Compared with the laughter and laughter of the patriarch's mansion, the head of the military department is much more depressed.

The head of the military department is definitely one of the most powerful official positions in the Li family, in charge of the deployment of all the family's troops, as well as the appointment and promotion of most military generals. The army represents the absolute power of a country at any time, and even if the Li family's army is not the private army of the head of the military department, this does not mean that the head of the military department is an idle position.

At this time, Li Botao, the director of the military department, was furious in the study, and dozens of expensive antiques had been smashed by him, so that none of the huge study was clean.

"Li Xiyang, you deceive people too much. ”

Li Botao roared again and threw a glass color in his hand to the ground, and now only the sound of porcelain falling on the ground will make Li Botao feel a little relieved.

However, after the last piece of porcelain fell to the ground and exploded, there was nothing left in the study that could make Li Botao fall. Maybe he was tired, Li Botao slowly sat on the Huanghuali Taishi chair.

The huge body landed on the chair and made a creaking sound, "Wow, blahh." There was a knock on the door of the study. "Come in. Li Botao replied tiredly.

The door opened, and a sturdy man entered. The man's face stiffened, as if he was trying to endure this, but his slightly trembling hands betrayed him.

The man walked quickly in front of Li Botao in a few steps, and his feet stepped on the porcelain shards all over the ground and made a gurgling sound. The voice stopped, and so did the man. The corners of his mouth opened slightly but he didn't make any sound, so he used a little more force before he made a sound, and said, "Dad, Chong'er's injury has stopped, but... But Pharmacist Wang said that Chong'er could no longer have men and women in the future. ”

The man's tone was dry and hard, but at the end there were a few faint trills.

Li Botao's body leaned back weakly, there were a few wrinkles on his well-maintained face, and when he closed his eyes, he squeezed out a drop of old tears, and only said after a while: "This is to make my family the last one." ”

The man also knelt heavily on the ground, letting the shards all over the ground cut through his robe, punched the ground fiercely, his lips opened slightly, and three words popped out word by word, "Li Brahma." ”

The voice was low and hateful.

The people of the chaotic space never knew what snow was, but they only knew that in the historical records of the clan, snow was a catkins-like thing, and what was the white snow? The difference between sprinkling salt and air can be imitated, and it is not like catkins because of the wind.

Winter is coming, and the snow is showing.

Even if there is no snow, there is already a special calendar official in the Li family, and after special means, it has been determined by special means, and today it has entered winter. Today's sudden cold wind also made people change into more cold-resistant cotton clothes. But in a remote alley near Tsing Yi Street, there is a group of people wearing simple sweatshirts and the guys in their hands.

Perhaps this hutong was untouched before, but now when the hammers in the hands of the workers make a dull sound on the bricks, this hutong finally appears in people's vision again.

It turned out that in this nameless alley, in those few low, dilapidated and dilapidated houses, there were still a few former soldiers, even if they have now become old and immortal rickety old men, but their former identities cannot be erased, they sacrificed their youth for the prosperity of the family, and even more so their lives.

Old Don, who had already changed his shabby single coat into a new cotton suit, staggered out of his low, dimly lit adobe house with a cane in one hand and a kettle in the other, and shouted to the young man who was working in the distance: "Children, rest, come and drink water." ”

Old Tang handed the kettle in his hand to a person who came to pick up the water, and came to Li Brahma's side. Seeing that Li Brahma was talking to Li Qing, he didn't interrupt them for a while, until Li Brahma looked at him before he spoke: "I really don't know how to thank you to the old man." ”

"What's so thankful for this, it's all the meaning of the family. Li Brahma responded and said.

"That's also the credit of your Brahma, I've never seen anyone from my family come here once in decades. This sentence was not said by Lao Tang, but by another veteran Lao Han. Lao Han used to be in the forward battalion of the Storm Legion, and his personality has always been straightforward, even in the face of his family, he is still outspoken.

Li Brahma didn't know how to answer, so he could only laugh.

In fact, on the first day Li Brahma came to Lao Tang, he had such an idea in his heart, and finally got the support of his grandfather Li Xiyang a few days ago, that is, to build a residence for all veterans to support the elderly.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. The construction of a residence is a benefit involving veterans, and the military department originally allocated money, but Li Brahma ran into walls everywhere in the military department, and the military department responsible for the resettlement of veterans actually thought that the military department had already paid the resettlement fee in a lump sum before the veterans were discharged, so the military department had no obligation to build a residence for them. Even when Li Brahma finally brought an order signed by Li Xiyang himself, the military department still allocated only three thousand taels on the grounds of lack of funds, and it was still silver.

Three thousand taels is undoubtedly a huge amount of money in an ordinary family, but in front of the veterans with more than 100,000 people in the clan, it is less than a copper plate when divided equally. In desperation, Li Brahma had to conduct the first pilot experiment at Lao Tang's place first.

"Brother Tian'er, I've already figured it out. ”

Li Brahma heard Wu Tao's joyful voice, stopped greeting Lao Tang and them, came to Wu Tao's face, and couldn't help frowning as he looked at the dense formulas on the white paper in his hand.

Li Qing said impatiently, "Just say it directly, who can understand this thing." ”

Wu Tao looked up at Li Brahma, and when he saw Li Brahma nodding his head in permission, he spoke: "There are now a total of 133,187 veterans in the clan land, of which there are 98,000 and 36 disabled people who have reached the age of 70, and 61,987 of them live in intact houses and have children and grandchildren to raise. ”

"So there are at least 36,579 people like Old Tang. Li Brahma didn't wait for Wu Tao to finish speaking before interjecting.

Like Lao Tang, he has no children to support, no living security, and can only rely on the family's three taels of silver every month. Thinking of this, Li Brahma was in a dull mood, every veteran is an ordinary person, seventy years old has reached the twilight of life, after more than 30 years of dedication to the family, he is hungry and hiding in the dim little dark house that does not know when it will collapse, eating and waiting for death. He did not enjoy the kindness of society, and even offended a gentleman like Old Tang in a basking sun and lost his life.

Li Brahma is not an optimist like Li Qing, but even with a certain amount of preparation, he is still frightened by this huge number, and then he is sad.

"Yes. The residential building we are building now is expected to accommodate 1,000 people. ”

As soon as Wu Tao finished speaking, Li Qing shouted in surprise: "What? It's only a thousand people, which cost us five thousand taels of silver, did you miscalculate." ”

Wu Tao was not as respectful to Li Qing as he was to Li Brahma, and when he heard that he doubted the result he had calculated, he said angrily: "This is close to Tsing Yi Street, and our building level is the highest standard of the family, and this does not take into account the future maintenance of this building." ”

"The military department only approved three thousand taels, and it was better not to give it to Hanako. Li Qing complained vigorously.

Indeed, the military department of a huge family did not show the slightest interest in this matter of welfare and veterans, and did not even give Li Brahma and others a little assistance within the scope of their power, and the three thousand taels were only relieved under the pressure of Li Xiyang's order.

For the military department, these three thousand taels are indeed called Huazi, but Li Brahma is not called Huazi, just like five thousand taels of silver to build a high-rise building, and the two thousand taels left are all raised by Li Brahma and the four of them. But these two thousand taels have already spent all the past savings of the four of them.

In fact, Li Brahma knew that the military department had such an attitude, basically because he beat the grandson of the head of the military department a few days ago to be half disabled. So Li Brahma looked at the rising high-rise building in front of him, frowned and said, "Let's build this building first." ”

This matter was raised by himself in front of his grandfather, and it was also the first time he took on a major event alone, Li Brahma naturally did not want to give up halfway, but Li Brahma did not have an effective way under the problem of funds, but things had to be done one by one, so Li Brahma took off his coat and mixed with the men of the building.

Just when Li Brahma was in full swing on the construction site, in the mansion of the head of the military department, Li Botao was listening carefully to his son Li Muye's report in the study.

A few days ago, because Li Botao was angry, he smashed all kinds of treasures in the study clean and smashed, but now the study has already returned to its former glory, and all kinds of antiques, calligraphy and paintings have long been placed on the shelves.

Li Botao lay lazily in the Taishi chair, casually fiddling with the purple clay pot placed on the compass of the small table, the strange thing is that every time the teapot stops through it, the spoon handle always points to one side, consistently. Finally, he slowly put the purple clay pot on the table into his mouth, pecked a sip of tea, and said, "You mean that the little guy posted two thousand taels by himself?"

"Yes, the first pilot construction has been carried out on Tsing Yi Street. Li Muye looked at his father and replied.

Although 2,000 taels is not even a quarter of the Zhoupan pot in my hand, it is a loss to spend it on those old men who may die on the street at any time. Li Botao raised the Zhoupan pot in his hand to his eyes and watched it carefully.

This week, the pot has a flat neck, a flat lid and a flat button, the mud is ruddy, and the strength is flattering, and the rhyme is seen between the vertical and horizontal, which is really the best grade.

"Otherwise, I'll find a few people to burn him in the middle of the night. Li Muye asked his father if he should do this.

"This week, the pan pot is straight and straight, and the secret is the way of being a person, dealing with people, and being tolerant and generous. That kid is doing a good thing, we should support it, you go and give him more publicity now, just say that the good grandson of our patriarch wants to build a residence for all veterans in the clan land. The first residential building is almost complete. ”

Li Muye immediately got up and looked like he was going to do this, although he didn't understand the meaning of his father's move, he never doubted his father, he believed that everything his father did had his intentions.

Li Botao didn't look at the back of Li Muye's departure, he kept staring at the Zhou Pan pot in his hand, even if it was everything he said before.

"To be tolerant and generous is to be able to bend and stretch, and to be able to bend and stretch does not mean to put down the butcher's knife. Li Botao said to himself.

As soon as he let go of his hand, the Zhou Pan pot that was still held in Li Baitao's hand a second ago fell to the ground, even if it was a precious Zhou Pan pot, it was a pile of fragments when it fell to the ground.

Li Botao did not suffer from gains and losses because of the loss of a Zhou Pan pot, but laughed out loud, the fat body struggled to stand up from the Taishi chair, the fat on his waist trembled, got up and walked out, and stepped on the Zhou Pan pot on the ground again with one step.

Broken into countless pieces of Zhoupan pot lying quietly on the cold ground, now who knows that this is a precious Zhoupan pot, who still knows that this is a meaning of a big vision, big mind, let him wind and waves, I stand still Zhoupan pot.