The wax moon of the seventh year of Chongzhen came soon, and the autumn offensive in Dengzhou Town that began in August was also over, and the two sides suffered losses from each other, and the sentinels of Jiannu surveyed the front line of Fuzhou, and found that the defense facilities of Fuzhou were strong, and the cavalry and infantry totaled more than 5,000 people, and they continued to bring in food.

The Houjin army gathered in Gaizhou was about 7,000 Zhenyi and Mongols, and the 170 miles between Yulinpu and Gaizhou were all uninhabited.

Although Huang Taiji wanted to send troops to besiege Fuzhou, the large-scale reduction in autumn grain production made the banners extremely difficult, and many Zhenyi families did not have overnight food, and they had to borrow usury to buy grain after the grain harvest was completed. According to the style of the Houjin army's own grain and grass, there will definitely be a rebound in each banner, and there is nothing to grab in that place in southern Liaoning, the lesson of Lushun is vivid, and the transportation of grain in winter is extremely difficult, and most of the Houjin nobles are unwilling to cross one hundred and seventy miles of no-man's land to fight the fortified Fuzhou city. Huang Taiji collected some of the autumn grain collected by the emperor and used it on those Han soldiers, who were training in Shenyang.

As a result, the two sides died down, southern Liaoning calmed down, and both sides made their own preparations to accumulate strength for the next year's contest.

Dengzhou was peaceful, the soldiers began to take holidays in batches, and those who had served for more than one year were given a month's vacation, and the cigarette factory, Wendeng No. 1 factory, and Pingdu No. 2 factory were also on vacation, and only the cotton cloth factory continued to produce.

As the highest income group in Dengzhou Town, soldiers and workers began to embark on the road back to their hometowns, and there were streams of people in various parts of Dengzhou, and all the carriages and horses along the official road worked overtime to earn money, and these people bought a lot of things on the way, including cheap dried fish along the coast and corn harvested along the mountain forts. There are cotton cloth produced in Dengzhou, as well as cigarettes, garments, shochu, cured meat, and so on. Although there are tax cards along the way. But merchants are still shipping from Laiju and Tengju, and the economy is showing signs of activity in all parts of Dengju.

The 2nd Guards Battalion, stationed in Jiaozhou, also received a holiday notice. Not long after they turned into soldiers, the first outline of the soldiers had not been completed, Zhong Laosi didn't want to take a vacation, but the orders of the Military Affairs Department and the Discipline Department were very strict, and no commander could force the soldiers to give up. So Zhong Laosi was forced to be helpless, most of the non-commissioned officers and grassroots officers applied, Tang Wei also got a month's vacation because of the two-year military age of the propaganda team, and he was very close to home. The headquarters of the 2,000th Guards where he was stationed was stationed in Jiaozhou, which was only more than a hundred miles away from Aoshanwei, and Xie Fei also planned to go back to Huangxian, so his distance was much farther.

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, the two said goodbye at the camp gate and set foot on their way home......

On the twenty-third day of the seventh year of Chongzhen, in Aoshan Weierdaogou Village, Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong Town, the Jiaodong Peninsula has entered the depths of winter, and the severe cold of the Xiaoice River has not yet stopped. The north wind is whistling in the alleys of Aoshan Weierdaogou Village, which seems to be colder than last year, and there are few pedestrians on the road, and they nod when they meet occasionally. I didn't care about greetings, but there were still two figures at the entrance of the village at this time.

"I've never been so cold since I was a child, oh my God, how are you doing things. If you hadn't sent a Chen Dashuai, I would have scolded you so much today that you couldn't sleep," Tang Dong stood at the entrance of the village. complained loudly about the weather, and casually threatened God. She has been waiting for his only son Tang Wei at the entrance of the village for almost an hour.

She used to open a small grain store in Erdaogou Village, and she still had more than ten taels of silver every year, and later Wendeng Ying entered Dengzhou, and developed a comprehensive store in a non-Tunbao place, and only those in the family who joined the army could apply, so Tang Dong sent his only son Tang Wei there. Tang Jiashun got a comprehensive store and sold salt, cotton cloth, grain and other materials to nearby villages, with three or five taels of silver per month, and his income was much more than before.

Tang Wei joined the army for more than two years and did not return home once. At first, I thought it was a soldier, and the neighbors were envious, but later the same village came back and said that Tang Wei was a theater tartar, and Tang Dong was so angry that he didn't eat for two days. The rural people can't look down on the drama, so they make it better to talk about their relatives and leave. Tang Dong's family went to Pingdu Prefecture and wanted to bring Tang Wei back, but he didn't find anyone, and he heard that he was performing everywhere, and no one knew where he went. Finally, I received a letter from Tang Wei, saying that he went to Henan to suppress bandits, and he returned to Pingdu Prefecture not long ago. But the business of the grain store before the Spring Festival was very good, so Tang Dong was reluctant to leave.

Ten days ago, Tang Wei wrote that there was family leave this month, and she would arrive home on the 25th of the lunar month, and she began to write Luo from the time she received the letter, prepared fine noodles, bought three catties of pork at Zhang's butcher's house, and entrusted several matchmakers in the village and the surrounding Tunpu, this time she must marry a daughter-in-law for this young man.

Tang Wei's father sat with his head on the stones opposite her, smoking a few puffs of cigarettes from time to time, looking at the ground with his eyes blankly, Tang Dong's family didn't pay attention to him, this old man couldn't pull a fart with three sticks in his life, it was useless to discuss anything with him, he didn't say a word about death, everything in the family depended on her, and it was easy to marry his daughter, and her mother-in-law was looking for a good job, and she could live a good life, and she was content in this world. If she didn't talk about her daughter-in-law this time, she wouldn't let him go back to the army.

"Old man, this time the dog is back, you have to take out your way of being in charge, find a daughter-in-law to have a baby, these have to listen to your father's mother, how can he have his own idea, he shouldn't sing to be a drama tartar, last time he said that he still wanted to find a daughter-in-law who sings, if you don't manage him well, don't think about using money to buy tobacco next month", Tang Dong was bored waiting, although he knew that this old man was not useful, he still kept nagging him.

Old man Donald lowered his head and took a puff of cigarette, inhaled it deeply, then raised his head and glanced at the old woman, as if to say something, his mouth opened, he didn't say a word, and looked down at the ground again.

Seeing this, Tang Dongshi shook his head and sighed, "If I die in this life, I will definitely be killed by you and this dog, you have no idea since I married you in the cave house, I have to teach you what to do, and I don't ......care if I am a yellow flower girl."

Old Tang suddenly raised his head and said, "It's here!" ”

"What's coming?"

"Carriage."

"Really, where? I didn't hear the bell ring. Tang Dong hurriedly walked to the avenue outside the village, and in the howling north wind, the faint sound of bells came from afar.

"My dog". Tang Dong's walk is like flying, when Old Man Tang is out of the village. I only saw a strong back in the direction of the passenger carriage............

After nightfall, there was basically no movement in Erdaogou Village. Generally fine, the village goes to bed early, and sometimes a few dog barks, indicating that the village security guards are quite responsible.

The old Tang family was brightly lit, and Tang Dong's family lit two oil lamps for the first time, one of which was borrowed from the third aunt next door, but the oil had to come out by itself, and under the oil lamp, the dumplings that had just come out of the pot were steaming. Tang Wei gulped down the dumplings, a bag bulged out on his fat face, Tang Dong's looked at this lone child with a smile through the light, and the folds on his face seemed to reflect the light of joy.

"Dog, you will come back when you come back, what are you doing with all those things, how expensive the fox skin scarf is, you don't know how much to save yourself for marrying a daughter-in-law." Tang Dong touched the fox fur scarf on his shoulder, and said to Tang Wei. "Eat more, dog, you have been in Dengzhou Town for a long time, can you eat enough?"

Tang Wei raised his head and pouted and looked at his mother and smiled: "Mother, father." I had meat to eat every day in the army. Eat some flat food, too. ”

Tang Dong shook his hand again and again, "I don't eat it, I ate it yesterday." Your dad doesn't eat either, he just likes to smoke. Don't like to eat meat. Tang Dong didn't look at the old Tang Tou, so he helped him make a decision.

Old Tang still sat expressionlessly. Spit out a puff of cigarette, and the tobacco at one end of the chimney flickered on and off.

"Well, so much...... I eat...... Not endlessly. Tang Wei buried his head in eating and said.

Tang Dong said with a smile: "Dog, I can sum it up when I come back this time, don't you have more than 20 days off, go to the third aunt's house tomorrow, she will take us to see Zhang Butcher, your third aunt has said a few pairs to the village, two of them are your army, this property is not better than our family, why is my dog later than them, the third aunt this time is the Zhang Butcher's family in the east of the village, the pigs killed by his family can be sold to five or six nearby villages, I am afraid that it will not be one or twenty ......taels in a year."

"Thirty taels." Old Donald interjected suddenly, and then lowered his head to smoke his cigarette.

Tang Dong continued to say to Tang Wei: "Did you hear it, there are thirty taels." Although we are not unfamiliar with his bit of silver, the dog's dowry has been prepared well, tomorrow we will go to Zhang Tuhu's house to say that we will go, if it can't be said, the day after tomorrow to go to the Thirteen Forts, although the Thirteen Forts are homeless outsiders, but Fu Matchmaker We also know each other, she said that the second daughter of the Chen family is diligent, generous, and the ass is big, and the dowry can be less......"

"Mother, I don't want to marry a daughter-in-law yet"

"What, don't marry a daughter-in-law?!!!" Tang Dong's anger was furious, and he stood up, the two lights flickered, and the surrounding shadows also shook with the lights, it seemed that the whole house was startled by Tang Dong's anger, Tang Wei's neck shrank, only the old Tang Tou still had the same expression that lasted forever.

Tang Dong's face was anxious, "Don't you say what your daughter-in-law does, son, you are twenty, your second aunt's eldest baby is two, your second aunt looks like something every time she comes, it's not that grandchildren are talking about grandchildren, what is this doing, this is specifically to chill your mother, I should have told you my daughter-in-law when I came back the year before last, you shouldn't be an actor, play that Raushzi's Huangtai calendar......"

"It's not the Huang Tai calendar, the Taiwan calendar is based on the days, I played Huang Taiji, it's Jiannu's ......"

Tang Dongshi interrupted without hesitation: "I don't care what kind of desk calendar it is, a few babies who are soldiers in the village came back and said that you became a tartar, and the few families who said that they didn't do it, it turned out that they rushed to our house to say that the matchmaker came, these ten miles and eight villages, there are a few families with a thick family background in our family, and you are not allowed to perform that calendar." ”

Tang Wei put a dumpling into his mouth, and muttered vaguely when he heard this, "It's not that you fed me too fat, the commander said that I am the fattest in our whole army, and I am the most like the Tartar Emperor." Besides, it's not called being a tartar, it's being an actor, and the chief said that acting well is also fighting. Besides, it's not acting anymore. ”

"Commander all day long, can the chief be a meal, think about being a soldier all day long, who is killed in the war to send the old lady to the end, this time you have to listen to the mother, tell you to see whoever you want, if your commander talks more, I will go to your barracks and scold him so that he does not dare to go out, anyway, if he does not marry a daughter-in-law this time, he is not allowed to leave." Tang Dong ended his speech angrily, turned around and entered the back room.

Old Tang Tou knocked on the table with a cigarette stick, and then said to Tang Wei: "Eat quickly, dog, go to bed early after eating." He also got up and went into the house.

Tang Wei watched his father enter the house, sighed lowly, turned around and saw the dumplings on the table, his eyes lit up, and he began to chew again. (To be continued......)

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