There are already thousands of chapters unknowingly, so let's commemorate it.
And on a wharf outside of Jiangling City, surrounded by a crowd of maids and servant women, Cao Hongyao, the dressed-up young lady, was also looking forward to the sparkling water. Until a plume of smoke appeared on the skyline in the distance, and then it turned into a sudden and faint clamor, and then amplified into the shadow of a boat coming by breaking through the waves.
It was a waterwheel ship with continuous water splashes, but there was a huge hump-like building on the deck of the ship, and the whole body was still emitting hot smoke. And as the steam car and ship approached slowly, the long flat barge with several sections towed behind it, the two-story passenger ship, the open-air cargo hold, and the troop carrier that were towed behind them were also revealed in front of everyone.
At this moment, Cao Hongyao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't wait to step forward. Because today is her adoptive mother, Empress Cao. Since Chang'an escaped danger and raised in Lantian County for more than a month, she went south to reach Jiangling. For this reason, the Dudu Mansion is still in the small and medium-sized carts and boats traveling between Wuguan River and Danshui. , Specially paid for a rather rare steam car and ship.
Then Cao Hongyao, who was stopped in front of the trestle by a crowd of people begging, saw the barges coming down one after another on the shore, some complex expressions, like men, women, and children with a rejoicing face. They were taken away by a cadre of military officers who came up; the people and goods that were carried on the first few barges were all taken away seven or eighty-eight.
From the last smallest double-decker barge, she was also supported by a maid and walked down a woman who described as thin and homely. At the same time as seeing each other, Cao Hongyao could no longer restrain himself, regardless of the persuasion and pleading of his left and right companions, he did not hesitate to lift up his complicated and gorgeous pleated skirt, and it was almost windy. Go to the trestle.
Amidst an exclamation and screaming, she threw herself on the woman and hugged her, choking and crying, "Mother, mother, you are here...".
"Yao'er, Yao'er, you are both a woman and a mother, so how can you still be so free from birth!"
However, Empress Cao, who describes the thin and bright eyes, looked at a patch of chickens and dogs jumping in chaos, and was taboo about the left and right people who dare not come forward, but smiled bitterly and slapped her shoulders:
"It's really happy and eager to see my mother return safely..."
Cao Hongyao lifted his head from her shoulder with tears and laughter, and said with shame on his face:
"Okay, okay, am I still okay, so many people are watching it?"
Empress Cao also sighed helplessly, full of warmth and nostalgia:
"Yes, my daughter is overjoyed, and I ask my mother to forgive me..."
When Cao Hongyao heard this, some children seemed to say:
"You, it shouldn't be me forgiving, but to let your servants and servants feel relieved... Yao'er is also the imperial concubine of Chu Wang anyhow, and all his actions represent the dignity, etiquette, and prestige of the palace! Mo! I'm going to fail easily..."
Empress Cao squeezed her hand even more helplessly:
"What my mother said is that my daughter is just too happy."
Cao Hongyao wiped his eyes and held Empress Cao’s arm, returning to the original description of the classic, quiet and comfortable, and summoned in an understatement to the group of people who were keeping a distance behind him:
"You all come up to see you."
Upon hearing these words, the maids, servants and guards who were standing seven or eight steps away, they rushed forward and bowed together like an amnesty:
"I have seen the empress..."
"I really don't dare to be a concubine anymore. I'm just an ordinary old woman from a private family. It will be fine to call me Cao in the future..."
Empress Cao said in a faintly fearful and modest voice:
"This is what my mother meant, and naturally it is also my meaning..."
Cao Hongyao smiled to the left and right:
"I have seen the old lady..."
Surrounded by the crowd facing the coveted people from the left and right, after hearing this, he quickly changed his name and renamed:
After seeing this scene and hearing all the claims, Empress Cao dropped the last stone in her heart and the expression on her face became more cordial and warm. After all, before coming to Jiangling, she had been worried and overturned in her heart about the various events that she might have encountered. Although there is a daughter as a guarantee, it is understandable and the most common result that, as a short-lived Empress of Daqi, she was imprisoned to death by the new dynasty.
Therefore, the result that the adopted daughter Cao Hongyao came to meet at the moment made her quite satisfied and relieved. After all, if the laboring king of Chu Xingshi mobilized the crowd to greet him in person, she would have to worry about the demands and costs that she could not bear. Sometimes too grand courtesy may not be a good thing, on the contrary, it is a burden and oppressiveness for a subjugated woman like her.
On the other hand, what made her gratified was that Cao Hongyao's authority and influence in front of these people also represented her status and status as the well-deserved hostess in the back house of the palace. Therefore, Cao Hongyao's sincere feelings for children at any time and anywhere also represented the Chu King's enough pampering and relaxed attitude towards her.
This made her a little helpless and sigh, but somehow relieved. Thinking of this, Empress Cao dragged out a child with a face full of restraint and cowering from behind, and said to Cao Hongyao:
"This is the only bone and blood your Aye has left in the world... Ding'er, don't hesitate to call A sister..."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
At the age of seven, the child Huang Ding, who had flickered inward eyes because of too many shocking changes, also hesitated and shouted in a low voice:
"Ding'er, behave, sister when I was young also hugged you..."
Cao Hongyao, who narrowed his eyes when he heard this call, did not hesitate to take his hand and held Empress Cao toward the vehicle not far away. Seeing Cao Hongyao's reaction, Empress Cao also let go of the last trace of worry and worry. Although this was not her own, it was also the biological mother who executed the child with her own hands.
But no matter how many things happened before, at least the man who once King’s Landing was about to die, handed these two children into his hands at the very last moment; and she had already lost one of them, and could not lose the last one in this world. Bone and blood. Judging from her daughter's reaction, what she worries about the most has not happened.
In this way, he may have the opportunity to live to adulthood without illness and disasters under the protection of his sister, then marry a wife and children incognito, and carry on the blood of that man, that is, he is the capital of the old and new dynasties. The unbearable great remnants of the evil, the best result can be obtained.
Thinking of this, Empress Cao, who had already stepped into the special scooter under her support, suddenly said, "Yao'er, I want to discuss something with you..."
"Mother, please give me orders,"
Cao Hongyao's smile can be traced:
"I want to ask the king for grace so that this child will follow my surname in the future to pass on the family of Cao..."
Empress Cao said somewhat sternly:
"My mother is really interested..."
Cao Hongyao couldn't help but pause when he heard this, but with mixed feelings:
In Jiangling City, the scene on the wharf was also reported to Zhou Huai'an early. Then he asked Zuo Junshi, who was the former General Marshal's Mansion of the Rebel Army under Huang Chao, and now the chief military Zi Yi Yang Shigu of the Taiping Metropolitan Government:
"How do you feel?"
"It's fine to deal with it this way, the lord is really well-intentioned..."
Yang Shigu nodded slightly and said:
Except for the fanfare welcome and the disguised expressions and standings of the majority of people participating, but only let the little lady Cao Hongyao welcome her mother's family to the reception; this way, many people inside and outside the general governor can feel at ease, no matter what they have. All thoughts and plans, as well as the follow-up conspiracies and methods surrounding it, have all come to nothing.
"Then, the king doesn't know how he plans to house the Huang child?"
Luo Yin, who looked strange and beautiful beside him, couldn't help but ask Yang Shigu what was inconvenient to ask:
"As a child of a relative's family, you should be brought up to adulthood and then given a job to earn a living. No matter what kind of grievances entangled between the adults, it should end with him..."
Zhou Huaian said without hesitation:
"Wang Shengming..."
Luo Yin also nodded his head and understood that;
Obviously, this is also the best position and disguised dismissal of the previous "Northland Rumor". It is equivalent to telling everyone directly that the Taiping Army does not need the banner and legacy of Huang Chao’s Daqi new dynasty; it is directly regarded as a relative family in a certain sense, and it can also fall into the “pre-dynasty clan”. The name of kindness.
"Dare to ask the king, do you want to refer to the story of Yuwen and Yang from the previous period?"
And Fan Chuo, who was present as the head of civil servants, also spoke slowly:
"How is this possible? Isn't it someone who has made great contributions and contributions to my Taiping Army? We never rely on favors and preferential treatment of the old and children of the previous dynasty to win the hearts of those noble clans..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but smiled and said:
"It is enough to ensure that a middle or upper class family has worry-free food and clothing and basic safety... Excessive preferential treatment will only make those real people chill..."
"Wang Shangzhen is the British lord..."
Fan Chuo was sincerely convinced:
However, he couldn't help thinking more than others. For example, the leader of the Taiping Army put this Huang's orphan on the bright side casually, it might be another intention. It is used to observe and discriminate how many people in the Taiping Army’s Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion still have nostalgia for the origins of the old days, or the bait/scheming to do something about it.
"Old Fan, don't think that if you shout a few more words about the English Lord Shengming, I will give you more salary and treatment."
However, the next moment, Zhou Huaian laughed aloud and joked:
—I am the dividing line —
At the same time, Zhu Laosan, who had successfully invaded Qiao County (Qiaocheng District), the governor of Bozhou (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province), looked at the flags of people and horses gathered outside the city, but there was a certain sneer on his face.
"When did Wu Ningjun get in touch with Cai Zei?" (End of this chapter)