In the 25th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Empire formally established the border system of the Long March athletes, recruiting volunteers from the interior to go to the frontier and allowing them to bring their families, and at the same time, the government gave the athletes land and tax incentives, thus forming a military household system in the frontier.

Qiuci is the location of the Anxi Protectorate, but also the most concentrated area of military households, generally distributed in the periphery of the major tuntian, forming a Han village, there is also a large area of military households living in the west of Qiuci City, there are thousands of military family members, long before the military households, there are many Han people who come to Qiuci to make a living to build houses and settle down here, after decades of development, this area has become a Han settlement, regardless of language, humanistic customs or architectural style, are not much different from the mainland, Li Qing'an often comes to the Central Plains wine shop, Also in this area.

Li Qing'an took a few soldiers, and under the guidance of a fire chief, he came to a small courtyard, which was the home of the missing veteran, the wall was only shoulder-high, and when he crossed the wall, he saw a little girl in a coarse cloth dress in the courtyard who was sewing cloth shoes with her head down, and there were more than a dozen pairs of cloth shoes that had been made next to her, and she was so focused on sewing that she didn't notice that a group of soldiers came outside.

The gate was very dilapidated, covered with cracks, large and small, and the fire knocked heavily on the door.

"Who?" The girl's voice is very immature, and she can hear that she is not very old.

Door 'squeak'! The little girl who had just taken the shoes appeared in front of them, she was still young, no more than eleven or twelve years old, but her eyebrows were delicate, she had a delicate nose, round lips, and a beautiful fetus, although she was young, but there was a sense of maturity in her eyes that did not match her age.

"Who are you looking for?" The girl looked at everyone suspiciously.

"Excuse me, is this Xia Wuliang's home?"

"Yes, but my dad is not here, he went to war and hasn't come back yet."

She looked at Li Qing'an and asked hesitantly, "Are you with my father?" ”

Huo Chang smiled and nodded, introduced Li Qing'an to her, and said, "Yes! This is your father's lieutenant, and he came to see you. ”

"Ahh Come in. ”

The girl hurriedly opened the door and invited them in, Li Qingan walked into the yard and looked around, three old houses, the yard was swept clean and spotless, the corner of the courtyard was a tall locust tree, the shade was dense, and there was a piece of land under the locust tree, which was full of jujue flowers.

"Uncles, please take a seat!" The girl brought in a few chairs and poured another cup of tea.

Li Qingan picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "My surname is Li, you can call me Captain Li, what's your name?" ”

"My name is Xia Xiaolian."

"Oh! That's a good name. Li Qingan nodded with a smile, and asked again, "Xiaolian, where is your mother?" How not to see. ”

The girl lowered her head and whispered, "My mother disappeared five years ago, and my father and I are the only two people at home." ”

After speaking, she raised her head and looked at Li Qingan nervously, and asked, "Captain Li, nothing happened to my father, right?" ”

"It's okay! It's okay! Li Qingan said with a smile: "He is a scout, and he went to Lingxi to perform military affairs." ”

From the girl's nervous expression, Li Qingan could conclude that Xia Wuliang had never returned, and it was impossible for him to abandon his only daughter, there were only two possibilities, one was to be captured by the Tuqi Shi people, but this may not have a big surname, and the biggest possibility is that he has been killed.

Li Qing'an sighed secretly, feeling very guilty in his heart, so he said softly: "Xiaolian, according to the regulations, there will be a pension of fifty acres of land after a soldier is killed, but your father is only injured, so there is no pension, but he fought bravely and can be rewarded, and the reward for your father is forty acres and fifty taels of silver, you can accept it!" ”

After speaking, Li Qingan took out a piece of land deed and two cakes of silver and handed them to Xia Xiaolian, Xia Xiaolian was more concerned about her father's situation, and when she heard that her father was not dead, she immediately smiled, and hurriedly gave Li Qingan a salute and said, "Thank you Captain Li for the reward." ”

"No thanks, this is your father's military exploits."

Li Qingan got up and said with a smile: "Okay, let's leave, if there is news of your father, I will send someone to tell you immediately." ”

"Thank you, Captain Li."

Xia Xiaolian hurriedly picked up the cloth shoes and stuffed them with a pair for each person, "These are cloth shoes made by Xiaolian, a little heart, uncles, please accept it!" ”

The soldiers hurriedly excused themselves, but Li Qingan smiled and said: "This is Xiaolian's intention, everyone accept it!" ”

Everyone had to accept it and leave one after another.

Leaving Xia Wuliang's house, Li Qingan's smile disappeared, and he turned back to everyone and ordered: "No one is allowed to divulge her father's situation, and those who violate the order will be held responsible." ”

"Don't worry, general, we will never leak it!"

Li Qing'an nodded, and said to Huo Chang again: "Give her three buckets of rice and five hundred wen money every month, which can be deducted from the military expenses, and there must be no mistake!" ”

"Subordinates obey!"

Li Qingan whipped his horse heavily, and hurried in the direction of the barracks.

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As Li Qing'an expected, early the next morning, an officer from the Jiedu Embassy came to the barracks, and when he saw Li Qingan, he arched his hand and said, "Captain Li, on the order of the marshal, please go to the Jiedu Embassy." ”

"I'll go."

Li Qing'an returned to the account and took the inventory, followed the officer to the Jiedu Embassy, and the two soldiers led him into the military office in the east, which was the office of Fumeng Lingcha, and entered the courtyard, and a soldier reported loudly: "Captain, Captain Li brought it." ”

"Come in!"

Fu Meng Lingcha's voice was very stern, and he had completely lost his usual gentleness, Li Qing'an walked into the room quickly, in addition to Fu Meng Lingcha, there were several other people in the room, including Gao Xianzhi and Cheng Qianli.

Gao Xianzhi's expression was solemn, seeing Li Qing'an come in, a trace of uneasiness flashed in his eyes, he only thought about appeasing the emotions of Li Qing'an's subordinates, but he didn't expect that this matter was caught by Cheng Qianli to make a big fuss, first said that he gave military merits privately, and when he finally made it clear that this was not a private award, but a commendation of soldiers and horses, then another question came out, since it was a normal military merit commendation, then Li Qingan did not have a reward for selfish soldiers, or cronyism.

"Li Qing'an, the lieutenant of the subordinate scout battalion, see the commander!" Li Qingan knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute.

"Captain Li, are you guilty?" Fumeng Lingcha asked coldly.

"My subordinates don't know where the sin comes from?"

"Humph! Forgive me for not admitting it. ”

Fu Meng Lingcha threw a report in front of Li Qing'an, and Gao Xianzhi's cold sweat came out next to him, he thought that Fu Meng Lingcha was just questioning, but he didn't expect that he even had evidence, he glanced at Cheng Qianli, Cheng Qianli glanced at him, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Captain Li, someone has accused you of uneven rewards, high merit is less, merit is less and merit is more, but you are obedient, how do you explain it?"

If in normal times, Fu Meng Lingcha would have slapped the table and ordered Li Qing'an to be pushed out and beheaded, how would he listen to his explanation, but Gao Xianzhi was here, he couldn't kill Li Qing'an at will, and the evidence must be conclusive, so that Gao Xianzhi had nothing to say.

Li Qing'an took the inventory from his arms, handed it over with both hands and said: "Marshal, Senior Deputy Marshal gave his subordinates fifteen hectares of land as a reward for military merits, this is the list of rewards for his subordinates, how much is everyone's military merits?" What is the reward? It is clearly written, and you can see it at a glance, and you can check them one by one. ”

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