Chapter 120 - Great Motherly Love
Donald sat on the threshold with a hookah in his arms, silently looking at his stubborn mistress, while his wife was crying on the side......
The cause of all this starts from last night, after Tang Shuangxi, the hunter at the head of the village yesterday, came back from taking the prey to the county town to catch the market, the whole village was filled with a restless atmosphere.
What's going on? Donald has also inquired clearly!
It turned out that a notice was posted in the county town, and everyone who went to serve as a soldier could get a hundred taels of silver, and it was issued on the spot, and the family members took it away as a settlement fee.
You must know that even if the world is in turmoil now, but after all, Yunnan has not received a big impact, compared with the price of rice in the Central Plains for two taels of silver and one stone, one or two silver in Yunnan can still buy one stone of rice.
A hundred stone of rice buys a life, where can I find such a good thing in this day?
Donald has reached this age, and he doesn't have the heart to earn this broken money, but he can't control his junior ......
In addition, there are only three or four acres of paddy fields in the family, but they still have to feed six or seven children, and a few small ones don't care about it, but the eldest one, the second one, and the third child are all adults!
Boss, it's good that the second child has a hope, and he didn't think about it, but when it was the third child's turn to get married and split up, it is estimated that he couldn't even divide the bed straw mat!
Seeing that the sun was getting higher and higher, and there were still more than 20 miles of mountain roads to go from the village to the county seat, Tang Laohan, who had been thinking about it for a long time, finally stood up and said: "What kind of situation is in the family, you three brothers all know if you want to come, so Lao Tzu thinks about coming and thinking ......about going."
"Considering that our family is struggling to survive here anyway, the eighth child who was born not long ago starved to death because of lack of milk, such a tragic thing happened to our family."
"So, junior, if you want to fight for a way to live, Lao Tzu won't stop you, but you have to think about it yourself, since ancient times, good men are not soldiers, and good iron is not nailed!"
"Don't go to the barracks and regret it, although Lao Tzu has never been a soldier, but the military order is like a mountain I have heard of this sentence, what kind of fate is it for a deserter to be caught, you are still young, you may not know ......"
Donald opened the chatterbox, he didn't plan to stop, although he had already made up his mind to let Xiao San fight for a way to live, but from the bottom of his heart, Donald still subconsciously wanted to persuade Xiao San.
It's just that Tang Chunlai, who had already made up his mind, heard that his Lao Tzu's tone had finally loosened a little, so he hurriedly jumped up and interrupted Tang Laohan's words in an unbelievable tone.
"Dad, don't worry, I have already inquired clearly, Tang Shuangxi's kid has already said very clearly, after going to become a soldier, not only will he have a hundred taels of silver settlement fee, but his family will get it back on the spot."
"And after winning the battle, the generals also promised to give everyone who went to serve in the army a hundred acres of water to water the land......"
"Dad, think about it, where can you find such favorable conditions?"
Donald knocked on the hookah at the door silently, listened to his son's tirade, and wanted to say many times, okay, then you can go now!
But every time the words came to his lips, Donald felt trembling in his heart and forcibly held back......
But after the son finished speaking, he saw the longing on his immature face!
Donald took a deep sip of hookah, forcibly suppressed the tumbling in his heart, and finally spoke: "It's not early!" ”
Tang Chunlai was only 16 years old, and he didn't react to Donald's words on the spot, and was about to ask what his father meant.
At this moment, the old lady who was wiping her tears in the corner of the wall suddenly stood up and went to her own Lao Tzu with her teeth and claws......
"You dead old man, you actually let Xiao San be a Qiu Ba? If you want him to die, you just beat him to death, and leave him a whole corpse, you let him go to be a soldier, I'm afraid you can't even leave a whole corpse, you dead old man don't go to inquire, who is the son of this ten miles and eight villages to be Qiu Ba, has he ever come back? ”
It's a pity that no matter how hard a woman works, how can she beat a man, Donald twisted his wife to the ground and hugged him tightly.
hurriedly said to Tang Chun, who was still stunned: "You brute, don't you want to be a soldier?" Then you should hurry up! ”
At this moment, Tang Chunlai finally reacted, and the previous blood gradually cooled down at this time.
Silently walked to the father and mother who were still scuffling together, and after knocking his head three times, he picked up the small package that had been sorted out last night, regardless of it, crying heartbreakingly, as if the old lady who was going to die in the next moment, walked out of the door without looking back......
After wiping away a handful of tears, Tang Chunlai looked up at the sky, deadly, his eyes open, not wanting to let the tears moisten his face again!
After waiting quietly for a while, his eldest brother and second brother also walked out, "That third ......" Donald just opened his mouth, but closed his mouth tightly and lowered his head, as if he had done something wrong.
Seeing this, Tang Chunlai took a deep breath and said with a little crying: "Big brother, second brother, you two don't have to feel guilty about anything, you don't have to be sorry for me, all this is my own choice,"
"Boss, you're already 20 years old, but you still can't get a daughter-in-law, it's a shame for our Tang family!"
"Come to think of it, after taking the one hundred taels of silver, boss, you and the second child can marry a daughter-in-law and continue the incense of our Tang family, so that even if I Tang Chunlai dies on the battlefield, I am worthy of the ancestors of my Tang family......"
When Tang Chun came to this, Tang Lao and Tang Lao were even lower, you must know that this silver was exchanged for Tang Chun's life......
Just as Tang Chunlai wanted to continue, there was a rumbling sound in the room, and the faces of the three brothers changed!
The crazy shouts of his own mother, as well as the muffled roar of his father, made the hearts of the three brothers uncomfortable, especially Tang Chunlai......
"Okay, let's make a long story short, otherwise I'm afraid my father won't be able to contain the old lady, the one hundred taels of silver is my Tang Chunlai's life-selling money, anyway, I don't need it myself, it doesn't matter if I give it to the eldest and the second child."
"It's just that you two have remembered it for me, if I can't come back, forget it, if I Tang Chunlai still comes back alive one day, and finds that your two brothers are not good to my father and mother, then don't blame me Tang Chunlai for not thinking about brotherhood!"
Looking at Tang Chunlai with a hideous face, even if he was his brother, Tang Lao Er and Tang Lao Da couldn't help but gasp at this moment, and patted their chests again and again to assure Tang Chunlai that if they could drink porridge, their father and mother would not starve to death......