels.

Nie Zefeng came up and asked, "Where are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"

The woman replied calmly: "I am Cai Wenji who just returned from the north."

Nie Zefeng smiled and said: "I know, I know, she is a talented woman from my court!"

Nie Zefeng walked away, but from then on he remembered this talented woman.

The wedding was held as scheduled.

The next day, the birds were chirping, the palace was quiet, and there seemed to be no sound inside.

Several young servants were sweeping up fallen leaves with brooms.

At this time, Yuan Mai, who had been promoted to captain of the bodyguard, came over anxiously and angrily, muttering at him, as if he was dissatisfied with him for disturbing the morning dream of the King of Chu and his concubine.

Just at this moment, the door opened, and Chen Sun Shangxiang walked out dressed in thin clothes and makeup. She yawned, turned around and said coquettishly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty - look how beautiful the birds are chirping outside! Your Majesty.

!King!”

Sun Shangxiang turned around and went back to the house, and heard her voice saying: "It's time to get up! Did you hear that?!"

After Nie Zefeng got up, he started to deal with new business matters.

The reason why Nie Zefeng started talking about his war was because the armies of Ma Chao, Zhang Xiu, and Wei Yan only conquered the southern part of Bingzhou, but not the entire Bingzhou area.

However, after the losses of Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou and other areas, Gaogan personally expressed his submission to the Chu army. However, the Gaogan's submission meant that he would permanently stay in Bingzhou instead of leading his troops to return south. However, at the same time, in order to prevent the Xiongnu

In the face of the Japanese invasion, Nie Zefeng, at the request of senior officials, left Ma Chao's troops to garrison the area.

At this time, the Xiongnu actually sent 200,000 troops south to besiege Ma Chao who was stationed at the Great Wall, while Wei Yan and Zhang Xiu returned south respectively.

When the senior cadres stationed in Bingzhou saw that Ma Chao could be annihilated, they marched straight in and directly attacked Yecheng. That is, after stabilizing Jiangdong, they sent their troops northward.

Nie Zefeng strode into the preacher's room, where countless generals and civil servants were already waiting.

Nie Zefeng, who walked into the propaganda room, saw General Wei Yan talking about the current war situation.

Wei Yan said loudly: "Currently, the only troops stationed in Yecheng are my Wei family army and the Imperial Forest Army in Yecheng. However, both armies are infantry armies and are not suitable for long-distance raids at all. Now I think we can only send one envoy.

The key to mobilizing Bingzhou's high-ranking troops and troops nearby depends on who is sent as the envoy."

After Nie Zefeng heard this, he quickly asked: "Is Pang Tong here?"

Wei Yan looked at the King of Chu and hurriedly bowed and saluted and replied: "He is waiting in the side room. Your Majesty, you don't need to talk about our current relationship with senior officials for a while. We can directly grant him the scepter and edict, so that he can use it."

Instead of mobilizing the local troops in Bingzhou. I'm worried that once such a scholar tells the truth, he will not be upright and strong when it comes to the local area, making the local officials in Bingzhou suspicious."

Nie Zefeng once again doubted the scholarly appearance and asked: "Do you think Pang Tong is qualified?" Wei Yan once again bowed and saluted: "I can go with him as a deputy envoy and act accordingly."

Nie Zefeng looked at Wei Yan and saw the most aggrieved general in history, and said: "If this can be done, I will feel more relieved. Go ahead and call Pang Tong!"

Wei Yan went out tacitly.

Nie Zefeng said to Ma Liang: "This may be the most important decision I have made in my life. I am the King of Chu, but now I have no troops to send, so I can only choose a scholar to take on such a thing. It is really a bit...

Ma Liang consoled him: "No, Your Majesty. From what I see, Your Majesty's future prospects are limitless, and the most important decision is still to come!"

Nie Zefeng narrowed his eyes. Although the wars were won one after another, the battle lines were getting longer and longer. He now deeply understood the pain of fighting on multiple fronts. He asked doubtfully: "Is it possible?"

Ma Liang went up and took the hand of this once heroic and ambitious king and said: "Definitely!"
Chapter completed!