Qin Wa and Bai Tao listened for a long time, and suddenly realized, only to hear Qin Wa slap Qi Zhang's shoulder,

"Wow, you have such a good supply channel for medicinal materials, but you don't introduce your master, you kid! I watched the brothers in Beiying suffer in the north of the county, and they were not righteous. ”

Qi Zhang directly toasted a glass of wine to Qin Wa and apologized:

"Erlang didn't come back before, it was all Ah Mei and the four guys who were tinkering, and I didn't know how long this medicinal herb could be supplied, so I didn't tell the master, Master, I will punish myself with three cups."

As he spoke, Qi Zhang was about to drink, when a woman suddenly in the courtyard smiled:

"I heard that the Tan family has come to your place as a guest?"

It was Niu Ju A-Niang's voice.

Hearing Xiong Lin shouting Tan Ji outside the courtyard, Sheng Jiaojiao hurriedly propped up her head, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Tan Ji sitting in the stove house with a wine glass in her hand.

His eyes were dark, and he was looking at her.

So Sheng Jiaojiao said deliberately:

"Tan Ji, looking for you."

Didn't you say not to take a wife? The women came to the door, and Sheng Jiaojiao just watched what Tan Ji would do.

Zhou's cut vegetables were put into the pot, and there was a "bang", and the fragrance of bacon filled the entire stove house.

Tan Ji frowned slightly, got up, and walked out of the stove house.

Qi Zhang craned his neck and laughed at Tan Ji,

"The mother-in-law has come to see her son-in-law, is Halberd also going to see the new daughter-in-law who has not passed the door?"

Tan Ji turned his head, his brows furrowed even tighter, he didn't know what Qi Zhang was talking about, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao again.

Sheng Jiaojiao's beautiful eyes widened, and she was a little angry with the tongs, stuffed a handful of dry tumbleweeds into the stove, got up and went to the backyard.

She didn't think about anything, she felt that Tan Ji had never married in her previous life, and in this life, Tan Ji said that she didn't want to say goodbye, but later she still wanted to say goodbye to Niu Ju.

Sheng Jiaojiao felt angry.

She wasn't going to do anything but get angry.

In the stove house, Tan Ji went out to talk to Xiong Lin, and Qi Ming continued to talk to Qin Wa and Bai Tao about medicinal materials.

He has been practicing outside for the past few years, and his mouth has become more and more sharp, and a few words made Qin Wa and Bai Tao nod and agree to buy medicinal materials from the Qi family.

Moreover, they had no objection to the price of medicinal materials quoted by Qi Ming.

"Just."

Bai Tao said with some hesitation:

"A few days ago, the chief soldier wrote another excerpt on the situation in the north of the county, but the imperial capital still didn't have any reaction, the baggage can't be transported, and the military salary has not increased, what money do we use to buy medicinal materials on our own?"

The military camp has always had the matter of requisitioning baggage from the people, and Bai Tao and Qin Wa did not exclude this.

But in the end, they are only the commanders of a battalion, and they have no money in their hands, so they have to allocate money to buy baggage from the people.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court's baggage could not be in place, so it directly allocated funds to let the military camp raise its own baggage.

Or raise enough baggage first, make an IOU, and then the court will pay it back.

This is all no problem, the problem is that now there is no baggage in the imperial capital, and there is no money, and there is not even a sentence of accuracy.

The barracks have an IOU, does the imperial capital admit it? Not a single attitude.

All the presentations were folded, and they were all sunk into the sea, and not half of the splash was seen.

Qin Wa drank the wine in his cup in one gulp and sighed deeply,

"I am sad every day in Shou County, but the imperial capital is singing and dancing, and there is a vain atmosphere, why don't they want to think about how difficult our life is?"

Without them working here, would the nobles of the imperial capital in the hinterland of the center of Daze be able to enjoy peace and prosperity?

Zhishou County is now like a lone soldier left in the wilderness, not giving food or drink, and being responsible for guarding the tribe behind him.

It's sad.

For a moment, there was a moment of silence in the stove room.

Qi Zhang glanced at Qin Wa and said:

"So you have to figure out your own way, before the subject country lets the blood of Zhishou County flow into a river, the emperor will not reinforce the baggage."

These are all human lives, and the fold submitted to the imperial capital is just a number, the imperial capital is considered by the imperial capital, and the two countries go to war, if the death toll is not so shocking, the imperial capital will not easily declare war.

"What do you mean?"

Bai Tao looked at Qi Zhang, if the emperor would not reinforce the baggage, then would he pay for the medicinal materials himself?

Qi Zhang nodded, nodded with a heavy face, and said:

"We can only make a fortune from our subject countries and feed our own soldiers."

As soon as he said it, Bai Tao understood, and he fell silent and didn't say a word.

Qi Zhang's master, Qin Wa, slapped the table and said angrily:

"Qi Zhang, what are you trying to do? Do you want to build a private army? ”

Osawa is very sensitive to private armies, and although it is not explicitly forbidden to hoard private soldiers, this private army is controlled within a certain range.

Not everyone can hoard private soldiers.

Those who are qualified are all veterans of the army who have been in the army for generations, or god generals who can take charge on their own, so they are qualified to hoard private soldiers.

None of the people in this stove house have this qualification.

People are like this, once they exceed their own ability and reluctantly do what they shouldn't do with their status, they will not end up with good results.

They are only a small battalion commander, with only a thousand soldiers in their hands, and once anyone starts hoarding private soldiers, they will be shackled with a very heavy moral shackle.

Because everyone will acquiesce that people who start hoarding private armies in such a small position have no bright heads, which is to make the rebellion public.

The small battalion commander not only seeks the Son of Heaven, but also seeks his own top boss, and he is too ignorant of the sky.

After all, the top boss has no private soldiers.

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was at the back door of the stove house, directly threw a piece of firewood in her hand into the door, and scolded:

"Isn't Daze not allowing the existence of private armies? It's all human lives, if the self-respect of the army can save the lives of these sons and daughters of Zhishou County, my eldest brother doesn't raise a private army, I'll raise it! Master Qin is getting old, but the more confused he becomes, where is the importance of a false name? ”

It's not that Daze doesn't allow private armies, it's that Daze doesn't have any available veterans and god generals at all now, and he can afford to raise a private army.

The only county with a strong military force is Zhishou County, but Zhishou County is the poorest.

The generals of Zhishou County also did not have a private army, because the top and bottom of Zhishou County were all poor.

The poor can only rely on the military salary of the imperial capital to live.

Every time the poor fight back, they had to hand over the loot and take it to the small court of Zhishou County.

This is a vicious circle, the poorer Zhishou County is, the more unable it is to develop, and the more unable to develop, the poorer it becomes.

Of course, regarding the private army, Tan Ji will raise it in the future, but now Tan Ji's money is not enough to raise a Tan family army.

Sheng Jiaojiao was angry, and she was angry when she remembered that Bai Tao and Qin Wa died this winter.

Because the imperial capital did not declare war for a long time, the soldiers in the north of the county lacked baggage, and one day the snow fell, and the subject country suddenly launched an attack on Daze.

There was no baggage, the soldiers fought hard all day, and they couldn't even eat a full meal, because of the lack of wound medicine, and finally when Qi Zhang and Tan Ji arrived, Bai Tao and Qin Wa's wounds were already infected, and there was no way to return to heaven.

In this way, the two battalion commanders with iron bones died directly on the battlefield of the first head-on confrontation with the subject country.

In that battle, Zhishou County won a miserable victory, and the iron hooves of the subject country did not set foot in the territory of Daze, but Zhishou County died a lot of good sons.

It was precisely because she remembered the ending of the two that in the face of the old-fashioned and stubborn Qin Wa, Sheng Jiaojiao was anxious and angry.

Qin Wa was reprimanded by Sheng Jiaojiao for a while, and his face was stunned and he stopped talking.

Qi Zhang's face sank, sat in the room, and said in a loud voice:

"Sister! Don't talk to Master like that. ”

Sheng Jiaojiao in the backyard stomped her feet angrily, turned around, walked out of the backyard, and sat on the rocks behind the house.

Tan Ji in the front yard, although he was talking to Xiong Lin, his ears were always listening to the movement in the stove house.

Hearing Qi Zhang's voice of scolding Sheng Jiaojiao, Tan Ji turned his head, glanced at Qi Zhang in the stove house, and hurriedly said a few words to Niu Ju's aunt, then waved his hands apologetically, saluted Xiong Lin, turned around and entered the stove house.

Several men started a fierce argument in the stove house, and a woman from the Zhou family was busy burning the fire and stir-frying, and wanted to chase Sheng Jiaojiao, but she couldn't leave.

Zhou could only get angry at Qi Zhang, and scolded in his mouth:

"I don't go home all day long, and as soon as I get home, I scold my own sister, and I'm getting more and more capable, why don't I even scold my aunt too?"

She complained in pieces, and Qi Zhang felt uncomfortable listening to it, and she had been persuading Qin Wa for a while, but she really couldn't leave.

He looked at Tan Ji as if he was asking for help.

Tan Ji on the side lowered his eyes and said in a low voice:

"I'm going to see Niang."

He was the commander of the Dongying battalion and the first person to agree to buy Sheng Jiaojiao's hand Chinese medicinal materials.

Therefore, whether it is to purchase medicinal materials from the private sector, or whether Qi Ming wants to price medicinal materials and make a long-term deal, Tan Ji has no opinion.

In the stove room, Bai Tao is Qi Ming's uncle, Qin Wa is Qi Zhang's master, to persuade these two, Qi Ming and Qi Zhang are the main forces, and Zhou is busy stir-frying and cooking, so Tan Ji is naturally idle.

Qi Zhang looked at Tan Ji with a grateful face, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and told Tan Ji with his eyes in his eyes, asking him to help him quickly and help him coax Ah Mei.

It was still early, and there was no one in the backyard of the Qi family.

Tan Ji only looked at it, and saw the tree-lined backyard of the Qi family, a large area of lush side dishes.

He walked around the vegetable patch to the fence in the backyard, and saw Sheng Jiaojiao sitting on a rock, holding a branch and beating a clod of soil.

So Tan Ji walked over and stood behind Sheng Jiaojiao.

She was startled, like an alert cat, and suddenly turned around, and when she saw that it was Tan Ji, she relaxed, and she didn't have a good breath:

"Your mother-in-law is gone?"

"I made it clear to Niu Niang, I don't say kiss, my aunt made her own decisions before."

Tan Ji rarely explained, he frowned slightly, took two steps forward, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao's willful side face.

She had a delicate face, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but hook a smile, and she squinted at him again, and said recklessly:

"What are you talking to me about? I don't care about that. ”

Yes, she doesn't care, so what is she laughing at?

Tan Ji silently looked at the smile on the corner of Sheng Jiaojiao's mouth, and felt helpless for a while, but. I didn't feel disgusted at all, but I felt that Sheng Jiaojiao's squeamish temperament was just right.

What he felt was just the right amount of willfulness.

neither let him hate her, nor did she feel that she was too arrogant, but she also just expressed some of her dissatisfaction, she let him know, so that he could clearly see that her heart was not happy.

Because he said it himself, he didn't want to marry her, he didn't want to say kiss.

So she was embarrassed, she minded him marrying Niu Ju, because she was so proud, why did she think Tan Ji didn't marry her, but wanted to marry Niu Ju?

Even if she clearly knew that there was no love between her and Tan Ji, she wouldn't mind.

Even if she knew that compared to Niu Ju, she lacked the quality and temperament of Niu Ju, and the sons and daughters of the entire Zhishou County would not marry her, and she didn't mind.

Even though she and Niu Ju are best friends, she still minds.

Sheng Jiaojiao just felt that she should be the first choice in Tan Ji's mind!

If Tan Ji wants to marry a wife, Sheng Jiaojiao should be the first choice, and if Tan Ji does not marry a wife, he should marry none of them, and he should not consider any of them.

I heard Sheng Jiaojiao crack again:

"You don't mean to kiss, your aunt will definitely not send bacon to Niu Ju's family, it must be your previous attitude that makes your aunt think that you want to kiss Niu Ju, and when Niu Ju A-Niang finds you, you don't recognize this matter again, you say, what do you think about Niu Ju A-Niang now? What would Niu Ju think? ”

Such a righteous and strong, such a majestic mountains and rivers, such a . Grievances and indignation, every word, as if accusing Tan Ji.

He broke his promise!

It's his fault.

Tan Ji folded his arms, bent over, and saluted Sheng Jiaojiao,

"It's Tan Ji who is not thoughtful."

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the stone, turned directly to the side, with her back to Tan Ji, and looked like she didn't talk to him.

Behind him, Tan Ji was silent, he straightened his waist, lowered his eyes, frowned deeply, and said:

"Jiao Niang, I have just made amends with Niu Niangzi, I don't know about the bacon, but I really didn't convey to my aunt that I want to say goodbye, this matter, Tan Ji was wronged."

One thing is the same thing, if he can't explain this matter clearly to Sheng Jiaojiao, he won't be able to feel at ease.

After all, it was he who embarrassed her first, and now she broke her word and gained weight, how can a high-minded and arrogant person like Sheng Jiaojiao be angry?

This matter is indeed his attitude is not firm enough, Sheng Jiaojiao taught a lesson, but his sins have already been compensated with Niu Niangzi, and he can't get those two pieces of bacon back in order to make Sheng Jiaojiao happy.

Of course, if he had to do this, Sheng Jiaojiao would be able to dissipate his anger, and he wouldn't be able to ask for those two pieces of bacon

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was facing away from Tan Ji, couldn't help but laugh again.

That hint of a smile was quietly hidden on her lips, and she turned her head sharply and said recklessly:

"You don't have to explain to me, it's not my heart that you hurt, it's the heart of the Niu family lady and Niu Ju, if you want to explain, tell them yourself, you don't have to entangle with me here."

She is angry with her, he ignores it, but he can't get over the thoughts of his little daughter, and a hero like him shouldn't pay attention to her ideas.

(End of chapter)