Chapter 14 A gentleman does not stand under a wall of danger
The roaring water of Minjiang River rushed into the mouth of Baoping crazily, and the boulders on both sides of the river seemed to be shaking.
In the autumn, the Minjiang River is full of water. The river water can't cover the water-dividing fish. The rapid water flow is split in half, half of it surges down, and the other half flows slowly into the Chengdu Plain.
Yun Zheng had been sitting at the mouth of the treasure bottle for a long time wearing a raincoat, looking intently at the flowing river, feeling the beauty of the changes in the world and the passing of time like flowing water.
If you look at the river water for a long time, you will feel dizzy. You can't tell whether it is your body that is sitting quietly running wildly, or the river water is surging down, and the high-jumping waves are crashing on the boulders, making a deafening roar.
It's like being in the midst of thousands of troops.
However, staying in such an environment in the drizzle can indeed make people feel calm, because compared with the controlled and angry water of the Minjiang River, personal anger is really nothing.
After sitting for a long time, the body will feel very cold. Even if you wear thick clothes in November, you will still feel cold if it gets wet from the rain.
After standing up, I found that my legs were a little numb. I staggered for two steps and wanted to call someone to come over for help. Then I remembered that I had just kicked everyone away. In the Dujiangyan camp, there was no need for others to call me.
Back protection.
Someone suddenly grabbed Yun Zheng's arm. He turned around and saw that it was a young girl. He couldn't see the girl's face clearly. He could only see her ears and half of her face that were frozen pink.
There were no earrings on the ears, only a colored thread passed through them. The girl's unique sweet scent immediately penetrated Yun Zheng's nostrils, so he did not intend to let the girl let go of him. He let her drag him forward.
When they came to the river bank, the girl seemed very angry, and a series of vicious words immediately spewed out from her red little mouth.
"Look, you are also a scholar. If you want to die, why don't you hang yourself from a crooked neck tree? Go to Baopingkou and go crazy. If you jump from here, your body will not be found. The most taboo of our military households is to die without death.
Quan Zhi, do you like to feed yourself to the fish?"
Yun Zheng scratched his head and said strangely: "I have no intention of jumping into the river..."
The girl looked at Yun Zheng with disdain and said, "Who would have nothing to do in the cold weather and go to Baopingkou to enjoy the scenery? If I hadn't held you back just now, you would have fallen into the river long ago."
Yun Zheng looked at the lead-gray sky, then looked at the mouth of the bottle filled with water vapor, and suddenly realized that what the little girl said made sense. In such weather, there really shouldn't be any elegant people who would look like frozen turtles to see
landscape.
Someone saved you out of kindness, so you should thank them no matter what, regardless of whether the rescue was necessary or not.
"Thank you, little lady, for saving my life. I am deeply grateful!"
The girl accepted Yun Zheng's gift with a big smile, raised her chin and said proudly: "Don't die if you can live. My general said that as long as you survive, there will always be a way. There is no threshold in the world that you can't pass. Only by living can you have a chance.
Slap those who look down on you."
Yun Zheng couldn't remember when he said these words. In addition, the military households in the old Jiaziying should know him, both women and children. Where did this girl come from? But this arrogance is very similar to the people in Jiaziying, other places.
The little lady doesn't have this kind of pride yet.
"What the young lady is saying is that I heard that the people living here are all military households in Jiazi Camp, but I didn't know that the young lady is the young lady of that family. Let me come and thank you."
Yun Zheng's words brought the little girl to tears. Just when he was at a loss, he heard the little girl choke and say: "My father died in the battle at Yanmen Pass, and my little brother and I are the only ones left at home. You don't have to come."
.It is serious to live a good life."
After saying that, he picked up the basket on the ground and ran away. Only then did Yun Zheng see a white flower in the little girl's black hair.
Yun Zheng lowered his head in despair. The little girl's father was ordered to die on the battlefield under his military orders...
He always thought that he was used to life and death, but now facing the families of soldiers who died in battle, he found that he still couldn't get over the guilt.
"Master, this girl is the eldest daughter of the He Liangtan family. We can't do anything to her." Hou Hou stood behind Yunzheng at some point and stretched his neck to look at the little girl who had run away with Yunzheng.
"He Liangtan? I remember that he died in the battle at Xiaohegou. The reward from his family should be quite large. Why do he still go to the riverside to dig for Huang Jing?"
The monkey said indifferently: "Save up the dowry. Military households have a bad habit of thinking that the daughter belongs to the family, so all the family property belongs to the boy. Unless the daughter is favored by the father, she can get a little dowry, and the rest is just
Being able to save a little bit by yourself, digging for Polygonatum in exchange for money is a common way for girls in the military camp to save dowries. The military doctors need Polygonatum to replenish the wounded soldiers, so the girls in the military camp will dig for medicinal materials to make money when they have free time.
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Yun Zheng nodded. He couldn't change the custom of favoring boys over girls. Thinking of what Monkey said just now, he kicked him hard. Then he returned to the military camp with his hands behind his back.
The Dujiangyan military camp is the camp of Yunzheng's soldiers. It is a private land allowed by the laws of the Song Dynasty. Of course, there are only three or five generals in the Song Dynasty who have this treatment. It is the same as the fiefdom of civil servants, who only retain the right to collect taxes.
Without the right to dispatch, this part of the tax is collected by the state and then transferred to the individual.
The title of Marquis Wenxin ensured that Yunzheng received three thousand tons of tax revenue every year, most of which came from Yingchao and Dujiangyan.
Yingchao has become a prosperous market town, and Pang Ji has even set up a county government there. The main purpose is to prevent Yun Zheng from covering the sky with one hand.
They don't care about Dujiangyan. For one thing, there are only a few people here. It's just a place where the family members of the soldiers live. If they are tortured too much, Yun Zheng will fight back. So the veterans of Jiazi Camp are the ones who have the final say here.
After returning to the army camp, Yun Zheng told Lu Qingqing what he had just experienced as a joke. Who knew that Lu Qingqing not only did not laugh, but got angry and asked Yun Zheng why he went to Baopingkou to have a convulsion in such bad weather?
There was nothing he could say anymore. Yun Zheng howled in anger and threw up his sleeves before going out. What's so strange about grown men having convulsions? They can even run naked on the street!
The monkey appeared behind Yun Zheng like a ghost and whispered: "I found out that the little girl is indeed the daughter of Lao He's family. His father died in the battle of Xiaohegou. All compensation from the army has been delivered.
, so it is true that we have enough food and clothing.
But this little girl has already been married to a scholar in Chengdu. She was originally planning to get married in October this year. Who knew that Lao He died in the battle, and she immediately regretted the marriage. Everyone said that the scholar was attracted by Lao He.
The He family has become rich, and they hope that after marrying his daughter, they will get a large dowry, and then they will have the money to go to Tokyo to participate in the competition and win the glory of Donghuamen roll call.
After Lao He died, all the family property belonged to her younger brother. When the scholar saw that there was no hope for money, he immediately regretted the marriage. The young lady was also a heroic lady. She did not want the dowry from her younger brother and spent all day digging for medicinal materials, so she decided to buy herself a dowry.
He also promised himself to a butcher in Chengdu on his own initiative! He will get married in ten days! He has no regard for his filial piety."
Yun Zheng sucked in the cold air as if he had a toothache, looked at the monkey and said: "Xiaoqi and other military families don't care at all. I can see that girl clearly. Although she is not very beautiful in appearance, Xiaojiabiyu is definitely
Sure, we have so many good men in the army, why does she have to marry a scholar? Now she wants to marry a butcher? "
The monkey shook his head stupidly, and he couldn't figure out why.
"What else could it be for, other than to stay together? The men in the army are all heroic and neat men, but these good men are often short-lived. I have been wandering around the village for two days.
, how can you not know what is going on in the military village? Go and count and see how many families in the military village are living with orphans and widowed mothers.
It is true that there is no shortage of food and clothing, but don’t you think a home without a man is still a home? If I were a little girl, I would rather marry a rogue man than a short-lived ghost!"
Lu Qingqing's voice came from behind the two of them. She had been eavesdropping for a long time. Yun Zheng said helplessly: "It's too late to regret it now. I already have two children. I want to marry a high-end person like a rogue man in my next life!"
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Lu Qingqing came over and took Yun Zheng's hand and said: "I have accepted my fate in this life. It is a general's responsibility to fight in battle. I also accept my fate, but don't put yourself in dangerous situations habitually."
Will it work?
You used to build the Dujiangyan Irrigation System. You know that the mouth of the bottle has collapsed several times over the years. Now that the water is flowing fast in the autumn, it makes you scared to sit there alone and think about it. You can't learn from Shi Zhongxin and others.
Study, watch the singing and dancing, listen to the music when you have nothing to do, and go to dangerous places like Baopingkou."
Yun Zheng looked into Lu Qingqing's eyes and said, "You mean I have too few wives and I need to have a hundred wives like that old pervert Shi Zhongxin to have sex with me every night?"
Lu Qingqing pinched her husband's waist and ribs hard. When the monkey saw this, he immediately ran away. The greatest skill of the mistress was not to show off her power to the young master, but to vent her anger on others.
Lu Qingqing dragged her back to the house and put on dry clothes. She lay on the rocking chair with a blanket on her legs. Lu Qingqing untied her hair and dried it with a dry cloth. It didn't take long for her to feel as warm as spring.
"That child is so stubborn that it makes people feel distressed. The military families in Jiaziying shouldn't be a fool. I plan to give that child a dream wedding so that people in Chengdu will want to marry my daughter from Jiaziying in the future.
You have to grab your head to do it.
What a good child, he should have a happy future. I want all the children in Jiazi Camp to know one thing. Fathers and brothers died in the battlefield, and those who are alive are their fathers and brothers!" (To be continued)