Xujiazhuang.

Counted the times.

It's been three days.

The husband, who said that he was going to leave for a while and was going out to enter a batch of overseas goods, has not yet returned.

Fang Qingyan couldn't help but feel some worries and anxieties, and couldn't help but start thinking crankily, and even thought of some bad unexpected situations - although she tried her best to restrain herself and not think in those unlucky directions.

After all, the good days have only passed for a few days, those good memories have just been created, and the hope for the future has just begun, how can it be so abruptly stopped.

But it's useless to think wildly.

I can only put my hands together and pray secretly:

"God and Buddha bless, I will never let my husband teach me to ride a bicycle in person in the future, I have completely learned it myself, and I will not accidentally fall on my husband's body again."

"I don't need my husband to teach me to read and write, follow the teacher in the learning machine, I have memorized more than 100 words, because I have less than ten words every day, Xia He will hit my palm with a ring ruler, hit me very hard, very painful, I originally wanted to find my husband to complain to you, but I don't plan to do it now, I want to work hard to learn more words, so that Xia He can't find an excuse to beat me, let your husband look at me with admiration!"

"Hey~! When will I come back, blame me for being too angry, I haven't had a room with my husband until now, if I have my husband's child, I won't be so worried and scared. ”

Fang Qingyan kept muttering, she felt that she was still too shy, and she must be more active in the future.

"The owner is back!"

That's when it happened.

Inside the fortress, the voice of an unknown subordinate sounded.

Immediately afterwards, the whole manor was lively, and many people rushed to tell each other, passing the good news to each other, and their faces were full of smiles and relaxation.

Fang Qingyan also became excited, put down her studies, got up and walked towards the most lively area in the castle, and sure enough, she soon saw Xu Yuan, who was surrounded by everyone in the middle, with a little dust on his face.

"Husband!"

She screamed in surprise, and the crowd consciously gave way to a gap, and soon came to the man, grabbed his arm, and said excitedly: "Husband, you are back!" ”

The only thing that made her uncomfortable was that the maid Xia He had already taken the lead and firmly hugged the man's right arm.

"You don't have to gather here, butler, the goods in the basement, you take someone to count and sort them out, and if a customer comes, you will directly deliver it to them."

Xu Yuan arranged to go down.

"Yes, owner."

The housekeeper Zhao Jinde nodded, and soon took most of the Zhuang workers to the basement.

Xu Yuan took Fang Qingyan, the maid Xia He, the guard Zhang Hu and a few others to go around the inside of the fortress and ask them some questions.

"In the past few days since I left, there have been no problems in the village, right?"

"No, it's business as usual." Xia Ho Road.

"It's okay, it's just that you're not there, master, and everyone is a little unsure." Zhang Hu scratched his head and said hehe.

"What about you?"

Xu Yuan turned his head and asked Fang Qingyan deliberately: "I haven't been able to accompany you in the past few days, can you still get used to it?" No one in the village bullied you, right? ”

"Nope."

Fang Qingyan glanced at Xia He next to her and said, "Husband, isn't it okay to leave this kind of thing to others to do?" Why do you have to go in person, now that the Xu family has a big business, and no place can do without you, it is better to be safe. ”

"Millions of taels worth of goods, who can be absolutely assured of handing them over?"

Xu Yuan shook his head and said, "I understand your concern, but don't worry too much, I don't believe you ask Zhang Hu and Xia He, there have been dozens of such purchases, and no problems have occurred...... I do things, you can rest assured, just enjoy yourself in the future. ”

"But I also want to help my husband, even if I can't help much, but I can still do some small things, such as ...... gave birth to a son and a half daughter to her husband. ”

Fang Qingyan's face flushed, and she finally had the courage to say the words that she was holding in her heart.

"The time hasn't come yet."

Xu Yuan looked at her, shook his head with a smile: "Your body still has to be raised for a while, you still have to eat more meat, eggs and milk, and supplement more nutrition, only when you develop to the best state, the risk of having children can be minimized, you look at yourself, and then look at Xia He, in addition to being tall, your weight, physical strength, and figure are not as good as Xia He in all aspects, thin as a bamboo pole, how to complete the great cause of reproduction?" Let's make up for it for a while! ”

"Owner, I think I'm more suitable."

Xia He seized the opportunity, immediately stood up, straightened his chest and said: "I have been supplementing it for several years, the nutrition has long been enough, I am more suitable than this woman, the owner, you can accept me quickly." ”

"Bold, you dare to compete for favor even if you are a maid, the husband will not accept you, is it up to you? Husband, so self-determined, sell this maid! ”

Fang Qingyan scolded, she was so angry, in front of her, the maid actually dared to dance like this, she didn't take her in her eyes at all, if she really let her succeed, how presumptuous would she have to be in the future?

"Master, I've been with you for almost three years......" Xia He just looked at Xu Yuan with a look of resentment and longing.

"Okay, don't make a fuss, stop me a little!"

Xu Yuan said impatiently: "What should be given to you, you will all enjoy it, I have my own arrangements here, you just listen to my arrangements, if you make your own decisions and have nothing to do, you can be forgiven once or twice, if there are too many times, don't blame me for not remembering the old feelings, my patience is also limited." ”

He gave a stern warning.

"Yes, owner."

Xia He nodded wryly.

Fang Qingyan raised her chin slightly, and secretly decided that she must eat more milk, eggs and meat and the like, supplement a lot of nutrients, and must compare this Xia He.

……

The next day, in the morning.

At the southernmost convex corner of the fort, there is a compound covering an area of more than 20 acres, which is the station of the Xujiazhuang Guardian Team, which is called the "Security Police Training Office".

As the name suggests, this is the place responsible for the daily security work of Xujiazhuang, as well as the special training of the village guards, and undertakes the tasks of fire prevention and theft prevention, maintaining public order, handling major civil disputes, disaster relief, and resisting foreign enemies.

It can be said that it is a great responsibility and a mission, and it is the place where all the personal and property safety of Xujiazhuang is tied to it.

It was also the initial prototype of the most powerful army planned by Xu Yuan in his heart.

It's just that although Xu Yuan invested a lot of money and energy, and even personally taught the guards to read and write, in the past three years, he has trained more than 300 qualified guards and formed three teams, namely the patrol team, the guard team, and the security team.

The patrol team is mainly responsible for patrolling.

The main task of the guard is to protect the personal safety of the manor and the owner of the estate, Xu Yuan.

The Police Force is responsible for handling day-to-day law and order incidents.

Recently, due to the rapid expansion of Xujia Manor, facing a variety of situations, the guards have been transferred to various places, and now there are only about 100 guards left in Xujiazhuang, and they have been very busy recently, not only to complete the daily fixed training, but also to undertake the patrol and security tasks that do not belong to them, the workload is three times that of the past, and the manpower is suddenly seriously insufficient, and many aspects are stretched.

Therefore, the owner of the village Xu Yuan came.

Captain Zhao Yang, 28 years old this year, a tall man with 1.8 meters tall, bronze skin, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a horse on his shoulder, and an astonishing physique, complained in front of Xu Yuan: "The owner, the manpower of the security police training department must be increased, we only have more than 100 people, we have to train every morning, maintain law and order in the afternoon, send people to patrol at night, and have to find time to read and write, we can't be busy at all, if it goes on like this, we will be tired of more than 100 people, and we have to recruit a group of new people to come in." ”

Listen to him.

Look at the training ground, the more than 100 muscular men who are training, all of them are quite tired.

"I'm here this time to discuss with you, it's better to expand the number of people in the team to how many people, I want to ask you what you think." Xu Yuandao.

"Of course, the better, the better!"

Zhao Yang's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "With more than 300 village guards, to protect 11 large manors, this number is far from enough, each manor has 300 village guards, that is to say, it is more appropriate to recruit another 3,000 people and expand the total number of village guards to 3,300 people." ”

"No, it's too much, it's too ostentatious!"

Xu Yuan immediately denied his idea, "Recruiting so many people will definitely be slandered by rumors and attract the suspicion of the imperial court, at most 1,000 more people will be recruited, not to mention that the police training office cannot accommodate thousands of people at the same time, and the training space is not enough." ”

"Only 1,000 people? The training ground is not enough, and it is placed in the new manor for training ......"

Zhao Yang stopped talking in time and couldn't say any more, if the new manor also has the authority to train the village guards, what does it mean? Anyone smart can imagine the consequences.

Recruiting and training new Zhuang Guardians can only be done in Xujiazhuang.

"But there are only 1,300 people in total, but we have to protect 11 manors, and on average, we can only get more than 100 people, which is really not enough."

Zhao Yang still raised his doubts, using more than 1,000 people to protect more than 10 places, more than 100,000 people, no matter how to arrange manpower, it feels insufficient.

"Don't worry, we can equip these more than 1,000 people with new weapons to improve their combat effectiveness, so that they can block ten with one, break ten by hundred, and thousands of people will be invincible."

Xu Yuan said.

Zhao Yang's eyes suddenly lit up again.

New weapons? What kind of new weapons?

You must know that the current guards are equipped with a sharp, tough, and never-rusty alloy goose knife; a recurve compound bow with a scope with an effective range of up to 150 meters; Coupled with a set of invulnerable stab-proof clothing per person, as well as the nutritional intake of 1 catty of meat, 2 eggs, and 1 catty of milk per person per day, all of them have become muscular men, and their individual combat effectiveness is already very invincible.

Definitely the strongest on the planet!

If you put on a new, more powerful weapon, how strong would it be?