sbdcsierra Chapter 138
Chapter 138
Liangzhou borders the southern border of Suguo and has been a strategic place to fight foreign enemies since ancient times.
Because Xiaohezhuang is located in Liangzhou, nine of the ten families are military families.
The so-called military household, that is, the male members of the family for generations have been pawns.
Grandpa resists the enemy, daddy resists the enemy, sons, grandchildren, grandchildren, stretches endlessly.
At the end of the village, Zhang Qingrong took the white porcelain bowl and drank a bowl of corn porridge full of clear soup and water.
Then I scooped two sweet potatoes into the empty bowl, took small bites, and chewed slowly.
Swallow with sweet potato skin.
The man finally picked up the only piece of pickle pimple in the porcelain dish and put it in his mouth like a treasure to savor the taste.
The wife and eldest daughter could only watch.
Men are not stingy and are reluctant to cut off two small pieces for their wives and daughters to taste.
But after eating, he had to work in the fields all day.
The family can’t eat half a little bit of meat all year round, pickle pimples, to be exact, the salt inside, hanging the man’s breath.
The stomach can growl, but salt is indispensable.
Otherwise, Mo said hoeing, the body is soft and even the hoe cannot be carried, and it will even endanger your life.
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Before the sunrise rose, Zhang Qingrong came to his home.
The Zhang family had a total of 13 acres of land, all of which was dry land, worked hard for a year, paid grain taxes, and in the end barely survived.
Zhang Qingrong picked up the hoe and worked hard to reclaim.
Only soft land can produce good crops.
One hoe, one hoe, another hoe.
The man soon sweated.
After a whole winter, half a cold spring, the land has long been as hard as the village Mo, and it is extremely laborious to hoe.
Mo said that cattle, several generations of the Zhang family, could not even afford a mule, for generations, people are inferior to animals.
From the sunrise to the sunrise hoe to the sunrise.
Zhang Qingrong was already hungry and tired.
The man only drank a few bowls of water to fill his stomach, took a short rest, and continued to pick up the hoe.
Soon he was sweating profusely again.
Beads of hot sweat streaked across the rough face of the ash, falling to the ground in pieces.
Until sunset.
Zhang Qingrong dragged his exhausted body towards home.
The sunset is extremely beautiful, like a large area of burning blood.
However, the man had no intention of appreciating, and there was only the numbness of the walking dead on his face.
Suddenly.
The sound of horses’ hooves is rushing.
In the billowing yellow smoke, a man and a horse galloped from the other end of the road.
Passing by Little River Village, throw down a roll of paperwork.
He shouted loudly: “Thirty-nine households in Xiaohezhuang, a total of thirty-nine pawns.
“The imperial court has an order that all soldiers and soldiers should set out immediately, and before the first day of the first month of May, they must arrive at Dragon City.
“Those who miss the deadline, immediately do not pardon!” The
yellow smoke dissipated here, and the yellow smoke rose again.
Zhang Qingrong bent down to pick up the county paperwork, and the sorrow in his eyes was so thick that it almost flowed out.
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The Wei state divided the people of Dawn into three families.
Civilian, military, craftsmanship.
It is also subdivided into private households, tenant households, tea households, horse households, mining households, craftsman households, weaver households, and ship households.
Merchants, business households, shop households, salt households, military households, a total of 14 occupational households.
Households cultivate the land and farm it for generations.
Tenants also farmed land, but they had no land of their own, and could only become slaves of the Shi clan.
Horse households are horses, and horses have been raised for generations.
Miners mine all kinds of ore and mine it for generations.
The temple divided the people into three, six and nine classes to maintain a weak rule.
Night falls.
The lights are like beans.
Zhang Qingrong sat on the threshold, holding his head in his hands, silent.
The two daughters are asleep, and the wife is holding needles and thread to mend torn clothes.
“This trip to Dragon City, thousands of miles, how can you do it~”
Zhang Qingrong frowned.
“It’s too much to make people feel bad, but they are not even willing to pay for the journey.
The wife said angrily.
“Alas, this has been true throughout the ages.
Zhang Qingrong sighed.
“Daddy, go to the county and beg your centurion to let him advance a little money for entanglement. The
man said sarcastically: “There has always been only the imperial court to advance the people, how can there be people to advance the imperial court~
” “Then what to do? Without travel expenses, can’t you starve to death halfway?” “Even if you don’t starve to death
, sleeping in the wilderness, you will be eaten by jackals, tigers and leopards.”
Gritting his teeth, the man got up.
Turn over the title deed and walk out of the courtyard.
With the help of Yuehua, he walked straight in the direction of Tongqiu Town.
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Over the mountains overnight.
When the rising sun rose in the east, Zhang Qingrong finally came to Tongqiu Town.
The man was familiar with the road and came to the western boundary of the town, in front of a luxurious mansion.
The master of the mansion is called Xiao Chengjing, who is the ruler of Dragon City and one of the eight hundred guards under the King of Zhenbei.
Zhang Qingrong looked stunned, only because there was already a dragon lined up in front of the mansion.
Without exception, all of them were Dragon City pawns.
Zhang Qingrong clutched the title deed tightly and waited patiently.
It wasn’t until the blazing sun hung high in the heart of the sky that the man saw Xiao Chengjing.
Xiaofu Guest Hall.
Xiao Chengjing, who was dressed gorgeously, tasted fragrant tea indifferently.
Zhang Qingrong groveled and presented the title deed with both hands.
“Master Xiao, do you remember me, humble Zhang Qingrong, I have invited you to eat~” Xiao
Chengjing did not say a word.
Zhang Qingrong only felt that his cheeks were hot.
“Master Xiao, this is my Zhang family land deed, I want to temporarily store you here, and exchange a few taels for a road entanglement.
“Lord Xiao, rest assured, when the imperial court pays you money, the humble position will definitely return you double.
Xiao Chengjing said without saltiness: “Brother Zhang, you should go to the pawn shop, not me.”
Zhang Qingrong opened his mouth, wanting to say that the pawnshop couldn’t look at the few acres of dry land in his house.
“Master Xiao, your integrity is far from comparable to that of a pawnshop. ”
Haha.
Xiao Chengjing laughed wantonly.
“Brother Zhang, the land under my name is more than a thousand acres.
Zhang Qingrong’s expression darkened.
Xiao Chengjing squinted slightly, and his words changed: “Brother Zhang, walking out of my Xiao Mansion is not close to outsiders.
“A nine-rank martial arts attendant in my family, a child under his knees is seven years old.
“The child’s father recently had the intention to find a child bride for the child. ”
I heard that your eldest daughter gave birth to quite a water spirit…” Xiao
Chengjing did not finish speaking, but Zhang Qingrong already knew it.
The surname Xiao opened a green building in the county.
Child brides are fake, and prostitutes who sell flesh and skin are real.
“Brother Zhang, if you think about it, there are still many people waiting behind.”
Zhang Qingrong clutched the title deed, his teeth biting his lip and bleeding.
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Sunset.
Zhang Qingrong took an ox cart back to Xiaohezhuang.
In the distance, the daughter with two twisted braids ran happily with a pair of small feet.
“Daddy, you’re back, my mother is preparing dinner, we will be able to eat soon.”
“Daddy, today’s water was brought back in small buckets and buckets. ”
Da Hei was also well fed by the chimney.
“Daddy, I wanted to go to the ground, but my mother wouldn’t let me.”
Zhang Qingrong suddenly squatted down.
Stretching out his trembling palm, he rubbed his daughter’s little head, and pinched his face without half flesh.
“Dad, why are you crying, did it make you angry?”
the man couldn’t stop the tears that slipped from his eyes.
Gradually, the tears blurred the vision.
The man could no longer see his daughter’s little face.
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Fourteen years of Voling, March 19.
An attendant of the Xiao family took the girl.
On the horse, the little girl waved her little hand at the man hoeing in the ground.
“Daddy, let’s go. ”
Let’s go to someone else’s house as a child bride.” ”
The girl was so happy.
I never thought I was worth that much money.
“Daddy, come and see him often.”
“With my mother and sister.” ”
In the ground.
The man kept wielding his hoe.
Never dare to look up.
The two strings were crystal clear and fell straight into the loess.
The girl disappeared the day after the bright spring light.
The man of the Zhang family sold his girl’s broken silver, bid farewell to his wife and daughter, and went north to Dragon City.
Since then, I have never seen the smiling face of my eldest daughter.
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PS: Let’s generate electricity with love.