Chapter 16: Home
walked straight into the hour like this, Yichen looked at the street and felt dazzled.
Zhang Qi looked at Yichen and smiled: "I'm afraid that the streets and alleys will not be able to finish in one day, let's come back from the expedition, there will be two days of rest, and I will take you out to have a good time." ”
Yichen looked at Zhang Qi, and a smile appeared on his face for the first time, "Hmm!"
The pace of the army gradually slowed down, and after a while, a shout came from a distance: "The first team of commanders assemble !!" Zhang Qi looked at it and said to Yichen: "The soldiers are rewarded, and then the whole army will be rewarded, and you will follow behind that group of people later." Yichen didn't know what he was going to do, but he thought it had nothing to do with him, so he hummed.
In this vast field, there were hundreds of thousands of people at one time, and there were seventeen brigades, which were separated by five meters from each other, and each team had about five or six thousand people. There was a general standing in front of each team, and behind each general stood a dozen commanders, and each team was about 300 people, a small group of about 300 people, separated by a meter from each other. is so imposing, Yichen is a teenage boy after all, crowded in this crowd, with tall figures in front and behind, where do you know what is going on outside.
The sun was in full bloom, and I couldn't hear what was being shouted on stage until it was close to dusk. Suddenly, a rough voice sounded from the stage: "The soldiers have worked hard!! Today, everyone will let go of eating and drinking! Tomorrow they can go to the treasury to receive money according to their merits! Tomorrow, they can go to the treasury to receive money according to their merits!
Day and night, the sergeants were already tired, but in these troubled times, there were a few full meals, not to mention the delicious food in front of them, and all of them forgot about their tiredness and began to eat and drink.
Yichen sat at the table, the tender and juicy ribs were arranged on the plate like an art, and he could smell an appetizing aroma. Looking at the fragrant food on his table, he didn't seem to have that momentum. What made him uncomfortable was that he swept over these meals at a glance, not to mention any dish here, even any of the seasoning dishes in the dishes he had never seen, and at this time he thought of his late mother-in-law, who had once mingled with others for a piece of steamed buns, and the scarred picture made Yichen's heart even more sour, an indescribable bitterness.
Watching others eat and drink, Yichen couldn't help but take a sip of saliva, he tried to learn these people to use chopsticks to clamp, but twice in a row were in vain, which immediately caused a burst of laughter, but fortunately, a kind middle-aged man sitting next to him helped him clamp it into the bowl.
Finally full, Yichen didn't eat like the starving ghosts in the barren village, but his stomach also bulged a whole circle.
Yichen moved forward, this was his instinctive desire to find a support. Zhang Qi didn't care about him at this time, sitting in a conspicuous position in front of him, holding a wine glass in both hands, talking and laughing at a red-faced person, stretching out his thumb from time to time and pointing to the sky and shaking it twice, looking like he was already drunk.
A broad soldier put his left hand on Yi Chen's shoulder and said, "Young man, it's delicious... You don't care about that Qi Bing and others, that's it, he always loves to tie up with the people on top. ”
"Ahem!" a soldier on the other side interrupted this man's words with a cough, and it seemed that this man had not drunk less, and for a while said something he shouldn't have said.
The sun was gone, a row of torches was erected on the weapons racks on both sides of the army, some people were asleep with their hands as pillows leaning on the table, Yichen was still sitting at the table and eating some leftover meals from time to time, looking at these leftover meals, it made his heart even more uncomfortable, but he really couldn't eat it anymore.
After a while, several people were dragged away by four people.
Yichen sat at the table and looked around, then stood up and looked around, at a glance, he couldn't see the end, he also knew that he didn't understand the rules, he didn't dare to move around at will, he sat down again after watching it, sighed helplessly, and after a while, he simply learned from the people around him to crawl on the table with his head in his hands and try to sleep.
It was already dawn, a hand stretched out on Yichen's shoulder and shook it twice, Yichen slowly raised his head, Zhang Qi smiled at him and said: "It's all my fault, I'm drunk, I left you here, it's very uncomfortable to sleep like this, or I'll take you to my house to rest, and when you're rested, I'll take you around the city, and I'll introduce you by the way." ”
Yichen was puzzled: "Isn't there a military camp assigned to us here?"
Zhang Qi laughed and said: "We have three days of rest, most of the soldiers have also gone to visit relatives, and some have taken military silver to find other ways out, and it just so happens that I also have family in this city." ”
Yichen stood up, patted the dust on his body and smiled: "Oh.. All right. The two of them chatted as they walked.
"Brother Zhang.."
"Huh?" Zhang Qi turned his gaze to Yichen and looked at him suspiciously.
"It's really troublesome to take care of you during this time. ”
Zhang Qi was stunned and laughed: "What are these words?" ”
"By the way, why didn't I see your family yesterday to see you?"
After hearing this, Zhang Qi slowly lowered his head and said: "Not long after I set out on the expedition, my wife was pregnant, think that the child is now a month. ”
Yichen was stunned: "Then why do you still want to go on the expedition?"
Zhang Qi sighed deeply and said: "In this era, it is really not easy to eat with a mouthful, I worked hard for five years to take my wife to live in the city. I can get a lot of silver taels on this expedition, and when the child is about to be born, I will have to work harder when I need money. ”
Yichen suddenly said: "That's why you shoot the generals' sycophants all day long." ”
Zhang Qi snorted, obviously didn't expect this little ghost to say such a thing, and he didn't get angry, he reached out and touched Yichen's head twice, and complained: "Don't learn well." ”
Yichen smiled awkwardly after hearing this.
At noon, the sound of buying and selling is chaotic, and there are countless people at this time. Zhang Qi came to his home with Yichen, a two-story building, not too big, not too small. As soon as he stood at the door, he heard the baby's cry, Yichen just wanted to feel his father's triumphant return, but he didn't know how to speak, so he had to cry loudly.
Zhang Qi's body trembled when he heard the voice, and then rushed into the house with excitement, forgetting the wing dust at the back door for a moment.
Yichen stood at the door awkwardly and watched Zhang Qi rush in, then smiled and walked in slowly. The decoration of the first floor is very simple, there are tables and chairs on the left, there are furniture for cooking on the right, and there is a simple staircase in the middle on the left. Squeaky sound.
A plainly dressed woman held the baby with both hands and coaxed, Zhang Qi's movements were obviously not small, the woman's face changed when she heard the voice, and she walked to the ladder with the baby in her arms, Zhang Qi stopped on the stairs, and the eyes of the two looked at each other wide, and suddenly cried.
Yichen walked to the table and pulled out a chair and sat down, the family parted and reunited, he naturally didn't bother with this scene, the room was unobstructed, and there was nothing to visit.
After a while, the two of them slowly walked down the stairs, Yichen stood up when he heard it, it was Zhang Qi and his wife who walked down, Zhang Qi held the baby, looked at Yichen and shook his wife and said, "This is my lover Li Miao, this is my brother Yichen." ”
Yichen hurriedly half-bent over and said, "Sister-in-law is good." Then Rimiao smiled and nodded, "Hello." ”
Zhang Qi smiled: "I'll go make some food, and we'll go out for a walk together, Yichen, if you're tired, go upstairs and rest first." ”
Yichen was really embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "It's okay, I'm not tired." ”
Zhang Qi smiled and handed over the baby he was holding to Li Miao, then turned around and began to prepare the meal.