In a fertile countryside in the countryside of Yanyi, there is a small village.

There was a creek flowing slowly in the village, and on the dirt slope opposite the creek were densely packed with scaffolding, on which the melons and fruits were ripe but not picked, and occasionally the passing urchins picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at them, and with a snap, the sweet juice splashed everywhere.

There is a farmer named Liang Qingniu sitting on the lawn, with a piece of grass in his mouth, holding a piece of white paper in his hand, he was gathered into a ball, like many Yan Fu men, he once joined the army, and mixed a small school position to be, and later after leaving the army, he will farm in the village to marry a wife and have children, life is also comfortable, the wife at home is as gentle and considerate as most Yan Fu women, when he returns home for him to bathe in water, two naughty children under his knees chase and fight, even noisy rarely happens, there is no better day than this.

And the paper in his hand was torn from the wall at the head of the village, everyone saw this paper and their faces were ugly, and they left home in silence, some hugged their heads and cried on the side of the road, he didn't know what was written on it at the time, and he was in a hurry behind the crowd, until everyone left, he rushed to the wall and looked at it vigorously, in fact, he was illiterate, and he didn't know what was written on it, and the sergeant on the side saw his embarrassment, explained the meaning of it to him, and gave him a piece of white paper that was exactly the same as the one on it for him to take home。

"The whole country fights, only death will not surrender!"

There are many contents on the white paper, asking the men of each village to put down their farm work and arrive in the states as quickly as possible to form a militia army for defense, especially a man like him who has joined the army, recruiting women to go to the barracks to sew military uniforms, laundry and cook, wipe the armor of the soldiers, etc., people were frightened for a while by the emperor for the sudden conquest, and there were many discussions.

The war between Yan Fu and Yin is not a matter of one day and one night, but it is the first time to launch the whole country to fight like this, it is said that Yan Fu this time is because of the support of Shu Yue, and everyone in the military camp firmly believes that as long as the army of the imperial court and the army of Shu Yue arrive at Gentian Pass, they will recapture Jingnan City.

He was no longer in the mood to farm at this time, anyway, he was going to join the army and enter the camp soon, and the vegetables in this field were like that if they were not planted.

At this time, the more he thought about it, the more bored he became, and he didn't know who to scold for a while, so he had to go back home and take out the jar of aged white sake and pour it bowl after bowl.

When the wife came back with her two children, it was rare to see the man at home instead of in the field in the afternoon, and she was a little surprised for a while, and asked softly, "Is something wrong?"

Liang Qingniu finally put down the wine bowl and glanced at the two children, these two children were stared at by their father for the first time, didn't they steal the neighbor's mulberries and he knew, and suddenly he was a little afraid of pulling his mother's skirt, and even his father forgot to call it, in the end, it was still a woman who knew how to observe words and feelings, so that the two children would go out and stay and come into the house later.

The woman held the man's slightly cool hand, and Liang Qingniu said, "Something happened, the sons may have to be sent to our mother's house." ”

The wife looked up and asked suspiciously, "What happened?"

"Do you see it yourself?" He unfolded the court documents that were crumpled into paper balls again, handed them to the lady, and the little lady picked up the green silk in her ears and looked at it carefully, because her own lady knows a lot more words than herself, Liang Qingniu is always laughed at by the men in the village because of this, but he is not ashamed but proud, and thinks that your mother-in-law has more books than my mother-in-law, and he often tells his children to be like his mother, don't learn to live to more than thirty words and don't know a word.

The wife was stunned, and her voice was a little louder than usual: "It didn't say that we must go, and it didn't say your name Liang Qingniu, how can our children go when they are still so young, it's a big deal that we will go to our mother to avoid it for a while, there are many Yanfu warriors, there is no shortage."

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You're a soldier, isn't it good to farm and live a good life?"

"I'm a soldier first, then a farmer?" Mr. Liang said.

The wife frowned, and was about to say something, when an angry shout from the neighbor next door interrupted the conversation between the two.

"If you dare to go, see if I don't break your legs!" Liu Erniu yelled at his woman, his voice still tinged with a hint of drunkenness.

"It says that men are sixteen years old, and women are eighteen years old, and they must go in marriage. The woman wiped her tears.

"Do you know what the barracks are? Do you think they really only let you wash dishes and sew clothes? We two husbands and wives may not be in the same camp, and what will you do when other men do something to you! No one cares if you are married or not!" The man slammed the bowl on the ground, causing the two children outside the house to run in and hide in their mother's arms.

"What can I do! Now that there is going to be a war, food and silver are very scarce, and it is written that both men and women can get a subsidy of fifty taels of silver from the imperial court if they only join the army! This is enough for our family's expenses for more than half a year, who do you think you are! Other men will go to the fields and go to the fields, and you will only get drunk and yell like a dog, and even the melon seller next door is better than you!" The woman couldn't help but scold back. poked her husband's sore spot mercilessly.

The man blushed and was about to give her a slap, but the woman screamed: "You Yan Fu men always talk about how powerful you are, the battlefield above is not beaten like a grandson, maybe we should be replaced on the battlefield, you sew and cook at home!"

He raised his fist again in a rage, and the woman covered her face and cried, "If you men were useful, we women wouldn't have to do these things." ”

The man was dumbfounded and dropped his fist in a daze. After a while, he burst into tears, hugged his wife and begged her not to go to the barracks with him, even if he left Yanfu, or find a place where no one knew her and marry again, Yinguo Iron Cavalry would kill them all.

Liang Qingniu smiled: "Let's not be like them, how noisy and ugly." ”

"Do you really want to go?" His wife's voice trembled slightly, Liang Qingniu was silent for a moment, and nodded: "We are very close to the city of rest, as mentioned above, we will go to the county government early tomorrow morning to report, and the upper side will also send someone to check the village...... It should be possible to take care of two children growing up. ”

The child suddenly cried out, and his wife hurriedly comforted him, and Liang Qingniu touched his son's little head with moist eyes: "Good ...... Daddy and Mom are going to go on a long trip, you are the elder brother, and you have to take care of the younger brother and grandparents before we come back. ”

"Daddy, when are you coming back!" the child cried, Liang Qingniu kissed him the head, and made a crisp voice: "Come back after the battle, you two must be obedient, don't make grandparents angry." ”

The door creaked open, and the two old men walked in with their bodies bent, and Liang Qingniu was startled: "Dad, mother, why are you here?"

The old man said angrily: "What is it called, I am your father and I can't come to your house!"

Liang Qingniu lowered his head and said yes again and again, in front of the old father, he seemed to always bow his head like that, and the child hugged his grandmother's thigh and cried: "Nurse, my father and mother are going to the battlefield, can you let them not go, we will not be naughty in the future." ”

The old man didn't speak, just looked at his children and grandchildren silently, and Liang Qingniu was a little nervous: "Dad...... My daughter-in-law and I are going to ......"

"Go, dad with you, dad is only this year

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Forty-nine and less than fifty can enter the militia camp. The old man was very thin in front of Liang Qingniu, and honestly lowered his head, as if he had made a mistake: "Dad, you better stay, you are so old...... You can't live without a man in your home. ”

Before he finished speaking, the old man glared at him and shouted: "What if you are old, my father killed dozens of soldiers of the Yin Kingdom and cavalry back then! Have you ever killed a cavalryman? I was shot off my horse by my father with an arrow!

"I know, Dad, you've said it many times. The man covered his face, his face full of tears.

The old man looked at his mother-in-law, and the woman took the long pear box knowingly, put it on the table and opened it, and immediately there were two slender swallow-tailed knives with a dark light, lying quietly in the box, like sleeping snakes.

The dovetail knife is a collection of quite high technology in the production method, the traditional dovetail knife is made according to the knife process, sharpening iron like mud, killing people without seeing blood, Liang Qingniu looked at the long knife in the knife box, these two knives he saw when he was very young, but secretly took them out to show the children in the same village, was dragged home by the father who passed by and beat him for a long time, even the buttocks were swollen, since then he has not seen these two long knives, until today.

"This swallowtail knife was left by your father when he followed the emperor to conquer the Yin Kingdom, and the other is your father's good brother...... cough cough cough, it was left by your second uncle Niu, not to mention how majestic your second uncle Niu was back then...... slaughtered ten soldiers of the Yin Kingdom in one breath without panting...... The knife was taken from his corpse by Daddy...... You will use your second uncle's knife in this battle, our family does not have much money, and we have no money to buy new swords...... Ahem, ahem. The old woman hurriedly stroked her husband's back.

"Daddy...... I know, I know......" Liang Qingniu clenched the handle of the knife silently.

The wife suppressed her cry and clasped her husband's other hand.

Holding a knife and holding her hand, such a battlefield is better than anything else.

The family finally had a lively meal, like the New Year.

When dawn falls, a jug of wine is placed on the left side of the man's waist, and the swallow-tailed knife on the right lies quietly in the scabbard, ready to be unsheathed.

Yan Ying's women are like this, once the men decide to accept the things silently, carefully buy their bags for them, and prepare to go.

The two children leaned on their grandmother's lap, looking at their parents vigorously, the younger brother also cried from time to time, and was stopped by the elder brother, after a while, it was the elder brother who cried, Liang Qingniu smiled innocently, squatted in front of the two children, and the little heads of the father and son were pressed together: "You must memorize the "Three Character Classic" when your father comes back! Don't be lazy, don't fight, don't secretly eat mulberries before going to bed, don't bully other people's children, remember to wash your hands before eating......

The man was nagging, and the two children held back their tears and were covered in sweat.

"Didn't you always want wooden knives? Dad will bring you two big wooden knives when he comes back this time, which are exactly the same as the one on Daddy's waist, okay?"

"Good!"

Liang Qingniu stood up and said, "That dad is gone......

The two children said, "Daddy, be careful on the road." ”

The three of them watched the three of them drift apart, and the youngest child suddenly broke free from his grandmother's hand, ran to the village and shouted to his father, "Daddy!"

"What's wrong son?"

"We must win! Get all those villains out of Yanfu!"

"Of course we will win, son!"

Liang Qingniu put his arm around his wife's shoulders and waved his fist at his son.

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