Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

At this moment, the night was dark, and the lights in Ximenqing's bedroom were silently extinguished.

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"Water~Give me water~" After Ximen Qing fell asleep, his mouth was dry after drinking, and his throat seemed to be on fire.He was lying on the bed muttering to himself, struggling to get up half asleep.

Suddenly, Ximen Qing felt himself being lifted up, leaning his back on some kind of soft cushion, and as soon as his lips became cold, a stream of sweet spring poured into his mouth.Ximen Qing's spirits lifted, he gulped down the sweet spring poured into his mouth, and the dryness and heat on his body gradually receded.

Ximen Qing drank some water and gradually sobered up from his drunkenness.In the dark, he smelled a scent of body, and felt the abnormality behind him, and he understood in his heart that there was a lady serving and taking care of him.

Ximen Qing slowly opened his eyes, there was no light in the room, only some faint moonlight came through the window paper, making the room a little dim.

With this faint light, Ximen Qing saw a delicate little water jug ​​held in a jade hand, pointing the spout to his lips, and patiently feeding himself water.

Ximen Qing stretched out his hand to grab the jade hand's wrist, and asked softly, "Who are you?"

The little lady behind Ximen Qing was caught off guard, and the jade hand holding the kettle trembled in fright, and sprinkled a few drops of water on Ximen Qing's chest.At the same time, the thing behind Ximen Qing also trembled.

"Ah~ Officer Ximen, are you awake? This is Xiuxiang..." A gentle and sweet voice rang in Ximen Qing's ear.

Xiuxiang?That Xiuxiang?Ximen Qing just woke up from his drunkenness, and was still a little confused for a while.He got up and turned his head, only to see a little lady sitting beside his bed, whose face was not very clear.

"Light the candle first." Ximen Qing rubbed his eyes and said to the little lady.

Seeing that Ximen Qing was about to get up, the little lady hurriedly jumped out of the bed and lit the candles on the table.

"It's you!" Ximen Qing rubbed his eyes again in disbelief, looking at the little lady in front of him.This little lady has a face like a peach blossom, and she is wearing a red gown with flower hairpins and large sleeves, just like a bride. She is none other than Liu Xiuxiang, the daughter of Mrs. Liu whom Ximen Qing met.

"My lady, you, why are you here with me?" Ximen Qing couldn't believe what he saw.He was vaguely aware of the strangeness in his heart, but he still hoped to get the answer from the words of the little lady opposite.

"Officer, today is the day you and I get married. If your slave is not here to serve you, where can you go?" Liu Xiuxiang said quietly.

Sure enough, that Mrs. Liu made a fake show and gave me his daughter!Ximen Qing suddenly understood why Mrs. Liu smiled so happily during the day. He was not happy for the destruction of the Taohuashan robbers, but proud of cheating himself, the son-in-law of a local tyrant!

hateful!I underestimated Mrs. Liu.How can this old man be a simple person who has been able to deal with Li Zhong and Zhou Tong under the noses of the two bandit chieftains for so many years?Senior official, I accidentally fell for his way today, and was tricked into marriage by this old and cunning guy!

Ximen Qing recalled it for a while, it seems that after he was drunk, he did pay respects to this Liu Xiuxiang in front of all the guests in a daze and got married?

Sir, have I been cooked with raw rice?Ximen Qing hurriedly lowered his head to check his body.Fortunately, the clothes on his body are still there, and only one coat has been taken off.

It seems that this Miss Liu is still a reserved lady, unlike Hu Sanniang, the tigress in my family, who rides whenever I want to high officials and willful.

Ximen Qing looked at Liu Xiuxiang who was sitting at the table at this time. Under the light, she lowered her head and bit a small mouthful of a cherry, pinched the pendulum nervously with her hands, and her little face was flushed with embarrassment.

Well, you father and daughter of the Liu family, how dare you deceive and tease me like this!It is tolerable, which is tolerable and unbearable!I can't bear it anymore, I don't need to bear it anymore!

Ximen Qing rushed towards Liu Xiuxiang, hugged her in his arms, and rolled onto the brocade bed together.

"Officer, the lights haven't been blown out yet!"

"Lady, sir, I like to light the lamp..."

The peach blossoms bloom first in the warmth of the spring, bright and bright, no one looks.

It's a pity that after the strong wind blows, there are a bit of red berry moss.

The brocade bed was dotted with red, and the little lady Liu Xiuxiang gave Ximen Qing her 22 years of perseverance.

Chapter 2 Twelve Watching the Battle Against Shadow Mountain

When Ximen Qing woke up from his sleep the next day, Liu Xiuxiang was still asleep after several storms.After Ximen Qing put on his clothes, he left the new house and went straight to find Luan Tingyu.

Ximen Qing had already figured it out at night, and it was definitely not Mrs. Liu's plan to marry her daughter to him in a fake show.It was Luan Tingyu who proposed to him to sing this wedding drama, so he must have been deeply involved in it.Maybe, this whole idea was planned by my good brother-in-law Luan Tingyu.Ximenqing decided to go to Luan Tingyu to find out.

When he arrived at Luan Tingyu's room, Ximenqing saw Luan Tingyu and Jiao Ting looking at him with mean smiles, and asked him how he slept last night with concern, so he knew that these two people knew about it and participated in deceiving him.

Ximenqing pretended to be angry and asked Luan Tingyu, why did he join forces with Mrs. Liu, an outsider, to harm him?

Luan Tingyu told Ximen Qing with a smile that when he first arrived in Taohuazhuang, Mrs. Liu fell in love with Ximen Qing and wanted to marry her daughter to Ximen Qing.I have already told Mrs. Liu that Ximen Qing had been married in Yanggu County for a long time. He married a lady from Hujiazhuang, a big local family, as his wife, and also had several concubines.Unexpectedly, Mrs. Liu didn't care about it.

Luan Tingyu said that Grandpa Liu himself said that his daughter was having a hard time finding a good son-in-law around the Peach Blossom Mountain, and it had already been delayed for several years.After meeting Ximen Qing, Mrs. Liu and his daughter were both interested in Ximen Qing, and they didn't want to miss this opportunity to recruit him as their son-in-law.

The old man did not need Ximen Qing to marry him this time, and allowed Ximen Qing to take his daughter back to Yanggu County.After a hundred years, the thousands of acres of land and the manor in Taohuazhuang belong to Ximen Qing.At that time, whether Ximenqing and his wife will return to Qingzhou to manage it themselves, or send someone to manage it, and treat this place as a separate business, will be decided by Ximenqing.

Luan Tingyu saw that Mrs. Liu was so sincere, and considering that the output of this Taohuazhuang could help Ximen Qing raise a lot of soldiers, she agreed to help Mrs. Liu complete the matter between his daughter and Ximen Qing.

Ximenqing was secretly delighted when he heard that Mrs. Liu shared thousands of acres of land as a dowry for her daughter Liu Xiuxiang.But he still pretended to be reluctant and said to Luan Tingyu: "Brother Luan, why did you sell me for a big manor? Our brothers are not short of money."

Luan Tingyu laughed loudly and said, "My dear brother, don't complain here. Whose room was the light on in the middle of the night last night? Brother, you are so romantic and happy, you must not escape the eyes and ears of Brother Jiao Ting and me! Hahaha ~"

Ximen Qing cast his eyes on Jiao Ting, and Jiao Ting hurriedly said, "Brother, Brother Luan dragged me there! I only lay on the courtyard wall for less than an hour. What did you do in the house, brother? I really don’t know. Hahaha~”

shameless!Ximen Qing rolled his eyes at Luan Tingyu and Jiao Ting, really speechless.

Seeing that he was exposed, Ximen Qing stopped being entangled in this fake marriage, and discussed the serious matter with Luan Tingyu and Jiao Ting.Today, someone has to take three hundred soldiers from Qingfeng Village to escort the "little overlord" Zhou Tong and a group of bandit minions to Qingfeng Village and hand them over to the governor Huang Xin.In addition, in order to thank Huang Xin for borrowing soldiers, he had to be given a generous gift.

Luan Tingyu told Ximenqing that Ximenqing was newly married in this Taohuazhuang, so he should stay in the village to accompany his bride.I am willing to take a trip to Qingfengzhai to deal with the aftermath.

Ximen Qing was naturally relieved of Luan Tingyu, who was both wise and brave, so he agreed to let Luan Tingyu go, and he and Jiao Ting stayed at Taohuazhuang to wait for him.

After the discussion between the three, Luan Tingyu left the Peach Blossom Village, led the soldiers to beat the gongs and drums, and escorted the robbers from Peach Blossom Mountain to Qingfeng Village.

With Jiao Ting doing all sorts of miscellaneous things in the manor, Ximen Qing was happy to be at ease, and lived a happy life as a high official in this Peach Blossom Manor.

Two days later, Luan Tingyu returned to Taohuazhuang from Qingfengzhai after handing over the prisoners.Ximenqing and others went to discuss with Mrs. Liu, and they were going to return to Yanggu County.

Mrs. Liu entrusted her daughter to Ximen Qing and asked Ximen Qing to take her away this time.After returning to Yanggu County, let Ximen Qing select one of his confidants to come to Taohuazhuang to assist Mrs. Liu in managing the manor.

This time Ximenqing wiped out the bandits on Taohua Mountain, which made Taohuazhuang famous again.Because of Ximenqing, the son-in-law, Taohuazhuang became the strongest force around Taohuashan.Ximen Qing reckons that in the next few years, there will be people coming to Peach Blossom Manor, and this is a good time to expand Peach Blossom Manor.Weng and his son-in-law sat together and carefully planned the future operation of the Peach Blossom Village.

Ximen Qing and the others packed up and rested on Taohuazhuang for another night, then left Taohuazhuang with the horse team and headed towards Yanzhou.

After passing Taohua Mountain and climbing a few more mountains, Ximenqing and others left Qingzhou boundary and entered Yanzhou management.

Ximenqing and his party traveled in Yanzhou for another three days, and came to a place ahead.I saw two high mountains on both sides, the general situation, but a big post road in the middle.

The terrain is so strange, Ximenqing sent people to find the locals to inquire, and learned that the name of the place ahead was Duiying Mountain.

To Kageyama has arrived!God is going to give me another windfall?Ximen Qing remembered that there were also two gangs of strong men on Yingshan, who had followed Song Jiang's Qingzhou gang to Liangshan in history.Those two bandit leaders seem to be named Lu Fang and Guo Sheng?

Lu Fang and Guo Sheng are easy to deal with, and Ximen Qing has the desire to rob these two gangs of robbers again.

There is no way, I spend so much in Yanggu County, I don't want to rob the robbers, but where can I find more profitable business?

Ximen Qing rode to Luan Tingyu's side and asked Luan Tingyu to prepare in advance. There should be robbers in the opposite shadow mountain ahead.

As Ximenqing and Luan Tingyu were walking on their horses, they heard the sound of gongs and drums in the front mountain.Luan Tingyu said: "Brother is right, there must be strong people ahead!"

Ximen Qing, Luan Tingyu and Jiao Ting all put on their armor and put on the armor captured in Taohua Mountain, leading the soldiers to advance cautiously.