Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 235 Love Letter
Su Qingwan racked her brains to ease the people's hostility towards the bandits.

After Zhang San decided to surrender and the marriage was settled, she began to arrange for nearly a thousand mountain bandits to be resettled in the city. In the north of Huainan City, most of the houses were dilapidated due to the large number of people who moved out in recent years, and the fields were deserted and vacant. As soon as Su Qingwan returned to Huainan, she immediately discussed with the government and planned to move the population north. Although the arable land was not fertile, it was a pity to leave it abandoned. It was just right to grow cotton and corn.

On major matters, Su Qingwan controlled the direction. As for the specific planning and resettlement work, they were all left to Yun Zhizhou and the government to arrange, and she did not interfere too much.

Allowing a thousand bandits to enter the city first was actually a test of her attitude towards the people.

This trick was based on her experience in managing the southwest. The southwest border area was extremely difficult to manage, with many fierce bandits and extremely fierce people. The situation in Huainan was similar. The court and the government had to invest a lot of financial resources every year to maintain stability. When Su Qingwan was managing the southwest, the two villages in the east and west had a long-standing feud, and armed fights often broke out, resulting in frequent bloodshed. The government was extremely troubled by this, but they did not dare to arrest them on a large scale.

Su Qingwan thought hard and came up with a solution.

She first tried to get a young couple from East and West villages to fall in love and get married, in order to test the villagers' acceptance. Then, the government distributed welfare and asked the two villages to make peace and jointly reclaim a piece of wasteland, and included the wasteland in their collective interests. It was also stated that if they continued to fight, the land would be allocated to others.

After repeated testing of the villagers' acceptance, although there were several conflicts during the period, fortunately the government mediated in time. Gradually, the villagers no longer resisted and management became smoother.

Now, facing the relationship between the mountain bandits and the common people, Su Qingwan also planned to do the same. Only by placing them together first can we test the degree of acceptance of each other. Conflict is inevitable. Yun Zhizhou has been prepared for it and has sent people to disguise themselves and keep an eye on them day and night.

That night, Su Qingwan received a letter from the capital, which was sent by Lu Jing. A painting was also attached to the letter.

She looked at the painting with a complicated look. The color of the painting was a little old, and it was obviously quite old. The woman in the painting was wearing a dress embroidered with peony flowers, which was a popular style in the southwest. Su Qingwan recognized it at a glance. It was the same dress she wore when she first met Lu Jing a few years ago and lived in the mountain villa. Her face in the painting was lifelike, and the brushstrokes seemed to carry a hint of fragrance, as if she had just been sketched.

At the signature point, there is both Lu Jing's personal seal and the regent's seal, which exudes a strong sense of possessiveness and declaration of sovereignty.

"Childish!" Su Qingwan smiled and murmured softly.

She opened the thick letter paper, and Lu Jing wrote four pages of it. There was nothing important in the content, just some trivial daily life, as if he was telling about his daily life. He complained that the civil and military officials were stupid and the clans were difficult to discipline; he mentioned that Jiangnan was hit by floods again, and the officials quarreled and gave him a headache, but he could not come up with a feasible solution; the military generals did not obey the order, and he wanted to split the power of the King of Southwest and planned to send Ningyuan Hou to Jiangnan, but not only Ningyuan Hou did not agree, Anping Bo also firmly opposed it. Just for this matter, the court argued for three whole days. In the end, he made a decision and insisted that Ningyuan Hou go to Jiangnan. This time, he offended both generals' mansions.

He also said that the princess didn't care about government affairs at all, and threw all these offensive matters to him. He also said that he was assassinated on his way back home and was stabbed with a sword. It turned out that the assassins of Prime Minister Lu's family were unwilling to give up and wanted to avenge the Lu family. They finally caught him alone. Lu Jing described the wound in great detail in the letter.

Su Qingwan looked at the letter and shook her head helplessly, thinking that since he could write a letter, it seemed that his injury was not that serious. She was a little skeptical when she told him that he had been bedridden for six days. Lu Jing also wrote in the letter that the peonies in the capital were very beautiful, but in his eyes, they were far inferior to the one she sent. He said that when the peony she sent was delivered to the capital, it still had a rich fragrance. At the end, he asked her why she only sent him a peony. He wrote three pages of paper in this way, until the end, he left a sentence: The engagement is valid, wait for him to marry her!

This is not an ordinary letter, it is clearly written as a love letter!
Su Qingwan couldn't help laughing, leaning her head, staring at the spread-out letter, and involuntarily thinking of Lu Jing's appearance when he wrote the letter, she felt both bitter and soft-hearted. She thought that Lu Jing must have guessed what she was thinking.

Since he had guessed it, he should also understand that some things cannot be forced. Now that he is the regent, if her face appears in Kyoto, it will definitely cause an uproar, and he will definitely be criticized by others. Su Qingwan just picked up the pen and prepared to write a reply to Lu Jing, Lu Zhu hurried over, looking solemn, and anxiously said: "Miss, something happened in the north of the city!"

It turned out that a fight had broken out in the north of the city, and Yun Zhizhou was unable to suppress the situation, so General Xiaoning had sent people to suppress it. Lvzhu was worried that the situation would escalate further, so she hurried over to report to Su Qingwan. Upon hearing this, Su Qingwan immediately stood up and walked out. Lvzhu was afraid that the swords would be blind, so she hurried over to get a set of soft armor.

Su Qingwan put on light armor and a cape, and quickly jumped on the horse, leading Luzhu, Qingyun and a dozen light cavalrymen, and galloped all the way to the north of the city. There was a curfew at night, and there were no obstacles on the road. They rode for only an incense stick of time and arrived at the north of the city. There were flames in the north of the city, half of the sky was illuminated red, and shouts of killing were heard one after another, as if a riot was about to break out. General Xiaoning and Yun Zhizhou were trying to separate the bandits and the people, but the soldiers were beaten with sticks and shovels and were in a mess, but they dared not fight back, so they could only try their best to separate the two sides.

Both parties involved in the fight were holding various weapons such as iron bars, hoes, and kitchen knives.

When the bandits entered the city, Su Qingwan specifically told Zhang San not to carry weapons. She expected a conflict between the two sides, but she didn't expect it to come so soon!

In the crowd, a girl in a water-red silk dress, although being stopped by the soldiers, held a three-foot-long iron rod in her hand and shouted at the strong man opposite: "You brought people to cut off our water supply during the day, we endured it and didn't want to bother with you. But you actually brought people to poison our cattle, sheep and poultry at night. What's your intention? Do you think we are bandits and easy to bully? If the government doesn't give us an explanation today, I will kill you even if I have to sacrifice my life!"

The girl was not very old, about twenty years old, and had dressed like a woman. She had a pretty face, but a very strong character.

The sturdy man who was scolded was not willing to be outdone, and immediately retorted: "It was your people who crossed the border to dig a well, can you blame us for this? It was you who started it tonight and injured our people. Bandits are bandits, barbaric and vulgar, if you have the guts, go back to the mountains!"

"Who do you think wants to live in the city? In the mountains, we are free and unrestrained, and life is very enjoyable. If I meet a coward like you who only knows how to gather a group to cause trouble and doesn't even dare to fight one-on-one, I will break your legs if I meet you outside the city!"

General Xiao Ning saw that the two sides were arguing fiercely, so he stepped forward and said, "Hey, can you guys stop arguing? It's just a small matter, what's there to argue about? Can't you just talk it out?"

"Okay, if you compensate us for our poultry, cattle and sheep, I will talk to you reasonably, otherwise no one will have a good life today!" The strong bandits behind the woman also shouted loudly, expressing their intention to teach the other side a lesson.

Strictly speaking, this was just an armed fight between common people. The government could only try its best to maintain stability, and General Xiaoning's men could not suppress it by force. This made him very worried, and he kept muttering in his heart: If I had known that the bandits entering the city would be no good!
"Come on, let's fight!" The strong man on the opposite side relied on his large number of people and felt that he had the support of the government, and he did not show any weakness at all. "You bunch of bandits have always been incompatible with us. No one in the city welcomes you. If you want to fight, just come over!"

As soon as these words came out, the bandits were completely enraged. Everyone was instantly furious and the situation on the scene was completely out of control. Although the soldiers tried their best to block them on both sides, the bandits and the people still threw stones, wood, and even all kinds of pots and pans at the other side. For a moment, some people were hit on the head with stones and bled, and some people were hit on the head with pots and pans and their heads buzzed. Before they could react, they were hit on the head with a piece of wood. The scene was in chaos!

General Xiao Ning was invincible when killing enemies on the battlefield, but he was really helpless when facing these powerless civilians.

He had come to mediate the fight, but was hit on the forehead by a stone. He immediately flew into a rage and shouted, "Do you want to die? Enough!"