Liao Da suddenly let go of his voice to speak, and even Shang Cheng, who had never thought about them talking, was alarmed. He withdrew his reluctant gaze from the red and fluttering little face of a nursing baby on the back of a woman who passed across the road, glanced at Liao Da who was gritting his neck suspiciously, and then glanced at Bao Kan's back.

Bao Kan said "bad" in his heart, and squeezed his eyebrows and winked at Liao Da. Liao Da ignored his hints, looked up at his back and said loudly: "My lord, do you really want to dig wells and find water for the nineteen villages in this Sichuan Dao? ”

Shang Cheng kicked off the horse, caught up to take Bao Kan's place, looked at Liao Da's fat face with two blushes and said, "There is such an idea. ”

"Captain Bao said that in order to dig a well for everyone, you took out all your salaries......"

Shang Cheng glanced at Bao Kan next to him very dissatisfied. Bao Kan muttered in defense, "I didn't say it. ”

Liao Da, who had a red mark on his forehead, was still asking: "You took out all your money just to dig a well for everyone to find water?" ”

Shang Cheng nodded and said that there was such a thing. However, he immediately corrected the inaccuracies in Liao Da's words. Because of the financial constraints in the yamen, even the well in Shangzhai was not enough to spend, so he took out his own money to solve the urgent need of funds first, which was to "borrow temporarily" instead of "take it out"; In addition, it is not necessary to find water and drill wells for every village, and some villages with severe water shortages must dig new wells, but a few places where water is not short are not in the Yamen's plan. In addition, regardless of whether new wells are drilled or not, all villages, including those with only a few households, have to build ponds to store water.

He said to Liao Da: "Originally, after the Lantern Festival, the heads of the villages and villages would be called to speak, and notices would be posted sooner or later, so there was no need to hide it from you." For the time being, the meaning of the yamen is like this, except for the two villages of Shanghe and Shaogan, in the rest of the places, the officials first pay people to explore the water source and determine the location of the well, and then each village contributes its own work. If the minds of the farmers cannot be twisted for a while, then the official will make a mark and set up a stake in the local area, and then start construction when everyone is united. This was the method he finally decided on after repeated discussions with several secretaries at the command post. There is no way, this is a big expense, it is an additional expense of the command post yamen, for the time being, it can only be decided like this, everything has to wait for the beginning of spring and then slowly look at the situation and find a way. Even so, it was up to him, Lao Bao and a few bookstores to take out their own money and put it on first, so as to ensure that the two projects in Shangzhai could start immediately; The matter of digging new wells for Shanghe and Shaogan is still on paper, and it will be decided according to the balance on the yamen's big account after the two wells and reservoirs in Shangzhai are completed......

Liao Da opened his mouth wide and listened to Shang Cheng's words, and said anxiously: "I am willing to pay for the matter of digging wells."

Shang Cheng smiled and shook his head: "It's good that you have this thought." However, this matter has already been decided in the yamen, and the expenses in the early stage will be paid by the command post yamen, and the later matters will be decided by the localities, and the yamen will coordinate in the middle at most. As he spoke, he bowed his hand to Liao Da to express his gratitude.

Liao Da looked at the black blindfold on Shang Cheng's face and muttered several times, then suddenly patted the driver and said, "Go!" Turn! Let's go back! The coachman's face was flushed, and he was obviously a little excited by the words of several people, and after listening to the instructions of his master's house, he was ready to call the horse to stop as soon as he lifted the reins in his hand......

"Daddy!" Suddenly, the crisp voice of a girl came from the carriage.

Liao Da sat on the wheel and didn't know what he was thinking, so he sighed twice in his mouth.

The girl in the carriage of "Daddy Yiyi" dragged out her voice with some disgust.

"Huh? What's the matter? Liao Da agreed. Only then did he suddenly remember what he was going to do when he went out today. But, but...... His gaze lingered on Shang Cheng's uninjured face for a moment, and then glanced over at Bao Kan, who had a wooden face. Listening to Bao Kan's meaning, Guan Xuan's idea to tell his second girl to the commander seems to be a very unreliable thing, it is better to go back and discuss with the family about digging a well and a pond, if you can strive to get the well and pond closer to his house, how much effort can be saved......

However, what if the conductor takes a fancy to his daughter? Isn't that something more important than a well? If he misses this opportunity and lets others snatch this family affair, he will suffer a big loss......

He had an idea in his heart with a few bone-and-a few clicks. Listening to Shang Cheng's tone, the masters of the exploration of the well will not come until after the Lantern Festival at the earliest, and after coming, they will first go to Shangzhai and the two villages in the north, and then the other villages, so this matter can be put aside for the time being. And he had to listen to the Guan family's opinion on this matter first; After all, Guan Miao is more clever and sophisticated than him, and he has been dealing with the commander for a long time, so he may be able to get him an idea to do big things with a small amount of money.

He smiled at Shang Cheng and said, "Look at me, I heard that the adults are going to do great things for all of us, and I forgot that this is the New Year's Day, and I have to go to the baby's uncle to pay New Year's greetings." Then he said to the coachman, "Don't turn around, let's go to the old temple." As he spoke, he turned his head to the carriage and said, "Girl, haven't you come out to see the conductor?" Then he said to Shang Cheng apologetically, "The country girl, I haven't seen the world, and I don't know the rules, I haven't known to come out to meet the adults after talking for a long time." One by one, my second girl is at home on weekdays, but she likes to hear people talk about adults the most, and she has heard the story of the bandits in the family shop more than a dozen times, and she likes it very much. ”

As he spoke, his daughter poked her head out of the car. This girl, like her father, also has a chubby round face like a silver basin, her cheeks flushed slightly, she quickly glanced at Shang Cheng, lowered her head and said in a crisp voice: "Good New Year, Lord Commander." I wish the Commander all the best in the Year of the Ox. Looking up, Shang Chengzheng half-turned his face to look at herself, and the bright red scar and distorted face on the right half of her face immediately frightened her and immediately retracted her head.

"Daddy, his face ...... It's scary. ”

A smile immediately froze on Liao Da's face. He yelled at his daughter first: "What are you talking about! After scolding for a few sentences, he hurriedly said to Shang Cheng with a smiling face, "Country girl, I don't know it, don't ...... adults."

Shang Cheng didn't care either, and stroked the scar on his face that was a little tightened by the wind and said, "It's nothing." I really don't like it. He raised his whip and pointed at Bao Kan, who had been silent for a long time, and smiled, and said, "Old Bao is different." He didn't serve as an errand in the guards, but he became more and more nourishing as he lived. He used to be less welcoming than I was; Now when you look at him again, his black face is about to turn white......"

Bao Kan smacked and twisted his face to the side, as if he hadn't heard his joke.

Liao Da was even more embarrassed, and he didn't know how to talk to Shang Cheng, so he just arched his hands and smiled bitterly: "What did the adults say." The adults joked......"

Shang Cheng glanced at Bao Kan with a smile on the corner of his mouth, brought the horse closer to the carriage, leaned over slightly and stared at Liao Da, lowered his voice and asked, "Old Liao, I want to ask you something." ”

Liao Da had already seen fine beads of sweat on his forehead, licked his dry lips, swallowed and salivated and said respectfully: "My lord, please speak." ”

"Your second girl, do you have any Xu people?"

"Huh? Yes? Big, my lord......" Liao Da really didn't expect Shang Cheng to suddenly ask about this, and he said two or three times in succession, "The little girl will not be fifteen until February, and she has not yet allowed anyone." Big, meaning of adult...... What the adult means ......" He only promised for a long time, and he didn't talk in general.

Shang Cheng lowered his body on the horseback, pretending to be mysterious, but his voice was so loud that he could hear it from a distance of more than ten steps. "That's it, you also know Baokan, and you probably have a lot of contacts. He was born in our Yanshan Guard, and now he is the captain of the imperial court, and there are two meritorious services recorded in the merit book, and he can be promoted from the eighth rank if he records one more meritorious service. Good character, diligent, capable, and practical. He himself is a native of Yanzhou, he is a good family in the times, and he has two elder brothers in the family, but he split up in the early years. Thirty-one years old, only twenty-nine, never married......"

There was almost no pause in the middle of his endless words, Liao Da opened his mouth and was already stunned, and even his second girl put the half-collapsed curtain and looked at Bao Kan in the carriage. Bao Kan had already puffed up his chest on horseback, and looked ahead with his lips strained, making a majestic appearance.

“…… I am the Shangfeng official of Captain Bao, and I am his brother, I don't know if I can have this opportunity to be an iceman for him, so that he and your second daughter can marry Qin and Jin? ”

"Huh? Yes? Ah......h

Liao Da's mouth was so wide that he couldn't close it anymore. He was now surprised but surprised. He could hear Shang Cheng's words clearly, but now his mind was as chaotic as a pot of paste, and he couldn't say a word with a clear meaning except for an exclamation with an unknown meaning in his throat.

"Lao Liao, I was born as a soldier, I don't like to beat around the bush when I talk and do things, and my favorite is a straightforward and cheerful person. You and I have seen it, my brother is in love with your second daughter, and if this thing can't be done, you can give a word. ”

"Huh?" Liao Da sighed again, blinked his eyes and asked a little ignorantly, "Now, now...... I'll give you a reply right here? ”

Shang Cheng straightened up and nodded affirmatively. But he immediately said: "Of course, you can't wronged your daughter. You can ask your daughter what she means first, and if she is not happy, you will not tell me. ”

With his words, Liao Da really turned his face to the car stupidly and asked, "Girl, what do you see?" ”

His daughter was ashamed and angry in the carriage and said, "Daddy Yiyi"

Shang Cheng drove his horse close to the carriage, and said to Liao Da's daughter with a partial face: "You nod your head, and it's done." ”

Liao Da was still stupidly helping: "Yes, girl, you nod, and this is done." ”

"Daddy!" The girl didn't dare to look at Shang Cheng, she only looked at her Lao Tzu, her face was so red that she almost dripped blood; I glanced at Bao Kan, who had already been pushed to the front with a panicked face and pretended to be calm and calm, biting my lip, and my chin nodded slightly......