Xing Feiyan felt as sweet as if she had eaten honey: "You are so smooth-talking."

"No, I'm just expressing my true feelings." The couple joked.

"Ha~" The couple chatted for a while, and Xing Feiyan yawned. Tears immediately overflowed from her eyes. Fang Pingshan wiped her tears with a handkerchief and pulled the quilt higher: "Go to sleep for a while."

"Yeah." Xing Feiyan replied in a daze. After Xing Feiyan fell asleep, Fang Pingshan's previous smile immediately turned cold. He sat there with a gloomy face, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Knock, knock, knock!" There was a gentle knock on the door. The little girl quietly opened the door and walked over to Fang Pingshan, saying softly, "Master, the Third Master is looking for you."

"I understand." Fang Pingshan carefully placed Xing Feiyan's exposed arm under the quilt, kissed her forehead lightly, and then left the room.

After closing the door, he turned into the handsome young man of the Fang family again. Apart from the hypocrisy that was most often shown on his face, the rest was mostly expressionless.

At this moment, Fang Pingshan asked the maid with an expressionless face: "What is he doing here?"

The maid replied, "I heard it's about the acquisition of the Lin family workshop."

"Lin Family Workshop?" Yes, he had almost forgotten about this matter. Was his third uncle telling him the good news?

After arriving in the study and hearing Fang Chengrong's words, Fang Pingshan slowly raised his head and asked, "What did you say? The Lin family workshop is backed by Xing Lie?"

Although Fang Chengrong was furious, he could only nod and admit, "Yes... I saw that Lin family member's promise, and I didn't dare to cause you any trouble, so I didn't argue with him and rushed back to confirm it with you."

Finally, he looked up at Fang Pingshan and said, "Pingshan, has the Lin family workshop been acquired by the Major General?"

Fang Pingshan closed his eyes and did not directly answer Fang Pingshan's words. He only replied: "I understand, Third Uncle, you go back first."

Facing this nephew, Fang Chengrong didn't dare to act like an elder and could only retreat in disgrace.

Fang Pingshan could no longer sit still at the Fang family, so he immediately ordered someone to prepare horses and go to the military camp to see if Xing Lie had come up with any new tricks during the days he was away.

When they arrived at the East Camp, Fang Pingshan's trusted lieutenant, General Ma, immediately came forward and said, "Commander Fang..."

Fang Pingshan gave him a look, and Lieutenant General Ma understood what he meant and immediately followed Fang Pingshan's horse and trotted into the tent.

After the soldiers led the horses out of the tent, only Fang Pingshan and his trusted lieutenant, Ma, were left in the tent. He sat down and looked at Lieutenant Ma, "Tell me, did anything happen during the days I was away?"

"That's right!" Lieutenant General Ma immediately poured out his frustration. "Commander Fang is trying to create a second Flying Tiger Battalion in the Xing Family Army, but the brothers in our battalion are really disappointing. Just a few dozen pigs and a few pieces of meat can strangle them. These days, everyone is discussing the selection early next year, hoping to be selected into the Flying Tiger Battalion."

"Bastard!" Fang Pingshan cursed loudly. He invested so much in the East Camp, not to provide Xing Lie with talents in the end.

Looking at Deputy General Ma, he asked again: "What kind of meat and oil is this? Hasn't the food in Baixing Town been shipped back yet?" Even though he used dishonorable methods to rob the food from Xing Lie's Flying Tiger Camp, Xing Lie's people still got it back.

Both sides were just testing the waters, but it was clear that Xing Lie would not budge an inch. Fang Pingshan thought this would at least disrupt the Flying Tigers for a couple of days, lowering Xing Lie's reputation within the camp and shaking the soldiers' morale, giving him a chance to take over.

Lieutenant General Ma said in embarrassment, "It's true that we didn't get any food back, but their Fire Head Battalion found bean dregs to alleviate the food crisis. They made all kinds of bean dregs into various dishes, such as bean dregs cakes, fried bean dregs, steamed bean dregs, bean dregs porridge, and bean dregs paste. Everyone's face turned pale after eating them, but at least they can fill their stomachs. The soldiers are loyal to the Flying Tiger Battalion. Now the food is just a little worse, so why would they cause trouble?"

"What's more, what's more..." Deputy General Ma said while looking at Fang Pingshan's expression.

Fang Pingshan subconsciously felt something was wrong: "What's more?"

"The Flying Tigers had some incredible luck, but a merchant gifted them twenty live pigs. The aroma of the cooked pig meat filled the entire camp. Our soldiers ate coarse grain pancakes and wild vegetable soup, while the Flying Tigers ate pork stewed with tofu and bean sprouts. It was greasy and filling, and everyone's mouths were greasy. It made our brothers in the camp feel dissatisfied."

Merchant, live pig? Fang Pingshan immediately realized something: "Is that merchant's surname Lin?"

Deputy General Ma was a little surprised: "It is indeed Lin. Could it be that Commander Fang knows him?"

Of course he didn't know him, but he came here today just for Xing Lie. When he heard the word "merchant", he immediately thought of his third uncle who was rejected when he tried to acquire Lin's workshop. So that was indeed the case. He was afraid that the twenty live pigs were fake, and the real reason was that he defected to the Flying Tiger Camp and wanted to seek Xing Lie's protection.

Maintaining soldiers and horses requires money everywhere. The Xing family army’s military supplies are not enough every month. They can either tighten their belts to feed the soldiers and then become penniless themselves; or they can find ways to make money to support their own troops.

The reason why he was so eager to snatch Baituo Town from Xing Lie was because he saw that the commercial taxes could subsidize the military camp expenses. In troubled times, only power, influence and troops can bring stability. Without troops, no matter how much money you have, you cannot keep it; but without money, no matter how many troops you have, you cannot support them.

In short, we are in a dilemma and it is difficult to take any step forward.

Fang Pingshan looked down on the small vendors in Baituo Town, but he was interested in the future development of Lin's Workshop. Their stalls were too large. Now the tofu, bean curd skin, bean sprouts and fermented bean curd produced by Lin's Workshop have entered thousands of households in Huangmoguan and are extremely popular. Even if they can only make a penny from a piece of tofu, it will add up to a huge amount.

Fang Pingshan saw the huge business opportunities and the significant benefits behind them, which made him decide to acquire the Lin Workshop. He wanted to change the Lin Workshop into the Fang Workshop to continue making money for himself and earn money to recruit soldiers.

But now, unexpectedly, a stupid move made the people in Lin's workshop join Xing Lie's team, allowing Xing Lie to easily earn a huge amount of income without any effort.

It’s really... infuriating!

Damn Xing Lie, damn Lin family, since they can’t be used by the Fang family, can’t be used by him, they deserve to die!

"Deputy General Ma, go find some people and take care of the boss behind the Lin Family Workshop!"

Deputy General Ma looked troubled: "Commander Fang, I'm afraid this is a difficult time."

"Why, you can't do it secretly?"

"The Xing family army values ​​this man very highly. They have assigned four or five of their best soldiers to follow him around, making it impossible for them to get close to him."