Zhangjia Zhuangzi's village is the lame king of the ceremonies to receive the righteous son spread all over the ten miles and eight townships, Xu Zhuangzi's Xu Lao outside with the newly recovered Xu Jia Erlang personally came to congratulate, Zhangjia Zhuangzi belongs to the Yong'an Township is riding a thin donkey with a thin head and bones to the scene to Wang Xi on the household registration, when the end of the Sui war has been so far, the people are poor, the days of selling children and daughters have just passed, since the beginning of the fourth year of Wude, the Turks have repeatedly detained the border, and a large number of northern escapes have fled to the Guannei, so it is not uncommon for such adoptions to be adopted, Because Wang Xi didn't know how old his body should be, he wrote a fourteen-year-old on his head, and Ma Datou didn't mind, and patted Wang Xi on the shoulder and said: "Grow your body well, and you will be able to teach Tian in two years!" ”

Wang lame feast, banquet the whole village, the old man of Xujiazhuang sent two live pigs, Wang lame on the spot to kill the meal, in fact, at this time the farmer's family including the banquet of marrying relatives are extremely simple, the Wang family's banquet is just a large sheet of noodles and pork together to cook soup cakes enough, at this time there are no tables and chairs, fortunately, the Wang family's yard is big enough, Zhangjia Zhuangzi, your family with a low table, his family takes a Hu Deng, full of crowded in the big yard, Qiao'er Niang and a few women in the village simply set up a few temporary stoves in the open space next to the east wall, The hundreds of coarse porcelain bowls put together by each family, filled with piping hot soup cakes, finally managed to cope with it.

Qiao'er's father Wang Qi's face was silly all day, and Old Man Zhang made fun of him for not knowing which leg to walk on~~

The light wine basically can't get drunk, and in the congratulations of everyone, Wang Xi respectfully kowtowed to Wang Qi and Cui's family, and the ceremony was over.

Entering May, the weather began to slowly get hotter, there is still a month before the summer grain harvest, Zhangjia Zhuangzi has been shouting the big river, in fact, it is the largest tributary of Weishui - Jing River, the ancients took Hebei as the yang, Henan as the yin, Jingyang County also got its name, Zhangjia Zhuangzi went south through a large field of fields, less than three miles or so is the Jing River.

The farmer's diet is monotonous, there are many kinds of corn in the field, and even the wheat is very little, so in Wang Xi's opinion, the soup cake that is difficult to swallow is a very rare delicacy in Zhangjia Zhuangzi, and there is no vegetable cultivation in the serious field, although there are individual people who will plant some vegetables in places that are not suitable for planting corn such as river embankments and courtyard walls, but the main source of vegetables for farmers is still wild vegetables everywhere, such as Ulva, fern, vettle, camelina pursa, knotweed, Xanthium, and purslane that was still eaten earlier in later generations.

Due to malnutrition, Wang Xi found that there was some night blindness among the farmers.

After Wang Xi was familiar with Zhangjia Zhuangzi, he took some half-grown children to get under the bamboo cage in the small river, and fished with earthworms on the edge of the big river.

After dinner, there is nothing to do, Wang Xi often comes to the river with Qiao'er's father to wander for a while, the grove in the east of the village has begun to flood the monkeys, but unfortunately this thing can only be fried or fried, Zhangjia Zhuangzi has no iron pot, two no oil, so that Wang Xi can only stare dryly, at this time the vegetable oil of the Tang Dynasty is extremely scarce, occasionally some pork and other meat oil, in the farmhouse will never let Wang Xi take it to waste.

"I see that Daddy is very familiar with the official rank, has Daddy been an official before?" Wang Xi asked Wang Qi strangely.

Wang Qi thought about it, and then told his story, and Wang Xi, who only listened, was dumbfounded.

Wang Qi turned out to be the retainer of the former Duke Rongguo of Sui to protect his son! Wang Qi was born in a peasant family, was sold to Laifu as a house slave since he was a child, and later mixed into the guard, in the eighth year of the great cause, he was promoted to the retainer of the family because of the meritorious service of the protector, and the great cause was fourteen years. Yu Wenhua and Jiang Du rebelled, punished Yang Guang, and came to protect Er's would rather die than surrender, and were also killed. At that time, all the family members of Laihu'er were killed by the rebels, and only the young sons Laihuan and Laiji, who were far away in the Chang'an Mansion, survived.

Wang Qi and other guards hurriedly broke through and absconded after getting the news of the death of Lai'er, but unfortunately more than 100 guards, and finally only Wang Qi and the old man Zhang who was guarding at the same time escaped, at that time Qiao'er Niang was still in her mother's house to raise Wang Qi's first son, after receiving Cui's Wang Qi and others absconded overnight, not wanting to be betrayed by Cui's mother's family, they were hunted down, Wang Qi's foot was lame at that time, and the child in Cui's belly was not saved.

In the end, Wang Qi took the Cui family to follow the old man Zhang to the old man's hometown, Zhangjia Zhuangzi, and settled until today.

"I don't think A-Niang is acting like an ordinary person, why did her mother's family betray Daddy?" Wang Xi wondered.

Wang Qi's face flashed with a hint of pride: "Your aunt, she is the daughter of the Cui family in Qinghe, although she is from the side, but in the end she is the queen of the famous family." ”

Qinghe Cui family! The five surnames of the Sui and Tang dynasties are seven wangs, but all the noble families, marrying a wife should marry a woman with five surnames, a first-class wealthy family, it is better to be.

The Cui family turned out to be from the Qinghe Cui family! Wang Xi was really surprised.

"At that time, the Duke of the Kingdom accompanied His Majesty to patrol the Jiangdu, His Majesty gave him a special brocade robe for a day tour, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty above the three grades came and went to the ancestral house to worship, and the Duke of Guo was honored at that time, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty could match, and a certain was already the head of the guard under the account of the Duke of the State, and the Cui family valued this, hoping to get close to the Duke of the Kingdom, so he gave me your aunt who was waiting for the word boudoir at that time." Wang Qi paused and said: "It's a pity that after Yu Wenhua and the traitor rebelled, the Duke of Guo went with His Majesty, and the Cui family immediately changed their faces, not only to clear up the relationship with the Lai family, but also to arrest me and others to curry favor with the Yuwen family!" ”

Wang Qi's excited eyes were red, and he wanted to choose someone to eat.

Wang Xi sighed and said: "Daddy also saw the world in the military in his early years, and now although he has a slight foot disease, didn't he say that the county was recruiting officials and soldiers the day before yesterday, why shouldn't Daddy have been?" ”

Wang Qizheng said: "A certain is a retainer of the Duke of Lai, and the Duke of Lai would rather die than be a second minister, although the Duke of Tang Guogong is His Majesty's cousin, he is actually a rebellious person, and he swears not to betray the Duke of Lai!" ”

Wang Xi couldn't help but be a little speechless, this is probably the legendary foolish and loyal minister, no wonder the father-in-law has always called Yang Guang His Majesty, and called His Majesty Li Yuan the Duke of Tang Guo, if the father-in-law knew that Yang Guang's daughter is now the favorite concubine of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, Yang Guang's son later became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Rong Guogong came to protect the son, only two young sons remained, and later both became the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty, one door and two phases, extremely honored, at that time, what should the father-in-law think?

Wang Qi looked at Wang Xi and said: "Xi'er, I know that you have the knowledge of the immortal family, and you will definitely make great achievements in the future, and you will come to the Duke to conquer Goguryeo three times, and you will be born and die, and you will repay the kindness of the Duke of Tang, and you will not be a minister of the Tang Kingdom, but you will not be imposed on you, I just hope that if you can meet the descendants of the Duke in the future, you will help one or two more..."

Wang Xi is depressed, the Lai brothers will all rule the world in the future, why do you need me to help...

"Remember, we don't share the sky with the Yuwen family, and when we meet the people of the Yuwen family in the future, we will never die!" Wang Qi hated and instructed Wang Xi.

"What about the Cui family?" Wang Xi asked timidly.

"The Cui family is your stepmother's maiden family after all, the five surnames and seven hopes are not easy to be with their generation, Xi'er can't have deep friendships with such families, and can't have bad friends with them, this kind of family has a very deep origin, even His Majesty didn't dare to move lightly..."

Wang Xi could feel that his father-in-law had great hatred for the Qinghe Cui family, but out of concern for himself, he still chose to bury his hatred in his heart, which made Wang Xi feel very moved.

"Qinghe Cui's family? We'll see! Wang Xi said secretly in his heart.

At the end, Wang Qi also said to Wang Xi with a mysterious face, the current Yiguo Duke Qin Qiong was still his subordinate back then, but later his mother died, and Rongguo Gong let him go home to mourn, and later caught up with the expedition to Goguryeo.

Wang Qi didn't know about Wang Xi's letter to Qin Qiong, Wang Xi looked at the direction of Chang'an City forty miles away, and said: Yiguo Gong, haven't you received my letter? Why is there no news?

A few days after the quiet days, Li Zhengma's big head rode the thin donkey to Zhangjia Zhuangzi again, and he left in a hurry after muttering to Qiao'er's father for a long time.

Looking at Qiao'er's father's frowning brows, Wang Xi asked with some worry, "Daddy, what's wrong?" ”

"It's going to be a war," Wang Qi sighed, handed the essay in his hand to Wang Xidao.

The essay was issued by the county, which roughly means Turkic Kolanzhou, so the imperial court recruited the government soldiers of Chengding from each township and followed the Pingdao general Chai Shao to attack the Hu people.

Zhangjia Zhuangzi was recruited once last year, that time with the state road march manager Zhang Gongjin attack, the result in Taigu defeat, Zhangjia Zhuangzi set out of 24 people, six killed, two seriously wounded, now only 16 people left.

But now there are more than 20 days to harvest the summer grain, at this time to conscript, Zhangjia Zhuangzi is left with old and weak, how to harvest in the summer?

Also, Wang Xi looked in the direction of Chang'an City, in June of the ninth year of Wude, the Xuanwumen Revolution is about to begin, what can I do?