"You're right." The eldest grandson's eyes lit up, and he shouted: "The river is blocked, it is not so easy to rob people, force people to go ashore, and the official road to CD Mansion is rugged, and there are many steep mountains and mountains along the way, so it is much easier to start." ”

The eldest grandson grinned and said, "It's time to eat, Erlang, go into the house!" ”

Changsun Hong followed him towards the stove room, but Changsun Jin muttered behind him: "Since you thought of it, do you want to remind the county lieutenant?" ”

The eldest grandson didn't look back, entered the stove room, and dropped a sentence: "What do you do with so much?" We want to think about it, can't so many people in the government think of it? They have already gone to the county seat in a large group, and they will stay in the city for the next two days, waiting to see if the river can be dredged. The city wall is so high, and there are many people and horses, can the people of the Tang Gate fly in? ”

The eldest grandson was stunned for a moment, then laughed, followed the stove with his front and back feet, and sat at the table: "In this way, there is nothing to do with us, great!" ”

Eldest Sun Hao sat on the other side of the table with his knees pressed and glared at him, shook his head and said, "How can it be that it is not our business?" The matter of dredging the river depends on our several villages along the river, and the county lieutenant has just sent someone to say that tomorrow the people will be requisitioned according to the conscription. ”

Zhang took the rice bowl and vegetable basin to the table, and when he heard this, he became sad and said softly: "His father, it is the time when the field is busy with farming, and tomorrow the husband will miss the farming time in the village." ”

"I don't know, but my arms can't twist my thighs." Eldest Sun Hao sighed and said, "The county has given an order, and the state government has heard that it will also send people. ”

Picking up the rice bowl and taking a bite of rice, the eldest grandson Hao said again: "Tomorrow's husband, try to let the family with a lot of Ding Kou come out, and if there is a small number of Ding Kou, you can hide." ”

The family fell silent, letting the suffocating air shroud their heads, and in the busy farming season, it was extremely harmful to the peasants to requisition the people's husbands, and the people were all withdrawn, and there was naturally no one in the field, and the farm work was heavy, and the old, weak, sick and disabled could not take care of it. Generally, when the government issues levies, they will choose the time when the peasants are slack, and it is very irresponsible to levy and distribute them regardless of it.

After dinner, the eldest grandson Hao went out to Li Xian's house to discuss the affairs of tomorrow's people's husband, such a big matter, we must listen to his meaning, the farmers in the village are all tenants of Li Xian's family, which family does not use people, in fact, Li Xian has the final say.

When it got dark, Changsun Jin and Changsun Hong went back to their house early, still massaging and telling stories, but that night, Changsun Hong made different requests, he wanted to listen to the customs and customs of the Great Song Dynasty.

This stumped Changsun Jin, he has not been to many places, most of his life has stayed in the northwest border pass, and the situation in other places has only been heard of by people, and he has not seen it with his own eyes.

However, Changsun Hong doesn't care, hearsay is fine, the focus is to listen to a rough idea, the purpose is to figure out what the current Great Song Dynasty produces, what is lacking, what is planted in the north, what is planted in the south, and so on. So in the process of listening, he kept asking questions, and the eldest grandson who asked was left and right, and even found that the eldest grandson Hong who asked the question seemed to know more than himself, the person who answered the question, and often corrected the mistakes in his answers.

He asked suspiciously, how did Changsun Hong know. Changsun Hong said casually, it was written in a book. made the eldest grandson envious, it turned out that there was really a golden house in the book, and he could know the world without going out.

The two talked very late, and waited until the drowsiness was overflowing, before they went to sleep, and before going to bed, Changsun Hong noticed that his father went to Li Xian's house and had not come back until now.

After dawn the next day, when Changsun Hong was running with the dog with a bucket, he heard someone striking a gong and calling the names of some people, loudly asking them to gather at the entrance of the village in a quarter of an hour, and Bao Zheng had something to say.

Changsun Hong understands that these are people who are going to the river to dredge the waterway, the people by the river are all water-based, and it doesn't matter if they dive to move stones, but this time is too rushed, the autumn harvest and threshing are the time to use human hands, how is the land in the field good, the people who were called by name were all sad, and the two brothers of the dog's family were also called to one, which made the dog sigh, and complained that he had to go to the field to help, and he was afraid that he would not be free to practice martial arts every afternoon.

Changsun Hong could only comfort him with two words, saying that practicing martial arts is about efficiency, and time is more or less secondary, as long as you are determined, it is enough to practice a little time before going to bed at night.

Having said that, the dog was still unwilling, and after the run, he walked away sullenly with water. The eldest grandson Hong carried the full bucket and went back slowly, he was alone at home, and the Zhang family also went to the field, no one cared about him, because he was asked to study, he was not allowed to go to the field to help, so he could only sit at home and write.

Grinding ink and laying paper, the eldest grandson Hong wrote more than two hours according to the sample of the copybook, only to feel that the pen of the thin gold body is more and more similar, every word has a point of improvement, the heart is happy, these months of hard practice, finally have a harvest, soft pen calligraphy is no longer as unsightly as at the beginning, slowly have a stroke outline, with a minimum quality of a reader.

Standing up and stretching his waist, Changsun Hong looked at the sun outside the window, it was past noon, no wonder his stomach began to be hungry, he went to the stove room to scoop a bowl of brown rice porridge that Zhang specially gave him in the morning, and ate it with pickled radish.

As the saying goes, half of the eldest child eats the poor old man, which means that young people eat long meals, and adolescence needs a lot of nutrients to help them grow, often eating more than an adult, and Changsun Hong is no exception, a bowl of porridge as lunch, how can it?

But it doesn't matter, he is a rich man, he went to the hole in the corner to find out the private money, and the eldest grandson Hong went out with a dozen or so papers.

Everyone knows Lijia Village, and you can't spend money here. Changsun Hongxin walked towards Zhangjia Village, and when he arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw that there was also Ding Zhuang guarding the crossing, checking strangers, Changsun Hong was from a neighboring village, and he was a child, so he asked a few words and let him go.

After entering the village, I stood at the door of Zhang's carpenter's workshop, and saw that the rice mill was in full swing inside, but it was all a group of apprentices doing it, and Carpenter Zhang himself did not take an axe and saw, but stood aside to negotiate the price with a few buyers.

It seems that the business is good, this year's wind and rain are smooth, the harvest in the field is good, and the demand for the accompanying rice milling machine is bound to be very high.

Didn't alarm Carpenter Zhang, Changsun Hong turned a corner, went to the only delicatessen in the village, Zhangjia Village is closer to Shizhao County than Lijia Village, it is a big market town, and it is also the place where several nearby villages catch up with the market, so there are some shops. The eldest grandson Hong drooled and bought a roast chicken, wrapped it in lotus leaves, and left happily.

Ten miles of land is only a matter of a while, and the eldest grandson Hong easily returned to Lijia Village, and his face was not red or out of breath for twenty miles. Today's eldest grandson Hong's body has changed greatly, and his originally weak figure has already changed his face after continuous falling during this time, his rib-like body has been filled, and there are even hard muscles on his arms.

Climbing the mountain bag where he usually practices martial arts, and getting into the forest, Changsun Hong couldn't help but sit on the edge of the cave where sandbags and other things were placed, opened the lotus leaves, and a smell of meat came to his nose.

The gluttonous insects were like a rushing river in an instant, breaking all the consciousness of Changsun Hong, and he was almost crying at that moment after eating brown rice for a long time---Meat, meat, this is meat!"

Haven't eaten meat in a long time? Well, the pig's trotters that Changsun Hao got back from Li Xian's house don't count.

Tear off a chicken leg first, Changsun Hong only used two mouthfuls to gnaw it into a bone, he didn't want to throw away the bones, put it in his mouth and chewed it hard, like a dog to eat all the bones that could be swallowed, a roast chicken was soon left with only a small half, including the chicken head, claws, chicken neck and other parts.

These are reserved for dogs, this poor guy hasn't eaten meat for almost a year, and the last time he ate meat was last year's New Year.

It would be nice if there was wine, the eldest grandson Hong grinded his teeth and touched his chin and thought, there is meat and no wine, what is really bad, this world is not an era when minors are not allowed to drink.

Wine is a monopoly of the imperial court, the price is so high that it is frightening to death, and the folk can also brew and drink themselves, as long as they are not sold, no one will take care of it, but ordinary farmers are poor, and the precious grain is not enough to eat, how can it be used to make wine? Isn't that a tyrannical thing? So at this time, Changsun Hong can only think about it.

He carefully wrapped the rest of the meat in lotus leaves, tied it with twine, put it on the edge of the cave and pressed it with stones, and left it for the dog to come up and eat it tomorrow. Don't dare to send him to the house, his parents will find out.

Clapping his hands, the eldest grandson Hong walked away two steps satisfied, but stood still, looked back at the lotus leaf bag under the stone, and always felt uneasy, there are many beasts in the mountains, if it is eaten by some small beast, it will be a pity, more than a dozen copper coins to buy it.

Maybe it's better to put it in a deeper part of the cave, Changsun Hong thought so, and planned to do the same.

He picked up the lotus leaf bag, walked with his head down, and when he was about to enter the cave, he lowered his eyes and saw a drop of dark red blood on the stone underground.