Chapter 13: The Remnants of the Ancestors

An hour and a half later, everyone entered the camp, and the general of the camp set up tables and chairs in the middle of the school yard to welcome everyone. The pen and the fun and the pavilion www.biquge.info ordered people to take out a lot of the supplies brought by the green pine and make a banquet, and the banquet was already made when it was young, the pork was boiled and sprinkled with ginger and shallots and fine salt, most of the vegetables were raw with sauce, and the fat sheep was boiled in soup. In the barracks, efficiency is so important, Xiaogang, Qingsong, Qingshi, Liangpi, and soldiers and horses are seated, and the general sits alone and a deputy general sits next to the soldiers and horses.

Qing Song spoke first: "The general is not strange, the old man loves his grandson and takes it with him wherever he goes!" and let the pillar open the immortal drunk and only pour half a bowl of each wine bowl, as soon as the wine was opened, the general asked: "What kind of wine is this, since it is so mellow and clear?" Seeing that Qing Song only let the pillar pour half a bowl, he continued to ask: "Why? Only half a bowl is poured!" This is a bit blamed. Qing Song smiled and said: "The general doesn't know that this is a second-grade immortal drunk, and the fierce and very ordinary people pour half a bowl! The old man still has something to discuss with the general later, so he doesn't dare to eat more! Everyone must be careful and drink it in small sips!" The general was suspicious: "Is that really the case?" Qing Song said: "The general will know as soon as he tastes it!"

The general picked up the wine bowl, inhaled violently, sniffed it and put it down: "Sure enough, I haven't drunk it yet, but when I smell it hard, my blood boils! Good wine! Immortals are drunk and have a good name!"

After eating, the general carefully held the wine jar and put it away with his own soldiers! He also specially explained: "Boy! Hide it for the old man! If you dare to drink it secretly, the old man will definitely serve you by military law and beat you until your skin and flesh are open!" As a result, the soldiers held the wine jar and did not leave. The adjutant general was even quicker, and poured all the unfinished drinks of the other people on the table into his bowl: "Since you can't drink all the wine that you can't drink! It's a pity, I'll help my subordinates!" Picking up the wine bowl and running away, it seems that he knows that he can't drink so much and is ready to pack it up and hide it! The general smiled, looked back at the soldiers and asked: "What do you want? Why don't you leave?" The soldiers replied: "I can't go! I'm being stared at, please see for yourself! If I can't get out of your bedroom, I'll be knocked unconscious, and your baby will be finished!" The general said angrily: "Who is so bold?" He swept his eyes around: "Eh, these wolf cubs! It is estimated that they will also do it if the skin is opened!" A scream was heard from the adjutant in the distance, and the general took the wine jar and pressed it for his soldiers to see. After a while, the soldiers came back with the adjutant general.

The adjutant shouted: "General, the last general has been ambushed! The wine bowl is gone!" The general said, "It's all right! Wait and see who poured it!" The soldier said, "Don't wait, it's already poured! Your son did it!" The general was anxious: "This thing doesn't know how to deal with it, if I drink it to death, how will I explain it to his grandfather!" When the general ran away, Qingsong motioned to Qingshi. Qingshi hugged the wine jar and shouted: "Little generals line up, we divide the wine!" The people around him kicked the bench and ran over and put on a long snake formation. It can be seen that the quality of the soldiers is very high, Qingshi first poured a small half bowl for his own soldiers, and then poured a full bowl for the deputy general: "This time you have to take care of your wine bowl!" The deputy general held the wine bowl with his left hand and his right hand, and carefully began to retreat step by step, looking at everyone like thieves who wanted to steal wine and drink! The young generals got half a bowl and ate red-faced, and after a while, the general also came back and saw that the wine jar was empty! Including his own personal soldiers, one by one, they blushed like monkey buttocks and said angrily: "Now you are satisfied! A group of wolf cubs! Don't leave any of them for the old man!" Qingshi quietly pulled over and whispered to the general: "Don't be angry, the general is what I gave them to eat, and the carriage next to you hid five jars under the sack, so they won't worry about your wine!" The general was overjoyed, but immediately his face changed and he continued to be angry: "Okay! Since it was the guests who gave you food, forget it this time!"

The soldiers and horses who entered the big tent quietly told Qingsong and others that the general's surname was Bai Minghong and he had no regrets. The general asked the pillar to drive the carriage into the big tent, and he was afraid that it would not be safe, so he asked his own soldiers to go outside to guard. Then he asked the pillar to take the wine down and hide it under his bed behind the big tent, and then he came back and sat down when the wine was finished. Qing Song explained his intentions, and the general agreed and said: "At present, there are 500 military horses about to retire, and the new arrival is 1,000 military horses, if you are really kind to the retired military horses, I will make the decision, and then let the 500 retire early and take them with you! There are thousands of retired leather armor soldiers every year, and I will personally go to the city guard to talk about the household registration! As long as you settle down well, I can even handle the household registration of veterans from other counties! However, the money for retired military horses cannot be less, and the price of one gold and ten horses will not be charged separately at the price of one gold and ten horses. But you must treat them well, and you can't kill them and eat meat!" Qing Song nodded and said, "Please rest assured, Lord General, the soldiers and horses of the county town can testify to it." We bring back retired military horses to treat those who are sick, and only those who are injured are treated and those who are not injured are used to work, and we will cherish them and will not do too heavy work. When the military horses are too old to work, we will circle the open space and put food every day, and after they die, they will all be buried and not eaten!" The general walked over and took Qingsong's hand speechlessly, and said in a half-loud voice: "Thank you!" Immediately, the general called his own soldiers to order the leather armor soldiers who were going to retire this year to gather at the school. Qing Song asked the pillar to lift the box on the carriage, poured out the gold in the sack, and said: "General, please see, this box contains a full 100 gold for us to buy retired military horses, I don't know how much is poured out of the bag, it is for the soldiers to buy food, please accept it!" The general looked at it: "How is it good that you give so much more gold!" Qing Song said: "Money and foreign goods! My family owes the soldiers of Great Qin, I can't hide it, my family owes the lives and armor and weapons of 500 elite soldiers of Great Qin." At the beginning of the founding of my family, five hundred Great Qin elites were buried in the mountains with armor and ancestors. But as long as there is any surplus in my family, we must repay it from generation to generation!" When the general heard this, he asked: "Your ancestor is called White Tiger, but his surname is not Bai!" Qing Song replied: "Exactly! How did the general know?" The general laughed: "Don't ask me how I know, first ask you how many generations you are? How old are you this year?" Qing Song replied: "I am the fourth generation of the founding of the city, and the first and second generations of the ancestors have all been buried in the mountains! The old man is sixty-one this year!" The general saluted and shouted: "Brother Shi! I am fifty-two this year, and I am the third generation of your ancestor's apprentices! My surname is Bai, and I have no regrets in my name!" Qing Song replied: "I don't dare to be! I was ashamed to go to the trouble with your ancestors back then!" The general smiled: "Although my ancestors went to the disaster, I left behind the martial arts learned from your ancestors and have become family legends!" After speaking, he played a set of tiger-shaped fists, and the tiger seemed to have a white tiger hidden in the body.

Qingsong's old tears flowed: "Pity the first generation of my ancestors' descendants are all buried in the mountains, and no one in the family has a family tradition of martial arts, and today I can see it in the general!" The general hugged Qingsong's shoulder: "Brother Shi, don't be overly sad! Our whole family is grateful to our ancestors for passing on martial arts to our family, although my ancestors went to trouble together, it is really rare for the family to have a family tradition to match martial arts from then on! How can I be ashamed to benefit my children and grandchildren? Don't call me a general again, if you really don't dislike it, call me no regrets!" This name is the decision of the ancestors without regrets!" Qing Song hugged Bai Wu regrets and cried in a mess, and the bluestone pillar was also crying like a tearful man! The people next to him also became sad! After crying, Qing Song hugged Bai Wu regret's shoulders and said strongly: "Brother Wu Regrets! Thank you ancestors, thank you for not blaming your family! Thank you for recognizing me today! You have learned the true qi of the white tiger and are only fifty-two years old, why do you look so old?" The general said: "You go down! Brother Shi's family stays!"

When everyone withdrew from the big tent, the general said: "Actually, although my ancestors learned all the exercises, the exercises written down were incomplete, and the last three layers were still missing! Our family was not in a very good situation in the court because of the lack of these three layers! Your family is even more unfortunate since there is no exercise left! Send the majestic people of your family to me! I will return the White Tiger True Qi Sect to your family during my lifetime! All the six layers of True Qi we have are taught to your descendants, so that they can be used as family heirlooms!" This is my nephew, can't he learn?" Bai Wuregret shook his head: "Because the exercises are incomplete, his figure is not majestic enough." It's okay to learn, but if you can't learn it, the gong is not enough to send out true qi!"

The two sighed at the same time, and Bai Wuregret said again: "When my grandfather grew up, he also wanted to go to your family, but the king died in depression because your ancestors died in the mountains. The new king was angry, so my grandfather didn't dare to go! And I didn't go to you, you sent a descendant, and I quietly taught him in the barracks!" Qing Song nodded: "My eldest son Manniu is waiting for me in Fengxian County to return to the county town, and let the soldiers and horses of Jinsha City bring my son to come and learn the true qi of the White Tiger from my brother!" After saying that, Qingsong was about to bow down, and the others followed suit, and Bai Wuregret was really angry, and he couldn't worship one by one! Bai Wuregret said bitterly: "Brother, don't be like this with everyone!" At the beginning, your ancestors treated my ancestors like a mountain and taught him miraculous skills, so that my ancestors left the exercises, and now you and I meet is the will of heaven! It can be seen that the cycle of cause and effect in the world is good and rewarded, and it would be great if you really want to thank your brother for getting some of that kind of wine! Hehe! My father is still alive at the age of seventy, and if I know that you and I have recognized him, the old man does not know how happy he would be!" Qingsong said with relief: "No problem, we all have better wine than that, you have the true qi of the white tiger, only you can bear it! But don't drink too much! Uncle Shi is still alive. But if you get something good in the future, I will definitely bring it to you, so that the old man can live for a few more years! I have some honey water in Fengxian County, although I know that you are not lacking, but after returning to the city, I will order the wild cow to bring it together to honor his old man! Recently, we may send people to find the bones of our ancestors. If you can raise all the exercises, you must copy a copy and send it to you, so that you and I can have a generational relationship!" The general advised: "It has been many years, if the world brother is not completely sure, he must not let people go to die in vain!" The two seem to be long-lost brothers!

Coming to the school again, the general and the green pine boarded the general platform and shouted: "Cubs, your creation is here! This boss is my new city lord of Great Qin, and after his family is rich, he will be my hereditary nobles of Great Qin, and he is building a city and lacks labor to come and pick you bastards who are about to retire! If you are willing to go to work, you will be given a salary of five taels of gold a year, a month of family leave a year, and if you are willing to take refuge with your family, you will first be given a salary for the road expenses. Well done! If you want a field to have a house, you want a house, and your children and grandchildren will have no worries about food and clothing!" Dozens of them withdrew, and half of them raised their hands! The general pointed to one and shouted: "You say! What question?"

"The villain wants to ask, can I bring my relatives to join us, what about the household registration? Is it possible that those who work can get paid? The villain's younger brother can also do the same work as my villain, and the villain's parents still have some labor, what if there are casualties when the city is built?" The general gave a thumbs up and shouted: "That's a good question! Look at what the old man has to say? I want to know!" Qing Song replied loudly: " You can bring close relatives, your mother's family, your parents' brothers and sisters, your uncles, brothers and sisters, their whole family, including their children! The general will contact your county for household registration, and the county will contact your respective county, so you don't have to worry, everything will be done! All those who can work will be paid, those with poor physical strength will be paid half the price, and those who do well will be rewarded! If there are casualties in the construction of the city, the wounded will be treated with all their might, and if they are disabled, they will be paid full wages until they die of old age and will be compensated for three years, and if there are old people who cannot work at home, we will provide for them until they die, and if there are children who have not grown up, regardless of men and women, all of them will be raised until they are twelve years old! A new set of clothes every year, including underwear, shoes, socks, trousers, clothes, and hats! One set for everyone who takes refuge with the whole family, two sets a year! After saying that, he quit and ran in again! The general applauded! All of them applauded vigorously, and the general asked again: "Do you still have any questions?"

"I want to ask, when can I go? When can I send a plan to entangle money?" Qing Song replied: "If you are alone, you have no family and no relatives, you can follow me immediately, and your generals who have family relatives can stay with you for a few more days! I have found a way to report to my family and ask my family if I have promised to take a plate here after the New Year, or we will move the family with carriage and food!" There was another round of applause! The general asked again: "Do you still have any questions?"

Now no one raised their hands again! The general shouted again: "Stand up alone!" Only a dozen or so of them stood up, and since more than half of them were veterans approaching 40 and had reached the point where they had to retire, it seemed that the lone people did not want to leave! After leaving the barracks, they did not know what they could do!

Qing Song said: "You lonely and hard-working people, I will find a way to arrange a room for you to marry, but I will not allow you to beat your mother-in-law! Whoever wants to beat your mother-in-law, I will serve him with the same military law as in the barracks!" A veteran hurriedly said: "Don't dare! Don't dare! If you can have an aunt who can't even dream of it, how dare you dare to fight! You must serve it well!" Qing Song said: "I found you my aunt to let her serve you! If your aunt is disobedient, you report to the official, and if you can't discipline her, tell her to get out of here, and give you a new one!" But you are not allowed to hit your mother-in-law, you are really angry and scolding a few words!"

One veteran stood up and said: "My lord, you are so kind-hearted and so fair, I can go to my former soldier brother to join you? I'd rather not have an aunt, he can still do it! Please help me take him in!" Qing Song shouted all up: "You are Great Qin leather armor soldiers, don't kneel down easily! Although you are not wearing armor, you are also Great Qin soldiers." Why do you also belong to the soldiers of the Great Qin? Soldiers are soldiers, and they are all soldiers! Soldiers who defend their home and country should be respected! You are the leather armor soldiers of the Great Qin, the foundation of the armored soldiers, and the cornerstone of the entire Great Qin military camp! You yourself have a way out, and you don't forget that the lonely veterans who are older than you are loyal and righteous! I am approved! If you can still find a lone veteran, I will accept all of you! But whoever wants to be naughty and mischievous and disobey orders, I can take him in and tell him to get out! No matter how old the veteran is, I will accept it, and those who can work will work, and those who can't work will watch the door and raise livestock. I want to support even those who can't take care of themselves! I will pay for it, but you will help!"

The audience applauded, including the general and the armored soldiers standing far away, the soldiers and horses of Fengxian County, Liangpi, and so on! Xiao Gang also applauded vigorously, but his applause was too weak and completely drowned out in the other applause, and even the pillar holding him could not be heard! The applause stopped in the middle of the ring, and the general joked: "Brother Shi is worthy of being the descendant of the white tiger! I think you are more suitable to be a general than me!" The soldiers are more efficient, and immediately the general called those lone veterans to go back and pack their clothes and wait to follow them on the road, and he will make up for the formalities! He took Qingsong and the others to the horse circle and took them to see the 500 military horses that were about to retire, most of them were some minor injuries and illnesses but could still work, and those with serious injuries and illnesses would not appear here at all! The soldiers would let them die in the barracks and then be buried! Even if they mended their knives, they would not let the people outside eat their beloved partners! These were soldiers! They were resolute and enthusiastic, and they dared to love and hate! The general also instructed the horse pen to quickly find another 500 of the oldest military horses so that they could follow Qingsong to enjoy the blessings, and as soon as the horses heard that the military horses that followed Qingsong would no longer be treated as meat, they would walk happily and lightly! Very efficiently, the selection of 500 military horses was soon completed, and Qingsong said to the general: "No regrets, brother! I should store so many military horses with you first! I don't have enough manpower and can't take care of so manpower!" The general said: "Brother Shi! What's the matter? Are you still afraid that you won't be able to take them home if you don't have enough manpower?" Military horses are very easy to handle, a small group of leather armor soldiers in front of them, they themselves will follow behind, you will not be missing a horse when you get home!" Qing Song still shook his head: "It's really not good! The family can't raise so much now, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I don't even have food except gold! I still want to store it with you first, and I'll take a hundred horses and transport some grain back! After the New Year, I will come to pick up these military horses and retired soldiers." Tomorrow, when the cattle come, I will ask him to bring more gold, and you can help me ask a veterinarian to treat these military horses in your camp! When the New Year is over, I want them all to be well!" The general laughed: "Haha! You can rest assured! I know that I will not save you if you have money, and I will definitely follow you back in good health." "Let the man in charge of the horse select the best one hundred retired military horses, and the general will send Qingsong and them back.

Walking out of the horse pen and walking towards the gate of the camp, he was suddenly surrounded by a group of armored veterans! The general asked, "What's the matter with you bastards?" These veterans pushed out a veteran and said: "We are also about to retire general! Although we can have a good fortune, we can still work, we don't want to eat and wait for death, the general has found such a good home for the leather armor soldiers, we want to ask the general to recommend us to this boss! With him, we don't have to separate!" The general looked back at Qing Song, who was not able to speak, for fear that he would be embarrassed, but he also wanted to find a home for these veterans! Qing Song was afraid that there would not be enough people, but there were some things to say, so he asked: "How long do you have to retire soldiers? How many people are there now? My conditions there are now far worse than those in the barracks!" The veteran who took the lead replied: "We are the fastest, and today we have already retired, and it is the general who has entrusted us with a relationship to stay for one more year!" There aren't many of us, just over 200, well! Maybe 300 will be retiring. Most of them are able to eat military rations for two more years because of the general's retention, and after retirement we like us, we don't have enough money for the whole family at all! I heard that you have land, land, and a house to live in, and you can also give new clothes to your family? Although our military salary is higher than that of leather armor soldiers, we have very little land at home, and it is difficult to continue our rations. Moreover, the service of the armored soldier is longer than that of the leather armor, although it is the same on the surface, but you can just ask the general! The consumption of each armored soldier is much higher than that of the leather armored soldier, so the service can be extended when it expires! After a long time, we are even more reluctant to separate!"

After a pause, the veteran continued: "Our current salary is one or two taels of silver per month, not gold, because the general loves our veterans, and we may get some more silver at the end of the year! There is a slight difference according to the length of service, but in general, we will not exceed one or two taels of gold a year now! The salary you pay the leather armor soldiers is five taels of gold, and we should not be the same as them!" Although we are older than them, our physical strength is also better than theirs, and we can do our work! Although we have never seen the construction of the city, we also know that it was a bitter point at the beginning, and it will be fine in the future! Our three big cities in Daqin were all built by big families, but the descendants of all those who have made meritorious contributions in building the city have plenty of food and clothing!"

The more the veteran spoke, the more excited he became, and Qing Song hurriedly raised his hand and pressed it lightly to calm his emotions and said, "I can take you there! But you can't make trouble for me! You can't beat and scold the people, and you are not allowed to beat and scold your aunt like the leather armor soldiers! The salary can be one or two gold higher than the leather armor soldiers every year!" He looked at the general and said, "Brother without regrets, is this good? If you agree, you can ask for your help with their household registration!" The general said: "I brought them to thank the world brother!" I really don't know how you have supported such a large family, since you can support so many people! Actually, I also want to help them, but the financial resources are far inferior to you! Brother Shi, don't look at them and my hippie smiling faces, they are all loyal and righteous people. If you treat them well, they will be good to you!"

When I came to the door, all the 100 retired military horses had been saddled. The saddle was given by the general, although it was older but more appropriate, and all the carriages and horses brought by Qingsong were ready! The general also asked each cart to be filled with hay! The two said goodbye, and the lieutenant general escorted Qingsong's convoy back to Fengxian County with a hundred ironclad elite horsemen! The retired military horses were placed in the horse pen of the post station, but Liangpi let the carriage full of hay go back to the yard, saying that it was for the bastards at the post station to wait for them to eat! When Qingsong remembered it, how could the post station manager not object to Liangpi to himself!

At night, when everyone had dinner in the courtyard, five people couldn't do so much, but fortunately, everyone had help! Although several of the most troublesome things were solved today, Qing Song and the others could not sleep this night! The burden on their bodies became even heavier, and countless detailed problems came to them! The more than 10 lone veterans who had just left the barracks also had trouble sleeping, and all the family members who had been soldiers for so many years were gone! What is the future life? After more than 10 years of separation, Twenty years of familiar environment, I took off the leather armor that I once regarded as a shame, but I was still wearing the familiar shabby military uniform, although the dinner I ate in this courtyard at night was very rich, but now why I am so uncompetitive and still miss the bud rice I ate in the barracks, it is so unpalatable! Sometimes it is half-baked! Thinking about it, everyone falls asleep! The sky is also dawn!

Breakfast was made in the kitchen, noodles were rolled, and everyone was full of the pork rib soup that had been stewed last night. Liangpi and Manniu were the first to go out, both of them rode on horses and left, and put fifty ingots of gold in the sack.

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