Chapter 16: Returning Home (1)
He Xuan found that after his spiritual power reached 2.55, his thinking seemed to be stronger.
In my body, there seems to be another soul, no, it should not be said that it is a soul, but that it should be said ...... Remnant Soul.
With the immersion of consciousness, I gradually understood the meaning of this remnant soul.
The remnant soul itself is the remnant soul of the original owner of this body.
He was bullied by Liang Tong a lot, and he suffered a cold again.
He now has only one wish, hoping that He Xuan can take care of his family.
In this way, he can be reduced to ashes.
Otherwise, it will haunt He Xuan's soul.
"Since I have borrowed your body, let me fulfill the wish of your remnant soul. He Xuan muttered and called Zhang Heizi out: "Heizi, I'm going to go out next." During this time, you manage the training of recruits and the expansion of the city walls. ”
Zhang Heizi nodded again and again when he heard this: "Yes." Chief, where are you going? Do you want to send someone with you?"
He wanted to say that it was safer, but thinking about the skills of the leader, where did he need someone to follow.
He Xuan arrived at Shi Wei, rode a horse, and set off with some dry food.
The hometown of this body, which belongs to the mountains and the eastern province, is not too far from Xuanzhen Mansion.
Seven days later.
He Xuan came here, Shan, Eastern Province, Qingzhou Mansion, subordinate Wuxian, Heiniu Town, and Zhuqiao Village.
Is this an ancient village?
Some of the mud houses are sparsely arranged.
Only in the middle of the village can there be a continuous house of blue brick houses, which should be made by the landlord of the village.
He Xuan took the memory in his mind and walked to the east corner of the village, in front of a half-green brick and half-mud house, there were three rooms in total, with a half-low kitchen.
Here, this is the He family.
The He family now has a total of five people.
He Ming, the father, is an honest man in his forties, with a brute spirit, and he is a good hand at farm work.
He Mu Wang is a gentle and well-run woman, good at sewing clothes, and often goes to the town to make clothes for the women of those landlords' families to make some money.
He Jin, the eldest brother of the He family, is a man in his early twenties, who is as honest as He Ming, his father, the same honest friends, and also has a brute spirit, and he is also a good hand at farm work. But like He Ming, except for farm work, it is a real fart. Since I was a child, I have lived in the countryside, I don't know how to read, and the farthest place I have been to is the people in the town, and I can't have much knowledge.
The second child of the He family is He Xuan.
The third child of the He family is called He Qi. It's a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, and it is estimated that the family will start to discuss marriage. He Qi is actually a very good little girl. At a young age, I did work such as cutting pigweed. And with He Mu Wang's learning needlework, the level is quite high, sometimes Wang took some sewing, do clothes work, the little girl can also substitute it.
A family that farms for a living.
The family has a total of three acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry land.
Don't think that eight acres of land is a lot, this year is not the era of Yuan Longping and no hybrid rice, one acre of good paddy field, one acre of land can produce 400 catties of rice, and one acre of dry land can produce 200 catties of rice. It is equivalent to these five acres of paddy fields and ten acres of dry land, which can produce a total of more than 2,000 catties of grain in a year.
Although this grain is his own, he still has to pay taxes this year. The tax system of the Ming Dynasty was set by Zhu Yuanzhang at the time of the founding of the country, which was fifteen taxes and one one.
But actually, haha, the weather is so nice.
This is already the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government is extremely corrupt, and the governments of various places have long derived all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, basically, the more than 2,000 catties of grain, there are seven or eight hundred catties of grain to be handed over.
And the rest is more than 1,000 catties of grain.
The four members of the He family all live on this more than 1,000 catties of food, and they are extremely poor. Occasionally, I would exchange food for cloth and tear a piece of clothing. As for cutting meat, there is basically no need to think about it. There is also a meal of meat to eat during the New Year.
If you really slander, go hunting in the mountains yourself.
The life of the He family is tight.
The year before last was a catastrophe year, and the He family was about to be unable to survive, and He Ming had to sell his land to live.
And the original owner of this body, He Xuan, was a filial person, he asked He Ming not to sell his land, to become a soldier, and to send back all the money he paid as a soldier.
......
He Xuan's heart flashed with a thousand thoughts.
At this time, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, with a baby face and shabby clothes, came out of the house and went to the kitchen. Then, surprise flashed in her eyes: "Second brother, you're back, hurry, come in." Second brother, you have been a soldier these days, but you have worked hard. ”
"Wait, isn't it normal to be a soldier or something, can't you come back as a soldier? Why did you come back? You won't be a deserter. ”
"Second brother, you must not be a deserter. ”
He Xuan couldn't help but feel a little helpless, but a trace of closeness flashed in his heart, this is the intimacy of the original owner's soul, and his hand was put on He Qi's hair: "What do you think about this little head." How can you be a deserter? ”
"By the way, what about the rest of the family?"
"Dad and brother, go to chop wood. ”
"Mom went to the town to make new clothes for Chen's family. ”
"That's right. He Xuan nodded, casually walked a chair with four feet and three feet with traces of repair, sat down, and lazily basked in the sun.
Not long after he sat down, He Qi was holding a bowl of sweet potato rice with a piece of bacon on it: "Second brother, eat quickly." This bacon is a good thing, a few months ago, when my father went up the mountain, he hit a nest of rabbits, used the old and expensive salt, and marinated the meat and made it into bacon. I only eat a piece once in a while. You are a soldier at the border gate, so you rarely eat. ”
As He Qi spoke, he accidentally swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
This bacon is old and precious, and He Qi has never eaten it himself.
He Xuan also saw He Qi's eyes, and suddenly understood why the original owner remembered this home.
No matter what the others are, but at least, this little sister is really good to the original owner.
For the sake of the original owner, how can I take care of this little sister.
He Xuan unceremoniously ate all the sweet potato rice and bacon, not to mention, he was hungry after walking all the way, and it tasted quite good when he ate it.
"Brother, are you a soldier at the border, isn't it hard?" The others didn't come back, so He Qi chatted with He Xuan while doing needlework.
"Anyway, it's okay. After all, your brother and I went to the border and didn't serve as soldiers for too long, so we became officials. Brother, I am now the chief banner, the seven-rank official, as big as the county master. ”
"Brother, you are really bragging, and you are as big as the county magistrate. He Qi cooed, obviously not believing it, the corners of her eyes were round: "Second brother, you are also old, when will you marry a daughter-in-law." ”
"You girl, you are really lenient, you actually took care of your second brother and when I married my daughter-in-law. He Xuan couldn't help complaining.