"Of course the eldest prince is fine!" Speaking of Liu Qi, the old man's eyes lit up, "The Yuzhou Thorn History is useless, he was beaten by the soldiers under the eldest prince, and the little one helped clean up the battlefield!" ”

Speaking of this, the old man puffed up his chest proudly.

Guo Jia showed an expression of disapproval: "Grand Prince Liu actually drove the people to defend the city? Even such old people requisitioned ......"

Before he finished speaking, the old man's eyes widened and he was unhappy.

"What does this noble man say? Little Lao'er helped clean up the battlefield voluntarily, and no one forced me. Those thieves invaded Yancheng and came to spoil our family and village, the little old man is not dead yet, he has the strength to help, why can't he help! ”

"Uh, this ......"

Guo Jia was caught off guard and was sprayed on the face, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

It was extremely cruel to drive the people to the city walls to defend the city - the common people were not trained and could often only be used as cannon fodder.

Moreover, this old man has gray hair, and he may not be able to go back alive if he is conscripted as a people's husband.

I complained for him, why was he still sprayed?

Guo Jia stopped talking, but the old man hadn't said it yet.

"Our eldest son is a good official, if it weren't for his old man, the little old man's family of four might have died a long time ago! The nobles may come from other places and don't know, before our wild goose city, you can meet mountain bandits by walking two steps, and you can farm hard for a whole year, and there are not a few grains of grain left after paying taxes, and you have to be robbed by mountain bandits! My hard-working old woman was killed by thieves, and the officers and soldiers didn't care at all! ”

"After the eldest prince came, he led the troops to kill all those damn thieves! The fields were also divided, and the levies were exempted from forced labor, so that the villains could concentrate on recuperation. If you have surplus labor at home, you can also go to the construction team organized by the eldest son to sign up, do work, manage three meals a day, and have wages at the end of the month! Thanks to the eldest son, I let my grandson help with the work, my son went to work on the construction team, and my daughter-in-law could get some wages by helping with the fire and cooking, and by the end of the year, maybe I would be able to marry my grandson! ”

"Recently, the construction team is building a road, it's called a beautiful one, it hasn't been repaired here, and a few people can see the new road more than ten miles ahead!"

Seeing that the old man was getting more and more boundless, Guo Jia hurriedly stopped: "Uncle, I am indeed not from Jingzhou, and I don't know how powerful the eldest prince is." But since the eldest prince loves the people like a son, why did he drive your people to defend the city, isn't that using you as cannon fodder? ”

"No matter how you talk in this later life, you say that Xiao Lao'er is voluntary!"

The old man was so angry that he no longer used his honorific titles.

"Besides, who said we were taken into the city. That is the eldest prince is benevolent, afraid that the people will be burned and looted by the damned Yuzhou soldiers, so he asked the soldiers under his command to help us collect food, and let us bring our belongings into the city for refuge! ”

"The military master under the eldest prince is different from those **. Say that work is just work, don't even stutter, say what kind of military regulations! ”

"As soon as the Yuzhou soldiers retreated, the eldest prince also asked them to help repair the house for us, and all the food they collected was brought back, and the property they brought with them was not touched. We couldn't get over it in our hearts, and we wanted to keep some for those military masters, but the adults in Yancheng just refused to accept it! ”

"Those military masters are also young dolls, some of them are younger than my unsuccessful son, they are desperate to protect us on the battlefield, let's help carry food at the back end, what about cleaning and cleaning?"

"The grain in the field was harvested too early, and there was a lot of loss. But what does that have to do with the eldest prince and the adults in the city, it's all to blame on the damn Yuzhou soldiers! ”

"If you complain about doing this kind of work, you will be thundered by the sky!"

After speaking, the old man glared at Guo Jia dissatisfied, picked up the hoe and turned around and left, obviously angry.

Guo Jia...... Guo Jia is already sluggish.

However, Xu Shu had seen Liu Qi and knew how much Liu Qi could spoil the people, so he was not too surprised.

"Bonghyo, how's that?" Seeing Guo Jia's subversive appearance, Xu Shu was secretly refreshed, "How do you feel about being scolded by my father-in-law?" ”

Let you sneer at the lord along the way, and now you meet the people under the lord's rule and still say so, and you will be punished!

“…… Hmph, it's just an old man's words, I can't take it seriously, and look at it again! ”

Guo Jia said stiffly, and his prejudice against Liu Qi was a little shaken in his heart.

The old man's hands were full of calluses, his back was slightly bowed, and his face was full of folds.

And along the way, I haven't seen Xu Shu send someone to report the news.

The most important thing is that the old man's reverence and gratitude when he mentioned Liu Qi, as well as the anger when he refuted himself, were all from the bottom of his heart.

That's a lot of fun......

For this trip to Yancheng, Guo Jia suddenly had more expectations.

The old man didn't lie, and the group walked more than ten miles, and sure enough, they bumped into the team that was building the road.

Guo Jia couldn't hold back this time, looking at the scene in front of him, his eyes widened in shock.

I saw thousands of shirtless strong men set out in unison, divided into several groups, some pushing wheelbarrows to transport materials and garbage, some digging the ground at the front, and the people behind filled the pit with a kind of square bricks, which was very beautiful.

Finally, someone smeared a layer of gray paint on the ground, a sticky and greasy thing, and then covered it with thatch, and it was done.

There were people wearing brown shorts and looking like overseers going back and forth on the construction section, but unlike the overseers that Guo Jia knew, they did not wave leather whips or scold those workers, but shouted enthusiastically.

"Brothers, work hard, it's only half an hour before lunch, our team is the first now, don't let the boys from other teams rush to the front, after half an hour, there will be a large piece of meat to eat! I can smell the meat! ”

"Okay——!"

The workers responded in unison, and they were more motivated.

Guo Jia was dumbfounded, is there such a supervisor?

What does it mean that the first one has meat to eat, and the officials of this Yancheng give meat to the people who do hard labor?

Just as he was staying, the overseer saw this group of people, and hurriedly ran over, smiled and said, "A few nobles are going to Yancheng?" The road is being built here, it is not easy to walk, I am afraid that it will miss the time of a few nobles, please take a detour from the path over there, and it is faster. ”

Xu Shu was about to thank him, but Guo Jiaxian couldn't help it, and asked directly: "Do you really eat meat for hard labor?" ”

"Hard labor?" The overseer-looking man smiled, obviously being asked this question often, and answered very fluently, "Sir is wrong, they are not coolies, they are workers in the construction team, they work for the eldest son, and they are paid for three meals a day." I am not a supervisor, but a clerk of the county government, who specializes in recording the construction progress of each team and helping to drum up. ”