"Dad, please touch and see. There is indeed Xin'er in front of you. His face has been blown black by the wind and sand, but he has actually grown stronger and taller!"
Xu Wujun grabbed his father Xu Zhongyu's skinny old bark hand and touched Xu Xin's face.
Xu Zhongyu has suffered from eye disease in the past two years. He can only feel weak light and can no longer see objects clearly.
Xu Xin sent several letters back, and Xu Wujun read them to him. However, Xu Zhongyu didn't believe it, thinking that his family had made up lies to comfort him, and believed that his eldest grandson had long since died in the banditry.
At this moment, Xu Zhongyu's old and skinny hand touched the face of his eldest grandson Xu Xin, and shouted tremblingly: "Yes, yes, you can't fake the scar on the eyebrow arch, but it is because Xin's grandson was naughty when he was eight years old.
I was so distressed that I couldn't sleep well for several nights..."
In the late period of the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion, he was plotted by Xu Wufu and fell into the hands of the bandits. He was even exiled to Lanzhou, and then went through two northern expeditions against Yanxuxin. In just two or three years, his experience was greater than that of most people in the world.
It was a tortuous and difficult journey, which also allowed him to grow from the domineering young man back then to a qualified young general.
"Master Qi, has your family already arranged for Xu Xin to have a wife and are just waiting for Xu Xin to return to his hometown to get married?" Zheng Tu came over and said to Xu Zhongyu, "Xu Xin can still take a few days off now.
Should we seize the time and get married? In Shuozhou, I helped Xu Xin find a Hu Ji warm quilt, but this guy didn't learn anything, but he learned about "the Huns are not destroyed, how can the family be maintained", and the big breasts
, a girl with a big ass and a pretty face, Guo Junfan was ruined..."
"Recruiting, training, everything is so busy, where can I go?" Xu Xin shouted.
"It's so busy with so many things, but you are missing?!" Zheng Tu said, "This is also the order of the military lord. While there are still a few days of free time at this time, all those who have reached the age of cubs, as long as they have free time, will do it."
I rushed home to get married, and you were among them."
"Is it too hasty?" Xu Wujun was also slightly startled, and asked hesitantly, "Xin'er was in the army before, and he only had a few letters back, talking about a wife with a wife, but he didn't have the three letters and the six etiquettes.
Let’s go.”
"The captive soldiers are all coming to kill, and the battles will be fought one after another. Xu Xin will lead the troops in the front and fight. How can he have the time to go through the three books and six etiquettes?" Zheng Tu said.
"The girl's family may not be happy with the rush," Xu Wujun said.
"Which girl is Xu Xin from? If you have any difficulties, find someone to talk to. Just tell the girl's family that Xu Xin is now the deputy commander. If he is rewarded with meritorious service, he might be a military prince tomorrow.
At that time, his family will have to consider whether they are worthy of Xu Xin, but don't blame them for breaking the engagement and leaving them with no place to cry." Zheng Tu said, "If you are not happy with life and death, why don't you do it for Xu Xin?
Xin has fallen in love with a girl from another family and asked for a matchmaker! If one family is not good enough, then he can’t switch to another family, and he has to hang himself from a tree? "
Two expeditions to the north against Yan finally gathered more than 4,000 soldiers from Tongbai Mountain, most of whom were bachelors.
This is not surprising either.
During the war, how many of the bandit troops who fled to Lanxin and other places would have taken the risk and become bandits if there were women and children guarding the kang?
Even for those old bandits, only the big and small bosses have the conditions to get married in the cottage, but they still live a precarious life; only Pan Chenghu, Guo Junpan and other bandit chiefs have the ability to "cunning rabbits in three caves" and provide marriage services outside the cottage.
To arrange their own retreat, of course, they also need to have their own motives and calculations.
In the training of Tongbai Mountain soldiers in Shuozhou, Xu Huai basically incorporated the old bandits with a slippery temperament into the work camp, and recruited the new bandits who joined the bandit due to anger or threats during the bandit rebellion, and were still passionate and brave in combat.
The main force in marching operations is organized into regular soldiers.
As for the old soldiers who were incorporated into the labor camps, they were basically married to Hu women who had no livelihood after their families were massacred in Shuozhou.
If we don't do this, even if more than 4,000 Hu women and children move to the Tongbai Mountains, most of them will have no livelihood to rely on, not to mention the mountains of Huaiyuan and the lack of fields. Even in the plains, Zhufengtang has no livelihood.
We don’t have much land under our control, and it’s not enough to reward meritorious generals, so how can we allocate them to Hu women and children?
The only solution to the survival of these Hu women and children is to marry them to the old soldiers and let them live together. This can also solve the problem of naturalization of the Hu women and children, and make these slippery old soldiers feel at ease even if they return to Tongbai Mountain.
, can also become the human resources they can mobilize, instead of returning to the Central Plains and escaping from the army every now and then.
Guo Junpan and others married young Hu women and girls in Shuozhou, and Xu Huai also encouraged them.
The bandits in Tongbai Mountain lost nearly 20,000 young men in Huaiyuan, and the ratio of young men to women has become seriously imbalanced. It is not known how many years the war will last, which will inevitably greatly increase the consumption of men.
Whether it was about human reproduction or considering that in troubled times, it was difficult for women and children in the family to survive without the support of men. When he returned to Tongbai Mountain, Xu Huai had no intention of stopping everyone from taking more wives and concubines.
Zheng Tu also took a widow of a Hu official with a big breast as his concubine in Shuozhou, and arranged to send her back to Tongbai Mountain two months earlier.
Although his house was right next to the new inspection department office, two or three hours had passed since he entered the city, and he didn't have the guts to go back and take a look at his house.
He was afraid that his mother-in-law had already sold the pretty Hu Ji to some brothel, and she was waiting for him in the yard with a kitchen knife.
At this time, most of the Tongbai Mountain soldiers who were enlisted as regular soldiers were not yet married.
No matter how busy everything was, it was possible for these generals who had fallen into disgrace due to coercion or passion to return home, exchange their military exploits for fields and houses, and get married to ease their minds. It was also Xu Huai's friendship after returning to Tongbai Mountain.
Give Zheng Tu and the others something to push for as soon as possible.
Xu Zhongyu and Xu Wujun didn't know how serious the situation was, but they also knew that dangers were inevitable in the army. At this time, they couldn't take off Xu Xin's armor. Of course, they also hoped that he would get married and start a career early.
, even if there are any shortcomings, leaving heirs can be regarded as continuing the family lineage of his family.
It's just that the three books and nine rites of ancient rituals are indispensable for marriage. Now, despite Zheng Tu's words, Xu Zhongyu and Xu Wujun, father and son, still hesitate.
But at this moment, Xu Huai, Wang Ju, Xu Wujiang, and Mr. Su walked over to the side courtyard here. Xu Zhongyu couldn't see anything, but Xu Wujun walked over to greet the marquis, and said in a calm voice: "Xu Xin booked a door in his early years.
Regarding the marriage, I have already reached the age where I should get married. I finally waited for him to come back, but I always felt that it was too hasty to go to the girl's house to talk about it rashly..."
"There is nothing hurried. Xu Xin is in the army and leads troops in battles all year round. He is not free, so how can he care so much?" Xu Huai said, "Master Zheng is not here. If the girl's family is not happy,
You ask Zheng Tu to bring some armored soldiers to snatch the girl and escort her into the bridal chamber!"
"How can this happen? How can this happen? Let's first ask a matchmaker to go to the girl's house to discuss the marriage; if it doesn't work, then we'll ask Mr. Zheng to come forward and talk about it!" Xu Wujun was really afraid that Xu Huai would send people to rob homes and make a big fuss in Tongbai Mountain.
The joke is here, I'm so busy, please calm down Xu Huai.
Xu Huai frowned and pondered for a while, then said to Zheng Tu: "Put down other things first, and go and do this yourself..."
Although Tongbai Mountain was poor, the rules were strict. Xu Huai wanted to simplify the marriage ceremony of military lieutenants. He had to have a descendant of the Xu clan take the lead in order to be convincing, so he asked Zheng Tu to put aside other things and make a special trip to the Tongbai Mountain.
This is done.
"Okay!" Zheng Tu agreed, grabbed Xu Wujun and walked out.
However, before he stepped out of the side courtyard and just poked his head out, a fat hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed his thin ear, and then he heard a thunderous roar next to his ear:
"You're a pig-killer who's been stabbed a thousand times. You don't even think about what kind of shabby settlement you were back then. If my father helped me, you would have starved to death on the street. You coward, you used to stare at the girl in Yuehonglou and drooled. But in the end, you didn't
No matter what you do, you still know how to restrain yourself. Now that you have become more ambitious, you actually brought back a cheap and cheap fox. I am so angry at you! I will not castrate you today and cut off your thoughts.
I wonder what ‘Zheng’ wanted to write?”
"..." Zheng Tu's ears were pulled, and he screamed and struggled away. He was about to escape into the yard, but his mother-in-law's thick body suddenly rushed in, grabbed Zheng Tu's legs with both hands, and threw him into a dog's excrement.
, then he sat down on Zheng Tu’s chest, slapped him with two big-eared scrapers, and cursed:
"You coward, do you still dare to take advantage of sex and make me angry?"
"Auntie, Mr. Zheng also feels pity for my mother and daughter who are so lonely..." A woman with a thin skirt covered with patches, her hands and face red from the cold, ran in, grabbed Mrs. Zheng and begged.
"You are a bastard, and you still have my mother to help this old batch. I will sell it to a brothel today and let the grandfather of Quan Huaiyuan taste your coquettishness!" Mother Zheng slapped the Hu woman in the face.
He greeted me with his face.
The women of the Fan ethnic group herd horses and cut grass, and they were engaged in more strenuous physical labor than the women in Jianghuai, and most of them were stout. However, Zheng Tu picked up a delicate widow of a Hu official in Shuozhou, and gave Dr. Zheng Tu a slap in the face.
, he sat down on the ground in a daze.
"Take down this shrew," Xu Huai captured Zheng Tu Granny from left and right, and asked sternly, "Trespassing to a strategic military location and beating an official of the imperial court. Do you know what crime you are committing?"
"Kill me if you dare, otherwise I won't let this bastard get angry and kill me!" Madam Zheng Tu got angry and shouted.
"Take this shrew to prison, and when there are 100 prisoners, take him to Dongshi and behead him. Damn it, I haven't returned to Huaiyuan for two years, and you don't take me seriously anymore. Have you forgotten that I was there?"
Why are there so many people killing people in Huaiyuan? You have to collect a hundred heads and chop them off before you can become famous?"
Xu Huai had people take Zheng Tu's mother-in-law to prison. Seeing that Zheng Tu wanted to save his mother-in-law, he glared at her and scolded her,
"Don't plead for this shrew. I see that you have been despised by this shrew for many years. Killing her will just relieve your hatred. No one will stop you from marrying more beauties in the future! You go and help Xu Xin now."
To talk about marriage, tell the girl's family that I, Xu Huai, said that we must get married and go to the bridal chamber within three days, or else we will be arrested and thrown into prison together to collect these one hundred heads!"
