In early September, the water level of the Yangtze River finally slowly declined.

As the rainy season passes in the middle and upper reaches, the muddy river becomes clear again.

After passing through the Yangtze River section of Chizhou, a fleet of two galleys and more than a dozen warehouse ships adjusted their sails, deviated from the southern shoreline, and headed for the Yuxi estuary to the north.

Zhao Ting'er, who wore leather armor all the way and tried her best to be strong in front of the generals, specially changed into a light green skirt on the last day of the half-month-long journey, and applied thin Dai lightly on her delicate and flawless face, showing her increasingly mature and beautiful beauty.

She stood at the bow of the boat, looking eagerly at the desolate and sparsely populated beach on the north shore, with both anticipation and indescribable nervousness.

"Mother, you told your grandfather that your father is a big hero, can you kill a big insect with one punch?" A young boy with pink carving came out of the cabin, took Zhao Ting'er's hand, and asked in a milky voice.

"......" Zhao Ting'er smiled dumbly, hugged the young child into his arms, and asked, "Who told you that killing a colorful insect with one punch is a big hero?" ”

"My mother didn't say that I kept telling Xin'er that I had to learn real skills, and I would be able to get rid of the big insects that plagued the villagers in Huayangling when I grew up, and if my father was a big hero, he wouldn't be more capable than Xin'er when he grew up?" The young child asked in a milky voice.

"As long as you have the heart to eliminate harm for the people, you are a big hero - besides, the big insects that plague the villagers are easy to get rid of, but it is not only the big insects that really harm the villagers, there are many disasters that are much more powerful than the big insects. If you can get rid of these scourges, you can be regarded as a real hero with great ability. Zhao Ting'er said with a smile.

......The young child looked at his mother in confusion, unable to understand that there was a more powerful scourge than a big insect.

"The river wind is so strong, you still carry Wen Xin outside the cabin, if you catch a cold, how can you explain to Han Qian?" Zhao Laoqi got out of the cabin and saw his daughter holding her grandson blowing a cool breeze on the bow of the boat, and complained.

Zhao Ting'er always felt that his father doted on Xin'er too much, and it might not be good for his growth, but at this time, he would not resist his father's wishes, so he handed Xin'er over to his father and carried him back to the cabin.

"Mrs. Ting, it seems that the adults and General Wuji have been waiting in front of the river beach with people?" Du Yiming held a retractable copper telescope at this time, climbed down from the top of the mast several feet high, and excitedly reported to Zhao Ting'er.

"Really?" Zhao Ting'er couldn't help but be excited to take the telescope from Du Yiming's hand, stretched it out, and looked towards the estuary and river beach seven or eight miles away.

In September, the water level of Chaohu Lake has not completely dropped, and it is also when the Yuxi River is fast and the shore is wide, the fleet did not reduce the sail pressure, and after a stick of incense, it paused at the mouth of the river, and Han Qian and Zhao Wuji boarded the big ship in a small boat.

Han Qian hugged the timid Xin'er in his arms, and stabbed his pink face several times with his chin full of stubble and had no time to clean up in the past two days, listening to Xin'er squeaking and struggling, and only after a while did he put down the aggrieved Xin'er, and then slammed Zhao Ting'er hard

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hugged him into his arms and asked, "Can you stand the wind and waves all the way?" ”

"You are really, so many people are watching...... Zhao Ting'er was embarrassed to struggle out of Han Qian's arms, and said in a coquettish voice.

"Then I'll tell them all to turn their backs." Han Qian said.

"Why do you talk nonsense better than Xin'er?" Zhao Ting'er said angrily.

Han Qian laughed, and then gave Zhao Laoqi a salute and greeted them for their hard work along the way.

At this time, a young girl timidly walked out of the cabin with Zhao Laoqi's wife, and saluted Han Qian: "Rong'er has seen an adult," when she was about to give Zhao Wuji a salute, her pink face turned red, as if she was burning, and stammered, "See, I've seen General Wuji......"

The girl is the sister of Xi Rong who is just twenty-eight years old, and she is the wife of Zhao Laoqi for Zhao Wuji, who mentioned her relatives and eight characters last year, and also set a wedding date, but the Great Chu Sailor destroyed Hong Zepu, and the situation in Jianghuai took a sharp turn again, Han Qian transferred Zhao Wuji and a large number of Xuzhou generals to Tangyi to fight, and many things disrupted the rhythm.

However, Zhao Laoqi didn't want to miss the selected wedding date, and when the day came, according to the customs of Xuzhou, Xirong hugged the rooster and worshiped the church to get married, which was regarded as taking his daughter-in-law into the Zhao family's house, and this time he brought his daughter-in-law who had been in the door for almost half a year to have a round house with Zhao Wuji.

After Xi Rong got married, she usually helped take care of affairs by Zhao Ting'er's side, and there was no discomfort, but when she saw her husband Zhao Wuji, she was so panicked that she didn't even know where to put her hands and feet.

When he was in Xuzhou, Zhao Wuji was also stationed in Nanfeng Village most of the time, presiding over the military administration of Quyang County, responsible for collecting and lowering the Shengfan in the upper reaches of the canal, expanding the Ding households in Xuzhou, and proposing relatives and marrying were all done by Zhao Laoqi.

He even only saw Xirong in a hurry when he returned to Zhongcheng when he proposed marriage, and there was no contact after that.

After Han Qian sat in Tangyi, he succeeded Feng Yi as the governor of Xuzhou, and Qiao Weiyan, who was also the leader of the army, Qiao Weiyan, who was in charge of the Chenzhong County Order, and Du Yijun, who was in charge of the Industrial Construction Bureau and the Official Money Bureau, jointly assisted Zhao Tinger in handling the government affairs of Xuzhou.

Xi Rong, as the sister of Xi Xunqiao, looks beautiful, and has followed his brother since he was a child to learn Han etiquette, Han customs, read poetry and books, and is also rough in riding and shooting, in the world when marriage is subject to the orders of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, Zhao Wuji has no reason to refuse this marriage, but at this time, he is full of strangeness to the girl who can't hide the panic in front of him, and he doesn't know how to get close for a while.

Zhao Ting'er seemed to understand the embarrassment between his younger brother and his brother-in-law, broke free from Han Qian's arms, and pulled his younger brother to ask him angrily that it had been almost a year since he left Xuzhou, and why he hadn't sent a few letters back from home.

Zhao Wuji erased another looming shadow in his mind without a trace, and in the face of his sister's questioning, he said with a smile: "The army is handsome, even if you have leisure, you are tired into a puddle of mud, but when you think of everything here, your brother-in-law will tell her sister in the letter that he knows everything, so he doesn't bother to pick up the pen to write a letter to his family." ”

"You're going to be lazy." Zhao Ting'er glared at him with disgust and said, "You are also the leader of the army now, can you still learn to be lazy?" ”

"My sister also knows that I am now the leader of the army, and she can't discipline me mercilessly." Zhao Wuji said.

"Are you majestic now?" Zhao Ting'er scolded angrily.

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Han Qian smiled: "It's okay, I'll remove Wuji from his position as a seven-day general now, and leave it to you to clean him up." ”

"Now you don't have anything to say, do you?" Zhao Ting'er stretched out his hand and was about to pull his ear.

"You sisters and brothers are so adults, and you are not afraid to make the people below laugh." Zhao Laoqi still protected his son and blocked Zhao Ting'er's hand.

Han Qian motioned to Han Donghu to lead the cavalry to accompany him along the coast, and he accompanied Zhao Ting'er to take a boat along the river to the north, and then disembarked after arriving at Dongguan Town, and then changed to a carriage to rush to the East Lake camp.

Zhao Ting'er snuggled in Han Qian's arms, looked at the autumn colors of the Wet Whisker Mountain, and talked about the current situation in Xuzhou.

At present, government affairs are in charge of Xi Xunqiao, Qiao Weiyan, and Du Yijun, and the state soldiers are led by Xi Chang, Wei Xu, and a group of military attaches loyal to Han Qian and Xuzhou, Chen Jitang presides over the supervision and development of armor and weapons, and a group of people such as Zhao Jicheng, Han Dong, and Du Qiniang take care of their own affairs, and the support of Wuchuan County in Tan Yuliang is also quite stable, and Chenzhou Xishi, Yezhou Tian, and Sizhou Yang do not see anything abnormal for the time being.

In Xuzhou, in addition to the vein of washing and seeking Qiao, Xiang and Yang, in addition to the guidance of Han Qian, directly participated in Xuzhou's foreign trade at the beginning of their surrender, and in recent years, they have also been deeply involved in the development of Xuzhou's cotton weaving and other industries.

Under the circumstance that the development of Xuzhou's shipping industry and cotton weaving industry is deeply dependent on the export of Sichuan, Shu and the hinterland of Dachu, the Xi, Yang, and Xiang clans have actually been reborn from the previously closed and conservative Tu surnames, and they are even more reluctant to return to the previous closed and conservative state in Xuzhou at this time.

In addition to the marriage between the Xi family and the Zhao family, hundreds of children of the three surnames also entered Tangyi this time, either as military attachés in the army, or as officials in prefectures and counties.

At this point, as long as Han Qian is not irreparably damaged in Tangyi, there will be no changes in Xuzhou.

No matter how vigilant the Chenzhou Xi clan, the Yezhou Tian clan, and the Sizhou Yang clan are to Xuzhou, within its borders, not to mention the large guest households, there are also a considerable number of small and medium-sized local surname forces, and they also know that even if they use the land in their hands to plant cotton and sell seed cotton, they can make a lot of profits, so they are more willing to choose to cooperate with Xuzhou.

Tan Yuliangzhi Wuchuan County also remained stable, and the Chishan Society also recruited shipwrights and sailors in Qianyang and Chenzhong, which could take root.

"How did you think of picking me up and Xin'er to live in Tangyi for a while this time?" Zhao Ting'er snuggled in Han Qian's arms, couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke his slightly piercing chin, and asked softly.

"Isn't it that I miss you too much?" Han Qian said with a smile.

"The ghost only believes your words," Zhao Ting'er glanced at Han Qian, but his body drilled into his arms tighter, and asked quietly, "Your father's mourning period has passed, and there are ministers in the court who are talking about your marriage, right?" ”

"......" Han Qian looked down at Zhao Ting'er's smooth forehead, his long eyelashes left a faint shadow in his beautiful eyes like a deep spring, the bridge of his straight nose was a seductive red lip, he folded his arms and hugged her tighter in his arms, and said with a smile, "You are so smart, who dares to marry me and bully you?" ”

"Is it Wang Jun?" Zhao Ting'er asked.

"......" Han Qian was slightly stunned, but at this time he didn't know where to say something.

"I want to be an ordinary woman you don't care about, you won't be so small to me......" Zhao Ting'er glanced up at Han Qian and hugged him tighter with her backhand.

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