In the sky above the head of the city, the thick white clouds seemed to be burned by flames, blooming into a golden and brilliant twilight scene.

The golden sunset sprinkled in the shed area in the east of the city, many people built small felt tents with sheep felt and wooden pillars, and the most humble shed was also built in this way, nailed four wooden pillars on the ground, tied the four corners of the sheep felt to the wooden pillars, and the poor family hid under the felt that was ventilated on all sides to live.

This area is inhabited by more than a dozen widowed ladies, who live in the city with their minor children, and live a very hard life by mending the middle coats and battle robes for the soldiers in the city.

They are all family members of the dead Long March athletes stationed in the city, and because their husbands died in battle, they lost their financial resources, so they had to sell their houses and live in the lowest poor areas in the east of the city.

There is no end to the saying in this period, many ladies married their comrades after losing their husbands, and many ladies stayed alone, just to better raise their children.

Yuan Tao led two soldiers, hunched as they walked through this area, their tall bodies when visiting other people's homes, and if they didn't pay attention to straightening their waists, they could easily collapse the house.

He took the jerky from the hands of the soldiers and passed it from house to house, and the ladies came out of the shed and threw a grateful glance at him.

"Thank you, Yuan Lu Rate."

"Thank you."

Yuan Tao lowered his eyelids and didn't dare to touch the eyes of the ladies, which could easily arouse his guilt. As one of the sixteen people who survived, it seems that it was the blood of their dead brothers that created their lives.

After passing through the dozen or so little sheep felt tents, he turned to the ladies and said, "In the past two days, there may not be, but you can rest assured, if you have food for me and my brothers, you will have food, and you will never be hungry." ”

For the sake of today's plan, he can only say this, when Captain Zhao Lushui was there, he privately distributed the salary to some poor and weak ladies, and asked them to take their children back to the Central Plains to settle down and buy a house, and now the captain has been imprisoned, and the remaining dozen ladies can't wait for the money to settle down.

Anxi is bitterly cold, the land is barren, and it is very difficult for a woman without a husband to survive.

Yuan Tao had secretly made up his mind that he and his fourteen brothers would take out all the money for the rest of the day, and strive to be able to settle the remaining dozen ladies and prevent them from staying in Anxi to continue to suffer.

Several women knelt on the ground, their dark and dazed eyes were like dark mud ponds, and they prayed to Yuan Tao with their hands: "Yuan Lu, when will our money be distributed, didn't Captain Zhao say that he would give us all the money?" Where did all this money go, why did all the other ladies receive money to settle down, but we didn't? ”

Yuan Tao couldn't answer, they didn't know that this was embezzlement of military pay money, and they didn't know that Zhao Lushui had been taken down by the Duhu Mansion and taken to Qiuzi, these women were stranded in Anxi for three years, and their lives were becoming increasingly poor, and it seemed that all the hope of life was waiting for this money.

"Don't worry, the money will definitely be enough for you."

Yuan Tao turned around and walked outside the shed, silently calculating the question of money. The price of land in Ganzhou and other places is 20,000 yuan per acre, if the ladies want to survive with their children, they need three acres of land and a room, each lady needs 80,000 yuan, and these twelve lonely and helpless ladies need 960,000 yuan.

He and his fourteen brothers have an average monthly salary of 1,500 yuan, which adds up to 20,000 yuan, that is to say, they can only settle a lady with four months' salary, and it will take them four years to accumulate to settle all these twelve ladies!

After contributing their salaries for many years, the singles soldiers can still withstand it, but how can they stay up for so long.

In fact, there is no way to solve this kind of problem, only need to arrange some singles in the group to live with these ladies, they have a way out, and they don't have to leave Anxi to return to Longyou. But this kind of thing can only be natural, but not forced! Their children are the blood and blood of their dead comrades, and he, Yuan Tao and Captain Zhao Lushui, are only repaying the promise they made three years ago in the exchange of the city!

It was not particularly difficult for the surviving people to do their best to settle the families of their dead brothers, so with their exploits, they left thousands of corpses of the Turgish under the city walls to block the attack of the Sulu army for more than 20 days.

But they never expected that after more than 20 days of fierce battles, the brothers died in the city, and they turned into an inch! The scene that happened three years ago still makes them hate each other.

Gai Jiayun and Wang Husi, the capital protectors of Beiting and Anxi, they broke off the thoughts of the Sixth Regiment and the Tenth Regiment, and with only ten copper coins and three hundred horses of silk cloth, they left behind these real meritorious workers, and then went to celebrate and share the meritorious glory distributed by the imperial court.

The living can be wronged, but the sacrificed brothers cannot! Therefore, even if he Yuantao dedicates all the money in this life, he will definitely not let Paoze's wife and children suffer from the cold.

Yuan Tao was walking forward with his fists clenched, but was blocked by a broad figure. He frowned, turned to the left to dodge, the opposite to the left, he dodged to the right, the opposite to the right. Yuan Tao, who was on fire in his chest, raised his head, ready to grab the collar of this unknown villain.

The two soldiers behind him took a step back in fright, and Yuan Tao looked up to look, but it was Li Siye who was blocking the front, condescending, with a keen insight into everything in his eyes.

"I finally know where Zhao Lushui's military salary went."

Yuan Tao's hairs stood up, he immediately calmed down, and asked with a cold snort: "Is Captain Li going to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate to report to the thief to get favor?" ”

Li Siye let out a hearty laugh: "I haven't thought about whether to report it yet, if Yuan Tao Brigade can do me a big favor, there is still room for negotiation in this matter." ”

Yuan Tao was silent, and after a brief thought, he said: "I have never heard of asking someone to help use this method, why should Captain Li be like this, I was originally your deployment, and you sent me to do my best." ”

"I'm afraid to tell the story, you Yuantao don't dare to do it."

Yuan Tao smiled bitterly: "So far, except for robbing the house, what do I dare not do." ”

"It's not a robbery, it's not far away."

His eyes widened in surprise, at this time it was already dark, he could only see Li Siye's outline clearly, it was hard to imagine that there would be such a thief mixed in the Tang army, and he could also be mixed into a captain.

"Do it or not, you think about it."

Is there any room for him to think about it? The secret of the Sixth Regiment was discovered, Zhao Lushui had already been escorted to Anxi, and the dream of guarding the Tang Dynasty and making meritorious contributions to the border had become a ridiculous joke, what was the point of him sticking to the ethics of this soldier?

"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"You come with me." Li Siye beckoned to him, turned around and walked forward.

Yuan Tao glanced at the two behind him, and led them to follow Li Siye to a grass hut behind the Eighth Regiment station.

Tian Zhen waited outside the door, saw Li Siye coming, immediately opened the door, and waited for Yuan Tao and the other three to enter before closing the door.

The room was pitch black, and he heard Li Siye shouting "palm lamp", the sound of the fire sickle hitting the flint sounded, and the two oil lamps gradually shone from the shimmer of soybeans, and then illuminated the whole room.

What Yuan Tao saw were lapels and beards scattered in the room, as well as more than thirty scimitars, and pointed felt hats that he had found out of nowhere.

"What is this going to do?" He asked.