She hurried over, jumped onto the carriage, took Aunt An's arm, and said happily, "Mother, I'm finally here. I missed you so much."
Aunt An gently stroked Xie Ling's back, then straightened Xie Ling's face and looked her over carefully, her eyes full of worry, "Why do you look so bad? You seem to have lost weight. Are you comfortable here?"
After a pause, he whispered, "Tell mom quietly, how does Gu Wei treat you?"
There is a kind of thinness that makes your mother think you are thin.
Xie Ling laughed, "Very good, there is no better husband than him in the world."
Aunt An was relieved, scratched her nose, and said in a doting tone: "You are not ashamed to say this."
On the other side, Gu Wei led everyone directly to the cafeteria.
Xie Ling had just told him that the food was ready.
It took Xie Ling a lot of effort to prepare meals for so many people.
The cooks and kitchen staff from the three canteens were all gathered together, and Pei, Song and others also came to help.
Five pigs, a cow, twenty chickens and thirty fish were killed urgently. As time was tight, we couldn't be too delicate, so we tried to make it sumptuous.
Now all the dishes are ready, only the rice is left, which can be eaten after cooking for half an incense stick at most.
Pei first cooked a large pot of porridge for the soldiers to fill their stomachs.
Everyone came to Sinan's No. 1 canteen, looked at the neatly arranged tables and chairs, as well as the rice, vegetable and soup areas, and sighed again. They followed Gu Wei's instructions and lined up to get porridge.
The porridge was steaming hot and made with the best white rice. There was a thick layer of meat floating on the surface. It was salty, fragrant, soft and glutinous, with a hint of oil. The chopped green onions on the surface gave off a fresh fragrance. The soldiers hadn't eaten such a good meal for a long time, and everyone gobbled up a large bowl of it.
After finishing the porridge, the rice was ready.
The aunties and cooks in the cafeteria lowered their heads, put nearly twenty dishes on the table, and then walked out with their heads lowered again, not daring to look at anything else.
Xie Ling sat together with the An family, and Gu Wei sat together with the soldiers. It was quite lively.
After the meal, the soldiers saw that there was water in the sink and washed the bowls in their hands.
If we leave thousands of bowls to the aunties to wash, who knows how long it will take to finish washing them.
Gu Wei had already said that the Gu family generals would come, so when the school was being built, Xie Ling asked someone to clean up the back mountain, and also asked Shi Yue to design dormitories for about 3,000 people and two cafeterias, enough for the Gu family generals to eat and live.
As for the An family, Xie Ling had already bought a property for them on the street of the county magistrate's mansion.
There is one family of my eldest uncle, one family of my second uncle, and one family of Aunt An. The three families are next to each other. The wall in the middle is opened up and a round arch is designed so that people can move around freely.
Every family has a well and a courtyard for entertaining guests. In spring, flowers can be planted, filling the courtyard with fragrance.
The paths in the courtyard are all paved with pebbles, making it difficult to step on mud. Tables, chairs and rooms are all available, and you can move in as soon as you enter.
The An family looked at the property purchased by Xie Ling and could not help expressing their gratitude and excitement.
We thought we would have a hard life after coming to Lingnan, and the An family was fully prepared, but we didn’t expect it to be so good!
The An family and the Gu family gradually adapted to life in Lingnan and understood Sinan's work point system.
Uncle An and others also went to work for a few days and exchanged a lot of things with the work points system. They were also embarrassed to keep spending Xie Ling's money.
Xie Ling still had a lot of assets in her hands. After her uncles An Da and An Er adapted to life in Lingnan, she transferred half of her assets to them.
Uncle An continued to do the wood furniture business, while Uncle An II did the cloth textile business.
The people of Sinan and Changshou lived a prosperous life, and their business was even more prosperous than in the capital.
An Linzhang was extremely talented and was directly admitted to the county government office, working alongside Gu Wei. He was often not seen and was very busy.
Sometimes he didn't go home for several days and had to sleep in the county government office. However, he and Zhou Cisui developed a deep revolutionary friendship.
The An family's influence in Lingnan gradually developed, and later became the leading large family. They were also Xie Ling's strongest backing, but that is a story for later.
The other side.
In the mountains and forests, it took only a few days for the generals from the Gu family to find An Chunhua who had been captured by the criminals.
After interrogation, we found out that those bad guys were spies sent by Changning Military Station, who wanted to disguise themselves as civilians to find out the situation in Sinan.
An Chunhua followed those people for three or four days. He didn't know what happened to him. His clothes were in disarray, and he became crazy and bit anyone he saw.
After the Gu family brought her back, Uncle An and Mrs. An were heartbroken, but there was nothing they could do. They had to lock her up at home and take good care of her, not letting her go out to see anyone.
As time went by, the weather became colder and colder, and the snow never stopped.
Other places in Lingnan have long become like hell on earth, with corpses to be seen everywhere under the snow.
On an ordinary day, General Zhang of the Changning military settlement rebelled.
He arrested the county magistrates of Lingshan and Yong'an, occupied Lingshan, Yong'an and Changning, proclaimed himself King of Guangwu, looted supplies everywhere, and captured innocent people as soldiers.
But he stopped after occupying Lingshan and Yong'an, and did not launch an attack on Sinan Changshou.
They simply sent soldiers to surround the border between Sinan and Yong'an and patrol it every day.
Gu Wei felt it necessary to improve the quality of the soldiers, so he selected a group of the best generals from the Gu family to train them.
Sinan's soldiers were somewhat unwilling to accept the result at first. They wondered why a group of newcomers could discipline their veteran soldiers.
But after just one class, all the soldiers were convinced.
This group of mysterious people are not on the same level as them in terms of psychological quality, practical experience, martial arts and strategy!
Even their figures are better than theirs, they are all tall and handsome!
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