Everyone was anxious when they heard this, Zhang Fengshan had been playing with a white copper smoke pot, and when he heard this, he threw it to the ground. This is the most valuable thing for his family, but now he has no money to buy tobacco, and he will not have to smoke until he really settles down, plants tobacco seeds, and when the tobacco leaves grow well, cut them and dry them...... It is not only Zhang Fengshan who is addicted to smoking, but also Liu De and Li Tiansheng, craftsmen work hard, and after a day's work, they can return to their destitute home, watching their wives and children mess up, and the mood is even worse.

The poorer the people, the more they smoke, from the capital to Hebei and Shandong and the former Liaodong, there are many smokers, and this trend is gradually going south, and now there are more and more men smoking in the north of the Yangtze River.

"This dog's way." Zhang Fengshan trembled angrily and said, "Can't you tell us to wake up in a few days?" ”

The more honest the person, the more terrible it is when he gets angry, many craftsmen feel the same way, and many people are red, and they scold together with Zhang Fengshan.

……

Shen Yong returned to his house and said a few words to his wife, and his son came over to ask for candy and told him to slap him away.

The five-room house was much larger than an ordinary house, after all, it was once a barracks for the battalion, and a room had to be prepared to sleep a dozen people, too small to be lined up.

Shen Yong was originally very satisfied with everything in front of him, but now he sulked when he looked at the five houses with open doors.

No matter how good the house is, it is very likely that you will not be able to live in it yourself, so what is there to be happy about?

It's fucking bad to go back to the two huts in the city where the sewage is strewn and the garbage is everywhere!

There was a grinding sound at the east end of the room, and Shen Yong turned his head to look over, but saw his brother Shen Liang squatting on the ground grinding a rusty iron spear head.

"What do you do when you grind the spear?" Shen Yong walked over and said, "Want to get a wild thing to open meat?" I've seen it here, the woodland is sparse, and I'm afraid there are not many wild things. If you want to hunt wild ducks and pheasants, you still have to find a way to make a bow, although you can shoot a gun, the prey is too small to shoot accurately. ”

Shen Yong is already a middle-aged man in his thirties, Shen Liang is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, the two brothers depend on each other, Shen Liang is usually silent, Shen Yong knows that this brother has been deeply injured, he crawled out of the pile of dead bodies, and Shen Liang has not done much work in Pingsu, if the brother wants to hunt and relax, Shen Yong also feels that it is better than being bored at home all the time.

"It's not hunting." Shen Liang raised his head, and Shen Yong saw that his brother's expression was wrong at this time, although his face was flat, his eyes were shining, and there was a faint murderous aura.

When he was in Dengzhou, Shen Liang entered the camp as a soldier at the age of sixteen, and then went to the battlefield to kill people.

"Second brother." Shen Yong said in a deep voice: "Who provoked you, it's a great fight, but you can't kill anyone." When we fled south, you killed several people, they were bandits who robbed us of food, and killing them did not violate the king's law, nor did it hurt the peace of heaven. If you are going to kill someone if you are talking about it, even if you ignore the lawsuit, there will always be a god retribution in the future. ”

"I don't believe in the retribution of the gods." Shen Liang suddenly smiled and said: "How many people have Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong killed in Dengzhou, there are two or three hundred thousand people living inside and outside the city, and the Dongjiang soldiers are finished, and the remaining 10,000 people are afraid of death." They killed us all the way back to Denglai in Wuqiao, and they were afraid of more than a million people when they died, not only killing people, but also eating people when they were surrounded by Liaoxi soldiers in Dengzhou City, and we all saw them outside the city supporting a big pot to cook human flesh, human heads, human legs, human arms and hearts and livers were floating in the pot...... If there were really gods, how could these beasts still be big officials in the Liaodong Tartars, enjoying wealth and glory? Such a thief, God, but I don't believe it, I don't believe it when I die, and I don't believe it when I go to hell! ”

Shen Liang's eyes were already bright when he spoke, and Shen Yong sighed at what his brother said...... Shen Liang said how Shen Yong didn't know?

The siege of Dengzhou was extremely tragic, Kong Youde and others knew that after the city was broken, it would be a death, and the fact was also that Mao Chenglu and other captured generals were directly executed by Ling Chi after being escorted to Beijing. The harm brought by these rebel generals is too great, and to be honest, even if Ling Chi is executed, it is not too much.

The Shen brothers are all hereditary craftsmen of Dengzhou Wei, but Shen Yong is a craftsman, Shen Liang is Yu Ding, and then he simply became a battalion soldier when he was sad, Dengzhou was heavy firearms at that time, there were hundreds of Portuguese in the city, there were Portuguese missionaries and technicians, and there were also Portuguese mercenaries who trained Ming soldiers to use firearms and line up troops.

Shen Liang is under the command of the deputy general Zhang Tao, this person is the general of the governor Sun Yuanhua's cronies, but he has a good relationship with Kong Youde and others, and his subordinates are also deeply involved with the Dongjiang soldiers, when Kong Youde and others came back from Wuqiao, Sun Yuanhua urgently sent Zhang Tao to lead the troops to defend, as a result, Zhang Tao himself was captured, and the general soldier Zhang Ke committed suicide after the defeat, and more than 6,000 of his subordinates were coerced into the rebel camp by Kong Youde.

To Zhu Dadian led the troops and Liaozhen soldiers and horses to Shandong, but the Dongjiang soldiers were not the opponents of the Liaozhen soldiers with bright armor, after being besieged, the imperial court freed up their hands to begin to investigate the remnants of Zhang Tao, Shen Liang saw many colleagues being arrested and tortured, and some were directly beheaded, at that time he and a group of robes Ze killed out of the barracks, when the parents and relatives were almost dead, Shen Liang fled south with his brother and wife, and went through a lot of hardships on the way to the north of the river.

Fortunately, there were a lot of people who fled south in Dengzhou, and the imperial court was later in internal and external difficulties, and the recovery of Dengzhou was very slow after the fight, and the local order was chaotic, and the Shen brothers were worried for a while, but they found that no one paid attention to their affairs at all, so they settled in Dahewei with peace of mind.

It's just that they are still confirmed as military craftsmen, after all, they fled south from Dengzhou, they are penniless, and they only have a blacksmith skill available, so it is good to survive, but life is much more difficult than when they were in Dengzhou.

Shen Yongting's mood was also suppressed, and after calming down for a while, he said: "No one can say for sure about the retribution of the gods and Buddhas, don't say it in front of people in the future, so as to prevent trouble...... Even if you don't believe in retribution, you should know that it is not easy for us to live in these hundred households, we have a good house to live in, and we also have a full stomach to eat. I think this Min Baihu is a caring person, he knows how to make money, and he also knows that he has to train for self-protection, this person is bold and generous, and he is benevolent enough to the people below, it is not easy to stay in such a good place, so I don't think about yourself, but also for my brother and me, your sister-in-law, and nephew think about ......it."

Shen Yong is scared, he is only in his thirties, but his sideburns already have obvious gray hair, and there are deep wrinkles on his face, he is a blacksmith, his strength is very strong, and the heavy iron mallet can be waved until the utensils to be beaten are forged. But his body was not stronger than that of ordinary people, except that his arms were slightly thicker, which was the result of long hours of hard work and malnutrition......

The life in front of him is indeed quite satisfying to Shen Yong.

Good new house, quite a wide environment, more benevolent and powerful hundred household officials to protect, the matter of Yanchi Shen Yong and Liu De are also often discussed, everyone feels that this thing should be able to be done, if this thing is done, according to Min Baihu's generous character, I am afraid that everyone's life will be much better......

So in the afternoon, when Min Yuanqi asked everyone what they planned to do and whether they wanted to stay, almost all the craftsmen chose to stay at the first time.

Shen Liang stood up, although his eyes were scary, but there was still a smile on his face, he said to Shen Yong: "Brother, you just take care of your life and do your work, and in the future, you will have money to buy more meat to supplement your body, today I am not looking for personal revenge, but going to Min Baihu to serve and obey ......"

"What?" Shen Yongdao: "You are a craftsman Yu Ding, this is not a battalion soldier, I'm afraid I won't need you, right?" ”

"If ordinary people don't use it," Shen Liang smiled and said: "I have been watching Min Baihu these days, in fact, he is quite similar to Governor Kong and Wang Daotai, they have ideas for doing things, and they can make up their minds, that is, Lord Sun Junmen puts all his heart into making fire-making guns and artillery, and he is really not an expert in being an official, but in fact, Sun Junmen is also a smart person...... Speaking far away, Lord Min is also smart, I think his mind is using the right way, everything else is fake, earning silver, buying food, being benevolent to his subordinates, and training soldiers is very strict, even if such a person can't soar, he can live with the people around him in troubled times, and he can live a very nourishing life...... Since this is the case, tonight Wang Baihu and Min Xiaoqi were arrested, it is when Min Baihu is employed, and when I go at this time, our family will have a firm foothold here! ”

Shen Yong suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the brother had been grinding the gun here for a long time, and sharpened the spear heads on both sides. This gun is a five-foot short gun, but the head of the gun is a big gun with blades on both sides, which was picked up on the side of the road when he went south, and it is estimated that it is also a long spear that the fleeing people put together at will in order to protect themselves, Shen Liang killed several people in a row after getting this gun, even if Dahewei didn't need it, this gun was never willing to lose.

After Shen Liang loaded the head of the spear, he bent the spear, and the elastic beech long pole bent and collapsed back, Shen Liang nodded with satisfaction, and said to Shen Yong: "Brother I have gone, you should be more careful at home." ”

Shen Yong didn't stop him after knowing his brother's plan, just like when Shen Liang went to be a battalion soldier, he was also born and died on the battlefield, and before he went into battle, he also said that my brother went, you should be more careful with your own family.

Every goodbye is very casual, but the two brothers understand that Shen Liang is likely to not come back once he goes.

Shen Liang will never learn from those disabled veterans, he broke his arm and leg on the battlefield, he couldn't get a few pension money, and when he became a disabled soldier, he had to be supported by his family when he came back, but the court would not pay attention to it, and after returning home, he would become a burden, and he was idle every day, and it was common to beat and scold people......

Since the day Shen Liang became a soldier, he has the intention of either going home with all beards and tails, or not going home, this kid has been stubborn since he was a child, and Shen Yong, the elder brother, has no choice, it was Shen Liang who got back five taels of silver, so that the whole family ate fine white noodles for a while, and then they can have several more buckets of grain every month, Sun Yuanhua, the governor, is quite honest, and the food and salary of the Dengzhou soldiers can be distributed normally, Shen Liang was picked to the fire gun team, and the Portuguese instructor studied in the queue and set the fire gun...... In those years, the Shen family's life was good, and it felt a little thriving.

It is precisely because of such an experience that I will cherish it doubly.