Wearing a dark green raincoat, Jiazhen's needlework is very good, he vaguely remembers that when Jiazhen first came to Xu's house, she was still a lady who could only play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

But in just five or six years, he became very proficient in needlework, meals, laundry, and all kinds of household chores.

And Xu's mother also admitted that now Jiazhen's needlework is better than hers, and the meals are more delicious.

Blue is better than blue, Jiazhen seems to have become the proudest point of Xu's mother.

This raincoat was made by Jiazhen and Xu's mother together, and the needlework and thread were very tight, and there were no traces of sewing without looking carefully, as if this canvas was naturally the shape of a raincoat.

The raincoat was long, hanging down to the knees, and there was a large hat with an inner bag sewn into the raincoat.

After putting on a raincoat and a hat, and then putting a hat on it, stepping on straw sandals, he waved his hand to Feng Xia, walked out of the yard, and disappeared into the fog.

The spring rain is not over yet, there is a drizzle in the fog, don't look at it is just a drizzle, and after a while, the hat will be wet, the heavy fog is full of moisture, and the surface of the raincoat is also condensed with a layer of fog.

The dirt path was full of mud, and there were footprints under one foot, and within two steps, a pair of big feet were covered with yellow dirt.

It was another more than two hours of travel, and when I came to the vicinity of Yunxi County, the rain became slightly heavier, the fog became thicker, and the scene twenty meters away looked a little blurry.

As before, I didn't rush into the county seat, turned down from the side of the dirt road, cleaned the mud on my feet in the Yunxi River, wiped off the water stains, and then put on cloth shoes.

In the early spring, the river is still extremely cold, and in the rainy weather, even though I am wearing cotton clothes, I am still shivering from the cold.

Walking into the county seat, as soon as I walked into the entrance of the city gate, I saw a group of people surrounding a place.

His instinct to see the excitement prompted him to walk over, and by virtue of his superhuman height, he saw a huge wooden sign standing inside through a group of heads.

On it are written in three large black letters in charcoal - recruiting office.

Next to the wooden sign, there were two soldiers wearing yellow leather clothes, holding rifles and steel helmets, and there was also a wooden table.

Behind the wooden table sat a middle-aged man in a tunic with a recruitment slogan posted on the back.

The middle-aged man looked at the crowd of onlookers and enthusiastically introduced: "In order to protect everyone from being bullied by outsiders, we began to recruit soldiers, which has many benefits. ”

"As long as you sign up, we will immediately give you a settling-in fee of 8,000 fiat currency, in addition, after becoming a soldier, you can take care of food and housing every day, and you can get 1,000 fiat currency every month."

"If there is a combat mission, in addition to 100 fiat coins per day, there are more than 5,000 fiat coins for meritorious service, as long as you have been a soldier for more than five years, you can still have 50,000 fiat coins when you retire from the army."

"There are many benefits, everyone has enthusiastically signed up, actively publicized, and everyone has united to protect this hard-won peace."

There was a commotion in the crowd and they asked if it was true or not.

Nowadays, although the value of fiat currency has depreciated sharply, due to the arrival of peace, it is becoming more and more popular to trade with fiat currency in the south, and the value fluctuates very little.

Therefore, people have more trust in fiat currency, and the conditions given by this tunic are quite rich.

If he hadn't lied, it would have been much more cost-effective to be a soldier than to farm.

The tunic continued: "Of course it's true, but we also have conditions for recruitment, don't be too old, don't be too young, don't have no strength, and those who have battlefield experience are preferred." ”

Although the discussion was very enthusiastic, some people also asked: "Now that it is peaceful, why do you still need to recruit soldiers, it will not be another war?" ”

"Yes, there won't be another war, then I'm reluctant to let my boy die."

When the tunic heard this, he immediately stood up and explained: "There is no war, don't speculate, everyone also knows how many troops we spent in order to get Sakura to surrender." ”

"Although there is peace now, we still have to prevent the harassment of other foreign devils, so we have to replenish the army completely, everyone can rest assured, we will not let you go to the battlefield."

The tunic said that it was true, but still no one signed up.

How can you decide such a major event as joining the army by yourself.

Even if you are tempted, you have to go back and discuss it with your family.

The middle-aged man seemed to be in a hurry, still vigorously publicizing, and there was still a pile of fiat currency on the table to attract people to become soldiers.

Xu Fugui stopped and watched for a while, and looked at the middle-aged man with disgust in his eyes.

He didn't know this middle-aged man, but this person must have something to do with the southern troops, in his previous life, he was arrested by the southern troops as a strong man, and suffered for several years.

In the end, although she picked up a life from the battlefield and came back, when she returned home, Feng Xia became deaf and mute because of a fever, and Jiazhen was also overworked, leaving hidden dangers for future hypochondriasis.

As for Xu's mother, a few months after he was arrested, she missed Cheng Cheng and left early.

All this was caused by the southern troops.

At this moment, Xu Fugui really wanted to go out and loudly expose the middle-aged man's statement, if they weren't preparing for war, how could they come to conscription.

But he didn't have the courage after all, he was a selfish man who just wanted to save his family.

The life or death of others has little to do with him.

In another half a year, the war will break out again, and during that time he will find a way to stay in the village and not come to the county seat, so as to avoid being dragged to be a strong man.

Walking in from the city gate, he walked retrograde in the crowd, and more and more people rushed to the city gate to see if the soldiers really had such good treatment.

The bluestone slabs in the city were also wet with rainwater, and the sewage flowed sideways in the potholes, emitting an unpleasant stench.

Carefully avoiding these puddles, stepping on the raised bluestone slabs, all the way to the street where Wang's Restaurant is located.

"Brother Kang, Happy New Year, I wish you a prosperous business and a lot of money."

Coming to the Kang bun stall, Xu Fugui said hello.

Kang Baozi didn't recognize him for a while, until he took off his hat and raincoat hat, and then suddenly said: "It's Fugui, I haven't seen you for a while, can you still do the lo-mei stall?" Alas, don't say anything about the wealth that has come in, it's good to have something to eat. ”

Xu Fugui put on his raincoat and hat again, and held the hat in his hand, "If you want to do it, don't do it, where did the money come from?" Isn't this a day to see if business is good? ”

Kang Baozi shook his head and sighed, "Maybe it's the New Year, no one comes to the county, and the business is not as good as before, but the business of the seed shop is getting better." ”

"It's spring, it's time to plough the land, can the seed shop business be bad?

chatted with Kang Baozi for a few words, and heard that the business in the county is very difficult, especially the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which are more and more, and almost the cost of money cannot be saved.

Xu Fugui sighed a little sadly, there is not much food in farming, and he can't make much money in business, how can he live this day......