Gong Yu Wu's words suddenly shocked Feng Huaidao, who was about to eat, put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and looked at Gong Yu Wu who was talking in a daze, and then turned his head to look at Gongsun Jian, who was a little embarrassed. On the side, Wei Meng was eating with his head down, not caring about Gongyu Wu's words at all, as if the words that the little girl said were taken for granted.

"Mr. Feng, don't blame, the little girl is spoiled by her father." Gongsun Jian said with some apologies. Feng Huaidao waved his hand, looked at Gong Yuwu with interest and said, "A six-year-old doll can say such a truth, which shows that Gong Daren is very good at education on weekdays." And the old man is ashamed! As he spoke, Feng Huaidao stood up and gave Gong Yuwu a salute. Gongsun Jian hurriedly stepped forward to grab it, while Gongyu Wu jumped down from the stool and saluted Feng Huaidao back. looks very formal, and it can't help but make people laugh.

Feng Huaidao smiled, so he shouted from the direction of the kitchen on the side, and called his daughter out to have breakfast with everyone. Only then did Gongsun Jian know that this girl's name was Feng Wan'er, and she was seventeen years old this year.

After breakfast, there were children from the neighborhood one after another. Recently, the county town has been chaotic, and Xie Wu has been arranged to be absent from other things, so Gongsun Jian canceled the children's morning exercises. Looking at the children in the courtyard who were playing together while Mr. hadn't come yet, Feng Huaidao's face couldn't help but be a little stunned. Asked Gongsun Jian stupidly: "My lord, these children are all you looking for to play with your daughter-in-law?" ”

"No, they came to my small courtyard to study and read." Gongsun Jian replied with a smile.

"Huh? It turns out that adults still run private schools. ”

"No, I just hired a gentleman to teach the children to read, and I didn't charge them for it. Sometimes I teach arithmetic to children when I have time. ”

"This ......" Gongsun Jian's answer surprised Feng Huaidao. When he was about to ask something more, Gongsun Jian saw that Mr. Teaching was coming, said hello to the other party, and then explained a few words to Wei Meng, and went out to the county government to do something.

In the next few days, Gongsun Jian was too busy and didn't have time to take care of Feng Huaidao's father and daughter. Every day, I go out early and return late, and I don't even have a chance to talk to each other. However, Feng Huaidao has not been idle these days, he has recovered his body and walked around the county, and also heard a lot about Gongsun Jian's deeds, and then told him some things through Wei Meng. He found that this county lieutenant who lived in the alley was not a koi in the pond, but was preparing to take the dragon into the abyss!

It was almost midnight when Gongsun Jian returned home this night, but he never thought that Feng Huaidao had been waiting for him. In fact, don't look at Gongsun Jian in the past few days, he has ignored the father and daughter, but he has also learned about the two from the side, especially the gentleman who taught the children said that this person is very knowledgeable, and he thought that Gongsun Jian specially found it from outside to replace him to teach the children.

Since the other party wants to talk to him, let's talk.

Gongsun Jian deliberately invited Feng Huaidao into his small study in the backyard, did not make tea, but heated a pot of wine, and found the leftovers that had not been eaten for two nights, so he sat opposite Feng Huaidao and drank slowly. No one speaks first.

When a pot of wine was about to bottom out, Feng Huaidao finally couldn't help but speak.

"I heard a few words from my daughter, and I want to ask my lord."

"Oh? What words? Gongsun Jian raised his head and squinted at Feng Huaidao on the other side, and said in his heart, I will wait for you here. But it depends on what you say, and I can decide how to accept you.

"Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations. Dare to ask if these words come from the mouth of an adult? ”

Gongsun Jian nodded, and did not deny it. After Feng Huaidao was recognized by Gongsun Jian, he immediately got up and gave Gongsun Jian a big gift very solemnly, but Gongsun Jian did not stop the other party, but sat there calmly.

"Feng Mou bows to the adult, but I don't know how the adult is going to realize this?" Feng Huaidao, who had finished the salute, sat down and asked.

Gongsun Jian smiled, took a sip of wine, looked at Feng Huaidao and asked, "What should Mr. Yi do?" ”

"This ......" Feng Huaidao hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Feng is only a shallow learner, but he has the heart to follow the adult to complete the career in that sentence." Today, it seems to be stable, and the seven kingdoms are separated. In fact, it has been chaotic for more than 100 years, and the people of various countries have long been miserable. At this moment, a figure like the First Emperor is needed to stand up and clean up the rivers and mountains and dominate the world, so that the people will no longer be displaced and miserable. ”

"It's hard!" Gongsun Jian sighed slightly.

"Your Excellency. Since the adults were able to say this, they must have already predicted what the road ahead would be. There is no reason why things in the world are easy to come by, as long as you work hard, even if you fail in the end, there will be comers. Feng is willing to work hard with adults. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Feng. Aren't you afraid that one day you will accompany me to a dead end? Gongsun Jian asked with a smile.

"Don't be afraid." Feng Huaidao said with a firm expression: "Feng has been studying since he was a child, and he has cherished the ideal of fighting for all the people in the world, but unfortunately Huai Cai did not meet and his family also fell into the middle, and his wife died of illness. If it hadn't been for the adults, maybe my little girl and I would have starved to death on the streets. Since you've already died once, why are you afraid of dying again? Besides, I think that the way you have done things has been in a proper way during this period of time, and it has been completely planned for a long time. Being able to follow adults is actually Feng's blessing. ”

"Okay. Since Mr. Feng, you said so. That Gong Mou is no longer good at behaving. There's just a phrase I need to say up front. I'm a one-way ticket here, and once I'm on the boat, I can't get off again. In addition, Gong Mou can't guarantee anything, everything depends on your means in the future. ”

"Feng understands." Feng Huaidao nodded, then stood up and solemnly knelt in front of Gongsun Jian to bow down.

"The lord is above, please accept Feng Huaidao's salute."

Then the two chatted for a long time, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became. Until dawn, the two were still talking. Through conversation, Gongsun Jian felt more and more that Feng Huaidao was a talent, but he had never met anyone who valued him before. For example, on issues such as docks, Feng Huaidao gave Gongsun Jian good advice. So Gongsun Jian decided to hand over the matter of the dock to Feng Huaidao to help deal with it first, so that he could reduce some things for himself, devote more energy to the militia side, and also have time to plan for the next things. Second, you can also take this opportunity to test Feng Huaidao, don't just practice kung fu but can't do things.

After dawn, Gongsun Jian called Wei Meng and asked him to find a few people to help clean up the house. The utility room in the east wing was thoroughly cleaned and placed in the future, and it was used for Feng Huaidao to live in the future. The study in the front yard was also cleaned up, and Gongsun Jian moved in, and the backyard belonged to Feng Wan'er and Gong Yuwu. After all, it is not good for an unmarried eldest girl to live with a few of them, and Feng Wan'er can also help Gongsun Jian take care of Gongyu Wu and deal with some family affairs.

After arranging these, after breakfast, Gongsun Jian led Feng Huaidao to the county government and introduced Feng Huaidao to Liu Dayuan, only saying that the master he invited helped deal with the dock affairs. Liu Dayuan was overjoyed by Feng Huaidao's arrival, Gongsun Jian thought at first that Liu Dayuan could finally throw away the burden of the dock and was happy, and then asked again to know that Liu Dayuan had heard of Feng Huaidao's name, and even greatly respected and respected the other party. Gongsun Jian secretly said in his heart, it turns out that this Feng Huaidao still has a background!

After arranging the affairs of the dock to Feng Huaidao to be in charge of handling it, Gongsun Jian talked to Liu Dayuan about other things for a while, and then went to the temporary military camp outside the south gate to go around to check the results of the training in the past few days. By the way, he also found some mistakes from it and guided the old horses to readjust the methods and methods of planning and training.

After staying in the militia for a day, the next day Gongsun Jian went to contact and test the Cao family according to the pre-planned preparations. Since the accident in Linshui County, the Cao family has not shown their heads, as if they were out of the matter. And Gongsun Jian didn't have time to contact the other party because there were too many things. Finally, Feng Huaidao's arrival allowed Gongsun Jian to free up his hands and time to contact the other party. After all, if you want to really gain a foothold in Linshui County, you still need the help of a local snake like the Cao family.

Unlike those that were destroyed, although the Cao family also had houses and shops in Linshui County, the whole family basically lived in their own manor in the north of the county. It is no wonder that more than half of the hundreds of thousands of acres of best land in Linshui County are in the hands of the Cao family. And the Cao family, who has a special preference for land, is therefore more willing to guard their own land.

Gongsun Jian took Wei Meng and Qi Shi to Cao's house on horseback. When I was almost there, I looked up, good fellow, this is a manor, it's a small castle. Now Gongsun Jian understands why the Cao family is unwilling to live in the county seat. I'm afraid it's much safer here than the houses in the county seat. As far as Gongsun Jian and those people come to attack, it is estimated that the other party only needs a hundred well-trained family members at most to be able to completely resist them.

After reporting his name and surname, it didn't take long for Gongsun Jian to be politely invited in. And the one who came out to greet Gongsun Jian was actually the eldest son of the head of the Cao family. It can be seen that the other party has done a very decent job in etiquette, at least it will not let you find fault.

When I came to the living room, the old lady of the Cao family was already sitting there waiting. Gongsun Jian looked at the other party, and it was estimated that he was sixty or seventy years old. So he didn't hold the shelf, but preemptively greeted the other party. Old lady Cao Han nodded and was polite to Gongsun Jian, and then someone sent refreshments and other things.

"Patriarch Cao, Gong is here to apologize." After sitting down, Gongsun Jian took the lead in speaking.

"Oh? What did you say? Why don't you know when the adults have done something that is sorry for my Cao family? "Cao Han is really an old man, and he deliberately pretended to be confused with Gongsun Jian.

"A few days ago, Gong Mou was ordered by the county magistrate to investigate the smuggling case of Chen Chu and Shen's three families, but I didn't expect these three families to be bold and reckless to violently resist the law, and they were destroyed by the people under him. However, some chaos was caused in the process, causing losses to some of the Cao family's shops and transactions in the county. So today, Gong came to apologize. Gongsun Jian decisively threw the pot to Liu Dayuan, saying that he did it only after obeying Liu Dayuan's orders.

"Oh! That's right! Cao Han pretended to suddenly realize, then waved his hand and said, "It's just money, it's nothing." Your graciousness, sir. When the adults first arrived in the county, they were able to make decisions for the people, and eliminated the bullies and people who fornicated with the enemy country in the county, and the old man was deeply admired. Since the adults are here today, you might as well have a light meal at the old man's house at noon. Let the old decay be expressed. ”

Gongsun Jian smiled, but looked at Cao Han and said, "Old patriarch, it's still early to eat." There are some things that Gong wants to talk to the old patriarch first. ”

"I wonder if the Duke has something to discuss with the old man? To tell you the truth, these old and decrepit years have long entrusted the affairs of the family to their children and grandchildren to manage. So if it's not too important, you might as well discuss it with my son Mengda. As he spoke, Cao Han pointed to his eldest son Cao De, who was sitting with him.