Chapter 65: Tree Letter

After listening to An Yi tell himself in detail about the conscription, Patriarch Hu hesitated for a while, shook his head, and said: "The regimental training envoy is my lord, it's not that the small people talk too much, there is no problem with the conscription, I'm afraid you will return empty-handed." ”

An Yi knew what he meant when he heard his words, first the Five Grains Sect came to cause some harm, and then it was Xia Ang who came to kill the people in the name of suppressing bandits. Although Jiangning Village suffered heavy casualties after these two disasters, the number of registered households is still much higher than that of the small Songling Village.

However, the crux of the matter is that the people's trust in the government has fallen to a freezing point. That is, I now tell the people that I am different from others, and that I will give food first and then silver when I conscript, and the people will not believe it, because who knows whether the few taels of silver you give are my people or my head.

Thinking like this, An Yi felt that the most important thing now was to solve the problem of trust, so he said to Patriarch Hu: "Old patriarch, in this way, you gather all the villagers first, and as for how to recruit this soldier, I will figure out a way." ”

Patriarch Hu thought that An Yi didn't believe what he said, but he didn't dare to refute it, so he had to nod his head and promise that An Yi would gather the villagers at the threshing floor in the village immediately.

The threshing floor is located in the southwest corner of Jiangning Village, and its name is called threshing floor, because it was used for threshing in autumn every year. However, due to the increasing number of people in Jiangning Village, this small site can no longer meet the needs of nearly 1,000 households, and is gradually abandoned and has become a place for villagers to temporarily assemble.

In the middle of the threshing floor is a large banyan tree, with a bronze bell hanging from its low branches, and a red cotton rope dragged under the bronze bell, on which many large and small copper blocks are hung.

Patriarch Hu walked to the bottom of the bell and pulled the cotton rope,

"Jingle Bell Jingle Bell~"

The copper block on the cotton rope was pulled left and right by him and hit the inner wall of the copper bell, making a crisp and loud sound.

Soon, the villagers who stayed in all corners heard the sound one after another, and the dense crowd of people surrounded the big banyan tree.

Patriarch Hu stretched his neck, and when he saw that the number of people was about the same, he stood on the big stone pier under the big banyan tree with An Xin's support, and then cleared his throat and said, "That...... Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet. ”

The noisy voices were gradually calmed down by his words, and they all stared at the old patriarch standing on a high place.

Patriarch Hu looked at the quiet crowd and introduced An Yi and said, "This is the regimental training envoy from Songling Village, Lord An Yi, um... That Lord Ann is here today, to enlist..."

Before he finished speaking, he was covered by An Yi, who stepped on the big stone pier in two steps, and said with a smile: "Patriarch Hu is right, I am here to ask for everyone's opinions today, and I need some people to help this little general next to me do some hard work." ”

As he spoke, An Yi pointed his finger at Jin Mingyin, who looked at him with a shocked face under the big stone pier,

"Of course, not in vain! As long as it takes a morning, one tael of silver per person! ”

As soon as the words of comfort came out, it was like throwing a small pebble into the calm water of the lake, and it rippled round and round in the crowd, and the originally quiet crowd began to be noisy.

He stretched out his hand to stop Patriarch Hu, who was about to stop the crowd, and just looked at it with a smile on his face.

After a long time, the crowd gradually calmed down as he expected, and then a young man waved his right hand at him and asked, "My lord, what kind of strength do you need to do?" ”

"Pick up stones, go to the mountains to pick up stones according to the instructions of this little general. But I have the conditions, I just need strong, young lads, one counts as one! An Yi kept a smile on his face and replied.

After hearing this, the surrounding crowd completely exploded, and they all came to the front of the big stone pier one by one, waving their arms high, and even the old man with gray sideburns and the woman holding the child were also squeezing forward on tiptoe, which shows how attractive the salary of two silver and the easy workload of half a day are for comfort.

An Yi squatted down, attached to the ear of Jin Mingyin, who had nowhere to put his feet because he had been crowded by the crowd, and said with his hand to his mouth: "Mingyin, pick carefully, but all the good, clever, and diligent ones will be from your firearms camp in the future, take them up the mountain." ”

Jin Mingyin grinned at An Yi and nodded knowingly. What are you doing up the mountain? Of course, he went to help himself pick up flints, but he didn't understand how he could become a soldier in his camp when he helped himself pick up flints. But as long as he understands that he will do what An Yi says, he will be right.

He squeezed out of the crowd with difficulty, then adjusted the iron helmet on his head, and shouted to the crowd: "Don't grab it, come to me and line up, and those who pass the customs will follow these people next to me to the mountain, come one by one, don't crowd ....."

"You guys go over there and take these people up..."

"Wang Er, help the old man with a cane out..."

.......

Looking at the inextricable Jin Mingyin who was busy picking people, the corners of An Yi's mouth curved slightly,

"What do you mean by this? Aren't you going to be drafted? How to let them pick up stones, you told Xiao Lao'er earlier, everyone who picks up stones will give them three or five cents. ”

An Yi looked at him and said with a smile: "Old patriarch, don't worry, you are here to help them, and I am free to arrange the conscription." ”

Then he glanced at his sister-in-law, and An Xin took out two silver ingots from his cuffs very knowingly, took the hand of Patriarch Hu, and stuffed it firmly into his palm.

"Tell me about this, Lord An...... Look what you're doing. ”

Patriarch Hu had an unbearable expression on his face, but his hands were very honest, and he hurriedly stuffed the two big silver ingots into his coat. Then he turned around and walked towards Jin Mingyin, and said loudly to the crowd as he walked:

"Don't squeeze! Squeeze what! That only the general's fancy counts, don't make a mess for the regimental training, and line up! ”

For many Dousheng small people, a silver ingot is always better than a bunch of words of thanks, which can not only let them help you do things with their hearts, but also leave a generous reputation, why not?

An Yi stretched out a hand, handed it to An Xin, who was beside the big stone pier, and said to her, "Let's go, sister, brother will take you around." ”

An Xin smiled, put her slender little hand in the palm of the comfortable hand very obediently, and then grabbed her brother's arm, and the two brothers and sisters left the chaotic threshing floor and walked in the direction of the main road in the village.

The street, which was already sparsely populated just now, was now summoned by the patriarch Hu on the threshing floor, and now the streets and alleys were empty, with only the yellow leaves all over the ground and the sweeping autumn wind to accompany the brothers and sisters.

"Xin'er, you don't look like the bluestone road in Huayang County." An Yi looked at the somewhat bleak street, and asked his sister,

An Yi's words seemed to arouse a wisp of An Xin's thoughts, she leaned her head on her brother's shoulder, and murmured: "Brother, I am homesick when you say this, and I don't know if my father is fat or thin, now I can only guess his appearance on the letterhead." ”

"Yes, I haven't been back for a while, so I'll forget to go back to see my dad when I'm busy for a while." An Yi sighed and said, but he didn't know how many times he had said this, and An Xin didn't know how many times he had heard it, but this matter always seemed to be one after another, and he would never be busy.

Who knew that after An Xin heard his words, she actually snorted at him and said, "Hey, come on, you don't want to go home." With Sister Yingshu with you, and that Liu Siyi who talks to you every day, how can you still think of your father. ”

An Yi was taken aback, and asked her with a smile: "How did you know about Liu Siyi, this little girl, haven't you been staying in Songling Village?" ”

An Xin's willow eyebrows were raised, looking at his brother who was several heads taller than him, and shook his arm vigorously and said, "I know that you deliberately left me in the village, it must be no good!" I'm going to tell Sister Yingshu when I turn around, you have a ...... with Liu Siyi Yes...... Yes...."

She pouted and said it quite quickly in the front, but when she wanted to say something in the back, she didn't know how to describe it for a while, and she was stuck there so that her little face was red, which made An Yi laugh.

An Xin looked at her brother who was still snickering, so she simply twisted her head and said deflatedly: "Forget it, it's all in vain, anyway, Sister Yingshu has been fed by you." ”

Hearing this, An Yi was like a cat who had been stepped on by someone's tail, looked at his sister with round eyes, and said angrily: "You are a girl, who teaches you these words every day, how to marry in the future!" ”

He thought for a moment and continued: "It must have been taught by Lin Muzhi, the first time I went to Qianyun Tower, he dragged me there." An Yi looked serious and said,

"The devil believes you." An Xin rolled her eyes at her brother, expressing her considerable disapproval of An Yi's statement.

That's it, brother and sister, you and I are fighting on the street,

suddenly

An Yi suddenly put away his smiling face and stood in place,

It wasn't until An Xin found that the arm on his hand could no longer be pulled in the slightest, and he found that he was stunned in place.

"Brother? What happened to you? ”

"Xin'er, do you hear the laughter of a child?" An Yi asked her,

An Xin looked left and right at the empty street, except for the autumn wind blowing through the eardrums of the call sign, what other sounds were there?

"Brother, don't scare me, I'm timid, how can I have a child's laughter?" An Xin felt a little frightened when she saw her brother who was listening attentively, so she quickly turned around and hugged An Yi's arm tightly.

"There!"

An Yi pointed to a small alley next to the street, "It's from there, let's go, go and see,"

As he spoke, he picked up An Xin and walked towards the alley.

The alley is very narrow, sandwiched between two buildings, but it is not long, and the brother and sister have not walked for long, and the front suddenly opens up, and even the "child's laughter" in An Yi's mouth gradually becomes clear.

"Kill! Come on! Dog, you go attack the enemy flank! Two stupid, you go and harass their rear, fat girl, you ..... Forget it, you are optimistic about our grain and grass! ”

In the courtyard in front of the house, several children were riding on wooden horses, wielding wooden "weapons" in their hands, looking like they were playing a game of war. Led by a child in his early teens, with a red streamer on his head, and a mouthful of vibrating words to the conductor's other playmates.

"There are really children, it's so cute."

An Xin's eyes had long since lost the fear just now, and were replaced by a few small heads, swaying.

The boy with the red ribbon on his head saw An Xin walking forward, and immediately raised the wooden sword in his hand horizontally, pointed at An Xin and said, "Who are you?" What the hell are you doing. ”

An Yi stepped in front of his sister, and said to the boy: "In Xiahuayang County, the regimental training envoy An Yi, I don't know what to call the general?" ”

The boy raised his head, stretched out his thumb with his immature little hand, gently brushed the tip of his nose, and said in a proud voice: "Jiang Tianhao, the general of the dragon and tiger!" ”