Chapter 135: Living Up to Your Will

Although the matchmaker who proposed marriage was beaten out. Yan Zhizhou almost didn't have any personal friendship with himself because of this matter, but Li Meng had never heard of gifts, and it was interesting to say, when he was doing the salt administration inspection, Li Meng refused to accept every gift, and the porcelain was thrown in front of the door, which was extremely embarrassing.

However, since he was promoted to the garrison, he is also the military attache of the fifth grade, and the gifts sent in are at least collected in the inner house, according to the news inquired by Rosie, those porcelains were also smashed, but they were all quietly smashed in the inner house at night, and they were all buried after smashing.

I don't know if there is a river of blood outside the city gate this time, after killing three hundred, send the gift over, what is Yan Zhizhou's reaction, Li Meng's courtship is also one of the anecdotes in the officialdom of Laizhou Mansion, everyone knows that Li Meng is so wealthy, it is not difficult to get a daughter-in-law who is charming and charming, and the country and the city are all over.

But Li Meng is so devoted to the daughter of Zhizhou Yamen, what kind of appearance and conduct can make Li Erlang so obsessed, the rumors are really overwhelming, in the past, when Li Meng was inspecting, there were also people who came to the door to propose marriage, such as the local big families in Jiaozhou, the children of Zhishi officials in Laizhou Mansion, etc., some families really made Yan Zhizhou very excited.

After Li Meng was promoted to the garrison of Jiaozhou, this kind of person who proposed relatives and said that the matchmaker was extinct, and after the killing outside the city, those who had mentioned relatives were prepared to apologize for their crimes, and I don't know where the news came faintly, saying that it was the Qiu family and the Peng family, and they had also asked someone to go to Yan Zhizhou to propose to Miss Yan, and it was for this reason that Li Meng sent troops to attack the two of them and destroyed the whole family.......

Chongzhen's eight-year New Year's gift was led by Ning Qiangui to Zhizhou Yamen, this time it is indeed different from before, Zhizhou's family accepted the gift with a kind and polite attitude, compared to the cold hostility before, it is indeed heaven and earth.

Master Ning didn't have the attitude of accepting it when he saw it, and said with a smile:

"Please also pass these porcelains from our Lord Li to the people who should receive them, if you smash them at night in the inner house, it will be too wasteful......

Hearing Master Ning's words, the servants and maids of Zhizhou who were happily sorting out the gifts there suddenly couldn't help it, and laughed out loud, Yan Zhizhou's housekeeper turned around and glared at his subordinates fiercely, and then turned around and said with an embarrassed smile:

"What my brother said, it's all about the above, that's what we can participate in......"

Master Ning didn't continue to be sarcastic, he smiled there and didn't make a sound.

Approaching the end of the year, Yan Zhizhou's mansion also relaxed the supervision of Yan Ruoran a little, except that she was not allowed to go out, Miss Yan was allowed to walk around the mansion at will, but Miss Yan was very quiet, staying in her house every day, and provoked Mrs. Zhou to complain about Yan Zhizhou, saying that she had locked up her daughter stupidly.

For Miss Yan, after expressing her heart with Li Meng, Li Meng left Jiaozhou to go to Henan, the contact between the two sides was interrupted for a period of time, this time Li Meng came back, and began to send him letters regularly, maybe the sweet words and attentive intentions were already said before the interruption, and now these letterheads are all about what they have seen and heard about the trip to Henan and some interesting things outside, and express their concern.

Although such a letterhead is plain, Miss Yan feels that the relationship between the two parties has become much closer, and only a confidant can say these words.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the people in the Zhizhou Yamen were all busy, only Yan Ruoran and the maid of her cronies stayed quietly in their own mansions, reading books and playing with porcelain, the cronies and maids were not very old, and they couldn't be quiet at all, and the lively atmosphere of the entire Zhizhou Mansion made her unable to stay in the house, so she asked Yan Ruoran for a leave of absence, and ran outside to play.

"Miss, the little one is here to clean up, please stay away."

Hearing the sound outside, Miss Yan stood up and closed the door of the bedroom, and sat quietly on the bed, although it was indifferent outside, but the mood was extremely excited, the mother-in-law outside was the mother-in-law who often passed the news to them, and she didn't know what she would bring this time.

However, in order not to show flaws, Yan Ruoran and this Su Pozi have always been incompatible, which is also a rule set by Yan Zhizhou, except for Yan Zhizhou and his wife and Miss Yan's cronies, other subordinates cannot meet with Miss, so as not to cause trouble.

Finally waited for the Su Po to finish cleaning the room, quit and closed the door, Miss Yan hurriedly ran to the living room, or put it on the bookcase, but this time it was not only a letter, but also a set of porcelain, seeing this, Miss Yan almost forgot the so-called etiquette and quietness, and called out excitedly.

There is a set of celadon utensils on the bookcase, but since it was brought in by Su Pozi, it obviously can't be too big a volume, it is precisely because of the small that it looks exquisite and beautiful, it is a palm-sized green jade Guanyin, the luster and color are almost perfect, and although it is small, it is delicate, exquisite, and there are two small porcelain mandarin ducks.

The girl took these celadon playthings in her hand and looked at them carefully, although Li Meng's letterhead was written a little plainly, but this celadon mandarin duck was still a very hot confession. Yan Ruoran bit her lower lip, walked to the bookcase, and began to prepare pen and ink and paper inkstone.

"Live up to your heart."

Li Meng saw this note that night, this was the first time Yan Ruoran wrote a letter to him, there were only four words on the letterhead, and the font was slender and beautiful.

Seeing this letterhead, Li Meng suddenly felt that his heart was swollen, as if he was filled with something, an indescribable feeling, it was indeed indescribable, after all, Li Meng had no experience in emotional life in modern times.

Li Meng stayed in the study and watched, quietly feeling the other party's intentions, but as a general who commanded more than 5,000 people, he wanted to have some leisure time, I was afraid that it would not be satisfactory, and sure enough, it didn't take long for someone to run over in a hurry.

It stands to reason that as long as the sky is dark, there will basically be no more business, because of the problem of nutrition in ancient times, many people have very serious night blindness, and each city has a very strict curfew regulations, all of which add up, the night is still quite leisurely.

Hearing the sound of running outside, Li Meng was also a little surprised, thinking about what was going on, and heard the man outside speak:

"My lord, the news from Captain Zhao says that there are pirates coming ashore."

The captain's name was extremely awkward at this time, and when Li Meng heard the news, the first thing he thought of was this, and then he reacted, and hurriedly asked:

"What else is there to say?"

"Captain Zhao said that the pirates have been caught, there are no casualties, wait for your lordship to deal with it, because the military situation is urgent, so I will report it to you as soon as possible."

It doesn't seem to be a big deal, since Li Meng traveled to this era, pirates have always been a rather distant topic, Li Meng's impression is that the parents of this body died in the burning, killing and looting of pirates ashore, and Li Meng, who witnessed all this, was also scared stupid.

There are also entries on the defense of pirates in the various duties of the Jiaozhou battalion, but in the past two years, there has been no news of pirate harassment, and today this matter is not a big deal, and the reason why Zhao Neng solemnly reported it may be because of the past incident.

In fact, it is not that there are no casualties, but there are no people from the Lingshan Guard Station and the Jiaozhou Battalion among the dead, and more than a dozen of them are prisoners.

In the battle with the Peng family and the Qiu family, in addition to the clansmen of the two families who were beheaded for public display, there were also some characters such as horse thieves and bandits who were pulled to help the fist, these people really can't commit beheading, but although the capital crime can be spared, the living crime can't escape.

Originally, these horseback horses thought that the Jiaozhou battalion would recruit them into the army, because they saw that the number of cavalry in the Jiaozhou battalion was too scarce, and the cavalry was the most important component of the army.

Who would have thought that Li Meng's disposal was to send these people to the salt pans and salt pans to work, and every winter, the salt pans needed people to tidy up those salt ponds and salt pans and renovate them. But in winter, the weather is cold and freezing, and if you work in the seawater, it is easy to frostbite people, and since you have such ready-made labor in your hands, you will naturally not let it go.

For the practice of turning prisoners into soldiers, maybe it will be used in the future, but now Li Meng is not ready to use it, because the Jiaozhou battalion is to protect the territory and the people, but these horse thieves and horses are the scourge party, if they are recruited together, the soldiers who fought bloodily find that yesterday's enemy suddenly became their comrades-in-arms, what will they think in their hearts, it will definitely affect the morale of the army.

Under the guard of the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, these prisoners were digging in the sand on the seashore every day with wooden shovels, and they were miserable. It is said that it is a guard, but in fact, it does not take too much energy, because the salt pan that needs to be renovated is a semi-enclosed site, and the soldiers only need to hold one end, so these captive coolies have no other way but to run into the sea.

At noon on the 24th of the lunar month, there were three small boats directly parked on the beach, and there were seven or eight people on each small boat, all of whom were holding weapons.