Chapter 20 The Old Man

The woman hesitated for a moment and began to clean up the stall.

Guo Bao and Tian Qi, who were selected by Lin Beiwen to be Xiao Yu's attendants, were all clever people. They didn't need Xiao Yu's instructions. When the woman began to clean up the stall, they came forward to help. After the stall was cleaned up, Guo Bao, who was tall, rushed to pick up the goods.

Fan Laoliu's home is not far from the place where the stall was set up, but only one and a half miles. After a while, Xiao Yu and others came to Fan Laoliu's house under the guidance of the woman.

Fan Laoliu's home is not small, but there is nothing at home that looks a little new.

As soon as he entered the house, a pungent fire pepper reached the tip of Xiao Yu's nose.

Seeing Xiao Yu frowning, the woman didn't care about rudeness and quickly fanned in front of Xiao Yu with her clothes.

Xiao Yu waved her hand to the woman and whispered, "Although this fire pepper has the effect of sweating, it has no power to get rid of the inner cold. You help your husband get rid of the cold in this way actually hurt him."

Before the woman could reply, Xiao Yu lifted the curtain and walked towards the inner room.

As soon as she entered the inner room, Xiao Yu saw Fan Laoliu lying in **.

This is the end of June, which is the hottest time of the year. However, Fan Laoliu, who is lying in **, is tightly wrapped in the quilt.

Looking at the bookshelf on the side wall, Xiao Yu slowly walked to the bed.

Xiao Yu knew a little about medical skills. When she saw a touch of sickly rosy rosy on Fan Laoliu's yellow face, he knew that Fan Laoru had seriously lost his spirit due to illness. If he didn't take good care of him, he would be afraid he would not have two years to live.

After stopping the woman from waking up Fan Laoliu, Xiao Yu frowned and meditated for a moment, and asked the woman softly, "Have you read a book?"

"I have read it for more than two years and can write most of the words."

Xiao Yu nodded and looked at the woman and said, "Come with me to the city master's mansion. I'll give your mother and son a living in the city master's mansion."

The woman stayed for a moment, looked at Xiao Yu and asked, "Does the young master know Lord Zhang?"

"I'm old with his elders!"

The woman was stunned for a moment and said to Xiao Yu, "Young master, please wait a moment and let the little woman change Jin Tian into a cleaner dress."

"Uh-huh!"

Returning to the woman, Xiao Yu looked at Fan Laoliu again and walked out of the inner room.

After a while, the woman changed Fan Jintian's clothes.

Even if Lin Beiwen wears strong clothes, he is still elegant; while Fan Jintian is now wearing a washed white book gown, but he does not have any booklike temperament.

Xiao Yu looked at Fan Jintian, sighed secretly, and walked out first.

Although the woman has not been to the city master's mansion, she also knows where the city master's mansion is, so they don't have to ask passers-by where the city's master's mansion is.

Fan Jintian walked slower than the woman. Xiao Yuqian and Fan Jintian also walked very slowly. It took them nearly two quarter of an hour before they came to the gate of the city owner's mansion.

When it was nearly three feet away from the gate of the city owner's mansion, the woman and Fan Jintian did not dare to approach.

Xiao Yu saw that the woman and Fan Jintian stopped, and he also stopped.

"Lord, wait here for a moment!"

Gong Sheng said something to Xiao Yu, and Lin Beiwen strode towards the door of the city master's mansion.

The gatekeepers generally have some eyesight. They all know when to pretend to be a slave and when to be a kid.

As soon as Lin Beiwen walked to the door, the doorman on his right side greeted him.

"Do you dare to ask this uncle what your name is? What's the matter here?"

Lin Beiwen looked up at the door plaque and said to the doorman, "Tell your lord, General Xiao, who came from Mingdu, has something to ask him to come out to greet him."

There is no distinction between the status of the nine generals, but the status of many generals is very different. The status of generals is related to the number of soldiers they lead. Generally speaking, the generals who expand the territory are higher than those who stay in the rear.

Although Xiao Yu does not have a soldier yet, he is now a general who is ordered by the king to go to war, but his status is a little higher than that of the lord of Yancheng.

The doorman looked at Xiao Yu, nodded, and smiled at Lin Beiwen, "Sir, please wait a moment. I'll go and inform my elder."

After the doorman left, Lin Beiwen returned to Xiao Yu.

After a while, two middle-aged men in brocade robes with slightly old-fashioned faces came to the door with six bodyguards.

The two middle-aged people had never heard of General Xiao and did not recognize Xiao Yu. However, when they could not see Xiao Yu and Lin Beiwen's cultivation clearly, after they came to the door, they still walked to Xiao Yu with a smile.

"This is General Xiao!"

Xiao Yu nodded, took the seal out of the universe bag and handed it to the middle-aged man in the blue robe who was talking.

Middle-aged people in blue robes also have a general seal. At a glance, it can be seen that the general seal handed over by Xiao Yu is the general seal of the general under the command of the King of Ming.

Xiao Yu doesn't understand, but the middle-aged people in the blue robe understand that the quality of the seal is related to the cultivation of the owner of the seal and the number of soldiers when refining the seal.

Through Xiao Yu's general seal and Xiao Yu's momentum, the middle-aged man in the blue robe probably guessed what kind of general Xiao Yu was.

This kind of means of knowledge is not smart, but no one told Xiao Yu that Xiao Yu doesn't understand now.

Now that Xiao Yu's identity has been confirmed, the middle-aged man in the blue robe will certainly not accept Xiao Yu's seal.

The middle-aged man in the blue robe waved his hand gently to Xiao Yu first, then slightly bowed his body and said to Xiao Yu, "General Xiao, please!"

"Please!"

Returning to the middle-aged man in the blue robe, Xiao Yu followed the middle-aged man in the blue robe.

Xiao Yu and the middle-aged man in the blue robe just moved, and the middle-aged man in the purple robe who came out with the middle-aged man in the blue robe welcomed Lin Beiwen to the city master's mansion.

When walking to the city owner's mansion, the two sides introduced each other.

The middle-aged man in the blue robe advocates Mingde for the city of Yancheng, while the middle-aged man in the purple robe is Li Liangchuan, a general under Zhang Mingde.

When he arrived at the main hall and exchanged greetings for a while, Xiao Yu said the purpose of his coming to Zhang Mingde.

For Zhang Mingde, it was very simple to arrange two people to do things in the house. In front of Xiao Yu, he arranged things for them in the city owner's house.

The woman was arranged in the kitchen by Zhang Mingde, and Xiao Yu specially mentioned that Fan Jintian was arranged by Zhang Mingde as a book boy serving his grandson.

Zhang Mingde arranged the two to give Xiao Yu enough face. When he invited Xiao Yu to stay for lunch, Xiao Yu naturally could not refuse.

Just after lunch in the main hall, two young people aged 17 or 18 came in.

Seeing those two young people, Xiao Yu knew that trouble was coming.

Sure enough, as soon as the two young people stopped, Zhang Mingde smiled at Xiao Yu and said, "General Xiao, what do you think of these two young people?"

"The momentum is calm and the foundation is profound. Obviously, he has worked hard on cultivation."

"Although they have worked hard on their cultivation, they are far worse than the real children of the family."

Zhang Mingde said so, but his face was a little proud.

"If they can practice to the realm of Xiao Zhoutian at this age, they are not worse than the children of ordinary families."

"General Xiao praises them too much!"

He replied to Xiao Yu with a smile, and Zhang Mingde told the identity of the two young people.

Among these two people, the younger one is Zhang Baonian, the youngest son of Zhang Mingde, and the younger one is Zhang Younian, the adopted son of Zhang Mingde.

After talking about the identity of Zhang Baonian and Zhang Younian, Zhang Mingde began to complain to Xiao Yu.

Through complaining, Xiao Yu also has a clear understanding of Zhang Mingde.

Zhang Mingde's ancestor was a small landlord. Zhang Mingde was sent to Changping City by his father to practice martial arts when he was a child. Zhang Mingde has good qualifications and has practiced good martial arts as a disciple of the Golden Gun Gate in Changping City.

After Yicheng, Zhang Mingde defected to Xiang Yuanxing, who was still a general at that time, at the instruction of his father.

There are a lot of talented people under the command of Xiang Yuanxing. When Zhang Mingde, who had just reached the realm of Da Zhoutian, he first joined the army, was just an ordinary capital.

With the courage not to be afraid of death, Zhang Mingde became a partial general just after the age of 30.

However, at this time, Zhang Mingde found that he had too many hidden injuries, and his cultivation had almost no chance to advance from the god level to the yang level.

Zhang Mingde knew that his ability to lead the army was not enough for him to make him the main general with the cultivation of the divine level. Therefore, he asked Yuanxing to send him to Yancheng, his birthplace, as a partial general on the grounds of recuperation.

Almost half of Xiang Yuanxing's prestige in the army is because his rewards and penalties are clear. Zhang Mingde has made contributions, and Xiang Yuanxing will naturally not treat him badly when he wants to leave the battlefield. Therefore, the position of partial general sought by Zhang Mingde finally became the position of the main general.

"When he went to the battlefield and left the battlefield, Zhang had a little resentment against his father in the bottom of his heart, and after being the city owner for a period of time, that little resentment also disappeared. If it hadn't been for my father's arrangement, I'm afraid Zhang would be worried about eating every day.

Although Zhang Mingde's words were a little exaggerated, if he hadn't practiced martial arts before joining the army, he would have really been worried about money now.

Zhang Mingde's father is just a small landlord. In order to prevent the Zhang family from falling due to the division, it is impossible for Zhang Mingde's father to share the family property equally with his two sons.

Zhang Mingde is a commoner, and the property of the Zhang family is naturally not divided on his head.

After complaining, Zhang Mingde told his purpose to let Zhang Baonian and Zhang Younian meet Xiao Yu.

"The Zhang family is a force in Yancheng, but compared with those real families, the Zhang family is not in the stream at all. Therefore, Zhang did not have the idea of dividing the Zhang family into several parts for future generations. Zhang has three sons. The eldest son will inherit the Zhang family in the future. Now he is a moat in Liu County. The second son was sent to the Golden Gun Gate by Zhang and got into the Golden Gun Gate five years ago. The third son Bao Nian also practiced in the Golden Gun Gate and has just returned from the art. Zhang once wanted to send Bao Nian under the command of General Changshan, but thinking of what happened to Zhang in those years, Zhang hesitated again.

After saying this, Zhang Mingde looked at Xiao Yu with a slightly embarrassed look.

Xiao Yu frowned and meditated for a while and said in a low voice, "General Zhang wants Xiao to take them to the battlefield. However, Xiao has an ugly saying here to explain to General Zhang that Xiao will not take special care of the two of them. If they are capable and lucky, they will naturally be happy that they will become the lord of the city like General Zhang. If they are not good enough, I hope General Zhang will not blame Xiao for not taking good care of them.