On the way to the mountain, Tong Song and his little servant Liangui followed behind the villagers.

The villagers who walked in front looked back at the two of them from time to time, and whispered to the villagers around them: "I think these two people are the young masters and little servants of big families, they can really lift trees when they go up the mountain?" Don't flash your waist without suffering when you arrive! ”

"Maybe if the two of them have kung fu, the weight of a tree won't be too difficult for them."

"I don't think they have kung fu at all, don't you see their thin bodies?"

The villagers spoke in dialects, the dialect of their hometown, and Tong Song heard them talking, but he didn't understand a word.

Otherwise, knowing that this group of people said that his body was thin and weak, he would definitely be so angry that he would jump to his feet!

"The princess must have a little strength to ask him to follow us up the mountain, otherwise the princess wouldn't have found someone to trouble us, let alone help!"

"What the second brother said is reasonable, the princess originally wanted to find someone to help us, we should believe the princess, these two people must be able to carry the tree."

Halfway up the mountain, there were more than a dozen cut trees piled up in the grass beside the trail.

The trunk of the tree is straight, and it is a good wood for building a house and making beams.

The weight of freshly cut wood may be twice that of dry wood, the weight of a tree is about more than 100 catties, and the weight of a large tree may reach 2 or 300 catties.

The villagers have more thoughts about Tong Song's master and servant, and everyone tries to choose the big ones when choosing trees.

In the end, two smaller trees remained.

Although the trees are small, the villagers who led the way up the mountain were still a little worried, "Childe, you two come and try, if you can carry it, you can carry it, and if you can't carry it, you should come to the mountain to play around." ”

The villagers' attitude of obviously underestimating him made Tong Song feel unhappy, and he said with a firm gaze: "I can carry it!" ”

The villager nodded and taught him how to carry the tree on his shoulder, which is a method, and if you don't do it properly, it is easy to wear off the skin of the shoulder.

"Since you can carry it, then you can try." Villagers lift the other end of the tree off the ground.

Tong Song followed the other villagers' methods just now, and crouched down at the position where he thought the trees were in the middle.

The villagers moved the tree above his shoulder, and Tong Song slowly stood up with the tree.

The villagers smiled and asked, "Can you carry it?" Do you think it's heavy? ”

Tong Song picked up the tree and felt that it was lighter than he imagined, so he smiled: "It's not heavy, you can carry it!" ”

"Then I'll let go, you hold the trunk steady." The villager slowly let go of his hand.

It's just that as soon as his hand left the trunk, Tong Song felt that the trees behind him sank, and his body staggered a few steps, almost sitting on the ground, but fortunately, at the last critical moment, the villagers held the trunk again.

"Carrying trees, the weight of the front and back should not be much different, otherwise it will be particularly difficult to carry, and the weight of the front and back is inconsistent, and it is easy to fall down the mountain when you carry it." The villagers passed on their experiences to their masters and servants.

Tong Song adjusted slightly, and finally found the best focus point, easily picked up a tree and walked down the mountain.

Even Gui did the same, carrying the tree and following behind his master.

The villagers who were left behind saw their speed, smiled and shook their heads, it is useless now, and it is only possible to carry it home in the end.

At first, the rough bark touched his shoulder, but Tong could bear it, and when he had walked far down the mountain, his shoulder hurt and panicked.

The further I walked, the more my shoulder hurt.

"Childe, but your shoulders are uncomfortable? Why don't you throw the trees aside and we'll do it ourselves? ”

Brother Gongzi began to walk briskly, but when he reached the back, his steps became slower and slower, and his steps were still a little unsteady, and the villagers were really afraid that his feet would slip and roll down the mountain.

Tong Song gritted his teeth, "It's okay, I can carry it down the mountain!" ”

With a hard mouth on his face, in fact, looking at the fact that there is still a distance from the foot of the mountain, Tong Song's heart is about to collapse!

The rough bark of the tree was on his shoulder, and every step he took was like a knife scraping on it, it hurt too much!

After Xia Jing finished talking with the village chief, she sat under the big tree and drank tea comfortably, when she saw Tong Song and Lian Gui coming back carrying a small tree.

Although they used their shoulders to lift, they tried to support the trees with their hands as much as possible, and it was conceivable that the shoulder injuries were not light.

"How? What does it taste like? ”

Tong Song shouted one, two, three, and threw the tree aside at the same time as Lian Gui.

As for the shoulder, he would not dare to touch it or rub it, because it really hurt!

"I'm dying of thirst, can you let me drink saliva first?"

Hongmei brought a bucket of water from the side and put it aside, "Young Master Tong, no matter how thirsty you are, you should also wash your hands and face first." ”

Waiting for Tong Song to sit down, Xia Jing asked with a smile: "It's too late today, we can't go back if we want to, we have to spend one night in the village at night, do you have no opinion?" ”

Tong Song instinctively frowned at the idea of living outside, and when he met Xia Jing's playful eyes, he rolled his eyes speechlessly, "I don't care if I'm a big man, I just want to wronged the princess to suffer with us." ”

Xia Jing listened to his words and chuckled: "You don't care, I'm a person who has even been in a coffin, and I still care about sleeping in the countryside for one night?" ”

Tong Song: "."

He found that the princess could choke people to death when she spoke! ——

The situation in the Central Plains is becoming more and more tense.

After Xia Jing arranged the spring ploughing of the Grange, she asked the scribe to write a conscription notice and post it.

As soon as the notice was posted, the whole city was in an uproar.

The restaurants and teahouses in Fucheng and the neighborhoods in the market are all discussing conscription.

"I was conscripted last year, why didn't I recruit again long after the start of the new year this year?"

"I heard that this conscription is different from the last conscription, last year every household had to send a soldier, and the government called this a compulsory soldier. If you are between the ages of 18 and 25, you can go to the government office to register, and if you are not willing to join the military office, you will not be forced to join the military office. ”

"Hearing you say this, I suddenly don't feel nervous, as long as you don't force me to join the army, I don't have an opinion on how the government tosses!"

"Short-sighted people, the current conscription is very different from before, and now people with vision are trying to get their children to the barracks, and you don't know the opportunity to send them to the door."

"You are so discerning, instead of talking about it here, it is better to take action to send your son to join the army!"

"My son has already passed the age limit, otherwise, I would really let him join the army, and then make meritorious contributions and glorify his ancestors, how good!"

"You are typical of standing and talking without backache!"

In the restaurant, at noon time, several tables of guests who talk a lot compete for red faces and red ears, and their mouths are foaming.

The people at the table in the corner of the first floor of the restaurant were always paying attention to the progress of the matter, listening to the discussions of these people, there was no superfluous expression on their faces.

"This Lingnan conscription policy is really strange, everyone is afraid to avoid conscription, and there are still two fools who volunteer to join the army in this era?" Qiu San whispered to a few people at the same table.

Mazi took a peanut and threw it into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, and then took a sip of wine before he spoke: "San'er, don't take it for granted, even if Lingnan has such a strange conscription notice, there are still many people queuing up to register; When I came from the inn, I noticed that there were many people queuing up at the various conscription registration offices. ”

This doesn't seem to be a cold situation at all, is it because the consciousness of the people in Lingnan is too high?

Understand the importance of defending the country?

Wu Zhong looked at Mazi when he heard this, "There are really a lot of people queuing?" ”

He was also shocked, is there really a hot-blooded young man who is not afraid of death in this era?

"I can't lie to you!" As he spoke, Mazi turned his head to look at Zhu Wei.

"Big brother, this is a rare opportunity, it would be a pity if we didn't join the military camp with all our martial arts."

Anyway, you can't go into the thieves' den again!

If he was given a choice between farming and joining the army, he would rather join the army, even if it was hard, it would be 10,000 times better than facing the loess with his back to the sky every day.

Zhu Wei did not answer him immediately, but said the current situation, "In the past, we had to go up the mountain to be bandits because we didn't have a stable life; Now in Lingnan, the government has settled us in the village, and also divided a few plots of land for us to plant, it can be said that we came to Lingnan directly to achieve our previous wishes, this kind of day are you willing to abandon? ”

Now they don't have to worry about three meals a day, if they don't join the army and just stay at home and farm some fields, they can be rich for life.

But if you go to the battlefield in the army, then life changes a bit impermanently.

No one can say what fate it will be in the future!

It is possible to soar into the sky, and it is more likely to sleep on the battlefield forever!

The wife and children are hot on the kang, which can be said to be the expectation of most men, and now when this wish is about to come true, it takes courage to choose another path.

There is expectation in Mazi's eyes, but he is a man who can't be quiet, that is to say, don't want to hold him back in all mundane things, "Big brother, I'm alone, it's the same wherever I go." ”

Zhu Wei listened to his words, and he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, anyway, if he looked at Mazi now, he found that he might really have something to do in the future!

Wu Zhong hesitated for a moment, and then hesitated: "Big brother, why don't we try to sign up?" ”

Zhu Wei: "I don't object to trying to sign up, but I'm worried about whether anyone from King Qian's Mansion will recognize us?" ”

If anyone does recognize them, then they are not falling into the net.

Wu Zhong: "."

This is indeed a difficult problem, when they were 'naughty' at the beginning, how could they think of the scene of meeting in the future?

Mazi smiled disapprerovingly: "When we first acted, we were covered with cloth towels on our faces, unless we can see through, otherwise no one will recognize us." ”

Zhu Wei raised his eyebrows, but did not refute his words, as for recognizing it, although he said so, he was still very confident in his heart that no one would be able to recognize him.

The conscription lasted for half a month, and there was no limit to the number of people, only the age was limited.

Ye Fei stared at the recruitment point downstairs, turned around and asked Xia Jing: "Princess, why do you have to limit the age of this recruitment, in fact, the twenties are the strongest when they are physically strong, is it a pity to exclude them from the door?" ”

Xia Jing's gaze swept over his handsome facial features, and said with a smile: "A man of twenty-five who wants to get married will already have a family, if a man who has a family leaves his wife and children and runs to join the army, isn't this a pit person?" ”

Hongmei took over the conversation: "Don't stop pit people, I think that the pit baby pit the woman, become a biological child, at this time if a man joins the army, he can't go back for a few years, the child's growth stage is all missed, and when the child grows up to an age where he doesn't have to worry much, his father comes back to pick ready-made fruits, but the woman is tired and becomes a yellow-faced woman!" ”

When you think about this kind of thing, you feel that a woman's life is too miserable!

The husband came back in a few years and said that he had to make a small achievement, and what was waiting for this woman might be that the husband would accept the small and pick the fruits of his victory!

Heart-piercing!

Ye Fei's hand holding the handle of the knife clenched, staring at the crowd queuing up downstairs to register, "At the age of eighteen to twenty-five, if you get married earlier, you will already be married, how do you say this?" They also have wives and parents at home. ”

Xia Jing wanted to knock him on the head in her heart, "There must always be an age limit for conscription, but our plan is more detailed, and the age limit is only to reduce the occurrence of this situation, not to eliminate it!" ”

Some men in this era got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and if they can't join the army according to their parents, then there are few men in the entire Dayu Dynasty who meet the conditions for joining the army.

Ye Fei stared at the people queuing downstairs and said with emotion: "In the past, the government issued a notice to conscript soldiers to serve in the army, and the people could hide, and no one had ever taken the initiative to stand up and say that they wanted to join the army. ”

Xia Jing propped her chin and said truthfully: "Most of the men who came downstairs to apply for the draft came to receive a stable military salary, if they were replaced by soldiers and horses from the imperial court, under the premise that the life of the army was not guaranteed, it would be impossible for him to be so motivated." ”

However, Xia Jing wanted soldiers who wanted to join the army, and most of them were still unwilling to apply, and she expressed regret.

If you can apply, she will give them good treatment.

Just thinking about it, Xia Jing noticed a group of people at the back of the line, "Huh! The appearance of this group of people has a sense of déjà vu, Ye Fei, come and take a look, do you know them? ”

Ye Fei's gaze swept over the faces of the group of people behind him one by one, and when his gaze fell on the face of one of the men, he paused slightly, "The general situation of this group of people, the subordinates have a guess." ”

"Oh, let's hear it!"

These people were a little out of place with the people around them, and although they were dressed plainly, Xia Jing still heard a lot of important information.

Ye Fei didn't have an appetite, silently withdrew his left hand that wanted to be broken, and pointed at one of the men, "That tall man, the man with a big black mole on the side of his mouth, he is the mountain bandit who travels to various state capitals to rob for a living, when he once fled, many wealthy businessmen or wealthy refugees were robbed by them. ”

"The men who are with him are most likely bandits in one of their stockades."

Their momentum is really not something that ordinary people can have.

Speaking of mountain bandits, Xia Jing suddenly remembered the sound she heard when she had just crossed over and her head was a little confused.

At that time, her funeral procession happened to pass by that road,

At that time, she was lying in the coffin, and she vaguely heard the sound of talking outside, but now she remembered that it was these people who did evil and snatched all her funeral belongings.

Except for the coffin!

Thank you for your support~