Chapter 10 Xiling Qiao Family
Since the arrival of the Xin County Magistrate Zhou Chu, the entire county has undergone earth-shaking changes. The most talked about by people is that the county Magistrate Zhou Chuchu rode a donkey and led the people in the county to reclaim wasteland around the county town.
The image of the donkey in Zhou Chu's slanting span has gradually become popular, and the name of the donkey county magistrate spread like wildfire.
On the other hand, Zhou Cheng led the yamen runners to wipe out the cliques one by one. The large and small villages that were originally scattered with Yu Khan were constantly destroyed. In the end, even the cliques who lived in the mountains who were just uneducated were beaten to destroy.
Soon there were no more bandits and people in Yuhan County, and the county magistrate Wang An even praised Zhou Cheng as omnipotent.
The people of Yuhan County also vaguely knew that there was a talented man in the county jun's mansion to assist him. This person was called "Mr. Cheng". It is said that he could spit out sword pills and kill people thousands of miles away. He could cut mountains and mountains with one sword.
It has been more than three months since Zhou Chu took office as the magistrate of Yuhan County. Now the county is peaceful, there are no trace of thieves, and thousands of acres of land have been reclaimed, and all have been sown. I am waiting for the harvest in a few months. Everything in Yuhan County is developing in a good direction.
That night, Zhou Chu was still alone, processing official documents in the study. Since the Sun Star appeared, Zhou Chu has not revealed his magical powers in front of others.
"Dongdong" the wooden door of the study room made a sound, but someone was knocking outside.
"Come in." Zhou Chu still buried his head. Although the door had not opened, he also felt that it was Zhou Cheng outside the house.
Zhou Cheng pushed open the door and walked gently to Zhou Chu's desk. The waiter stood by but did not speak.
After a while, after Zhou Chu finished processing the last document and sorted it out, he asked, "It's so late, what's the matter with me?"
In the past half month, Yu Han's government affairs have been on the right track, and there is no copycat that Zhou Cheng needs to take action. During this period, he has been in a backyard for restoration, and sometimes it takes several days to enter a meditation at a time.
Seeing that he was so passionate about practicing Taoism, Zhou Chu did not arrange anything else to him. The two of them had not seen each other for several days.
"Now Yu Khan's government affairs are in order, and his lord's reputation has also risen. There is something really that I have to say!" Zhou Cheng bowed to Zhou Chu, his expression was serious and he seemed extremely serious.
"Why do you want to be so formal? Let's listen?" Zhou Chu also became interested and looked at Zhou Cheng with great interest and asked.
"When the old lord was still alive, he had a marriage for the lord. The Qiao family in Xiling had a daughter Yuwei, who was your fiancee. The lord used various excuses to rude, which made the wedding date repeatedly postponed. Later, the old lord passed away, and this delayed for another three years. Now Miss Yuwei has twenty-three subordinates and one servant. She shouldn't have said too much, but what the lord did in this matter is indeed inappropriate." Zhou Cheng had never spoken to Zhou Chu so seriously, and even there was a faint sense of blame in his words.
It’s not a big mistake for Zhou Cheng, just because Zhou Chu is almost thirty years old, and it’s just a traitor. Zhou Chu’s fiancée Qiao Yuwei is now twenty-three years old. A woman of this age has not yet married, so Qiao Yuwei has actually endured too many rumors.
Zhou Cheng was devoted to the Zhou family. Zhou Chu's marriage was Zhou Feng's heart disease, and now it was Zhou Cheng's heart disease. It was okay to keep filial piety for Zhou Feng two years ago, but now the filial piety period has expired and Zhou Chu has become an official. They have gained a firm foothold in Yu Khan. If they don't marry Qiao Yuwei, it's really unreasonable.
The Qiao family in Xiling is not an ordinary family, and there are two big and two Qiaos in their clan, which are also considered to be true royal relatives.
It is also recognized by the world that Qiao's family's beautiful women were born. Zhou Bree was a capable minister in the Eastern Wu, so he asked Zhou Chu for a fiancée like Qiao Yuwei. However, by chance, their marriage was delayed again and again, and it had already reached such an unprecedented level of age.
Zhou Chu's face changed when he heard this. After a long time, he sighed and said, "It's true that this is true. Qiao is a big family. I once heard that Qiao Yuwei is also a talented woman in the world. She is proficient in poetry and articles. Her talent is famous and she has been in a constant stream of suitors. This marriage has been delayed for seven or eight years, but I have lost it to her."
"My subordinates beg you to go to Xiling as soon as possible and marry the Qiao family lady." Zhou Cheng bowed deeply to Zhou Chu. In his eyes, everything is not as important as letting Zhou Chu get married.
"It's a pity that Yu Khan is nearly a thousand miles away from Xiling. As the magistrate of Yu Khan, I am unable to leave here without permission." Zhou Chu also showed guilt towards Qiao Yuwei, but he had to abide by the court's regulations, but now he is a little embarrassed.
"Or why, now I have an official position. Yuwei seems to be just a branch of Qiao's family. So Brother Cheng held my own letter and married Miss Yuwei on my behalf?" Zhou Chu thought for a while, and continued, but he came up with a compromise.
In this era, the journey is inconvenient, and some families of aristocratic families do not necessarily have to ask the groom to greet him in person, especially those young and promising young and senior officials. They can randomly assign trustees to welcome him, and there are even examples of the woman's family taking the initiative to send her to get married and traveling thousands of miles to her husband's family.
"The lord told me that I will never let my entrustedness." Zhou Cheng also felt that this was possible, so he nodded and agreed.
"I'll write a letter. This time when you wiped out those copycats, you got a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. Choose more and bring them with you. We can't miss the etiquette." Zhou Chu raised his pen and said, while starting to write letters, he continued to give instructions.
"Don't worry, lord" Zhou Chengzheng pointed out.
This wedding was naturally also the face of Zhou. Once it was related to Zhou, Zhou Cheng would be very concerned about it, no matter how big or small it was.
"In addition, if Qiao wants to terminate the engagement, or Miss Yuwei has another relationship, you can terminate the engagement on my behalf. That paper engagement should be the one you took?" Zhou Chu quickly wrote a letter.
"The subordinates of this engagement have always been holding on to the lord, but if the engagement is really terminated, what is the face of Zhou?" Zhou Cheng was a little reluctant about this.
"Oh, we are sorry for others in front of us. It's better not to fight for these faces!" Zhou Chu is more open-minded than Zhou Cheng in this kind of thing.
Zhou Cheng is the kind, and he doesn't care about himself, but once it is related to Zhou's reputation, he becomes a stubborn person.
"What's the reluctance to this? Besides, it's not you who got married, just treat it as my order. Is this OK?" Zhou Chu said with a stern face when he saw Zhou Cheng's reluctance.
"Subordinate to obey the order!" Zhou Cheng lowered his head respectfully and did not argue anymore.
After a while, Zhou Cheng left, and Zhou Chu also meditated and rested directly in the room.
In the middle of the night, Zhou Chu suddenly opened his eyes, shook his head helplessly, and then muttered to himself: "Brother Cheng is really sincere. He is so anxious that he goes to Xiling."
Sure enough, under the dark night sky, a black shadow jumped and appeared on the beam of the county government office, and then flashed a few times and headed out of the city.
This black shadow is naturally Zhou Cheng who is well-kept. He doesn't need to rest anyway. In his opinion, he can only welcome Qiao Yuwei back as soon as possible.
Yu Khan was a thousand miles away from Xiling, but Zhou Cheng didn't even ride a donkey this time, but kept using the power of the inner alchemy and ran all the way to Xiling.
Just early on the third morning, he appeared outside Xiling City.
After rushing through the day and two nights, Zhou Cheng stimulated the power of the inner alchemy and consumed nearly a year's life.
Outside Xiling City, Zhou Cheng had already changed into a suit. His decent robe had silk-wired embroidered laces and his hair was tied with jade hair on his head. He looked steady and decent, but without losing his elegant demeanor.
After finding the location of Qiao's Mansion, Zhou Cheng directly sent a famous post and explained his purpose. The concierge did not make things difficult for him and welcomed him into Qiao's Mansion respectfully.
In the lobby, Zhou Cheng sat in the guest room, drinking the fragrant tea served by the maid. However, no one in charge of the Qiao Mansion was here.
After tea, Zhou Cheng gradually felt something was wrong. At this time, he still didn't know what was wrong? It was obviously Qiao's mansion embarrassing himself.
Zhou Cheng was already worried about it, thinking that this was Zhou Chu's fiancee's family after all, and he did not use Shen Nian to spy on it casually.
However, just as Zhou Cheng's spiritual thoughts were about to penetrate his body, a middle-aged man in his forties walked in outside the hall surrounded by several servants.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm really busy with official business, so I've been waiting for a long time!" The middle-aged man said while walking, and his tone was a bit a bit apologetic.
"In the next Qiao Heng, is this Mr. Cheng?" The middle-aged man Qiao Heng was Qiao Yuwei's father. He reported his name and asked Zhou Cheng again, as if he knew something about Zhou Cheng.
"I dare not be a lie. Zhou Cheng does things for my master and dare not be a wise man." Zhou Cheng quickly stood up and returned the gift. He didn't know what Qiao Heng sold in the gourd, so he could only answer according to the etiquette.
"Hehe, Yu Han and the other two weeks are now well-known. It is rumored that Mr. is even more a god-like man who can fly to the sky and escape and spit out a sword." Qiao Heng said with a smile.
Zhou Cheng did not expect that even Xiling knew about himself and Zhou Chu's name, and it was no secret that Zhou Cheng possessed Taoist magical powers.
However, Zhou Cheng was thinking too much about this. It was not that he and Zhou Chu were so famous, but because Zhou Chu had a engagement with Qiao after all, Qiao Heng had always cared about Zhou Chu.
Because Zhou Chu has never truly shown his magical powers in front of others, people in the world do not know how unique he is. They only think that Zhou Chu is still a playboy, and Zhou Cheng is the person who helps Zhou Chu behind the scenes.
"These are all false news. This time I came here to marry Miss Yuwei on behalf of my lord. The Zhou Qiao family had a marriage contract, but it was not possible to fulfill some things a few years ago. This was the marriage contract between Zhou Qiao and the other two families." Zhou Cheng responded lightly, and then solemnly took out the marriage contract, held up his hands and handed it to Qiao Heng.
Chapter completed!