Hejian Mansion, compared with the endless controversy in the Forbidden City, is relatively much simpler here, Yang Hongzhang is in charge of the military, Xiang Siwen is in charge of civil affairs, and the civil and military affairs are in peace. This is also due to Xiang Siwen's experience and the loss and recovery of the river, which led to Xiang Siwen's reliance on Yang Hongzhang.

Xiang Siwen gradually calmed down after the manager's excitement for the first two days. A piece of music can really make him turn over. But now he needs to consider a question, whether these people of Yang Hongzhang can hold the river. Keeping him, Xiang Siwen, the tide is rising, and the rest of his life is unspeakably rich. But if it can't be held, in order to retaliate, the Qing army is afraid that none of the officials in the city will be spared.

"Daddy, you haven't rested for two days in a row." Just when Xiang Siwen was in a dilemma, a soft voice came to mind in the study, and Xiang Siwen looked up and saw that it was his baby daughter Xiang Yunfang. If Yang Hongzhang was here, it is estimated that he would be confused, because the beautiful girl in front of him turned out to be Xiang Siwen's daughter. It turns out that since the Qing army attacked the city these days, women have been disguised as men, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. It was for this precious daughter that Xiang Siwen gave up the integrity of the literati at a critical time, and the people of the city took their daughter to blend in with the people in an attempt to escape from the river, but they were unlucky and were captured by the Qing army. Of course, they were also lucky, they were rescued by Yang Hongzhang and others before they left the very cheap realm.

"Fang'er, why are you here, and you have restored your daughter's outfit, what if someone finds out? Didn't you say that Yang Hongzhang's subordinates were all fierce and vicious, in case...... In case of ......" Although Xiang Siwen successfully returned to Hejian with the help of Yang Hongzhang, he did not know anything about Yang Hongzhang. Especially Zhang Hu, those people are not a good way to look at it. Of course, Xiang Siwen is more worried about his daughter's identity after it is exposed, if Hejian City falls again, his daughter will suffer.

"Hee-hee, that idiot shouldn't have time to come here these days. The boy had just come back from the South City Gate, and that guy was instructing the people to tie what bamboo tendons, and he looked very busy. Xiang Yunfang winked playfully and handed over the lotus seed soup he had prepared.

"Fang'er, General Yang is brave and good at fighting, and there are even more tricks outside Gaoyang City, which makes Jiannu unguardable, you have praised him several times for this before, why have you become a fool now?" Xiang Siwen asked a little puzzled.

"Hehe, if he wasn't a fool, he wouldn't have been able to find out if he was a child dressed as a man and walked around in front of him every day. Yesterday, yesterday he asked the child to help add water to the cement. I also asked the child to take off his shoes and say that he was stirring with his feet...... Daddy, do you think he's a fool? Can you mix the cement evenly with your feet? ”

"......" looked at the innocent smile on his daughter's face, and Xiang Siwen could only sigh that the young man's heart was really unsorrowful. Suddenly, a strange thought came out of Xiang Siwen's heart, and then he looked at his precious daughter seriously, and asked for a long time: "Fang'er, how is Yang Hongzhang?" ”

"Well, it's brave to fight, and it's a lot of ideas. This may have something to do with the fact that he was once plundered by pirates and then led people to fight desperately. Those strange ideas must have been learned from Westerners. Hey, Daddy, why are you asking this? Xiang Yunfang looked at his father's serious face, and suddenly his face turned red for no reason, and his heartbeat accelerated a lot.

"Oh, nothing, nothing, just ask. Daddy thinks that this young man is not simple, although his ancestors are businessmen, but his eldest brother can be a jinshi, and the second brother is indeed a martial artist. Is it both civil and military, or is it not enough to be civil? ”

"Daddy, how could Wen Chengwu take dozens of domestic slaves to snatch the sea ship from three or four hundred red-haired devils, and cross tens of thousands of miles through the blockade of pirates? How could it be possible to beat Jiannu to the head? Hmph, if it weren't for the hateful Zhang Cai who came to make a mistake, maybe he would have been a jinshi a long time ago. However, if you win the jinshi, you can't say that there is one less young general in the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Well, then it should be both civil and military. Such a young and promising young man is really just right for my family. It's just a pity that I heard that the sister surnamed Xia has a marriage contract with him. It's a pity, it's a pity......" Xiang Siwen sighed as he carefully examined the lotus seed soup in his hand.

"Daddy, you're bullying again! Ignore you, I'm going to help with the fortifications. Xiang Yunfang saw that his father was getting more and more unpleasant, so he was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again, and hurriedly ran out with a red face.

"Hahaha...... Daddy is just casually talking, what are you lacking in, haha...... Isn't it my baby who has moved his heart......" Watching his daughter go out, Xiang Siwen's heart was very complicated, remembering that when her daughter was a child, there was a wandering Taoist priest who once said to Mrs. when Mrs. took her daughter out, that this woman is unspeakably expensive, but I am afraid that her hard life will hinder other relatives except for her father, and it takes a particularly tough man to control it. At that time, Xiang Si asked Zhongjin Shi to get an official, get married, and give birth to a daughter, which was when he was proud of life, where would he believe the nonsense of these charlatans. Then within a few years, his wife's inexplicable strange illness was gone, and then there was the continuation of the string and the concubine, and the mother and son died when they gave birth three times in a row! This reminded Xiang Siwen of what the Taoist priest said, this woman can't continue to continue and take concubines before she gets married.

Xiang Siwen has been carefully observing Yang Hongzhang in the past few days, especially after listening to Yang Hongzhang's story at sea, he always feels that this is his son-in-law. I'm afraid that there is no one in this world who is harder than his life. However, what made him sad was that this outstanding young man had already had a marriage contract, and it was normal to think about it, even ordinary children should have gotten married at this age. Xiang Siwen asked himself if he was born as a dignified jinshi, and now he is in the fourth official residence, and his daughter is smart and beautiful to be a concubine for you. What's more, the main room is just the daughter of a merchant. It seems that this pair of young people is destined to have no fate, fate......

Xiang Yunfang left his father's study and did not go to the city wall to help as she said, but returned to his room in a daze. The few words that her father had cut short just now inadvertently shook her heartstrings. She is fifteen years old this year, and she will be sixteen after the new year, since she was a teenager, when her peers were facing marriage one by one, Xiang Yunfang was told by her father about the Taoist priest's statement, of course she didn't want to believe it. But it can be seen from the fact that my father did not dare to easily look at the Tash people, and my father began to believe in fate after successive family changes.

As a young girl, she has also reached the age of youth and ignorance, and she didn't care about Yang Hongzhang at the beginning, just because he led the troops to rescue her father and herself and many people in Hejian, but after getting along with Gaoyang for a few days, she found that Yang Hongzhang is different, there is no sour rot of ordinary literati and talents, and there is no rudeness of ordinary mountain villagers.

and the talent he showed in military affairs after arriving in Hejian made Xiang Yunfang a little fascinated. But that's just the kind of admiration and curiosity that the girl has for the hero. It is not yet connected with the relationship between men and women.

It's just that his father suddenly asked about this kind of thing so directly, and Xiang Yunfang fell into deep thought for a while. Yes, he has indeed reached the age of marriage, and this young General Yang is indeed a good candidate, at least much better than the sons and daughters of his former father's colleagues.

If you really want to evaluate it carefully, how is Yang Hongzhang? Well, it seems to be pretty good, but his family Ding Yang Sheng is quite annoying. often squeezes his father, if he marries and becomes his mistress, he must take care of him, let him obediently apologize to himself and his father. Phew, phew, how did I think of cleaning him up and being a hostess. It's shameless......

However, my father seems to be very serious, does he think so? The so-called father's fate is difficult, do you really want to marry his mother? Daddy said that he was the sister of Xia Dongwei who had a marriage contract, if that was the case, naturally it wouldn't work, of course she knew that her father couldn't let his daughter be a concubine, you must know that her father was the prefect of Sipin! But if that guy is asked to repent of his marriage, will that guy be willing? If she did that, wouldn't Miss Xia be very sad?

Xiang Yunfang thought about it, his face had already turned red, red and white, white and red, coming and going in his mind to play the picture since he met Yang Hongzhang, and finally just shook his head in annoyance, he couldn't tell what was wrong, anyway, he seemed to be a little unhappy! Maybe you really should go to the walls and see that fool! What if he could find himself dressed as a man? When the time comes, will he take the initiative to approach himself and take care of himself, so that his vanity as a girl Haier will be satisfied, will it be shaken?

Yang Hongzhang stood on the wall of the south gate of Hejian and sneezed vigorously, there are many people who remember him recently, the civil and military forces of the Forbidden City, the Qing army Rui Prince Dolgon, and tens of thousands of people in the right army are all thinking about him, as well as the ordinary people in Hejian City. They were surprised that the new general had only 2,000 men to drive away the Qing army. And now he has organized Minzhuang to tinker with those messy piers outside the city wall, and it is said that when he was in Gaoyang, he relied on these things to defeat the many sieges of the Qing army, which is really fresh.

Looking at the cement piers that were gradually becoming larger, Yang Hongzhang secretly prayed in his heart that the Qing army would come a few days later, especially Dolgon. He had already asked Yang Sheng to go to Cangzhou's sea ship again to carry the musket and run away. As long as he persists until Yang Sheng returns, Yang Hongzhang believes that he will be able to give the Qing army a big surprise.