The next day, Ma Duwei came from a few soldiers and came to the stable to complete the handover with Li Yanzhao and the others. Li Yanzhao told everyone in detail about the daily work in the stable, and then led everyone to go to the horse material warehouse to tell the people in detail how to mix the horse material and how much to feed at a meal. After the handover, a group of ten people came to Ma Duwei's account. At this time, the lieutenant was summoning several horsemen to issue orders in the tent. Li Yanzhao stood outside the tent and listened intently for a moment, but it was the commander who ordered several of them to go to the village where the wounded had been placed on the previous march to investigate, and if there were wounded who were almost the same, they were ordered to bring them back. Li Yanzhao sighed secretly in his heart, it turned out that Du Wei was really a rough and fine person.

After the horsemen left the tent, Li Yanzhao reported outside the tent, and then led his ten men into the tent and stood in the tent of Ma Duwei.

When Ma Duwei saw Li Yanzhao coming in, he was about to bow down with his fists in his fists, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "Okay, okay, no courtesy." Are you waiting for the handover? ”

"Back to the Captain, we have already handed over the stables to the people sent by the Captain." Li Yanzhao replied.

"Okay, before the reward is down, you will listen to everything under Ma's account, and the sergeants have no opinion, right?"

"I would like to be with the captain." When everyone heard this, they all hugged their fists and bowed.

"That's good, there's nothing going on in the camp, so you can go home and have a look. Ma Duwei said lightly. Three days later, the construction can be completed on time in the morning. ”

Everyone thanked the captain, and then they came out one after another, and their expressions were excited. Then everyone put their luggage in the tent arranged for them by the captain's own soldiers, and then the ten people packed some simple luggage together and went out of the tent. Walking all the way to the outside of the camp, the soldiers guarding the camp gate had obviously received military orders and did not stop everyone. After everyone left the camp, they went all the way to Guangwu County along the official road.

At this time, everyone's family members have been settled in Guangwu County. Under the care of the Taishou, the houses of each family had been repaired before everyone joined the army, and the furniture was placed in the north of the city. In this way, the families of military families are relatively concentrated, which is not only convenient for the government to monitor, but also provides conditions for military families to visit each other on weekdays.

Under the current social environment in which the status of world soldiers is low, the situation of the families of world soldiers is undoubtedly extremely embarrassing. Ordinary households basically do not interact with them in old age and death, and major events such as door-to-door visits, mutual assistance, and weddings and funerals between military households are also limited to military households.

It is as if now, Taishou deliberately arranged for all military households to live together, although it facilitated the exchanges between military households, in fact, it also made the military households isolated from civilian households, although these were formed by social concepts, not Taishou's intention. However, it is still an objective fact, which has caused the isolation of military households.

Li Yanzhao has no family, so naturally he has nowhere to go. Fortunately, Liu Jiwu was so good at talking about it that he dragged him to his own house stiffly. Cao Jian and Cui Yang also followed into this small courtyard. This small courtyard is the residence of the four families of Liu, Cao, Niu Erzhuang and Cui Yang. The four of them went into the yard together, but they saw that Niu Erzhuang was throwing the wooden barrel tied with hemp rope into the well in the courtyard, and then grabbed the hemp rope and pulled the bucket full of water up little by little. Startled, his hand loosened slightly, and the bucket fell straight down with a pop, and a few splashes splashed at the wellhead.

"Ahh Liu Jiwu looked disgusted and teased.

Niu Erzhuang hurriedly grabbed the hemp rope tied to the wooden barrel and stammered, "Who ...... Who made you ...... No...... Silently ...... Stand at the door and be scared...... Dead man. After finishing speaking, he finally lifted the wooden barrel in the well, then carried the wooden barrel full of water, strode to the water tank of Cao Jian's house, poured the well water from the bucket into the tank, and then turned back to the well, threw the bucket down, and continued to draw water.

In the house on the left side of the courtyard, a woman heard the sound and came out. Niu Erzhuang, who was fetching water by the well, saw the woman come out and hurriedly said, "Mother, why did you come out?" He pointed to Li Yanzhao and said, "These are all robes in the children's army, you must have seen them, so I won't introduce them one by one." ”

The woman nodded again and again, but her eyes looked at Li Yanzhao and said, "Chief Li Shi, thank you for taking care of Erzhuang in the army these days. Erzhuang, this kid has a good heart, but he hasn't left home much. If there is anything wrong in the army, please bear with you brothers in robes. ”

Li Yanzhao looked at the woman. Before enlisting in the army, he came to help everyone renovate the house, and he once had a relationship. Just not impressed. At this time, he also hugged his fists and saluted: "Auntie, rest assured, Erzhuang has performed well in the army." I rush to do all the work, and I practice very hard, and I never complain about being tired. He also gets along well with the robes in the army. When the people around him heard this, they also echoed it, and under the praise of everyone, Er Zhuang's face turned into a flower.

"Okay, with your care, I'll be relieved as a mother." The woman smiled and said, "Chief Li, come and go from time to time in the future." When Erzhuang came back, he kept telling me that you were good to him. You take such good care of him, I don't know how to thank you as a mother. ”

Li Yanzhao clenched his fists and said solemnly: "As a chief, caring for the soldiers is a matter of duty, and the eldest lady doesn't need to thank you." I was separated from my relatives, fleeing all the way from the land of Yongqin, on the way thanks to the care of everyone, and everyone has long been like brothers, if the mother repeatedly said thanks, Yanzhao did not know how to deal with himself. Yan Bi smiled faintly. said to Niu Erzhuang: "Erzhuang, Ma Duwei gave us three days off. Three days later, he returned to the camp and returned to the camp. In the past few days, I will be filial to my aunt at home and take care of your brother. Niu Erzhuang carried a bucket of water and poured it into the Liu family's water tank, and responded: "Hey, you can rest assured." ”

Li Yanzhao glanced at Liu Jiwu and Cao Jian beside him, and the two of them understood, and then stepped forward together to snatch the empty bucket in Niu Erzhuang's hand, and said one after another: "We come, we come." You can go and talk to your mother. ”

Niu Erzhuang glanced at everyone gratefully, and then went into his house. Cao Jian and Liu Jiwu took turns to fill the buckets of each family.

For dinner that day, two low tables were set up in the courtyard, and everyone sat around the courtyard, and each family brought out their own food to share. Cao Jian's family stewed a chicken, Niu Erzhuang's mother baked dozens of cakes, and Liu's family stewed a pot of pork. Cui Yang's family wrapped twenty or thirty meat steamed buns. Each family sat around, a total of twenty or thirty people, laughing and laughing.

Li Yanzhao quietly enjoyed this rare warmth. Although the people sitting around him are not his real family, the friendship and care for each other have long been like family members. At the dinner table, everyone talked about the short topics of the parents, and from time to time asked the sons and daughters of the family how they went out to fight the rebellion. When they heard that more than 400 cavalry soldiers of the Guangwu Army were running around, they were sneak attacks, digging pits and ambushes, and damming and flooding. Everyone was amazed, and they were all amazed by the deeds done by their sons.

This family dinner ended in a lively atmosphere. Housewives rushed to wash dishes and wash dishes. And Liu Zhongkang watched the sons and daughters in the family sensibly help with housework. From time to time, he teased the little grandson at home. Li Yanzhao also sat next to him, teasing Liu Jiwu's youngest son with Liu Lao. The child still had the jade Guanyin given by Li Yanzhao on his chest, holding a bamboo dragonfly in his hand, and shouting to his grandfather to play with me in a milky voice.

Liu Zhongkang smiled kindly, stroked the child's head, and said again and again, Okay, grandpa will play with you. He took the bamboo dragonfly in his grandson's hand, rubbed his hands hard, and the bamboo dragonfly spun and flew into the sky, and the child jumped and clapped his hands.

Li Yanzhao looked at the bamboo dragonfly flying into the air, and suddenly had an idea, and then asked Liu Zhongkang to bring bamboo strips, paper, candle heads, paste and other things, and took advantage of the dim candle flame in the house to do the things in his hand. Liu Zhongkang took the child to bounce and play with bamboo dragonflies on the side. The laughter continued.

However, with the two incense sticks, more than half of the things in Li Yanzhao's hands have been completed. As far as the eye can see, it is a small Kong Ming lantern. After a while, Li Yanzhao held the finished Kong Ming lantern and came to Liu Zhongkang and his little grandson.

The child looked curiously at the Kong Ming lantern in Li Yanzhao's hand, and asked in a milky voice, "Uncle Li, is this ...... What? ”

Li Yanzhao smiled and touched the child's head, and said to him: "This thing is called 'Kong Ming Lantern'. Hurry up and make a wish to it, and when Uncle releases it, it will bring your wish to the heavens and let the gods in the heavens hear it. ”

The child thought about it solemnly, and then said loudly to the Kong Ming lantern: "I want the whole family to have enough to eat every day, and I don't have to gnaw on that kind of chaff nest again!" ”

Listening to the child's simple wishes, Li Yanzhao took the candle and lit the candle head in the middle of the Kong Ming lamp. Watching the Kong Ming lantern slowly fly into the sky, the milky voice of the child next to him reached Li Yanzhao's ears: "Uncle Li, you say, the immortals in the sky, can you hear my wishes?" ”

"Yes, they will be able to hear it, and they will grant your wish." Li Yanzhao looked at Kong Minglan, who was flying in the sky and gradually getting smaller, and said affirmatively to Liu Jiwu's youngest son beside him.

The Kong Ming lantern gradually turned into a little spark in the sky, and the child looked straight in the direction where it flew, and when that little spark disappeared, he pounced on Liu Zhongkang on the side with a longing on his face.

"Grandpa, grandpa, the gods in the sky have heard my wish, they will not let us go hungry in the future, and they will not let us eat chaff nests again." The child raised his face and looked at his grandfather innocently.

Liu Zhongkang looked at his little grandson with a complicated expression, and he didn't know what to say for a while. It took a while to come back to his senses, touch his grandson's head, and say, "Okay, okay, we won't be hungry again, okay." ”

One old and one young, just looking up at the starry sky, looking forward to their humble wishes, which can be realized in the future.