"Here" Gu Yan pointed to the surrounding dwellings, and there was a love in his voice that Bai Lian couldn't hear clearly, "There are the strongest women in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, they are ordinary, ordinary, they don't have husbands, but they support a family alone." There were sons and daughters, and there were parents, and their men died in battle while their children were young and their parents were old. When their men were alive, they had a military salary to feed their families. When men die in battle, the sky falls on them. ”

After Gu Yan finished speaking, he looked down at Bai Lian, his eyes were deep and dark: "They are also living well now, raising their children and honoring their parents." ”

Under his gaze, Bai Lian gradually understood why he had brought himself here.

He wanted to show himself how many people in this world were more miserable than himself, but who lived more resilient than anyone else.

"You have parents who love you and care about your family, but in the face of pain, they are far inferior to them, they will be strong for their parents, they will be strong for their children, such a woman is the most amazing in the world!"

Bai Lian couldn't stand his gaze a little, turned her head away, and looked at the surrounding environment.

Most of the houses here are made of thatched adobe, and it is already very cold in the middle of October in the capital, even in the houses with carved beams and paintings like Baifu, there are no earth dragons, only braziers, and it makes people feel cold, let alone the houses in front of them.

Although Bai Lian doesn't understand things in the army, like the pension of the disabled, the imperial court allocates it every year.

Especially for the soldiers who died in the army, the pension is enough for their families to have food and clothing for a lifetime.

It is precisely because of such worry-free that the soldiers can move forward on the battlefield and work hard for the country.

Why is it that here now, it looks like poverty is everywhere.

"What about the imperial court's pension? Why is the environment so bad here? ”

Gu Yan listened, but the corner of his mouth was a mocking smile: "The pension is reported by the Ministry of War." Household appropriation. The six departments of the imperial court have rotted to the roots in the early years, and they have been allocated layer by layer, how much money can fall into their hands? Orphans and widows. Poverty, who can they turn to for justice? ”

Bai Lian listened to Gu Yan's words. There was silence, a long silence.

"This is still in the capital, and there are more cases in other states and counties. If I hadn't passed through here a few years ago and asked about some information, I am afraid that I would never know that the soldiers who sacrificed their lives on the front line with me, after they died in battle, their wives, children, and parents were treated like this. ”

White Lotus never knew about these things. Whether it was in her previous life or in this life, the environment she was in was much better than the one in front of her.

Gu Yan pulled her over and pushed open the courtyard door, the creaking sound of pushing the door alarmed the people in the house, and then a seven or eight-year-old child poked his head out of the house.

After seeing Gu Yan, his eyes instantly bloomed.

"Mother, grandma, brother, General Gu is here"

Bai Lian listened to the child's shout and couldn't help but look at the person in front of her. His hand was still pulling on him, and the temperature of his palm was the same as his gaze just now.

With the child's cries, the door quickly opened. Bai Lian saw the people in the house, a family of four, with the meal that had just been put on the table.

A woman came out, and when she saw Gu Yan, she was very surprised and said, "Why is General Gu here at this time?" Have you eaten? ”

Then he saw the white lotus wrapped in a black cloak behind Gu Yan, and after being stunned for a moment, he then asked, "Who is this?" ”

Gu Yan pulled Bai Lian forward, naturally stretched out his hand and wrapped his arms around her and said, "My wife." ”

After that, Gu Yan lowered his head, glanced at Bai Lian and said, "This is the sister-in-law of the Zhao family." ”

Bai Lian was stunned for a moment before reacting. looked at the woman in front of him and shouted: "Sister-in-law of the Zhao family." ”

Listen to the voice of the white lotus. The woman came back to her senses and listened to the soft voice of the white lotus. Seeing her look like a celestial, she didn't know where to put her hands.

"It turned out to be Madame, the general is really blessed, Madame looks better than a fairy!"

Bai Lian listened to Sister-in-law Zhao's straightforward praise, a little embarrassed, and just about to speak, she heard the person next to her say, "Sister-in-law Zhao said yes." ”

"There is no more to say what Bai Lian wants to say.

Sister-in-law Zhao laughed twice, and then asked, "General, madam, have you had dinner?" ”

"Nope."

"Eat."

After Gu Yan and Bai Lian spoke at the same time, Gu Yan looked at her sideways and said, "Sister-in-law Zhao is not an outsider. ”

After Gu Yan finished speaking, he looked up at Sister-in-law Zhao and said, "I'm going to bother my sister-in-law today." ”

Sister-in-law Zhao smiled and stretched, and said, "Where does the general say, please take a seat." Big Tiger Little Tiger, go and prepare dishes and chopsticks for the general. After she gave the order, she turned her head sideways to Gu Yan and Bai Lian and said, "I somehow made a lot more when I was cooking today, it turned out that I knew that the general was coming, and the Lord of the Stove was in charge." ”

As he spoke, he sat down with Gu Yan and Bai Lian, and there was an old woman over sixty years old at the table, Gu Yan sat against the old woman, talking to her.

Bai Lian knew that it should be this sister-in-law Zhao's mother-in-law, and Xiaohu called her grandmother just now. I saw that her eyes were not in focus, and when she was talking to Gu Yan, she was smiling and groaning, but she tilted her head and didn't look at Gu Yan.

When Bai Lian saw this scene, there was nothing she didn't understand, this old woman was clearly blind.

For a while, Bai Lian looked at Sister-in-law Zhao who was busy at the table, with a smile on her face, a little mixed.

Waiting for Sister-in-law Zhao to place the dishes and chopsticks in front of Bai Lian, when Gu Yan picked them up and stuffed them into her hand, Bai Lian looked at the bowl full of white rice, as well as the vegetables that Gu Yan added to her bowl, a black and black mass, like the dried vegetable leaves soaked in water.

When she was a princess in her previous life, no matter when, the food on the table was never the same, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the sea, as long as she said her name, the imperial chef would think of the way to make it.

Later, he was reincarnated in the Bai family, and he also had no worries about food and clothing, although it was not as good as in his previous life, but it was definitely brocade clothes and jade food.

It was the first time Bai Lian had come into contact with Zhao's sister-in-law's house, with three adobe houses, a fence courtyard, a blind mother-in-law, and two sons who were waiting for dinner.

Gu Yan is right, they are the strongest and toughest women in the world.

What pain can only leave scars on their bodies, but it will not affect their lives. Because they are not themselves, they have relatives, and they have no other way out than tenacity.

Sister-in-law Zhao looked at Bai Lian holding the bowl, lowering her head, unable to see the love, and in an instant, Sister-in-law Zhao had an awkward thought in her heart.

General Gu knew that she looked cold and hard, and she was the most approachable, and the people in this village had received his favor, but his wife was obviously a lady from an official family, and Sister-in-law Zhao looked at the food on this table, and it was indeed a little shabby.

PS: To be continued

(To be continued.) )