Chapter 78: The Flames of War
"Aye, this is the third brother-in-law Zhao Gui, and this is the fourth brother-in-law Zhou Xin, both of whom are from our hometown." Luo Cheng saw that Scarface's two brothers-in-law stood aside a little stiffly, and hurriedly beckoned the two to come forward.
The old man glanced at the two sons-in-law, and then stretched out his big fan-like palm and slapped it heavily on the shoulders of both sons-in-law a few times.
"Well, it's not bad, the body is quite strong, and the length is quite tall."
"Aye!"
The two hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.
"Get up, although you got married in a hurry, I am not at home. But since this matter is agreed by your mother-in-law, even if it is the order of the parents of the matchmaker, it is legal to be courteous. My Luo Laohan gave birth to five daughters, and I married two of them before, and there is a standard for choosing a son-in-law, one must be in good health, the other must be diligent and responsible, and the other must be able to love his wife and son. ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Both of them nodded their heads and stood there honestly. When suppressing bandits, that kind of desperate bravery was completely missing.
"Aya, when I first married Sanniang, my family was poor, and I only took out five buckets of millet as a gift, fortunately Sanniang did not dislike my family was poor, and I was willing to marry it. When he got there, he took care of the family and served his mother, and he was very virtuous. After Gorou came back last time, he specially sent ten pieces of money over, saying that it was to supplement Sanniang's dowry. ”
"Xiao Wu did the right thing." Luo Laohan nodded, although the Luo family was still not rich, he didn't want to treat his daughter badly.
"Aye, listen to me, my family did only have that kind of conditions before, and now I follow Gorou to help, and last time I participated in the suppression of bandits and quelled the chaos with Xiao Wu, and I made some contributions with Zhanguang, and I also got a lot of rewards. There are 30 pieces of money and 30 horses of silk, and another 30 acres of land, I am willing to take out 30 pieces of money and 30 horses of silk as a gift for Sanniang. ”
"Aye, I am also willing to take out thirty yuan and thirty horses of silk to make Siniang's ceremony." Seeing this, Zhou Xin also hurriedly expressed his position.
Daddy Luo smiled.
"Are you really willing?"
"There's nothing to be reluctant to, that's how it should be."
Father Luo put away his smile and couldn't help but look at the two sons-in-law. After he came back before, he heard his wife say that he had to marry off his two daughters when the family was in difficulty, just for that bucket of grain, and he became angry after hearing it.
Later, I heard that although the two sons-in-law were poor, they were not bad, and they were good to their daughters after marriage, so they slowly put down the fire. After hearing that Luo Wu was rewarded, a sister praised this son very much after giving ten dowries.
Now seeing the two sons-in-law, he actually took out all the thirty yuan reward money and silk to make up for the ceremony, to be honest, he was really surprised and happy.
His happiness is not in the money, he is not a greedy person, money is a dead thing, just enough is enough. He was pleased with the attitude of the two sons-in-law.
"Sanniang and Siniang really chose the right husband, I accepted this heart, but I can't accept this money. said that now the five and six children are out of business, and the family conditions are better. Even if I don't have this condition, I can't accept you so much, I'm marrying my daughter, not selling my daughter. ”
"Aye, this is our heart."
"Aya, why don't you just collect ten yuan of money and silk from each of them, and then our family will hold a grand and formal wedding for the third sister and the fourth sister, and then send this money and silk to the two families as a dowry at the wedding, how about it?" Luo Cheng proposed.
In this way, there is both face and lining.
"Yes, you can." Father Luo thought about it and thought that the fifth son was a good idea.
Seeing that his father was in a good mood, the fourth child took the opportunity to say, "Dad, I want to marry the third daughter of Liu Butcher in the mountain village." ”
"Butcher Liu's daughter?" Daddy's face sank, "No." ”
"Why?"
"Your father and I have fought with Butcher Liu before, we are enemies, you can't marry his daughter."
Luo Laosi couldn't cry or laugh in the face of this reason, "What year is this about Chen Sesame and Rotten Grain, do you still remember?" ”
"Anyway, there is no discussion about this matter, if you want to marry a wife, I will find a matchmaker with your mother to find a good woman for you."
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Luo Cheng and the others brought back a lot of money, and they brought back a lot of grain, meat, and vegetables bought in the county.
The atmosphere at home was even more joyful, and Du Fuwei's mother was also cured, so she took Du Xiaomei to help cut the mutton. These days, although the Luo family is good, I also feel a little unhappy. Now that Du Fuwei has bought two sheep and returned, this meal is equivalent to Du Fuwei's invitation, so the two women don't feel a little higher when they cut vegetables.
There is a feeling of raising eyebrows.
A sheep has been chopped into large pieces in the county seat, and now the women have changed their knives to cut them finely, and they have slaughtered and cut the chickens, ducks, fish, and meat bought in the county.
While Luo Mu was busy commanding, she didn't forget to count Luo Cheng and a few of them too much.
"It's not like I'm going through the days, I have money and I don't know how to save some money. How much should it cost to buy so many dishes? ”
"Sister-in-law, the children have been rewarded, happy, you let them this time." Du Mu said with a smile.
The women were busy chopping and washing vegetables, while the men were sitting in the courtyard chatting.
Luo Laohan said that he and the boss had the experience of making ordnance in Zhuo County, "I am really going to prepare for a war, this time it must be a big battle, you don't know how many people are building ordnance in Zhuo County, and all kinds of ordnance are piled up, full of one warehouse after another········
"We will continue to build it next year, and it is said that we will prepare a million large military ordnance." The dull boss Luo Jizu said.
"Ordnance for a million armies? Fight Goguryeo, with so many armies? The fourth shouted. He followed the bandits this time, and also fought a few battles, but each time it was not the scale of twenty or thirty people, or the scale of several hundred people, in his eyes, the time when six hundred county soldiers surrounded Qingyang Villa was already a great battle.
A million people? He couldn't imagine how many people there would have to be, and how would this battle be fought? How can there be such a big battlefield, and there are so many people in the shop.
"Your third brother came back from Denglai, he built ships there, it is said that he built hundreds of warships, and recruited thousands of Jianghuai sailors to train there. At that time, as soon as the battle began, the imperial court would send 100,000 sailors to cross the sea to expedition to Goguryeo. ”
"Expedition across the sea?"
A crowd of people were there to marvel.
Only Luo Cheng sat there very quietly, he knew that these legends were true, it was now the autumn of the fifth year of the Great Cause, and when the Eastern Expedition of the seventh year of the Great Cause was about to begin, it was really a million troops at that time, and it was also a land and water advance.
"It's better for you to do the catch, and if you do the catch, you don't have to go to war." Daddy Luo said.
"Dad, what's so bad about fighting, you can make meritorious contributions. This time, we exterminated a group of petty thieves, and we got so many rewards. If you can participate in the war and destroy Goguryeo, how much will you score? Maybe he will be able to become an official at that time. ”
Luo Laohan slapped the fourth child in the face directly, "Shut up!" Fighting wars and wars, fighting wars is to kill people, you are young, you haven't even married a daughter-in-law and haven't given birth to children, you just think about fighting, you mess up! ”
The fourth child was stunned, his face was hot and painful, and he didn't know why his father suddenly became so angry. He went to suppress the bandits and came back, but he didn't see that his father had such a big opinion? Why is it so atmospheric to join the army and fight to conquer Goguryeo?