Anqing Province, Huaining County.

After the change of dynasty, Huaining City did not show a little bit of the founding of the country, in these three months, the market is withering, compared to the Ming Dynasty seems to be more decadent and powerless.

But there is a place in the city that is becoming more and more prosperous, this is the former Huaining giant room, and today's new county master, the Du family.

Du Ming since he received the county lord of the Great Shun Dynasty, he can not do his best, and he can not be said to be disloyal to the Great Shun Dynasty, with Li Laixiang's 60,000 army front line in the confrontation with the Ming army Huang Degong has been more than a month, Du Ming's role during the period is really hard work, just he is in Huaining County, he has scavenged out 50,000 stone of military food from the people, which is really for Li Laixiang to alleviate the urgent need for a while.

Du Ming worked so hard, it was not entirely out of loyalty to the new Dashun Dynasty, but more for himself, because as most of the Anqing Mansion was reduced to the land of Dashun, and the whereabouts of Zhou Shining, the former prefect of Anqing in the Ming Dynasty, were unknown, and for a while, a high-ranking official like the governor of the Dashun Dynasty had not been assigned by the Dashun Imperial Court, and the vacant seat was vacant for many days.

Du Ming, who had already tasted the sweetness of his career, naturally didn't want to let go of such a good opportunity, and coveted the position of the first Anqing prefect of the Dashun Dynasty.

Originally, the people of Huaining City thought that they would be able to live a peaceful life for a few years by changing the dynasty, but they never expected that the Ming Dynasty had fallen, but the Dashun Dynasty had come to be even more bastard.

In the past, although the Ming Dynasty paid heavy taxes, but it was also according to the rules, as long as the money was scraped together, there was nothing to do, and now the Dashun Dynasty is different, Du Zhi County sent officials and soldiers every once in a while, and searched from house to house, but where the family stored grain for more than half a month, the rate was confiscated, saying that it was to support the front-line soldiers.

The current Huaining County is really a miserable one, the dead are full of wilderness, beggars are full of streets, large families sell their fields and properties, small families sell their children and daughters, and those who have nothing are ruined, so they can only sell themselves and go to the front line to sell their lives.

Du Ningning always goes out early and returns late these days, and every time he goes back to the house, he gets mud all over his body, several times Du Ming wants to ask, but because the matter of running the official has not yet been decided, he has no time to take care of it, of course, there is another reason, the baby girl is finally settled, and she is no longer clamoring to run away from home to find that damn Wang Lanping, in addition, even if his daughter demolishes Huaining City, he doesn't care.

Early in the morning.

Du Ningning simply freshened up, then called the maid with him and planned to go out again, just out of the small round door outside the boudoir, just in time to pick up with his father.

"Ouch, Ning Ning, what are you doing in such a hurry early in the morning?" Du Ming was hit by his rushing daughter and took a few steps back.

Du Ningning was dressed in a tight-fitting pink shirt, no fat powder, a light blue belt was tightly tied, and her usually black and soft hair was braided into a few strands of hair, hanging casually on her shoulders, she looked particularly pretty and cute everywhere, and her face was a little tired, as if she hadn't rested well, she pulled her father to the side a few times, "Old man, let me, I'm busy, I don't have time to argue with you" Saying that, she was about to take a detour.

Du Ming was puzzled, grabbed her, and said suspiciously, "I said girl, my father is busy these days, I can't take care of it, I heard that you have been going out so early and returning late these days, what are you busy with?" ”

Du Ningning raised his eyebrows, "Old man, my business, you don't inquire less, what should you do, why should you go, aren't you going to collect grain again, go and go"

Du Ming frowned, and said, "Look at what it looks like, you talk to your father like this, look at you, you are dressed as a man or a woman, and you still show up outside every day, what kind of body has become?"

Du Ningning had no intention of arguing with him for time, and his pink sank, "Dad, are you annoying, I will train people early in the morning, as if I was like this on the first day, I will leave"

"You stop, go, don't go anywhere today, go with Dad," he said, reaching out to pull her.

Du Ningning flashed to the side, "I'm not going"

"Why don't you go, do you know who you're going to meet?" Du Ming's cheeks were excited, and he could see that what he wanted to see must be a big man.

"I won't go when I see anyone, I'm gone, I've been delayed for half a day, Xiaohua, go"

Du Ningning turned his head and called the maid and ran out.

"You, where are you going, you come back to me, you dead girl" Du Ming shouted several times but failed to call his daughter back.

Today is a big day, I heard that Li Laixiang is going to war, this is also the last time he will escort military rations to the Anqing front, once Li Laixiang's army breaks out of the Anqing Mansion boundary, then he can't find the temple gate if he wants to, so he has to be ruthless, and finally make a lot of effort to fight for the position of the Anqing prefect.

In addition to sending military rations frequently, Du Ming actually has a trick that he didn't take a fierce medicine, that is, his baby girl Ning Ning, who also had a good life, gave birth to such a beautiful girl, and almost couldn't find a trace of shortcomings in this girl, that is, she was a little tougher, but who called General Li like it.

Through several times he went back and forth to General Li's barracks, and in the conversation with Li Laixiang, he was a good person in the business field, and he had already heard that General Li had that meaning to his daughter, so he inquired in many ways, and the feelings were really a God-given marriage, and General Li was not married yet, which made Old Man Du very happy.

Good steel has to be used on the blade, and he won't use this killer weapon until the critical moment.

Du Ming is so transporting military rations and sticking to his daughter, that is naturally all carefully calculated, how to say that he is also a businessman, even if he is an official, everything is based on interests, losses, there is no door, just those military rations transported to the front line, he has made a lot of profits from it, although the money has not been paid, but this is a business with the Dashun Dynasty, not afraid of people to pay the bills, if General Li becomes the uncle of the Du family, it is much more majestic than the original Wang Lanping, Li Laixiang is the grandson of the current Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng, the emperor noble, Whoever has thick arms and legs, a fool knows.

Du Ningning ran out of the house in a hurry, Du Ming panted and followed a few steps behind, in the end, he was old, he couldn't run after a few steps, and beckoned a few family members.

"Go, follow the eldest lady, and see what tricks she does"

Huaining city south five miles, there is a car wide road, the path is winding, one end is connected with Huaining City, the other end stretches to more than 100 miles away from the river, the green grass on both sides of the road is green, originally here is all a water of rice fields, since the Dashun army called, the landlord has already crossed the river to flee for his life, the field is thrown in the north of the river to grow grass, become the ownerless field.

In a section of the path, there are more than a dozen shirtless men are busy in full swing, constantly moving stones, and sand and mud, next to them, stands the unfinished building, look at this appearance, it should be a memorial arch.

Speaking of the memorial arch, it can be seen almost everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, it is the imperial court or local officials who have made a special contribution to commending someone, such as the memorial arch of chastity, the memorial arch of loyalty, the memorial arch of the mother, the memorial arch of filial piety, etc., everything can get this honor, all of them are local and even the state capital that is a humble figure.

If you want to ask who erected the archway here, you have to ask Du Ning, who is standing at the construction site, with his hands on his waist and letting the sweat drip.

"Yes, yes, a little to the left, a little to the left, yes, that's it, you, that side is reinforced, you, you, go, hand him two buckets of mud"

Du Ningning is like a female foreman, after a few days of exploration, now she is also presentable, these people are also convinced by her, who calls him the daughter of the county master's family, and gives wages and food, and repairs the archway for the big man, why not.

The sun was hanging high, and a sedan chair creaked from the direction of Huaining City, followed by more than a dozen soldiers.

Du Ningning was engrossed in commanding, and didn't notice it, but the maid's eyes were sharp, and she patted Miss's arm anxiously, "Miss, it's not good, the master is here."

Du Ningning hurriedly looked up, her pretty face tightened, and she made a nervous expression that was not good, "Oh no, how did this old man sneak here, hurry, I'll hide" As she spoke, she was about to drill into the grass on the side of the road.

"Dead girl, don't hide, Dad saw you, you dead girl, it turns out that you have been mixed with these masons all these days, it's really an old face for your father, come out quickly" Du Ming's eyes were sharp, and after dozens of steps, he recognized his family's baby who couldn't do anything other than cause trouble, and shouted on the sedan chair, "Hurry up, hurry up"

Du Ningning saw that he was discovered, so he didn't hide, patted the dust in his hand, and greeted him confidently, "Dad, what a coincidence, hehe!" ”

Du Ming had a gloomy face, looking around at everything here, and when everyone saw that this was the eldest master, they hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"It's all stopped, it's stopped, what are you doing, Ning Ning, say, what's the matter, where are you making a fuss here?" Du Ming said.

Ning Ning was like a child who had done something wrong at this time, and obediently ran to the side of the sedan chair and helped his father get off the sedan chair, "It's okay, just repair a memorial arch"

Du Ming was puzzled, "What kind of archway, why don't I know such a big thing, who asked you to do it?" ”

Ning Ning said, "The county master"

Du Ming put his hand behind his back and looked around, "Nonsense, when did my father give an order?"

Ning Ning smiled, "It's the former county master, not the current one."

"What?" Du Ming was taken aback, "Is that the dead Kong Rusong?" ”

Ning Ning nodded, "Yes, yes, it's him, not only him, you also donated 10,000 taels of silver to this archway, don't you remember?" ”

Du Ming's forehead wrinkled tightly, and after thinking about Guan Tian, his mouth suddenly opened wide, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time, and in a hurry, he hurriedly pulled his daughter aside, and asked in a low voice with a nervous expression, "This, this is the mother's archway for Wang Lanping and his mother?" ”

Du Ningning patted her father and mother on the shoulder, "Congratulations, you got it right"

Du Ming was completely stunned, he thought that his daughter had taken over the past few months, and she would no longer cause trouble, how did he know that he was digging a pit for his father here, and the officials of the Dashun Dynasty repaired the archway for the mother of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, isn't this looking for death? There is still a war between the two sides.

On the day when Wang Lanping returned to his hometown, Zhou Shining, the prefect of Anqing at that time, proposed to build a mother's archway in Huaining County in order to shoot Wang Lanping's sycophants.

Kong Rusong also attaches great importance to this, after all, this is the first champion in Huaining City in hundreds of years, site selection, preparation, even craftsmen have been found, but I didn't expect the Dashun army to suddenly come to Huaining, this matter has been delayed, and then Kong Rusong died in battle, Wang Lanping went to Nanjing, that is even more of a follow-up, even Du Ming almost forgot about it, and the stones on the side of the road have grown grass.

Ning Ning wanted to find Wang Lanping a few days ago, but her father was locked up at home for a month, just a few days after settling down, and I don't know where she heard that there was such an unfinished project outside the city that had not been completed, but it could be regarded as finding a peaceful relationship with Wang Lan, so she didn't dare to ignore it, and she was busy before and after, but she didn't expect that when she was about to finish, she was discovered by her father.

Du Ming was so angry that his eyes rolled, he turned around and ran to the body of the maid Xiaohua, and raised his hand to slap him hard, "You are so bold, you dare to encourage Miss to do this kind of thing, come, bring it to me, sell it to Piaoxiang Pavilion"

Xiaohua covered her face, her face was discolored, and she knelt on the ground, Piaoxiang Pavilion is a famous green building in the city, is it okay to go there, "Master, Xiaohua is wrong, Xiaohua doesn't dare, Miss, you save me, help me"

Du Ningning didn't know why his father was so angry, "Daddy......"

Just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by her father with a wave of his hand, "Shut up, come on, disperse all these people, and knock down all the things here!"

Du Ningning was anxious, and ran over to stop in front of those soldiers, "Dad, why is this?" What's wrong with me repairing the archway for Aunt Wang? ”

Du Ming was angry, "Nothing is right, tell you, this matter ends here, go back, follow me to see General Li, get married, you will accept your temperament"

Ning Ning was also angry, "I don't, I don't marry that Li Laixiang, I don't look down on him at all, I want to marry you"

"I'm your father, I'll have the final say on this matter"

"Do you still know that you are my father, and you just pushed your daughter into the fire pit?"

"I'm doing this for your good"

"I'm not rare"

"I can't help you, come here, Miss on the shelf, go home"