Chapter 194: Letter from Longyou

Zhang Huan paced back and forth outside the yard with his hands behind his back, his face full of worry and anxiety. Just now, the little maid came to him in a panic and said that his wife was about to give birth. Zhang Huan was so shocked that he ran back to the inner yard in three steps. Before he could enter the yard, the two midwives pushed him out.

Several maids stood far away, and no one dared to come forward to disturb him. Nearly an hour had passed, and his wife's painful voices came from the room from time to time. Zhang Huan's heart became tighter and tighter. He couldn't help but fold his hands and pray to God.

Suddenly, Zhang Huan stopped praying. He seemed to hear something, and there was a faint cry of the baby. He listened carefully and said, yes, it was indeed the cry of the baby.

Zhang Huan's mind 'boomed', and a burst of ecstasy surged out of his heart. He could no longer contain his excitement. He rushed up and pushed the door hard. The door shook hard, but it was not pushed open. He anxiously lay on the crack on the door and looked inside.

At this time, the door creaked open, and Cui Ning, who had a tired face, suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Huan, "Okay, mother and son are safe!" Seeing that Zhang Huan was so happy that she was about to shout loudly, she hurriedly shrewd and pointed inside, "Pei Ying is very weak, don't quarrel!"

Zhang Huan suddenly remembered something and hurriedly lowered his voice and asked, "Is it a boy or a girl?" His voice was so excited that he trembled slightly.

Cui Ning gave him a blank look, "Didn't I just said it? The mother and son are safe."

Zhang Huan smiled so hard that his mouth couldn't close. He slammed his fist like an orangutan and then slapped his legs like a duck, muttering to himself: "I'm a father, I have a son!"

Seeing that he was funny, Cui Ning couldn't help but smile. Unexpectedly, Zhang Huan rushed up, hugged her, kissed her hard on her mouth, and then left a sentence, "Then you give me a girl from now on!" Then he ran into the house like a cow.

Cui Ning's face was flushed. She recalled Pei Ying's crying joy after the child was born, and also remembered the wonderful feeling in her heart when she hugged that pink little guy.

"Then you give me a girl from now on!" Zhang Huan's words were still echoing in her ears. Cui Ning suddenly felt her heart empty. At this moment, the defense line that had been struggling for several months collapsed. Cui Ning stared blankly at Zhang Huan's back and disappeared into the room, her nose felt a little sour. She slowly turned around and left the inner courtyard alone.

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The room was cleaned up, and several midwife had already gone down. Only Pei Ying's personal maid Xiaoqiu was carefully feeding white rice porridge to the mistress. Pei Ying was lying quietly on the couch. Her face was pale without a trace of blood. It was obvious that she was extremely tired, but her eyes were full of maternal tenderness, and she turned her head to look at the children beside her from time to time.

"I'll do it!" Zhang Huan took the porridge bowl. When Xiaoqiu saw the master coming, she quickly retreated tactfully.

Zhang Huan held the bowl with one hand and stroked his wife's pale face with the other hand, "It made you suffer."

Pei Ying could feel the care from the bottom of her husband's heart. Her heart was filled with the happiness of being a mother and a wife, so she nodded silently, gave Zhang Huan another wink, and whispered to the child beside her.

Zhang Huan quickly put down the bowl and looked inside. He saw a small pink face in the cradle. The skin on his face was still wrinkled, his neck was stretched out, and he was sleeping sweetly. Zhang Huan grinned. He reached out to hug him, but he was a little afraid.

"I'll hug you!" Pei Ying sat up with difficulty. Zhang Huan hurriedly helped her and then found a mattress to put it behind her. Pei Ying carefully picked up the child, looked at him lovingly for a while, and smiled and said, "Get sick, who do you think our child looks like?"

Zhang Huan lowered his head, kissed the child's little face, looked carefully at Pei Ying and smiled: "The face mold looks like me, but his eyebrows are very slender, and they are not like us."

"Can I see if I can?" At some point, Zhang Huan's mother Chu Wanlan appeared at the door. She was still wearing a Taoist robe, her eyes full of joy.

"Mother!" Zhang Huan quickly stood up and let him go to the side. Chu Wanlan slowly walked forward. She bent down and looked at her grandson lovingly, looked at his little face carefully, and murmured: "Elephant! It really looks like him!"

"Mom-in-law, do you mean the child looks like a father-in-law?" Pei Ying asked whispered.

Chu Wanlan nodded, and she sighed, "Zhang Huan's father is like this child, with his eyebrows and eyes very slender. I didn't expect that Zhang Huan would not be like his father, but his grandson would be like him."

Speaking of this, Chu Wanlan couldn't help but say to Pei Ying again: "Can you hug me?"

Pei Ying smiled and handed the child carefully to her. Chu Wanlan held his head with his arm and patted him gently. Seeing that Zhang Huan was about to speak, she smiled and said to him: "There is a personal soldier outside the yard. It seems that he has something urgent to ask you. You can go and do it first! Let Ying'er have a good rest, and I'm watching the child!"

Pei Ying also hurriedly said, "Go to the sick, go and do your business! Let's see the child again in the evening."

Zhang Huan nodded, looked at his son again, and then hurried away.

Outside the gate of the courtyard, a personal soldier was waiting there anxiously. When he saw Zhang Huan come out, he hurriedly came to greet him, "Governor! Longyou has arrived for 800 miles and is waiting in front of him."

"I see!"

Zhang Huan's thinking quickly turned back to the situation. It was mid-October. The court should have decided on the countermeasures of the Shu chaos. Since Longyou has arrived, it is very likely that it is related to this matter.

Thinking of this, Zhang Huan quickly walked towards the Governor's Office in front. He adopted the three strategies proposed by Du Mei to use the militia to expand the army, but he did not adopt the other two. One was to pretend to be assassinated and confused the other party. He believed that Cui Yuan was a veteran of this and would not believe it, but instead he was suspected of overshadowing him.

Du Mei asked Zhang Huan to marry Wei Yan's daughter as his second wife, and to confuse Wei Yan with her in-laws, but Zhang Huan still did not agree. In his opinion, since Wei Yan decided to send troops to Shuzhong, it was not the only trick that could confuse him. He must obtain absolute security before he was willing to send troops, and this initiative was not in his own hands.

Zhang Huan came to his room, and the sender was still waiting for him in the room. He was an officer about thirty years old and thin-faced, named Wei Deqing. He was the Kaiyang County soldier whom Pei Ying met at the Kaiyang Restaurant when he was on a mission. When he saw Zhang Huan enter the house, he immediately stepped forward and bowed, took out a letter and handed it to Zhang Huan and said, "This is a handwritten letter from my Grand Marshal and Pei Xiangguo to the governor."

Zhang Huan took the letter, nodded and said to him, "Thank you all the hard way, you can go down first!"

Wei Deqing bowed and bowed again, "The general has given instructions that I must get the governor's personal reply before I can go back."

Zhang Huan glanced at him and tore open the letter. He hurriedly read the letter, frowned slightly without realizing it. The content in the letter was very simple. Pei Jun came to Longyou again and asked Zhang Huan to go to Longyou immediately for a lecture, and promised him that he could bring three thousand soldiers to escort him.

The meaning of the letter is very obvious. It is probably that Pei Jun and Cui Yuan have reached an agreement to send troops, and the key to Wei Yan's sending troops is himself, so Pei Jun made a special trip to Longyou again to coordinate the matter.

Zhang Huan nodded secretly and said to Wei Deqing: "Then you tell Secretary Wei that since Pei Xiangguo came forward to ask, I should obey it."

Wei Deqing agreed, and he took out another letter and handed it to Zhang Huan and said, "This letter was written by Mr. Cui from the Ministry of Rites. Please pass it to Miss Cui."

After saying that, Wei Deqing turned around and was about to leave, but Zhang Huan called him again and asked, "Where is Lingwu County? Are there anyone going to deliver a letter?"

Wei Deqing hesitated for a moment and spread his hands, "The General Manager only ordered me to send a letter to Wuwei County. I don't know if anyone sends a letter to Lingwu County."

After Wadeqing left, Zhang Huan immediately tore open the letter Cui Xian to his sister. The letter said that his father was seriously ill and hoped that his sister would not be obsessed with it anymore and return to his father as soon as possible. After reading it, Zhang Huan couldn't help but smile coldly, "Crack!" and then tore the letter into pieces, put it into charcoal basin piece by piece, slowly watching it burn to ashes.

He stood up and immediately ordered his personal soldiers, "Go and invite Mr. Du Mei, and call Tuoba Wanli to me."

After a moment, Du Mei hurried over. When he saw Zhang Huan, he smiled and said, "I just heard that the governor was a father for the first time. Congratulations to the governor for getting Lin'er. This is definitely an exciting event and requires the whole city to celebrate."

Zhang Huan smiled slightly and said, "I called you because there is another joy. Longyou sent a quick letter."

He handed the letter in his hand to Du Mei, "Let's put aside the celebrations in the whole city for the time being, let's concentrate on doing the things in Longyou before talking about them."

When Du Mei's face gradually became serious when he heard that Longyou had sent a letter. He looked carefully and thought about it for a moment and said, "Since even Pei Xiangguo is going to Longyou as a coordinator, it can be seen that Wei Er will not have few troops this time. I guess what the governor will reach with the Wei family this time is likely to reach an agreement with the Wei family. I wonder what the governor's attitude is?"

"Attitude?" Zhang Huan shook his head and smiled faintly: "Of course, I must put the overall situation first in the court to quell the rebellion in Shu, and I will also persuade Duan Xiushi to do my best to quell the rebellion this time."

Speaking of this, he said to Du Mei: "You go back and pack up first! Let's go to Longyou together tomorrow."

Du Mei responded and went first. When she reached the door, she almost collided with Tuoba Wanli who came in.

Tuoba Wanli was the only surviving nobleman in Xidangxiang. Zhang Huan did not kill him, but was very useful to keep him. Tuoba Wanli was relatively weak in character. After Xidangxiang was destroyed, he also accepted his fate and surrendered to Zhang Huan. He is currently the deputy envoy of Hexi military farmland and is Pei Mingyuan's assistant.

He walked into the room and bowed to Zhang Huan, "Is there anything wrong with the governor looking for his subordinates?"

Zhang Huan patted his shoulder with a smile, "Come on! Let's sit down and say."

Zhang Huan asked him to sit down and poured him a cup of tea himself. Tuoba Wanli was a little flattered and said, "You don't have to be polite to the governor. Please give me some instructions if you have any questions."
Chapter completed!