When night fell, Gushan Town was quiet, Xiaoru cleaned up the kitchen, washed her hands, dried them, and was about to blow out the lights to leave, when a person came in coldly outside the door, stopped her waist and hugged her, Xiaoru screamed, her body bent like a shrimp, and people giggled.

"Don't, don't, don't ...... like that"

Xiaoru pleaded in a low voice, wanting to refuse to return the favor, Li Mao didn't say a word, and the monkey hurriedly untied her belt and pressed her to the stove. After being an official for a long time, she naturally gave birth to a kind of official authority, and Xiaoru was always cautious when she saw Li Mao during the day, she was really afraid of him. Li Mao respects his wife Su Qing, speaks softly and slowly, and often smiles, even if he laughs in the boudoir, he is very moderate, but he is much more casual with Xiaoru, calling back and forth, and beating her when he is unsatisfactory.

Although Xiaoru knew that he was mostly doing this for Mrs. Zhengpai, she was still afraid of him and was willingly afraid.

Only in no one's private, such as at this time, can she be coquettish with him.

The young man was impatient, she had just leaned down, and Li Mao stepped forward like a fierce leopard.

Xiao Ru howled exaggeratedly and tried to look back at him, but he rudely refused. At this time, he was always so domineering, and he didn't have the slightest warmth in front of Mrs. Zhengpai.

"I'm just different from her." Xiao Ru thought like this, the grievances in her heart disappeared, and she began to enjoy the difference.

The wind and waves come fiercely, and they go slowly.

Li Mao left her body, patted her on the back and was about to leave, Xiaoru suddenly felt a little aggrieved, she flashed to the door, opened her arms to block the door.

"Get out of the way."

His voice was a little hoarse, a little impatient.

"If you don't let it, you won't let it."

She glanced at him aggrievedly again, but still obediently let go, time passed, and she was still afraid of him from the bottom of her bones.

"The past two days have been a little uneven, you clean up and go to Fourth Brother Han's place to stay for two days."

"Hmm." Xiao Ru lowered her eyebrows and replied, her voice as small as a mosquito humming.

"Uh-huh, um-hmm, um-what, hmm, remember?" There was a hint of uneasiness in Li Mao's voice.

"Hmm. Remembered. ”

Li Mao's uneasiness was brought to him by Zhao Jinglai, and in the afternoon of this day, Zhao Jinglai suddenly came to his duty room, making Li Mao feel that the storm was imminent. Zhao Jinglai came as a land-buying merchant, holding a letter of recommendation from Zhang Ye, the governor of the branch, and Li Mao had to receive several such people every day, so as soon as Zhao Jinglai showed the letter of recommendation, the secretary on duty brought people over. In front of his subordinates, Li Mao chatted with Zhao Jinglai in the southeast and northwest, and when the people retreated, Zhao Jinglai went straight to the topic: "We have a few people coming to the city, please help settle them." ”

Li Mao tried to calm down the turmoil in his heart, and asked calmly, "How long do you want to stay?" ”

Zhao Jinglai said: "This storm is coming, and it won't be long." ”

He didn't want to say, so Li Mao didn't ask, but said, "Okay." ”

Zhao Jinglai's people know how to advance and retreat very well, and they don't bother to settle down, they are not many in number, and they don't seem to be fierce, Li Mao guessed that they were just spies who came into the city, how many spies from Yunzhou were in Gushan Town, no one could tell, but it must be a very terrifying number, the so-called lice are not afraid of bites, so what does it matter if there are a few more?

Zhao Jinglai sat idle for a while, and when he saw that the matter had been done, he wanted to leave, Li Mao smiled and said: "You are the food and clothing parents of Gushan Town, and it is too unreasonable to leave without a meal when you come." Zhao Jinglai said this, and stayed calmly. The luncheon is prepared in a restaurant under the name of the city bureau, this restaurant is built on the street, tall and spacious, but the VIPs generally go to a small courtyard behind the building, Qingmo knows the identity of Zhao Jinglai, and personally goes to arrange it, and personally guards it with a knife and Mo Qishentong.

After the wine and food were ready, there was no outsider in the courtyard, Zhao Jinglai drank a glass of wine, but said: "Among the many industries of the Su family, the car dealership is the most profitable, and you should have asked for it to be a dowry." ”

Li Mao said: "As far as I know, although the profit of the car dealership is high, the risk is also very large, so it is okay not to do such a business." Zhao Jinglai laughed and said: "The risk is not big, it depends on whether the backer is hard or not, I will cover you with my brother, how can there be any risk?" Li Mao smiled and asked, "The Su family's car dealership also relies on you?" ”

Zhao Jinglai was noncommittal, but said: "I heard that you have some misunderstanding with the Su family in Liuyuanzhuang, Jiyin County?" ”

Li Mao's heart suddenly shrank, Su Dong and Su Qing couldn't recognize his identity in Yang Qi's noodle restaurant in Liuyuanzhuang that day, but they were busy sealing his mouth with his daughter after three days, what happened in these three days made them have such a change, this has always been a mystery.

Zhao Jinglai said lightly: "You don't have to be surprised, but if something strange happens in Fanzhou County, the copper tiger head will pay attention, you are a vulgar monk, and your body is so majestic, you will know that it is you as soon as you ask, this is not surprising." Zhao Jinglai smiled, poured herself a drink, took another glass of wine, and continued: "The Su family harmed you first, and you should repay it, you can enjoy it with peace of mind." ”

Although Zhao Jinglai's words were an understatement, Li Mao could feel the power behind him, he explored the small pine forest camp at night, and everything that happened in Liuyuanzhuang, he thought that only God knew what he knew, how could he have thought that the copper tiger head would also know? Such an organization is terrible. Through this incident, Li Mao had a new understanding of Zhao Jinglai's position in the head of the copper tiger, if he didn't stand at the top of the organization, how could he see so far-reaching?

The sudden appearance of the high-ranking figure of the bronze tiger head in Gushan Town is not a sign of the approaching storm? Li Mao asked Xiaoru to hide on Xiaogu Mountain, the purpose was to let her get used to it first, and then she could cope with it when the storm really came.

After the winter, the changes of the displaced people around Chengwu County intensified, from the initial big eaters, gradually evolved into gangs and groups to loot the villages, and what is even more disturbing is that some bankrupt squires, salt lords, and pirates also joined in. The addition of the squire is particularly uneasy for the rulers, the gangsters are easy to govern, and the squires are difficult, which is the only experience of the magistrates, with the destructive power of the gangsters fierce and bottomless, coupled with the ambition and mind of the squire, this unappreciated change of the displaced people, may cause a lot of chaos.

In order to cope with the change of the situation, Yu Hualong sent two additional cadres to Li Mao, one was called Ma Hedong, and the other was called Chen Lan, both of whom were in their early thirties, both were veterans of battle, and their qualifications and merits were far above Zhang Qi and Xia Chun.

Feng Bu, another lieutenant of the city defense battalion, was in charge of the Simian Street Detective Office, a relatively independent unit in charge of civil law and order, and his relationship with the city defense battalion was somewhat distant, so Feng Bu was able to retain his position.

Yu Hualong was very satisfied with Li Mao's attitude, he promoted Zhang Qi to deputy general, stayed in the city bureau to be used, and transferred Xia Chun to the pasture supervisor of the Military Feed Academy, drove out of Gushan Town, and went to the newly opened pasture on the north bank of Caohu Lake to raise horses. The horse farm has always been well funded, and it is a fat gap.

The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, and the sky over Gushan Town is already cloudy, Yu Hualong makes this arrangement, and Li Mao doesn't mind. But he also refused to give up the city defense camp like this, after Zhang Qi and Xia Chun left the city defense camp, he sent Zhang Xuan to the camp as a guard Yu Hou to supervise military discipline. Since Zhang Xuan stayed in Caozhou, he has been doing some chores, and he knows almost nothing about military affairs, but Li Mao believes that as long as he is willing to work hard, it won't take long to enter the role, and Zhang Xuan's plasticity is very strong.

Yu Hualong had no objection to Li Mao's arrangement, he believed that Li Mao was a smart person, and he was full of confidence in Ma Hedong and Chen Lan.

One day, Li Mao received a letter from Su Qing from Luoyang, in which Su Qing told Li Mao that she had found a famous doctor in Luoyang, and things would soon come to an eyebrow. This is a code phrase, which means that the couple agreed in the mandarin duck tent, and it is difficult for outsiders to peek into the depths.

Li Mao did not hesitate to change the overall plan of Gushan Town that he had drawn up to make money, and even he felt ashamed of the ugliness of his appearance. He likes money and has loved it since he was a child, but he never thought that he would be so ignorant of his conscience and unscrupulous, and the reason for his madness was his despair for the future of Gushan Town and his deep fear of the fierce inversion of officialdom.

His plan is to catch him one last time before the storm comes, and go to Luoyang to be a rich man, compared to Yunzhou, Luoyang is the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty after all, so he still has to talk about the royal law.

Li Mao asked Su Qing to go to Luoyang to play the front station on the pretext of seeing a doctor, and after Su Qing arrived in Luoyang, he bought a mansion in Wenroufang, and divided the millions of furniture looted from Gushan Town into three parts, one was stored in the cabinet workshop, one was dug and hidden, and one was invested in industry, and the silk cloth village was invested in the neighboring Nanshi.

With Su Qing's shrewdness and ability, Li Mao handed over the family property to her for safekeeping, and Li Mao was 120,000 percent relieved.

Knowing that Su Qing had gained a foothold in Luoyang, Li Mao's heart was steady. How the situation in Gushan Town develops, he can't control it, but as long as there is this retreat, no matter how sinister the rivers and lakes are, they can't be sinister on his head, Li Mao thought about it, and the situation really reached the point of being out of control, so he resigned, left, and went to Luoyang to be a rich man.

The 300,000 pieces of furniture he racked his brains were enough for him to enjoy for several lifetimes.