Patches of verdant crops extend from the front of the eyes to the end of the field of vision, between the strange, the farmer carries the hoe and walks on it, on both sides of the official road, among the stone ditches, the gurgling water is rattling, along the official road has been flowing into the distance, in the past two years, the Chi Road of Zhengyang County has been repaired more and more, and the ditches that irrigate the fields are criss-crossed, like a spider web, and now it has basically covered the corners of the entire Zhengyang County.

"What a change!" A voice sounded with emotion, "It's just two years later, it's become like this." ”

"Yes, General, this was a wasteland at the beginning, and it was also one of the battlefields of our decisive battle with the Ming people, but now, it has become a fertile field." Don't hear a voice.

"I don't know how many bones of our comrades are buried under this land." Another hateful voice rang out.

Under the shade of a tree, three merchants put their burdens aside, and one of them walked to the side of the road with a gourd, filled it with water, and walked back.

"It's all said, don't call it a general, do you want us to be arrested by the Mingren?" The original voice muffled it.

"Yes, General."

"Still screaming!"

"Oh, yes, yes, Brother Rong." One of them screamed, but couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny." The leader snorted coldly, sat on the ground, took the gourd, and drank a few big sips, "It's all changed a lot, fortunately, I have a heart and asked clearly how the merchant went to Liuquanchong, otherwise when I got here, I would have to catch the blind." ”

"Brother Rong, it's not early, let's go, when we get to Liuquanchong, it's dark, just let you sneak in to find your sister-in-law."

"The three of us are all about the same goods, and we all go to a village to sell them, which is also a bit eye-catching. I'll go in alone, and you two will carry your burden to other villages to sell goods, and when it's dark, you'll wait for me outside the village. Seeing your sister-in-law, we have to go back, since I entered Zhengyang County, I always feel cold and swishing in my back, and I am also panicked, and I always feel that something is going to happen. ”

"Big brother, don't scare yourself, who would have thought that you would come back! Even our Tuoba boss doesn't know, and Mingren is not an immortal, so he can guess? You can go to see your sister-in-law with confidence. ”

"It's always scary. We're going to break up here, and tonight, we're going to get out of here. ”

"Yes, big brother!"

The three merchants picked up the burden and walked to different roads at the fork in front.

These three people, naturally, Murong Hai and his two guards who came out of the Hengduan Mountain Range, after being sent out by Tuoba Yan, Murong Hai sent a few guards to the Tiger Prison Pass to inquire about the news, but he took two clever ones, along the trade road of the Tiger Prison Pass from Yongping County, entered the Ming Kingdom, and then went out all the way to Zhengyang County.

Murong Hai's wife settled in Zhengyang County after the barbarian clan was shunted and resettled from the four counties of the Northland. The barbarian clan that can be arranged to Zhengyang County is not an ordinary person, and the worst one used to be a barbarian clan with a noble title, the number of these people is not much, and after arriving in Zhengyang County, they were scattered and assigned to various parts of Zhengyang County, like Liuquan Chong here, there is only Murong Hai's wife alone.

In that big war, although the barbarians fought under Zhengyang County, but before they had time to do evil, they were besieged by the Ming Army under Zhengyang County, and then the whole army was annihilated.

But a woman, with a son and a daughter, has a hard time. In the past, although Murong Hai was only a partial general and his position was not high, but because they were all barbarian nobles, Xiao Yuyin was naturally a figure who came to eat and stretched out his hand, but now he had to earn his own money to eat.

In the first year, Xiao Yuyin didn't know anything, but thanks to the people in the village reaching out to help, if it was a barbarian man, he would definitely not get this kind of treatment, but a woman can always arouse people's pity more.

Xiao Yuyin didn't know the whereabouts of her man. At the beginning, this cavalry unit, under the leadership of Tuoba Yan, traveled thousands of miles, traversed several counties, and fled, but the news was extremely secret. In the first battle of Zhengyang, the barbarians were killed and wounded, and tens of thousands of people were killed in the battle, and when the population was counted later, almost all the captured barbarian soldiers had contact with their families, but Xiao Yuyin's husband had not been heard from, and she naturally thought that Murong Hai was dead.

A year, without the slightest news, Xiao Yuyin is naturally desperate, she is from a noble background, and her knowledge is naturally not comparable to ordinary people, just looking at the means of the Ming people to deal with the barbarians, she knows that the barbarians are impossible to rise again, and in the future, she can only be a submissive citizen in the Ming Kingdom, fortunately, the Ming Kingdom treats the barbarians quite well, people like herself, there is actually a field and land, and no one comes to embarrass herself, when she arrives here, she is ready to be bullied, but the people here are so kind, and they help her a lot.

But if you can help for a while, you can't help for a lifetime. She thinks about this very clearly, she doesn't know how to farm, so she learns, and she doesn't know how to raise chickens and ducks, and she also learns to raise livestock. The man died, but fortunately there was a son and a daughter, there was a school in the village, and the son, although he was only six years old, also went to the school to study.

Must read, only after reading, her son will have a chance to get ahead in the future, what she is most worried about is that because of the family's barbarian status, will not be accepted by the Ming people's school, this year after her son turned six years old, she held the hope of what happened, sent the child to the school, did not expect, the school accepted without saying a word. Not only did they accept it, but they were treated like other children in the village.

This made her grateful.

Zhengyang County is rich, every village has a small school, the cost of the school is produced by the village public, every family, at the end of the year, pay a certain amount of output as the income of the village, these income, will be used for the village school fees, road repair, ditch, and take care of the elderly and widows.

Two years have passed, and Xiao Yuyin has changed from a noble woman in the past to an authentic peasant woman, who can afford to put down all kinds of farm work.

In the past two years, the village chief has also introduced men to her, and there are a few men in the village who are quite interesting to her, Xiao Yuyin must be from a noble background, whether it is appearance or temperament, it is extremely outstanding, even if she looks like a peasant woman now, but the inner thing is completely different.

However, Xiao Yuyin was unmoved, and was already thinking about working more, making more money, and raising the two children to adulthood. Her persistence has also won her a lot of fame in the village, and everyone knows her intentions, but no one comes to talk to her anymore.

Straightened up from the half-human-high crop field, threw a handful of weeds in his hand to the side of the road, and looked at the crops that grew very well with satisfaction, this year must be a bumper harvest year, and what made her even more satisfied was that this year's acres of land, except for the cultivated land was cultivated by Zhang Da in the village, the rest were all managed by her. This year's harvest is definitely better than last year's,

Last year, she saved five taels of silver, and this year, she should be able to save enough twenty taels.

Twenty taels was really not worth mentioning for her in the past, but now, it is indeed a large amount. It's time for me to make a new outfit, and I looked at the blue cloth coat with patches on my body, and there are a few places where the thread is about to open. The daughter also has to make a few new clothes, and every time the little girl looks at the children of other people's families in the village wearing new clothes, she always looks at it with her eyes in her eyes, and it makes people feel distressed to watch.

Walked to the edge of the field, lifted a crockpot, and drank a few sips of water from the mouth of the can, but found that it was empty, and before I knew it, another half a day had passed.

Looking up at the sky, it's time to go back, my daughter is playing with her friends in the village, this half a day, I must be so dirty that I don't have a nose and no eyes, I have to bathe her when I go back, and I have to feed the pigs, chickens and ducks, and I have to be busy until the middle of the night, so I can sleep. But it's good, I'm so tired that I go to bed and collapse into bed, I don't want to do anything, but I can dilute my sad memories.

Lifting the hoe and carrying it on his shoulder, he carried the crockpot in the other hand and walked up to the ridge.

At the end of the year, it was time to build a well-dressed grave for her husband, who had no money before, and was a little worried that she would be disgusted by the people here if she built a grave for her husband, but two years have passed, and this worry has gradually faded, and in the future, the children should always have a place to give their dead husband a place to snort.

"Mother, mother!" There was a crisp sound in front of me, and when I looked up, I saw a boy trotting along with a smaller girl. It was his own son and daughter, and as expected, his daughter was so miscellaneous that she had no nose and no eyes.

"Mother, I'm out of school!" Walking up to his mother, the little boy sensibly took the crockpot from his mother and held it in his hand. "Today's endorsement, I am the first again, and Mr. praised me. Say I'm a much faster learner than others. ”

Hearing her son being praised by Mr., Xiao Yuyin suddenly smiled, after two years here, she also knew the rules of the school here, the school in the village only teaches the most basic literacy, and then the school is completed well, so that she will have the opportunity to go to a better school in the county to continue to study, her son only went to the New Year this year, but he knows more than many people who have gone a year earlier than him, as long as he can continue like this, he will definitely be able to go to school in the county in the future, as long as he enters the county school, he can also be a clerk in the future. If his son has a career and can go to school in the county, then he will be able to become an official, but as for the Jingshi University Hall, uh, it's too far to think.

"I've saved a dozen eggs at home, and I'll bring them to my husband tomorrow." She laughed.