The next day, Li Yong got up early, and the habits developed by the troops could not be changed.

After washing, I started to make breakfast, and the food at home was good, including meat protein rice, and a few catties of sugar.

When he was not at home, Li Jian was boarding and studying, and only during the winter and summer vacations and agricultural holidays would he go home to see.

There are many children like him, they all have a similar or worse story, and when they arrive at school, they often huddle together to keep warm, and the relationship is a little deeper than that of ordinary students.

While Li Yong was making breakfast, he was thinking about whether to wear a military uniform later.

He decided to take a look at Sister Zhang, thinking that there must always be a beginning and an end, and when they got married, they had to congratulate them.

Thinking about it, the dish burns! He was reluctant to throw it away, so he had to put it in his own bowl.

Li Jian smelled the mush, and also got up in a daze, and when he saw his brother in the kitchen, he lazily washed up, and sat at the table like other children.

In fact, he is seventeen years old this year, a cut taller than his brother, and good nutrition and adequate school exercise have made him dark and bright, and his body is strong.

After a while, Li Yong walked into the house with two dishes, and said as he walked, "I'm going to go out later." ”

Li Jian seemed to have expected it, nodded and said, "I'm going out too, Yang Ziwen and they asked me to go to the play!" ”

"What play?"

"The legend of the White Snake, Daxing Village will release it today."

"Oh, then bring some more money, and invite Ziwen and them to have a meal later, so as to touch the light of our family!" Li Yong said with a smile.

Li Jian also smiled: "Brother, isn't it a pleasure to return home?" ”

"Hey, happy! The thief is happy, my brother's feet were weak yesterday! ”

"Then I'm going to be a soldier too, okay?" Li Jian said suddenly.

Li Yong was stunned for a moment, and said with a straight face: "No! I have already been a soldier, and I can be regarded as shedding blood for the country, worthy of the country, worthy of the king, you don't need to be a soldier again, you can do some other livelihoods, and you are also contributing to the country! ”

"I'm joking!" Li Jian pretended to smile relaxedly, he had been distressed for a long time last night, and suddenly the idea of becoming a soldier suddenly came to his mind.

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The two brothers quickly finished their breakfast, cleaned up a little and went out.

Li Yong didn't choose to wear a military uniform after all, but only wore an earthy blue tunic suit.

When he walked to the entrance of the village, he found that there was a small shop in the village, and he asked, "There were no small shops here, right?" ”

"Oh, this is opened by Yang Gui's family, and the wife is a woman from the Japanese country, and it was opened last year, and the policy did not allow it, so it was opened."

"It's a clever deal!" He said as he led his brother into the store.

The female shopkeeper was coaxing the children, and she already had three children in her family, one on her back, one in the store doing her homework, one crawling on the ground, and one in her belly.

Li Yong and Li Jian should not be surprised, because this kind of situation of having many children is the general norm in Eastern Qin.

Earlier, when the policy was unclear, some bachelors had two or three wives, and that kind of people had more children.

It is also Dongqin, where everyone has a land, to be able to withstand this kind of baby boom.

Coupled with cowpox vaccination, midwifery forceps and hygiene measures, infant mortality is not high. There is also a co-built nursery in each village, which focuses on children between the ages of three and six, reducing the cost of care for their parents.

In terms of propaganda, Dongqin also has a fertility cult, and Yan Zheng's attitude towards fertility is "there is great power in numbers, and every child is a good child of the monarch".

Therefore, being able to give birth to more children is the contribution made by the "female people" to Dongqin, who does not have two or three children, and the daughter-in-law is embarrassed to go out.

"Welcome to visit, the goods in the store are all purchased by my husband from the city, and they are definitely good goods!" This female shopkeeper is Yang Naima (Wada Naim), and when she saw the guests coming, she bowed and said with a warm smile.

Li Yong smiled and nodded, this widow's accent is weird, but she looks quite kind, and her slightly fat face also shows a touch of wealth.

"Xiaojian, what do you want to eat?"

Li Jian looked at it and pointed to the fried broad beans on the shelf.

"Here's a pound!" Li Yong took out a piece of broken silver, pointed to the red dates next to him and said, "This is two catties, are there any dry goods from Hailan Port?" ”

Hailan Port is Vladivostok, and after opening up the route, war horses, dried mushrooms, ginseng, pearls, and all kinds of dried goods are imported there.

Yang Naimo bowed apologetically: "I'm really sorry, dry goods are too expensive, in the past, only when there were red and white ceremonies, people would buy them, our small store has only been open for a short time, and there is no stock!" ”

"It doesn't matter! Then another pound of red beans! ”

Yang Naimo took out the scale and weighed it, and after weighing, he wrapped it in a coarser wrapping paper and wrapped it into a square shape.

After settling the account, she took out a pair of steel scissors, cut off a piece of Li Yong's broken silver, weighed it with a special scale, and retrieved Li Yong's more than a dozen yuan.

After the sale was completed, she also gave two pieces of pastries made by herself, and sent them to the door.

"In addition to being a little shorter, the widow is actually fine! The pastries made were delicious. After walking away, Li Jian said while eating pastries.

"It's good, it's virtuous!"

"That brother, the blind date was organized in the township before, wasn't it just a widow? It's a pity you didn't go. ”

"It's not! I'm on a blind date, what are you sorry for, what's the matter with you? Li Yong asked with a smile.

"Of course it's my business, you find a mother-in-law early, I don't have to cook by myself when I get home!"

"Haha!"

The two brothers both smiled, and when they reached the entrance of the village, the two parted ways.

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Daxing Village, where Li Jian walked in a few steps, is said to be one of the five villages with the "oldest qualifications".

It is also the gathering place of the earliest group of Ming descendants, which is more than half a year earlier than Li Jian and their group.

Li Jian ate broad beans while sitting at the entrance of the village and waiting.

About half an hour later, three teenagers in school clothes rushed in.

Several people came to Li Jian's side panting with a crossbody bag on their backs.

"Whew, I'm tired, the play hasn't started yet!"

"It's still early, I'm afraid it will take a while before the show starts!"

"Heh, it's all because of Yang Ziwen, this trip is in vain!"

"How can it be considered to run in vain, at least exercise your body! The monarch has said that barbarism is its physique, and civilization is its spirit. Do you understand? Yang Ziwen said with a smile, he is the darkest complexion of the four, and he is also the most fanatical supporter of the monarch.

"Don't use the king's words to pressure us, let's discuss whether we should run or not! It's not a question of exercise, it's a question of the way you walk, and you don't want to get confused. Chen Junyou on the side retorted directly, he had a round head, and his eyebrows were also high and low, which looked particularly joyful.

Yang Ziwen was obviously blocked by the words, and argued forcefully: "Then have we arrived at our destination?" The process is not important, the result is the most important! ”

"Definitely!" Wang Sen, who had red lips and white teeth among the four, said with a smile: "There are some things that we pursue results, and we must not use them in the process, such as constitutionalism!" The ultimate realization of the constitution is our goal, not the process of sticking to the constitution! This is what the monarch explained in the article. ”

"Come on, you're going to talk about this today, don't watch that play!" Li Jian said faintly.

All four of them laughed, and after one grabbed a handful of broad beans, they all walked towards the village.

They are all classmates, and although they are not in the same village, they are all studying in Dagang Middle School.

Before and after they came to the stage, the four of them found a good position, took out a piece of torn linen from their schoolbags, and put it on the ground.

And he laid all the food and drink that he had brought with him, and there were many people around him, just as they were.

"I heard your brother is back?" Yang Ziwen asked.

Li Jian nodded, and said with a little pride: "I went back yesterday and won a second-class medal, saying that I took a company and repelled thousands of Ming troops from Dinghai to Ningbo!" ”

"Awesome!" Wang Sen answered: "I've heard that even the Iron Cross has only been issued a few, and this second-class medal is under the Iron Cross!" ”

Yang Ziwen also admired: "It's not easy, your brother is afraid that the next time the army is expanded, he will be promoted to a battalion commander, and then he will have half a foot in the army command level!" ”

Chen Junyou asked: "Then your brother didn't tell you about the war this time?" ”

"Alas, he said that it was boring, every time he met the Ming army, he charged after a few rounds of gunfire, and the Ming army was all defeated! The same is true for the siege, if the artillery goes down, the Ming army will not have the slightest ability to resist! ”

All four of them had read in the newspaper that the Chinese army was overwhelmed, and the words on it were exaggerated, and they also believed that there were many tough battles in the Ming Kingdom.

When they heard it now, the other three were disappointed, and they thought they could listen to the story.

After talking for a while, the four of them took out the extracurricular books they had brought with them and flipped through them.

Since the start of lead movable type casting, the casting has met the printing needs in one year, and several books of the Ming Kingdom have been printed with it.

The four of them are all "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and they all like this kind of script.

The price is not expensive, you only need 30 yuan to buy a copy, no matter how ordinary people are, they can afford it.

After looking at it for a while, Li Jian couldn't help but sigh: "The loyal ministers and good generals of the Three Kingdoms, that one is not a rare ambition, we are about to graduate, but we don't have an idea!" I told my brother about it yesterday and he couldn't give me any advice! ”

With these words, the other three people lost their interest in reading.

"Anyway, I haven't figured out what I'm going to do right now! My sister asked me to continue my studies, saying that the university that the government is going to run is like a Jinshi in the Ming Kingdom, and it must be beneficial to go to study! Yang Ziwen said.

"I ...... I've already decided that I'm going to take the civil service exam! Chen Junyou muttered.

"You want to be a cadre?" Li Jian was surprised.

Chen Junyou scratched his head and said: "I read the article about the establishment of the city, and it was a grass creation at the beginning, and I want to go to ...... Try it, I can't do math, and I definitely won't be able to enter various science and engineering groups for further study. Simply...... It's better to take the cadre exam, if you do a good job, you can also benefit one party! ”

"That's a good thing!" Yang Ziwen said happily: "It's good if you think it's okay, our teacher also said, it's best to choose the path you like!" ”

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