This child's fate is similar to his previous life. The same was turned into a captive without knowing it. The same was told that he was homeless, and that he would die when he went back. That kind of despair is indeed the most devastating thing about a person's will, after all, he has experienced this despair deeply and for a long time.

Kou Yan sat lightly on the edge of the bed, reached out and tucked the quilt for him, his fingertips inadvertently touched his cheek, and his pale skin was soft and smooth. Fortunately, the touch of the fingertips told her that his body temperature was normal: "I don't want to do this to you, I'm really sorry, I think, I'll try my best to heal you." ”

The person on the bed didn't react at all, Kou Yan sighed, sat silently on the edge of the bed, and just looked at him quietly and carefully.

"Actually, you're much luckier than me. Your mother loves you deeply, and for your sake, she would rather endure loneliness and take the greatest risk than send you out of Koto and away from danger. She loves you so much. And your grandmother, the nurse, and even Tai Shici, they all protected you. But I ...... Never got any of that. Kou Yan sighed and said:

"Even if there is only one person, give me a little shelter, just a little. I won't end up in this field today. Actually, I'm very envious of you! ”

She knew that he was asleep, and it was impossible to hear him, so unconsciously, she talked about the past, the dark, the cold, the terrible past. These things have never been mentioned to anyone before, even the most trusted Xu Shu, she has never talked about them.

She didn't want him to know what kind of suffering, humiliation, and slavery she had experienced. It was the deepest and ugliest scar in her heart, and she didn't want anyone to see it.

But today, Sun Shao, who was lying silently on the bed, inadvertently touched this part of the pain, making them roar to break through the shackles and resurface in front of them. The person on the bed was like a statue, which made Kou Yan completely relax his vigilance, and he couldn't help but put everything out of his hand.

As he spoke, tears flowed down unconsciously, Kou Yan only felt itchy on his face, and when he reached out and touched it, he found that he was crying. wiped a few times indiscriminately, and then looked at the person on the bed, and didn't even move his eyelashes.

Kou Yan breathed a sigh of relief, got up and retreated outside, at this time, she took out the handkerchief from her sleeve, wiped the tears on her face thoroughly, and ordered the maid to take care of Sun Shao by the way, and then left in a hurry. However, when she went out on the front foot, Sun Shao on the bed on the back foot opened her eyes with a thoughtful expression.

Back in the study, she fell in love for a while, and threw herself into her busy work again, and after coming and going, she completely forgot what she had said to him. Deng Ai and Ma Jian had already returned and left, and they had been reported that they had brought back a lot of heads. More than 200 government soldiers were dispatched, and in the end less than half of them came back.

Since Deng Ai and Ma Jian were not there, Kou Yan summoned several survivors. Listening to their report on the specific situation of that battle, I was very satisfied with Ma Jian and Deng Ai's judgment of the situation and made a quick decision, and pondered that when they came back to restore their lives, they would reward the two little ghosts.

This time the defense of Changsha City was not only as simple as trying to protect the city gate, but more importantly, they dug up several powerful nests one after another, and except for a very small amount of wealth that went into the pockets of the government soldiers, most of the rest flowed into Kou Yan's pockets.

At the beginning, she boasted that all the soldiers, all the gold, silver and jewelry, even the women, they robbed, were their private property and did not need to be handed over. It's so sensible to think about it now. Only half of these government soldiers came back alive, they all went out empty, no one carried a sack, how many things can they take?

However, the loot they handed in was staggering. After this battle, Changsha no longer has hard-line local tyrants, and many former "black households" are now exposed to the sun and have become Changsha's labor force and military source. The population of Changsha has increased by tens of thousands out of thin air.

Don't underestimate these tens of thousands of people, they can be trained as soldiers, and they can also open up wasteland and farm, making the originally depressed Changsha rich. During the war years, population was the most important strategic resource.

Therefore, Kou Yan happily doubled down on his promise, and each Xin Cunzhe received an additional hundred gold and was allowed to reclaim a piece of wasteland of about ten acres at a tax exemption rate of ten years. This moved every Xin Cunzhe to tears.

As soon as this matter was over, Kou Yan was completely relieved. The crisis in Changsha City is over, and the teacher can come back! She almost couldn't wait to give the order to pick up the teacher. As soon as I wanted to open my mouth, I suddenly remembered that the teacher had said before leaving that he would leave this time for a short period of one month and two months before he could return to Changsha.

The time has not yet come!Kou Yan hung his arms weakly. I started to despise myself again, the teacher was not around, and I was in a hurry to do anything. Just after the battle outside the city, there are still a lot of things to deal with in the aftermath. Downstairs in the city, the dead body hasn't been buried yet! Now you want to pick up the teacher? Take him back to clean up the aftermath for you?

Patting his cheek, Kou Yan ordered himself to calm down, and all the civil servants in the entire Changsha City took action to quickly digest and sort out the spoils of this battle.

Rao is Ma Jing led his colleagues to count day and night, and it took a full five days to classify all the loot and put it in the hands of Kou Yan. Kou Yan looked at the bamboo books piled up into a hill and was dumbfounded: "There are really so many?"

Ma Jing was so tired that her eyes were full of red bloodshots, but her spirit was extremely excited: "If you go back to your lordship, these are just gold, silver, grain, silk and other things that are clearly priced in the market. There are also those antiques, calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, etc., which have not yet been included in the list. ”

"And!" Kou Yan opened his mouth wide and didn't close it for a long time. Fortunately, Ma Jing, who sent out at the beginning and counted the people afterwards, are all cultural people, if it was just a group of soldiers who went to rob the house, the antique calligraphy and painting would have been destroyed as garbage, if this is the case, she will definitely be distressed to death.

Well, now it's a perfect ending. Kou Yan was immersed in the joy of victory, and he didn't want to go through this battle at all, what kind of eyes would the other three counties, including Xiangyang behind him, look at Changsha. Changsha will be subject to tougher sanctions. It doesn't matter if you offend the gentleman, if you offend the villain, there will be endless troubles.

It's just that now she doesn't think about these things at all, what she thinks is that since all the neighbors around Changsha are only thinking about squeezing her and trying to make her have no way out, then she can only use unconventional means to open up her own way.