Chapter 71: Uncomfortable

The burly man was Zhao Fucheng, the Hundred-Guard of Zhihai Stockade, who had just been promoted by Zhang Gui through a martial arts competition.

The Hundred-Guard of the militia is Ninth Rank Primary, and the deputy Hundred-Guard is Ninth Rank Secondary.

Let alone Zhang Gui, even the military prefecture of Pingyang Commandery City didn't have the right to directly promote a commoner without a degree to an official position.

But as the Governor of the military stockade, Zhang Gui could suggest who to promote to the Pingyang Commandery Military Prefecture when there was a vacancy in his command.

As for whether the Commandery Military Prefecture agreed, he didn't care at all; he would just call the title first.

And the remaining soldiers were the best-looking ones Zhang Gui selected from the thousands of young and strong militia soldiers of "Zhihai Stockade."

The lines and actions had long been rehearsed.

It was just that when the matter came to a head and he really did it, he felt his face burning and his back numb.

The reason for this is easy to understand; since ancient times, "villagers are hard to deceive."

"Deceive" here has the dual meaning of deceiving and bullying.

That is to say, a small person who has been ordinary from childhood to adulthood in his hometown.

Suddenly one day his luck turns, and he becomes a climate.

People outside will fear him and respect him, and he himself feels that he is very remarkable, and he is naturally majestic.

But in the eyes of neighbors and relatives in his hometown, this big man is inevitably still a loser image first.

And when that big man returns home and sees familiar neighbors and friends, he absolutely cannot put on airs for the first time.

For example, Zhang Gui could only bite the bullet and nod his head pretending to be deep, and jumped ashore without waiting for the suspension ladder to be set up.

But it was even harder to stay on the shore, and the discussions were harsh:

"That, that seems to be the kid from Auntie Caiyang's house.

I heard he was successful, but I didn't expect him to be so big all of a sudden.

Isn't this like a poor boy reaching the sky in one step, just like in a play!"

"Heh, the fish market business is closed, I came to pick up a few toad fish and small shrimp, didn't expect to see a live scene.

That military ship seems to be occupying the berth of the Qifu family.

If his big ship comes back and they fight, it will be lively."

"What are you thinking, you said it was a military ship.

People are wearing mandarin duck jackets, wearing iron helmets, and carrying short knives.

You still want to fight.

Do you think our Pingyang Zhang Family is still in the good old days when the ancestor Siwei managed the world and adjusted yin and yang.

Every festival, the 'Ten Thousand General Head' had to come to deliver a post and call himself a running dog under the door."...

Under such circumstances, Zhang Gui could only pretend that his ears were deaf.

Seeing acquaintances, if others didn't greet him, he would lift his face and pretend he didn't see them.

Anxiously waiting for his subordinates on the military ship to come down quickly to do business.

As a result, before the soldiers had finished coming down, an extremely familiar figure timidly approached him,

"Gui Gui Ge, is that you?"

Zhang Gui lowered his head when he heard this, and looked back at his fifth cousin Caiyang Sha from his eldest aunt's house with a shy smile,

"It's only been three or five days, and Shasha can't recognize her cousin anymore? It's really heartbreaking.

Hahaha, cousin is just joking.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fish market is closed, why did you run here to play?"

"My Amu asked me to find the fourth sister and go home.

I looked and looked and found it here.

Seeing Gui Gui Ge, you became an official and went home, so majestic, that's why I didn't recognize you."

"Is that so, hahaha.

It's cold outside, Shasha, you go home quickly.

Your fourth sister won't run far, she will go back by herself in a while.

By the way, in a while I will bring people home to move a few jars of fish and shrimp paste.

You go back and tell your aunt, mother, and second mother to prepare."

Caiyang Sha's own sister, Caiyang Hualin, was the most outstanding in appearance among Zhang Gui's cousins.

His mother, Caiyang Duojie, had tried several times to match Zhang Gui with Caiyang Hualin to make their relatives closer.

Disguisedly letting Zhang Gui settle down.

As a result, because of the taboos of his previous life, Zhang Gui really didn't want to do that with his close relatives, so he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and not respond.

Caiyang Hualin also preferred the refined scholar type, and had no interest in her cousin who was inwardly showy but outwardly ordinary.

The matter naturally went unmentioned.

In recent days, Zhang Gui had inadvertently seen Caiyang Hualin walking with a delicate student who was full of youthful spirit.

I suppose she went to be romantic again today and forgot the time.

"What a youthful and vibrant time.

Hey, at the same age, others are talking about love, watching lanterns, setting off fireworks, eating yuanxiao, and lighting lanterns.

I have to rack my brains to run for my life in order to cover up the evidence of the crime.

It's really the same person with different fates."

At this time, the soldiers under his command finally all got off the ship.

Zhang Gui hurriedly led them to wander around Pingyang Town to buy things for thousands of people for the festival.

Spending money was as smooth as flowing water.

And "money is the courage of a hero, and power is the hair that bluffs people."

Wearing a proper Eighth-Rank Seal-Holding military official uniform, followed by a group of soldiers acting as escorts, giving away thousands of taels of silver without even blinking.

Slowly, those who were chasing to watch the excitement stopped laughing, and the look in their eyes when they looked at Zhang Gui gradually changed from joking to envy mixed with a little alienation and awe.

At the same time, Pingyang Zhang Family main residence, main house.

Clan head Zhang Qitai was closing his eyes and resting with a face of irritability.

He was in his early forties, with a three-strand long beard, slender eyes, a hooked nose, and a white face.

Although his talent for cultivation was poor, he had practiced the Vertical and Horizontal Sword Art for decades, but it was always difficult to get the taste.

But relying on a mountain of gold and a sea of silver, he also had the cultivation of the Seventh-Rank "Bing Shao."

It can be considered a classic configuration for a young and strong clan head of a famous family.

If you say it's bad, there's no problem;

If you say it's good, there are no too many advantages.

Four characters to describe it, "just flat."

And in recent days, this new clan head who is flat overall has encountered a very difficult thing.

The ancestral industry "Wangbei Manor" sold to the imperial merchant Pinghu Rong Family was inexplicably looted.

Except for the house, not even a hair was left.

Just as he was distressed, a personal servant came to his side lightly.

Softly reported: "Clan head, the two big cabinet young masters of the Rong family are asking to see you."

Zhang Qitai heard this like a lit firecracker, and instantly became irritable and thunderous,

"Again, again, not letting me rest even on the Lantern Festival!

On the thirty-first of the first lunar month, these two playboy sons took many subordinates and ran to the brothel in Siyang Commandery City to mess around.

They didn't come back until the eleventh of the first lunar month.

Then they told me in the middle of the night that tens of thousands of young and strong servants;

Hundreds of managers and manor guards;

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver melons;

Countless grain and vegetable seeds along with hundreds of ox and horse carts were rolled away by someone.

How can I believe such a bizarre thing.

Besides, what if I believe it.

The manor wasn't looted by our Pingyang Zhang Family.

What does it have to do with me..."

Since he was a personal servant, he naturally knew his master's temperament, so he stood with his head down and didn't speak.

After the clan head finished venting, he persuaded softly:

"Whether it has anything to do with us or not, you should see them and round out the face."

In fact, it is not just a question of face.

The financial crisis of the Pingyang Zhang Family has not yet been overcome, and land still needs to be sold.

And the best buyer is still the Shuanghu Rong Family.

In addition, imperial merchants do business on behalf of the royal family, and the money spent is naturally the emperor's money.

Now that the "goods" bought with the emperor's money are lost, it is very difficult to get away by simply reasoning and discussing right and wrong.

Whoever gets involved will be covered in hair!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 72 =====