It was a woman who was in charge of the cool skin stall, and what caught Mingtai's attention was that the person who was helping on the side was a wounded soldier of the Qin army, who was still wearing the military uniform of the Qin army, although it was covered with an apron on the outside, but the clear-eyed person could recognize it at a glance, and the characteristics of this person were too obvious, and one hand was still on his neck. But the people who came and went seemed to turn a blind eye, and there were also soldiers in Han military uniforms passing by.

The woman was mixing the cold skin with her hands and feet on the stall, and the man was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks that the guests had eaten on the table with one hand, and put them in a basin on the side, a little girl of seven or eight years old was sitting on a small bench, washing the dishes and chopsticks with a rag, and after washing, she put them in a basin of water on her side, and then put them next to the woman in a stack.

The man's face was a little pale, but the woman and the little girl were all smiling and looking very happy.

"Boss, one bowl of cold skin per person!" As soon as they sat down in a group of seven or eight people, they immediately filled several small tables placed on the side of the street.

"The guest officer will sit down for a while, and he will be here immediately." The proprietress happily agreed, looking even happier because today's business was particularly good.

In the blink of an eye, the man with one hand walked to the table of Mingtai and Cao Tianci with a bowl of cold skin, the two of them occupied a table alone, and the others were four people squeezing a table, and the difference could be seen at a glance.

"Guest officer, your cool skin!" The man put Liangpi on the table, raised his eyes, and touched Mingtai, and the whole person was immediately stupid, looking at Mingtai, his eyes widened, his mouth opened into an O-shape, and the person was completely frozen. After a while, he shouted: "Commander Ming!" ”

Mingtai looked at the person in front of him, and he was also extremely surprised: "You know me?" ”

The man smiled bitterly: "The villain used to be a personal soldier of the Shannan County Town Fan County Guard, a small sentry commander. When you came here, the villain was lucky enough to meet you, how did you get here? He glanced around, smiled wryly and shook his head: "You were also arrested?" ”

When Cao Tianci saw this scene, he was a little surprised, but he really didn't meet in life: "It turns out that you actually know each other, and the Ming commander is not our prisoner, he is our friend." ”

"Commander Ming is a big man, and a small role like me will be remembered there." The man smiled, "It's just that I know the Ming commander." ”

Mingtai looked at each other. "You, why did you do this?"

The man said: "A few months ago, the Han army attacked the county town of Shannan, after the city was broken, we made the last resistance in the county guard, a cannonball flew in, the roof collapsed, I was also knocked unconscious, and after waking up, I became a prisoner of the Han army. My arm was also broken, and I was locked up for two months, and then I was released, and I was originally from this Shannan county. There is a family and children here. ”

"So that's the case, Fan Jun guards them?"

"They're all dead." The man said.

Mingtai nodded, didn't speak again, and picked up the cool skin. He took a big bite of it, and when the man saw this, he didn't say anything more. I was busy sending cold skins to the other tables. After the delivery, he returned to the table and stood aside and waited.

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, Mingtai glanced at the man, and suddenly said: "Seeing each other is fate, I borrowed the Han Kingdom and wanted to go to another place, would you like to go with me?" If you come with me, you won't have to work so hard to set up a stall on the street in the future, you are already an officer, and you should be more useful. ”

The man was stunned for a moment, and he hadn't spoken yet, and the woman who had been paying attention to this side after finishing her work obviously heard this, and suddenly rushed over from behind the stall, "My lord, he won't go, he won't go anywhere, we are here, it's good to sell cool skins." ”

Mingtai unexpectedly glanced at the woman, and then at the man, "If you come with me, your man can be an officer again, and he will definitely be older than the previous official, and I will give him a good future." ”

The woman shook her head again and again, "My lord, we don't want to go, it's good here, now there is no war here, he is injured, and he doesn't want to go to the battlefield again, my daughter and I just want him to live, I don't want to be rich." ”

"What do you mean?" Mingtai looked at the man.

The man hesitated for a moment, then turned his eyes to the woman, and then to the child, the woman looked at him with tears in her eyes, and the little girl seemed to sense something, and walked over, hugged the woman's thigh, and looked at them timidly.

The man sighed: "Thank you for your kindness, I will stay here with my family." ”

The woman breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to tug at the man's clothes, as if she was afraid that as soon as she let go, the man would leave.

"You are an officer of the Qin State, and you have fought against the Han people, and you must have the blood of the Han people on your hands, so you are not afraid that they will retaliate against you!" Mingtai asked.

The man shook his head: "I have been in the prisoner camp for two months, my arm is their treatment, although they are not good to us, but they are not bad, if you want to retaliate, I will not be able to get out of the prisoner camp at all." Now life is very good, I have a house facing the street here, now the front yard is rented out, there is an income of 20 yuan a month, my daughter-in-law Liangpier is doing well, now we set up a stall, we can also have a net income of one or two yuan a day, and there will be five or six hundred yuan a year to enter the industry, and the life is quite nourishing. ”

The woman suddenly interjected: "Yesterday, there was a guest who praised me after eating my cool skin, saying that he wanted to partner with us, rent a storefront, and specialize in this, and said that this cool skin is not in the territory of Dahan, if it is done well, you can open a branch, he pays the capital, we operate, and when the time comes, I think people are deceiving, but last night the person found the house, with cash, and said that the façade was found, the man said, get it right, even if it is a storefront, It's not a big deal to make a hundred dollars a month. We appreciate the kindness of adults, but we mother and son really don't want to worry about the possibility that the man may not come back once he goes out. The official son of the Han is very good, my man used to be an officer of the Qin State, but no one came to trouble him. The soldiers of the Han army often come to eat the cold skins I made, and they never owe money, they are the best soldiers and the best officers I have ever seen. ”

Mingtai was silent for a long time and nodded, "Everyone has their own ambitions, and it's a good choice if you don't want to go to the battlefield again, okay, then so be it." He stood up, took a note from his bosom, placed it on the table, and turned to leave.

Cao Tianci nodded at the couple, stood up, and also took out a banknote and put it on the table, "I want to thank you for your evaluation of our Han officials and soldiers, do a good job, I believe that your cool skin can be sold to every city in the Han Dynasty." ”

The couple looked at the two banknotes on the table, both of which were large bills with a denomination of one hundred. Two hundred yuan is almost their annual income.

Mingtai was in a very bad mood, and in just a few months, the hearts of the people of Shannan County fell to the Han State, and among them, there were even former Qin State officers. Even the officials are unwilling to do it, they just want to stay in the Han State as a flat-headed commoner, which can only show how failed the previous policies of the Qin State were, and only by comparing can we find the differences, and if we find the differences, we will yearn for a better life.

"Commander Ming, in fact, this is not an isolated case, in Shannan County, there are many people like this." Cao Tianci smiled.

"Don't you pursue these former Qin soldiers?" Mingtai asked.

"As you said, they are soldiers, since they are soldiers, it is a matter of course to go to the battlefield to fight, we used to be enemies, but the war is over, they put down their weapons, then they are not enemies, now they are the people of our Han, you see, they are now self-reliant, they can make money every day, they will pay taxes to our Han every day, why should we look at them with another pair of eyes, naturally they are treated equally, speaking of which, the cool skin made by this woman tastes really good, I don't know if everyone actually found such a business opportunity, Ming Commander, maybe you come back every few years, in the city of Dahan, you will find this husband and wife Liangpi chain store? Cao Tianci laughed.

Mingtai smiled bitterly.

"Commander Ming, since you finally came out, you are not in a hurry to go to Xinqin, anyway, the days are long, you might as well take a walk around our Han, take a look, look at the changes in our Han, look at the difference between our Han and your Qin, well, or say that when you go to Xinqin in the future, look at the difference between us and them, Wang Jian, the king of Xinqin, values you very much, in order to let you go to Xinqin, he has paid a lot of price to our Han. After you go, you will definitely be in a high position, and you will know more about our big man, which will also be beneficial to the previous exchanges between our two countries in the future, right? Cao Tianci said.

Mingtai looked at Cao Tianci: "Minister Cao, are you really not afraid that I will become your enemy in the future?" ”

"Afraid, why not be afraid, to be honest, Commander Ming, you are the most powerful guy I have ever seen, more powerful than your previous Zhongli Zhong boss, it can be said that the fall of the Qin State was led by you, without you, Lu Chao would not have succeeded. But I'm afraid it won't solve the problem, if one day we become enemies, I can only say sorry, but I can still tell you very bluntly, it will still be us who wins. ”

"You're so confident?"

"Commander Ming, the contest between us is not a simple personal contest, if it is a simple consideration of personal wisdom, I am far inferior to you, but between us, it is a comparison of the comprehensive strength of the two countries. This is also the reason why I suggest that you take a walk around our big man, take a look, and have an intuitive understanding, so as not to make some misjudgments because you don't understand after you arrive in Xinqin and are in a high position in the future. ”

Mingtai glanced at Cao Tianci a few times steadily, and suddenly laughed: "Okay, as you said, I will take a turn in the Han Kingdom." I am also trying to understand why the Great Han Empire has fulfilled the dream that the Great Qin Empire has not fulfilled for hundreds of years in just over a dozen years. ”

"That's very good." Cao Tianci nodded with satisfaction.

(Recommend my friend Lu Guang's masterpiece "Iron-blooded Qin Song", although he is a newcomer, but the writing is excellent, and the story is also exciting, although the number of words is still small, but you can raise it first, and then slaughter it when you are fat!) (To be continued.) )