The door page shook slightly, and the eldest brother Guan found that the door was not locked, pushed open the door and walked in, the two chickens fluttered their wings and jumped open, and the yard had more of a smell of chicken and duck feces than before, and the firewood in the yard was piled up.

A familiar back figure was busy at the dinner table in the main house, Brother Guan opened his mouth and smirked, walked to the door of the main house and shouted softly: "Mother, I, I'm back." ”

The back paused for a moment, and quickly turned to look at Brother Guan, and after a while, he showed the same smirk, "Big brother is back, it's good to come back." Aunt Guan walked over and looked the eldest son up and down, rubbing her hands together, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

"Brother, have you eaten? I'll make you steamed cakes. ”

Brother Guan hurriedly shook his head and said, "I just ate it before, and a few students brought pancakes to me." ”

His mother saw the cane in Brother Guan's left hand, her face twitched, her eyes were red and two tears flowed, she wiped her face with her sleeve, and said with a grin: "Big brother, my mother heard that they all came back with broken hands and feet, I didn't dare to look at it, I was afraid to look at you." You, it's just this broken foot, don't worry, just come back. ”

"Mother, I'm not ......"

Aunt Guan didn't listen to him, came up and helped Brother Guan cross the threshold, found a stool for him to sit on, and then found a stool to sit on the opposite side, she looked at Brother Guan and said: "Brother, you are strong, not afraid of lameness, my mother will recruit a son-in-law for your sister in the future, let him work at home, and I can't tire you." ”

"Mother, no, my little sister may not want to."

Aunt Guan couldn't help but interrupt: "The woman's family, why don't she want to." I heard from my neighbor that the marriage between this baby and her daughter has to be decided by the mother. ”

"Where is my little sister now?"

Aunt Guan was stunned, "How do I know, this dead girl has left and has not come back, and she will not bring back some silver." She wiped away her tears and suddenly changed to a smiling face, "Big brother, do you know that your brother is out of luck." A few days ago, I got that kind of machine in Wendeng, and I went home and gave me thirty taels of silver. I heard that it was the workshop that rewarded him, and he came back with a letter a few days ago, saying that he had made a machine in Zhaoyuan, and he got dozens of taels of silver. I want to return to Wendeng next month, and the monthly salary is four or two months. The tun chief knows the letter over there, and comes to propose marriage to me, the girl over there is the cousin of the tun chief, which is very good anyway. But ah, the lady of the Zhou family persuaded me to wait, he said that the younger brother can even see Mr. Liu, and most of the other adults can also see him, maybe one day there will be an adult who takes a fancy to him and marries the official lady to her. I'm at home. Just pointed to the little brother. ”

Aunt Guan said happily. Covering his mouth and laughing, Brother Guan was touching the five taels of silver in his arms, and after listening to the embarrassed smile, he took his hand back again, he had just been promoted to a first-class non-commissioned officer. The monthly salary is two taels, and after deducting the pension, there is only one tael and five left, and it was only one tael before, which is far worse than that of my younger brother. Even the first-class medal only received twenty taels of silver. In the past, Emperor Guanmiao only exchanged for ten acres of land and dozens of taels of silver for one life, but now that Guan Xiaodi has made two machines, it is already dozens of taels.

He turned his head and saw some cotton cloth on the dining table, as well as a pair of scissors, it seemed that his mother was cutting something, Guan Da Niang saw him watching, stopped laughing, and said to Guan Da Di: "Hey, you said that this war is, they are all good babies, if you say no, it will be gone, we have always died a lot, and every family is giving gifts, our little brother is out, and he has a head and a face, and he can't be left behind." ”

Brother Guan nodded and said: "We are the first row, most of us are standing in front, our general armor has died the most, and there are eleven in Fuzhou." ”

"It's not, why don't you say that the other chief armor should die more, but let's die as long as our general armor dies, isn't it your chief who is biased?"

Brother Guan hurriedly covered his fucking mouth, "Mother, you can't say this, people can't hate you when they hear it, it's all a tun, who do you want to die." Besides, it was all killed by the Tartars, what's the matter with the chief, I'm fine. ”

Aunt Guan opened it, "What are you doing with me, I don't know what to do, just say a few words at home who can hear it." Then he turned and went to the table again, picked up the scissors and cut the cotton cloth.

Brother Guan looked strange, "Mother, what are you doing here?" ”

"We don't have so many afterlives after we died, I have to go and salute, hey, it's a pity."

Brother Guan listened to his mother's words and nodded in agreement, it was a common practice to send some cloth to the Ming Dynasty. It is indeed a pity that so many of the neighbors of Tunhu have died, and many of them are young people.

Aunt Guan then said: "It's a pity that my fabric has to be sent to more than ten people, so I just disassemble one horse, cut it and send it to two families, and people can't see it." ”

Brother Guan: "......"

Early in the morning of the second day, Brother Guan put on his military uniform after breakfast, hung the first-class white-bladed assault medal on his chest, and then went out on crutches and slowly walked to Lao Zhou's house.

When they had seen enough, Brother Guan continued to hurry, chatting with acquaintances all the way, and as soon as he walked to the door of Lao Zhou's house, he saw the second egg of the Zhou family driving a few sheep out, he was wearing sackcloth, but there was a basket on his back.

"Erdan, why don't you stay at home?"

The second egg was only ten years old, looked at Brother Guan and grinned: "My mother asked me to follow me to harvest Qiu Niang, don't let people quietly take away my family's wheat." ”

"How can you harvest wheat alone?"

"My family has invited the homeless

Come, one penny of silver is one acre, and Tunpu will help collect five acres. Erdan raised his head and said to Brother Guan with a wink.

Brother Guan touched his head, "You go to Tunpu School to study instead, how good it is for someone to teach literacy, you see my younger brother, reading is much better than farming silver." ”

Erdan scratched his head, "I can't read and count, the teacher scolded me, now my father is dead, no one works in the field, my mother said that I won't be allowed to read, so I will honestly farm." ”

"You still have to study, how good it is to be literate, you get more pay as a soldier, your brother Guan is not literate, otherwise he would have become an officer."

"Really?" Erdan touched Brother Guan's medal, "With a tiger's head." The instructor said that it was only a high-level medal, and I would wear such a medal in the future. My father is dead, did he get a medal? ”

"There must be a medal, your father is good, he killed a lot of Tartars, I saw it with my own eyes. The commander of the military affairs department said that the fallen soldiers were heroes, and the medals had to be sent to their families. Brother Guan took out three taels of silver and stuffed it into Erdan's hand, "Go back to your mother, and ask the homeless people to collect wheat for your family." You go to the book. ”

"Oh, thank you, Brother Guan." Erdan was about to go back to the house after receiving the money, but Brother Guan hurriedly stopped him and gave the remaining two taels to Erdan. "Let your brother go to school too."

Erdan happily took it and ran back to the house. Brother Guan raised his head, there were many families in the alley in front of him who were half-mourning, there were spiriting flags hanging in front of the door, and the ashes that were transported back were buried in a mausoleum in Jiashan, and the Martyrs' Shrine was also built at the foot of the mountain. He didn't have a payroll. I can't take it out if I want to.

"I knew I should have received more money." ……

"Of course you want money, and you want people."

"You are a few hundred people from the blue flag, and you want to have as many points as we have with the yellow flag?"

"This is what the Great Khan said, the population is divided equally among the eight banners, do you dare not obey the strict orders of the Great Khan."

Twenty miles outside the city of Datong. Zhang Zhongqi followed behind his own Niu Lu Ezhen, listening to the boring noise of several masters, hundreds of people on the official road supported each other and struggled to move forward, surrounded by Houjin soldiers on horseback. From time to time, he used horsewhips and wooden poles to beat those Ming people.

Zhang Zhongqi looked at those people expressionlessly, he is now the official account of the Zhenglan Banner Bannerman, there are already two coats at home, but last year when he fought the Daling River, he starved to death, this time the Zhenglan Banner only transferred part of the armor soldiers to assist in the defense of Fuzhou, and hundreds of other people followed a Meler Ezhen to fight Chahar, Zhang Zhongqi did not have any combat effectiveness, Niu Lu Ezhen has always remembered his life-saving grace, so he took him with him to Mongolia. This time, he caught a lot of Mongols and Han Chinese, and he hoped to get another one, but he himself still preferred Han Baoyi, those Mongols could only graze cattle and not farm at all.

After they broke the side wall, they looted near Datong and Yanghe, at this time it was almost the end, and the Houjin soldiers captured tens of thousands of Han people, and the property income was also a lot, which was regarded as a subsidy for the road expenses back to Liaodong, Lin Dan Khan was indeed poor, and it was far less cost-effective than fighting the Ming Kingdom.

Even Zhang Zhongqi was given a mule, he put forging horses and cotton cloth on the back of the mule, and carried a small bag on his back, which contained a lot of silver, he turned out to be a Han man in Liaodong, and he had seen many people hiding from the army, where they liked to hide their belongings, Zhang Zhongqi guessed that he was not far from ten, and Niu Lu was really willing to take him with him.

Zhang Zhongqi already had the consciousness of the bannerman, he looked down on these people, and also looked down on those so-called officials, the governor of Shen really agreed to give grain, grass and silver, and went to sacrifice to the sky with the Great Khan, and signed a peace treaty together, without mentioning that Houjin should be returned to the people. Such a style naturally made Zhang Zhongqi look down on him.

They really wanted to grab it for a while longer, but this time, the Jin soldiers were sleepy and lacking, and they completely relied on their reputation to blackmail that Governor Shen, so that he could give enough grain, grass and silver. When these things were in hand, the Great Khan repeatedly ordered them to leave, and they were preparing to go out of the border wall by the same route.

A few Niu Lu are really noisy, Zhang Zhongqi is bored to listen to it, he has been following Niu Lu for a long time, and he knows that everything has to be fought for, and he can always get more, if he doesn't fight for anything, he can't even get the average.

Just as an elderly Han Min next to him fell to the ground, Zhang Zhongqi drew his knife and walked over, which was also the method of expelling Han Min by the Houjin soldiers, and those who couldn't walk were killed on the spot and forced to complete the elimination work.

He was about to slash at the old man, and the other Han people next to him hurriedly dodged, and a figure suddenly pounced on the old man, it seemed that it was a young woman, and the woman still had to keep it, Zhang Zhongqi grabbed her hair and was about to drag it aside, the woman raised her head, her face was full of tears, and she babbled and shouted at him, her eyes were full of pleading.

Zhang Zhongqi was stunned for a moment, "Are you a dumb person?" ”

The woman opened her mouth and nodded slightly, and Zhang Zhongqi muttered, "It's a mute." ”

Another old Baoyi came over and wanted to kill the woman, Zhang Zhongqi roared angrily, "Get out!" ”

The old man was startled and walked away with a disgraced face, Zhang Zhongqi pointed to the old man on the ground and asked, "Is he your father?" ”

The woman nodded again and again, and in the surprised eyes of the people around her, Zhang Zhongqi put away her knife and helped the old man up, threw the cloth on the mule's back to the ground, and helped the dumb girl's father to get on the horse.

Zhang Zhongqi came back and pulled up the dumb girl in a daze, "You follow me, I will give you bread to eat, and it will be in my house in the future, and it will also be your home." ”

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