The more chaotic the times, the lower the social status of women.

If society is in turmoil to the point where cannibalism is practiced at every turn, most women will degenerate into something like tools and livestock.

Maybe it's expensive, it can be considered a luxury, but it's definitely not human.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang's Xu Family Fifteen Tun is particularly unusual.

Not only was the management forced into an old woman, but the women in the dock fort also had a relatively high status - although the work assigned to them was also very heavy, and they would be beaten with sticks and scolded if they couldn't finish it, but here, they were people, not playthings or tools.

To put it simply, in the fifteenth tun of the Xu family, the husband has no right to sell his wife at will.

It doesn't matter if it's rented out temporarily or sold permanently.

I think that at the beginning, Xu Shiyang, who had just taken over the dock fort, cut off nearly seven or eight heads in a row before changing the habit of the people of the fort to dispose of women at will.

Of course, he hasn't been in charge of the Dock Fort for long, and he still can't plug all the loopholes, but if he can improve it a little, it's relatively good.

This caused a consequence, and after a long time, the women of the fifteenth tun also developed a habit that they would never have in some places, and they did not dare to have it—they would occasionally make some requests to Xu Shiyang, the lord of the castle.

Of course, you can't find Xu Shiyang directly, you have to pass the word through Mama Rong.

"What's the matter? What do those stupid girls want? ”

Hearing Mama Rong say that there was a problem to report, Xu Shiyang's first reaction was that someone wanted something new from the girls' dormitory in the West Courtyard.

Maybe you want to add a big iron pot to the collective kitchen? Maybe you want to change to an iron farm tool or something?

Mama Rong hesitated for a long time, and then said a little embarrassed: "There is a new Nizi who wants to ...... and wants to join the young master's personal army." ”

Silence, long silence.

Then there was laughter.

"Hahaha! Mama Rong doesn't want to laugh! A woman went to be a soldier for the castle owner? Hahaha! ”

Almost everyone is like hearing the funniest joke in the world, leaning forward and back, and having fun.

Almost everyone ......, except for Mama Rong and Xu Shiyang.

"Mama Rong, what's going on?" Xu Shiyang asked solemnly: "Why do some people in the West Courtyard want to join the pro-soldier team?" ”

"The old body doesn't know, and the old body also said that she shouldn't be delusional, how can a girl be a soldier?" Mama Rong lowered her head, as if she was a little ashamed: "But, but that little girl said that she killed a Tartar, young master, you know." ”

"Killed a Tartar?" The people in the hilarity were a little quieter.

Killed a Tartar? What does this mean?

On the side of the fifteenth tun, the Tartars were only killed twice, once in the last night battle, and once in the execution of the captives the next day, and there should be no women participating in both times.

"Bragging, huh?" Xie Zhen muttered in a low voice: "How could a woman kill a Tartar?" ”

It's really possible that a woman has killed a Tartar.

Others don't know, but Xu Shiyang remembered that night, the little girl who was lying behind the Tartar plot master and stabbed wildly in the back with a meat cutting knife.

In fact, that Tartar Mouke was indeed the girl's victory, and she was equivalent to saving Xu Shiyang's life.

If it was really that little girl, others could laugh at her whimsical, but Xu Shiyang thought that he didn't have this right.

So, he commanded, "Call the girl who wants to be a soldier to come to me." ”

The laughter around them disappeared completely, and a group of big men looked at each other: 'What do you mean? Is there really a little girl who can kill Tartars? ’

'It can't be, right?' ’

"Obey, the old body will call her!"

Mama Rong couldn't help but laugh - she was finally worthy of the thick blanket that the little girl had secretly served.

In fact, the girl wanted to give her a bearskin coat at first, but the thing was so eye-catching that Mama Rong didn't dare to accept it although she was greedy.

Also, the girl's sister is handsome, so knowledgeable about current affairs, maybe there is a chance to be a concubine or something for the young master, and then it will be a family.

This is also the reason why Mama Yung is willing to convey this kind of joke-like request to her.

Don't bully the young man's ......, ah no, don't bully the girl to be poor!

About a quarter of an hour later, Mama Rong found Zhao Lin, who was helping in the back kitchen.

At that time, Xu Shiyang was sitting at the round table in his hall, holding a homemade quill pen and writing on a stack of paper.

"Young Master, she's here." Mama Rong reminded in a whisper.

Xu Shiyang raised his head and looked at the little girl in front of him with a critical gaze, who seemed generous and did not have a trace of shyness.

Well, the body is thin, and it is estimated that in another time and space, this weight can envy a lot of white bone spirits who don't want to lose weight.

The face is still delicate, but the age is too young to grow at all.

The highest praise for her appearance is probably to the extent of "a beautiful little girl, very promising", right?

Fortunately, what I'm going to talk about today has nothing to do with whether this girl is beautiful or not.

Although she was clean today, and there seemed to be no resemblance to the mud monkey with half of her swollen face that night, Xu Shiyang still recognized at a glance that the girl in front of her was indeed the girl who killed a Tartar Mouke.

Because their eyes are the same, the same clear and stubborn.

"You want to be my own soldier?" Xu Shiyang asked.

"Yes, I want to be a soldier and fight the Tartars!" The girl's answer was categorical and resounding.

"What's your name?" Xu Shiyang then asked.

"Zhao Lin, my name is Zhao Lin."

"Surname Zhao?" Xu Shiyang pondered for a while, and asked suspiciously: "Clan? ”

This girl is not very old, although she is emaciated, but her skin is fair (that night, Xu Shiyang saw her body), this is not something that a farmer can raise, not when the Great Zhou was prosperous, and now it is even more difficult to think about it.

"I'm not a sect girl." Zhao Lin replied without hesitation: "I'm just an ordinary peasant girl." ”

"Tell the truth." Xu Shiyang didn't believe it at all.

Zhao Lin gritted her teeth, and it took a long time to change her words: "I have been out of the five suits early, and I really can't be regarded as a sect daughter - I am a native of Zhaojiazhuang in the west." ”

Zhaojiazhuang ......, no wonder.

The owner family of the dock fort is a distant relative of the Great Zhou royal family in the north, probably dating back to the generation of the great-grandfather, so that it can be related to the current emperor.

The nature is probably similar to Liu Bei's after King Jing of Zhongshan, if Zhao Lin goes to Jiangnan now and hypes that she is a sect girl, there is a high probability that she will be slapped in the face, and then get an evaluation like "You are also worthy of the surname Zhao".

It's no wonder that Zhao Lin is reluctant to admit that she is a sect daughter, and anyone who has a little self-esteem will not admit it.

It's just that since the twists and turns can have a little to do with the grandmaster, Zhaojiazhuang still has some strength in Jiangbei, and it can be regarded as a strong dock fort.

In terms of population alone, it is a little weaker than the Xu family, but when it comes to grain storage and wealth, it is much stronger than the Xu family.

It's a pity that all this was because they were broken through the earthen wall of the dock fort by the Tartars and turned into nothing.