Chapter 109: When the Crow Crows, Three
Everything is changing rapidly, and the village is in good hands.
A capable general arrived, and he led his troops to clean up the bandits, so that the chaos in the area was over, and some of the young men of the village returned.
Green appeared in the fields, and although it was sparse, the crops came out.
The forests have also turned greener, and some of the animals have returned, all of which bode well for the future.
The girl has also grown white and fat, she is very cute when she laughs, and she can always infect the people around her.
"Didn't you say before that you knew her past?"
"Only in the second life, her first life will always be constantly changing, extending countless lines."
Wang Tiezhu looked at the village, the situation is much better than before, Qi Ming will teach some children in the village to read and write in addition to working every day, whether male or female.
It's just that in the eyes of many, teaching women to read and write is useless.
"Can you tell me what exactly you want me to do?"
Ruan Xixi shook his head and said.
"As I said, you have to understand Qi Musi's life first, and then it's up to you to decide what to do."
Wang Tiezhu looked at Ruan Xixi suspiciously.
At this time, at the entrance of the village, a group of soldiers came in, and a notice was posted.
"You all listen well, every family, two stone of grain a year, if anyone doesn't pay, they will be in prison."
Wang Tiezhu's face was solemn, and each family had to pay more than 50 kilograms of grain, which seemed to be not much, but it really couldn't be taken out for the current village.
There are not many literate people in the village, Qi Ming was called from the school, and the old village chief told Qi Ming all the way to let Qi Ming talk to these soldiers.
"A few military masters, we haven't had rain for five years in a row, and we just planted ........ recently."
"Don't talk nonsense, those who don't pay will wait to go to jail."
The officer at the head did not care about the plight of the villagers, and it seemed that the war had begun to tighten again, and the brief peace of three months had passed.
As the soldiers left, the people in the village were in trouble, and there were only a week during the period, and there were more than 90 households in the village, not to mention two stones of grain per household, even a bucket of rice could not be taken out.
In the past, most of the people in this village survived by fighting, picking up some valuable things from the battlefield and leaving the market fifty miles from the village in exchange for some food.
Looking at their sad faces, Wang Tiezhu knew that they had no choice, and after the discussion was fruitless, everyone could only go back to their respective homes.
When Qi Ming returned home, he heard the girl's laughter, but there was no smile on his face.
"I had to escape."
The first thing that many people in the village think of is only to run, and if they don't run, they will be in prison, or they will be forced to do hard labor for the army.
Unconsciously, Qi Ming had already packed everything and planned to flee to another place, his face was full of sadness, although the world is very big, but other places are not necessarily better than here.
Early the next morning, the people in the village gathered again, Qi Ming didn't leave, he was red-eyed, and he hardly slept all night.
"I've got a way to do it."
A week later, the officer came with someone.
Several carts full of grain had been loaded, and the officers were satisfied after inspection, but the amount was still insufficient.
"Master Jun, our place is really poor, please be lenient."
Qi Ming said, took out the gold he had picked up from the battlefield before, this was his last base money, and the officer did not embarrass the people in the village after accepting it.
The whole village breathed a sigh of relief, but fear crept up everyone's brow.
There was a problem with the grain, and when they were filling the grain, Qi Ming asked the vague grain to be attached to the inside of the bag, and then filled it with soil and gravel, which could not be found without careful inspection.
"Don't be afraid, as long as the grain is in storage, when the time comes, if the problem is discovered, it will not be pursued to us. Now that the war is urgent, they can't bother to track us down. Plus I bribed the officer, even if someone really found out. We insisted that the grain was given to the officer, and the gold was returned to him. ”
Wang Tiezhu looked at everything happily, and felt that Qi Ming was really good, and his conscience decided that he did not leave, otherwise the gold would allow Qi Ming to live elsewhere.
As Qi Ming said, a few months later, the war changed again, and no one came to investigate.
The incense at the temple is even more vigorous, as the villagers believe that it is the gods who have blessed them from war.
The grain in the fields grew smoothly, and the whole village beat gongs and drums, all celebrating the harvest.
This small village was originally reclaimed by some people who ran into the mountains to escape the war decades ago, and except for the occasional man-made disaster, natural disasters are what the villagers cannot do.
"Qi Musi!"
Qi Ming officially named the girl, and the word Mousse carries Qi Ming's pursuit and thoughts for readers.
Although Qi Ming is quite smart, he doesn't have any great talent, so naturally it is impossible to find a big tree in this troubled world.
Qi Ming once went to some mansions of the gentry and the powerful, but apart from literacy and some mediocre advice, he had no strengths, because he didn't know how to brag and tend to be inflammatory.
"He's just an ordinary person."
Wang Tiezhu muttered, and Ruan Hehe said.
"No matter how ordinary a scholar is, he has no ambition and no talent."
Qi Musi was well taken care of by Qi Ming, growing up strong and healthy, in this era, children are easy to die, many children in the village have died, even the children of the widow who fed Qi Musi in the past have also died.
Time turns, a few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Qi Musi is four years old.
Sure enough, it was the same as Qi Ming thought, it was a natural beauty embryo, and the people in the village said that Qi Ming had picked up a treasure, and whether he married it or sold it to a rich family after raising it, it was worth a lot of money.
It's just that Qi Ming no longer has such thoughts, and he regards Qi Musi as his own daughter.
The sorrow on Qi Ming's face gradually deepened, because he was 36 years old, his health was getting worse day by day, and he had not yet married a wife and had children.
"Is his fate already random?"
"Yes."
However, at this moment, a group of people came to the village, looking at their costumes, they were just some merchants selling goods, but Wang Tiezhu felt strange, because their eyes were different, they gave the villagers some money as soon as they came, and planned to live here for a while.
"These guys ........"
Wang Tiezhu observed and realized that many of them were not merchants, but had come here for some purpose, and the mountain village was located near a military artery.
The disaster seemed to have struck again, and Qi Ming also noticed something unusual.