At the end of June, Dongjiang Town was in chaos, and people from the coast and islands of Liaodong fled one after another, some went to Houjin, some returned to the island, and some went to Shandong, and the number of Dongjiang refugees who arrived in Weihai reached a peak, plus the people who bought them in the previous months, there were already more than 5,000 people. Among them, there were nearly 2,000 young and strong men, and those who arrived in June were even weaker, and Liu Min organized some Dongjiang refugees who arrived first to form many groups to take care of the infirm in the shack area.

The news of Mao Wenlong's killing is already known to everyone, and today is the day of Sanqi, and some of the Dongjiang refugees who arrived first got their wages and pooled money to go to Weihai Acropolis to buy fragrant wax firecrackers, which were crackled outside.

Wang Lushi snorted in front of his house, looking at the smoke rising outside the fort with disgust, his Wang Huzi is now in charge of armor and cold weapons, the monthly money has been four taels, and there are three taels of master wages, Wang Lushi calculated the savings, by the end of the year can have seventy or eighty taels, ready to build a three-entry house at the end of the year, in the residential area has been optimistic about a plot, who knows that as soon as the people of Dongjiang came, all the residential areas planned by Mr. Liu became shacks, and her land was aborted, so she hated these Dongjiang people very much.

The lady of the Tan family came over with a small basket, and after seeing Wang Lu's, she took out a piece of sugar cake and gave it to Wang Lu's, Wang Lu's took it and ate it, and asked, "Lady of the Tan family, where are you going with this thing?" I shouldn't have gone to Dongjiang to those people. ”

"Bah, I won't give them any money." The lady of the Tan family said hatefully, "My chicken was stolen last night. ”

Wang Lushi was surprised and said, "I didn't hear a dog bark at night." ”

"Of course I didn't bark, the dog was also stolen, it must have been done by those people from Dongjiang, I walked around the shack in the morning, I didn't see anyone eating meat, I had to go to see it at night, if I caught it, I had to ...... it."

Wang Lushi slapped her hand and said in a low voice: "Be quiet, Mr. Liu and Lord Chen have said that people in Dongjiang are not allowed to bully, and if they are caught, they will deduct the wages of their relatives, otherwise I would have scolded them a long time ago." ”

The economic means are the most effective, the lady of the Tan family had to stop indignantly, and after a while, she couldn't help but say: "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, look at what has become of this place, the dung pit is full of feces and urine, and it will fall down from a long distance." ”

"Isn't it a fine of money?"

"Where is there any silver in the Dongjiang River, there is only one rotten life left, and what silver is fined, even the wooden sign that fined the silver has been stolen, and most of them have gone to make shacks."

"These killers."

The head of the Tan family is a carpenter, she can use both military and civilian weapons, and her income is also very good, and the big house she planned is also hopeless. The more the two talked, the more angry they became, Wang Lushi shook his head twice and scolded: "Do you know what is the most hateful thing about them? ”

"What?"

"I just arrived a few days ago, and when I saw my beard coming out of the workshop, I was about to make my daughter a concubine for him, counting on climbing our old dun household, bah, and I didn't look at any virtue."

The lady of the Tan family was dumbfounded, she didn't expect this, if Carpenter Tan really wanted to accept a concubine, she couldn't stop it, and couldn't help asking: "Your beard agreed?" ”

"Not really, but I don't think he's good-looking, and if he looks good, he'll probably do it."

When Wang Lushi said this, there was a smile on his face, and the lady of the Tan family said strangely: "You still laugh, one more small one is enough for you to fight." ”

Wang Lushi mysteriously lowered his voice: "I heard that when Mr. Liu went to inspect the shack, those Dongjiang people either wanted to recognize him as a godfather, or they wanted to marry his daughter to make him a concubine, so scared that Mr. Liu didn't dare to go to the shack now." ”

"Hahaha" The lady of the Tan family bent over with laughter, Wang Lu looked at her while laughing, and waited for the lady of the Tan family to stand up straight, and then said: "I said that those lard of the Dongjiang River is blinded, and Mr. Liu's Wenqu star is down, it's strange that he can look at their goods,"

The lady of the Tan family smiled and blushed, wiped the saliva from the corners of her mouth, and listened for a while before saying: "Then Mr. Liu doesn't even have a wife, there are so many people who send concubines, that Dongjiang is really not interesting, there are many women in our dungeon, and no one dares to say it to Mr. Liu, what kind of person is Mr. Liu, the dunker is well organized, and he is literate and counting, and his heart is good, saying that Wenquxing has lost him." At least find a gentleman's daughter. ”

Wang Lushi was about to say again, his eyes suddenly looked behind the Tan family lady, and then his face showed some disdain, the Tan family lady looked down, but it was the maid of Lord Chen's family, the famous Xiao Jiahua, the first batch of people they came to know this Xiao Jiahua, they went to Dengzhou on the same boat, everyone thought that this was a young grandmother on the boat, and the boat was full of people who were called by her enough, Xiao Jiahua got off the boat in Dengzhou, and then disappeared without a trace, and did not come back until the second half of last year, when Lord Chen had married Miss Zhao, The news came out and said that Xiao Jiahua was just a maid, and everyone remembered that Master Chen had never said that this was his concubine, and Xiao Jiahua said it himself. Later, I heard that the Xiao family returned to Lord Chen's house to be a maid, and she was very unpopular in the house, Lord Chen was often absent, and most of the maids and mothers at home were brought by the Zhao family, no one gave her a good face, and even the dunners looked down on her. Many dunhu came out to pretend to be a hindsight, claiming that they had long seen that Xiao Jiahua was not a young grandmother, and Lord Chen's generation was a masterpiece, how could he fall in love with such a person.

Wang Lushi remembered that he had poured the toilet bowl for her, and felt as uncomfortable as eating a dead fly, and when Xiao Jiahua passed by the door, he coughed up a mouthful of phlegm and spit on the ground.

Xiao Jiahua didn't hear it, flattened her mouth, raised her head and continued to walk, the look on her face was the same as when she was a concubine, and when she walked out of the street, she turned her head and spit on the ground, and scolded in a low voice. There was a look of indignation on her face, but she quickly regained her vigour, and made her way to the east of the shack area. There lived the last Dongjiang refugees to arrive. Hold it carefully with both hands, holding the contents of your sleeve pocket.

When they arrived at a nest, a group of refugees were putting thatch on a large hut, and a large group of emaciated big-headed children sat next to them, staring blankly in the direction of the bunker. As soon as they saw Xiao Jiahua's figure appear, they suddenly cheered together, jumped up and surrounded Xiao Jiahua in the middle. The gossip shouted, "Aunt Xiao! ”

Xiao Jiahua proudly raised her hand and said loudly: "It's not my aunt today, call it again." ”

"Mother-in-law!!" "Mother-in-law!!"

"Go, go, call another."

A child's voice responded, "Sister Xiao! ”

Xiao Jiahua smiled happily, and took out two big oil cakes from his sleeves, and a group of children shouted in unison, and spread their hands in front of Xiao Jiahua, Xiao Jiahua tore the oil cakes into small pieces, put them on the children's hands one by one, and then squinted to see them finish eating.

A little girl who finished eating first wiped her mouth and said to Xiao Jiahua: "Sister Xiao, it's so delicious, I still want to eat it." ”

Xiao Jiahua patted her head and said, "This is all saved by my sister's breakfast for two days, how much more." ”

The little girl said disappointedly: "Oh, my sister is so good there, the maids can eat oil cakes." ”

"Nonsense, my sister is a concubine, not a maid, don't listen to people's nonsense, my sister still has good things." After Xiao Jiahua finished speaking, she took out a paper bag from her arms, and a group of children stuck out their tongues and leaned over to see what it was.

Xiao Jiahua carefully spread the paper bag in her hand, opened layer after layer, and the child's head next to her got closer and closer, almost sticking to Xiao Jiahua's hand, and finally the last layer was opened, a small pile of white sand-like things.

"Sister, what is this?"

"White sugar." Xiao Jiahua picked up a handful with her fingertips and put it in the girl's hand, a group of children looked at the girl blankly, the little girl put her mouth on the palm of her hand and ate it, sipped it, and looked at Xiao Jiahua and smiled.

When the other children saw it, they spread out their hands, Xiao Jiahua distributed them one by one, the children wanted to eat first, and they were vying to get closer, and a little boy next to him was anxious, squeezed forward, and just knocked the paper bag to the ground.

"Oops!" Xiao Jiahua's face changed, and she raised her hand to slap the little boy, the children around her were startled, and they all avoided outside, Xiao Jiahua's hand stopped in the air, and the little boy's mouth was flattened, and he was about to cry, Xiao Jiahua quickly followed and put it down.

"Come and help pick it up, my sister stole the sugar so easily." A group of children all lay on the ground, carefully looking for them, picking up the sugar one by one, and every time they found one, they screamed with joy, and then put it in Xiao Jiahua's hand.

When they couldn't find it anymore, Xiao Jiahua gave them the sugar with the soil, got up and clapped his hands and said to a group of children: "You are not allowed to bring it to others, I only give it to children, and adults are the worst, so they are not allowed to eat it." ”

"Good!"

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Not far from this group of children, in a slightly better shack, Liu Minyou watched them at the door, this is his temporary office, here to deal with some refugee affairs, although he hates this Xiao Jiahua, but her appearance today, it makes him feel that it is not useless.

He turned back to Dong Yu and Huang Side behind him and said: "The fields in Weihai were said to be distributed to the original tunhu early on, and your soldiers have a monthly salary, so why do you have to divide the land first." ”

Liu Minyou's face was not very good, Dong Yu brought a bunch of lists every time he came, Huang Side was originally his student and was sent to Wendeng Camp to teach, but Chen Xin was sent to be a trainer, and there were only five gentlemen left in the school.

Dong Yu said in a low voice: "I think that the soldiers often fight, and if they don't have a stable harvest, their minds will not be very strong. ”

Liu Minyou interrupted him and said: "Tunhu has been open in Weihai for two years, and they only have food and no monthly money, where can they get the harvest, and their minds will be firm?" ”

Dong Yu was timid, and was refuted by Liu Minyi, and his head immediately retracted, because Huang Side was a student of Liu Minyou, he originally planned to let Dong Yu play the forward and beat the side drum by himself, but seeing Dong Yu's appearance, he had to go on by himself. He arched his hand to Liu Min and said: "Mr. Liu, we are thinking that some of the 3,000 acres of land will be distributed to the veterans first, and some of them will be injured when they suppress the bandits, and they will retreat, so that they will have a place to settle, so that the recruits will also have an example, and they will not be afraid of fighting in the future." ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said: "Huang Side, when you were in my class, you were a tunhu, but you often say that tunhu is hard and waiting for the land. How fast is it now? When a soldier eats food, the monthly money has never been deducted, food and clothing have always been a priority, how can the tunhu have meat to eat in a day? The armor and weapons are all done according to the best, and I really don't understand what I want to say about the things I am afraid of fighting. ”

"We are worried that the veterans will retire and have no livelihood."

"If the veteran retires, it is the general tunhu, the land should be opened, if there is ability, I will also arrange to take a job in the tunpu, and naturally have a new monthly money. If the wounded soldiers are unable to work, I will resettle them after they retire, and it has nothing to do with the land you want now. ”

Huang Side had just become the chief instructor, and he wanted to help the army fight for some profits, increase the goodwill of the soldiers, and consolidate his position......

Liu Minyou shouted: "Enough, how can there be a distinction between high and low errands in the world, and you can't farm without soldiers?" What is there that is not useful? No one farms the land, all of them have to starve to death, no one makes clothes for what you wear, no one strikes iron, and you don't have the most honorable errand in me. The fields in Weihai and Wendeng could only be distributed to the tunhu according to the original plan. ”