Akiba stood on the sentry tower at the gate of the cottage and looked to the south, there was nothing to be nostalgic for in the south, only a mountain connected to the mountain, and there were several paths in the mountain, which stretched all the way to the white water.

She looked out for a while, but did not see a figure on the mountain path, so she sighed, lowered her head, and fiddled with the needle and thread and cloth in her hand, she was sewing a pair of socks for her husband. Although Zhu Yuanzhang kept telling her to save a little and not have to make the things she wore too well, Qiu Ye still sewed the threads very finely, stitch by stitch, and used I don't know how many threads.

There are not many threads in the cottage, and now Qiu Ye uses this thread on her hands, or on the day she married Zhu Yuanzhang, an aunt gave it as a dowry, and as for the embroidery needle for sewing socks, it was also borrowed from Li Chujiu's daughter-in-law. There was originally a pair of scissors at home, but the scissors were taken out by Zhang Yingxian to rescue Ma Qianjiu, and then Ma Qianjiu stabbed the scissors into Zhang Yingxian's abdomen, and later the scissors were recovered, but they were stained with Zhang Yingxian's blood, and after they were washed, no one used them again. It seems to have been enshrined by Zhang Yingxian as a sacrifice for her to remember the past, or to say goodbye to the past.

On the altar of Chunqing, there will always be something like this scissors, it itself is very ordinary, but the meaning it represents, but it is extremely heavy, people can not give up, in the blink of an eye, youth is gone, decades later, an old man will pick up a pair of scissors, in a serious voice to the children and grandchildren: I want to be back then...... The matter of this scissor is a long story......

Zhang Yingxian is a rich lady, she has enough leisure and ambition to take the precious scissors to seal, even if there are no needles at home.

Life is very difficult, the scissors are sealed, and the needles have to be borrowed! But Akiba doesn't feel very bitter, she is very happy now, and being able to form a family with the person she likes makes people happier than anything else.

What she is most worried about is Zhu Yuanzhang's safety, because this happy little family is in exchange for her man's rebellion, maybe one day, her man will be killed by officers and soldiers when he goes out of the mountain to collect food, Qiu Ye is very afraid that such a life will be lost suddenly, so since Zhu Yuanzhang left the mountain, she has to go to the sentry tower every day to look at it for a while, hoping to see Zhu Yuanzhang's familiar figure on the mountain road.

She lowered her head and sewed a few more stitches, looking at the few threads left, her brows furrowed deeply: I don't know if these socks can be sewn, and the threads are really not enough......

"Sister-in-law!" Desperate Saburo's voice suddenly rang in her ears: "Look...... There are people on the mountain road...... Haha, I saw Ma Xiaotian...... Zhu Bugs is also ......"

"Really?" Autumn leaves jumped up suddenly, looking in the direction that he had looked at thousands of times, and sure enough, a large group of people appeared on the mountain road, with heads on top of each other, and at least more than a thousand people walked along the mountain road in the direction of the cottage.

Despite the fact that there were so many people, Akiba had no trouble seeing her man at a glance.

"Great! Xianggong is back! Akiba jumped off the sentry tower and ran down the mountain road.

Qiu Ye ran two steps, and many women followed behind him, including Ma Xiaotian's wife, Zhang San's wife, Li Si's wife, and Wang Mazi's mother...... A large group of women ran down the mountain road desperately, and it turned out that Akiba was not the only woman who was worried about whether her man would come back safely.

The army and the women greeted each other on the mountainside, and the women's cries rang out: "Master, are you back......"

"I'm so worried these days that I can't sleep......"

"The baby in my belly has grown up a little more, you touch it, my belly is bigger than before you set out......"

The women were overjoyed for a while, and as soon as the initial ecstasy passed, they immediately began to worry about something else: "Boss, did you get food this time?" Is it enough for us to live? ”

"Xianggong, what did you grab?"

"Che, that's what you guys talk to? You and I didn't go out to grab things, but went out to collect taxes, you see, the back is all the taxes we collected......"

Loads and loads of food were carried up the mountain, piled up on the small flat ground at the entrance of the cottage, and the old high and high were piled up. Every soldier who went out had a smile on his face, but the expressions of the new people who followed them up the mountain were completely different.

When people arrive in a strange environment, they join a thief's village, it is inevitable that they are a little uneasy, these newcomers, in the next period of time, are destined to be people with their tails between them, and in the future, their status will be lower than that of those who went up the mountain first, this is what Zhu Yuanzhang said: those who joined late will regret it in the future.

The veterans and villagers of the cottage all poured out, surrounding these grains and goods, with smiles on their faces: "Brother Zhu...... It's been a great time to have a lot of harvest this time, and it's great to follow you. ”

"Brother Zhu, how do you divide these things?"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood still in the crowd, Qiu Ye stood behind him with his head down, and the left and right were divided into Wang Er, Desperate Saburo, Ma Xiaotian and other descendants, he cleared his throat and said loudly: "The old rule, the grain is moved into the warehouse, guarded by the soldiers, and distributed to everyone every month according to need." But what about the goods...... In terms of meritorious deeds, priority will be given to soldiers! ”

"Wow!" The villagers were in an uproar, they thought that Zhu Bugling would be the same as before, no matter what he moved back, he would share it equally with everyone, but this time it was different, he wanted to reward him for his meritorious deeds?

"Brother Zhu, why did you change it to a reward for meritorious deeds this time?" Wang Er immediately asked.

"It's a matter of time, I'm just going to let it come sooner." Zhu Yuanzhang said loudly to the people around him: "Think about it carefully, is it dangerous for the soldiers to go out of the mountains to grab food?" ”

"This ...... Of course it's dangerous. The wives of a large group of soldiers were the first to cry out: "Our men in charge are going on the expedition, and we are so worried that we can't sleep, what a dangerous thing it is!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and said: "Once Yang Hong came to encircle and suppress us, if there were no soldiers, what would everyone do now?" ”

"This ...... All dead, of course. ”

"Well, it's good that you understand that!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "We have an old saying in Daming, a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail, but in my Zhu Ba's cottage, the soldiers are all good men, they defended the cottage, and risked the danger to go out of the mountain to snatch back the food and goods, they give priority to get things, what's wrong?" ”

A good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail, which is an ancient Chinese saying, and it is also because of the social atmosphere caused by the Ming Dynasty after more than 200 years of singing and dancing. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty said that they did not have a good life and had a low social status, which was the inevitable negative effect of a long period of peace.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty is getting lower and lower, and later the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and swept the world by brushing the ground, and the Ming army had no power to resist, why? Because a good man is not a soldier, anyone who is a soldier is not a good man...... If you don't need a good man, how can you keep the good mountains and rivers?

Zhu Yuanzhang knows very well that in the next few decades, the world will be changing, and the war will be endless, if you don't pay attention to the soldiers and improve the status of the soldiers, the gods will not be able to save the country, so from now on, he will start to let the people under his rule know that being a soldier is better than anything.

With his prestige and reason to talk about, the villagers had nothing to say and unanimously agreed.

Therefore, the food that was rushed up the mountain this time will be distributed to everyone as needed to help everyone survive in this disaster year, but cloth, needlework, kitchen knives, and dishes...... These daily necessities were distributed to the soldiers in the cottage first.

The cottage suddenly resounded with the cheers of the soldiers, and the morale soared.

"Wang Er, the first merit, give an iron pot, ten iron needles, five pieces of cloth, four porcelain bowls, a pair of scissors, and five rolls of thread......"

"Desperately Saburo, inferior work, give an iron pot, eight iron needles, four pieces of cloth, four porcelain bowls, a pair of scissors, four rolls of thread......"

"Ma Xiaotian ......"

"Li Chujiu ......"

All kinds of daily necessities were distributed non-stop, and several leaders got a lot of supplies, and ordinary soldiers also got a lot of things, some people got a piece of cloth, some people got a few bowls, and some people got stitches and threads, no matter what they received, the soldiers were very happy, you must know that these things cannot be produced in the mountains.

The soldiers took these things and stood in front of their mother-in-law, and said proudly: "Look, you are in charge of earning back things for you, hahaha, isn't fighting a war better than farming?" ”

The mothers-in-law of these soldiers naturally couldn't close their mouths with laughter, and as soon as they were happy, they pinched their man's waist hard, and said with a smile: "You went to bed earlier tonight...... I'll let you ......" The voice behind it is quieter, and what is said should not enter the ears of outsiders.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not deliberately say that he didn't want anything, and he didn't count what his military exploits were, he didn't have any military exploits, he just walked to the side of the cargo pile, grabbed a lot of things from it, and then asked Li Chujiu to record what he had taken, and not to count the accounts because it was the leader.

He took a lot of things, more than Wang Er, but the people around him didn't have the slightest opinion in their eyes. Everyone serves him as the master, and all the things in this cottage are theoretically his, but he only took the right amount, not too much, nor did he deliberately take less, and let Li Chujiu record it well, this kind of frank and unrestrained style, no one has any room for accusation.

Zhu Yuanzhang put the bag full of ordinary necessities into Qiu Ye's hand, and said in a deep voice: "I'll leave these things to you, I don't have time to take care of them...... Well...... By the way, don't start wasting because you have too many things at home, remember to check the festival, Zhang Yingxian's bad habits, you don't want to learn. ”

Autumn leaves cautiously looked at the contents of the bag, and she saw that there was a roll of thread lying in the corner of the bag, which could be used to sew socks, and there were still a few needles stuck in the thread, and it seemed that the embroidery needle borrowed from Li Chujiu's daughter-in-law could be returned to her......

Akiba received the bag behind him, with a happy and contented smile on his face!