Chapter 170: Proposing Marriage, Asking for Name, and Matching Horoscopes

After hearing what Yang Zhengshan said, Su Kun's expression immediately relaxed a lot.

"In that case, we agree to your marriage. But I hope you can give us a few months for the wedding date!"

Yang Zhengshan asked, "So when do you think the wedding date is appropriate?"

"You can decide the specific wedding date. After all, Qingyi is the leader of our Tianqing Sword Sect. We need to choose a suitable new leader before she gets married." Su Kun said.

Yang Zhengshan felt that this request was not excessive. It would take some time for handover after leaving the job, let alone a change of the leader.

However, Yu Qingyi, who was sitting in the first seat, frowned.

She was thinking about who would be suitable to take over the position of head.

The position of the head is not easy to get.

Both strength and ability must be able to convince the public.

In fact, among the disciples of her generation, Luo Feiyu is the most suitable, but Luo Feiyu wants to be an official, so he cannot be the head of the sect.

Apart from Luo Feiyu, Yu Qingyi couldn't think of a suitable person for a while.

It’s either because of lack of strength or age.

If she were given a few years, she would definitely be able to train a qualified leader.

But a few years!

Yu Qingyi’s brows furrowed even deeper.

She wants to get married soon, because she will be an old woman in a few years.

Thinking of the old woman, Yu Qingyi's eyes lit up and his gaze fell on Hua Jinqiu.

"Uncle Hua can be the head of the sect!"

The words in my heart came out.

"..."

Everyone in the hall looked up in astonishment.

There is nothing wrong with what he said, but when it is put here and heard from Yu Qingyi, it seems a little bit wrong.

They had just said that Yu Qingyi could only get married after a new leader was elected, but Yu Qingyi had already chosen the new leader.

Girl, how anxious are you!
Yang Zhengshan couldn't suppress the smile.

My wife still likes me very much.

Su Kun looked at Yu Qingyi helplessly, with a hint of resentment in his eyes.

Hey, where has your usual steadiness and coolness gone?
Can't a grown-up girl be more reserved?
"Puch!"

Hua Jinqiu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Haha, it seems Qing Yi is anxious. If that's the case, then I'll be the headmaster for a few years. Do you have any objections?"

As a woman, I can best understand women.

Hua Jinqiu felt that it was a good thing for Yu Qingyi to get married, so that she wouldn't have to live alone all her life.

Since that was the case, she was naturally willing to help Yu Qingyi.

Isn’t it just being the head for a few years?

She is not so old that she cannot move, nor is she as lazy as old Su Kun.

Yu Qingyi also reacted at this time and couldn't help but blush again.

What else could Su Kun say but, "In that case, you guys decide the rest."

The rest is simple. As long as Su Kun has no objection, no one else will have any major objections either.

The matter had been finalized. Yang Zhengshan sat in the Tianqing Sword Sect for a while before getting up and saying goodbye.

When he left, Su Kun and others personally saw him off the mountain.

After Yang Zhengshan left, Hua Jinqiu and Yu Qingyi returned to the house where Yu Qingyi lived.

Looking at the extremely simple boudoir, Hua Jinqiu couldn't help but sigh softly in her heart.

Which girl doesn’t love red dresses?

But how can the people of the world focus their energy and thoughts on red clothes?

However, when he thought that Yu Qingyi was about to get married, Hua Jinqiu felt much better.

"Uncle-master, I'm sorry!" Yu Qingyi said a little apologetically.

"What is there to feel sorry for? It's the Tianqing Sword Sect that delayed you, not you who feel sorry for the Tianqing Sword Sect!" Hua Jinqiu said casually.

She is trapped in the Tianqing Sword Sect for the rest of her life and cannot leave now even if she wants to.

But Yu Qingyi is different. She is still young and can still get married.

"If you were in an ordinary family, you would have had many children long ago!" Hua Jinqiu said with some heartache.

The Tianqing Sword Sect raised Yu Qingyi, but also made her suffer a lot.

The marriage was arranged in haste, and in the end it never took place.

From then on, Yu Qingyi tied her hair into a bun. In the following years, her master wanted to find another marriage for her, but she refused.

At that time, Hua Jinqiu felt sorry for Yu Qingyi.

But they didn't expect that Yu Qingyi actually found a marriage for herself this time, and her partner was a third-rank commander.

Now Hua Jinqiu is happy for Yu Qingyi, but also worried about her future.

She was naturally happy that Yu Qingyi was going to get married, but she was worried that there were always a lot of things going on in an official family, and she was afraid that Yu Qingyi would not be able to cope with it.

The two sat together and talked about some topics related to women's homes.

Although Hua Jinqiu has never been married, hasn't she seen a pig run even if she has eaten pork?
She had heard a lot about the secrets of the backyards of many officials' families, and she felt it necessary to tell Yu Qingyi about these things. However, Yu Qingyi knew the situation of the Yang family very well, and those secrets of the backyards could never happen in the Yang family.

The family rule set by Yang Zhengshan that a man can take a concubine only if he is childless by the age of 30 has eliminated most of the shitty things in the back house.

In addition, no one in the Yang family has any bad intentions, so the family is very harmonious and there are no major conflicts.

After listening to Yu Qingyi talking about the situation of the Yang family, Hua Jinqiu's worries finally dissipated.

……

The next morning, the sounds of music and dance were heard at the gate of the Tianqing Sword Sect, and the matchmaker came with gifts to propose marriage.

Both parties have already agreed on the matter, and proposing marriage is just a formality.

Soon, the matchmaker left with Yu Qingyi's birth date and horoscope.

The next ones were Wenming and Naji. Wenming meant placing the woman's birth date and eight characters in front of the ancestral tablet to observe if there was anything unusual. This was handled by Yang Mingcheng, who returned to Anning County at full speed with a few followers.

As for Najib, it was a matter of matching horoscopes, and Wang and the matchmaker handled it together.

Yang Zhengshan couldn't stay in Yuanhe County for too long, after all, there were still many official business waiting for him to deal with in Anyuan City.

On the second day after proposing marriage, Yang Zhengshan came to Tianqing Sword Sect again. This time he came not to discuss the marriage, but the matter of borrowing people and letting Luo Feiyu become an official.

Su Kun naturally agreed to this because Yu Qingyi had already told him about it.

In addition to the maids around Yu Qingyi as dowry, the Tianqing Sword Sect will also give Yang Zhengshan ten disciples to serve as guards for the Yang family.

This is actually an employment relationship. The Yang family pays these disciples monthly wages, and these disciples obey the arrangements of the Yang family and are responsible for guarding the Yang family.

Asking the Tianqing Sword Sect, which only had dozens of disciples, to send out ten disciples all at once seemed to have a huge impact on the sect, but in fact it was not the case.

The Tianqing Sword Sect is not a sect that you can never leave once you join.

The Tianqing Sword Sect accepts disciples based on their qualifications, and after the disciples grow up, their cultivation and potential are also considered to determine whether they will remain in the sect.

If the cultivation level has not improved for several years, they will let the disciple leave the sect.

The reason for this is that there are not enough resources.

The Yang family relies on spiritual spring water for their practice, while the Tianqing Sword Sect's disciples need a large amount of herbs for their practice. Those in the Body Tempering Realm need to take medicinal baths, and those who attain the Postnatal Stage need some specially made pills.

Most of the Tianqing Sword Sect's income was spent on purchasing herbs and pills.

Due to limited resources, they can only focus on training some disciples with outstanding qualifications, while disciples with mediocre qualifications will be abandoned.

It's not just the Tianqing Sword Sect that's like this, it's the same for the vast majority of martial arts sects.

The disciples who went to the Yang family to serve as guards were all of relatively mediocre qualifications. Yang Zhengshan recruited these disciples, which was equivalent to solving the employment problem of the disciples for the Tianqing Sword Sect.

Such a stable job with good income is still very good for those mediocre disciples.

"In a few days, I will let Luo Feiyu take them to Anyuan City. You can make the arrangements then!"

In the main room, Su Kun said to Yang Zhengshan.

"Well, Uncle Master, don't worry, my Yang family will never treat them unfairly!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Although these disciples were considered mediocre in the Tianqing Sword Sect, they were all warriors. There were even two acquired warriors among them. They were definitely qualified to serve as guards for the Yang family.

After leaving Tianqing Sword Sect again, Yang Zhengshan set out to return to Yuanhe City.

At this time, spring ploughing had already begun, and Yang Zhengshan immediately joined in the ploughing as soon as he returned. Although he did not need to go to the fields to plow the land himself, he had to do a good job of supervision to prevent anyone from abusing his power and affecting the spring ploughing of the military households.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. Although Yang Zhengshan has cleared out all the garrisons before, don't forget that there are still many fire towers and beacon towers under the jurisdiction of the defense office.

There are usually only five to ten military households in these fire towers and beacon towers, with a small flag officer as the chief officer. Although it may seem insignificant, if the small flag officer as the chief officer acts recklessly, several military households will not be able to carry out spring ploughing normally.

Now Yang Zhengshan's main focus is on these fire towers and beacons. He visits three to five fire towers or beacons every day to check on them.

He found many problems in some fire piers and beacon towers, but most of them were left over from the past, such as incomplete equipment, insufficient personnel, serious damage to buildings, etc.

Of course, he also found some greedy bastards. When the military households were used as livestock, they deliberately did not give them oxen even though they had them. They also sold the farm tools even though the garrisons above had distributed them.

He even discovered a small flag officer who sold grain seeds, and he was so angry that he chopped off the bastard's head on the spot.

For more than ten days, Yang Zhengshan inspected the fire road pillars and beacon towers until he had inspected all of them.

In more than ten days, a lot of things happened in Anyuan City.

First, Luo Shang sent two shopkeepers and a dozen assistants over. They bought a store and a large courtyard in Anyuan City, preparing to open Jinxiufang.

Yang Zhengshan had met the two shopkeepers in person. Luo Shang had apparently given them instructions in advance to set up the embroidery school first.

The large courtyard they rented would be the future embroidery school.

The two shopkeepers did a very good job in this matter. Yang Zhengshan just asked some questions and let them handle it themselves.

Secondly, Luo Feiyu brought disciples from the Tianqing Sword Sect to Anyuan City.

Yang Zhengshan directly handed the ten disciples over to Ding Qiu. Ding Qiu was the leader of the Yang family's guards, and these ten disciples would be his subordinates in the future.

And the young men bought by the Yang family before were also Ding Qiu's subordinates.

From now on, whenever the Yang family goes out, they will bring a few guards with them.

With these disciples of the Tianqing Sword Sect around, what Yang Yunxue encountered before should not happen again.

Finally, the people involved in the smuggling case have been investigated, and the prefectural government and the military commissioner have reopened to handle official business.

The Chongshan Town Censorate arranged a new assistant to take charge of the Anyuan Prefecture Bingbei Dao Yamen, but there was no new prefect in the prefectural yamen yet.

This is normal. The Censor of the Censorate is a fifth-rank official with an irregular number of posts. Usually, they are divided into different routes for inspection. They are responsible for military preparations, education, sea patrols, Qing troops, post stations, etc. in each province.

Simply put, serving as the Anyuan Prefecture Bingbei Dao was just an internal division of labor within the Ancha Si and did not involve the appointment and transfer of officials, so the Ancha Si could make its own arrangements.

But it was different for the prefect. The appointment and removal of the prefect required the Ministry of Personnel. From the time Lin Xuan was imprisoned, to the time the Ministry of Personnel received the news, to the time the Ministry of Personnel selected a suitable official, and then to the time the new official took office in Anyuan Prefecture, it would take at least two or three months.

Originally, Yang Zhengshan thought that these things had nothing to do with him, so he just took a look at them and put them out of his mind.

But he didn't expect that the new assistant military governor would come to his door the next day after arriving in Anyuan City.

(End of this chapter)