Inside Zhang Bao's room.
Ma Yaner, who had already undressed, entered the bed with only his little head exposed, looking at Zhang Bao who was busy at the side.
Zhang Bao checked all the doors and windows and closed them before returning to bed.
"Is it okay?"
"How about I just use those two places? I actually..."
Ma Yaner asked hesitantly.
She was also scared.
Recently, I don’t know what happened. Every time Zhang Bao came here to sleep, a figure would appear outside the door from time to time.
Sometimes Ma Yan'er was riding comfortably, and when she saw the figure outside, she was so frightened that she almost took Xiao Bao away.
"How can that be possible?!"
"Don't worry about that old guy!"
"How can I only care about my own comfort and not take care of you?"
"Besides, I almost suffocated to death last time. Apart from adding some protein, it has no other effect."
"bring it on……"
Zhang Bao opened the quilt and got in.
"Egg?"
"What egg?"
Ma Yan'er was a little curious. Before she could finish her question, her mouth was blocked by something.
…
An hour later.
…
"Yan'er, I didn't expect you to make progress."
"You only fainted once. Last time, you fainted three times."
Zhang Bao asked with a smile.
"I don't know, maybe the things I've eaten recently are working..."
"Uncle He brought it specially to me. It's not good if I don't eat it."
Ma Yan'er said very weakly, a few strands of hair were wet with sweat and stuck to her forehead.
"thing?"
"What did Uncle He give you?"
Hearing Ma Yan'er's words, Zhang Bao quickly sat up.
He didn't know about this.
"I don't know, it's something sweet and quite delicious."
"Oh, look at your expression. After drinking, you won't feel the same as before when you drank..."
Ma Yaner said with a coaxing face.
When I first started.
The wine that Lao He sent to Zhang Bao was mixed with a lot of things.
At that time, because Lao He had just started to act like a monster, Zhang Bao didn't have any precautions. After drinking with Ma Yan'er, the two of them almost broke the bed.
Ma Yan'er also had a strong opinion on Lao He.
"Well, we have to be careful lately anyway."
"We may not have much time to spend together recently, and it's really troublesome to go out to Dongzhou again."
Zhang Bao shook his head and said helplessly.
"ah?"
"Are you leaving Hezhou?"
"But isn't sister Xiaoyue giving birth in more than two months?"
Ma Yan'er was a little surprised and sat up from the bed.
"Lie down quickly and wrap yourself in a quilt."
Zhang Bao quickly wrapped the two of them in quilts.
When Ma Yan'er got up just now, she couldn't even touch her hair.
The whole house became a little brighter.
"There is nothing we can do. Fang Fu and the others may have made a bigger move last time. I heard that many people from Huizhou came to Dongzhou with the Japanese to cause trouble."
"Although Dongzhou has been basically captured by Fang Fu and the others during this period, and several generals have also been killed, their number is still small after all."
"I heard that some unscrupulous county magistrates were also cleaned up."
"Although Fang Fu didn't say it explicitly, I estimate that many people in Dongzhou may be unconvinced."
Zhang Bao said to Ma Yan'er.
"Not convinced?"
"What's the meaning?"
Ma Yan'er was a little surprised.
After Fang Fu and the others entered Dongzhou, it can be said that it was very smooth.
There are various means and force of oppression, which should not be the case.
"It should be because of Fang Fu's identity. He was just a county guard before, and he didn't have any power behind him."
"In the eyes of many of them, a mere county guard wants to rule Dongzhou, so they will naturally not take Fang Fu seriously."
Zhang Bao said with a frown.
"ah?"
"Can this still happen?"
"After everything is taken down, will this happen again?"
Ma Yaner asked very puzzled.
"If it were in other states, maybe this wouldn't happen."
"But it's a little different here in Dongzhou."
"First of all, they themselves, Dongzhou is different from our Hezhou. They do not rely on counties for management. Most of them are directly led by Yang Gan."
"If anything happens, several generals will come forward to solve it."
"Although he also has the position of county guard, he does not have any real power. Even locally, it is not as powerful as a county magistrate."
"Just like when we were in Jimo County before, the county guard basically did not participate in the affairs of the county government. They were all handled directly by Yang Qian."
"On the other hand, most of the people here in Dongzhou are engaged in business, and the relationships between them are complicated. They attach great importance to a person's connections and power behind them."
"Therefore, a series of connections were formed. The reason why Zheng Shiqi was able to become the largest salt merchant in Dongzhou was because the reputation and power of the Zheng family played a big role behind it."
"Think about it, with this kind of knowledge and habits, how can they be convinced that a county governor from another state with no connections or influence comes to serve as the state shepherd of their wealthy Dongzhou?"
"At most, they are polite to Fang Fu and the others on the surface. But when it comes to doing things, Fang Fu can't give them any orders."
"You can't kill them all."
"And before, I gave Fang Fu an order to clean up the merchants that had some transactions with the Japanese. I'm afraid Fang Fu also offended a lot of people."
"If Fang Fu hadn't been somewhat capable, he probably wouldn't have survived."
"But he is already a little exhausted now. Although he doesn't say anything about it, the feedback from Dongzhou also shows clues about these things."
Zhang Bao sighed and said.
"Then you went to Dongzhou to support Fang Fu?"
Listening to Zhang Bao's words, Ma Yaner instantly understood what Zhang Bao meant.
"right!"
"Now that Dongzhou has been basically won, I need to go to Dongzhou in person."
"No one else can stop this kind of thing, unless I go with Fan Hanzhong, but Fan Hanzhong has already returned to the military camp, and things there cannot be done without him."
"I have no choice but to go there myself. Nothing can happen to Dongzhou no matter what. If we really talk about it, Dongzhou means far more than Taizhou, so I have to pay attention to it."
Zhang Bao also sighed helplessly.
