Chapter 124 Someone came to test the cadres
"Where is Tian Gui?" Yang Zhengshan asked again.

"This, Lord Tian was transferred here two years ago. He usually lives in Nanguan Fort outside the city!" Zhou Ren said.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, thinking that Tian Gui should not have much involvement.

Zhou Ren probably didn't participate either.

After all, it is impossible for too many people to know about treason. Even if Cao Han used the garrison office to do these things, he would try his best to keep it secret from everyone.

In order to cover up the matter, they would even try their best to prevent people in government offices from getting involved.

Looking at it this way, things seem a lot simpler.

If he wanted to control the soldiers under the garrison, he only needed to get rid of the troublesome Xu Wanfu.

As for other people, they are not very important.

So can he take down Xu Wanfu now?
Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan asked a lot of questions, but Zhou Ren's answers were all ambiguous. It was not that Zhou Ren was fooling Yang Zhengshan, but that Zhou Ren had no idea about the inside stories hidden in the dark.

He was just a clerk. Although he had been in the garrison office for more than ten years, his identity and status meant that he would not be noticed by those people.

In addition, those people deliberately maintained superficial stability in the garrison office, making it even more difficult for Zhou Ren to obtain useful information.

Everything Zhou Ren knew was actually just his own guess.

It was also because of this that he was able to stay safely in the garrison office for more than ten years.

If he really knew something, those people would definitely not keep him.

After realizing this, Yang Zhengshan let Zhou Ren go.

"Don't spread what happened today, or you will die!"

"Little one understands, little one understands!"

"You don't understand. The reason I said it's a dead end is not because I want to kill you, but because those people don't allow you to know too much!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Zhou Ren shuddered, "I really understand!"

"Well, pack up before you go out, and don't let anyone notice anything unusual!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Zhou Ren then calmed down, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, rubbed his pale cheeks, straightened his clothes, and then bowed and took his leave.

After he left, Yang Zhengshan fell into deep thought.

He thought a lot and went over all the problems again and again.

Unfortunately, he knew too little information and was unable to sort out many issues.

Since he couldn't sort things out, Yang Zhengshan could only let it go for the time being.

……

The next morning.

Yang Zhengshan stood in the open space in the yard with a spear in his hand. The spear was dancing, and the tip of the spear was shining brightly in the morning light, like a circle of halo wrapping around him.

Feel the surging power in your body and experience the energy bursting out from your bones and muscles.

Yang Zhengshan’s eyes became brighter and brighter.

The fifth level of the acquired realm.

In a little over two years since he came into this world, he has transformed his broken body into a strong and energetic one. As his strength increases, his sense of accomplishment becomes stronger and stronger.

Cultivation is hard, tiring and boring, but Yang Zhengshan likes it very much. Especially when he can feel that he is constantly improving, he is more willing to immerse himself in cultivation.

This is just like leveling up in a game. Watching your experience increase little by little, your level constantly improving, surpassing one player after another, defeating one monster after another, the attraction naturally becomes stronger and stronger.

If you stagnate and don't feel any improvement in your cultivation for several months, even several years or even more than ten years, then your original drive and ambition will slowly be worn away.

Therefore, the golden time for a warrior to practice is between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five.

Because these twenty years are the time when you are young, strong and energetic, as long as your aptitude is not too bad and you are willing to practice hard and persevere, you will always make progress.

But after the age of 35, your body functions begin to gradually decline, and your mentality will also change. When you are over 40, you are called grandpa every day. This person is not old yet, but his heart is old first.

Yang Zhengshan always feels that mentality is very important in martial arts practice.

Anyway, he doesn't feel old, he feels he is still a young man.

"Grandpa~~"

Just when Yang Zhengshan was thinking that people can grow old but their hearts cannot, a clear voice sounded outside the main courtyard gate.

Well, I'm not old, but you call me old.

"Qingwan! Come here quickly!"

Although he felt a little depressed, he still had a kind smile on his face.

Yang Qingwan is already three years old. The chubby little girl has two pigtails on her head and wears a green silk flowered jacket. She looks particularly cute.

The little girl ran over, hugged Yang Zhengshan's legs, and said, "Grandpa, I want to go out and play!"

"Go play!" Yang Zhengshan picked her up and asked, "Why do you want to go out and play?"

The Yang family was originally a farming family, and Yang Mingcheng and Wang were ordinary people before. Even though the Yang family is rich now, their nature has not changed.

Therefore, they still maintain the same mentality towards the upbringing of their children as before, which is to let them raise them freely.

Yang Zhengshan also didn't want to raise his granddaughter to be the kind of lady who never left the house. His attitude towards his child was that she should grow up healthily and happily, and study when she should and practice martial arts when she should during the process of growing up.

Therefore, Yang Qingwan has always been a lively child. When she was in Yinghe Fort, she played wildly in the fort all day long. Now that she has come to Anyuan Prefecture, she thought the yard was big and fun in the first few days, but after a few days, she felt a little bored and wanted to go out to play.

"It's too boring at home. It must be lively outside! Grandpa, can you take me out to play?" Yang Qingwan hugged Yang Zhengshan's neck and said coquettishly in a soft and tender voice.

Yang Zhengshan had previously told Wang and the others to try not to go out recently, so Wang and the others had not stepped out of the house for the past few days.

Yang Zhengshan thought about it and felt that it was okay to take this girl out for a walk. But just as he was about to agree, Wu Hai suddenly came over and said, "Master!"

"Well, is there something?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Someone just sent a visiting card!" Wu Hai handed a visiting card to Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan held the little girl with one hand and took the visiting card with the other hand and took a look at it.

"Jing'an Liang Family Liang Rong!"

If he remembered correctly, this Liang Rong should be the eldest brother of Mr. Liang Sanye, and the head of the Jing'an Liang family.

In fact, the Yang family and the Liang family are in-laws. If the Liang family had not separated out the Third Master Liang, the relationship between them would still be very close.

Unfortunately, Mr. Liang Sanye had been separated a long time ago, but when Yang Minghao and Liang got married, the Jing'an Liang family also gave Liang a dowry.

Yang Zhengshan was not sure how much the dowry was exactly. A woman's dowry was her own property, and in theory the husband's family could not demand her dowry.

Of course, some unreliable husband’s families will spend a woman’s dowry, but that’s another matter.

Anyway, here it is a shameful thing for a man to spend a woman's dowry.

Yang Zhengshan naturally would not pay attention to his daughter-in-law's dowry, nor did he know how much Liang's dowry was, but he knew it should not be too much.

When Liang followed Yang Minghao to Yinghe Fort, she didn't bring much with her.

Mr. Liang Sanye certainly couldn't afford to give his daughter too much dowry, but the Liang family was very wealthy. Even if the family split up, Liang was still the daughter of the Liang family.

Giving such a small dowry is really a bit heartless.

Yang Zhengshan didn't care about Liang's dowry, nor did he care how much dowry the Jing'an Liang family gave Liang. He had cared about these things from the beginning. He didn't even think about getting involved with the Jing'an Liang family.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, the interaction between the Yang family and the Liang family was limited to Mr. Liang Sanye.

Moreover, Yang Zhengshan estimated that the Jing'an Liang family did not like their Yang family at the beginning.

Otherwise, the Jing'an Liang family would not have come to pay a visit to Yang Zhengshan only now.

"Where is the person?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Still outside the door!" Wu Hai replied.

"Go to the front yard first. I'll change my clothes and come over!"

Since the other person came to visit on his own initiative, it would be unreasonable for Yang Zhengshan not to meet him.

"Yes!"

Wu Hai stepped back, and Yang Zhengshan looked at the pouting little girl in his arms. The girl obviously realized that her good grandfather would not take her out to play today.

"Tomorrow, grandpa will definitely take you out to play tomorrow!"

Yang Zhengshan pinched the little girl's face with a smile.

"Really!" The little girl's eyes lit up instantly.

"of course it's true!"

Yang Zhengshan comforted the little girl and handed her to Chunhua to take away.

I returned to the bedroom, washed up, and changed into a clean and tidy wide-sleeved Chengzi shirt.

When he arrived at the main hall in the front yard, Wu Hai had already prepared tea.

When Liang Rong saw Yang Zhengshan coming in, he immediately stood up and bowed, saying, "I, Liang Rong, greet Lord Yang!"

Yang Zhengshan smiled and returned the greeting, saying, "Brother Liang, you are too polite. We are relatives by marriage, there is no need to be so polite!"

Liang Rong is probably in his forties, a little older than Yang Zhengshan. He has a handsome appearance and an elegant temperament. If you only look at his appearance, you would never think that he is a businessman. Instead, he looks more like a scholar.

Hearing Yang Zhengshan say this, Liang Rong showed a relieved look on his face. Before coming here, he was very worried, fearing that Yang Zhengshan would not recognize them as relatives.

After all, it was he who drove Mr. Liang San out of the house. Although he didn't think he had done anything wrong, things were different now. Mr. Liang San had climbed up a high branch, and most importantly, it was a branch that was very useful to them.

So he had to come to the door and try to establish this relationship.

The two exchanged pleasantries and Liang Rong brought out a gift list.

"Normally, I should have come to see Master Yang a long time ago, but there have been some problems with my family's business recently, so I really can't spare the time. I hope Master Yang will forgive me!"

"This is just a small gift, please accept it, Lord Yang!"

As he said this, he handed the gift list to Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan opened the gift list and narrowed his eyes slightly.

What a grand gesture!
The gifts people give to others usually include gold and silver jewelry, writing brushes, inkstones, cloth, etc., but Liang Rong's gift actually included three shops.

And all of them are shops in Jing'an Prefecture.

Jing'an Prefecture City is a much more prosperous city than Anyuan Prefecture City.

The shops there are definitely not cheap.

In addition to shops, the gift list also includes gold and silver jewelry, writing brushes, inkstones, calligraphy and paintings, antiques, furs, fabrics and various other items.

Looking at this gift list, Yang Zhengshan had only one thought, that is, how could the Jing'an Liang family be so wealthy?
Yang Zhengshan had received quite a few gifts. Zhou Lan had given him several gifts, and the Lu family would give him several holiday gifts every year. However, none of the gifts he had received before could compare to this one from Liang Mao.

Even what Zhou Lan gave him was far inferior.

After Yang Zhengshan finished reading the gift list, he suddenly felt a strange emotion in his heart.

Is this a test for the cadres?

With such a huge gift, what is the Liang family going to do?
Just because the two families are related, there is no need to give such an expensive gift, right?
(End of this chapter)