Chapter 419: Waiting for the people from the Western Frontier
Since the second girl left in the capital, Dahong's daughter-in-law and Xiangzi's daughter-in-law suddenly became busy, which made them flattered and even more panicked.
It turned out that it was the relatives of the Kong family that made the big guys see some mysteries, and the relatives of their own girls couldn't keep an eye on those big families, and these rising stars could be used as potential stocks to speculate!
When everyone thought about it, they thought that how good it was for the Wang family to analyze. It's just that the Wang family has no one to marry, what should I do? Ah! Aren't there still a few Jinshi? Hurry up! Hurry up! Pick it up at the door!
It's useless to mention it to us! Dahong's daughter-in-law and Xiangzi's daughter-in-law shouted wildly in their hearts.
At the beginning, the children in the school, Erya made up her mind, just spend money to give them food, drink, housing, and marriage, but she would never make any decisions for them about big or small things in life. First of all, she is not their father and mother does not have that power, and even if they give her that power, she will not accept it. As the saying goes, you can't be wrong: it's too much to be wrong! The slightest mistake will wipe out all her efforts. If she doesn't do it, Dahong's daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law will be even more afraid to make any decisions for those who are already officials.
The previous champion Zhang Haoyu and the Jinshi of the same session are all handling their own family affairs, and the second girl only needs to give 1,000 taels of silver to them to buy the dowry by themselves, and another 3,000 taels of silver to buy a house and a grange. Zhao Qingchun, the later Tanhua and the Jinshi of the same year, also have the same treatment method. This time, the Jinshi of the same class as Xiaolong, Er Ya still has the same handling method.
The general policy of the first two sessions of the children to decide on family affairs was the framework given by the director of the history, and they compared the political camp of the Yue family, the family education status, whether the mother and father have genetic diseases, whether there are violent personalities, short-tempered weird people, and what is the longevity? What is the personality of the girl who wants to get married? Can there be defects in character and appearance? Wait a minute! With these, you can choose against the conditions. Their daughter-in-law can see that it is still okay after a few years of entering the door, at least the disgusting and headache-inducing best is not found at present.
Among the Jinshi of this year, there are still a few who have not decided on a family affair. It's not that no one is thinking of marrying them. Mainly because they can't get used to those people who take the initiative to ask to marry them, but on the contrary, they look high up and look at you as your honor, which makes them unacceptable. Although they didn't have parents and grew up in the countryside, they grew up under the kind of education that no one is inferior to anyone else, and they can still stand such differential treatment? A few boys were annoyed in their hearts, and they didn't pay attention to anyone's relatives. I just waited for Zhang Haoyu and Zhao Qingchun to help me move around, and arranged a place to be an official as soon as possible.
At this time, some people in the capital remembered those Jinshi because of the matter of the Confucian family's girl's family's family. Especially if there is a concubine in the family who is the most difficult to deal with. Thinking in my heart that rationing these fatherless and motherless jinshi is not the best choice! It's just that they think it's beautiful, but the children raised by the Wang family are not shallow-eyed, and any woman can stick to it.
Sure enough. Here, Dahong's daughter-in-law and Xiangzi's daughter-in-law really can't stand the entanglement of those people. I had to write to a few children who had not yet married and had been sent to the local government as officials. When they replied, they all said that they had already decided on their marriage, and even the date of marriage had been set. Let those who have all kinds of calculations fall through to regret that it was too late.
The eldest uncle and aunt, the second uncle and aunt, and Shi Jingxuan on the Wang family's side, as soon as they received the letter sent back from the capital, asking them to prepare Xiaolong's dowry and send it to the capital, they began to be happy and nervous.
There is a daughter-in-law in front of whom is Ah Jing's fourth sister, they are both daughters of the Kong family, and they are both children of the Wang family who ask to marry. This bride price must not make much difference. If there are too many high, the daughter-in-law will definitely not taste in her heart, and the low one is too low. Xiaolong's daughter-in-law will not feel good in her heart. With the previous comparison, a few people are very familiar with it when they are busy, and it is very relaxed.
The other clansmen of the Wang family discussed it carefully in the New Year, weighed the pros and cons, and finally made a decision to open up the wasteland in the west.
A few years ago, because of Erya's suggestion, they let the idle laborers at home go to the county seat and Fucheng to make a snack street connected to the storefront. The income of each family is at least a dozen taels of silver every month, and when it catches up with the peak of the wax moon, it can earn forty or fifty taels a month. In addition, the family still has the income from the fields, and the income from raising rabbits and yellow wolves, and the family has thousands of taels of silver in their hands.
Since the surrounding families are doing well now and have money to spare, even if something happens to the family, there is no need to sell the land. Therefore they had the heart to buy the land with the money in their hands, but they had no place to buy it. Go buy it elsewhere, it's too far away and it's not easy to take care of one or two families. If you open up the wasteland with Xiaohu's family in the west and take care of them together when the time comes, even if they come back a few people, there will still be their own family members over there who can take a look.
After making up his mind, while he was idle at home during the New Year, he went to various houses to recruit middle-aged men to go to the west to open up the wasteland with them. When they were ready to open the way, the dowry from the uncle and their side was also ready, and they happened to follow along. In addition, there are salted fish, salted duck, rabbit meat, grain, etc., this team is unprecedentedly strong, and ordinary people will be shocked when they see it.
They took advantage of the large number of people along the way, but they were able to come over smoothly, not to mention them. However, the situation on Xiaohu's side is a little unsmooth, he took the boys to cat in the mountains for more than 20 days, and what should have been done has been done a long time ago, but he did not wait for the people of Western Xinjiang who usually cross the border of Damin to rob during this time. He continued to wait for fear of wasting time, there were still many things to do in the city. Take people back for fear of missing those people from Western Xinjiang who enter the border to rob.
"Owner! Let's wait! When the new grass grows and the sheep can be grazed, it is estimated that those people from the western Xinjiang will definitely not come again, and we will go back to clean up the miscellaneous pieces. ”
Xiaohu shook his head noncommittally and said: "I'm not impatient to wait, the main thing is that I'm worried that someone will send news to Xijiang, and those people from Xijiang will be vigilant and won't come again this year." We've done so much to prepare, but it's been in vain. ”
"Oops! The owner thinks really mysteriously! Those people in the western Xinjiang were originally brutal, so they didn't care what those mountain bandits did! When didn't they go back scattered by our army, but didn't they come over and rob and kill the next year? They're not the ones who would stop at the slightest threat, and they'll definitely come back this year. I just don't know if it's a change of route, I haven't been here?! ”
Xiaohu listened to the reasonableness and nodded: "What you said is reasonable, as soon as it dawns tomorrow, I will send two people to the bottom of the mountain to see if there is any news of being robbed." ”
The next day, two boys were sent down the mountain to inquire about the situation, but they still couldn't wait for the people from Western Xinjiang that day. Once Xiaohu decided to continue waiting, he was no longer anxious, but took everyone very calmly to fight a few wolves and kill a bear in the deep mountains.
It wasn't until two days later that the boys who went to the bottom of the mountain to inquire about the news came back, saying that there was no news of the entry of the Xijiang people the next day, and finally asked Xiaohu and them to wait for the Xijiang people who had been waiting for a long time.
"Owner! Those people are finally here! I looked at no less than a thousand people. ”
Xiaohu gritted his teeth with hatred, his courage is really not small, so many people have come to the territory of my people with such a big thorn, as if they were in their own fields, and today Lao Tzu will call you to have no return.
"Good! Prepare your crossbows and weapons, and let them go inside. When we get to the trap we have set up, we will start trying to lure them into our trap area. Xiaohu commanded in a low voice.
The area of the trap they set up was very large, with ropes for the horses, nets for the sky, spikes and galleys, a trench with only one entrance and exit, and shooters from the trees. As long as they enter the trap area, it will be difficult for them to escape for their lives.
This road was originally used to these people in the western Xinjiang, but it didn't take much effort for them to let them enter the trap area. As soon as these men entered it, twenty or thirty archers jumped up on the trees on both sides of the entrance and exit of the trench, as well as on the trees opposite, aiming at the Westerners who were about to flee from here.
These people from the west of Xinjiang have entered the death zone and do not know it, and they are discussing with each other where they want to loot this time. There was nothing to grab in this vicinity, and to go deeper into the territory of the Great People, the people who accompanied him agreed greatly, patting each other on the shoulders and appreciating it. The people hiding in the trees couldn't understand what the people of Xijiang were saying, otherwise they would be so angry that they would have cast a net in advance and ruined the plan.
The trap is very reasonable for Xiaohu to choose, the terrain is very flat, and the trees are not dense and the bushes are not luxuriant. In fact, the reason why there are such good conditions for setting traps in this place is not that they are naturally generated, but that these people from Western Xinjiang pass by here every year, and rest and recuperate here, and gradually become such a flat environment with few trees, shrubs and weeds.
Today they are still the same, resting in the place where they used to rest. After drinking wine and eating the rabbits and pheasants they had hunted along the way, and when they were satisfied, they took out their armor and weapons, and mounted their horses to begin their madness of plundering the Great People.
They rode on their horses and shouted excitedly, as if there were mountains of gold and silver in front of them, and groups of beautiful women were waiting. Although the horse was still on the hill at this time, the horse could not run very fast, but when the horse's front foot stumbled into the ditch, the man on the horse also fell into the ditch without being caught off guard.
Someone in front fell into the trench, and the person behind immediately stood still, and at the same time formed a circle with their backs to their backs to form the best combat state. Seeing this situation, the little tiger in the tree narrowed his eyes into a slit, and he had some judgments in his heart: these eight, nine, and ten are well-trained military masters. Could it be that there is also a special army in the western Xinjiang? If this is the case, then this Western Xinjiang is only afraid that there is a plan! (To be continued.) )