The moon is cool like water.
In front of the east wing door on the south side, Lu Ming, Erika, Xueruo, and Daguo and Xiaoguo were playing cards in the moonlight. Daguo and Xiaoguo were considered a family, otherwise they would know each other's cards, which would be cheating.
They spoke in low voices so as not to disturb the people around.
Grandma Tuolong stood at the door with a kind face watching them play. Of course, to others, Grandma Tuolong's expression was very eerie and weird, but after getting along with her for a long time, not only Lu Ming, but also Erika and Xueruo knew that the look in Grandma Long's eyes now was the kind of loving look that an elder looks at a younger generation.
At the dinner, the male hosts in the backyard all drank a little too much. Even Lu Ming felt a little dizzy, but he was still much better than the others. Even Sun Pojun, who was known for his huge capacity for drinking, could be heard snoring loudly in the main bedroom on the west side.
Lu Ming specially gave the four main rooms in the backyard to the second Sun couple, namely Sun Pojun and Sun Chonggu.
There are four rooms in the east wing, two for Lu Ming and two for Ji Fukui, all of which are arranged horizontally with inner and outer rooms. Compared with the main house, the area of the wing rooms is much smaller, and the height of the wing rooms is low, which is very particular nowadays. Therefore, Sun Chonggu is quite satisfied with it.
The card game that Lu Ming and his three friends played was called "Catch the Bandits". Of course, the rules of the game were made up by Lu Ming, and it was similar to the Landlord game in their previous life.
Several little girls were having a lot of fun, including Erika, whose eyes were filled with joy. The beautiful girl in kimono looked even more pure and lovely.
Only Lu Ming was really troubled. There was an earthen kang here. In fact, the Northern Region was as warm as spring even in winter, but for some reason there was still a custom of using a fire kang. So, he and four little girls all slept on the same kang, and Grandma Long slept in the outer room.
Moreover, Erika and Xueruo would naturally curl up in his arms, one on each side, and sleep, as if that was the only way they could sleep soundly.
One or two nights can be very warm and you can treat her like a little sister, but who can stand it for a long time
Just as he was distracted and playing cards randomly, the door of the main room on the east side opened slightly and a figure walked out. It was Sun Chonggu's wife, Yao.
She was wearing a red satin dress. She glanced over here and came over.
Lu Ming had read the military intelligence department's investigation report on her. Yao Xinhui was actually two years older than Sun Chonggu.
The two were betrothed by their grandfathers thirty years ago when Sun Chonggu was still an infant.
Yao Xinhui’s grandfather was one of the founders of the Third Front Army, and he and Sun Chonggu’s grandfather were sworn brothers.
But not long after the third generations of the two families took over the marriage, Yao Xinhui's grandfather passed away due to illness. Yao Xinhui's father, Yao Zhengtong, was just in his twenties at the time. Later, the Third Front Army was gradually controlled by the Sun family. When Sun Chonggu's grandfather died and Sun Gan took over the family, two years later, Sun Chonggu turned twenty years old and married Yao Xinhui.
Sun Chonggu was extremely resistant to this marriage and even ran away from his marriage. He was supposed to get married at the age of sixteen, but his grandfather was seriously ill and the marriage was delayed for two years. After his grandfather passed away, the marriage was delayed for another two years. Later, he was caught and had no choice but to give in under the coercion of his father.
More than ten years later, the Third Army had completely become the Sun Family Army.
Even Yao Xinhui's father, Yao Zhengtong, has left the army to do business, but unfortunately he was unlucky and almost lost all his family fortune. Now his trading company is barely maintaining.
The relationship between Yao Xinhui and Sun Chonggu has always been cold, and they have no children to date.
However, Sun Chonggu had an illegitimate child outside and brought the child home to raise. If he had not been afraid of his father's anger, he would have brought the woman outside home as well.
But I think that in a few years, the Yao family will completely become a thing of the past, and Sun Gan will turn a blind eye to his son.
In fact, Yao was born with a pretty face, but she was unkempt and didn't wear much makeup, and now she came over with messy hair.
"Mr. Zhang, what are you playing?" Yao stood aside and watched for a while, then suddenly asked.
In fact, the situation was a bit awkward when Yao stood nearby.
Lu Ming was also helpless. He was surrounded by a bunch of young people. How could he know how to entertain and win over people
Not only did Grandma Tuolong have a weird temper, but she was also an old lady who cooked, so she had no right to talk to Yao.
If Liuli were here, she would definitely become Yao's best friend with just a few words, and she would be able to get any coins from her bedside table.
Well, as a commissioner myself, I also need such a woman by my side to win over and entertain those wives of officials.
For example, the 302nd Brigade, he had the idea of turning it into the Montenegrin Army, and how to divide it, etc. If he followed the route of his wife Wang, he would be able to find a breakthrough. No matter how accurate the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department was, it was not as good as his wife's understanding of the person next to her, not to mention using his wife to spread rumors and create conflicts, which would be more ineffective.
Now that Yao took the initiative to talk, Lu Ming smiled and said, "It's called Catch the Bandits. Sister-in-law, do you like playing cards too? Let's play together? The rules are quite simple."
As he spoke, Lu Ming stood up with a smile, "Come on, you guys play."
Although there are no major ethical restrictions in this world, it is somewhat wrong to sit at a table and play cards with someone else's wife in the middle of the night, and you should still avoid it.
Over there, Yao looked at Erika and Xueruo, with a hint of surprise in her eyes. The beauties in kimonos, big and small, were like eye-catching colors in the black and white world, and anyone who saw them would be amazed.
However, it seems that Yao is really addicted to playing cards and has a talent for it. He understood the rules in a short time and quickly got into the game.
Several people tried to keep their voices down as not to disturb others.
Lu Ming took the opportunity to go back to his room, thinking to himself that he should close his eyes and rest for a while. After they left, it would not be easy to rest peacefully.
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Early the next morning, Lu Ming was already sitting in his office, which was actually the main room in the east of the central courtyard. All the furniture inside had been removed and a desk had been placed in it.
In the office, behind a small desk near the door, sat the confidential secretary Ding Wanjun.
Lu Ming brought several confidential secretaries from Nanping with him. In fact, the four confidential secretaries from Nanping had been identified by the Intelligence Department. Two of them were spies. One was backed by a Japanese organization, and the other was backed by Gao Baoshan. It would be nice to use them to send out some false information.
The real confidential matters that needed to be handled by secretaries were all handed over to Ding Wanjun. After she was promoted to the director of the confidential secretary's office, it was natural for her to handle the most confidential matters without arousing the suspicion of the two spies. The confidential secretary's office, with more than a dozen staff members, also worked in the confidential office of the Intermediate Court.
Lu Ming looked at the defense maps of the three counties of Southern Guangxi, Eastern Guangxi and Xingcheng for a while. These three counties border the Guishan Mountains. Historically, these three counties were the hardest hit areas when mountain bandits occurred.
Among them, Guidong was the most seriously affected by banditry, and the entire Wanzhou Security Brigade was deployed in Guidong.
The various units of the 302nd Brigade were deployed in southern Guangxi and Xingcheng.
Of course, when dealing with bandits who have material support from Haixi, defense is just passive resistance. We still have to find ways to eliminate the bandits' manpower, and it would be best to lure them out and annihilate them together.
After pondering for a while, Lu Ming picked up the file beside him, which contained seven or eight case files, a thick stack.
Lu Ming shook his head. He never thought that one day he would take out this file and look through it.
They were Chen Rongfu’s most beautiful concubines, and were taken in by No. 7 Hongta Road.
The file is a detailed investigation report on them by the intelligence system when they stayed at No. 7 Hongta Road. They were taken in only if there were no problems.
Lu Ming had never read this file. After all, he didn't want to know anything about Chen Rongfu's concubine.
In fact, all these people were given a way out. Of course, the best one was Cheng Wanjun, who was already the vice chairman of the Wanzhou New Life Movement Committee.
She was also caught up with a good era. The liberation of Wanzhou needed a large number of cadres to be recruited, and she, an outstanding female cadre, was also transferred here.
The New Life Movement mainly focused on banning opium, cracking down on gangs and liberating women's thoughts, etc. Cheng Wanjun was in charge of women's work.
Lu Ming flipped through the documents and stopped when he came to a table. He glanced at it and then put the files into the file.
There were footsteps coming from the doorway, and they stopped at the threshold. Sun Pojun, wearing military boots and a brown-green uniform, looked majestic. Lu Ming waved at him and smiled, "Pojun, come in!"
Ding Wanjun stood up behind the small table.
Sun Pojun stepped in and gave Lu Ming a deep look. "The Commissioner is not going to the public trial meeting in Dahuling Township today?"
Lu Ming smiled and said, "What's there to do? It was just too much trouble to find a lawyer for Liu Taisui. We were afraid that he would be beaten to death by the angry villagers. In the end, we hired one from Heishan. In any case, he has the right to defend himself."
Sun Pojun obviously couldn't understand this and smiled, "General Lu is a thinker. We can't keep up with him. I came here because I just saw Commissioner Zhang's report on suppressing bandits and I wanted to talk to you. When I met the Commissioner for the first time yesterday, I didn't expect that the Commissioner could lead the guards, security forces and militia, only about a hundred or eighty people, into the mountains to suppress bandits, and actually annihilated Liu Taisui's troops and rescued the villagers who were captured by the bandits. I admire you!" He raised his thumbs up, "I came here to give you a thumbs up!" The scar on his face damaged his nerves, and his smile was fake, but a little hideous, but his tone was very sincere.
Lu Ming waved his hand and smiled, "It's a blessing for a blind cat to meet a dead mouse. As for you, Pojun, you just arrived yesterday and you're already in the right state today. It seems like you've read a lot of official documents?"
"Okay, I'm leaving!" Sun Pojun raised his hand, turned around and strode out.
Looking at his back, Lu Ming smiled.