A few days later, when the army returned, the governor Shen Donglai brought officials from all over the city to the outskirts to greet the army thirty miles away. The whole city was decorated with lanterns and colorful ribbons to celebrate the execution of Yu Mu Xiuer, the chief of the Di people.
At this time, Shen Zangfeng had not returned from Diecuiguan, but because he sent a letter back two days later, it meant that he was still trying to persuade the man named Shangguan Shiyi that everything was going well. Wei Changying wasn't too worried about him.
After the army returns, rewards and rewards will be handled by Shen Youjia and Shen Dong, without the intervention of Wei Changying. She just followed what she said before and made a list of the beauties that the elders forced on Shen Zanghui at the New Year's Eve banquet, and sent someone to send it to Shen Youjia, explaining that they were all beautiful and lovely young women who could be Used for rewards.
Shen Youjia was not polite and directly distributed the people to his subordinates who had made contributions in this expedition. Because there were indeed some very beautiful girls among those beauties, this matter caused a lot of competition, and Shen Yujia went to Mingpei Hall in person within two days to ask for an audience with Wei Changying, and shamelessly asked for another Ask for a group of outstanding beauties as rewards.
After Wei Changying heard about it, he couldn't laugh or cry, and said: "That batch was given to the fourth brother by the elders. The fourth brother already had people waiting for him. He thought it was too much trouble, so he asked me to help him get rid of it. I can't use them here. , this is for you. Can I specially cultivate a group of people to give you rewards?"
Shen Youjia looked around and saw that they were all the confidants of Wei Changying, so he chuckled and said maliciously: "My nephew knows that my aunt has no such beauties to reward, but the elders can give them to the fourth generation." Uncle, why can’t we send out more people?”
Wei Changying was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this guy suggested that he follow the elders who gave Shen Zanghui a gift last time to beg for Mei Ji. She was speechless for a moment, and then said: "You have a good idea. , but asked me to be such a difficult person? "
"My nephew is a humble official and his seniority is low. Where can the elders have a place to talk to my nephew? It's different with my aunt." Shen Youjia salivated and said, "It's hard for my nephew to say this. My aunt said it. "Kou, who in our clan can't give face to my aunt?"
"This is a great victory that has not happened in decades. You will not continue to be humble and talk lightly in the future." Hearing this, Chief Wei smiled faintly and revealed the news. Although the Holy Emperor was worried that the Shen family's excessive power would endanger the imperial power, the results of this victory were remarkable. They beheaded tens of thousands of people, chased the Di people thousands of miles deep into the grassland, and even killed the Di people's Shanyu Mu Xiuer.
Such merit is not generously rewarded. If the Holy One can do it, the officials will make a fuss. Shen Youjia's captaincy will definitely be promoted.
Shen Youjia, who has been the captain of Xiliang for more than ten years, his eyes lit up after hearing this, but he still said: "The elders are at least the ancestors of my nephew. My nephew dares to come to his aunt to request, but he dare not go to the elders." They came forward to tell me and asked my aunt to make the decision for my nephew!"
Seeing his persistence, Wei Changying smiled and thought it would be a good idea to take this opportunity to impress the elders, so he asked: "How much do you want?"
Shen Yujia said in a loud voice: "My nephew went on this expedition and established subordinates who deserved to be rewarded by Mei Ji. There is still a hundred and eighty short of enough!"
"One hundred and eighty, this will empty out the backyards of the elders!" Wei Changying reminded, "They only gave away seventeen to your fourth uncle before." She just wanted to give those people a beating. , after all, they are all the Shen family members, or the elders. They didn't make any big mistakes, and Wei Changying didn't want to go too far.
Especially now that the army has just returned, everyone in Xiliang is very happy! At this moment, everyone's interest was dampened, and it was also a blow to the morale of the army.
However, Shen Youjia refused to reduce the number and said: "Since they can send four uncles alone, there are seventeen of them, not to mention the many soldiers under my nephew's command?"
"What you want is Mei Ji, and she is not an ordinary maid. Ji people have always chosen to buy girls with dignified eyebrows since they were young. After more than ten years of training, they have become so. How can you get it together in a hurry?" Wei Changying laughed and said , "Or you can just make do with it, and reward those who are less meritorious with a maid. To be honest, don't look at those beauties who are beautiful and good at singing and dancing. In my opinion, a small family's life is , these people are not as agile as a rough maid."
Shen Youjia insisted: "Now that the sons and daughters have returned from victory, what they want most is to find a beautiful wife. As for what my aunt said about living a good life, it is true. But even if Meiji didn't know how to do housework before, she can learn how to do it after she has passed the exam. Well! But a woman with a mediocre appearance today can’t suddenly look good after passing the exam, right?”
He added, "After all, the elders are getting old. At such an age, it is proper to enjoy the happiness of family. What do you want with so many beautiful ladies? They are kept in the backyard for nothing and waste food! It is better to use them as rewards, that's right. It’s time to reproduce!”
These words made everyone in the hall cover their mouths and chuckle.
Guard Chief Ying also said angrily: "How can you say that to the elders? What a nonsense!"
Even so, Shen Youjia still forced Wei Changying to agree to go to the elders to ask for a group of beauties on his behalf. The more the better, and then he left with satisfaction.
After he left, Zhu Xian was surprised and said: "My maid thought that Commander Shen asked to see the young lady today just to plead guilty for the incident involving his brother Shen, Chief Manager! But he continued to ask for help. He came, and he didn’t even mention anything about Manager Shen when he left!”
"I've long heard that this man has a rough temperament, but now it's true when I see him." Wei Changying didn't care, and said, "Shen Youyi is Shen Youyi, and Shen Youjia is certainly a brother, but what he did is The idea is not enough to involve his brother," he said to Zhu Yi, "Go and find out if any of the people who sent Meiji to the fourth brother had offended Yujia. Do you have to pester me to agree to ask for someone on his behalf? "
Zhu Yi said, "Young lady, there's no need to ask. I know what's going on!"
Wei Changying asked curiously: "What is it?"
"Young Madam, you know that although Captain Shen is a son of the Shen family, he is not very proficient in literary affairs..." Zhu Yi thought about the appropriate wording and said, "A few years ago, during the Chinese New Year, Captain Shen went to the Third Old Master. I went to a banquet at my house, and the drinking order was given at the banquet. When I arrived at Captain Shen, I didn't think of it for a moment - Captain Shen had already agreed to drink as a fine, but it turned out that one of the prostitutes called to the banquet that day to add to the fun was a woman named Xi'er. He went out and mocked Captain Shen!"
Wei Changying frowned and asked, "What then?"
"Captain Shen is very angry!" Zhu Yi said, "My maid heard that Commander Shen said this at that time: The general idea is that Captain Shen served the country conscientiously and guarded the border. He was worthy of heaven and earth, and the banquet order was just a trivial matter. , How dare a mere prostitute talk about his lack of literary talents? He also said that the Shen family is a martial arts family, and it is only your natal family, young lady, that requires all the children in the clan to be talented!"
"Then what did Third Uncle do?" Wei Changying asked.
Zhu Yi said: "Here's the thing: Ordinarily, Captain Shen said this. Due to emotions and reasons, even if the third old lady didn't deal with Na Er, he should have handed her over to Captain Shen. But the third old lady was perfunctory at that time. , and within two days he had brought that piece of cake into the backyard, and it still serves the third old man, and he likes it very much!"
Wei Changying understood and said to Mrs. Huang: "Auntie, please go back and tell the third uncle that every family will produce a beautiful concubine this time, and Lu'er must be among them!"
Zhu Yi said from the side: "Young madam, the third old master likes this Xu'er very much. It is said that Xu'er relies on his favor and does not even look down on the third old master's first wife."
"As a concubine, but she doesn't take the wife's wife seriously, and she is so arrogant, I think she must be an abnormal person with her eyes." Wei Changying said lightly, "If the third uncle is so old and confused, Just take this piece of eyeball to wake him up!"
Wei Changying said this in an understatement, and did not take the matter of gouging out Lu'er's eyes at all. Zhu Yi couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart! The respect for this young lady deepened.
But Huang said with a smile: "What the young lady is saying is, what is this thing? It's just that I won the favor of the third old man on the strength of his youth and beauty, but he has become so frivolous. He is simply asking for death! The third old master is already old. Gao, I guess it was because of my negligence that I allowed her to be so rude!"
... This third uncle does not belong to the clan of clan leaders like Shen Xun. Although he does not obviously dislike Wei Changying like his predecessor, the father of Xiliang Governor, he is not close to him either.
Originally, after Guard Chief Ying seized power, as long as he didn't come out and make mistakes, he didn't bother to kill them all.
But now he knows that Shen Yujia has a grudge against him and wants revenge very much. Shen Yujia, who is junior but loyal and her husband's right-hand man, and his third uncle, Wei Changying, who is senior but lukewarm and useless. Without even thinking about it, I naturally chose Shen Yujia.
Shen Youjia wants to take revenge on Wei'er, but he has enough reasons, but even if he has no reason, Wei Changying will get the person for him.
As for Shen Youjia not saying anything for his brother Shen Youyi when he came this time... Wei Changying said calmly: "Since he trusts his husband, he will not panic and apologize hurriedly because Shen Youyi did something wrong. I am afraid that I will be held accountable if I am too late. This person can stay in the position of captain for more than ten years, and he is really worried. "
Huang said: "What the young lady is saying is that just by looking at the incident of Xi'er, you can see that Captain Shen may seem rough and arrogant, but in fact he knows everything."
The entire plan to kill Qiudi's great Chanyu Mu Xiuer was led by Shen Zangfeng and assisted by Shen Youjia. Now that the goal has been achieved, Shen Zangfeng's prestige has risen to a higher level. It is time to officially intervene in the affairs of the clan, fully confirm the name of the next clan leader, and take control of the real power in the clan.
Even if Shen Youjia doesn't come to ask for Meiji, when Shen Zangfeng returns to Xiliang City, he will definitely take over the power of Mingpeitang himself, clean up the whole staff, cultivate his cronies, and eliminate dissidents... Shen Youjia just gave him an introduction. I just took this opportunity to avenge myself for the past.
... It's even possible that after all these years, Shen Youjia didn't care about the grievances back then, but he saw what Shen Zangfeng was going to do next and specially contributed an introduction.
All in all, Qiudi Da Chanyu was executed, and even if remnants such as Wu Gumeng and Ayitahu were still alive, their vitality was severely damaged, and they still had to compete with each other for the position of the Great Chan Yu. The foreign enemies had no time to take care of themselves, and the border generals I can be stable for a while. Less than two years have passed since he went to the border to make meritorious deeds for three years. Will Shen Zangfeng still spend the remaining one year eating, drinking and having fun in Mingpeitang
The previous seizure of power by the guard chief Ying was just to stabilize the rear for her husband, and to save Shen Zangfeng from having to fight Musiul and also be distracted from dealing with the clan's schemes. As a woman, even though Wei Changying is nominally in charge of Ming Peitang's family, there are limits to what she can do. But now that Shen Zangfeng has his hands free, nothing can stop him from intervening.
Wei Changying leaned on the soft couch, squinting his eyes slightly, thinking about what he knew about the situation in the clan... (To be continued)