Chapter 44: Wu's Father is Injured
Steward Fan stretched out his hand and patted Wu Qingzhu's shoulder: "How can there be so many worthwhile or not, or should not." The dead woman said that she could not live unsatisfactorily, and dying early was also a relief, and the captive girl may have done something bad in her previous life, and this life was to pay off her debts. ”
"The beggar who fights may just be trying to entertain the rich and get a meal, which is also a trade. Then this corrupt official and powerful family will sooner or later be purged by the new court. It is precisely because of such injustices that some people will rise up to calm the injustices in the world. ”
"You see that the current situation is just different positions, each has its own master, they either have a choice or no choice to take this path, this is their fate. No matter what you do, as long as there is no problem with your heart and you think that what you are doing is right, then it is right. Even if you are a corrupt official and do all the bad things, it is worth it for the people of one party or your own family to live well, so what about being a demon king? How can you experience what others think without experiencing what they do? ”
Steward Fan said at length, Wu Qingzhu listened carefully, Wu Qingzhu was surprised to hear these presumptuous words, this kind of words that went against what he had learned was the first time he had heard it.
"You see, the essence of the things I see is different from yours, there are thousands of dirty things, what can you do as a little child? What you can do is to save your own life and the life of your family before thinking about benefiting others. ”
"As you say, is it all cause and effect that happens?" Wu Qingzhu's eyes widened in shock by these words, but the affairs of those civilians still made him somewhat unhappy, because he was also one of the civilians.
"Hahaha, do you know that the old man was also high-spirited in his early years, and he just wanted to go up, so he didn't distinguish between day and night, and was strict with himself. Only one day can be added to the official and enter the knighthood, and the lintel will be glorified. After that, he will be a clean official and benefit the people. But what? is obviously the top test paper, but the name was changed, and he was kicked out by the government, beaten, and warned the old man that if he dared to take the exam again, the whole family would not want to stay in the parents. How dare my Fan family, a small village, argue with these people? ”
Although Steward Fan was laughing, Wu Qingzhu saw tears.
"I could have glorified the lintel and let my parents, wife and children be respected by others, but I was excluded, and finally had to join the army, which is why I have today's small achievements. The staff of the great general, this is enough to make people regret looking down on me in the first place. When I went back, I made those people kneel on the door and beg for mercy, begging for my forgiveness, and I watched this scene at the door, and my heart was so happy! How many times have I escaped death, and I have a lot of lives on my hands, if I want, I can frame or hire someone to kill these people at any time. ”
"But I don't want to, because I know that once I break through the bottom line, I will be no different from those people, I opened my mouth and asked for a hundred taels of silver, and let those people go, so my family's life is getting better and better. And under my reputation, the few nearby villages have not been treated too unfairly. My power can only benefit these people, and no amount of power can be done. ”
"What do you think would have become of me if I hadn't instilled this idea of atonement in the first place? Dispirited? Or do you just go back to farming? Or was I choked when I lay down after being beaten? If that's the case, I think my hometown is as miserable as you say. In the final analysis, it is still the same sentence, how to live, how to live, and what happens all depends on how you look at it. How to take the road of the future, and what kind of things will happen after that, these simple things have rules and contexts. ”
Wu Qingzhu had been unable to see through the things that he had been unable to see, and after hearing other people's explanations on this starry night, his mind was also hit hard.
"In the future, don't think about it, honestly save this life, and then go home, so that your parents and wives don't worry about it."
After the two of them were sad for a while, Steward Fan's irritable temper also came out, and he slapped Wu Qingzhu on the back of the head again.
This was the first time Wu Qingzhu couldn't remember, and he didn't feel bored, he could feel that Steward Fan was out of a favorite way of expression.
"It's so late that you should go back to sleep, I don't know what will happen tomorrow." Wu Qingzhu rubbed his head as he spoke.
At this time, Steward Fan was a little gossipy, leaned his head over and whispered: "Don't worry, what, boy, have you married a wife?" My girl is as beautiful as a flower, she can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen, do you want to think about it? ”
"Sir, I'm married." Wu Qingzhu replied helplessly to the gentleman who suddenly became gossipy.
"It's okay, I've heard that you have a younger brother at home? Fourteen? My youngest daughter is thirteen this year, which is just a match. ”
"Uh......" Wu Qingzhu, who changed his words so quickly, didn't react.
"Looking at you like this, you shouldn't be engaged, right?"
"It's undecided!"
"Then it's decided, and then the war is over, and I will send someone to write a letter of appointment." Steward Fan didn't wait for Wu Qingzhu to speak again: "Oh, I'm old, I'm sleepy, hurry up and go to sleep." ”
Wu Qingzhu looked at the Fan steward who was leaving, and hurriedly chased after him: "Sir, this marriage event, the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, Xiaosheng doesn't have such a big authority!" ”
"The eldest brother is like a father, since it is decided, it can't be changed, oops, the old man has a headache, I can't hear what you say, it's really uncomfortable."
Looking at Steward Fan, who was a bit of a scoundrel, Wu Qingzhu anxiously followed behind him and didn't know what to say.
They had no sleep all night, and the next day was the same as usual, and the tiring busyness made it impossible for people to be idle, but fortunately the city gate was still in their hands today, and there was no such thing as yesterday's grim situation.
Wu Qingzhu took advantage of the lunch break to ask for leave, he wanted to see if his father was still healthy.
Seeing that he was also filial, the sergeant chief granted him half an hour's leave and showed him the camp where his father was.
However, Wu Qingzhu did not find his father when he arrived at the place, so he walked around several times, and rushed over in a hurry after seeing the dusty Qinghe.
Wu Qinghe took the dry cake and a bowl of clear soup in his hand, and swallowed it hard, but at this moment, a figure suddenly rushed over next to him, and the cake fell in fright.
Wu Qinghe first picked up the cake that fell on the ground, blew it, and comforted himself in his heart, "If you don't eat it cleanly, you won't get sick." Then he turned his head to look over, and when he saw who it was, he stood up in surprise.
"Brother Qingzhu? Why are you here? ”
"Qinghe, how are you, are you hurt? What about my father and Uncle Haishenghaishan? And what about your brother? Why aren't they together? ”
"Don't worry, they've been arranged to move things, it's ...... It's ......"
Wu Qingzhu looked at Wu Qinghe's spitting appearance and felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked: "Hurry up and say, is it my father?" Yes? ”
"Alas, it was the one that burned on your side, and the sergeants on the opposite side died a lot, so I didn't know that the next day the whole thing was coming to our side. We didn't react at first. Your method was also used by the other side, except that they smeared oil on their crossbow arrows, lit them on fire, and shot them. Suddenly, the arrows were so dense that we weren't ready to retreat, and Uncle was shot by the arrows. ”
Hearing this, Wu Qingzhu felt that the sky had fallen, and hurriedly asked, "What?" Where? Yes? ”
"Don't worry, the uncle is not seriously injured, but he has a large burn, I have sent him to the military doctor, and he will come back after treating the wound."
Wu Qingzhu, who breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly divided half of the pastries in his hand and stuffed them to Wu Qinghe: "You take these, and when your father and them come back, they can divide one point, and they can more or less divide one person into two pieces." ”
Speaking of these pastries, Wu Qingzhu also got them from Steward Fan, who received Wu Qingzhu's credit yesterday, got some silver rewards, and a good meal, and came back with a large box of pastries before leaving.
Naturally, Steward Fan couldn't treat Wu Qingzhu badly, so he gave Wu Qingzhu all the money and pastries, and brought back a plate of food. Wu Qingzhu wanted to come to see his father, so he brought all these things, but fortunately, it was not very hot in May now, and they could be put away.
Back to Wu Qingzhu, he hurried to the back camp tent and shouted for a long time to find the sleeping father.
"Ah Niu? Why are you here? After Wu's father was awakened, he still looked confused, and he was even more confused and surprised when he saw that it was his son.
Speaking of this title, we also mentioned it once before, Wu Qingzhu was in very bad health in the first few years of his birth, and Wu's father thought that it was easy to live with a rough name, so he gave the name A Niu.
Later, Wu Qingzhu was admitted to the children's school, and Grandpa Wu felt that this name was unsightly, so he no longer let the family shout, and only Father Wu would subconsciously call out the name again.
"You're all right, are you? Serious or not? Wu Qingzhu's nose was sour, and he was going to pull his father's clothes.
"I was burned, the arrow passed through the clothes, and the clothes were set on fire, but fortunately, the life was great, and the others saved me in time, so I escaped, and just now the sergeant major also allowed me to rest for a day."
Wu Qingzhu was still uneasy, so he opened his father's clothes and checked them to confirm that there was no problem, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dad, there are vegetables here, and white rice, you hurry up and eat it."
"What? Where did it come from? It's a precious thing. ”
"This is what Mr. Fan rewarded me, he is like a child's teacher, you can eat with confidence."
"Didn't you join the barracks? Brother Zhu, you will be a promising person in the future, but you can't be confused! ”
"Don't get excited, don't worry, absolutely not, this is Mr. Fan got the general's reward yesterday, and he gave me some if he couldn't eat it, and there are some snacks here."
"You can't be confused when you remember, you must remember what your grandfather said!"
Seeing that Wu Qingzhu had laid out the meal, he didn't say any more: "It just so happens that I didn't eat at noon today, let's eat together." ”