Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 383 Preparing for Marriage

After the young master's affairs were arranged, the Queen often arranged for him to go out. Sometimes he came to the Song family, sometimes he went to Xingchengfang, and the Ciyu Bureau. The children in the Ciyu Bureau did not know the young master's identity, but when they heard the housekeeper Shumo say that he was also a child whose parents had both passed away, they felt a little more sympathy for him and took good care of the child on weekdays.

The prince, who is three years older than the young master, acts like a little adult. He is disgusted to see his cousin always getting covered in mud after playing, but as an older brother he can't help but take care of his younger brother.

Every time Song Chunlin saw the way these two children got along, he felt that something was wrong. They didn't look like brothers but more like father and son, especially when the young master was covered in dirt and smiled foolishly at the prince.

Song Chunlin couldn't help but ask the housekeeper: "Is it really okay for this child to be like this? Is he a little stupid?"

The steward Shumo glanced at him and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? She is only three years old, and it is the best time for her to play in the mud. Wasn't you like this when you were three years old?"

Song Chunlin: “…” I didn’t, I didn’t, I don’t remember.

In this battle, Song Chunlin and Gu Fengyue both made great contributions in defending the city. The emperor was so happy that he not only gave Song Chunlin a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but also gave him military power, even though he did not hold any official position.

Of course, this move was also strongly opposed by many old-fashioned people in the court. They not only opposed Song Chunlin's holding of military power, but more importantly, they opposed the fact that Song Chunlin, a young man, could have the power of 50,000 soldiers in his hands without any official position. This was not only unique in this dynasty, but also the first in all dynasties.

So they jointly wrote a letter to the emperor, asking him to take back the military power from Song Chunlin.

The result was that he was beaten up one by one by Song Chunlin in the court. After all, he was still a commoner and did not need to stick to those rules and regulations. Since the other party did not treat him well, he did not need to treat these old men well either. He just knocked them down with one punch.

This kid was a cunning guy. After beating people up, he also fed them spiritual spring water. Those people thought that Song Chunlin had fed them some poison, and they all had desperate expressions as if the sky had fallen. But when they went back to ask the doctor to feel their pulses, wow, they were all alive and well, nothing happened to them. They were so angry that they cursed at them at home, but they no longer had the courage to confront Gu Fengyun and Song Chunlin in the court, even though Song Chunlin never went to court later.

The young man from the Song family became famous after this battle, and the whole capital knew that Song Chunlin was a young man with super high martial arts skills who should not be easily provoked. In addition, he had the power of 50,000 soldiers in his hands. This power was even higher than that of many third and fourth rank civil officials. Even a second-rank military general did not have as many soldiers under his command as he did.

However, this time Song Chunlin specifically asked the emperor whether the extra 50,000 people would be supported by the court. The emperor's expression at that time was hard to describe. He wanted to say that it was not under the jurisdiction of the court, but he swallowed the words back and had to follow Song Chunlin's words.

Song Chunlin finally breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that he didn't need to support 50,000 people. This really scared him to death. When he was asked to support 3,000 people, he felt that he would be bankrupted. If he had to support these 50,000 people as well, he would rather not have the military power, as it was like a hot potato.

But the emperor later said that it was okay not to support them, but they had to give the soldiers some sweet treats occasionally. Song Chunlin said he understood and that he would treat them equally and would ask the emperor for reimbursement when the time came.

When the emperor heard that he was going to ask him for reimbursement, the smile on his face finally disappeared. Seeing that the situation was not right, Song Chunlin immediately took his leave and ran away, leaving the emperor with no place to vent his anger.

When summer was approaching in the capital, memorials from the border came again, but this time they were no longer war reports, but letters from the barbarians seeking peace.

The letter said that the war had severely damaged all the tribes on the grassland. Not only did they lose a lot of food and money, but they also lost nearly 80% of their young warriors. The sudden loss of so many young and middle-aged people made the already poor tribes even worse off. Therefore, these small tribes sought peace and wanted to rely on Dajing in order to survive.

The court was again in the midst of a heated argument over this request for peace. Song Chunlin used his mental power to listen in on these court events several times. He felt his head buzzing after listening to them, so he decided to ignore it. Anyway, the crisis in Dajing had been resolved, and the rest could be left to the officials to argue about. He was better at farming.

The court argued for several days without reaching a conclusion, but Gu Fengyun took the opportunity to get a lot of benefits for his younger brother. One of them was to let Gu Fengyue return to Beijing to report on his work and get married.

Gu Fengyun's reason was: "My brother has been engaged for several years, and the Song family's little brother is almost seventeen years old, but they haven't been able to get married yet, and now they are separated. I'm afraid someone will abduct my brother's wife if things go on like this. Your Majesty, please do me a favor and let the two lovers get married as soon as possible, so that the Song family's little brother can follow us in the army, so that he won't have to find excuses to run to the border all day long."

Song Chunlin said that there was no need to say the latter sentence, as he didn't go to the border every day.

However, the emperor finally agreed to Gu Fengyun's request, and even joked that he would go to the Marquis' Mansion to ask for a glass of wedding wine.

Gu Fengyue was shocked when he was suddenly notified that he was going to get married. He thought he was seeing things, but when he took another look at the imperial edict, it was actually real. Gu Fengyue stood there in a daze. The deputy general thought he had seen some shocking secret and was very anxious. However, Gu Fengyue slowly put away the imperial edict and calmly told the deputy general that he was going back to the capital.

The deputy general was dumbfounded: "What? You want to go back to the capital. What will we do here if you go back to the capital?"

Gu Fengyue pointed at General Lin who was not far away and said, "Don't we still have him? If all else fails, go and call Dou Duhu over. Well, he should be able to handle it for a while."

The deputy general was going crazy because of his actions: "General, what urgent matter is it that has you rushing back to the capital?"

Gu Fengyue said seriously, "Yes, it's a very important matter, extremely urgent, and I can't do it unless I go back."

"so it is?"

"I'm getting married."

"...???"

Compared to Gu Fengyue's ecstasy, Song Chunlin was more confused. His mental age was almost forty, but his body was only sixteen. Although he had eaten better over the years and was nourished by spiritual spring water, he was taller than other children of the same age and looked like a little adult, but after all, he was only sixteen years old. Was it necessary for them to marry him off in such a hurry?

Seeing that Song Chunlin was still somewhat resistant, Song Qin poked his head and said with some disdain, "You still think of yourself as a child. You will be seventeen in a few months. If you count your lunar age, you will be eighteen. What boy is still unmarried at the age of eighteen? If you hadn't been engaged to Fengyue a long time ago, I'm afraid that outsiders would have been gossiping about you. You are the only one who doesn't seem to be in a hurry. If you are not in a hurry, is Fengyue not in a hurry? He is the same age as your brother. Your sister-in-law is pregnant with her second child, and Fengyue doesn't have anyone close to her. Don't you think about Fengyue?"

Song Chunlin smiled innocently. He felt that the two of them were together less often than they were apart, and that they didn't have the feeling of being in love as he had read about in novels in his previous life. Besides, in his previous life, it was not uncommon for men and women to get married for the first time in their thirties or forties. However, he didn't dare tell this to Song Qinshi, for fear that she would go crazy.

Ever since they heard the news that Gu Fengyue was coming back to marry Song Chunlin, the Song family started to get busy, and the first thing to do was to prepare a dowry for Song Chunlin.

Having lived two lives, Song Chunlin never thought that he would actually need a dowry one day. He always felt that it didn't suit him, but seeing everyone's excitement, he thought it wasn't a bad idea.

Ever since Song Chunlin and Gu Fengyue got engaged, Grandpa Song asked Song Dazhuang to buy some land every year to be used as a dowry for Song Chunlin when he got married. Good farmland around the capital is not easy to buy, so Song Dazhuang bought some that are a little farther away, and deliberately bought them in the same area, so that it would be convenient for Song Chunlin to manage them in the future. Currently, these fields have been rented out to other people for cultivation, and they can just wait to collect rent at the end of the year.

Song Chunlin was very curious about the fields that Grandpa Song and Song Dazhuang had prepared for him, so he took a look. He was shocked to find that all the fields added up to as much as seventy or eighty acres. If they were all in the same place, it would be a small village.

Song Chunlin couldn't help but click his tongue. He knew that his family had achieved financial freedom just by relying on the income from farming over the years, but he didn't know that they were so free. Even in places far away from the capital, an acre of good farmland would cost about two taels of silver, and this was just the monetary expenditure. In fact, if you wanted to buy a piece of land around the capital, you would need some connections, not to mention buying land in one area, which was many times more difficult than simply buying a piece of land.

Song Dazhuang bought him seventy or eighty acres of land, all of which were fertile fields. Song Chunlin had no idea how Song Dazhuang did it.

In addition to the land, Song Dazhuang also bought two shops for him, both of which were bought with the help of Su Fuqing's relationship. Although the shops are not located in the most prosperous area of ​​the capital, there is a lot of traffic around, so he has no worries about customers when opening two small shops.

Song Chunlin did not hold an official position, so he naturally did not need to worry that opening a shop would affect his career. Gu Fengyue was even less worried. This shop was Song Chunlin's dowry and had nothing to do with him. Moreover, compared with the dowries of other aristocratic families, these two small shops were already very shabby.

However, Song Chunlin felt that these things were too valuable. After all, the Song family had only lived a better life in recent years. Giving him so many things as a dowry at once seemed like the entire Song family would have to bleed heavily.

Song Qin knew that his idea was just funny. "You, you think too much. The reason why our family can have such a good life now is because of you. You kept us alive on the road of fleeing famine, and the seeds in your space allowed our whole family to have enough food. This is why we have extra money to buy these businesses. To be honest, Chunlin, you have made an indelible contribution to our family's good life today."

Song Chunlin felt a little embarrassed by what Song Qin said. He did not think that he had made much contribution. He just thought that since they were a family, their goal should be the same, which was to make the whole family live a good life.

It was rare for Song Qinshi to see the shy Song Chunlin. It was not until she saw him like this that she felt like she had raised a little brother.

Normally, she had only seen Song Chunlin being carefree, not like he is now, shy and quiet. She had once wondered what Song Chunlin would be like if he was like other boys, but as time went by, Song Qin rarely had such fantasies.

Because no matter what Song Chunlin looks like, he is his own child.

"Oh, by the way, I have discussed with your father, and as a dowry, I will give you some land and those two shops, and one thousand taels of silver from my family. This amount of silver is indeed a little less, and compared with the dowries given by other wealthy families, it is really not worth mentioning. Don't rush to refuse. Mother remembers that you still have a lot of gold and silver jewelry in your space, right?"

Song Chunlin thought for a moment and asked, "Mom, do you want me to bring some out to make things look more special?"

Song Qin looked like a teachable child: "Of course, you don't like wearing gold and silver, but you are the wife of the Grand Marshal, so you need to have a few decent jewelry that can hold up the occasion. I can't find many good ones. You can take out some and put them on display. Just make it look good. You can put them away later. I think you will definitely go to guard the border with Fengyue in the future. The people there are not as particular as those in the capital. When the time comes, you will have the final say, right?"

Song Chunlin thought it made sense. As an adult male in the new century, he really couldn't wear a bunch of hairpins and hairpins on his head like other guys did. That would feel weird. So he agreed with what Song Qinshi said and just took some out to save face, as he wouldn't need them himself.

In addition to gold and silver jewelry, Song Chunlin also prepared some medicinal herbs as a dowry. While the Song family was busy preparing the dowry, the Gu family was also busy. Not only did they spend a huge amount of money to hire an embroiderer with outstanding embroidery skills to embroider wedding dresses for Gu Fengyue and Song Chunlin, they also renovated the marquis's mansion in preparation for welcoming the newlyweds.

As the eldest sister-in-law, Su Fuqing never rested for a moment. Gu Fengyun was busy with work, so many things fell on Su Fuqing. Fortunately, she had Old Madam Su to help her, otherwise he would not know what to do.

Gu Fengyue traveled day and night, and when he returned to the capital, it was already a month later. Gu Fengyue first went to the Ministry of Justice to pick up his brother, and the two brothers returned to the Marquis' Mansion together.