Everything is going on silently, in Anyuan County, Wang Mazhuan is buying grain, trying to talk about moving merchants to open branches in Muma County, and it is also going on.

The surrounding Anyuan, Wei County and other small county towns are also far away from the emperor, these places now belong to the Japanese occupation area, and there are no tall city walls and dangerous places to defend, so the country. The strength of the army has long been withdrawn from these places, and the Eighth Route Army, which is operating in the surrounding countryside, has no intention of occupying cities and towns at present, while the Japanese army has not affected these places for the time being because of its strength and the different focus of its strategic offensive.

It seems that these small county towns, which are caught between the forces of all parties, seem to have become a vacuum zone of wrestling, and the security of several county towns is responsible for the security team formed by some shops and some famous local families.

But things are never as simple as they seem.

On the surface, the Eighth Route Army did not establish a military organization in the city, but the infiltration work of the underground organization has never stopped, and the Japanese army has even sent a lot of lobbyists to contact the local famous families, hoping that someone will stand up and organize a puppet army in the county town and the city, first, to establish a vanguard force, and second, to win the hearts of the people.

In addition to the brutal atrocities in Nanjing, Jiangsu, the Japanese army's military operations here are still extremely rapid, and the major battles have never stopped, but the Japanese army in this area obviously pays more attention to the image of the army, and the harassment of the common people is relatively small, but this can not change the wolf ambition of the Japanese invaders, just because the troops here are too weak compared with the forces in the Yangtze River Delta region, so they have to keep a low profile.

In Anyuan County, the Lin family is a well-known big family in this area.

At this moment, in the Lin family's mansion in the county seat, the old man Lin Siyou was eating, and the third aunt and his wife and seven or eight children were sitting at a big table.

The Song family's mansion, three in and three out of the courtyard, high walls, among which carved beams and painted buildings, pavilions and pavilions have everything, fifty or sixty family members with guns to guard, it is simply more like a small city than Anyuan County, which is bleak and dilapidated.

At the peak of the period, most of the land in Anyuan County was the industry of the Lin family, and now Lin Si has this generation, because the surrounding Eighth Route Army fought the local tyrants and divided the fields, and the Lin family in order to avoid trouble, the Lin family has transferred the slightly barren land to the surrounding farmers at an extremely low price more than ten years ago, not only fell into the reputation of a Lin Dashan person, but also climbed into friendship with the Eighth Road. It avoided the end of being pulled out as a big landlord to shoot the target.

Despite this, now the Lin family still owns thousands of acres of land in Anyuan, countless long-term workers and helpers, and countless shops such as grain and oil in the city, it can be said that the Lin family has almost half of Anyuan's economic lifeline.

"Old man......"

The housekeeper came in to report, but he stopped talking, the Lin family is a scholarly family, the rules are strict, and eating without saying anything is the minimum, just like now, a family of more than ten or twenty people eats together, but there is almost no sound on the table except for the sound of chewing and the collision of dishes and chopsticks.

Lin Siyou didn't seem to hear the butler speak, but just ate quietly, until a few minutes later, he had eaten all the food, got up and walked into the courtyard, and then said, "What's the matter, say in the vestibule!" "Hey......"

As soon as he left, there was finally a voice in the quiet dining room, and the third aunt sighed too much: "Eldest sister, the master has been frowning for the past few days, and I don't know if something happened......

The eldest lady is also from a beautiful background, usually one door and two doors, extremely traditional, plus now in her forties, Lin Si has less and less time to spend the night in her room, hearing this, she raised her head and said unhappily: "Hasn't the master spent the night with you recently?" Even you don't know, how do I know? ”

"Wronged, eldest sister, in the past six months, the lord has rarely spent the night in our room, and we thought it was in your room!"

The two aunts asked the maid to take away a few young children, and then they shouted aggrieved, and it was difficult to hide the grievance in their eyes, but a woman in her twenties and thirties had to stay alone in the empty room most of the time, and it was inevitable that she would be jealous.

Hearing that the master didn't spend the night in the big room, several women couldn't help but widen their eyes vigilantly and said, "The master won't fall in love with other women again, right?" ”

There are only so many breads, and now they are going to be divided into three parts, and if one more person enters the house to grab food, life will really not be able to live.

"Dad has been sleeping in the study lately......"

It was Lin Shiwen, the eldest lady of the Lin family, who put down the dishes and chopsticks and spoke: "In the past six months, the Japanese have been making trouble in the north and south, Datong, Baoding, these places, have now been occupied by the Japanese, and the war situation is becoming more and more unoptimistic, although our Anyuan is located in a remote area, but if the war situation deteriorates like this, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape the war, and there are Eighth Route Army and bandits around, these things are not allowed to tell you, but he himself worries about the whole night and can't sleep......"

It is impossible for the eldest lady and aunt to have not heard of the large-scale invasion of the Japanese army, but they always felt that this war was far away from them, and they never expected the situation to deteriorate to such an extent.

"What can I do then?"

The eldest lady and several aunts and wives said anxiously, after all, such a big family business of the Lin family is in this Anyuan County, if the Japanese really come over, there is nowhere to hide.

"Daddy has his own plans, I'm telling you this, I just don't want you to think nonsense!" ⑧☆⑧☆.＄.

After Lin Shiwen finished speaking, she got up, bowed to her mother and two aunts and wives briefly, and said: "I still have some accounts to do, so I won't accompany you, let's rest early, if my father intends to marry again, I will inform you ......in advance."

After saying that, a maid came over and led her back to her room.

"Hey, our Lin family is a famous family in Anyuan, and now the eldest lady of the Lin family actually wants to help take care of the family's property, I don't know how many people are watching our family's jokes behind their backs......"

The two aunts looked at Lin Shiwen's back and shook their heads and sighed.

"Fortunately, Shi Wen helps the master take care of the business, and those outsiders are trying to get benefits from our family, and none of them can be trusted!"

The eldest lady said, a few years ago, several relatives of the Lin family helped take care of the Lin family's property, but they were ruthlessly cheated a lot of money, and it was from then that Lin Shiwen helped the family take care of the industry, and now she can almost take charge of it alone, and she is helping to take care of many aspects of the business, and in the small place of Anyuan, it can be regarded as a little famous.

The two aunts and wives were silent, because they all tried their best to insert their younger brothers and relatives into the Lin family, but because of the things that were cheated a few years ago, they never got Lin Siyou's permission.