Chapter 163: Defection
The two of them took a step forward, saw Jiang Quan retreating vigilantly, and hurriedly said, "Don't be afraid, we just want to ask you about something." ”
Jiang Quan was still on guard, "You won't go to the village to inquire about things, why are you sneaking with me?" ”
"Sorry, we didn't mean to." It's just because this little brother is too focused and focused on digging the ground that he didn't find them.
A square-faced man said, "We just want to inquire if there is a person named Wen Fu here." ”
Jiang Quan frowned and looked the two of them up and down.
I saw that they had dirty hair, tattered clothes and pants, and a pair of bare feet, about the same age as their father, so I couldn't help but be more vigilant. "Aren't you going to ask people? There are so many people in the village, why did they sneak up and ask me? ”
Fang Mian was silent for a moment, and said: "Let's tell you the truth, our brothers have no identity guide, and the inspection has been strict everywhere recently, in order to make unnecessary trouble, I am not sure if the person I am looking for is here before, it is not good to go to the village to disturb, Wen Fu is a relative of the two of us, we are here to join him, and please let the little brother know." ”
When Jiang Quan heard him say this, he believed it a little.
But it is not appropriate to take the liberty of bringing people like two people into the village.
After pondering for a moment, he nodded and said, "There is indeed a person named Wen Fu, but I don't know if it is the person you are looking for." ”
The other person was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "It must be, we inquired before, he was a slave in the Wen family, and he came to Qinchuan County with the fourth lady of the Wen family earlier, so we came all the way." ”
Jiang Quan believed it a little when he heard it, "Okay, you guys are waiting here, I went to ask Uncle Wen." ”
Then he carried the chisel and ran.
Emma, it's so scary, how do these two people look like bandits.
No, I must tell the third uncle that they are coming to arrest them.
Hum! When he was a child, what kind of person had he never seen?
Whether they are Uncle Wen's relatives or not can only be tried.
Jiang Quan ran all the way back to the village.
Today, the southern slope has become a large village, with rows of houses.
Each yard is generally large, and the vegetable garden in front of the yard is also neatly arranged.
Most of the villagers have moved to live, and children run around and play on the wide and solid village road.
Jiang Sanlang was instructing the villagers to build a fungus shed, when he suddenly saw Jiang Quan panting and running: "Third uncle, there are two homeless people on the other side of the bamboo forest, they said they were looking for Uncle Wen, and they said that they were Uncle Wen's relatives." ”
Refugee?
The displaced people who appear at this time should not be taken lightly.
Jiang Saburo frowned, and immediately called a few people to go to the bamboo forest to surround it, and asked a child to find Wen Fu.
Wen Fu was helping out in the school, and when he heard that someone was looking for him, he hurriedly ran to the bamboo forest with Jiang Sanlang.
Listening to Jiang Quan's narration, if he guessed correctly, these two people should be his former subordinates.
Rushed to the bamboo forest, sure enough, I saw two people squatting on the edge of the forest and looking around, and saw a lot of villagers coming over to Hula, the two of them were startled, and they turned around and wanted to drill into the bamboo forest.
"Zhang Meng! Xu Kun! Wen Fu shouted.
The two paused, turned to look at Wen Fu, and instantly burst into tears, "Will ...... Brother Fu! ”
Wen Fu stepped forward quickly and hugged Zhang Meng and Xu Kun, who also pounced, and all three of them were wet with tears.
Seeing this, Jiang Saburo asked the villagers to disperse first, while he waited aside.
The three of them whispered for a while, and Wen Fu came to Jiang Sanlang and hugged his fist, "These two are my righteous brothers, and now they have nowhere to find a way to live, so please take Jiang Langjun in." ”
Jiang Saburo wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at the two of them, and asked, "Are they innocent?" ”
"Innocent, a certain person vouches for his head, they are by no means traitors, and they have nothing to do with the rogue." Winford swears.
Jiang Saburo looked at the two of them and asked, "Do you have a household registration guide?" ”
The two of them were stunned, and Xu Kun said: "Don't hide it, we came from Yizhou, and we don't have a household registration guide." ”
"Yizhou? Is it a state where wars often occur? "Jiang Saburo has heard that Yizhou is just because the imperial court is conscripted, and a small half of the people go to that place.
"Yes." Xu Kun said: "We were originally border guards, and we were sent back to our hometown due to injuries, but life in the countryside was not easy, and there were no relatives at home, so we came to Brother Fu." ”
Actually, there is more to this than that, but that's all they can say.
Xu Kun stretched out his right hand to show Jiang Sanlang, only a thumb and half an index finger were left in his right hand, and the other three fingers were gone.
Another finger at Zhang Meng, "He hurt one of his legs." ”
Jiang Saburo turned his head to look at Zhang Meng, and sure enough, he saw that he was walking with a little lame.
"In that case, you can come with me first." Since he is not a deserter or a bandit, Jiang Saburo is a lot more relieved.
Observing these two people again, although they are embarrassed, they are also upright, unlike those who are waiting for the night mouses.
And Wen Fu is a servant of the Wen family, and his words and deeds are also connected to the Wen family, so there must be no big problems.
Jiang Sanlang took the two back to the village and directly explained the matter to Patriarch Chen.
Patriarch Chen did not object to taking them in, but only said that they should help the village work first, and if they behaved well, they could explain the situation to Li Zheng and reapply for a new household registration for them.
"If they have been doing their duty, they can apply for admission according to their refugee status, I see that although they are disabled, they are in good health, so it is better to let them help clean up the road in the village."
In the process of building a large area of the village and transporting building materials, the road surface will inevitably be damaged, so it is necessary to find someone to fill in the soil and repair it.
It's tiring, tedious, and unprofitable, and no one wants to do it.
Just two strong laborers came, so they didn't have to be in vain.
"It's okay, when the time comes, each household will give a little food to support their lives." Jiang Saburo said.
Since helping the village level the road is to work for the whole village, there is no reason to ask a certain family to contribute money and food, so the whole village must work together.
The patriarch had no opinion: "Then do it, go back and let people calculate, and the rations and daily expenses of these two people will be shared equally by the whole village." ”
"Okay."
Jiang Sanlang has met with the patriarch, and this Zhang Meng and Xu Kun have also passed the Ming Road.
He took them to the hut next to his vegetable garden and said, "You two will live here for the time being, and then I will set aside a plot of land for you to build a house in the future." ”
Chu Chu didn't come back, and Wei Zhan had been living with Huzi, so the thatched hut had been vacant, just for the two of them to live temporarily.
"Thank you Jiang Muramasa." Zhang Meng and Xu Kun hugged Jiang Sanlang, they were very happy, and they didn't dislike the dwarf hut at all.
Jiang Saburo nodded, and went back to bring them two old bedding, two old jackets, two pairs of old shoes, and some pots and pans.
After that, he asked the villagers to raise some rice, pasta, and salt for them to cook and eat by themselves.
The next day, Zhang Meng and Xu Kun officially went to work.
One picks up soil and fills the pit, the other smooths the road, and does it without regrets.
Jiang Saburo observed them for a few days, and when he saw that there was no abnormality, he relaxed slightly.
It's the middle of winter, and the weather is unusually cold.
The construction of the house in the village has been completed, and the school has been built.
This school was funded by Jiang Sanlang, the patriarch and several clan elders, divided into two courtyards for men and women, twelve rooms, plus interior decoration furniture, desks and chairs, etc., a total of more than 200 taels of silver.
Spread it out, Jiang Saburo paid more than forty taels.
The money is well spent, because the children of Jiangjia Village can also come here to go to school in the future.
The men's school has six rooms with one courtyard, and the same goes for the women's school, with a high wall between the two courtyards.
The first three upside-down rooms are classrooms, and the last three rooms can be used for Mr. and his family to live in.
Not long after the school was built, Mrs. Wen moved in with her daughter and servants, and took in several female students at once.
The girls are not very old, ranging from six to ten years old.
The reason why the villagers are willing to spend money to send their daughters to study is also because they hope that they will be like Yingbao and Erni, who can read and write.
I don't want to be able to practice medicine to support my family in the future, but I hope that my daughter can find a good in-law in the future.