Chapter 137 Who to Marry

When Wang returned to her yard, she paced back and forth like an ant on a hot pan.

"What's wrong with you?" Yang Mingcheng said in confusion.

"I'm nervous!" Wang said pitifully.

"What are you nervous about?"

"Why are you so nervous? It's about Dad!" Wang said unhappily.

Yang Mingcheng was even more confused, "What happened to Dad?"

"Well, well~" Wang Shi was a little speechless, "If Dad marries a second wife!"

Yang Mingcheng finally understood why she was so nervous, but he said nonchalantly: "Marry her then, as long as Dad is willing, what can we object to!"

The three brothers of the Yang family had actually already had some idea about whether Yang Zhengshan would remarry.

If they had stayed in Yangjia Village before, they would definitely not have considered such a thing. But now Yang Zhengshan has become an official, a third-rank commander at that. With such an identity, it is perfectly normal for him to marry a second wife.

Not to mention a second wife, no one would say anything even if he had ten or eight concubines.

Therefore, the three brothers of the Yang family were mentally prepared for Yang Zhengshan to remarry.

"Okay, even if dad remarries, it won't affect you, so don't worry about it!" The naive Yang Mingcheng obviously didn't understand Wang's nervousness.

Wang's nervousness was not because of whether Yang Zhengshan would remarry, but because she didn't know how to get along with her mother-in-law.

Especially this is a completely unfamiliar mother-in-law.

Her mood at this moment was the same as when she had just married into the Yang family.

The Yang family naturally could not hide Yu Qingyi's existence, and soon everyone in the Yang family knew that there was a new woman in Yang Zhengshan's house.

In the third room, Yang Minghao and Liang were also talking about this.

"I don't know what his temper is like. If he has a bad temper, will he embarrass me, his daughter-in-law?" Liang was also full of worries.

"Don't worry, Dad is not an unreasonable person. What is there to be afraid of with Dad around?" Yang Minghao has great confidence in his biological father.

No matter what the Yang family is like, as long as Yang Zhengshan is still around, they will not allow a woman to cause trouble.

This comes from Yang Minghao's blind worship of Yang Zhengshan.

"Hey, I hope so!"

Liang was still worried. She was worse off than Wang. At least Wang had served her mother-in-law, but she had never seen her mother-in-law since she married into the Yang family.

However, compared to their anxiety and nervousness, Yang Yunyan felt a little uncomfortable.

Dad wants to find a stepmother for them. As a son, he can be careless and not care about it, but as a daughter, he can't help feeling uncomfortable.

Sitting on the kang in the room, Yang Yunyan's mind kept appearing the voice and appearance of her mother.

"Hey~~"

She felt sad, but she was the least capable of speaking among the five children.

A daughter who is married off is like water spilled on the ground. How can she, a married daughter, object to her father remarrying?

In comparison, Yang Yunxue has more say than her, after all, Yang Yunxue is not married yet.

When it was time for breakfast, everyone came to the main courtyard.

Everyone gathered in the main hall, and Nanny Li had already brought a few maids to bring the food to the table.

After Yang Zhengshan finished his training, he washed up and sat in the main seat.

"Eat it!"

Everyone sat down, but they all looked a little strange, and they looked towards the inner room from time to time.

Yang Zhengshan was busy planning the training of the garrison battalion and did not notice their actions at all.

Now that he has control of the garrison battalion, the next step is for him to start training the garrison battalion.

The garrison battalion must be trained, but the patrol and guarding tasks in the city cannot be delayed during training, so how to train needs to be carefully prepared.

"Dad, doesn't that lady want to eat?"

The quiet atmosphere was suddenly broken, and the person who spoke was Yang Yunxue.

"Madam, what madam?" Yang Zhengshan raised his head and asked.

"The one in the room." Yang Yunxue said with a blush.

Yang Zhengshan didn't understand what was going on, so he turned around and looked inside the house. "Don't worry about her, just send her some food later!"

How is it possible for a prisoner to eat at the table?

"But this is inappropriate, right?" Yang Yunxue continued.

"There's nothing inappropriate."

Yang Yunxue became embarrassed. After all, she was an unmarried girl and there were some things she just couldn't say.

Seeing her younger sister like this, Yang Yunyan quickly took over the conversation and said, "Dad, if you want to marry that lady, you can introduce her to us first!"

She thought that since she had brought the person back, there was nothing wrong in getting to know him first.

"Marry her!" Yang Zhengshan was stunned.

"Who are you going to marry?"

Everyone was also stunned, and then they looked at Yang Zhengshan with strange eyes.

What do you mean?
Dad, don’t you want to marry her?

If they knew the word "渣男" (scumbag), they would definitely type it out crazily in their minds.

You brought her home and even to the bedroom. Who would believe you if you said nothing happened?

Yang Zhengshan looked at everyone with a stiff expression, then glanced in the direction of the bedroom and finally understood what was going on.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Damn! This is a huge misunderstanding.

He really hadn't thought of this. He had never thought of this, so naturally he wouldn't consider it.

So he didn't expect that people would misunderstand him.

But he didn't know how to explain it for a moment. There were too many things involved, and it couldn't be explained in a few words. But as the head of the family, he had the final say, and what he said was what it was.

"Okay, this is not something you should worry about, just do what you need to do!"

Yang Zhengshan didn't give any explanation and just forcefully drove them away.

Everyone looked at each other and then dispersed.

Yang Zhengshan watched them leave and shook his head with a wry smile.

What is this?

He doesn't have the heart to think about these messy things now.

The situation in Anyuan City did not allow him to engage in those romantic things.

Thinking that there were still many things waiting for him to deal with in the front yamen, Yang Zhengshan stood up and walked towards the front yamen.

Yesterday he made a big move in Chengguanbao and captured Xu Wanfu and others. The impact of this incident has just begun.

Just as he expected, when he arrived at the front yamen, all the officials under the garrison office were already waiting in the main hall.

"Sir, Xu Wanfu is dead!"

However, as soon as he entered the front yamen, Zhou Ren reported first.

Yang Zhengshan nodded indifferently and said, "I see. Are those people here?"

Zhou Ren raised his head and glanced at Yang Zhengshan cautiously, and said, "To reply to your Excellency, everything that should come has come!"

Everything that is supposed to come has come!

That’s a good reply!
Yang Zhengshan's mouth curled up slightly.

Who should come at this time?

In addition to the officials of the garrison camp, there are naturally those officials in the garrison outside the city.

One garrison officer, two defense officers, and seven garrison officers.

The garrison office was under the jurisdiction of two defense offices, seven garrisons, nearly forty fire towers and beacon towers, with more than 2,000 garrison troops and more than 3,000 military households.

Previously, the officials in charge of the garrison all followed Xu Wanfu's lead. Now that Xu Wanfu is finished, it is time for them to see the situation clearly.

In fact, Han Cheng was just a fake fence-sitter. He had to rely on Xu Wanfu for the sake of his family.

But these garrison officials are different. They are real fence-sitters. They will side with whoever is stronger and have no bottom line at all.

However, they can only act as fence-sitters, which are useless. Even Cao Han and Xu Wanfu dare not use them, let alone Yang Zhengshan.

When they entered the main hall, all the officials stood up and bowed, "Greetings, Your Excellency!"

Yang Zhengshan waved his hand and sat in the main seat, "Everyone, take a seat!"

After sitting down, Yang Zhengshan first glanced at the people below.

He had seen all these people before, but there was only one person whose name he could remember, and that was the garrison officer Tian Gui.

"Why are you all here?" Yang Zhengshan asked knowingly.

Everyone was silent. Tian Gui hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Your Excellency has just taken office. We have prepared a small gift for you. I hope you will accept it!"

As he spoke, he held a wooden box in front of Yang Zhengshan.

"..."

Yang Zhengshan really didn't expect that these guys would actually do this.

bribe!

Or they just teamed up to bribe openly.

This really opened Yang Zhengshan's eyes.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at the wooden box. It was not big, and it definitely did not contain silver ingots or gold. It should be silver bills.

He was very curious about how much money these guys took out to bribe him.

Taking the wooden box and opening it, Yang Zhengshan's mouth curled up slightly as he looked at the large stack of banknotes inside.

Wow, that’s quite a lot.

They are all 100-liang silver notes, and judging by the thickness, there should be fifty of them.

Five thousand taels!

What a generous gesture!

It's not that Yang Zhengshan didn't accept the money. Mr. Lu once gave him two thousand taels of silver to thank him.

Two thousand taels of silver may not sound like a lot, but in fact it is a lot.

Take the Yang family in the past for example. Even if the weather was good, the harvest after a year of hard work would only yield twenty taels of silver. This twenty taels refers to the total income after selling the harvested grain.

This also included the travel expenses that Yang Mingcheng would earn by driving a ox cart to send people to the county town during the slack season, and Yang Mingzhi would occasionally do odd jobs to earn some money.

The whole family only earns twenty taels of silver a year.

However, after a year of eating and drinking, the whole family had no money left. Add to that weddings and funerals, medical treatment and medicine, and the Yang family could be said to be unable to make ends meet.

For the Yang family at that time, not to mention hundreds or thousands of taels of silver, even copper coins had to be counted.

Mr. Lu could easily come up with two thousand taels of silver as a thank-you gift because the Lu family was the largest landlord and the only prominent family in Anning County.

To the Lu family, two thousand taels of silver is naturally nothing.

But what about these officials in front of us?
They could actually come up with five thousand taels of silver!

Can they compare with the Lu family?

Even if all of them were added together and multiplied by ten, they would still not be as good as the Lu family.

But they can come up with five thousand taels of silver!
Corrupt official!
And he is a corrupt official who is insatiable.

Yang Zhengshan had also served as a garrison officer and a defense officer. He was well aware of the difficulty of squeezing hundreds of taels of silver from the military households in the garrison.

To put it bluntly, even if those military households were used to squeeze out oil, they wouldn't be able to produce much.

(End of this chapter)