The picture starts from Purple Mountain and goes far away.

Flying past the mountains, the solemn and solemn meritorious officials, and the magnificent imperial tombs. It is frozen in the edge of the imperial tombs, an ordinary mountain village.

The winter sun is a little warm, and the villages under the sun are particularly peaceful.

The old people in groups of three or three leaned against the corner of the wall bathing in the sun, whispering and laughing. A few lazy fat cats were either sleeping with their bodies crouched at the feet of the elderly, or stretching their waists comfortably.

In the empty fields, there are still farmers working. After the New Year, they will be plowing in spring. The family mainly knows how to prepare for the future.

The children were running around in the village alleys, and a group of people chased a child holding a kite.

But these are all boys, and those girls are looking at them enviously while helping their mothers clean their clothes.

Suddenly, this tranquility and tranquility were broken by the slight sound of horse hooves.

A young and honest young man, who was like an officer, appeared at the entrance of the village on a horse, and kept looking at the village in confusion.

He was leaning against the tree branch and smiling with a few ladies, and was stunned when he was joking with shamelessness.

Then he shook his legs and ran over. The women who were washing clothes and the elderly who were basking in the sun stretched their necks and looked at them.

"This official, are you...?"

The young man immediately looked at Li Zheng, "This...This...This...This...Zhao..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the women watching the fun beside him muttered regretfully.

"What a good young man, why is he just a stutter!"

The young man from Li Zheng saw that he couldn't say it for a long time, and he smiled and said, "This is Zhaojiazhuang!"

"Oh...oh..." The young man nodded immediately, his face a little shy and embarrassed, "Then... Lee... Big..."

"Li Dawang's family?" The village came out and looked for someone. There was only one family in Zhaojiazhuang named Li. So, he pointed to the village and said, "The first one in the west!"

"Let's...thank you!" The young man bowed his hand immediately, then slowly rode his horse, and walked towards the depths of the village with countless puzzled eyes.

People watched him go away, and immediately started talking and talking.

"Hey, why is this good young man just stuttering?"

"Looking for Lao Li's family? It seems like the young man is dressed as an officer!"

"Are you a relative of his family?"

"Bah, if there were relatives from his family who were officials, they would not leave their hometowns and would join the army!"

"That's right. If there were any relatives of his family, how could all of them be killed in battle?"

As he said that, everyone was stunned.

A woman plucked up her courage and said, "Li Zheng, this time she went to the battle, Dawang of the Li family also went there. Could it be..."

"Sister-in-law, please don't say it, maybe this is the case!" Another woman next to him said, "Last time, Dalang of the Li family died in battle, and the head of the Li family died in battle. Didn't it all come from the officers to deliver letters? I heard that it is still a hundred households!"

"No!" An old woman, an old woman, spoke, "The young man who rode a horse just now, was still a stuttering, could he be an officer? Officials all depend on their appearance!"

"You don't understand this, old aunt!" Li Zheng smiled, "The officers of the Ming Dynasty are looking at military merits, not at anyone who looks bright! I think this young man is definitely an official, with iron armor under his clothes, and the official can't be small!"

"If he says he stutters, maybe someone chops his tongue off on the battlefield, haha!"

Hearing what he said, a woman next to him smiled and said, "Li Zheng, why don't you join the army? Isn't it that if you change your half tongue to a certain official body? If you don't have half of your tongue, our farm can be pure and purified!"

"Haha!" Li Zheng smiled, "It would be fine if he chopped on his tongue, but if he chopped half of the bottom, you are going to cry to death, sister-in-law!"

"I'll tear your mouth apart!" The woman laughed and cried, and there was also a burst of laughter around her.

"Shut up!" An old man basking in the sun angrily scolded everyone, staring at the joking people, "A little virtue is accumulated on your mouth!"

~~~

The war horses slowly moved forward in the village, and as they were about to penetrate the village, a yard appeared in front of them.

This yard is not like other houses in the village, each next to each other, but is slightly distanced from other houses, making it seem a little distant.

The young man came down on the war horse, and for some reason he looked at the gate of the yard, with a little fear and deep hesitation in his eyes.

"Huh! Huh!"

After a while, he gritted his teeth, exhaled two breaths, took off the bag from the saddle, and placed it on his shoulder.

"Mom, mom, uncle is back for a while! It's going to be the New Year!"

Before the young man opened the door, he heard the sound of a child talking from inside.

Looking through the crack of the door, a young boy sat on the threshold with his chin on his hands, looking at the sky with his eyes wide open.

"I'll come back when it's time to come back!" A very nice voice came from the room.

Immediately afterwards, a woman with a wooden hairpin with a figure that was obviously taller than a woman in Jiangnan and a wider military officer came out of the house with a wooden basin.

"Come on, help me wash my clothes!" The woman's hands were very red, probably the water was very cold.

The mother and son surrounded the wooden basin and began to wash clothes.

"Mom, why do you need to wash clothes during the Chinese New Year?" asked the boy.

"The New Year is the New Year, the New Year is the new atmosphere. Whether it is poor or rich, you must have a new look!" The woman said with a smile, "According to the rules of our hometown, Shandong, you must wear new clothes during the New Year. If there is no new clothes, just put on clean clothes, sit together and eat dumplings together!"

The boy was listening with great enthusiasm, but when he heard this, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, "Mom, only uncle is left in our family, I, you!"

As he said that, he lowered his head and tears fell into the basin of washing clothes. "If uncle can't come back, you and me will be left! I heard from the people at the entrance of the village that a lot of silver died in this war!"

"Nonsense!" The woman became angry, "Hurry up, spit a few times, those who are in the New Year will say these unlucky ones!"

Outside the door, the young man who was listening silently burst into tears in an instant, his teeth clenched his lips, and blood was flowing out.

"Mom!" At the door of the room, the boy was already choking and almost cried, "I'm afraid! My grandfather was gone two years ago, my father was gone two years ago, and my uncle went to war this year, I'm afraid!"

The woman's hands were stiff when washing clothes, and she stared at her son blankly.

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Outside, on the other road, a figure in Zhaojiazhuang appeared. He nodded and bowed to guide the direction of the Li family's yard.

When the young man outside the yard heard the steps, he wiped his tears and turned around. He happened to see several officers walking over with a wooden frame, carrying a despair.

Suddenly, the young man understood.

He looked at the yard in panic, then hurriedly looked at the officers, and then strode forward to meet them.

"Stop!" he growled.

Several officers were blocked from their way and were about to get angry, but when they saw the young man's clothes and the iron armor exposed in his sleeves, they changed their faces, "Who are you?"

"You...you..." The young man's face turned red and he couldn't speak.

"They came to report the demise. The Li family Dawang died in battle, and the officials brought the pension. Tsk, there are quite a lot!" Li was smiling at the side.

Bang, a mouth flew over.

Li Zheng's mind buzzed and his body fell down. At the same time, he saw the blood spurted out of his mouth and nose, as well as a tooth.

Immediately afterwards, he was shocked and almost pissed his pants.

A short knife was directly pressed against his Adam's apple, and the stuttering young man's face was a ferocious look that he had never seen before.

"You...get out!" the young man growled.

"Put down the knife, you can say something!" The officer was also startled.

The young man ignored them, took out a waist sign from his waist, and threw it over.

The "Li Mansion" officer looked suspiciously at the back of the waist card, then looked at the front and immediately took a breath of air conditioning.

"Duke Cao!"

Then the low-key card was as hot as it was, so I quickly returned the low-key card.

The young man in front of him was actually from Duke Cao's mansion. He couldn't afford to offend him. Now the commander who had just won the triumphant victory was just Duke Cao. Who dares to offend him? The young man in front of him was stuttering, but he was full of murderous aura. He might have followed Duke Cao from the border.

If you don’t do it well, maybe there are so many Tartars on their bodies, with evil spirits!

"Get out!" the young man said coldly.

"This..." the officers were puzzled, "a small responsibility..."

"Get out!" The young man measured the knife in his hand and punched and kicked several policemen.

"Hey, if you have something to say, let's go!" Several officers ran away with their heads in their arms, but the young man was still not satisfied and asked them to carry the things they were carrying and get out of here.

~~~

"Who is outside?" The woman in the yard opened the door in confusion when she heard the noise outside.

In an instant, the stuttering young man put away his knife and stood up.

"Are you..." The woman showed half of her face behind the door and asked in confusion.

"I...I..." The young man spoke as if he had bit his tongue, "I... Dawang's... came to my house..."

When it clang, it seemed that some sound fell to the ground.

The woman's body instantly leaned against the gate and the room fell.
To be continued...