Overlord!

Chapter 43

On the same day, Sun Ce successfully found out from Zhou Yu the name of the beautiful woman he was about to welcome, Zhou Cheng, named Lingyi.

The name of the Zhou family has the meaning of a ten-year tree and a century-old man.Zhou Yu's name is Tongyu, and Zhou Cheng's name is Tongcheng.

But the Zhou family is indeed worthy of this sentence. The children cultivated by their century-old family not only have outstanding appearance, but also have extraordinary bearing and heroic appearance. Even after thousands of years, they will still be fascinating.

Zhou Cheng's status is the same as Guo Shengtong's and Mrs. Mi's, and they are both the bond of political marriage between local tycoons and contemporary heroes.

Guo Shengtong married Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and the hero's final status is Emperor Guangwu.

Mrs. Mi married Liu Bei, and the ultimate status of this hero was Emperor Zhaolie.

And Zhou Cheng married Sun Ce, this peerless Jiangbiao hero, must also have the career of king and hegemony.

It has to be said that the vision of investment heroes in these powerful families in this world is extremely precise.

So even though it was just a concubine, Zhou Shang also organized it very grandly, mainly to show the political alliance between Danyang County and Sun Ceqiang's army to the aristocratic families and powerful in Danyang County, and advance and retreat together.

The effect was very impressive. When the news of the marriage between the two parties spread, those tyrants and wealthy families who had ignored the county government's decree before all bowed their heads and sent people out of Wubao to go to Danyang County to congratulate him.

The entire five counties south of Jing also expressed their acceptance of the rule of the county government and asked the county government to send officials.

The most fundamental reason for the formation of such a mighty trend is the alliance between the two parties, which has a crushing advantage over other forces.

Sun Ce benefited from this marriage with four thousand troops!
As a result of Zhou's support to Sun Ce, Sun Ce's army has exceeded 1.

Under Wanling City alone, Sun Ce's army included 4000 men supported by the Zhou family and more than 1 men commanded by Wu Jing and Sun Ben.In addition to his [-] troops in Niuzhu camp, the total size of the army reached [-].

At the end of the Han Dynasty, a county could normally support more than ten thousand troops, which basically meant that Zhou Shang had integrated the entire Danyang.

The marriage between the two parties is a political alliance that benefits each other. Sun Ce obtained the army food and grass, and Zhou Shang obtained the political territory and stronger county control.

As the heroes and nobles of Danyang gathered in Wanling City, Sun Ce took advantage of the situation and ordered Yuan Xiong to be in charge of selling horses and buying grain.

The effect of this wave was very impressive, and Yuan Xiong personally reported the good news to Sun Ce: "General, in the past few days, the market has bought more than 140 war horses and more than 170 draft horses, a total of more than 5000 horses. The number is quite impressive. Su also bought More than [-] stones."

Sun Ce nodded, thinking that Lu Bu bought the horse and was taken away by Liu Bei, so he said with a smile: "If you buy the horse, you must take good care of it. There are still a lot of heroes in Danyang County. people robbed."

"Hey! Bo Fu, are you still worried about someone robbing your horse? Shouldn't you be worried about someone robbing your bride?" Sun Ben's complaining voice came from outside the hall.

Sun Ce smiled and stood up to greet him: "Do you think the rangers here are Cao Mengde and Yuan Benchu? They like to rob brides with swords. Besides, the bride is about to start today. What is there to worry about?"

Sun Ben walked into the lobby with two military officials: "You also know that today's bride is getting started! I'm still busy with military affairs, don't hurry to wash up. Hang out with these rough guys, if you have lice on your body, jump to Zhou Shigui On a woman, you must not be disliked to death."

Yuan Xiong also laughed out loud when he heard the words, and said: "General, I bought you powder Ying and Jinrui at the market, and let the soldiers bring them here for you to dress up."

Hearing this, Sun Ce only felt his head buzzing. There are some customs in this era that Sun Ce really cannot accept. For example, men have to put a thick layer of powder on their faces. What's more exaggerated is that they may have headaches during celebrations. There are also hairpins on it.

He Lang didn't say much about applying powder. Even Cao Zhi, a great poet, once made the guests wait for an hour for applying powder.

It took a long time to apply the powder, that's why Sun Ben was in such a hurry.

Sun Ce had no choice but to wave his hands, and said firmly to everyone: "Stop, all of you. Take your Fenying and Jinrui aside. I just need to freshen up."

Sun Ben strongly objected: "Bo Fu, you have a big day tonight. Why are you so perfunctory? When Mrs. Zhou saw you, she thought you were being negligent on purpose. No, hurry up and put on the powder."

Sun Ce resolutely refused: "Powdering and perfunctory, I would rather choose perfunctory. I will wash it carefully with clean water, and it will be hard to see at dusk! Chen Wu, boil the water quickly."

Sun Ben looked at him, and could only compromise, after all, he had a face like a crown of jade, and he was a top Jiangdong talent without being a fan.

Afterwards, the two military officers brought overjoyed costumes and jade pendants to Sun Ce. The costumes were brocade clothes with black base and red edge, embroidered with black birds and flowing fire.

Jade pendants are very complicated. Men must wear jade pendants in pairs, that is, there will be two sets of jade pendants on one left and one on the right, with seven pieces in each set, with various images of clouds, dragons, algae, and lins.

Peiyu's main purpose is not because he walks jingle-dang melodiously, but for self-cultivation.Remind the jade wearer that his behavior must be calm and moderate.Because if you walk fast, the knocking sound of Peiyu is not only unpleasant, but also very chaotic; if you walk slowly, and the strength is not enough, Peiyu will not make a knocking sound;

Holding a string of warm and smooth jade pendants, Sun Ce sighed in his heart that he would not dare to hope for such an expensive thing in later generations, but now he holds it calmly in his hands.

There is no shortage of wealth in this era, but ordinary people can't enjoy it at all. Wars and excessive taxes lead to the destruction of all industries.

Seeing that Sun Ce was in deep thought, Chen Wu asked while adding water to the barrel, "General, on today's day of great joy, hundreds of powerful people from Jing County came with more than fifty carts of cattle and wine. Do you want to reward the soldiers? Military drinks?"

Sun Ce was bathing in a wooden barrel at this time, and the heat from the white vines continued to rise, making his body flushed with comfort.

Hearing Chen Wu's words, Sun Ce asked in surprise, "Why did the tyrants of Jing County send us wine?"

Chen Wu took it for granted and replied: "Congratulations to the general. Isn't this a common etiquette? Besides, our army has never committed any crimes against the people. In Shicheng County, the common people often competed to serve the army with oxen and wine."

Haoqiang from Jing County is so hospitable.

Sun Ce didn't think too much about it, maybe the style of this era is really different from that of later generations. "All the soldiers want to drink?"

"That's natural. The general is overjoyed today, and the soldiers naturally want to follow the general and have fun."

Sun Ce temporarily put aside his contemplation about the war, and said with a smile: "Then if you don't let you drink, it seems that I am too unkind?"

Chen Wu grinned: "Even if ordinary people get married, they have to celebrate. The soldiers in the camp followed the general through life and death, so naturally they want to celebrate together."

It is indeed reasonable, although this is a political marriage, how can ordinary soldiers see this, what they can see is that the general married a noble woman, can't they celebrate together?
After thinking about it, Sun Ce agreed to Chen Wu's request: "We will reward the army with all the beef and wine. But the guards must not slack off. The soldiers on duty tonight are not allowed to drink, and they will be rewarded twice tomorrow."

Chen Wu's spirit was greatly lifted: "Haha, general, I'll go down and deliver the order."

He is naturally excited, he is not worth the excitement tonight, and he can go to Zhou Tai's place to continue drinking tomorrow!

I don't know what happened after the general fell into a coma once.He became extremely cautious, no matter where he went, even under the Niuzhu camp, he had to bring a fully armed guard to inspect the pawns reclaiming the fields.

From Shicheng County to Wanling County, it is even more impossible to come alone.Even if there were [-] troops under Wu Zhonglang's troops in Wanling City, they would have brought a whole army of more than [-] soldiers to protect them on the way to receive them.

Zhou Tai was the commander-in-chief of these soldiers. He was promoted from village chief to Sima because of his achievements in capturing the flag.

Hearing Chen Wu's order, he immediately patted his chest and promised: "The general has kindness to me, and I am willing to die for him, let alone a meal of beef and wine. I will personally lead the guards to patrol the night and strictly enforce the guards. "

Chen Wu said with a smile: "I didn't say that I wouldn't give you cattle and wine. The general said that you will double the reward tomorrow, and I'm afraid you will have more fun eating than today."

After hearing Chen Wu's words, the soldiers under Zhou Tai immediately cheered.After all, being busy for a while is not as good as eating a few more pieces of beef.

Afterwards, Zhou Tai put on the armor himself, and led the soldiers to patrol the camp with two-handed axes.

The 8000-strong army was divided into two parts, so it was impossible to be stationed in one camp, but five camps were set up, with a joint camp of more than ten miles.Stationed around the gardens on the outskirts of Wanling.

The Dahan Manor had a prosperous economy, and building pavilions, gardens, and pond gardens was a fashion imitated among powerful lands.

In order to accommodate Sun Ce, Zhou Shang specially selected a garden outside Wanling City as the place where Sun Ce stationed his troops.

This is also a very common way of camping in this era. The commander's camp is stationed in a building, and the army surrounds it for dozens or even tens of miles.Liu Bei's Ganlu Temple recruits relatives, which is similar to this.

Except for the Chinese army camp where Sun Ce was hung up with red silk, most of the other camps were just celebrating. Most of the soldiers were packing their bags and preparing to have a strong drink before heading north tomorrow.

Under the festive atmosphere, it will soon be dusk and sunset.

Concubines don't need to go to welcome their relatives, it is the county government's escort team that escorts the bride to the residence.

This ignited the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and countless battalion soldiers ran to the camp gate to see the bride.

But the curtain was set on the chariot, and the excited soldiers could only see a dim figure sitting and standing in the middle of the curtain, and soon their attention was attracted by the dowry.

There are more than 500 people escorting the bride, all dressed in colorful clothes, presenting all kinds of rare treasures, brocade boxes of silk, gold, silver, jade, porcelain and bronze, etc. More than [-] people each hold a precious dowry in their hands, making people dazzled and overwhelmed.

The person who escorted the bride was naturally Zhou Yu, who was an elder brother and knew Sun Ce well, so he wanted to hand over the younger sister to him in person.

Sun Ce led the generals to wait in front of the manor's lobby. The bride was sent to the backyard, and Sun Ce welcomed Zhou Yu into the hall with a smile.

When the two parties were seated, Sun Ce had to sigh with emotion that the situation had been changed beyond recognition by him. He had previously said that he and Zhou Yu were of flesh and blood, but now they really became a family.

Zhou Yu also felt the same way, and said, "Now we have become more intimate. Before Bo Fu can find me a beautiful woman in the city, I will pay for my sister first."

Sun Ce laughed. He didn't expect that he still had the physique of a scumbag. Zhou Cheng had already started thinking about the bridge before he saw what he looked like.

But it didn't matter. Although Zhou Yu became an uncle, it didn't prevent Sun Ce and him from marrying Qiao and Xiao Qiao at all. After all, they were just concubines.Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are not brother-in-law at all.

Sun Ce said with a smile, "It's such a happy event, let's have a drink."

Zhou Yu raised his glass, talked for a while, then got up with a smile, and said to Sun Ce: "When we leave the camp and return to the north, there will be more opportunities for you and me to drink. But you are very happy today, so I won't delay you. I will go to the camp to rectify the situation. military discipline."

Since the Danyang soldiers collapsed last time, Zhou Yu has always taken it as a warning and paid great attention to the rectification of military discipline.Most of the people who came out to make a fuss today were Danyang soldiers, which made him quite dissatisfied.

He has absolute trust in Sun Ce's temperament.Needless to say, he will definitely treat his little sister kindly in the future.

Sun Ce was also amazed, how could there be such a perfect best friend in the world, who not only can help him lead troops to fight, but also is so understanding.

When making friends with Zhou Gongjin, if you drink alcoholic mash, you will not feel drunk.Sure enough, there is no exaggeration.

In fact, Sun Ce's heart has already been beating violently. He does have a lot of poses in his head, but the paper is shallow.

This kind of thing still has to be done by yourself to make sense.

This is the first time I have experienced it as a human being in two lifetimes.I don't know what the woman inside looks like.

Marriage in this era is like opening a blind box.Until the last moment before the bridal chamber, one cannot know the face of the bride.

Sun Ce stood in front of the room, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door.

The bride sitting on the bed is also wearing a black wedding dress, with red skirts and skirts.

Under the candlelight, Sun Ce finally saw the appearance of this noble lady.

Her sitting posture is very upright and ladylike, full of the bearing of everyone.What made her famous boudoir temperament even more obvious was that she was tall and slender, with fair skin, Shengxue, and her fingers were as slender as onion roots.It can be seen that he has always kept his hands aloof.

How could there be anything unattractive about a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old?

What's more, she is really beautiful, and her appearance is far better than Zhou Yu.

Under the candlelight, Sun Ce could see his blushing and beating heart from her clear eyes.

Zhou Cheng couldn't help but chuckled, his brows and eyes curved: "Sun Lang, don't you remember me?"

Sun Ce was dumbfounded: "Have we met?"

"That's right, Sun Lang's eyes are always on the sky, and he never pays attention to your little girl who is looking up at you from behind. I was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time."

Sun Ce approached her and exclaimed, "I didn't even care that there was such a peerless beauty by my side? What was I doing at that time?"

Zhou Cheng looked at him with admiration: "At that time in Shucheng, Sun Lang began to befriend Jianghuai celebrities when he was only a teenager, and he recruited scholars and bureaucrats. Heroes in the Jianghuai area have defected to you. Perhaps compared with these heroes and celebrities, I am alone. A skinny girl of twelve or thirteen years old is really hard to get into Sun Lang's eyes."

(End of this chapter)