Chapter 359: A good fate with embroidered shoes as a matchmaker
The soldiers of the new Fourth Army, who did not participate in the war to destroy Xixia and Liao, were in an uproar when they heard the news that His Royal Highness the Regent had transferred the Fourth Army to fight in the Western Regions.
The commander Cheng Yu smiled from the bottom of his heart and told the deputy generals who attended the military meeting, "My colleagues, His Royal Highness the Regent has given our new Fourth Army the opportunity to participate in the war. I know you have been holding back a lot of energy.
However, I hope that although you are eager to fight, you should keep your heads calm and not "Xu is greedy for merit and reckless, and he must respect and value the young staff officers stationed in various military camps on weekdays. During combat operations, he must obey the military orders of Marshal Yang Yuan."
Several deputy generals promised that they would never be greedy for merit and reckless, and would respect and value the young staff officers sent by His Royal Highness the Regent from the capital, and would never dare to disobey the military orders of Marshal Yang Yuan.
Cheng Haonan's excited heart was pounding. After His Royal Highness the Regent personally issued a handwritten order to arrange him into the Fourth Army of the New Army, he worked hard to practice martial arts and tried hard to learn the novel tactics taught by the young staff officers in the training class, all for this day, to have the opportunity to go to the battlefield and make merit, and to avenge the shame brought to the Cheng family by his father and brother.
After hearing what General Cheng said, Cheng Haonan bit the tip of his tongue and let the pain calm him down. This distant cousin was right. Even if he was eager to fight and was eager to make achievements, he must not be greedy and reckless and disobey orders. Otherwise, he would not be able to make achievements for the country and become a sinner of the Song Dynasty, adding another black mark to the Cheng family. In that case, he, Cheng Haonan, would not be ashamed to see his nephew, the little emperor, and his sister, the Empress Dowager Zhaoning, in the palace again, and he
would be even more sorry for His Royal Highness the Regent Prince and his wife. ……… Luo Li, the matchmaker, was sincerely entrusted by Duke Cao Bin and his wife of Lu and Prince Gao Huaide and his wife of Bohai County after they hosted a banquet, and she only joked about it with her two good friends Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying. Unexpectedly, the two friends shyly nodded and agreed. Luo Li was stunned to find that she had become a cheap matchmaker.
She was really stunned at the time. The ancient woman's train of thought was so strange that she was a little confused. After the smelly embroidered shoes were eaten by someone once, she fell in love with the person and had a crush on him? It
was not until Luo Li asked a lot of questions that she found out that these two brain-dead friends had been captured by the shameless Cao Wei and Gao Yingxiong for a long time.
After Luo Li held her belly and laughed for a while, she said slowly, "This is really a good match made by two "stinky embroidered shoes"! I, the initiator, should be the matchmaker."
In more than two years, the three books and six ceremonies had already been completed, but because Cao Wei and Gao Yingxiong were valued by the Regent Prince Zhao Defang, they had no time to go home to get married.
Luo Li, who was sent out from the Bohai County Prince's Mansion, sat in the carriage and laughed. Hong Gu and Mo Ming, who knew the process of these two good matches, also sat side by side in the carriage and laughed.
Ruhua was on duty with the young lady today. She patted Yingchun's arm beside her and laughed so hard that she couldn't breathe. Yingchun, laughing so hard that her body was shaking, said, "Princess, when Miss Gao and General Cao get married, how about the female soldiers of the Big Foot Women's Corps and the maids in our palace each make a pair of embroidered shoes for Miss Gao to add to her makeup?"
Ruhua laughed even harder, patted Yingchun and said, "Yingchun, I... I didn't expect that you would learn... so badly!"
Luo Li imagined that wonderful scene and wiped her tears. Agree, "It's feasible, it's feasible, this is feasible! Let the female soldiers in the big-footed women's army who can't do needlework pay to go to the embroidery workshop to buy a pair of shoes, and make sure they are in large sizes."
The next day, Zheng Xiufang, the owner of the best embroidery shop in the city, was surprised to find that several big customers with unfamiliar faces who came to Zheng Xiufang to order embroidered shoes, happily and generously placed orders for 1,006 pairs of embroidered shoes. There were various patterns and styles, but they were all large sizes, and they all wanted the most expensive and high-end ones, and the delivery time must be within one month.
With such a fortune in front of her, Zheng Xiufang was excited to take this large order and received a deposit of 3,000 taels of silver. He ordered to immediately purchase fabrics and embroidery threads of various colors. More than 30 embroiderers employed by Zheng Embroidery Workshop worked day and night to process the orders. They must rush to complete the orders and earn a profit of tens of thousands of taels of silver. ...
Bohai County Prince's Mansion and Lu Guogong Mansion are both first-class prominent families in the capital. Especially after the new emperor ascended the throne, Bohai County Prince Gao Huaide and Lu Guogong Cao Bin chose to stand on the right side and were highly valued by the new emperor.
The groom Cao Wei, who got married today, was a general star promoted and reused by His Royal Highness the Prince of Regent. He was a young marquis who had made great military achievements and was awarded a title. The bride Gao Ruoying and the Princess of Regent were close friends of the "brain-dead trio". This honor was no less than that of General Cao's marquis.
As the groom Cao Wei rode his horse to welcome the bride, the streets were crowded with people who
came to watch the excitement. The custom in the capital was that the dowry followed the procession of the bride. The people crowded on the roadside and praised the handsome groom, who was wearing red and colorful wedding clothes on the horse.
The bride in the big red flower sedan could not be seen. Those who knew the bride enthusiastically described her to the people around them, saying that she was tall and strong, heroic, with a face like a silver basin and a natural blessing.
The dowry tied with red silk was carried by servants in wedding clothes and walked in a line. There was a long line of red dowry that stretched as far as the end.
The common people watching the excitement on the roadside were counting and talking excitedly. Regardless of the financial status of the Prince of Bohai and the Duke of Lu, as one of the shareholders of the Regent Princess's several businesses, the bride herself was a wealthy person.
"Sisters of the Regent Prince's Mansion, please make up for the bride! Sixteen pairs of exquisite embroidered shoes!..." After Hong Gu finished shouting with her inner strength, she covered her eyes with laughter and quickly got into the carriage on the roadside.
"Sisters of the Big-footed Women's Corps, please make up for the bride, Deputy Corps Commander Gao! One thousand and six pairs of exquisite large-sized embroidered shoes!..." The tall and burly Pang Ying shouted loudly, then smiled and lowered his head to get into the group of female soldiers behind him.
When the boxes of exquisite large-sized embroidered shoes were opened and placed in a line by the female soldiers who were so happy that they lowered their heads and covered their mouths, the people who were watching the excitement were dumbfounded.
Madam Zheng and the embroiderers in the store who were crowded on the roadside to watch the excitement finally understood who bought the batch of high-end embroidered shoes they worked on day and night!
The crowded street was quiet for a moment, and then it broke out into wild laughter.
Those who knew that the groom Cao Wei and the young marquis Gao Yingxiong had eaten the embroidered shoes of Miss Gao and Miss Yang at the door of the Xuanyi Pavilion were all excitedly wiping their tears of laughter and telling people around them about this good fate brought about by the "embroidered shoes".
Amidst the laughter that became louder and louder, the bride Gao Ruoying, who was sitting in the flower sedan, pulled off her big red veil, her pretty face flushed: "Luo Naocan! This great gift from you is accepted with pleasure. For the rest of my life, I will wear a pair of embroidered shoes every day, and I won't have to spend money to buy them!"
The two dowry maids laughed so hard that they covered their mouths with one hand and their stomachs with the other, secretly admiring their young lady's broad mind and thick skin.
The groom Cao Wei, who was riding on the horse, had a face as red as a piece of dyed red cloth, but he still held his chest and head high, with a majestic demeanor.
[His Highness the Regent Prince can shamelessly claim to be the princess's licker, so what does it mean for me to have tasted my beloved wife's embroidered shoes? ]
Yang Yanqi, who was squeezed in the carriage of the palace, hit Luo Li one after another in anger, and covered his eyes with laughter while asking for conditions: "Luo, you idiot! You can't be partial to one and treat the other badly. When I get married, I can't do without more than a thousand pairs of exquisite large embroidered shoes!"