Early the next morning, go to the grave.

Han Yugui was buried on a hillside not far from Ciyun Temple, and Han Yucai, who died a few years ago, was also buried.

No matter how big an official Han Xiufeng is outside, he was originally ranked fourth at home, but now with the third brother Han Xiuyue passing over to the second room, he has become the third in the line. is still Han Da's younger brother. Whether you kowtow to burn paper or do something else, you have to hold the baby with Qin'er and follow the eldest brother and sister-in-law.

After worshipping, looking at the stone tablet engraved with the official name of "Fengzheng Doctor" in front of his father's grave, he couldn't help but think of his uncle's wish before his death, Han Xiufeng secretly decided to send someone into the city to help his uncle donate a seal after he went back, and when the edict came down, he also asked the painter to draw a portrait of his uncle and offer it to the ancestral hall.

After packing up the sacrifices, he was about to follow his eldest brother and sister-in-law around the back mountain, looking at the Han family's mountains and paddy fields, Pan Er rushed to the foot of the mountain with dozens of people.

Chen Hu and Ge Erxiao are very familiar with him and his two brothers who came back from Hai'an, and they don't know how excited they are to see each other again in Sichuan, but thinking that Master Han is not what he used to be, and he can't meet anyone who can see him, so he still let them wait first, and wait for Chen Bu to help inform him before letting him go up the mountain alone, and the others were all stopped, and they all had to stay honestly at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing Pan Er again, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but think of the scene when they went to the capital to confess together, and sighed: "Although I am thinner and darker than before, I look more energetic than before, and I have a bit of the bearing of an official master." ”

"It's not much thinner, it's true that it's darker than before. Fourth brother, you know, the angle slope field is on the seaside, and the sea breeze blows every day, and no matter how white people are, they will be blown black when they get there. Pan Er smiled bitterly.

Han Xiufeng motioned for Qin'er to take the two babies and the eldest brother and sister-in-law to go back first, and asked in a low voice: "I heard that the sea water has poured in, and Jiaoxie, Anfeng and Fu'an have all suffered disasters, and many people have died. ”

"There are many deaths, and many more have been displaced, but when I return, the victims have been almost settled, and the imperial court's will to suspend the payment of taxes in the affected fields has also come down."

"That's good," Looking back at his father's grave, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but sigh: "You talk about this world, it is a natural disaster and a man-made disaster, and you have to come back to worry if you finally make up for the shortage." ”

Pan Er was convinced that Han Si would be able to do it sooner or later, and subconsciously looked at the direction of Zoumagang: "Fourth master, I don't feel much pity, I'm not afraid of your jokes, in fact, I've been a little homesick for a long time, but I didn't expect my father to leave so suddenly." ”

"Yes, the earth dragon turned over, who would have thought that." Han Xiufeng didn't want to mention the sad thing anymore, so he immediately changed the topic: "Are your sister-in-law and the babies okay?" ”

"It's all right, it's just ...... It's been a few years since I was separated, and the two babies saw that I was a little angry. ”

"I'm pretty much the same, you saw it just now, my eldest brother and sister-in-law didn't even have anything to say to my mother," Han Xiufeng sighed lightly, and then looked down at the soldiers at the bottom of the mountain and asked, "Changsheng, what's the matter with those brothers under the mountain?" ”

When it comes to business, Pan Er didn't care about any more family matters, and hurriedly said: "These brothers under the mountain are all fellow villagers selected by Master Xue and Master Liu from various battalions, including those from Ba County, Jiangjin, and Bishan. They have all been to Guangxi with Xiang Shuai, from Guangxi to chase Changmao all the way to Jiangsu, I don't know how many battles have been fought, all of them crawled out of the sea of blood in the mountains of corpses, and the biggest official has accumulated merit to do a thousand generals.

It is precisely because they have fought too many battles and seen too many dead people that more than 20 of them not only don't want to go into battle again, but they don't even want to be officials anymore, they just want to go back to their hometown to marry a mother-in-law for a few days and a peaceful birthday. But before coming back, Master Xue and Master Liu explained that they would have to listen to the fourth master after they arrived in Ba County, and none of them dared to leave if you didn't speak. ”

"Let those who want to go back to their hometowns go back."

"Okay, I'll tell them later."

"I don't need to wait a while, just go and say now, they have already arrived at the door but can't go home, they must be like arrows."

"Okay, I'll just talk about it."

"Let's go together."

As expected, the two walked to the bottom of the mountain and just said a few words.

The military attachés and soldiers of the Green Battalion, who were afraid of the war, were so excited that they kowtowed and thanked them in unison.

Seeing off those who were busy going home, there were only a dozen people left in their hometowns, and there was no money in their pockets, so they felt that it was better to follow Master Han to run a group training with them.

Han Xiufeng weighed it, looked at them and said, "Everyone, I know that you want to follow me on an errand and follow me to eat, but I am now worrying, and the group training is just an assistant." Not to mention that it may not be possible, and even if it can be done, you will not receive much food. ”

The dozen or so soldiers left behind were dumbfounded, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

Han Xiufeng looked up at the mountains in the distance, and then said, "You Master Xue and Master Liu asked you to come to me, and I, Han Xiufeng, naturally can't ignore your life or death." If you are willing, I will find a way to help you go to the Yamen to fill out a household registration card, and settle down in Tsz Wan Mountain in the future.

If you are willing to farm, I will help you find a way to rent a few acres of land and become a tenant in the village. If you don't want to farm, you can do some small business, as the saying goes, you can eat the mountain by relying on the mountain, there are a lot of mountain goods in this mountain, the villagers have no knowledge, and every time you carry the mountain goods out to sell, you can't sell them at a price. You have seen the world from south to north, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, this business will definitely make money. ”

Those who stayed also didn't want to fight anymore, and they also wanted to live a peaceful life.

As soon as Han Xiufeng's words fell, more than a dozen soldiers who crawled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain kowtowed and thanked him.

"Don't rush to thank you just yet." Han Xiufeng motioned for them to get up, and admonished: "But as long as you settle down in Ciyun Mountain, then you will be Ciyun people in the future, and you will have to abide by the township rules and regulations here, and you will have to listen to Baozheng, Jiachang and several respected old gentlemen in the village." ”

"This is natural, the little one must live in peace, and he won't do those things that are traitors and criminals if he is killed!"

"Master Han, you put a hundred hearts, the little one was originally a person who kept to himself, and he joined the army when he couldn't survive before."

"Okay, okay, I know," Seeing that Xu Yunshan rushed over with a few juniors, Han Xiufeng simply greeted him and said, "Uncle Xu, I'm sorry, I'll have to bother you to help me as soon as I come back......

Ciyun Village belongs to the top ten in Cili, and it is a small village in the whole Cili that is not prosperous, so that it is not even qualified to hold group exercises. Xu Yunshan, who didn't want to contribute money and effort to make wedding dresses for others for a long time, heard Han Xiufeng's words, and then thought that the dozen or so descendants in front of him had all killed and killed Long Hair, and agreed: "Master Han, this is nothing, not to mention the trouble, I will take them to settle down and find them a place to live first." ”

"Okay, then please."

"Master Han, you are always so polite, you and Second Master Pan are busy first, and I will take them to settle down first."

……

Duan Jiqing, who was following behind, stopped talking, and Fei Erye and Gao Yunfeng, who were accompanying him, guessed what he wanted to say, simply pulled him aside, leaned into his ear and said: "Duan Jingcheng, the village is planning to hold a group exercise, and there is indeed a shortage of people to hold a group exercise, but there is no shortage of people like just now." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"How can Zhixing be such a big official, in the final analysis, it is because Zhixing will train soldiers, and the Ciyun Regiment that Xu Yunshan and they are preparing is used to protect the family, Zhixing will either not help to do it, but as long as he helps to do it, it will be done well, and he will train the Ciyun Regiment into an elite soldier who can live in the territory of three or five hundred bandits, so he looks down on the green battalion soldiers who have been frightened by the long hair just now."

Looking at Duan Jiqing's suspicious look, Second Master Fei couldn't help but point to Chen Hu and the others in the distance: "See, that's the one who can really fight!" Just now, those who didn't look at the battle with Changmao under Xiang Shuai for several years, but they lost more than they won. It is said that in Shanghai, they also fought with foreigners, and as a result, thousands of people were killed by hundreds of foreigners and lost their armor, which was really useless. ”

"I thought that as long as everyone who went into battle, they were elite soldiers."

"To others, it may be, to Zhixing, they are nothing."

When it came to the war, Gao Yunfeng couldn't help but murmur: "I don't know what the situation in Guizhou is now." ”

As soon as his words fell, Han Xiufeng suddenly turned around and asked, "Brother Ji Yue, where is your hometown in Guizhou?" ”

Gao Yunfeng hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Master Han, my hometown of Annan (now Qinglong) in Guizhou is under the rule of Xingyi Mansion in Guixi Province. ”

Han Xiufeng gasped, secretly thinking about how it could be so coincidental, he really didn't know how to explain to Gao Yunfeng, so he simply turned around and said, "Changsheng, you tell Master Gao." ”

"Yes."

Pan Er reacted, took a deep breath and said with a bitter face: "Master Yugao, last year, Yang Yixi, Shu Tailor and other bandits who occupied Tongzi abandoned the southern part of the city after repelling the officials and troops who went to suppress them, and captured Annan on the 24th of the lunar month, and then besieged Xingyi Mansion. The new Guidong Daoist Zhang Ying ordered his sons Zhang Zhiqing, Zhang Zhiyuan, Zhang Zhidong and Xingyi Prefect and other civil and military officials to lead soldiers and temporarily recruited Minzhuang to hold on to the city.

He summoned more than 2,000 brave men who dared to die to sneak out of the city overnight, and at the critical juncture when Xingyi City was about to be broken by thieves, he led more than 2,000 brave soldiers to kill from behind the thieves, killing Yang Yixi, Shu Tailor and other bandits by surprise, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue, all the way to gather the township brave group to practice, recovered Annan in one fell swoop, and relieved the siege of Xingyi Mansion. ”

Hearing that his hometown had been captured by thieves, although it had been recovered, Gao Yunfeng still chuckled in his heart, and after a long pause, he asked in a trembling tone: "Have the thieves been wiped out?" ”

"As far as I know, Yang Yixi and Tailor Shu fled to Pu'an and captured the county seat of Pu'an."

"Master Han, I'm ...... My brother and sister-in-law, my son and daughter-in-law, my grandchildren, my daughter and son-in-law are all in my hometown, I don't feel at ease, I want to go back and see ......"

"Go back, Chen Hu, you arrange for the two brothers to accompany Master Gao to go back together." Han Xiufeng thought about it and said: "Brother Ji Yue, although Annan has been recovered, there are bandits in Guizhou, and it is not peaceful, if you don't let your sister-in-law go back first, don't tell your sister-in-law about the fall of Annan for the time being." ”

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