Chapter 20: Children with Families

A group of half-grown children poured in, and the back house became noisy.

"Uncle Liu, I want to take a bath."

"Sister Kumquat, do I have any new clothes?"

"Sister Kumquat, can I use your incense?"

The old servant and the kumquat were surrounded by a group of children and made a noise, and since they went to the barracks, they probably saw a lot of people, and they became bolder, and when they came back, they dared to speak and laugh.

"What a bath?" The old servant stretched out his hand to drive them away, "If there is anyone in the house who boils water for you, wash yourself and boil hot water." ”

Kumquat grabbed a few boys who were about to run: "Don't steal my incense." ”

Xiaowan and the three girls didn't follow along, and watched quietly with a smile.

After some excitement, the wooden barrel filled with hot water slipped away, and everyone put clean new clothes around them, and the wooden barrel was soaked in flower petals, fragrant and red and bright.

A boy shrunk into the barrel and held his breath for a long time, and a petal came out of it, and he let out a long breath, chewing the petal that fell on the side of his mouth by the way.

"In this winter, only we have flowers at home." He muttered to himself.

In the past, he had flowers in the bath, and there was a boy with delicate eyebrows and eyes, leaning on the wooden barrel and quietly closing his eyes, the petals were rippling in front of him, and his house used to have flowers all year round, and when he bathed, the maids would also sprinkle flowers, but he couldn't look at the bright red petals for a long time, because he would think of the blood that the maids and their families died under the rebels' knives.

"It's better to be at home." A boy with thin eyebrows and long eyes sighed, he was lying on the barrel to reveal his thin body, and there were two scars on the back of his shoulders that were not deep or shallow.

Then a boy shouted, "Ah hat, you don't want to go to the barracks again." ”

Before the troubled times, some of their families were poor and some were rich, but in the peaceful and prosperous times, no matter how poor the family was, as a child, they did not suffer any great sins.

Of course, when I didn't come to Mrs. Wu's house, life was also hard, and suddenly all my relatives died and became orphans, like a lost dog who didn't know tomorrow.

Although there is still some trepidation here in Mrs. Wu, I don't know what tomorrow will be, but I am not afraid of being beaten and not afraid of eating and wearing a warm sleep, the old servant tells them stories, and Kumquat teaches them to write....

So when I impulsively followed my companions to the barracks, I only stood in the queue for a day, and several children couldn't stand it, and hid in the bed at night and cried, wanting to go back to Mrs. Wu, but I didn't dare to say it.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Mrs. Wu Shao asked someone to bring them back.

Those who serve in the army have time to visit their relatives, but for a long time.

"You are young, go home every five days and rest for two days." Mrs. Wu said.

Home, go home, Mrs. Wu doesn't want them anymore, this is still their home, thinking of the recruits in the new barracks, they endure hardships and hardships just for the sake of their families, let their families be proud and let their families enjoy their happiness, although they can't let Mrs. Wu enjoy happiness, why can't they make her proud?

The boy gritted his teeth and endured it, and the girl also cried and learned with Xiaowan, and everyone no longer said that they would not go to the barracks, except for a child named Ah Mao.

When he began to practice knives and guns, Ah Mao was injured and cried for a few days to go home, saying that he would be the attendant of the young lady of Wu if he was not a soldier, and he would serve the young lady for a lifetime, but he was stopped by the eldest brother who was elected by everyone to call Ah Jin's child.

Ah Jin took him back alone once, and asked him to see what Mrs. Wu was doing every day, and then to see what the children who stayed at home were doing.

Mrs. Wu got up early and went to bed late, didn't have fun, didn't raise flowers, didn't write poems, didn't read, meditated, looked at maps, looked through the documents sent by the government, went to the government every three days, and went to the barracks every ten days.

Her diet and daily life are exquisite to extremely simple, Kumquat arranges all by herself, she is alone when meditating and does not let anyone around her, she reads the picture and book with Jiang Liang and Liu Fan to accompany her, she goes to the government and has an official to sit with, and she has a bag to accompany her when she goes out.

The most important thing that the children who stay at home do every day is to check whether the flowers in the house are still fresh, whether the stove is hot, and run errands to call people to beat cotton curtains, bead curtains, and gauze curtains......

"Are you sure you want to do this for Madame for the rest of your life?" Ah Jin asked, "These things can be done by children, do you want to be a child for the rest of your life?" ”

If you can be a child for a lifetime, it is actually a kind of happiness, Ah Hat looked at the children who were playing in the yard after finishing things, and Mrs. Wu Shao didn't mind raising children around her for a lifetime.

Ah Jin looked at Ah Hao, who did not speak: "We are unfortunate, and our relatives died in troubled times. We are lucky to be able to come to the young lady, how to use this luck, think for yourself, we orphans, life is only responsible for ourselves, how to live is a lifetime. ”

He said that and left.

Ah Hat returned to the barracks after two days at home, and Ah Jin didn't say anything, as if nothing had happened.

But everyone knows that Ah Hat is the most timid and the least willing to be a soldier.

Especially this time I went to Anton, the journey was hard, although they only arrived after the end of the war, but they still received a strong impact, they all experienced the killing of their family members and the tragic death of their relatives, and the tragedy of the battlefield was still beyond imagination.

Ah Hat was scared again and didn't want to be a soldier, and it was a matter of course.

Ah Hat lay on the bathtub and did not refute or admit it, there are some things that everyone can see, and there is no need to waste time to say it.

"Are you alright?" The bowl said, standing up from the tub, "I'm done." ”

Xiao Wan looked thinner than them, and he didn't learn to be a soldier with a knife and gun, but everyone didn't dare to underestimate him, not only because his relationship with the young lady was not ordinary.

They can wield knives and guns, and they dare to kill people with knives and guns, but they dare not cut people's necks with knives, insert bamboo tubes, and sew up bloody skin with needles and threads.

Not to mention that using a knife and needle on a person's body is not killing, but saving.

It's terrible, it's scary, it's incredible, the little bowl is the young lady's old acquaintance, so it's a fairy child.

Fairy Tong did not wash up and get close to the young lady because he was an old acquaintance of the young lady, but waited for them to be together.

Everyone stopped laughing and shouting that they had washed up and climbed out of the tub.

The boys, women, and children were all clean, their faces flushed, and they were dressed in neat and bright new clothes, hanging sachets, and sitting in the hall hot and fragrant, with exquisite dishes, sweet wine, and a stack of crispy walnuts in front of them.

Everyone scrambled to tell what they had seen and heard, the hardships of the journey, the tragedy of the battlefield and the bravery of the Zhenwu army, and the girls also told about the condition of the wounded, only the small bowl sat quietly as always.

Li Minglou looked at him: "I have already got the booklet of the wounded soldiers, you have saved many people, not only their lives, but also their spirits." ”

There was a soldier who was shot in one eye by an arrow, and pulling out the arrow in this condition would bring out the whole eyeball, and the pain would be painful, and there was no way to do follow-up treatment.

The small bowl first poured a mouthful of medicine, and the wounded soldier passed out, and then used a knife to dig up this eye layer by layer, peel off and take the arrow, and then sew up the dug eye, the wounded soldier did not die of pain, and after waking up and spending several painful rinses, he was out of danger, and the other eye was still intact.

By the time the bowl left, the wounded soldier was already able to get up and walk, and was still practicing with a bow and arrow, saying that he could see with one eye, and his archery skills were better than before.

Hearing the praise of Xiaowan, the companions all talked about various injuries and injuries, and the three girls also made rapid progress and were able to treat the wounded soldiers alone.

Xiaowan blushed and lowered his head when he was praised: "I have learned too little, and I have not learned well, and there are very few people who can be saved." ”

Previously, his energy was focused on stitching up wounds, and he was helpless in the face of many wounded soldiers, and many times it was in vain.

He didn't know if he should regret it, if he had known that the eldest lady didn't need him to heal his injuries, would he have learned more?

Li Minglou saw his thoughts, and didn't let the child fall into this kind of confusion and self-blame: "After we see, the small bowl will do better and better, and more and more people will be saved." ”

Xiao Wan hung his head and nodded.

"We will too, we will practice better, and we can also go into battle to kill the enemy." The other children also said, "Madam, let's go to the battlefield." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Wan lowered his head and raised it.

Where can you exercise people more and make people improve by leaps and bounds? It is to face the most tragic battlefield.

Gwangju Province has not had a battle like the Battle of Andong recently, but it has been colliding with Donghuainam-do, and sooner or later there will be a battle of life and death.

Li Minglou looked at these children, his eyes lit up, and he had a new idea.

She said, "There is another place to go, would you like to?" ”