When spring returns to the earth, everything is full of vitality, the slender branches are full of tender green, and the air is filled with the fragrance of earth, which makes people feel refreshed for a while. Xiao Yungui stood between the fields, feeling the warmth of the earth with his bare feet, looking at the children of the Salesian Bureau who were busy in the fields, a faint smile bloomed on his face, and he also accelerated the farm work in his hands.

Helping with farm work in the fields is already one of the compulsory labor classes of the Salesian Bureau. After the Sufu Provincial New Deal Conference, the Salesian Bureau was established in the West Temple, which was separated from the old, weak, sick and disabled to adopt and care for orphans. Throughout the winter, the number of orphans and beggars who came to the Salesian Bureau in Suzhou doubled to more than 3,000. The West Temple built some new houses in the city for these orphans to live in, so that these poor children could have food, study, and work. These children have homework every day, and they have to help do what they can, and there is an evening class in the evening, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er took the officials of the West Hall to teach them, and the purpose of the evening class is very simple, that is, to brainwash the children, so that the children know who to be loyal to, and who to live.

Looking at the petite figures following the farmers doing farm work in the field, many children are no less skilled than the old farmers, Xiao Yungui knows that many children must have done farm work before they arrived at the Salesian Bureau, but he also understood a sentence, poor children are in charge of the house. Thinking that those petite bodies had been busy in the fields with the clumsy figures of their parents, his heart was sour, and he was even more convinced that it was right to bring these children to the Salesian Bureau at that time, and that the lives of these children would be completely changed because of Xiao Yungui.

Xiao Yungui stopped what he was doing, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat beads on his forehead, and saw that Hong Yun'er was also standing on the edge of the ridge and looking at him and laughing, and he also smiled, but saw Hong Yun'er recruiting him and signaling him to go over. Xiao Yungui walked barefoot on the ridge road to Hong Yun'er and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Hong Yun'er smiled slightly: "You should be careful of hurting your feet, just make a show." Your position is not in the field, and you will be in the field to help you. ”

Xiao Yungui was accustomed to Hong Yun'er's blows, and said with a smile at the moment: "It's not in the way, when I was young, I often helped my father do farm work in the field." ”

Hong Yun'er pursed her mouth and said, "You just blow it, I don't know you yet?" In the past, when I went to the field, I was doing something like stealing fish and shrimp, farming? Let's go to the next life. ”

Xiao Yungui sat on the edge of the field and wore draft shoes, there were many Taiping soldiers in the field who helped the farmers plough the land, Xiao Yungui pointed to the farmers who were smiling from ear to ear and said: "I'm just setting an example, look at everyone." Isn't it a feeling of some military and civilian fish and water feelings? Most of our Xidian soldiers are from other provinces, and they may not be able to return to their hometowns for a long time, and if they want to take root here, they must dissolve into the people here. ”

Hong Yun'er didn't talk about this topic, but said softly: "You come to plow the field." Several groups of people have come to the house looking for you. ”

Xiao Yungui put on his shoes and said, "Then hurry back, who are the people here?" ”

Hong Yun'er took the robe for him. Motioned to the guards on the side to lead the horse. He said: "Wilbur, an Englishman who presided over the construction of the Suzhou-Shanghai Railway, and Xu Shou of the Ministry of Industry, they seem to have encountered problems when building the road. There is also Wang Tao of the Public Opinion Department, who probably wants to talk about the establishment of a new newspaper in Shanghai. There's another person you might not even guess. ”

Xiao Yungui smiled and said, "What's not to guess, isn't it that Mr. Tao Enpei is back?" ”

Hong Yun'er sighed softly and said, "How do you know?" The Intelligence Department also gave me this morning. ”

Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "The intelligence department you are in charge of knows the situation under our rule well. But Bai Zetang, who I manage, knows more about the enemy-occupied area, Tong Qiangsheng has already reported to me, and Old Man Tao has long been released by Lu Sixuan. Old man Tao got in touch with our people half a month ago and is coming to Suzhou. ”

Hong Yun'er stomped her feet and said coquettishly: "Why don't you share this information with our Intelligence Department?" ”

Xiao Yungui said with an innocent face: "You said it at the beginning. Let's see if the Intelligence Department you are in charge of is powerful or Bai Zetang is in charge of me. Besides......" Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui stepped forward and whispered: "You always don't want to play those new tricks with me, so I won't tell you this." ”

Hong Yun'er's pretty face turned red, this scoundrel always wanted to play some embarrassing new tricks on the bed, and he really didn't change his lust, and said hatefully at the moment: "Don't distinguish between public and private." ”

Xiao Yungui didn't pay attention to her, he smiled and turned over on the horse and said, "Madam, this king has something important to deal with, so let's go first." After that, the smug daxiao took dozens of horsemen and left.

Hong Yun'er paused, whistled and ordered the female guards to pull over the horse, turned over the horse cleanly, and dozens of female soldiers also rode on the horse, and under her leadership, they followed heroically. Along the way, the soldiers and civilians who were working in the fields saw the Xiwang and his wife, and they all cheered and worshipped, which shows that the Xiwang and his wife have also begun to establish popularity among the people.

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Su Ji walked slowly with the imprint of the wheel, looking at his companions around him, he felt a lot more relieved, he is eighteen years old this year, a native of Hunan, and his ancestors are tenants. At the age of fifteen, there was a flood in his hometown, and he was the only one who survived, and then he entered the Heaven and Earth Society, which was considered to have saved his life. When the King of the West fought in Changsha, Su Ji followed the people of the Heaven and Earth Society to vote for Taiping, he began to follow Li Xiucheng, and later fought all the way to the south and the north, and followed Chen Yucheng of the Taiping Children's Camp, and later Chen Yucheng led an army alone, and Su Ji followed Tan Shaoguang.

At the end of last year, after the army captured Wuxi, Su Ji and Tan Shaoguang's children's camp rested in Wuxi. Suddenly, one day, Tan Shaoguang came to find him, he asked if he wanted to go to Shanghai with him to learn some skills, the king of the West intends to set up a young guard army in Wuxi first, as long as the young people under the age of twenty, Tan Shaoguang has the responsibility of the Wuxi guard, so he let him start in Wuxi first.

According to the military system of the West Temple, after the child camp reaches the age of eighteen, it will be divided into the adult camp. Su Ji himself and many people in the children's camp will be eighteen years old after the New Year, and everyone is talking about which army they will be assigned to, thinking of being born and dying together for two years, and suddenly separating, the big guys are a little sad when they talk about it.

Su Ji never thought about learning any skills in his life, in the past, he just wanted to help the family do farm work, and when he grew up, he took over his father's tenant status. Continue to do farm work, save some money to marry a daughter-in-law, have a son, pass on the lineage, and then bring up the son safely and steadily, and continue to teach him to do farm work. Later, there was no way to live, Su Ji threw himself into peace, and he thought about how to kill the enemy all day long, whether it was a musket, a knife or a gun. He spent all day trying his best, thinking about the war. Although he led the boy soldiers to fight several vicious battles, and his character broke out during the Battle of Xiangtan, and he captured the Qing demon head Deng Shaoliang alive, but later the child battalion soldiers followed behind the adult battalion. It's almost just a matter of cleaning up the battlefield, and there's nothing to praise anymore.

Tan Shaoguang is his old boss. Listening to what he said, I was also a little moved. It's just that Su Ji didn't understand what the martial arts academy was for, and what the Young Guards did, but he heard that many people in the Tong Camp would join this Young Guard, and Su Ji didn't want to be separated from the brothers in the Tong Camp, so he agreed.

Three months passed, and Su Ji finally knew what the Young Guards did. It is an army that enthusiastically supports the King of the West and the Taiping Army of the West Temple, and the army is full of eighteen-year-old hot-blooded young people, who believe in everything about the King of the West. Su Ji also believed it, because in his eyes. The king of the west is his own god, and the situation when the king of the west summoned him in Xiangtan is still vivid, Su Ji believes that the king of the west gave him a new life, and his life is the king of the west.

In the Shanghai Martial Arts School, the daily work is not easy to do, and Su Ji and they took turns to train under the command of a large number of foreign instructors and Taiping instructors. Every day is a lot of training, running, swimming, climbing, climbing obstacles, sometimes going to the mountains to do some special training, making myself like leaves, unable to move, lying in the mountains for a day. I still have to eat raw meat, I eat whatever I catch, and the first time I ate my own spit, I got used to it later. At night, I have to be literate, listen to the warden's reasoning, tell the story of the king of the west, I used to know not a single big word, but now I can actually read the "Southern Jiangsu Times" by myself.

Su Ji hated foreign instructors very much, and the arithmetic he taught every day made him feel dizzy, what ballistics, what kind of baggage science, he often had to calculate, but Su Ji still gritted his teeth and persevered.

Looking at Song Feng sitting on the frame in front of him, Su Ji was very unhappy, this kid was the person from the personal guard team of His Royal Highness King Xi, and he was also the instructor who led their team. This guy is often nervous, and he always likes to beat someone up suddenly when he has something to do, whether it's eating or sleeping, saying that it is to improve everyone's adaptability, and the big guy is not less beaten by him.

Once Su Ji and others discussed covering this kid with their pockets and beating him out of anger, but they didn't expect a few people to get close, and they were cleaned up by Song Feng a few times. Squatted this kid next to Su Ji happily and said, "Okay, I want to plot against Lao Tzu, I'm still a little tender, the footsteps are too loud, next time I change to a pair of soft-soled shoes." ”

However, this kid is very righteous, Su Ji himself has never admired a person so much, he was lying still in the heavy snow in winter, his feet were frostbitten, he ran dozens of miles on his back to return to the camp, and the life-saving officer there said that he couldn't save his feet no matter how late he was. He didn't mind his men conspiring against him, and according to him, everyone had to be extremely vigilant, and that's fine.

Song Feng and dozens of other instructors are all people from the side of King Xi, Song Feng once proudly said: "Lao Tzu can be your instructor, because King Xi handed over all his skills to me, let me teach you, and then you will teach others!" Our Young Guards are the pro-army of the King of the West! Let's swear to protect the King of the West! ”

He is such a person, he usually likes to talk about women, and when he talks about women, he can say that everyone is like eating honey, and his heart is itchy and difficult to scratch. Song Feng often bragged, saying that he had visited the kiln in the past, and the taste was endless. But Su Ji always didn't believe it, Song Feng was only a few years older than them, and he heard that he was also from a bitter background, where can he go to the kiln? In the past, it wouldn't, let alone now that the kilns under the rule of Sufu Province have been banned, where can I go around? However, Song Feng and Su Ji and a few people once lurked to the edge of the women's camp, and they lurked there for a whole day, if it weren't for a female soldier who happened to step on them, a few guys could still enjoy the spring for a long time.

As a result, Song Feng and Su Ji were locked up for three days, and Liu Sanjie, the commander of the women's camp, came to make noise every day, asking Tan Shaoguang to hand over those perverted boys. Tan Shaoguang naturally didn't pay it, and when he heard that this matter was caused by the West Wangniang, Zuihou or the West King came forward to settle the matter.

Later, I heard Tan Shaoguang say that the king of the west had a big fight with the mother of the west for a few of them, and several guys were very uneasy, and they all said that they didn't want the king of the west to be embarrassed, and they went to the women's camp to take the blame. Tan Shaoguang stopped them, and Zuihou said leisurely: "King Xi said that there is no law in the army to peep into the women's camp, so it will not be punished." But in the future, if a woman is above board, and if there is any more stealing and touching of dogs, she will get out of the guards. ”

Su Ji and others turned their worries into joy, and later a few guys often went to the women's camp to help with heavy work in the name of making amends, especially Song Feng, a kid with a very sweet mouth, who coaxed Liu Sanjie to smile for a long time, which resolved this trouble.

The Guards were armed with a strange weapon, a prismatic weapon with a three-sided blood groove, which was said to be able to be used on the breech-loading rifled muskets that were about to be distributed, called the Triangular Spur. Su Ji admired this kind of military thorn very much, the person who designed it must be very smart, if he is stabbed by this thing, the wound will bleed endlessly, and it will be difficult to heal. There is also a kind of scimitar as a saber, which looks like a dog's leg, but it is very easy to use, Su Ji once used this elbow to cut off the head of a big buffalo, and it is very labor-saving, the official knife is called what is the Gurk saber, but no one in the Guards calls this name, it is not easy to remember, everyone likes to call it a dog-legged knife. These weapons are all made by the Shanghai Firearms Bureau, and I heard that they are all imported foreign steel, and the texture is very good.

This time it was Song Feng who took Su Ji and them to go out on a mission for the first time to protect important people, and they took a boat to Wuhu, where they picked up the man from Bai Zetang and sent him back to Suzhou safely and secretly. The old man in the carriage, Su Ji, remembered that he had seen it when he was in Hengyang, it was the old man Tao Enpei, the prefect of Hengyang who had surrendered. (To be continued......)