Limited by the transportation and communication technology of this era, the Qin Law, which was too strict and meticulous and too cumbersome, was indeed a bit of a trick, and in the case that Shan Youwei had abandoned his post and fled, and also under the condition that Shan Youwei's family Ji Jian had been forced to confess the truth, the government of Xia Xiang and Ling County still spent a lot of time and useless energy to investigate the case in detail, resulting in Kang, who was one of the first informants of this case, going to the official temple of Xia Xiang to testify many times, wasting a lot of time, and seriously affecting Xiang Kang's plan to train the militia. There is also the operation of the blacksmith shop in Shiling Pavilion, and the losses in all aspects are quite small.

In the end, it was only in mid-June that the Xia Xiangguan Temple convicted Wang Ju and the other three families of Shan Youwei, and Lingxian Guansi also arrested several implicated Shan Youwei's family members and subordinates involved in the case, officially ending this case involving many people. At this time, there is only less than a month and a half left before Xiang Kang and Yu Miaoge officially get married.

The wedding period is getting tighter and tighter, Xiang Kang is no matter how busy he is, he has to spare time and energy to make some preparations for his marriage, although Naji, Nazheng and the invitation period are helped by two uncles and mothers, but the small courtyard where Xiang Kang lives is too dilapidated, so tattered that it is Lao Yu's family, that is, the two uncles can't stand it, and strongly advise Xiang Kang to either hurry up and renovate the small dilapidated house, or quickly build a few new houses for the wedding room, don't be too aggrieved Yu Miaoge, who married from a rich family.

Of course, Xiang Kang was unwilling to risk revealing secrets to renovate, and building a new house was too expensive and time-consuming, so Xiang Kang decided to temporarily rent a more decent courtyard as a new house, and then consider building a house later—although Xiang Kang knew very well that he probably didn't have such an opportunity. And after finally convincing the two uncles to agree to do this, the second uncle and aunt instructed Xiang Kang again: "Kang'er, you also have to tell the Yu family about this, so that they can also know that you are going to build a new house later, so as not to misunderstand them." ”

After getting married, of course, the woman's family had to know about such a thing, Xiang Kang had to take time out to go to the Feng family's old house that the Yu family is currently renting, but unfortunately, Yu Jian and Yu Zhi's father and son happened to go back to Yanji Pavilion to check the growth of the crops, only Yu Miaoge and Yu Jiao sisters were at home, and Yu Miaoge's little girl was now deliberately avoiding Xiang Kang, so only Yu Miaoge came out to see Xiang Kang.

Yu Miaoge is indeed virtuous, before Xiang Kang finished talking about the situation, Yu Miaoge had already said shyly: "It's okay, rent a house, rent a house, son, if you think it's troublesome to rent a house, you can live in your original house, anyway, you can also shelter from the wind and rain." ”

"I'm too dilapidated there, as long as it rains heavily, it will rain lightly inside, and I can't bear to let you live in it." Xiang Kang smiled bitterly and said, "Let's rent a house, Miao Ge, where do you like to live in Shiling Pavilion?" ”

"Anywhere, you can." Yu Miaoge's face was even more ashamed, and he said, "Son, you decide." ”

"Then I'll have to choose a yard with a bigger house." Xiang Kang smiled and said: "When the time comes, my brothers will definitely come to our house every day to eat and drink, and they will definitely spend the night at our house often, Miao Ge, don't be annoyed." ”

"No, they should." Yu Miaoge answered this question very briskly, and plucked up the courage to say: "They are your brothers, Gongzi, they come to the door, and I should receive them." ”

At this point, Xiang Kang, who didn't have much experience in love, couldn't find any topic, but Yu Miaoge took the initiative to speak again and said, "Childe, can you go in and take a look at my little sister?" ”

"What's wrong with her?" Xiang Kang subconsciously raised his head.

keenly aware that Xiang Kang's reaction was a little nervous, Yu Miaoge's heart was inevitably a little uncomfortable, but she still said: "She has been eating and sleeping well these days, and she has lost a lot of weight, as if there is something in her heart, can you persuade her?" ”

Xiang Kang hesitated, and after a while, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's inconvenient, you are her sister, or you should persuade her." ”

Knowing that Xiang Kang was deliberately avoiding suspicion, Yu Miaoge didn't insist, but just said truthfully: "I persuaded it, but it was useless, I just hope she can figure it out as soon as possible." ”

After that, Yu Miaoge, who had long known why her sister had become like this, sighed softly, very worried about how to untie the knot in her sister's heart, and Xiang Kang, who had already accepted his fate, was afraid that his fiancée would see that he was still peeping at his sister-in-law, so he hurriedly offered to leave, Yu Miaoge did not keep it, but personally sent Xiang Kang out of the door, and repeatedly asked Xiang Kang to take care of his body and not to be too tired.

"Alas, I didn't expect that little girl to be sad like this, what should I do in the future? For the sake of the Yu family's money, I ruthlessly abandoned her, am I too selfish? ”

Leaving the Feng family's old house with a heavy heart, Xiang Kang planned to go back to the blacksmith shop to check the situation there, but he didn't want to go halfway there, but he ran into Feng Zhong riding a horse back from the direction of the county seat, Xiang Kang went up to greet him out of courtesy, but found that Feng Zhong was depressed when he got off the horse and returned the salute, his face was full of sorrow, and his mood was much worse than his own, Xiang Kang asked curiously: "Brother Feng, what happened?" Why is it like this? ”

"Excuse me, brother." Feng Zhong barely squeezed out a smile and said, "When you got married, I couldn't help, I could only wish you and your younger siblings a hundred years of good together, and grow old together." ”

"What? Big brother, what's wrong with you? Xiang Kang asked suspiciously.

Feng Zhong pursed his lips, first looked left and right to see that no one was eavesdropping, and then said dejectedly: "Just now I went to the county with the village squirrel, and the county asked us to immediately count the list of soldiers who went to serve in the fourth round, so that they could gather and set off on the fifth day of the seventh month to serve in the northern frontier, and I have to go too." So brother, I couldn't attend your wedding. ”

"Recruit the fourth round of soldiers?" Knowing that the fourth round of soldiers was to recruit all adult men with household registration as left neighbors, Xiang Kang was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Then my brothers, don't they have to go?" ”

"At least four or five have to go." Feng Zhong's expression was extremely depressed, and he said, "And your militia team and the apprentices of our blacksmith shop, about half of them have to go. ”

Xiang Kang was completely dumbfounded, and Feng Zhong smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, you are a right Lu with a household registration, and you belong to the fifth round of soldiers, you don't need to go this time, it will not affect the major event of your marriage." ”

"I'm not worried about me, I'm worried about my brothers." Xiang Kang hurriedly said: "With their temper, it is impossible for them to serve the garrison willingly?" ”

"No way, you have to go if you don't want to." Feng Zhong replied with a sad face, and said: "Also, brother, you have to keep this matter secret for me first, if it spreads, it will definitely be like last time, there will be many people who fled in advance, and the messenger in the township will not be able to do it." ”

Xiang Kang, who was waiting for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to raise the anti-flag for the first time, was in a state of confusion, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Big brother, why don't we find a place to drink and discuss carefully how to plan this matter." ”

"Okay, but we have to find a place where there are no outsiders, or it will be troublesome for someone to overhear our words." Feng Zhong replied.

"Then let's go to Chen Yuan's place to buy some wine and drink it at my place, there are no outsiders there." Xiang Kang proposed, Feng Zhong, who was very upset, nodded and agreed, and then Feng Zhong went back to the pavilion to return the horse, and then went to the wine shop in Shiling Pavilion with Xiang Kang to buy two jars of wine and a little food, and then went to Xiang Kang's dilapidated courtyard to drink and discuss.

While drinking, Xiang Kang of course asked if there was any way for his brothers and militia to avoid this call-up, but Feng Zhong shook his head and said: "No way, our laws in Great Qin are too strict, except for the elderly, children and the disabled, no one wants to escape from conscription and military service, whoever dares to shield will have to be exiled." ”

"But when all the people are called up to serve, what happens to the crops in the fields? Who's going to fight the iron? Who will suppress the bandits in the mountains? Xiang Kang asked angrily: "The autumn harvest is coming soon, and I heard that there are bandits gathering to make trouble in Malingshan, and they have recruited the militia and farmers to serve in the frontier, who will collect the grain?" Who cracked down on the bandits? ”

"We have a good emperor." Feng Zhong sighed and answered the question, drank another bowl of stuffy wine, and then said, "Do you know?" I heard that some time ago, our emperor killed more than a dozen of his brothers in Xianyang in one go, and then broke his ten sisters in the downtown car, he was so vicious to his own brothers and sisters, let alone to us Qianshou people? ”

"No wonder Chen Sheng and Wu Guang will be forced to rebel, no wonder Chen Sheng and Wu Guang will rebel, and the whole world will follow suit." Xiang Kang finally understood why there were so many rebellions in the chaotic times at the end of Qin, and after drinking a bowl of stuffy wine like Feng Zhong, Xiang Kang simply told Feng Zhong the truth, and said: "Big brother, it's not that I don't help you, it's that my brothers have a temper, you also know what kind of temper those brothers have, you recruit them to serve in the garrison, they are only afraid that they will escape, I can't stop them." ”

Feng Zhong didn't answer, and drank two bowls of stuffy wine in a row, before he said with a depressed expression: "Run away, anyway, there must be more than a few people who escape, there are many debts, there are many lice, and I can't care about it so much, this matter is mainly the envoy of the countryman, I just beg me to escort people to the frontier, just don't let anyone escape on the road." ”

"And what if someone runs away on the road?" Xiang Kang asked.

"Then I'll have to serve in their place." Feng Zhong's voice was a little choked, and he drank wine and said, "Unless I can catch them, or my relatives can help me get them back, I will have to serve for them, and I will have to be beaten." Do you know why Wu Youyou went to Yanmen and never came back? In fact, he was convicted and detained in Yanmen because two guards ran away on the road when he escorted people to Yanmen to serve in the garrison. ”

"I mean, if someone runs away on the road, and you can't catch it, big brother, what are you going to do?" Xiang Kang continued to ask.

Feng Zhong obviously couldn't answer Xiang Kang's question, and drank two bowls of wine in a row before he said in a hoarse voice: "Accept fate, who called me unlucky and put on this kind of drudgery?" Do you want me to be like that Liu Ji in Pei County, and take people to Maling Mountain to be a robber? ”

Before he finished speaking, tears had already poured out of Feng Zhong's eyes, slowly falling into the wine bowl, and after drinking another bowl of stuffy wine, Feng Zhong, who had not been very good at drinking, simply cried out and said from the bottom of his heart: "I really don't want to go!" The fourth round of conscription is all my villagers, and some of them are related to me, and I can't bear to tie them up with a rope! If any of them run away, I'll have to suffer for them!" I don't want to be together for a few years and can't come back, my children are still young, what will they do if I leave? ”

While crying and desperately pouring wine into his mouth, Feng Zhong couldn't help but get drunk, and simply pulled Xiang Kang's sleeve and begged: "Brother, you have a lot of ideas, can you think of any way to help me avoid this time?" My children are all your nephews and nieces, you can't leave them alone and left unattended! If I die on the frontier, what will they do? ”

Knowing that Feng Zhong was talking drunk, Xiang Kang didn't pay attention to him, but just thought in his heart while drinking stuffy wine, and said secretly: "What should I do?" My brothers can run, but what about my militia? They ran away or went to the frontier, what else did I rebel with? Alas, if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang could quickly rebel, then I could follow the rebellion and justifiably help my brothers and militia avoid this battle. Damn Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, when did you rebel, why can't I remember at all? ”

When Xiang Kang was thinking about it quickly, Feng Zhong had already begun to go crazy with alcohol, crying and shouting, "...... Really forced Lao Tzu to be anxious, Lao Tzu learned from Liu Ji, let everyone go, took a few obedient people to Maling Mountain, and then took my mother-in-law and doll together, the government will arrest me if I catch it, if I can't catch me, I will be a robber for the rest of my life! Even if I die, I'm going to die with my mother-in-law doll! ”

"If only you had that guts." Xiang Kang scoffed, knowing that Feng Zhong was drunk and dared to say something like this, and when he was sober, he didn't dare to really learn from Liu Laosan even if he borrowed his courage. However, after muttering, Xiang Kang's heart suddenly moved, and he said: "This can be used, even Feng Zhong, who has already been a wanderer, is forced to be in a hurry, and he dares to say what he wants to learn from Liu Laosan, not to mention my barefoot militiamen who are not afraid to wear shoes?" If you force them to be anxious, can they bite people without being in a hurry?! ”

Thinking of this, and thinking carefully for a long time, Xiang Kang suddenly became angry in his heart, and he was angry, first filled himself with a bowl of wine, raised his head and drank it all, and then slammed the wine bowl on the ground, blurted out: "Why wait for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?" They are not in a hurry, I am in a hurry! I'll be Chen Sheng and Wu Guang first! ”

It was also a coincidence that just when Xiang Kang had just made up his mind, Xiang It suddenly knocked on the door outside the courtyard and loudly beckoned Xiang Kang to go to the second uncle's house for dinner, Xiang Kang was not polite, pushed away Feng Zhong, who had fallen asleep in a drunken coma, opened the courtyard door and said to Xiang It: "Don't be in a hurry to eat, Xiang It, go and call your Uncle Ji, something is wrong." ”

"Uncle Ji, what's wrong?" Xiang asked suspiciously.

"The Tyrannical Qin Imperial Court is going to recruit the fourth round of soldiers." Xiang Kang said word by word: "About half of our Xiang family's children have to go to the frontier to serve in the garrison, go and call your Uncle Ji, let's discuss what to do!" ”

"Recruit the fourth round of soldiers?" Xiang It, who had been worried about this for a long time, turned pale all of a sudden, and stared at Xiang Kang to find that Xiang Kang didn't seem to be joking, Xiang It couldn't help screaming, and then rushed to Xiang Kang's second uncle's house.