Helan listened to several women talk about what happened in the military service in previous years, and listened to how many people died in the war, and she couldn't help but be scared in her heart.

She also studied history, and when she listened to history, she only regarded the words in the history books as inconsequential, but at this moment, all the tragic circumstances that happened in history suddenly appeared in her mind.

Although she has been in this home for less than a year, her family treats her like a family, and she can feel the usual care, love and care, all from the bottom of her heart.

Although Grandpa Wu doesn't like to deal with others, but it involves knowledge and knowledge, and he can occasionally chat with her for a while, Helan also likes to talk to Grandpa Wu about the outside world the most, and talk about things that Grandpa Wu has never seen but knows about herself.

When it comes to something that is not in line with this world, it will divert the topic and only say things that everyone can understand, and the relationship between the two people is getting better and better. If you find something interesting when you read the book, Grandpa Wu will also pull Helan over to discuss it.

Father Wu doesn't like to talk, but every time he sees Helan doing heavy work, he will take it over and help him, and he will help him solve whatever he needs as soon as possible.

As long as Wu Qingzhu is in the place he sees, he will have a sense of security, and every time he goes out, he will bring it to himself, fun and good-looking, and a few small pastries will be wrapped in a handkerchief and brought back to himself.

Wu Qingquan's temperament is a little jumpy, and he has no respect for himself, and he often asks himself to help him do this and that, but isn't this what a family of brothers and sisters should look like? It's time to fight, and things will be reconciled as soon as they are over.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the things they were discussing were terrible, and she really didn't want such a few people to leave her world or disappear......

Helan covets the happiness of the present, which is a life that she has not experienced.

When Grandpa Wu and the others came back, it was already a little dark, and a group of people stayed by the fire when they came back.

A few little girls from Helan hurriedly brought water and poured tea to help them get food, and several women also waited for the men to drink hot water and stood aside anxiously waiting for news.

"Don't worry, the matter has already been agreed, just because we want it urgently, and people have also said that we need to add some bride price." Grandpa Wu looked at the anxious Aunt Hong, drank hot water and opened his mouth first.

"When did you mean to bring in the door? How much is the bride price? ”

"I can do a happy event tomorrow, although I added some money, but I still said that it was in the past, and I didn't embarrass anyone."

Grandpa Wu's few words made several women also breathe a sigh of relief, just settle down, since Grandpa Wu said that it doesn't matter, then the money added should not be much. And when they were not gathered together in the back room, the women hurried out again to their own work.

"It's really a relief." Aunt Hong was chatting while busy, and the previous depressing atmosphere was also dissipating little by little.

"Yes, fortunately, your in-laws are quite reasonable, you don't know, just the one in the West Village, the in-laws also came today, saying that they wanted to take the girl home, but the West Village just didn't agree. When he opened his mouth, he asked for forty taels, saying that his son was not at home, and that the girl was a widow when he went, and that he had to work hard for their family, etc., but it was hard to hear. ”

This one is Aunt Li who said the wrong thing above, this Aunt Li's father-in-law and Grandpa Wu are cousins, their son is still young, and the marriage has not been decided.

This military service can't be counted on his son, and when he heard that Wu's second grandfather was going to have a happy event at home, he asked for help.

"How do you know?" Mother Wu was very curious, several of them were working in the yard this day, didn't they go out?

"At that time, I went out to pour water, and I met Brother Haimu's sister-in-law, didn't their family have a relationship with the man's family, and then went to make peace, who knew that a village didn't give a good face, and I heard that if there was no money, I had to drive people out."

"So stunning? What should she do? ”

"How do you know what people are planning? There is only one son in their family, who is only seven years old, and when the head of the family is gone, will there be orphans and widows left? It's right to think that you can keep more money, even if you don't have the money to keep the girl at home, you can still be a laborer who can help with some work. ”

Helan was helpless after listening to the gossip for a long time, she remembered that she was bought back by Wu Qingzhu for twenty taels, and later learned that it was the old bottom of the family.

The family asked for forty taels when they opened their mouths, but they didn't want the girl to marry off.

Besides, Helan did embroidery work, and from July and August last year to the end of February, she had saved three taels of silver, like a normal peasant family who had no way to rely on the grain in the field and go out to earn some hard-earned money.

For example, Wu's father used to go to the dock to help carry things, or he went to the landlord's house to do farm work to have some income, so that he could take care of Wu Qingzhu's study, which shows that it is not easy for the peasant family to make money.

"How many tables shall we set up tomorrow?" This was asked by Aunt Wang, she remembered that several families in the village would have a happy event tomorrow, so they usually went to the people they knew to have a banquet, but now I really don't know how many families will be able to come tomorrow.

"It's not good to say this, and I don't plan to do it big tomorrow, so let's invite a few of our acquaintances to come over, and let your father-in-law discuss it with them in the evening."

The second grandmother felt that this matter was in a hurry, if they still paid attention to the arrangement, they would not be busy all night, but fortunately, since the engagement, the family has been buying things one after another, most of them are complete, and the rest is irrelevant.

Let's just say that in terms of inviting people, some people don't look good if you go to invite people to come, so it's better to save some face on the opposite side, set up two or three tables and invite your family to have a meal, so it's good to end it early and let the child enter the cave room.

At eight or nine o'clock in the evening, Helan and Wu's mother supported Qingmei before going home, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, Wu Qingzhu was also sent back by Uncle Haishen's carriage.

"Just back? Uncle, hurry up and get warm. Wu's mother saw Wu Qingzhu coming back, hurriedly stopped, and when she saw Wu Haishen, who was sending her son back, she politely asked people to come into the house to warm up for a while.

"Sister-in-law, don't be busy, it's been a day out, and I'm going home to lie on the bed in a hurry, it's too cold today?"

"Okay, then I won't stay longer, remember to go back and drink some ginger soup to warm up."

"Alas, thank you, sister-in-law."

After Wu Haishen left with the carriage, several people also entered the house.

Grandpa Wu heard the sound of a few people talking, so he quickly got up from the stove and set up a few small horses for a few people to sit down.

Wu Qingquan, who had been at home for a day, also hurriedly took a bowl and poured tea for a few people.

"Mother, what are you doing here?" Wu Qingzhu just entered the door and saw Helan with a red cold on his face and hands, and the cracks from the previous frostbite were bleeding again, and he couldn't help but feel a little distressed in his heart.

"Alas, Qingjiang and Qinghe will get married tomorrow, so don't you have to hurry up today."

"Why so fast?"

"I don't know when you're leaving, don't you have to hurry?"

Wu Qingzhu paused, remembered the news he got today, turned his head to look at his grandfather, and sighed.

"Brother Zhu, if you have something to say, you can say it." Grandpa Wu was watching his eldest grandson from the sidelines, waiting for him to speak.

"All eighteen-year-olds will be taken away, and the first batch of men from villages near our county seat will be sent to the front, and the second batch will be taken to a place in front of the county seat to build a city defense offensive."

"It's not far from home, but you shouldn't be so sad about building an offensive and defensive building."

"Grandpa, you guessed it right, the southern border guards have 200,000 troops, and the city guards in the south are all cronies of the queen mother. We belong to the fief of the five princesses, and the two of them are brothers and sisters, raising soldiers, and preparing for the construction are all implemented here by us, you think about it, after so many years of preparation, people on our side don't know, but you can imagine how strict the concealment is. ”

Wu Qingzhu looked at the dancing flames, took a sip of water, and continued to speak: "Since it has now been attacked to the front, the 200,000 troops in the south must come around the bend to attack the rear of the three princes first, so that supplies and personnel cannot be transported forward, and it can be regarded as cutting off the back road." This is why our county has to build the city wall every year. ”

"This ...... Shall we, the people, follow ......?"

"How can we be qualified to say that we are tied to the third prince, what we ants have to do is to step up our defense, and wait for the army from the south to come over and resist desperately, if the 200,000 army breaks our side, none of the people in the city will survive. Including us, we can't live, and the people, in the future, they will all be marked as chaotic people, and serious ones will be beheaded, or even ......"

Grandpa Wu patted his thigh angrily: "Alas, what a sin you have created!" ”

"Now it has been changed to the age of sixteen to fifty-five, and the able-bodied must go to work, and when they enter the city, they will not return until the war has subsided."

Helan also understood, so the ones in their village were relatively good, and they were not sent to the front line at the beginning, but after the army came, they had to act as officers and soldiers to resist, and it was all up to their luck to survive or not.

The people in the family were silent after hearing this, you look at me, I look at you, they don't know how to speak.

Wu Qingquan looked at his brother with tears in his eyes: "Then when are you leaving?" ”

Wu Qingzhu touched his younger brother's head: "The day after tomorrow, Uncle Li Zheng told Dutong about the situation of the village chief and promised to give one more day to let the married person hurry up and do a happy event." ”

"Hmmm......"

"Don't worry, your brother and I are also a child, so I will be on duty under the master, and I can't say that I can mix in a small steward and do some recording work."

What Wu Qingzhu said is indeed true, their county is already remote, and there are few scholars. Most of the people who found a few people to remember him were not very agreeable, but there were still some people who did not cooperate, did not listen to explanations at all, refused to obey to death, and did not want to think about whether they could survive if this place was breached.

"Your marriage with Lan Yatou will be done tomorrow, and I will preside over it tomorrow, carry it back from your second grandmother's house, and do it with the two grandsons of your second grandfather's family."