When it was dark, Xiao Hei's father returned.

Putting the basket down, he took out two still warm nests from his arms, this nest was very large, one was bigger than a fist. The proprietor Saburo is generous, saying that he will dig the pond and manage two meals a day, but there will be two more nests for dinner, which is actually for everyone to take home.

"Holy, I'm back."

"Daddy."

Liu Dafu saw his son Xiao Hei coming back, and nodded, "I'm back, how are you staying in the school?" ”

Xiao Heiniang stood on the edge of the kang and brought the hot meal to the kang table, and said happily to her husband, "Daddy, Xiao Hei is out now, and he won the first place in the school, you see that he also brought back a prize flag, and brought back a lot of steamed buns and chickens, as well as a bucket of corn, all of which are awards won by this child for studying in the school." ”

On the kang mat, there is a piece of straw paper with black ink on it, and it is full of words. Liu Dafu didn't know a single word, but he knew that it was a word.

"You wrote this?" His eyes were full of excitement, and the fatigue of digging the pond for a day during the day was also swept away.

"Dad, this is the name that Mr. gave me, Liu Guoliang, saying that I can become a pillar of the country in the future, and the pillar is like the beam in the main house of the north house of the big mansion of the owner's family, which can be of great use. I've learned to write my own name! ”

Liu Dafu picked up the piece of paper, as if holding the holy decree of the Dao, this is the words written by his son, his own name written. He couldn't read, and he didn't know if it was good or not, but a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, his son was literate and could write.

Oh my God, he can read and write, and the eldest son is already a literate person, an amazing person. The son is so powerful, he really didn't lose himself for insisting on sending him to the school, and he also thanked the owner for accepting Xiaohei to study for free.

"It's only been ten years of school, and the broken baby has learned to write her own name, amazing, and she will definitely be able to go to Chang'an in the future to be a great official and glorify your ancestors. Baby, if you become an official in the future, you must not forget the kindness of our host to you. ”

"I will never forget it, Mr. Yang taught us, the grace of a drop of water, when the spring reciprocates, I will never forget."

"It's right to think like this, you can't forget your roots."

Dafu looked at the pennant on the kang, the steamed bun chicken on the table, and a bucket of millet, and had a complicated mood. In the winter, he dug a pond for the owner for a day, and only earned two liters of millet, but there are still many people rushing to do this work. My son was studying in the school, comfortable, and after ten years, he actually brought back a bucket of corn to the house, and so many white-flour steamed buns and chickens, I didn't expect that there was still progress in reading.

"Since it was the owner and Mr. He rewarded you, you ate it in the school, why do you bring it home, you are a scholar now, you have to eat more to make up for it." I knew that you were a piece of reading material, and my father had to send you to study earlier, but unfortunately it was delayed for a few years. ”

Xiao Heiniang said with a smile, "I was sent to study a few years ago, where do you send it, there are still a few people as good as the owner in this world, even when the old owner was there, he didn't run a school." This is also a good time for our little black to catch up! ”

"Yes, yes, the owner is really a good person, a good person must have a good reward, live a long life, and make a fortune."

Liu Dafu is simple-minded, and the owner is good to them, of course they have to remember it and repay it in the future. If you give it a peach, you must repay it, and you can't lose your heart when you are a man.

"Heiwa, write your name again for Dad to see."

There was no pen and paper at home, so Xiao Hei took a charcoal strip and wrote it on the wall of his house. He writes very carefully stroke by stroke, although the strokes are still a little naïve, but there is no lack of strokes.

"Liu Guodong."

The three big characters are crooked, but they are very muscular.

The old black hand wiped the wall, and suddenly tears fell, his family had been peasant tenants for generations, and he didn't expect that there would be a scholar in the house today.

This is something he had never thought about before, and he really couldn't think of it before.

Li family compound.

Although they drank less and drank less, Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu were still drunk in the end.

The taste of the second pot head is good, and it is not as strong as the burning knife, but the soju is served with pig's head meat, and I accidentally drank it.

When the two of them drank it, they bragged that they could drink at least half a catty of this wine, but in fact, the two of them basically only drank about two taels before they collapsed.

Li Xiao knew how much he was drinking, and he only drank about two taels, although he was also a little dizzy, but fortunately, he was still sober.

asked someone to help the two of them to the guest room to rest, and Li Xiao leaned on the kang and squinted.

Cheng Xue and the others said a lot of things after drinking just now, and some of the news was court news that ordinary bankers couldn't hear at all, and it was even confidential news.

For example, the emperor had already issued an order at the court meeting and decided to send a large army to conquer the Goguryeo barbarians. The general who commanded the army was originally planned to be Xue Wanche, but due to Lao Cheng's interference, the final commander was not decided for the time being, but two deputy generals have been appointed, both of whom are very capable generals.

One is Xue Rengui, the general of the right leading army, and the other is Su Dingfang, the general of the right military guard.

Both of them are fierce generals who can fight in the DPRK now, but Su Dingfang's qualifications are older than Xue Rengui, but Su Dingfang was a general under Dou Jiande at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and later followed Liu Heimin to oppose the Tang Dynasty. Although Su Dingfang later descended to the Tang Dynasty, he also followed Li Jing to learn the art of war, and made a lot of contributions in the battle to destroy the Turks, but after all, he is not like Qin Qiongcheng Biting Jin and others who belong to the strongest Shandong heroes in the Qin Dynasty's mansion, so his career is not very smooth.

The imperial crusade may be an inconsequential news for ordinary people, because it is too far away from them.

However, Li Xiao is still very concerned about this matter, the scale of this Eastern Expedition is not small, although it is not as good as the 100,000 troops that Taizong personally conquered back then, but it is said that the first to enter Liao is 40,000 soldiers and horses, Xue Su and the second general each rate 20,000, and Cheng Mingzhen, the governor of Yingzhou in western Liaoning, will also gather 20,000 horses as a countermeasure support.

A war of 60,000 people is not small, especially if it is still fighting far away in Liaodong, to support this big war, then the number of logistics auxiliaries and civilians will definitely not be less than this number, and may even exceed the number of regular troops, and an army of 60,000 people may need 100,000 people to transport logistics and heavy grain and grass.

Li Xiao is not a government soldier, and there is no one in Lijiazhuang in the army, but Li Xiao is worried that the imperial court will need so many people to transport logistics and heavy grain and grass, maybe Lijiazhuang will have to participate in this battle.

Transporting grain and grass to Liaodong is not at all easier than going to Liaodong to fight.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang sent millions of troops to conquer Liao, and nearly half of the strong men in the world were recruited to transfer the baggage for the people, and countless people would rather chop their hands and feet, and even steal cattle and kill horses, and would rather be arrested and put in prison than go to Liaodong.

Fighting Goguryeo in eastern Liaodong, Li Xiao is supportive, those Goguryeo people are extremely barbaric, often plundering the land of western Liaoning, with them, there can be said to be no peace over there, and the people over there are also miserable.

But Li Xiao was willing to contribute money to support, but he was unwilling to go to the battlefield by himself.

Compared with Li Xiao's attitude, Xue Cheng's two sons and daughters were very enthusiastic about this war, and they both planned to use their family connections to join the Eastern Expeditionary Army, in order to kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions.

Maybe this is the difference between the sons of the noble generals and ordinary people.

They are eager to go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions, but ordinary people still want to live a stable life. In fact, ordinary people go to the battlefield and have less chance of making meritorious contributions, and they are more likely to be cannon fodder than ordinary people, unlike the children of generals, they go to the battlefield as officers, and they are equipped with war horses and even have a retinue of family members, and no one will dare to be greedy if they really make meritorious contributions.

Ordinary Zhuang households, even a piece of iron armor can not afford to buy, horses are not ready, on the battlefield, two legs have to outrun other people's four legs, wearing cloth clothes to face other people's strong bows and crossbows, steel guns and iron spears, it is too dangerous.

Thinking about these things, Li Xiao also fell asleep, and when he woke up, it was already afternoon, and Cheng Xue and the others had already left.

Changan.

Li Ji set up a banquet in the mansion, invited Cheng Yanjin and Xue Wanche to drink, and made peace for them.

Cheng Yanjin came as promised and brought a bottle of wine.

"The surname is Xue, today I will give the British Duke a face, as long as you drink these three glasses of wine, our previous affairs will be written off."

Xue Wanche looked at the three glasses of wine in front of him, the wine in the cups was crystal clear, and it exuded a very good aroma, he had never drunk this wine, but it looked like it was also a good wine.

"I'm also looking at the public face in the UK."

After Xue Wanche finished speaking, he snorted, picked up a glass of wine, raised his head and drank it.

When the wine entered his throat, Xue Wanche's face changed greatly, "This wine... Poisonous, Cheng Lao Pifu, you dare~"

After speaking, Xue Wanche stood unsteadily, shook a few times, and then fell down, directly lying at the bottom of the table.

Seeing this, Cheng Biting Jin was not in a hurry, but laughed loudly.

This scene frightened Li Ji, who was the east today, Xue Wanche was a dignified general in the court, if he was poisoned by Cheng Biting Jin with a glass of poisoned wine at his banquet, he would not be able to get rid of it.

"Lao Cheng, what are you doing here?"

"Old man, what are you anxious about, it's not a big deal, this wine is not poisonous, and no one wants to harm Xue Wanche, he just has too much alcohol." As he spoke, Cheng Yanjin directly picked up a glass from the remaining two glasses of wine on the table and drank it all.

Li Ji couldn't stop it, but after Cheng bit the gold and drank it, his face just turned red.

"It's fun, it's enjoyable." Cheng Biting Jin was not only fine, but shouted happily.

When Li Ji saw it, he went to check on Xue Wanche again, and found that Xue Wanche's snort was still there, and he even made a sound of snorting under the table.

"Fuck." Now even the good-tempered man couldn't help but scold his mother, what is this called.

"The surname Xue can't drink a glass of wine, he can't even brag about it, just this little ability, what qualifications do you have to lead the army, and stay at home with the children in the future." After speaking, Cheng Yanjin gave the remaining half bottle of wine to Li Ji, and left with a swagger.

"Lao Cheng, what kind of wine are you?" Li Ji shouted in the back.

"Burn the knife!"