In the open space of the barracks, a man dressed in black single clothes, a start-up style, and violently pulled a nine-foot-long fine iron spear in his hand, like a poisonous dragon out of a hole, stabbing out somewhere......

A long, spear, like a dragon out of a hole.

The action was fast, ruthless and accurate, and the red tassels on the head of the gun turned into blurred and fast red lines, looking like a proud dragon and a rainbow from a distance.

Listening to the whirring wind that tore through the air, the frightened people who came did not dare to take another half step forward.

The man's eyes swept to the figure in the corner, and with a twist of his wrist, the head of the gun touched the trunk of the tree outside the wall, and he took advantage of the situation to withdraw the gun.

Look back at the people who came.

It is now winter, the weather is cold, but because of a gun away the dragon snake, the man is drenched in sweat for a while, and the front and back of the black single clothes are soaked with sweat, and he casually □□ handed over to the soldiers guarding the camp, and walked towards the comers.

Standing in the corner was a woman of ten or forty years old, whose expression was a little cramped when she saw the man.

Seeing his wincing appearance, Xie Chengzu frowned a little displeased.

"Got your stuff packed?" He took the cotton towel handed by his soldiers, wiped his face casually, and raised his eyes to ask.

The woman immediately said with sincere fear: "Yes, my lord, the old lady's incense and candles have been prepared. ”

Master Xie said "um", and then said, "What about Fuyin?" ”

"The little master has already gotten up and is having breakfast."

Xie Chengzu nodded, casually put on his coat, and entered the camp, the garrison has no small stove, he has always eaten with the soldiers, the camp is actually a big pot of rice, what is the quality of a big pot of rice?

Now that the city treasury is empty, the money is tight, and even the army has been delayed for a month, what white flour and rice, meat and meat in the food, I can only think about it, it is good to be able to ensure that I am full and not hungry.

Of course, although the garrison is the same as the small soldiers, the amount is sufficient, and no one can starve the adults.

A plate of black flour pancakes, how can this pancake make adults eat the soft and delicious white flour? Even the man who turned the stove all day long was also difficult to cook without rice, so he had to fry it on both sides with oil, so that the garrison adults could enter the mouth, and the soup was only a large bowl of clear soup, and a plate of white bread was added, but this was only available to the garrison adults, and it was naturally meat filling.

Master Xie only used brown cakes and clear soup, but he didn't touch any of the buns, and got up and left the barracks directly after using them, and then called Xiong Tingxian, the secretary of the secretary, who accompanied him.

He asked: "This time I went out of the city to suppress the bandits, did you bring back the property worth it, and how much?" ”

Xiong Tingxian said with a bitter face: "The current bandits are very cunning, it is estimated that they are all frightened by the name of the adult, and most of the property is stolen and transferred, only a part of the bandit's nest is left, and the adult led the soldiers to bring two places, and the property is all together, but it is only four hundred taels, which is enough to pay the soldiers in arrears for one month." ”

Master Xie paused, glanced at him and said, "Junshi, I'll figure out a way, you take out a hundred taels to buy meat, first improve the food of the sergeant, and then see meat at least twice a month in the future." ”

"My lord......" Xiong Tingxian hurriedly said, now that the money is tight, just feeding and dressing is a huge expense, plus meat...... This meat is not cheap, and in his opinion, it should be saved.

Xie Chengzu raised his hand to interrupt him, he said: "They are willing to follow me all the way to fight hard, not to eat bran today, whether it is training or building walls and digging ditches on weekdays, they have to consume a lot of body, the city treasury is tight, but they can't deduct their food, not only do they have to buy meat, but they also have to buy large pieces of fat meat to replenish their bodies." ”

If you can't train good soldiers, you can't win the enemy, so you can't talk about defending your home and defending your country.

If he is allowed to drive the weak soldiers of the market to fight, it is better not to fight.

Seeing that Lord Xie had made up his mind, Xiong Tingxian had no choice but to give up, since the Lord said so, then there were his own thoughts, but I don't know where this silver would come from, and now the rampant bandits around are almost the same, and the construction of the outer city wall is still some, and now there is only three months left before the spring of next year, and in the early spring of next year, it will take a lot of manpower to cultivate, and just to settle the displaced people to open up the wasteland and farm, it will cost a lot of silver.

He really didn't know how the adults could get this money, if he didn't recruit manpower to reclaim the wasteland, there would be no enough grain and grass to put it in the warehouse, and the silver would never be abundant, but if he used manpower to reclaim, he would have to invest a lot of money, not to mention the garrison, just because he had been the secretary for many years, he had already broken his head, and he couldn't think of any ideas.

Xie Chengzu saw that the woman hugged Fuyin, so he stepped forward to take the five-year-old Fuyin, the five-year-old child was thin and small, with only a pair of big eyes on his face, but he did not have the flexibility of ordinary children, but he was a little dumbfounded, but his little hand was holding Xie Chengzu, which was quite dependent.

Xie Chengzu turned over the horse with his younger brother in one arm, and asked people to bring the things prepared by the woman, and this time Xiong Tingxian and Zhang Xian went out of the city with the adults.

Mrs. Xie's tomb has been moved to the outer city, out of the inner city gate, only need to ride a horse through more than ten miles to arrive, but Xie Chengzu still has children in his arms, afraid of frightening him, he is not fast.

Xiong Tingxian and Zhang Xian saw their adults, holding their younger brother with one arm and holding the reins with the other, with a faint expression all the way.

The two followed behind, and also sighed secretly, Lord Xie's life experience, they know a little, they were also displaced people from Beijing here, for the sake of the military to support the family, Lord Xie joined the army at the age of thirteen, and accumulated officers all the way to the garrison, seeing that Lord Xie's mother was about to follow to enjoy the blessings, but unfortunately, two years ago, the root of the disease contracted on the road in the early years recurred again, and the medicine stone was left without a doctor, leaving only a stupid idiot, now he is five years old, but he still can't speak, even if he calls Lord Xie a big brother, he can't, It's really poignant.

Today's weather is cold and biting, and the wind is a little strong, Lord Xie used the corner of the cloak to cover his younger brother, a five-year-old child, he didn't even say a cold word, just let him cover his clothes, and looked back at the person holding him in hindsight, looked at it for a long time, and looked down at the horse under him motionless.

Xiong Tingxian and Zhang Xian, who were behind them, sighed again and looked away.

Everywhere they went, they saw large areas of wasteland enclosed by the outer city walls, because the ditches had not been dug, the water was not yet smooth, and the surface was very dry, and in order to reclaim these lands, it was necessary to bring in the water of the river, and this ditch digging was a big project, as long as the construction started, the wages, farm tools, and rations had to flow out in vain.

Passing by the place where more than 130 families of displaced people temporarily living on the east side of the outer city lived, the first dozens of ancestors had already lived in a few rows of houses built at the beginning, but later dozens of households, due to the shortage of money, only in the outer city wall, built some thatched huts by the city, how to resist the cold of the harsh winter?

Those who have entered the military households of Wei'an City, men and women are all ragged, tattered, some of them do not even have a pair of winter cotton boots on their feet, when a few people ride by, some people cower and look at it, passing by a household, is supporting a pot at the door to cook something, but the pot is some weeds and roots dug in the wasteland, and some chaff, the smell of burning, there is a faint smell of herbs, smelling it is difficult to lower the stomach.

Xie Chengzu frowned, didn't say a word, and left the place where the military households lived, before pointing to the grass huts with a horsewhip in his hand, and said to Zhang Xian: "What's the matter with the residence of these people?" Let Guo Xingdu and the two of them settle these displaced people well, is this how they are settled? ”

Zhang Xian immediately gave up his hand: "My lord, this really can't be blamed on them, now even the bluestone for building the city wall is insufficient, it is difficult to free up excess stone to build houses, so they can only use thick thatch first, and the two of them have tried their best to make the grass wool thick, and it will not be too difficult to endure in winter." "What's more, it's freezing now, and even if there are stones, it's too late to build a house.

Lord Xie was on the horse, Xiong Tingxian and Zhang Xian rode their horses and followed slowly, they could only see their backs, they didn't know their faces, and it was very bad to think about it, after a while, the adults sighed slightly, and their voices seemed to be a little tired, he said: "If the people who defect are starved to death and frozen to death in Wei'an City, who will dare to settle down in the city in the future, and then take out a hundred taels to make some cotton clothes and cotton boots to send, and each household will be divided into five buckets of rice, three loads of firewood, and the thatched roof will be strengthened by one more layer, no matter what, they will save their lives." ”

The two immediately responded, but in their hearts they quickly calculated, this more than 130 households, not a small number, every family dragged their families, a family of five buckets of rice, three loads of firewood, and cotton clothes and cotton boots per person, if there is no quilt for the winter of the military households, it is necessary to put on one, this forest and forest together, but not a hundred taels of silver can come down, how to calculate it will be more than two hundred taels, this time, the money for the bandits, it will be completely put in.

But today is the death day of Lord Xie's mother, Lord Xie is already in a bad mood, and they don't want to fill in the unhappy mood of adults, and even if they don't say it, I am afraid that adults will have it in their hearts.

Mrs. Xie's grave seemed a little quiet, Master Xie got off the horse, put the younger brother on the ground, and silently took a shovel to clean up the weeds, and pressed the top of the grave with new soil to trim it up.

Five-year-old Xiao Fuyin, very recognizable, although he is an idiot, but he knows Lord Xie, does not know Xiong Tingxian and Zhang Xian, in a strange place, he also knows that he is afraid, so he stumbled and followed Lord Xie, grabbed the corner of Lord Xie's clothes, dragged it, and then again.

It wasn't until Xie Chengzu threw aside the shovel in his hand, placed the steamed buns, mochi, and vegetarian vegetables prepared in the basket in front of the grave one by one, and inserted the bamboo shoots with paper balls hanging on them, that he pulled a young brother Fuyin and asked him to kneel in front of the grave and snort.

When Xie Chengzu's mother died, Fuyin was still young, and with the dementia in his mother's womb, I am afraid that he no longer remembers the mother who doted on him the most.

Fu Yin was pressed on the cold ground by Lord Xie, and he didn't know how to struggle, and he reached out to take the mochi close to him, carrying a delicious black cake cake with sesame seeds......

As soon as he was about to pick it up, he was pulled back by Master Xie, and he was beaten three or four times in a row, so that ordinary children would have cried aggrievedly, but Fuyin was an idiot, so he only stretched out his hand vigorously......

It was not until he was pressed and swallowed three heads that he finally got it, and then quickly stuffed it into his mouth.

After Lord Xie also saluted and burned the paper, he carried the greedy blessing with his arm and rode back the same way.

As soon as he returned to the barracks, Lord Xie, who had never been a drinker, sat alone in the house and drank a lot of wine that night for some reason, and stayed until the next day, but he got on his horse and left the camp