Song Du Chengzhi Cai Jing residence

"No, my lord, I will never be someone else's concubine." Cai Jing's daughter Cai Rong Xuezhu said with tears in her eyes.

"Immortal, why are you doing this?" Cai Jing groaned: "Although this person has reached the age of establishment, he is still in the prime of life after all, and he looks relatively upright, the most important thing is that this person is the champion of the new department, and the future future will be unlimited, and you are not too wronged to marry him." ”

After the imperial court examination, Cai Jing set up a banquet in order to attract all the new scholars, and invited some of the top scholars to drink the banquet.

During this period, He Changyan, the champion of the new department, said some allusions through wine, including an allusion to "a pear flower pressing a begonia", which is an allusion to the famous person Zhang Xian during the Song Renzong period.

Zhang Xiansheng was a scholar and the first in the eighth year, and his political achievements were mediocre, but Zhang Xian was a romantic figure, poetry and wine, quite a lot of good stories, and he was old and undecrepit, and when he was eighty, he accepted an eighteen-year-old beautiful concubine.

When Zhang first took a concubine, Su Shi and some friends went to congratulate him, and then Su Shi asked Mr. Zhang how he felt? Zhang Xian said triumphantly, "I am eighty years old, I am eighteen, I am red-faced, and I have white hair." It is the same as the Qing upside down, only separated by a sixtieth in the middle. ”

Su Shi immediately made a poem and gave it to Zhang Xian.

"Eighteen brides and eighty langs, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are made into a double night, and a pear flower presses the begonia. ”

This is the allusion of "a pear flower pressing a begonia".

He Changyan talked about this allusion during the banquet, and at the same time mentioned Cai Rongxue, the daughter of Cai Jing, and his meaning was self-evident.

Of course, Cai Jing understood what He Chang meant, and he was a little annoyed at that time.

Although Cai Rongxue is the son of Cai Jing's moth, how can Cai Rongxue also be Cai Jing's niece, how can she be someone else's concubine?

However, although Cai Jing was reluctant in his heart at that time, although he was a little embarrassed in his heart, he did not have a seizure on the spot, but came to ask Cai Rongxue after returning home.

"My lord" Cai Rongxue said with tears in her eyes: "Although the child is like a willow, he is never willing to be the concubine of others, and the child is not willing to die." ”

Cai Rongxue's mother is a concubine, and she is like this until she dies, and she doesn't even have a tombstone after death, so how can Cai Rongxue be willing to be someone else's concubine?

Cai Jing nodded when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "That is the case, this matter is over, but Immortal, you have reached the year of marriage, and your father will definitely find a good home for you." ”

Cai Jing actually didn't want to, if Cai Rongxue made a concubine for others, she would be laughed at if she said it.

"Thank you, child." Cai Rongxue was a little relieved at this time, and Yingying bowed.

What's he doing? Why hasn't there been any news of him for so long? After Cai Jing left, Cai Rongxue looked at the azalea outside the window and thought.

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"What's on your face? Why is it like this? Li Sanjian looked at the tattoo on Shan Kui's face and asked in surprise.

"Brother Shankui, are you in pain?" Little Bean Sprouts gently stroked the tattoo on Shan Kui's face with his small hand and asked.

"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt." Shan Kui touched the two tattoos of "Xiaoxiong" on his left forehead and said with a smile.

"Shankui, what the hell is going on?" Li Sanjian shook his head and asked again.

After Li Sanjian became the "curtain guest" of Duanwangfu, he asked Zhao Ji for help to find a livelihood for Shankui and Xu Biao, but Zhao Ji arranged the two into the forbidden army and became Song soldiers...

In Li Sanjian's heart, he originally thought that if he wanted to become a soldier, it should be extremely difficult to join the army, at least it was not so easy to join the Song army, he needed to be reviewed and reviewed, and he needed to be selected and selected, but the actual situation was relatively easy.

The Song army implemented a conscription system, spending money to recruit people from all walks of life in the Song Dynasty to naturalize.

The world's fierce dereliction of duty is the guardian of the good people!

Therefore, the main source of Song recruitment was the so-called fierce dereliction of duty, including landless farmers, displaced people, assassinated thieves, prisoners, and so on.

Therefore, it is relatively easy for you to join the army, especially with the help of Duanwang Zhao Ji, the strong Shankui and Xu Biao can easily join the Song army and join the military.

"Master, I was tattooed as soon as I went to the barracks. . . ." Shan Kui replied.

"Hey... When Li Sanjian heard this, he hurriedly stopped Shan Kui and said: "You are now a member of the court, don't call me by the word master anymore, you can call me Sanlang or Brother Jian." ”

Shankui's current identity has changed, and he has become a soldier of the Song Forbidden Army, so it is extremely inappropriate to call Li Sanjian with the word master, their only master now is the current saint, so Shankui calls Li Sanjian the master, then there is a suspicion of trespassing, if it is known, maybe it will bring unnecessary trouble to Li Sanjian's family. Reading the Library

"Master..." Shan Kui still didn't change his words, and looked at Li Sanjian aggrievedly and said.

"Alright, alright." Seeing this, Li Sanjian said helplessly to Shankui: "That's good, you can call it that in private... But when there are outsiders, don't say that. ”

Although Shan Kui is honest, he is not a fool, he doesn't understand anything, and Shan Kui also understood what Li Sanjian meant at this time, so he nodded and responded to Li Sanjian's request.

"Tell me, what's going on with the tattoo on your face?" Li Sanjian then asked.

"Master, that's right... So Shan Kui told the ins and outs of the matter.

It is easy to enter the army, but if you want to get out of the army, it will be extremely difficult to get out of the army, and the first thing to do is to tattoo the characters on the front of the Song army, and after marking you, it will be even more difficult to get out of the army, basically for the rest of your life.

Unless he is old and infirm, or sick and unable to move his hands, he may be picked out by Terne, removed from the military, and returned home to retire.

As early as the time of Qinzhou, Li Sanjian knew that the soldiers had to be tattooed on their faces or arms, but at the beginning, those soldiers were the box army or township soldiers in the Song army, and they were local miscellaneous troops, and now Shankui and Xu Biao have joined the imperial forbidden army, which should be regarded as a regular army, but they still need to be tattooed on the face of Qianmian? Li Sanjian couldn't understand it in every way.

Shan Kui has the word "Xiaoxiong" tattooed on his left forehead, and the word "latent fire" tattooed on his right forehead, and the four cyan characters are not very big, and they can be covered with hair.

"Xiaoxiong" is the name of the army, and "Latent Fire" is the military branch.

There are many kinds of forbidden armies in the imperial court, such as the banzhi in the forbidden army is the servant of the Son of Heaven, and its status and treatment are the highest in the forbidden army, and the banzhi are generally selected from the children of nobles or soldiers, and ordinary people cannot enter.

In addition to the forbidden army, it is the ordinary forbidden army, and the ordinary forbidden army is divided into upper, middle and lower three according to the difference in body or endowment, among which the upper forbidden army is the four armies of the sun, Tianwu, Longwei and Shenwei, that is, the so-called upper four armies, and the monthly salary is about the same money; The money of about 700 Wen is the Central Forbidden Army, the Fifth and Seventh Armies of Tianwu, the Tenth Army of Longwei and Shenwei are the Central Forbidden Army, the less than 500 Wen is the Lower Forbidden Army, the Fierce, Heroic, Xiaoxiong, Xiongwei and other armies are the Lower Forbidden Army, and Shankui and Xu Biao are among the Xiaoxiong Army.

The "latent fire" military is the "fire brigade", that is, it is responsible for arson and firefighting, and it needs to patrol day and night.

In the future, you can't join the army if you are killed, this is Li Sanjian's final conclusion, Shankui is okay to say, he looks ugly and rough, and he looks more majestic after tattoos on both sides of his forehead, but Li Sanjian's little white face is tattooed with two words, then it will seriously affect Li Sanjian's suave image...

However, Li Sanjian thought about it again, the forbidden army's treatment is really good, although the monthly money is less than 500 Wen, but in addition to this, there are other rewards, such as rice, salt, meat, wine and other things, and military uniforms will be issued in the four seasons of another year, for the average Song soldier. That's a lot of money.

"What have you been doing lately?" Li Sanjian then asked.

"Didn't do anything." Shan Kui replied: "In addition to sleeping and dozing off, it is for ... Move stones for the commanding family and repair the yard. ”

"Repair the yard? No military drills or anything? Li Sanjian said curiously.

A "firefighter", Li Sanjian doesn't expect to have any military training programs, but at least there should be some training items such as queues and formations, right? Moving stones, repairing yards? Isn't this selling coolies?

"Hardly." Shan Kui replied by tugging at the somewhat ill-fitting military uniform on his body.

Li Sanjian was silent.

Although it can't be said that the Song army is weak just because of this, but a glimpse of the whole leopard, if the forbidden army is like this, and even such military training is omitted, then how can they kill the enemy when they go into battle? How can you resist the invasion of foreign enemies? And if you can defend your homeland?

Maybe the elite of the court won't be like this, right? Li Sanjian then thought.

"Little bean sprouts, what have you been doing lately? Did you listen to your mother? Li Sanjian didn't bother to think about it, what does the strength of the Song army's combat strength have to do with him?

Isn't the imperial army claimed to be in the millions? In this case, where is the need for Li Sanjian to fight?

If a weak scholar has to go into battle to fight, then Song will not be far from the country...

Therefore, Li Sanjian was too lazy to worry about Song Jun, too lazy to worry about the sky, turned his head and pinched the little face of the little bean sprouts and asked with a smile.

"I hate it, brother, everyone has grown up, and my brother always treats people as children." The little bean sprouts slapped Li Sanjian's hand away and pouted and said.

Three years have passed, and the little bean sprouts have reached the age of nine, and she has grown from a yellow-haired girl to a girl.

Clear and bright pupils, curved willow eyebrows, long eyelashes trembling slightly, because of the nutrition over the years, the skin is also extremely fair, with a hint of pink in the whiteness.

The small bean sprouts are already the beginning of February with cardamom shoots.

"Hehe" Li Sanjian hadn't opened his mouth yet, and Fu Erniang, who was spinning on the side, said with a smile while spinning: "How can this kid be disobedient?" She is sensible and often helps her mother do some things. ”

"My mother said that I don't need to do these things anymore, why do I still spin? The child can already serve his mother. Li Sanjian said to Fu Erniang when he heard this.