The older woman, however, glared at the younger woman and reprimanded: "You are really rude, is it important to solicit customers or to entertain customers?" This senior sister is our honored guest. ”

After that, he hurriedly said to Zheng Haizhu: "My name is Li Huaihua, this is my brother's daughter-in-law, Liu Bei'er." My man and my younger brother were both guards, and they were tired to death when they were in the squad army, so I took the bottle and did this business. ”

Li Huaihua preconceived that Zheng Haizhu was also in the skin and meat business, and when she saw that she was just passing by, she took the initiative to do good and receive help, so she didn't shy away from it, and explained her details in a few words.

"Banjun" is a unique system of the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Haizhu has been familiar with it for many years. At this time, the imperial court asked the guards to send troops out every quarter, and many of them went to the border to work as coolies and build military facilities, and they had to bring their own rations. Because of fatigue and poor nutrition, it is not uncommon for the guards who are on their turn to work unable to carry the epidemic once they are infected.

Zheng Haizhu was already indifferent, and was about to say goodbye and leave, but when she heard that the second daughter was a family member of the Shanhaiguan Guard, she immediately changed her mind and ordered Xu San and Huang Zude to wait outside, while she followed Li Huaihua into the low and dilapidated shack.

The palm-sized area is also divided into three, and the space at the entrance is placed with low tables and stools, and on the left and right sides are covered with hole-filled mats to block two wooden planks covered with straw mats, and a few stones are raised to make a bed. In a few corners, clay pots, fishing nets, rice jars, and bamboo baskets with clothes exposed, are scattered around.

Zheng Haizhu sat down, took the hand-warming pottery cup presented by Liu Bei'er, and asked Li Huaihua: "Sister Huaihua, if you men are guards, the court should have fields to divide, how can you ......?"

Li Huaihua stared at the woman in front of her who had the same dark face as herself, and said with a sense of inquiry: "Sister, look at the face, she has been through the wind and frost in our north, but her accent is like that of a person from the south, I think I just came to pass through Shanhaiguan, right?" ”

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "Well, I'm not from Jizhen." ”

"No wonder you don't know. The tuntian of many guards in Jizhen was occupied by the gentry, especially for men like us who died, they had to even take the field together. ”

"Oh," Zheng Haizhu asked cautiously, "then, if they are the masters and allow you to marry the men in their manor, won't you also have something to rely on?" ”

Li Huaihua sighed: "Where is there such a good life." What is this sister's surname? ”

"The surname is Zheng."

"Sister Zheng, don't you look at me and Liu Bei'er, as well as the other women who have built shacks around here, now they don't even look as good as the sparrows in the grass nest, when we are still our little daughters-in-law, we look attractive. Those gentlemen, who are willing to marry us to the villagers, are all their concubines. At first, some sisters became concubines, thinking that they didn't need to farm and raise mulberry land anymore, but they didn't expect that the mansions of rich families were even more terrible than the Yama Palace. As soon as the master's favor passes, the eldest grandmother can find an excuse to kill the concubine. Everyone pondered, it is better to escape to the beach and make a living as a private man, although he will go to Huangquan in the future and have no face to see his husband, but he can make do with it for a few more years. ”

As soon as Li Huaihua came here, her sister-in-law Liu Bei'er couldn't help but interject: "Looking at it now, I may not be able to live a few more years." ”

"How?" Zheng Haizhu put down the pottery cup and asked her in a harmonious voice.

The corners of Liu Bei'er's lips were even more bitter: "In the past few years, many sisters who have no support in Shanhaiguan have gathered here, and the imperial court has come to collect the silk money, and the more they collect, the heavier the collection, last year, it was half a tael of silver per month, and as soon as the first month of this year passed, it rose to eight dollars of silver." ”

"Eight bucks!" Zheng Haizhu couldn't help but be surprised and said, "The monthly salary of the border army, if you don't add food, is only one or two silver." ”

"No, these men are such bastards, some of them spend a little money to sleep on our bodies, and some of them jump out and ask each of us to raise a soldier. When he mentioned us again, he scolded one bitch at a time. Liu Bei'er said hatefully.

Li Huaihua on the side, but when she heard the words "Monthly salary of the border army", her gaze changed slightly when she looked at Zheng Haizhu.

Seeing that she can go out with the pomp of the little guy, she should be serving the big guys.

At this moment, it sounds like he is so familiar with military affairs, could it be that he is a good friend of a general or even an adjutant of the general army?

Look at her little guys again...... No, ordinary guys don't have that kind of figure, and they clearly look like they came out of the barracks.

In a short moment, a thought suddenly rose in Li Huaihua's heart.

Don't miss the opportunity to give her a concubine today!

Li Huaihua looked at the women who hurried outside the door and ran towards the port like begging wild dogs.

If she seized the opportunity, she and her brother-in-law might no longer be one of them.

Li Huaihua pursed her lips, swallowed her saliva, and plucked up the courage to say: "Sister Zheng is beautiful and kind-hearted, and she must be taken care of by her father-in-law." Huaihua dared to ask, can there be two more rough maids in my sister's house? ”

Zheng Haizhu put down the pottery cup and stared at the woman with a courteous face: "You guys, want to leave here?" ”

Li Huaihua left the bench without hesitation, and knelt at Zheng Haizhu's feet with a puff: "Sister Zheng, you are the Guanyin Bodhisattva sent by God, please take me and the bottle away." ”

When Liu Bei'er saw her sister-in-law's sudden move, she was stunned at first, and then quickly reacted, knelt down, and began to kowtow.

Zheng Haizhu changed her calm and cold tone and said, "You sit back first, I don't like others kowtowing to me." My generals never do that. ”

"General, general?" The two women lifted their faces, their expressions changing from pleading to amazement.

"Well, I'm not begging for a living in the Qinglou, and I'm not going to be an outer room for some big man. Don't call those men any kind of benevolent man. Where have they been to us women? As for me, I fought for the imperial court. Your husband was a soldier of the guard when he was alive, and I led a battalion soldier. ”

When Li Huaihua and Liu Bei'er heard this, their mouths opened wider than the pottery cup on the table.

After a while, Li Huaihua suddenly slapped her thigh: "I remember, last time, there was a military master who entered the customs from Ningyuan, and after finishing his work with me, he said that there is a heroine in our Ming Dynasty, who is on the horse to kill the enemy, called Qin, Qin ......"

"It's called Qin Liangyu," Zheng Haizhu said lightly, "But General Qin and I don't like to listen to the four words of Haojie among women, Haojie is Haojie, what kind of men and women are divided?" ”

Li Huaihua seemed to be hit by this fresh statement, and stayed for a moment before she spoke again: "Sister Zheng, oh no, under General Zheng's account, you always have to be rough and rude, right?" ”

Zheng Haizhu smiled.

This Li Huaihua is a person who sticks to her position, and temporary changes will not affect her target topic.

There's a class that suits her.

"Huaihua, vase, are you just so good, being a maid is the great creation of jumping out of the fire pit?"

The two women glanced at each other, looked back at Zheng Haizhu, and asked timidly, "Then, what else can we do?" ”