Wang Dazhuang's home is a pig's nest, and bachelors without women can't enter their house, and the flies in the room can push you out enthusiastically, let alone the smell.

Lu Hanqiang has no habit of cleanliness, but there is really no need to suffer that sin in order to show that he and Wang Dazhuang are close friends, anyway, the weather is hot, and everyone sits and eats and drinks under this tree in the yard.

In fact, no trees are allowed under the city walls, especially outside the city walls. The real remote cities close to the Mongolian Tartars and other places, every year, special people must be sent to cut down all the trees within ten miles of the city wall, even those small trees that have just grown, this is to avoid the enemy in the future as siege equipment materials. Where is it still like this capital? Not to mention that in the courtyard of this city, every household has to plant a tree, which is cool in the summer, and can cut some branches as firewood in the winter, which can also save some money.

And for the sake of the scenery, the moat outside the city is simply planted with weeping willows, and when the warm flowers bloom, it is the willow swaying, and the catkins are flying, so that the literati and scholars can go out and chant poetry, and it is the firewood of the poor people in the capital in winter.

This is a peaceful life for a long time, and I don't think about it, once the enemy presses the territory, is it that people will use local materials to hit the ladder catapult and smash your brother-in-law, and you won't be able to find the land temple when you cry.

But this matter is not under Lu Hanqiang's control, and he can't control it. If Lu Hanqiang said now, hurry up and cut down the willow trees that are about to become enemies, and it will be too late to kill the wild boar skins in the city in the near future. The first thing to cut down is definitely the literati doctor who hates Lu Hanqiang for destroying the scenery, and then there should be countless people who don't have free firewood and grass.

Sitting under the tree in the courtyard, the two brothers had just drunk two sips of wine, and there was a jumble of footsteps outside the courtyard gate, and then more than thirty tall men poured in, as well as a dozen skinny mud monkeys.

The men entered the courtyard, everyone knew each other, and they all said hello to Lu Hanqiang, and then they moved the guys around, sat down in the shade of the tree, and even more Zhang Yuan, and did not take a bowl, directly slapped a new wine jar, took a sip directly to the mouth, and then passed it to the next one, and the next one was just like that, and then the next one, so that half of the ten catties of old wine was left.

The children are not as bold as their fathers, and they are standing in the corner with their fingers in fear, staring at the braised meat on the broken table with black eyes, and they don't let go of anything, and the youngest is babbling and pulling the older brother to eat, pulling his brother's small body and twisting it, but the big one just stares, but does not move.

The third uncle already had experience, so he was busy untying a small pocket around his waist, walked to the children and squatted on the ground, and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, your Uncle Lu will give a reward, buy fruits for five big dollars per person to eat, don't squeeze it, everyone has a share." ”

The last little one, I didn't know that the money was more real than the braised meat, five meat is good to make money to buy a fat roast chicken, I didn't feel the good money of the five meat, my eyes were still staring at the braised meat on the table, and I didn't move and bit my fingers with a creaky sound.

The third uncle had no choice but to take her little hand timidly to the table, tore a chicken thigh and gave it to her, she just bit it down, and then asked Zhang Yuan timidly: "Daddy, is this the taste of meat?" ”

Zhang Yuan's hand was stunned, and Lu Hanqiang's eyes were hot.

Wang Dazhuang waved his hand and asked the older child to take the little girl away, or with his brother's temperament, this meal would be over.

"Hehe, let my brother laugh, let my brother break the bank." Zhang Yuan smiled awkwardly, lowered his head and stopped talking.

"What's the joke, I see that you Zhang Yuan is sincere, I know that Brother Lu came, which time didn't you get your family to beat your brother's autumn wind, this is good, even the one who just talked about it has been here, you are not ashamed." Wang Dazhuang was angry and arranged his old brother, in fact, to break the embarrassment here.

"Ugh." Zhang Yuan sighed and shook his head gently: "It's not that this day is a trouble, just the last time the new emperor ascended the throne, he made up for us some of the money and food we owed, but this is another year in the blink of an eye, just a little in the middle, the rest is gone, I'm not like you, you eat alone and the whole family is not hungry, my old and young five or six people, if it weren't for the opportunity to watch the city gate two or three times a month, get some fishing, I" said and lowered his head deeply, no longer speaking.

Lu Hanqiang took a deep breath, suppressed the sourness in his heart, raised his head to Wang Dazhuang, and asked from the temptation of the old saying: "The life of the brothers is so miserable, have you ever thought of doing something else?" ”

"Why don't you want to? But look at us people, what else can we do but be janitors? This forbidden army is better, and those who celebrate the New Year can still get some rewards from the emperor, if you look at those border guards, it will be even more miserable. As he spoke, he raised his face, dried the bowl of wine, and then slammed the bowl on the table, and sighed.

"I'm going to inspect the Shanxi Commercial Bank this time, and I've brought six hundred people, but I need some people to help me bring it, I don't know if my brother can get out." Lu Hanqiang asked tentatively.

When Wang Dazhuang heard this, his eyes lit up at that time, but he was immediately full of worry: "I said brother, Shanxi is not a good place to go, it has become a pot of porridge there now, and the danger is tight, what are you going to do there?" Then he shook his head as if he was not drumming: "I can't go, I can't go." Others also stood up one after another, and bitterly persuaded Lu Hanqiang not to go to the northwest to die.

Lu Hanqiang knew that this was not to say that Wang Dazhuang was afraid of not agreeing to Lu Hanqiang's request, but was worried about his brother.

So he smiled bitterly: "If you don't go, you can't go, the emperor can't force me to fly, if I don't go, my head won't need to be picked up with a northwest pole, and the emperor will cut it off." ”

As soon as Wang Dazhuang and the other brothers heard that it was the emperor's assignment, they were speechless one by one.

"It seems that you have to go this time, or not, then brother, I will accompany you on a journey, anyway, I don't dare to say anything else, I promise to die in front of you."

This is the most direct confession, without any fancy boasting, but just this sentence I die in front of you is the best brother and the best guarantee.

Lu Hanqiang bowed his hand movingly, and then drained his wine in one gulp. The third uncle hurriedly filled Wang Dazhuang's wine bowl gratefully: "I'm old, and I can only be a burden, and I also need to take care of my family, so my owner will entrust it to you." ”

"What did the third uncle say, what is entrusted or not, since they are brothers, they are blessed to share, and I am in trouble.

"Share the blessings, I should be the ones who are in trouble", this is the arrogance of a righteous man, Lu Hanqiang felt deeply honored that he could make friends with such an old brother, without saying a word, he picked up the wine bowl and touched Wang Dazhuang fiercely, and then the two of them killed together, and then laughed, and a pride slammed up.

Infected by the arrogance of the two brothers, the other brothers also stood up one after another and said loudly: "I will go too, I will go too." ”

Wang Dazhuang swept his eyes, "What is the blind ginseng?" I'm single, it doesn't matter if you're dead or alive, you all have a family, and you won't raise your wife and children? Then he looked at the dozen or so brothers who sat down hesitantly, and pointed at Wang Xiao and the other brothers with his finger: "You, and you, and you, follow me to protect my brothers, and the rest stay at home honestly." ”

Lu Hanqiang asked with a smile: "Big brother, if you go, don't punish you as a deserter in the forbidden army, if you are caught, it will be the result of beheading." ”

Wang Dazhuang smiled: "Fart deserter, brother, you don't understand this matter." ”