Chapter 196: Two Lives
Five days later, Li Xiao and his entourage successfully came to the Yao Wenchang military camp in Wuding Prefecture. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yao Wenchang solemnly welcomed the arrival of Li Xiao and others, and then set up a banquet to entertain Li Xiao and his party.
During the banquet, Li Xiao and Yao Wenchang staggered their cups, smiling and laughing, and talked about each other's parting feelings since the farewell of Jinjiazhuang Fort last year.
After the banquet, Yao Wenchang invited Li Xiao into the living room to sit.
At this time, Li Xiao gave Yao Wenchang a high-grade Qingfeng sword produced in the Iron Dragon City.
Yao Wenchang drew the sword and took a look, only to see that the sword was extremely well-made, full of green light, and with a flick of his hand, there was a faint sound of dragon groaning, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
"Lord Li came from afar, and gave such a peerless sword in the next place, how can he be virtuous in the next, and dare to accept this great gift." Yao Wenchang's fingers caressed the smooth sword body like a girl's skin, and he looked ashamed.
Li Xiao laughed and said: "You and I are brothers, why bother to say such polite words, this sword can be endured, you just accept it." ”
Yao Wenchang accepted the sword and said emotionally: "On that day, if it weren't for the dozens of Tartar heads generously given to Yao by General Soldier Li, Yao would have been beheaded by the imperial court for the crime of losing the army and defeating, so he would have retained his official position today." Lord Li's great kindness, but how can Yao repay it! ”
Li Xiao said with a smile: "General Yao, if you say this, you will see the outside." Everyone is a brother, and they are all colleagues in Shandong, and they should help each other. Li came today, but there was one thing, he was going to trouble General Yao. ”
Yao Wenchang hurriedly asked, "What is the matter with my lord?" You can rest assured, as long as you can do it, you will do your best. ”
Li Xiao saw that his attitude was so respectful, and he was very comfortable in his heart. He told Yao Wenchang in detail about his desire to lease land in Wuding Prefecture to grow tobacco.
Listening to Li Xiao's words, Yao Wenchang was first surprised.
This Master Li, how can he be so dignified, and suddenly think of planting tobacco, what are the benefits of planting this Laoshzi?
However, it occurred to him that whatever he cared about, as long as he could afford the rent, what he liked to plant was his own business, but it had nothing to do with him.
Moreover, now because of the continuous war, the imperial court has continued to increase the distribution of land endowments, Wuding Prefecture and its subordinate counties and towns, many tenants have fled, and large areas of land have been abandoned, in such a situation, as long as Li Xiao can afford the rent, it is not difficult to lease the land.
Thinking of this, Yao Wenchang said: "Lord Li, this matter of renting land, as long as your army can afford the rent, this matter of renting acres of land to grow tobacco, Lord Li, you can rest assured, it will be wrapped up in Yao." ”
Li Xiao was overjoyed: "Yao Shen is a happy person, so let's do it, after you negotiate, I will immediately send someone over to sign the agreement, and pay half of the deposit in advance, and after the completion of the year's cultivation and harvest, I will pay the other half of the rent." ”
"Cheng, Lord Li has a good character, Yao is the most trustworthy, this matter must be done for Lord Li in the future." Yao Wenchang replied with a smile on his face.
The two laughed, and there was a harmonious atmosphere between the living rooms.
Li Xiao only stayed in Wuding Prefecture for one day, and then hurried back to Iron Dragon City.
After returning to the city, Li Xiao immediately arranged for personnel from the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department to go to Nanzhili and other places to buy tobacco seeds, and invited a group of experienced tobacco farmers with high salaries as technical guidance. Li Xiao asked them to do a good job of these preparations as soon as possible, so that they could plant seeds in time after the spring thawed.
From now until the beginning of the Chinese New Year, Chen Zilong, a popular matchmaker, has become the busiest one in Li Xiaojun.
After many days of busy selection and matching, Chen Zilong finally arranged for all the unmarried adult women in the captives and the wives of their dead husbands to marry Li Xiaojun's unmarried soldiers and craftsmen.
Li Xiao's move won the hearts of the officers and men of the whole army. Every soldier who likes to get married secretly swears in his heart that he will serve Li Xiao and Master Li more wholeheartedly in order to repay his kindness. For many days, Chifeng City, Iron Dragon City and other places have been in a joyful atmosphere. Chen Zilong also held a group wedding for these married soldiers and craftsmen.
In order to let the soldiers enjoy the sweetness of the newlyweds, Li Xiao ordered that all the newlywed soldiers and craftsmen be given a three-day holiday, so that they can cultivate and enhance their feelings.
It's just that compared with the soldiers and craftsmen who everyone likes, the taste in the hearts of those captive women who are forced to marry is very different.
On the wedding night, in the dead of night, the old Hui Hui captive woman Bai, curled up in the corner of the kang, wrapped tightly in her body, she looked at her husband Wu Dagen with a bewildered expression on the opposite side with a vigilant look.
Wu Dagen, a shield soldier in the Chifeng Battalion, is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and two years ago, he was a homeless person in Laizhou City, and he was selected into Li Xiao's army.
If Wu Dagen hadn't joined Li Xiaojun, it is estimated that he would have died of cold and starvation by now. And now he bought a house with his salary as a soldier, and today he married a daughter-in-law, Wu Dagen is very satisfied.
Although this daughter-in-law is a strong match in the army, and she also brought a six-year-old boy, Wu Dagen didn't care, an older homeless like him who was once struggling on the edge of the death line, and now he can marry a daughter-in-law, which is quite good.
"the child, the children are asleep, let's rest early." After a long silence, Wu Dagen said with a sigh of relief.
"Get out!"
Bai Shi shouted angrily, and there was an extra pair of shiny scissors in his hand.
She rested the scissors on her neck, and scolded with a frown: "If you dare to come here, I will die for you!" ”
Wu Dagen's face was embarrassed, he sighed and said, "Child, why are you here." We all got marriage certificates in the Civil Affairs Department, you are all my woman, why bother to be so angry. Let's live a good life together, can't we? ”
"Hmph, who is your woman, you Han people, so shameless!" Bai Shi gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "You beasts, in front of me, cut off my husband's head, and now you want to force me to marry you, you are really shameless!" ”
Listening to Bai's words, Wu Dagen's face instantly turned red, and the green tendons on his forehead also bloomed. It's just that before he could speak, Bai Shi cried again: "If it weren't for the sake of saving this child, I would have been hit headfirst to death, why should I suffer such humiliation today!" ”
"Enough!"
Wu Dagen was furious, and he stood up sharply: "You dare to say that our army is a beast, phew, it really reverses black and white, and blood spews people!" Let me ask you, in all parts of Henan, who burned the villages that burned to a black ruins, who killed the villagers in the whole village, who stabbed those young children with knives and guns, and who raped the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law first and then killed them. Body. Bare. Body dumped in the wild! You vicious thieves, you even cut off these poor women **** and stabbed them through. The body, stomach and intestines are rolling to the ground! You can do such a heinous act of beasts! ”
Wu Dagen's angry face showed a trace of fierce hideousness. He continued to shout: "You bastard husband, don't pretend you don't know anything about all the evil things you do! He deserved to be beheaded! Hmph, this kid was lucky to meet the benevolent Lord Li of our army, so he cut off his head with a knife and died lightly. If it falls into the hands of my Wu Dagen, I will cut this bastard with a thousand knives, peel and pull the grass! ”
Wu Dagen was still angry, and then said: "You despicable and vicious thieves dare to slander our army as beasts. Hmph, have you ever heard of what our army has done to take captives, have you ever seen what our army has done to kill, burn and loot the villages and towns of Zhoubao, no matter where our army goes, where the people do not support it, where the people do not love it. Let me tell you, our army is an upright and mighty army, and a benevolent and righteous army dedicated to protecting the country and the people. I dare to say that our army is a beast, you rogues, all of you are devils, but it is worthy of the name! ”
Wu Dagen finally finished speaking, and he turned around with a heavy breath, trying to control the anger that still existed in his heart.
Bai's originally angry face began to stiffen.
The scissors in her hand slid silently to the ground.
This Wu Dagen told the truth that she has been avoiding and has always been unwilling to face the truth. As a family member of the rogue, of course, she would have witnessed and heard about what her husband had done, but she just pretended not to know.
Bai suddenly found that this seemingly honest man maintained and cherished his army so much. When he uttered the words attacking Li Xiaojun, his anger was uncontrollable like a volcanic eruption.
There was a depressing silence in the room.
"child, I won't say anything else, you just know it in your own heart. You and the child can have a good rest on the kang, and I'll just lay a bunk on the floor. ”
After Wu Dagen finished speaking, he pulled a blanket and spread it on the ground, and soon snored loudly.
Bai was like a puppet, sitting on the kang.
It wasn't until the third watch that she fell asleep in a daze.
After dawn, Bai Shi just woke up, and suddenly found that she had an extra quilt on her body, she looked up, and Wu Dagen on the ground had already gotten up and was no longer in the room.
Feeling the warmth of the thick quilt, two lines of tears fell quietly in Bai's eyes.
Not long after, Wu Dagen pushed the door in with a cold air, but with a large bag of food in his hand.
"I went to the snack shop in the city and bought something delicious, you and the children will get up and eat, I'll go out first." Wu Dagen put down the food on the table, and then turned around to leave.
"So, have you eaten it?" Bai's voice was low.
"Eat, I've eaten in the barracks, you and the children get up and eat." Wu Dagen said lightly, and then opened the door and left.
Bai Shi was still in a daze, and the child on the side woke up.
He opened his eyes, saw the large pile of food on the table, let out a cry of joy, jumped up from the kang, rushed to the table and began to eat.
Seeing that the child was eating so sweetly, Bai wanted to stop him, but he couldn't say it.
"Mother, it's delicious." The child chews with a mouth full of oil.
Bai smiled bitterly and touched his head, tears flickering in his eyes.
In the next three days, Wu Dagen went out to buy food every day, and everything was not heavy, so that Bai and her children could taste all kinds of delicious snacks.
Although they didn't talk much to Bai, and the two deliberately kept their distance, they could feel that the cold separation between them seemed to be gradually dissolving as time went by.
In the past three days, Wu Dagen has taken Bai's children to Chifeng City many times to play, the children were deeply attracted by many novel scenes in the city, and they were overjoyed, and their feelings with Wu Dagen deepened rapidly.
All this, the Bai family silently watched in their eyes.
Her heart was full of mixed feelings, and it seemed that there was a trace of inexplicable emotion.
This man named Wu Dagen is really a good person who can live a down-to-earth life.
It's just that I can really turn my back on my dead husband and get along with this Han man?
Bai's heart was in turmoil.
Three days passed quickly.
On this day, before leaving, Wu Dagen took out a bag of loose silver from the depths of the box in the room, and forced the bag of silver into her in Bai's surprised eyes.
"Child, mother, I'll go back to the barracks, this bag of silver, is a little savings of mine in the past two years, I'll leave it to you two to spend, give it to the child, and give yourself more good food." Wu Dagen said calmly.
Bai wanted to shirk it, but Wu Dagen forced it to her.
"Take it, you take good care of yourself and your children. This silver, spend it when it should be spent, use it when it should be used, don't be reluctant. Wu Dagen's tone brooked no objection.
Bai Shi accepted the silver, and then put the silver on the table, she raised her head, looked straight over, and met Wu Dagen's warm and flashing eyes.
Bai Shi rushed over, hugged him tightly, buried his head in the man's broad chest, and two lines of hot tears fell again.
"In charge, you are in the camp, you must also take good care of yourself, me and the child, waiting for you to come back at any time." Bai's voice was low.
Wu Dagen stroked the hair of the woman in his arms, a warm current in his heart stirred back and forth, he hugged the woman in his arms tightly, and then nodded heavily: "Don't worry, I'm in the barracks, everything is fine." As long as I have a holiday, I will come back to see you. ”
Bai snorted, and the two hugged each other more and more tightly.
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In contrast, Ilgen Kyoro. Chatta, the current fourth captain of the sixth team of the rampant outpost, seemed to have no twists and turns on their wedding night.
Looking at the bride Gao who was sitting at the head of the bed, wearing a red jacket skirt and a red hijab, Chata suddenly felt full of emotion.
He remembered the faces of his dead relatives, his father Adahai, his uncle Ashan, his younger brother Mo Luohun and others, all of which appeared in his mind, and seemed to be looking at him in the air and laughing with a condescending appearance.
"Chata, promise me, you must live well, perhaps, in the future, the revitalization of the Ilgenjuro family will depend on you." The words of his uncle, Ahsan, before he died, were remembered by Chatta.
Since he has become a member of Li Xiaojun's rampant sentry, after these two battles with the Liukou, he has been promoted from an ordinary rampant soldier to a captain, although he is not a big official, but he can be regarded as a small fulfillment of his uncle Ashan's wish.
Chata silently thought that his current self, changing his surname, wearing Hanfu, growing long hair, and speaking Chinese, is almost no different from an ordinary Han person, except that his Chinese is still relatively jerky.
Now, I have married a Han as my wife, so is I a Jurchen or a Han?
Unable to answer this question, Chata shook his head, put these inexplicable thoughts in his mind behind him, and slowly walked towards the bride on the bed, Gao.
He gently lifted the bride's hijab.
Gao, a flat-headed and straight-faced wife, showed a shy smile when she saw her husband in front of her.
Gao's heart was also full of emotion.
This Shaanxi woman, whose whole family joined Gao Yingxiang's subordinates, both father and brother died in the war, and only one younger brother became a prisoner of Li Xiaojun with himself in the Battle of Jiugao Mountain.
The captured Gao was terrified, she originally thought that she would be killed by those very fierce Ming troops, but she didn't expect that they were very polite to the captured women, and in the process of escorting them back to Shandong from Henan, they had food and clothing all the way, but no one came to insult and abuse them.
Her younger brother was not beheaded by the officials and soldiers as she imagined, but was also escorted back to Shandong. A few days ago, he was sent to a place called Ocean Island to work as a construction laborer, building a castle and a port.
In the past few days, the Gao family has gone from being extremely resistant to Li Xiaojun at the beginning, to accepting it, until secretly appreciating it, and has completed such a seemingly imperceptible process.
This is an official army that truly cares for the people and acts uprightly, and Gao made his own evaluation of Li Xiaojun in his heart.
Therefore, when she heard that the unmarried women who were going to take them captive were promised to Li Xiaojun's soldiers, she even felt a little joy and yearning in her heart.
When he learned that he had been given a rampant sentry commander surnamed Yin, Gao's heart was secretly happy.
She was thinking, perhaps, from this wedding day, she would forever bid farewell to the unbearable years of thieves in the past, and instead became an upright family member of the official army.
These two kinds of life are completely bitter and then sweet.
"Officials 。。。。。。"
Looking at Chata, who was staring at him intently, Gao's face flushed.
Chata pounced like a wolf.
The red candle flickered, and in the silk tent, the figure of the white flower flickered dimly, and the man's roar and the woman's moaning sounded together.
The two are forgetful and happy, like a ray of human light, warming this lonely and cold winter night.
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