The woman hurriedly said: "This way, the slave family and others only cook a meal for Mrs. and Miss, and after coming here, there is nothing to do, Mrs. and Miss said that this way depends on the protection of those military masters, and let the slave family and others sew clothes for the military masters to express their gratitude." The day before yesterday, the needlework was finished, and when the lady and the young lady saw that the military master outside the camp tent was suffering from the cold, they asked the slave family and others to burn some charcoal to warm the military masters. ”

Yang He nodded silently when he heard this.

Seeing that several women and children were still kneeling on the ground, Yang He hurriedly pulled the child up, and seeing that the child was still holding a branch in his hand, Yang He frowned and said, "How can such a young child let them play with the branch?" What should I do if I have my eyes pierced? Look, doesn't this pierce your hand! ”

One soldier listened and said, "These children are not playing, they are helping to burn charcoal." ”

Yang He was stunned for a moment, pointed at the child and said, "Such a little child helps burn charcoal?" ”

The soldier nodded slightly.

Yang He looked at the women: "Who let the children work?" Is it Mrs. Liu? ”

The woman hurriedly said, "No, the slave family let the children do it themselves, and the children should let them work from an early age." ”

"Fart! How old is this child? Is there a four-year-old? What can a four-year-old do? Yang He said angrily.

Gently removing the branch from the child's hand, Yang He raised the child's hand and said: "Look at it, this child's hands are frozen and cracked, don't you know how to feel sorry for the child as a mother!" ”

When the woman heard this, she kowtowed repeatedly: "Engong is angry, Engong is angry!" ”

Yang He waved his hand: "Get up, kowtow to what?" I ask you, why do you let such a young child work? ”

The woman did not know what to do for a while, and she did not know what was wrong with letting the child work.

Seeing that the woman was silent, Yang He suddenly woke up, this is not modern, the children in the family are pampered, how can the poor family be qualified to pamper their children at this time?

Sighing softly, Yang He leaned over and picked up a young child, took the hand of another young child, and said to the women: "Come with me with the child." ”

He said to Sun Defu again: "Where is Mrs. Liu's tent?" Take me there. ”

Sun Defu hurriedly said: "Over here." ”

After speaking, he hurriedly led the way.

When he arrived at the door of the tent, Yang He asked a woman to go in and pass the ceremony, and soon Mrs. Liu hurried out of the tent with the maid.

Seeing Yang He and the others, Mrs. Liu bent down and blessed herself, and then said, "Engong, why are you waiting outside?" Come in. ”

Yang He looked at the camp tent and hesitated: "I'm afraid it's inconvenient, right?" ”

Mrs. Liu sighed and said, "The concubine's family has already fallen into such a field, what is the inconvenience!" ”

Yang He looked at the child in his arms, thought about it, and turned to Hei Yunhe and the others: "You guys are waiting for me outside." ”

Hei Yunhe and the others also knew that it was inappropriate for so many men to enter Mrs. Liu's camp, so they immediately nodded.

Yang He hugged the child and said to the women, "Come in with me." ”

Several women didn't know what Yang He meant, but they didn't dare to disobey, so they had to follow Yang He into the camp.

When he entered the camp, he saw that the middle of the tent was separated by a cloth curtain, and then he heard Mrs. Liu say behind the curtain: "Daughter, Engong is back, thank Engong for saving his life." ”

Then I heard a person behind the curtain: "The little girl pleases the grace of thanking Gong for saving her life." ”

Yang He hurriedly said: "It is the responsibility of my generation of men to help the needy, and Miss Liu does not need to be polite." ”

For fear of causing rumors and rumors from others, Yang He was reluctant to stay in the camp for a long time, so he said a polite word to Miss Liu, then turned to Mrs. Liu and said, "Madam, Yang has something to ask for." ”

Mrs. Liu hurriedly said: "If the Engong has something to do, just give orders." ”

Yang He put the child in his arms on the ground and said: "Madam, these children are still young, it's cold outside, don't freeze them, Yang wants to ask Mrs. to help take care of them, if you have time, it is better to teach them to read a few words." ”

When Mrs. Liu heard this, she looked at the children, and saw that the children were dirty, and she couldn't help but hesitate.

In fact, it's no wonder, as the wife of an official eunuch, how could she take these children of poor families seriously? Whether these children are born or die, she will not take them to heart.

But now it is Yang He who asks her to take care of it, and Mrs. Liu is full of reluctance, and it is not good to refuse directly.

Mrs. Liu was hesitating, and Miss Liu behind the curtain said: "Don't worry, our mother and daughter will definitely take care of these children, but the little girl is only a shallow learner, and she can only teach them a few words." ”

Yang He said with a smile: "Children can know a few words, and when they grow up in a few years, I will ask them for a gentleman." ”

After speaking, Yang He turned his head to the women and said, "Thank you Madame and Miss yet!" ”

Hearing this, the women hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Thank you, madam, thank you, miss!" ”

Miss Liu smiled: "Thank us for what we do, you should thank Gong En." ”

Several women hurriedly kowtowed to Yang He, and one woman said: "Engong is very gracious, the slave family will never be repaid, and when the child grows up in the future, let him be a cow and a horse to repay the kindness of the father." ”

Yang He shook his head, sighed lightly and said, "The most important thing to repay is you mothers, repay me for what I do." ”

The woman hurriedly said: "Engong is kind to these children and reinvents them, and they are really reborn parents, if Engong does not dislike them, he will accept these children as adopted sons, and when they grow up, they will repay their filial piety and respect for Engong." ”

"This ......" Yang He hesitated for a moment, it seemed a little inappropriate for him to adopt a son before he got married.

However, just now I asked Mrs. Liu to take care of these children, looking at Mrs. Liu's appearance, she was a little reluctant, if these children became her adopted sons, then Mrs. Liu would not neglect these children.

After thinking about it for a while, Yang He immediately nodded: "Since your sisters-in-law can afford Yang, then Yang will accept these children as his sons." ”

The women were overjoyed and hurriedly said to the child: "Quickly kowtow to Daddy, and in the future, Guan Engong will be called Daddy." ”

Several children were also obedient, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to Yang He while calling Daddy.

Listening to the child's immature shout, Yang He couldn't help but feel a sense of pity in his heart.

After the child kowtowed, the woman said, "These children don't have serious names, so let's give them a name!" ”

Listening to a few women who asked them to name their children, Yang He couldn't help but feel excited, the last time he named Li Wei, he was the boss, and he couldn't make such a mistake this time.

Yang He was about to refuse, but when he saw the earnest eyes of the women, and the children looking at him, Yang He's heart couldn't help but soften.

After thinking about it, Yang He said: "Let's take the name of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and the names will be arranged according to their age, I hope these children will know how to be a man when they grow up, as for this girl, I hope she can show off her wisdom when she grows up, so she will be named Hui." ”

The women hurriedly said, "Thank you for the name." ”

Immediately, all the women called the children together, pointed to the children and said in turn: "This one is one year older than those ones, it is called Yang Zhong, this age is the second, called Yang Xiao, this is the third, called Yang Ren, this is the youngest, the fourth, called Yang Yi." ”

Listening to the woman's introduction to the child, Yang He smiled and nodded.

However, hearing that they had changed the child's surname, Yang He was stunned at first, and then sighed softly, knowing that these women had given the child to themselves, presumably they thought that it would not be a good time to leave the child by their side, and give it to themselves, at least they will have no worries about food and clothing in the future.

After pondering for a while, Yang He took out a few ingots of silver from the blanket around his waist and handed them to the women: "Take these silvers and buy a few clothes for the children, which can be regarded as a gift for me as a godfather." ”

Seeing that Yang He took out several ingots of silver at once, the women were startled, and hurriedly waved their hands and said, "How can you use so much silver to make clothes for children." ”

Yang He was stunned when he heard this, what he just said was buying, but what these women said was doing, although it was only a word difference, but there were many meanings hidden in it.

And he found that the women were astonished when they saw the silver.

Seeing that several women did not accept the silver, Yang He was not easy to force it into their hands, so he had to put the silver in the children's hands one by one.

"Don't give it to the child, don't lose it." Several women were busy.

Seeing the nervous expressions of several women, Yang He suddenly had a trace of doubt in his heart.

Yang He knew that he didn't have much money to take out.

The silver in Yang He's bag was turned out from the bodies of those rebels when he rescued Liu's mother and daughter, and the size was different, the smallest was a small ingot, two taels, five taels, and the largest was a large ingot of twenty-five taels.

What Yang He took out were all small ingots of one, two, two, and two, which was equivalent to a month's military salary for an ordinary soldier.

The soldier's salary is not enough to support his family, which is equivalent to the lowest paid low-level workers in later generations, such as the temporary sanitation workers hired by the municipal government, which is more than 1,000 yuan a month, which is not enough to support his family.

Yang He recognized the righteous son and took out one or two taels of silver as a meeting gift for the child, which is equivalent to taking one or two thousand yuan for the child as a meeting gift in the future, this money is definitely not much, if there is a little identity, I am afraid that it will be too little, and the people of the future generations will at most refuse, and they will never be surprised, let alone nervous.

But why are these women so nervous?

For example, in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of grain, and one stone of grain was about 180 catties, and the two stones of grain were about 360 catties, and now the price of each catty of grain is six or seven pieces, so they came to the conclusion that one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to more than 600 yuan now.

However, the output of grain in the Ming Dynasty is not the same as in modern times, and the loss of processing is very different, now the yield of rice per mu is nearly 1,000 catties, and it is great to be able to produce 400 catties during the Ming Dynasty, and now the processing of a catty of rice can produce seven taels to eight or two meters, and it is good to be able to produce five taels of rice at that time.

Moreover, during the Ming Dynasty, there were no such import channels as now, if the price of grain was too high, once there was a disaster year, the common people could not afford to buy grain, and there would be a big problem, in fact, there was indeed a problem later.

The price of food is related to the security of the country, so how can the price of food be high in this situation?

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