Facing his brother's infatuation and embarrassment, for a long time, Yang Fan said leisurely: Couldn't the money and food sent by the Zhang family last month help her? Seeing that the horses eating with their heads down did not speak, they understood. After taking a sip of wine, he put down his wine glass and asked softly: "What, with the money and food sent the day before yesterday, isn't the money for redemption enough?" ”

Ma Er said with a painful face: "It's not enough, the old bustard said that the price of goods in the market has skyrocketed, and the ransom money has also risen." But he said with a look of hope: "But as long as the war starts, it will be a double salary according to the rules, and it will be enough to save for two months." ”

Look at the face of the horse that has become hopeful because of the upcoming double salary, and shake his head helplessly, doesn't the sky know, he will face an army of thirty or fifty thousand pirates in the future, with his current county strength, is there any possibility of survival?

Drain the wine in your hand, put a mouthful of food on the horse pot helmet, and then put the chopsticks with the taste of chopsticks in your mouth and drink.

Eager to fight, the same mood as he was at the beginning, but he was in order to make a contribution, it was an ethereal fantasy, and the brother in front of him was for his goodwill, the daughter of the old military family who was a childhood sweetheart on the same street as him, and now Xiaohong, who was forced to be in the flower street màishēn.

A few years ago, Xiaohong didn't dare to say it, but the kind-hearted neighbor mentioned that he wanted Ma Er to redeem Xiaohong, and then the two of them lived a good life, which was agreed by Ma Er's nominal eldest brother Yang Fan, they are all melons on a bitter vine, as long as they can live in this world for their lives, and then give their brothers an incense.

However, even if the money for redemption is added to Yang Fan's frugality, it is far from enough. Now, I am counting on the double salary at the end of the war.

In any case, let your brother become a family before the war.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly a familiar drum sounded in Haining, and all the people changed color when they heard the rapid drum sound.

Yang Fan finished eating and drinking, wrapped the rest and stuffed it into the horse's arms: "You go home, then discuss it with Heli again, I will go to answer for you, and we will see you when it is over." Then he dropped the hundred coins and hurried to the yamen.

When Yang Fan came to the yamen, he found that he had come early, and after three drums, there was still only one lonely self in the lobby.

Yang Fan was bored and looked around, and when he was watching, the footsteps in the back hall were mixed, and a middle-aged official in a red robe and a young man in white walked into the lobby accompanied by the county order. At first glance, the identities of these two people are quite noble.

Yang Fan quickly hid to the side. But where can the empty yamen lobby hide? No matter where he hid, it was extremely abrupt and conspicuous, so he could only stand so awkwardly, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

As a result, when the middle-aged official saw the empty lobby, he didn't look at him, just treated this guy in a common person's costume as the air, only the little boy in the white robe nodded politely to him, but didn't say anything.

The red-robed official loudly questioned the county order at that time: "Your county has beaten the drum three times, why haven't the officials come yet?" Are your subordinates so slack? ”

The county order hurriedly replied carefully: "Your Excellency has wronged the lower officials, according to the normal rules, you only opened the office at the right time, and you came suddenly, but you were promoted to the court at the same time, so your colleagues can't get used to it for a while, and please include Lord Hong." ”

Hong Chengchou was choked, this era is like this, everything is procrastinated, only at the noon gate is the day before dawn, and all other places are open to do things at three poles in the morning. Of course, this is related to the administrative rules at the time, to be honest, a county order with jurisdiction over 780,000 people, there is really nothing to do, even if the office starts at dawn, then there must be something to cooperate, otherwise everyone is standing here staring at the little eyes?

Hong Chengchou was not unkind, so he could only soften his tone and instruct the county order: "It is an extraordinary period now, starting tomorrow, the sky will be bright, and we must not slack off." ”

The prefectural order is called only promised. In fact, there is no need for others to tell you, now is the time to burn your eyebrows, and in order to protect your life, you will never dare to slack off anymore, which is tantamount to looking for death.

While waiting for the others to arrive, Hong Chengchou saw Yang Fan standing alone in the lobby at this time. Idle is also idle, it's good to understand the situation, so Hong Chengchou paced in front of Yang Fan and asked calmly: "What do you do?" The reason why I asked this was because Yang Fan was dressed in cloth and did not have any official signs.

Yang Fan saw that this person was popular, so he respectfully saluted: "Grass people, ah, no, small, ah, no, it's the last general Yang Fan, hearing the war drums, I came to report." ”

Hong Chengchou felt surprised, turned his head and asked the county order: "But so?" ”

The county magistrate was also confused, and he didn't know this person, so he replied vaguely: "Maybe it's about the same." Then he quickly explained, "Since the heaven is called the last general, he is under the jurisdiction of the guard, not a subordinate of the lower officials." ”

Hong Chengchou stopped asking him, and continued to ask Yang Fan: "Where is your Qianhu now, and how can you find him?" ”

Yang Fan replied cautiously: "Lord Qianhu has already led troops to reinforce Yungui last year, and now I don't know if I live or die." ”

"What about the deputy thousand households?"

"Deputy Qianhu is actually a straightforward person who doesn't understand anything, so the little one came over instead of him."

Hong Chengchou nodded understandingly, the military households are hereditary, you don't know how many thousands of households are in infancy in this country, and how many fools are deputy thousand households, this is a problem left over from history, and no one is to blame. So Hong Chengchou didn't ask anymore.

So the topic went into small talk: "The war situation was sent yesterday, do you know?" ”

"The little one already knows, so he has prepared in advance, so he arrived here so early, and at the same time, from the mouths of the people who poured into the city yesterday to take refuge, they also know that this time the enemy is menacing and numerous, and it is unrealistic to hold this Haining according to the arrangement of the adults."

Hong Chengchou frowned: "How many soldiers does Haining have?" ”

"When I distributed money and food yesterday, I paid attention to it, but it was only 300, and it was simply wishful thinking to rely on these 300 people to defend this city, unless—"

Hong Chengchou's eyes lit up involuntarily: "Unless what?" ”

"I heard that the last battle of Hangzhou City was a law of signing, and we can also implement this law."

Hong Chengchou sighed and didn't say anything.

"But even if you sign Ding, because the area is small and the population is not much, there are not many Ding, so this method is ineffective in Haining, not to mention guarding for ten days to buy time for Hangzhou, once 350,000 robber soldiers come to the city, the city will be broken in a blink of an eye."

The county commander also knew this situation, so he nodded indifferently, but his face did not have a look of joy and sorrow, since he knew that he couldn't win, how could he not keep this city, where his duty was, running was death, and not running was death, so what are you worried about? In fact, Hong Chengchou also knew that this method was a bit unworkable, but it was just a death order, forcing the county order to keep it for a while.

"But—" Yang Fan changed his words.

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