Wang Xingxin was woken up by the noise outside, and when he walked outside with his eyes and shoes, he saw the villagers surrounding the pig tied to the tree.

The pig was still humming, but it was tied up and couldn't move. The people who weren't there yesterday saw Wang Xingxin coming over and began to ask: "Xinwazi, what is this pig tied to a tree, why is it still wrapped in sackcloth." Didn't you kill the pig yesterday and didn't kill it, the new baby, you are really a melon, you can't even kill the pig, how to be a government soldier......"

Wang Xingxin was thinking about how to explain. Liu Lao Er opened his mouth to relieve the siege when he arrived: "It's back!" Don't chirp crookedly! This pig is tied here for a great use, and everyone should not ask anything. No one is allowed to say anything about this pig! Hurry up and build a house for the new baby! ”

"Uncle Liu, don't build this house, the kid is going to be a soldier and I don't know when I will come back."

"What nonsense! This house still has to come, or you won't even have a place to live when you come back? Don't say that you four babies will definitely be able to come back if you go to fight the Turks, even if you don't come back to the new baby, this house will have to be built for you, the old man doesn't want your baby to come back and not even have a home, everyone said yes! ”

"Yes, my uncle is right! Gotta start a home for the new baby! When the new baby comes back with military exploits, he will find an aunt in a new house, hey! This day is very beautiful! ”

"New baby, your little sixth brother is right, come back with military merits, and the old man will find you an aunt again. Divide the fields, and Meimeidi will live her life! Okay, don't say anything more, Gongzi and Heiwa stayed, and Da Niu hurriedly took someone to build a house. ”

After everyone else went to the construction site where the house was built, Liu Laohan saw that the irrelevant personnel had left, and waved to Da Niu again. When the big cow came, he asked Heiwa to untie the pig tied to the tree. But there was still a rope on it, or the wounded pig would not have been able to catch it again.

After the pig was untied, it howled a few times and seemed to be nothing unusual, and looked for some pig food. After having pig food, the pig stopped howling and began to eat with a hum.

"Brother Xin, it turns out that the pig is hungry, and it has not been fed since it was bought." Heiwa's words were unanimously approved by several people. Liu Laohan saw that the pigs were eating normally, and this hanging heart was completely put down.

"Xinwazi, don't go to work today, the old man has an old man in Lantian County who is a blacksmith, let's put on an ox cart and buy a good armor for each of the four of you."

"Uncle, the new brother said that he doesn't have to go into battle, what do you do with spending that money to buy armor?"

"Black baby! You're a coward! The sword soldier has no eyes, try to protect it thoroughly! I can't say it's going to save your life! What a coward! ”

After Liu Gangzi set up the ox cart, Liu Lao Er went to the construction site to build a house and explained. Wang Xingxin also beckoned Yun Niang's sister-in-law and asked her to add water and salt to yesterday's chicken soup and stew it on the chicken rack for everyone to eat and drink. After that, several people got on an ox cart and rushed to Lantian County.

Yuanlou Village is not far from Lantian County, that is, more than 20 miles, and it took about an hour to see the city wall of Lantian County at the slow speed of this ox cart. Wang Xingxin has never been out of the village since he crossed over, and this time he has entered the city! It's just that he would rather stay in the village for the rest of his life than go into the city to buy military armor because he was conscripted as a government soldier.

In the second year of Tang Wude, Lantian County was divided into two counties: Bailu and Lantian. Then Bailu County was changed to Ningmin County, and Yushan County was added, which was all under the leadership of Yongzhou. After Li Er ascended the throne, Zhenguan abolished Yushan and Ningmin two counties in the first year, and entered Jingzhao County of Lantian and Guannei Road.

In Wang Xingxin's view, in addition to the tall city wall, the current Lantian County is not very prosperous in the city. There are not as many pedestrians on the road as depicted in the book, and there are not many people entering and exiting the few open shops. What Wang Xingxin didn't know was that the Guanzhong region, which had just experienced the locust plague in the past three years, had not yet recovered its vitality.

"Uncle Liu, the kid hasn't been to the county yet, why don't we visit it first?"

"Nonsense! New baby, you can't do anything! Hurry up and buy a good armor, it's true to save your life, it's not too late to come back and visit again, if you lose your life on the battlefield, you still have a fart! ”

Liu Laohan glared at Heiwa, who was about to speak, and insisted that Heiwa glared back at the words that were about to come to his mouth. After a while, a few people came to the door of a blacksmith shop, and as soon as they arrived at the door, they heard the sound of clanging iron. Liu Lao Er first asked the four of them to wait at the door, and after going in alone, he came out after a while to greet the four of them and went to the blacksmith shop.

After entering the blacksmith shop, before the four of them had time to take a large number of times, they heard an old man who was about the same age as Liu Lao Er say in a rough voice: "Old Liu, just these four babies?" ”

"Blacksmith, just these four babies, alas! It's too late to tell, so get your money out. The silver cake will not be missing you, and I owe you a personal favor to the old man! ”

"Haha, it's not easy to make your second brother Liu owe favors! Okay, I'll give each of these four babies a good horizontal knife, and then one person get a spear, as for the armor, you also know, the armor is not easy to make, Mingguang armor, Wenshan Kai old man does not have, only three sets of cloth armor, and one less, if it is too late to fight now, it will be a few days to go to the battle. ”

Liu Lao Er looked at the four of them, gritted his teeth and said to the blacksmith: "Old blacksmith, don't be angry with this infantry armor bull, you can get a pair of leather armor!" Or the armor will be done! ”

"I said Lao Liu, this big cow is your son, you are the only son!"

"Needless to say, that's it!"

Seeing this, Wang Xingxin hurriedly said to the old blacksmith: "This uncle, you look at the boy's body, he can't wear armor, leather armor, cloth armor is lighter than me." As for the spear, I think it's okay to just have a horizontal knife.! ”

Liu Laohan was about to speak again when he was stopped by Wang Xingxin.

"This baby is interesting, all four of you babies come over and wait for the old man to measure your figure, and then take it three days after transforming your figure!"

After that, he took a roll of rope and measured the figure of the four people, and after measuring it, let the four go out, leaving Liu Lao Er alone. After seeing the four of them go out, the blacksmith pulled Liu Lao Er into the inner room and said, "I said you old Liu, why don't you go to find our old brother!" The old man looks at you as a donkey! This big cow is your only seedling, except for the old man and those old brothers who have not known that you are in this Lantian County all these years. If everyone knows, you still have to suffer this grievance! ”

"Blacksmith, don't talk about it again, it's all in the past, I originally wanted to go to the old brother, but then the new baby came up with a way to make these four babies not go forward, so I extinguished this idea."

"New baby? Is that the short-haired kid you picked up and settled in your village? ”

"Well, it's this baby."

"Humph! I see that your second child Liu is also old and confused, how old do you see this baby? He told you that he was thirty years old, and you saw that the appearance of this baby was seventeen or eighteen, where did he come from to be thirty years old? And this baby has that salt-making thaumaturgy and says that it can cure wounded soldiers without dying, don't you think it's suspicious? Hehe, if it was the old man and I, I would have killed it with a knife, saving trouble, you see that now this conscription disaster is also caused by this baby, and even the only son of Da Niu is implicated. “

"Blacksmith, what nonsense you are talking about, the origin of the new baby is a little strange, and the old man took him in to be greedy for his share of the land. But these days, this baby is a good baby! The old man doesn't care where he comes from, he treats him like a big cow! ”

"You! Where is the decisive nature? Hehe, except for being greedy and cheap, his temperament has not changed! You took him in, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a commodity. Forget it, I don't argue with you. If there is something, someone from the village will tell the old man, and remember to get the soldier armor three days later. ”

"If the old man doesn't come three days later, he will let the big bull and the bars of Fang Cai come to get the armor, but the old man comes to look for you to buy the armor, don't tell the old brothers, and especially... Don't let him know! ”

"Okay, you old thing! It's verbose, the old man knows it, and he returns to Yuanlou Village. The village is full of five households Liu, take a Yuan building, and return the square building! Second brother! Decisive killing! ”

"It's all old, and it's even more like fighting and killing! It's still a matter of working in the fields, tired and resting, if you let the new baby make some delicious drops, now the old man's beautiful drop doesn't need your blacksmith to worry about, don't say it, let's go! ”

After that, he got on the ox cart and let the bar drive away.

Seeing that they had walked away, Liu Lao Er and the others blacksmith called someone from the blacksmith shop, whispered a few words, and then returned to the blacksmith shop to continue to jingle the iron.

More than an hour later, several people returned to the village, and everyone was still busy building houses. Except for a few milk babies, those half-grown babies are not idle. Wang Xingxin looked at everyone, his heart was a little heavy, he wanted to live a peaceful and prosperous life in Datang, but who knew that fate was so arranged, even if he crossed, it was still helpless. Heaven and earth bless me, bless these kind villagers!

After entering the yard, I looked at the chicken soup left by Yun Niang in the pot, and there were some yellow steamed buns in the basket, which is the legendary yellow steamed bun with millet noodles.

Since I got up, I haven't washed or eaten, and I went to Lantian County again, and my stomach has been rumbling with hunger for a long time. Pick up a yellow bun and bite it down. I rub! Sour and don't pull a few! You can't spit it out, Liu Lao Er is still next to him, if he spit it out, he will be scolded for being a cowardly baby who spoils food.

After swallowing it hard, I saw Heiwa holding a yellow bun and burning hot chicken soup there. This foodie!

Put a bowl of chicken soup, put more salt, and soak the yellow bun until it is no longer difficult to swallow. Seeing this, Heiwa also learned from Wang Xingxin to soak the yellow bun in the chicken soup. After a while, I devoured 6 yellow steamed buns and three bowls of chicken soup.

After eating, he said to Wang Xinxing: "It's still the new brother who will eat!" In the future, I will follow the new brother, at least I will eat well! Eat to your heart's content! ”

Wang Xinxing smiled and ignored this simple black baby, went to the firewood room to get the silver, and walked to Liu Laoer's side.

"Uncle, is one hundred taels of silver bread enough to buy the armor of the four of us?"

Liu Lao Er looked at the silver cake in Wang Xing's new hand, and said with a smile: "Enough!" Maybe there's still left. New baby, you go to the firewood room to rest, don't worry about other things, just think about how to let the four of you save your lives! Go ahead! ”

Looking at Wang Xingxin who walked into the firewood room, Liu Lao Er looked at the silver cakes and said to himself: "Gua Wa is Gua Wa!" Not to mention the armor, the blacksmith's horizontal knife can't buy a mouthful, let alone four horizontal knives! Alas! This person owes a lot of favor, so it's better for your new baby to pay back for the old man in the future! ”

Although Liu Laohan was talking to himself, the voice was still vaguely heard by Wang Xinxing in the firewood room, and tears flowed from the corners of Wang Xinxing's eyes lying on the bed.