Chapter 91
The lower-class residents of the military settlement just regarded it as a romantic affair of Yao Zhubo, which was strange at the beginning but became mediocre later.
"Master Yao can find a man if he wants. Now that they're divorced, can't he find another one?"
"He's not a high-ranking military officer, nor a general. He's just an ordinary person. What's the big deal? What matters most is that Chief Secretary Yao likes him."
"One person wants to fight, and the other wants to be beaten. Why should you worry about this?"
More often than not, parents were muttering, "Oh my god, Chief Secretary Yao has already found one, how long will it take for you all to pick one by one?"
Yes, now the residents of Yichun Military Village are very popular in the matchmaking market.
Everyone knows that life in the military settlements is good these days. Especially for daily necessities in the exchange building, they can exchange them for work points and get a discount of 10% or 20% compared to other places.
Who doesn't know that work points and merit points are valuable things these days? But outsiders can't earn them. Only those in the military settlements can earn work points, and only soldiers in the military settlements can earn merit points. Outsiders can only envy them.
The common people in Yichun realized that their lives were not much better than those of the residents of the Yichun military settlement, and were even worse off. Consequently, many of them took the initiative to move to the Yichun military settlement to become residents.
After a certain amount of screening, the military settlements accepted all suitable ones.
In the past six months, the population of the military settlement has increased by more than 10,000 people.
This is not easy. After all, Yichun is currently in a stable period, without major disasters. Even during lean times, thanks to the vast land, mountains, and rivers, everyone can find food and preserved fruits. Even so, they can still recruit over 10,000 people. This really shows the charm of military settlements.
However, some guests at the Lei Taishou residence had already noticed this phenomenon.
After Shen Sanniang finished scolding her unlucky child, she went out and met her neighbor, Ma Simei, who laughed at her, "I heard that you are going to find a wife for your second child recently? Are you overwhelmed by the choices?"
Shen Sanniang: “No, no.”
Ma Simei: "Hey, don't be so modest. You can't stop people from being happy when they hear we're from a military settlement."
Shen Sanniang refused to be outdone and smiled back, "Your family is not bad either. I heard that your daughter is going to get married. From what I know, there are several wealthy families out there who have sent matchmakers to get to know you."
Ma Simei sighed, "Eh."
Shen Sanniang asked curiously, "Why are you sighing?"
Ma Simei was worried. "I'm in a dilemma. Compared to those wealthy families, I like this young man more. He's a good guy, but his family is poor. His parents and elders are all gone. He only has a younger brother who lives with him. He wants to be my son-in-law."
"There's nothing to worry about. This is just a choice between good and better. No matter what, your daughter won't marry a bad man."
"That's true." Ma Simei nodded. "Actually, I'd prefer my daughter stay in the military settlement. It's so nice here. The other family is small, so it doesn't matter if they come to visit or not. It's fine as long as we can live together in the settlement." Since it's close to home, they can also take care of her. "I just don't know if the settlement will build a house for a new small family like my daughter's, like they did before?"
There are many families like them in Juntun. They have a good life and are always grateful in their hearts. Juntun is so good. Thank you Juntun.
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Every day at 5 p.m., Yao Chunnuan would go to the horse farm to practice riding.
It all started with a sudden idea from Wu Zongguan. Aren't the people from the northern border arriving soon? He wanted everyone to ride horses to greet them.
Yao Chunnuan: Are you sure this isn’t a show of force?
Since Manager Wu insisted on doing so, everyone had no choice but to give in.
The others who came from military camps or military settlements all knew how to ride horses, but Yao Chunnuan didn't. In later life, she learned many things, including calligraphy and golf, but she had never learned horse riding.
Since you don't know how, then learn it. Besides, in this world, being able to ride a horse is very necessary. Just like being able to drive a car in later generations, it is an essential skill for escaping.
So, she began her daily equestrian training. Sharing joy is better than enjoying it alone, so she even dragged Qi Yingshan along. Qi Yingshan came from a poor family and didn't have the means to learn horseback riding. Yao Chunnuan asked him to learn along, and he took it seriously. After all, if they practiced after the twilight hour, they would have finished their shift by then, so it wouldn't interfere with their work.
The two of them were smart and had good motor skills. After learning for a short time, they were able to trot on the horse.
As Yao Chunnuan had predicted, Prefect Lei and Wang Lang announced their marriage. Then, not long after, Wang Lang drew his sword. The government first restricted the population of their military settlement, claiming it exceeded the limit. Then, they restricted the land they used for the settlement, forbidding them from reclaiming it and refusing to register it.
In reality, the issue of population and land for the Yichun military settlements was quite ambiguous. After all, the settlements still had to provide the food supply previously agreed upon with the Yichun main camp. It was perfectly acceptable to expand the land and population based on their numbers. However, Wang Lang clearly wanted to plug this loophole and prevent them from doing so.
Wang Lang's move effectively controlled the Yichun military settlement. Yichun was a small city, and its resources, besides land, were its population. They had been vying for resources. Now, Wang Lang's two-pronged approach, restricting them, would limit the development of the Yichun military settlement.
Yao Chunnuan wasn't surprised Wang Lang would do this. But you have your own strategies, I have my own! But she also knew that this would be the time when Wang Lang would be most vigilant against them, so she held her ground for now, aiming to sort out and absorb the population she had absorbed over the past six months. Furthermore, the summer harvest was approaching, and storing every grain in the granary was paramount.
Yao Chunnuan was right. After Wang Lang made his move, he was on guard against them.
Not only did he have to be on guard, he also had to warn his new father-in-law.
He was currently sitting in the prefect's residence, drinking fragrant tea, waiting to be received by his father-in-law.
Wang Lang didn't have to wait long before Prefect Lei arrived.
Governor Lei was very satisfied with his son-in-law Wang Lang, because he was not only the crown prince's trusted minister, but also a man of extraordinary talent. In particular, he helped him solve a difficult problem not long after they met.
Even though he'd been married before and divorced his ex-wife, so what? That didn't stop him from thinking he was excellent, did it? It was said that his ex-wife had kicked him out when the Wang family was in trouble, wanting to go their separate ways when disaster struck. Ironically, fate had played a trick on her, and she became pregnant with Wang Lang's child, forcing her to be exiled. The two never reconciled. Well, I heard that woman was doing well in the Yichun military settlement, and she even gave birth to a child, a daughter.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of tea, Governor Lei couldn't help but ask about his purpose. "Lang'er, you came here specially, but what's the important matter?"
"Father-in-law, do you have anything valuable left outside the house?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Governor Lei's expression changed instantly.
Wang Lang quickly said, "Father-in-law, please don't misunderstand me. I didn't mean to pry into anything. I have a reason for asking this."
"oh."
Wang Lang quickly explained, "My ex-wife, Yao, was a formidable woman. Last year, Marshal Zhu lost a secret vault. Does my father-in-law know about it?"
“I’ve heard a little bit about it.”
"Then do you know how the address of his secret vault was leaked?"
"But there's a mole?"
Wang Lang shook his head.
"Not a spy? That's odd. How did anyone know the address of his secret vault?" He knew Marshal Zhu. They had both served in Yichun, and he hadn't made any mistakes in all those years. He was incredibly cautious. He'd been transferred to Yichun for years, running the business for years, and he wouldn't believe someone said they didn't have something on their hands. So, hearing that the other party had a secret vault wasn't surprising to Lei Taishou.
"There's a person who, based solely on the information he's collected and his own research, can deduce the location of his secret vault."
"Impossible?" Prefect Lei didn't believe it. If there really was such a person, wouldn't he be so smart that he would be almost a demon?
"Father-in-law, you don't know that Marshal Zhu's first secret vault was stolen last year."
When Governor Lei heard this, he thought, if there is the first one, then there must be a second one?
Sure enough, Wang Lang continued, "The second secret vault almost had an accident. The reason I said almost is not because the other party didn't find the exact address, but because they found it..." Then Wang Lang told the story of Xing Changfeng leading his army to attack the Di Luo clan, and being ambushed by Shi Mei on the way back, and then the military garrison think tanks' strategy of surrounding Wei to save Zhao.
Governor Lei was stunned when he heard this.
"Father-in-law, once can be considered an accident, but what if it happens twice or three times?"
As Lei Taishou listened, he broke out in a cold sweat. "Who is this man?" He was worried about the existence of such a person. He was even more worried because this person was still in Yichun.
"This person is none other than my ex-wife, Yao Chunnuan. She is now the chief clerk of the Yichun military settlement and the right-hand man of Xing Changfeng."
"Is your ex-wife so powerful?" Governor Lei's face changed.
Wang Lang smiled bitterly. "I have to admit, she's really good at this. I'm saying this because I'm afraid she'll resort to the same old tricks. We took action earlier to suppress the military settlements and prevent them from expanding their farmland and population. From what I know about her, she's not one to suffer any loss."
Upon hearing this, Prefect Lei felt a heavy heart. It wasn't just Marshal Zhu who had acquired some hidden treasure; he had, too. He'd traveled thousands of miles to become an official solely for the money. Even though he considered himself honest, he'd amassed a lot of wealth over the years, but he didn't keep it all at home. Who, like them, would put all their eggs in one basket?
"Can you kill her..." Before he could finish his words, Governor Lei made a gesture of raising his hand and cutting with a knife.
"She rarely leaves the military settlement, and she's surrounded by two layers of guards, one visible and one hidden. Especially the female warrior named Axia in the visible presence. She's incredibly strong, capable of taking on ten enemies at once. Ordinary people can't get close to her." Wang Lang sighed softly. He had never seen such a fearful woman. Even before so many people wanted to kill her, she'd already established two layers of defense. When they finally tried to attack, they found they couldn't reach in.
"Does Marshal Zhu know that it was her who did this?" Governor Lei didn't believe that Marshal Zhu could tolerate the existence of such a person.
Wang Lang gave him a 'what do you think' look.
This, this, Marshal Zhu knew about it, and she was still alive and well, which proved that Marshal Zhu could not kill her. "Let me think about it, let me think about it." He didn't dare to say it. For a moment, he regretted listening to his son-in-law and making things difficult for Yichun Juntun.
Governor Lei thought for a moment and asked again, "Did anything happen to Marshal Zhu's secret vault later?"
Wang Lang shook his head and said, "He decided to go all out and directly sent a large number of troops to guard the two secret vaults." That's why nothing happened.
Governor Lei: ...
What's the difference between this and streaking?
Look at what Marshal Zhu has been forced into. What a terrible woman.
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