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The clerk's method is to persuade Zhu Jiu and Qin Mo, who are sad because of the loss of their loved ones.

Zhu Xiang is the wife of Li Mao's brother Qin Mo, with this bond, Li Mao and Zhu Jiu have a more intimate relationship than others, which may also be the reason why Li Mao has always been able to tolerate Zhu Jiu, now that this bond is broken, Zhu Jiu feels an unprecedented crisis.

At Zhu Xiang's funeral, Zhu Jiu proposed to move out of Donggao Town to live in his naval camp, on the grounds that it was convenient for training, but after getting drunk, he told people in private: Donggao Town let his sister die, this place is inauspicious, so he has a headache when he sees it, and his sister Zhu Xiang has good water before her death, and her soul will often go to the water's edge after her death, where it is easier to meet her sister.

What Zhu Jiu said was affectionate and righteous, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was worried about being implicated by Qin Mo and being hurt by someone. The person who has the ability to hurt Zhu Jiu in Donggao Town is self-evident, there is and only that person.

Li Mao agreed to his request and did not make any reservations.

Zhu Jiu's dissatisfaction with Li Mao became more and more serious, and after a drunken time, in front of his subordinates, he pointed to the northeast and scolded Li Mao: "What kind of well, if you let everyone go to the river to get water to drink, how can my sister be poisoned by the Khitans, and do something that cuts off children and grandchildren." Sister, wow, you died unjustly, sooner or later my brother will get justice for you"

Many people have heard this scolding with their own ears, when they woke up, Zhu Jiu was frightened, after thinking about it, he decided to find a clerk to ask for an idea, after some temptation between the two, they gradually touched each other's hole cards, Zhu Jiuben was like a sleepy beast, at this moment suddenly saw life, I was overjoyed, and said: "Donggao Town was originally our brother, you are our leading brother, everyone carried the head to lay this foundation, why let him pick the peach Wen Sima as soon as he came, as long as you stand up, I wish Jiu to risk his life to work with you to the end." ”

The clerk was bitten by a snake, and scolded sharply: "Zhu Jiu, are you drunk, talking this nonsense, how can you talk nonsense like this." ”

Clerical Cheng has always respected Zhu Jiu, or is a little afraid of Zhu Jiu, so it is the first time to scold him in person.

"Nonsense" Zhu Jiu seemed to have suffered a lot of humiliation, jumped up in shock, pulled out a dagger and cut off a finger in front of the clerk, and swore to the sky: "I Zhu Jiu swears to this severed finger: If I say half a lie, just like it, I will not die well." The clerk was greatly moved, and hurriedly called someone to get a medicine bag for Zhu Jiu to bandage, and also swore an oath: "I didn't want to betray him, but he deceived people too much, if my brother is willing to help me, you and I will share this wealth in the future." After that, he said: "It's just that I don't have a soldier now, and now you are being overtaken by him, how easy is it for us to get things done."

Zhu Jiudao: "It's okay, the navy under my command is familiar with waterway amphibious warfare, and they are also heroes on dry land." ”

Clerical Cheng shook his hand and said: "That's not possible, there are too few people, you are only about two hundred people in the Marine Corps, and it is difficult to deal with Shi Kong, not to mention Shi Xiong and Jin Daoan." ”

These words calmed down Zhu Jiu, and he thought for a while and said: "It is indeed difficult for the two of us to achieve great things, and the Khitans have always regarded him as a thorn in their side, or they can use their troops." The clerk said: "I'm afraid it's easy to lure the wolf into the room, and it's difficult to send the wolf out." Zhu Jiu smiled and said: "The Khitans are not interested in occupying the town, they will not be permanent, it is great to give them a little benefit, and they need our commercial center to provide them with salt and iron." We will be friends in the future. ”

The clerk said: "Even if they are willing to agree, it will be difficult for you and me to succeed, and we still need to bring some brothers in and do this great thing together." Zhu Jiudao: "I have one person, and I can achieve great things." ”

Clerical Cheng was stunned and said: "You mean he can't make it, he can't do it, it's too risky." ”

Zhu Jiu smiled: "At this time, at that time, he is very dissatisfied with him now, I will persuade him, I will definitely succeed." ”

The clerk was overjoyed, and the two discussed until late at night. The Khitan liaison who was sitting in the secret room next to the living room of the clerk's house didn't sleep all night, and passed the information out before dawn.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, Li Mao came to the Zhendong school to review the results of female soldier training, and the women regardless of the old, middle and young went to the school field for military training, which was almost impossible in the interior of the Central Plains, but in Liaodong, after seeing the hardships of life, it became natural, just an order, almost no mobilization, and the women of the town automatically went to the school.

The military training is still very fruitful, if this women's army is said to charge into battle, I am afraid that it is not enough, but as a rear baggage team, or to assist the regular army to defend the village, it has been able to play a considerable role.

Li Mao's requirements for female soldiers are not high, and the purpose of military training is to enhance their awareness of war readiness, develop basic military qualities, abide by discipline, understand military orders, and take care of themselves and take care of the old and weak in wartime. Looking at it now, the results were better than expected, Jin Daoan and Qin Mo, who were in charge of the training of female soldiers, were specially praised for this, Jin Daoan bowed his hand modestly, but Qin Mo didn't seem to wake up, indifferent to Li Mao's praise.

After the review, Li Mao should say a few words according to the rules.

Li Mao stood in front of the team and saw Zeng Zhen standing in the first queue at a glance, Zeng Zhen's face was serious, not smiling, although he was exposed to the wind and sun, his fair face was still like a delicate flower.

Zeng Zhen's current identity is very embarrassing, after all, Donggao Town is located in a remote and barbaric place, people's concepts are different from Chang'an, Zhengzhou and other places, people can't accept the existence of "female assistants", in most people's minds, Zeng Zhen is the girl of Li Mao's family, a concubine without a name.

She once felt humiliated by this identity, and every time she was mentioned, her face turned pale, she bit her lip tightly, and refused to say a word of anger. She can only express her dissatisfaction with this, there are still more than sixty percent of school-age men in Donggao Town who are not married, if she publicly stands up to refute the rumors that she and Li Mao are innocent, I believe that there will be a large number of guys who don't know whether they are dead or alive and stick to her like flies all day long, making her unbearable.

This is one of the evil consequences of the equality of the government and the people advocated by Li Mao, confusing the class, up and down, and the noble and low, so that more people don't know how to get thicker, otherwise just with her daily access to Li Mao's study, no one dares to beat her half of the idea, of course, it is in the mainland, not here, it is wild, wild, advocating nature, not to say that she is a person with a doubtful reputation, even Lan'er is often harassed by a group of stunned young people, if it were not for her sharp teeth and clever response, even let the "suitors" know the difficulty and retreat, and not to make them fearful and resentful.

Zeng Zhen thought that she couldn't do this, in this place in Liaodong, she still needed to take refuge under Li Mao's big tree and seek protection, which was the fundamental reason why she was Li Mao's concubine by default.

Lan'er, who was standing at the head of the third queue, quietly stood on tiptoe and glanced at Li Mao with affection. Lan'er is slender and standing in the team, she is already outstanding, this tiptoe, Li Mao immediately noticed it, but pretended not to know, Lan'er glanced at him resentfully, but she was not angry. In Donggao Town, people call her "Madame", and to be a lady should be like a lady, and she is always humble, including Mrs. Zeng Ru in Li Mao's study.

With her height and identity, she should have stood at the head of the first row, but she only stood in the third row because she avoided suspicion, and she wanted to win her husband's praise, but she was openly ignored.

Her slim posture naturally couldn't escape Li Mao's eyes, but she was afraid of the bad influence, so she didn't make eye contact with her, her facial expression changed, Li Mao saw it in his eyes, and he could only smile, and it was inconvenient for him to come forward to coax her on this occasion.

"I just want to say one thing: This military training is not to train you to become predators who go into battle to kill the enemy, but to hope that you can enhance your physical fitness and basic awareness and basic military skills in the struggle against the enemy through training, and you can take care of yourself in wartime.

Applause as usual, Li Mao retreated to his position in the applause, he glanced at Zeng Zhen, Zeng Zhen applauded hard, his face was still serious, and Lan'er in the third row was tiptoeing and eagerly watching her husband with adoring eyes.

At the end of the summary, Qin Mo, the chief officer of the women's soldier training camp, announced the disbandment of the camp with no reluctance.

Li Mao declined the women's camp's request for lunch, and rode with Shi Kong to the No. 8 Farm in the south of the town, which is eight miles away from Donggao Town, on the east bank of the Liao River, with 3,430 hectares of planned farmland.

Because it is far away from Donggao Town, and a settlement is planned to be built here, Zhao Guangliang, director of the Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Animal Husbandry Bureau, is leading a group of foremen of the engineering team to discuss the location of the settlement.

Li Mao respected Zhao Guangliang very much, and he also hurried to meet him, he never expressed his high opinions on specific matters, found problems, and after studying, he solved them according to the procedures.

"The original survey was a little sloppy, the aqueduct walked more than a mile, encountered a stone beam, it was difficult to gnaw, I think instead of working hard and losing money to hit stones here, it is better to divert from the northwest corner and bend into a zigzag, so that it is convenient to take water, but the construction period may be delayed, and it can not be completed on time, you can't criticize me in public."

"You are the main thing here, how to do it, I respect your opinion, and report the construction period according to the procedure."

After saying this, Li Mao said to Zhao Guangliang: "The cavalry is short of horses, when can your two friends send horses over." ”

Zhao Guangliang wrinkled his brows and said, "I will definitely be able to arrive in mid-October." ”

Li Mao said: "It's too late, can you arrive at the end of September?"

Zhao Guangliang said: "In my understanding, there is no problem at the end of September, but they will inevitably have to sit on the ground and raise the price." ”

Li Mao narrowed his eyes, glanced at the hot construction site, and after a long time, he retracted his gaze and said, "You can promise him what conditions he wants, and I will admit this account." But please also bring a message to him, doing business is the same as being a person, faith-based, loyal and honest people often suffer small losses and make a lot of money, and the future will be long. ”

Zhao Guangliang said: "I understand. ”

After eating a meal of brown rice and drinking a bowl of white stewed broth on the construction site, Li Mao and Shikong rode back, because there was still an important matter to discuss in the afternoon, and the two took a shortcut to the pine forest in the southeast of the town, and there was a small river in the depths of the woods, and there was a wooden bridge on the river.

Li Mao stopped his horse and asked, "Which part are you from, and what are you doing here?"

The guards stood up in a panic and were about to answer, but one of the woods coughed and said, "It's me, I have important military information." It was Qin Mo who spoke, so he walked and tied his belt, his face gloomy.

Li Mao frowned, Qin Mo doesn't care about everything now, he loves to complain, he loves to say strange things, his work and rest are reversed, and he often gets drunk, which has a very bad impact. He used to be a training envoy of the women's battalion, but Li Mao didn't want to ask him to show up at today's military parade, and it was Kim Doan who spoke for him, so Li Mao sent someone to "invite" him from the bed.

"You are now an out-and-out shopkeeper, what important military information do you have?"

Qin Mo grinned: "This matter is very important, let's take a step to speak." "There is a water mill not far from the plank bridge, which is hidden in the woods and has a quiet view. After Qin Mo finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the water mill.

Li Mao let out a sullen breath, handed the reins to Shi Kong, and wanted to follow Qin Mo to the water mill, but Shi Kong stopped him: he didn't believe Qin Mo, but he couldn't rest assured that those guards were all fresh faces, and he had never seen them.

Li Mao patted Shi Kong's shoulder, did not speak, and strode to follow Qin Mo to the water mill. Outside the mill gate, Qin Mo signaled his entourage not to follow up, and Li Mao gave Shi Kong an explanation, and the latter stopped outside the door.

Accompanying Li Mao were three guards, who remained on the side of the road at the moment, two on horses, and one standing on the ground leading Li Mao and Shikong's horses. As guards, they had long liked boring waiting, and the three guards waited, and soon relaxed.

The few guards who came with Qin Mo saw that the front set was almost on the plane, and one came up with a wine bag to invite the three of them to drink, and they were not allowed to drink alcohol when performing official duties, this was a rule set by Shikong, how could the three of them dare to violate it, but in Donggao Town, the wine is really expensive now, and the three of them were a little greedy when they saw it, and they were entangled in their hearts.

Seeing this, the guards stepped up their offensive and stuffed the wine bag into the hands of the three people, but at the last moment, the three of them still kept the bottom line and did not break the ring.

Seeing that it had not worked, the persuaders looked at each other and were about to take further action.

Suddenly, the guard outside the mill door roared, kicked open the door of the mill, and broke in with a knife.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the three guards dropped their horses and rushed forward, almost at the same time, the three men who persuaded the wine also suddenly pulled out their sharp blades and stabbed at the three guards.

At this moment, more than a dozen hunters who were ambushed in the nearby woods took off their disguises and suddenly appeared, first with a burst of feathered arrows, and then flashed the white blade of their scimitars, and surrounded the three guards in a semicircle.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the three of them retreated to the mill together, wanting to rendezvous with Shikong, but at this moment, they saw Shikong rushing out of the mill covered in blood, and shouted loudly: "Qin Mo is reversed, and the head of the gold capital is reported quickly." ”

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