Lu Village is not far from the foot of the mountain, about five miles, and was built on the edge of an abandoned village.

Next to it is the old collapsed village, with mud walls and wood collapsing to the ground, and not far away are low-slung houses made of bricks, mud and thatch.

Although several brick mills have been opened around Luoyang, the production capacity is far from being able to supply the needs of the people.

After all, there are too many civilians who need to be resettled, and in addition to the common people, the barracks also need to be built.

In order to survive the winter, even thatched houses had to be built first, so except for the first group of displaced people who could help each other build brick houses, most of the later ones were thatched houses.

As for this first built Lu Village, because there is a river passing not far away, Zhao Hanzhang took a look, it should be the water flowing out of the small stream in the mountain, and a large pond was formed near here, and it flowed out along the river after the pond.

There are a lot of reeds by the river and the pond, so it was called Lu Village.

This is the information in Zhao Hanzhang's memory, and I don't know if there is more.

But Zhao Zheng, the lieutenant of Luoyang County, knew, he squeezed to Zhao Hanzhang's side and whispered in her ear: "Third sister, there are a total of sixty-two households in this village, one hundred and six people. ”

Zhao Hanzhang frowned when he heard this, "Why don't you even have two people in a household?" ”

Zhao Zheng said "um" and said: "Many families only survived, and they knew that the imperial court would divide the land, so they didn't want to share the household with others." ”

He pointed to the only brick and stone house and said, "That is their village hometown, I remember that it is called Wei Xian, and there is surplus money, so the brick and stone house was built." ”

Zhao Hanzhang nodded and said approvingly: "Good memory, let's go, let's take a look." ”

She beckoned everyone to follow.

Before entering the village, Lu Si ran to the front with the roe deer on his shoulder, stood at the entrance of the village and shouted a few times, after a while, the doors of several houses opened, and some people shrank their necks and staggered out, and suddenly saw such a person at the entrance of the village, and they were so frightened that they immediately shrank back.

Lu Si shouted again, and when he saw that everyone didn't dare to come out, he shouted: "Don't be afraid, everyone, this is the general, and the general also gave us a roe deer." ”

As soon as he heard that it was Zhao Hanzhang, someone immediately stuck his head out to look, and when he saw Zhao Hanzhang standing in the crowd, his eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately ran out.

"It's a general, it's a general!"

Immediately a child turned around and ran towards the village, shouting loudly as he ran: "The general is here, the girl is here, the general is here—"

More and more villagers came out, and everyone gathered around.

Zeng Yue and the others laid down their prey and were carefully guarding around Zhao Hanzhang.

Zhao Hanzhang asked them with a smile, "What are you doing at home?" ”

The villagers immediately replied, "What about the fire in the house......

"Eating in the house......"

An old man with white hair and hazy eyes asked Zhao Hanzhang enthusiastically, "Is the general available for dinner?" I don't know if the cold house is fortunate to invite the general to a meal. ”

Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "I haven't eaten, I see that it is not early, so I brought someone to borrow fire and pot from you." ”

Zhao Hanzhang looked at Zeng Yue.

Zeng Yue immediately went to Ma and brought out a small cloth bag.

Zhao Hanzhang was about to hand it over to the old man, when a clean young man in coarse linen clothes ran over, squeezed in from behind the crowd, and bowed again and again: "I don't know if the general is coming, the small one is far away." ”

This man was very different from the people of the village, for though his clothes were of burlap, they were complete, and his feet were clothed with shoes, and his hair was combed and clean.

The two young men and a woman who came running behind him were also dressed similarly, and the villagers subconsciously made way for them.

Zhao Zhengdao: "This is their village elder Wei Xian." ”

Zhao Hanzhang looked Wei Xian, who didn't look as old as Lu for four years, up and down, and looked at Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng nodded at her slightly, Zhao Hanzhang showed a light smile on his face, and said, "Yes, you are strong, can you serve this winter?" ”

"Served," Wei Xian said proudly: "My family has two servants." ”

Zhao Hanzhang was surprised: "There are two? Isn't it only one request per household? ”

Wei Xian said: "The extra money is paid in full." ”

Zhao Hanzhang immediately said that he understood, this was to earn enough wages, Zhao Hanzhang was full of approval, and as soon as the cloth bag in his hand turned, he stuffed it into his hand and said: "Since you are a village elder, this matter will be entrusted to you." ”

Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "Please find us a few pots, give us some firewood, and find an open space for them to build a stove." ”

Wei Xian hurriedly wanted to return the cloth bag, "The general's visit is the supreme glory of Lucun, how can the general be allowed to produce food?" There is still rice grain for entertaining the general in the village. ”

Zhao Hanzhang said: "I know that you have it, and I know that you are enthusiastic, but the Zhao family army has a ban on not taking a stitch from the people, I am the head of the Zhao family army, and I can't knowingly commit it." ”

Zhao Hanzhang looked at her guards.

Immediately, two of the guards carried two bundles of branches with their leaves cut off and handed them to them, "This is what we cut from the mountains, but it is not a dead tree, so it is difficult to make a fire, so we need to borrow your firewood, which needs to be dried for a while before it can be used." ”

Seeing that Zhao Hanzhang even called for firewood, Wei Xian knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he could only take the cloth bag and immediately lead the villagers to arrange it.

The villagers also saw and heard it, and looked at Zhao Hanzhang's eyes with more admiration, everyone got closer, and asked Zhao Hanzhang one after another, "Is the general in good health?" ”

"The general is not thirsty now, my family will go and get hot water for you to drink."

"General, we didn't go to the city to congratulate you when you got married, now I wish you and Fu Langjun a long time together."

Zhao Hanzhang responded one by one, swept his eyes, found the old man in the crowd again, stepped forward to hold his hand, and asked with a smile: "The old man is old this year?" ”

The old man's cold hands were wrapped in a pair of warm hands, and he instantly felt that his heart was also wrapped in a heat, and hurriedly said, "The old man is forty-eight years old this year." ”

Zhao Hanzhang was stunned for a moment, looked him up and down again, and saw that his hair was white, there were heavy wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his eyes were blank and white.

She couldn't help but lick her lips, suppressed the complicated emotions in her heart, raised a smile and said, "Okay, good ......"

Zhao Zheng immediately took off her cloak and handed it over, Zhao Hanzhang took it over him, and asked with a smile, "Who else is there at home?" ”

The old man replied, "There is only one granddaughter." ”

He beckoned to the crowd, and a girl in ragged clothes and bare feet walked up and saluted Zhao Hanzhang a little awkwardly.

Zhao Hanzhang swept their feet, and the old man was wearing straw sandals on his feet, which were red.

He seemed to notice something, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at his granddaughter, and asked with a frown, "Vanilla, are you wearing no shoes again?" ”

(End of chapter)