lucky star girl

Chapter 153 Discovery
Just when Xu Shiqiu's decree for promotion was issued, and when the young people who followed him to join the army were awarded the rank of military officer of the seventh or eighth rank, the Jiang family in the capital city suddenly reported that Mrs. Jiang was seriously ill.

The people who heard about it didn't take it to heart. After all, it wasn't the first time Mrs. Jiang fell ill this year, and there were rumors that she was seriously ill before.

Including the in-laws Xu's family, after hearing the news, they didn't take it seriously until Xu Yanzhu asked Cuihua to go back to Xu's family to deliver the news in person.

"So, Madam Jiang is really seriously ill?" Dong Shu looked at Cuihua standing in the middle of the hall with disbelief. She really didn't expect that Madam Jiang was really dying.

After Cuihua heard Dong Shu's question, she nodded seriously first, and then said: "At first, the eldest girl didn't believe it, but after she went out last night and came back, for some reason, she was in a daze for a long time. .Until early this morning, the eldest lady asked her servant to come back to visit the old madam and madam, and send the news back by the way."

As soon as Cuihua finished saying this, Mrs. Xu felt her heart skip a beat. She subconsciously glanced at Dong Shu, and saw that Dong Shu hadn't noticed anything, but she was afraid that she wouldn't figure it out so quickly, so she relaxed. in one breath.

The old lady Xu was rejoicing that Dong Shu had finally been taught and understood a lot of things. The next moment, Dong Shu had already figured out what Xu Yanzhu meant by asking Cuihua to come back through Cuihua's words just now.

"Mother, is there something hidden about Mrs. Jiang's matter?" Dong Shu was not sure about her conjecture, but she couldn't think of any other possibility.

Hearing Dong Shu's words, Mrs. Xu nodded in satisfaction first, and then said: "You guessed right, I'm afraid Yanzhu really found something." After saying this, Mrs. Xu paused and continued : "Before you agreed with Yan Zhu that her third uncle was promoted to a banquet and asked her to help, so you took this opportunity to ask her to come back to help, and just asked her what she found."

Dong Shu got the old lady Xu's instructions, and immediately got busy. By the way, she also asked Cuihua to bring back news to Xu Yanzhu, asking her to come back early to help in a few days.

Not to mention what Xu Yanzhu thought after receiving the news from his third aunt in the Jiang family, the Xu family was lively for a few more days because of Xu Shiqiu's promotion.

In fact, Xu Shiqiu's promotion this time is different from others. People with some clues in the capital know the agreement between Xu Shiqiu and Emperor Ruikang before. Seeing that Emperor Ruikang not only promoted Xu Shiqiu generously, but also asked him to recruit new recruits, he guessed Xu Shiqiu The recruits trained are probably really good.

Otherwise, Emperor Ruikang would not order him to recruit new recruits, although this time recruit recruits must first be selected from other generals in the Beijing suburban military camp.

Now that Xu Shiqiu's official position has been promoted, the officials who were at the same level as him or one or two levels lower naturally became his subordinates.

With Emperor Ruikang's words, even if they were unwilling to hand over the soldiers in their hands, they could only be patient and let Xu Shiqiu choose under them.

However, Xu Shiqiu's selection criterion was that the people they selected should defeat the auxiliary soldiers in his hands.

Not to mention that although the ones they brought out for Xu Shiqiu to choose were not his confidantes, they were also soldiers who had joined the army for many years, but now they were going to compete with the auxiliary soldiers in Xu Shiqiu's hands.

This made some people who were already unwilling to see Xu Shiqiu even more unhappy. Because of this, one or two held their breath and wanted to teach Xu Shiqiu a lesson.

They came up with two solutions. One was that since Xu Shiqiu didn't give them face so much, they didn't have to give Xu Shiqiu face either.Didn't Xu Shiqiu let his auxiliary soldiers come out as the objects of the competition?Then they sent out the best soldiers under their hands, but said to the outside world that these were just ordinary soldiers under their own hands.

As long as these people thought that their 'ordinary' soldiers had defeated Xu Shiqiu's soldiers, then Xu Shiqiu, who was rewarded by the Holy Spirit for his excellent training of recruits, would naturally be doubted about his authenticity.

Of course, they will also let people help to promote it. As long as they operate well, who will know that the ordinary soldiers they send are still the best soldiers.What's more, Xu Shiqiu's subordinates were sent to assess, of course, they couldn't just be auxiliary soldiers, and they must be told something else.

No one would believe that they were the Iron Eagle Brigade under Xu Shiqiu, but they must be ambiguous to let the world know that Xu Shiqiu's ability to train recruits is not that good at all.

Besides this, another method is Xu Shiqiu himself.

They all guessed that Xu Shiqiu was able to be promoted twice this time because he married a lady whom the queen liked, especially this lady was lucky.

That being the case, they naturally wanted to take Xu Shiqiu to feel the tenderness of other women in Beijing.

As long as Xu Shiqiu was infected with other women, and they would let out the news again, they must teach Xu Shiqiu a lesson in the way the queen protects Fukang Xiangjun.

Xu Shiqiu didn't know at this time that he was already being missed. When Emperor Ruikang asked him to recruit soldiers again and train more soldiers from the Iron Eagle Brigade, he became completely busy.

Coupled with the hint given by King Duan earlier, Xu Shiqiu also understood that he was afraid that he would leave the capital for another place in a while.

Time is running out, he wished there were 24 hours in a day.

On this day, Xu Shiqiu had been busy all day, and he didn't plan to go home tonight, but his family sent a message to say that he had something to discuss, so he finished training half an hour earlier than the day before yesterday, and was ready to go home.

Unexpectedly, before he walked out of the barracks, several generals who were not familiar with him in the barracks came to him with smiles on their faces, and invited him to go to Jingzhong Restaurant for a drink.

The reason is to celebrate his promotion.

If these people asked him to drink when he first came here, Xu Shiqiu might have agreed.

Moreover, his promotion plan has been announced for several days, and it seems a bit unreal for them to take action.

But now that his official position is much higher than theirs, and now he wants to poach someone from them, how can these people invite him to drink and celebrate with such kindness?
Xu Shiqiu was not stupid, he was also carefully raised by his family. Although he had stayed at home before, he understood the twists and turns in the officialdom.

Xu Shiqiu knew that today's wine was absolutely undrinkable.

"I appreciate everyone's kindness, but today I sent someone from my family to say that I have something to discuss at home. I will go back to discuss it. Another day, another day, I will definitely host a banquet to entertain you all." Xu Shiqiu originally thought that he would not break his face with everyone. After explaining what you mean, leave quickly.

Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, one of the bearded generals immediately pretended to be displeased and said, "Could it be that General Xu is not willing to give my brothers a face? We can hold a special banquet for General Xu today, is it possible?" With so many of us, why not hire General Xu?"

"Yes, General Xu is not willing to give me the face of waiting for my brother today?" After the bearded general finished speaking, another long-faced general said, "I have already reserved a seat in the restaurant in the city for today. , General Xu looks down on us brothers like that?"

As soon as the long-faced general finished speaking, the rest of the other generals agreed one after another, saying that if Xu Shiqiu didn't want to go to the banquet, he just looked down on them.

If Xu Shiqiu was just skeptical at the beginning, but now he is sure that this group of people did not come with good intentions.

Since this group of people's minds are not pure, Xu Shiqiu will naturally not continue to stay and flirt with this group of people. With this time, he might as well go home earlier, play with Yuan Xi and make out with the little lady.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiqiu looked at everyone with embarrassment and said, "I'm afraid you have forgotten that I have a strange life since I was a child, and now I can stay safely in the barracks thanks to my wife at home. It's just that Master Xuanling explained a lot before, so that I As long as I have time, I will spend more time with my wife at home. Today I will feel that something is not right, so I will prepare to go home early and accompany my wife." After saying this, Xu Shiqiu sighed again: "If you all I don't mind, this general is willing to go to the banquet with everyone, but if this general..."

There was no need to finish the words, as soon as Xu Shiqiu's words came out, the people surrounding Xu Shiqiu immediately took half a step back in fright.

During this period of time, Xu Shiqiu was so normal that they all forgot how terrifying his rumors were.

Seeing their actions, Xu Shiqiu understood that this group of people definitely didn't really have friendship with him, otherwise they wouldn't have avoided it just because of this uncertainty.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiqiu continued: "Today is really unfortunate, and Japan will hold a banquet at the best restaurant in the city to entertain you all." After saying this, Xu Shiqiu took the opportunity to take a few steps forward, and then turned his head He said to them: "You don't need to send each other off, it's better to be far away from Ben Jiang in these two days."

Abandoning these words, Xu Shiqiu didn't care what these people were thinking, and strode forward directly. When he got to his own soldiers, he immediately took the reins of his horse, got on the horse, and left the barracks without looking back. .

After Xu Shiqiu left, the group of people came back to their senses.

The bearded general said: "What Xu Shiqiu said today, is it true or not?" They all knew about Xu Shiqiu's bad luck, but they haven't seen anyone affected by him in the past few months, so they almost forgot about it today .

"Be careful even if it's not true. After all, what happened to Xu Shiqiu back then was not fake." After the long-faced general said this, he sighed and continued: "This trick is still inappropriate. If it really doesn't work, we'll just use another The method is good, and it is not appropriate to have too much contact with Xu Shiqiu."

As soon as the long-faced general finished speaking, the other generals nodded one after another, agreeing to his proposal.

It's just that they didn't know that as soon as Xu Shiqiu left the barracks, he ordered him to go down and find out what the group of people had planned today. They had no other plans except to lure him to a restaurant in the city for a drink.

After giving the order, Xu Shiqiu didn't say much anymore, and rode directly on the horse, leading a few guards back to the mansion in Beijing.

As soon as Xu Shiqiu arrived at home, she heard Dong Shu say that Xu Yanzhu had returned home today, but she had been reluctant to speak, and had to wait until Xu Shiqiu came back before she was willing to tell what she had found.

Hearing Dong Shu's words, Xu Shiqiu immediately said: "In that case, let's go to the main courtyard to see Yan Zhu and find out what happened." After saying this, Xu Shiqiu immediately led Dong Shu towards the main courtyard.

(End of this chapter)