What Sun Lizheng meant by this was that the number of conscripts on the household registration was registered, and those who occasionally reported their disability or illness could be exempted from military service, but they could not exceed the prescribed range.

Jiang Saburo: "Understood, I will inform everyone, do whatever you want them." ”

If it really doesn't work, I will spend money to hire someone to go on the expedition instead.

Seeing Li Zheng away, Jiang Saburo summoned all the villagers over and read out the list of expeditions.

After listening to the list, everyone was silent.

Everyone is living a good life, just when they don't have to worry about eating and drinking, suddenly there is a conscription, and they don't let people live?

Jiang Saburo said: "I don't care what method you use, anyway, our village must send ten people." "It doesn't matter if you spend money to buy a pawn, or if you find someone to dredge up the relationship and report a sick person, they will go according to their abilities.

"Then, then my Boyuan has inconvenient legs and feet, so don't you have to go to service?" Chen Jiaxing, the eldest son of the Chen family, asked.

Jiang Saburo flipped through the roster and said, "Your eldest son has inconvenient legs and feet, but the list of conscripts is your second son, and he can't report his illness and disability." ”

This can't be reported as a disability on the surface, but if his family has a way, he may be able to find someone to report a fake disability.

"Why can't you report it? You're Muramasa, as long as you go and say no. Chen Jiaxing said dissatisfied.

Jiang Saburo glanced at him, "Jiang is a small village zheng, he is only responsible for delivering news, and he can't be the master, or you go to Li Zheng to ask." ”

In the end, the officials from the county government came to confirm the conscription, and it was not what he was talking about in a village.

Several families have begun to cry.

Everyone knows that once you go on the expedition, it can be said that you will die nine times or a lifetime.

A few years ago, when the army was recruited, a few people from the whole village came back, and there is no news of the rest so far. and never sent a letter home.

At this time, there is another conscription, how can it not be worrying.

Jiang Saburo didn't care about this, and after reading out the list, he asked everyone to go back to prepare, and he had to go to the post pavilion to report the day after tomorrow at the latest.

Of course, he will take everyone with him.

Three days later, Jiang Saburo took the soldiers of his village to the post pavilion to report.

The officials in charge of conscription in the county government checked the roster one by one, and finally ticked the box to express their approval.

Jiang Saburo breathed a sigh of relief.

When I got home, several villagers gathered around me and asked, "Is it okay?" ”

"That's it." I stuffed the official with two hundred taels of silver, and then the matter was settled.

That's right, out of ten people in their village, five of them have bought pawns, including Jiang Quan, who has just reached the age of seventeen.

This matter requires bribing officials who check household registration, so everyone asks this question.

Several villagers unloaded a big stone in their hearts and thanked Jiang Saburo again.

Jiang Saburo was also helpless, waved his hand, and said, "You can't go out and talk nonsense, in case something happens, no one will be able to eat and walk around." ”

"You know, San Lang, don't worry, we won't let outsiders know a word about this." The villagers thumped their chests.

Sakura poked her head out of the window and listened for a moment, sighing.

They all spent money to hire people to go out on behalf of their children, and they hired Dingkou from poor families in other villages.

The eldest child of these families was not yet ten years old, and the man made his own pawn for fifty taels of silver, and went out on behalf of others.

This is the case with the family hired by Uncle Jiang's family.

However, Uncle Jiang settled the family on the wasteland he had purchased and built them three huts to live in.

"Sakurapo! Sakurapo! Chen Zhao came to find Yingbao again, and he was still carrying a bamboo basket in his hand: "Let's go pick up firewood?" ”

Her father went to the county seat to study, the eldest sister went to serve the vegetable field, and there were grandparents left at home, as well as the annoying Chu Yan, Chen Zhao didn't want to see the woman, so he often brought his younger brother to play with Yingbao.

Ying Bao was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and call Sister Erni with me." ”

Of course, Chen Zhao did not object, and stood happily in the courtyard waiting.

After a while, Erni came over with a bamboo basket on her back and said, "Let's go to the pine forest to pick up the pine tower, we have to walk a long distance, will it be inconvenient for you to take Xubao with you?" ”

The pine forest is far away from here, and two-year-old Xubao will definitely not be able to walk.

"Then I'll send Xubao back to grandma to take care of." Chen Zhao was also impatient to carry an oil bottle, but her younger brother always liked to follow her.

In this way, Chen Zhao sent his younger brother home and handed it over to his grandmother Chen Fengshi.

The three of them carried bamboo baskets on their backs and carried small hoes to the pine forest, and Xiao Hei, who was seriously injured, also followed Sakura.

The pine forests here are all dwarf pines, and there are many pine cones growing on them.

But Sakura Po didn't come here to pick up pine cones, she wanted to find out if there were any poria cocos.

Sister Wen said that Poria cocos grows at the roots of pine trees, like cold rice balls covered with ashes, which is very easy to recognize.

It just so happened that there was also a large pine forest on the southern slope of the heath, so she wanted to check it out.

The snow has melted, but the weather is still very cold.

When the three of them entered the pine forest, they each did their own thing, Erni and Chen Zhao picked up the pine tower, and opened it to find the pine nuts that had not been eaten by the squirrel.

Sakura took Hei to find Poria cocos.

Under the pine trees, pine needles fell to the ground, and there were many pine towers.

After looking for a long time, I suddenly saw a black-brown bulge the size of a goose egg under a pine tree.

Sakura hurriedly ran over and took out a knife and slashed some of it, revealing a snow-white color.

Sure enough, it's Poria cocos!

Sakura was overjoyed and hurriedly used a small medicine hoe to gouge it out.

The roots were broken inside, and she dug up some dirt to bury them.

Xiao Hei leaned over and sniffed it, and when he saw the little master happily put it away, he tilted his head and ran away in a flash.

Digging up a Poria cocos to prove that there would still be one here, Sakura began to look carefully again.

Suddenly, Xiao Hei screamed not far away.

Sakura ran over and saw Blackie yelling at her twice, and slashing twice with her front paws.

"Wow wow! So big! Sakura Po screamed as she touched something the size of a basin.

I took out the medicine hoe and planed it, and it was snow-white in color, and it was really Poria cocos, but some places had been gnawed by something.

But it doesn't matter, this Poria cocos is big enough, and as long as you cut it off a little, there are still a lot of usable parts.

"Xiao Hei, you are so good," Sakura Bao rubbed Xiao Hei's head and gave it a pill.

After picking Poria cocos, Erni called her over there: "Sakura Bao!" Let's go back! ”

During the time when Yingbao was looking for Poria Cocos, Erni and Chen Zhao had already picked up a basket full of pine towers, and there were many pine towers with full pine nuts.

"Here we go! Come on! Sakura put Poria in the back basket and took Xiao Hei to join Erni.

The three of them returned with a full load and walked back happily.

As soon as I walked near the village, I heard someone shouting, "Oh no! A child has fallen into the water! ”

The three of them were startled and rushed over together.

I saw two people on the other side of the pond, stomping their feet and shouting.

Sakura saw at a glance that there were two children fluttering in the pond, one of which seemed to be his younger brother Jiang Wu.

If you fall into the river in such a cold weather, you can't swim even if you can swim.

Erni and Chen Zhao also screamed: "Xiao Wu! "Xubao!"

Ying Bao quickly took off his cotton clothes and pants, jumped into the water, and swam towards Jiang Wu with all his might.

At this moment, a few more people came to the pond, and two people who knew how to water also took off their cotton clothes and jumped into the pond.

But the pond water was too cold, and the two couldn't support it without swimming far, so they had to return.

Sakura Bao's hands and feet were numb from the cold, but she still swam to Jiang Wu's side and grabbed him.