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Chapter 259 The official is late!
"Boom!"

Early in the morning, someone knocked on the door of Cui San's house on Zuoying Street.

Cui San was a battalion soldier. When he was attacking the Jinchuan bandits the year before last, he was shot in one of his legs, and he was sawed off without any rule of law.

So Cui San's life was really taken back from Lord Yan.

It stands to reason that the loss of a leg is a first-class injury, and the court should give Cui San 30 taels of first-class disability fees, and another three years of rice and grain money, and some soup and medicine expenses, that is, Cui Sanyin Disabled veterans can receive about 75 taels at a time.

Save this money, and it will be enough for a small family to last for a few years.

Be smarter, use the money to do some small business, or buy some land, and even support a family when life is difficult, but Cui San was given 25 taels of silver by his superiors when he went out to camp.

Two-thirds of the money was missing, and Cui San definitely refused to accept it, so he held up his crutches and asked his superiors where his disability money had gone, but no one answered him.

I got annoyed with the question, and was thrown out immediately.

If you ask again, a severe beating is inevitable.

It was Sentinel Wan Lin who secretly told him that his money should have been deducted by Mr. Cao above him, so Cui San should not look for anyone else, and it was useless to sue the heavens, because Mr. Cao came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even the governor has to let him go.

You made a fuss, Mr. Cao became upset, and no one knew when he sent someone to kill you.

In the end, Wan Lin gave Cui San the seven or eight taels of silver collected by his brothers, and asked him to set up a tinkering stall at the entrance of Zuoying Street, repairing iron pans, teapots, etc. for others to live.

Cui San's daughter-in-law is a peasant girl from Wanxian County, and the family married her to Cui San in the early years, in order to be able to eat imperial food with Cui San.

I never thought that my husband would end up in this situation.

The couple have three sons and two daughters, and there is a blind old woman on top of them. There are a total of eight mouths.

So Cui San's daughter-in-law was introduced by someone to wash clothes for the girls in the city who are full of flowers, and she can get a few dollars a month.

The girls are also kind-hearted, knowing that something happened to Sister Cui's husband, her family is poor, and she has many children. On weekdays, you will give me some money, or I will give you some old clothes, and some snacks to help.

That Huamanlou is a brothel, although Cui San's daughter-in-law is doing hard work and receiving hard money, it is inevitable that people will look down upon her.

Some mean-spirited women nearby secretly said that they were selling in a building, and the rumors spread to Cui San's ears. The man was also angry, wanting to save face, and beat his daughter-in-law when he closed the stall and returned home.

Afterwards, the couple hugged and cried, if not for those five mouths screaming at their parents, the couple would probably be able to crawl into the Jialing River tied together.

The days passed day by day, and Cui San got used to living with one leg.

When they heard someone knocking on the door outside, Cui San and his wife hadn't woken up yet, and their five children were also asleep. The blind old woman who lived next door didn't like to sleep very much in her old age, and she slept for two hours a day. Woke up early and was groping to cut fish.

Today is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and tomorrow is the night of the New Year’s Eve. No matter how tense the family life is, the New Year’s Eve must get some fish for the children, right?

The fish was bought by a neighbor and a fisherman in the river yesterday. Two herrings together weigh seven or eight catties.

The old lady was reluctant to ask to eat them all, thinking about cutting one to eat tomorrow night, and the other was salted and dried, and eaten slowly.

Hearing the knock on the door, the old lady fumbled to open the door.

The son over there shouted: "Which one? The stall is not out yet. If you are in a hurry, leave it at the door. Come and get it in the afternoon."

Cui San thought he was here to make up for himself, but the voice of Sentinel Wan Lin came from outside the door: "Old Cui, it's me, open the door!"

"Wantou? Go and open the door."

Cui San pushed his daughter-in-law, Lao Wan is a nice person, and he takes good care of him on weekdays.

It is said that in order to make Cui San's pot tinkering stall have business, Lao Wan went door-to-door to notify them, asking them to take care of Cui San as much as possible if their things were broken.

"It's Lord Wan,"

Cui San's daughter-in-law hurriedly got out of bed and dressed to open the door.

As a result, the crowd outside the door was taken aback.

Where is Wan Lin alone? There are dozens of people, all wearing official uniforms.Among them were the green battalion officers she had met, and some she hadn't.

The young man standing next to Wan Lin was dressed even more frighteningly. He was wearing a ruby ​​crown with two pheasant feathers on it, a big python robe with nine pythons and five claws, and a string of court beads hanging around his neck. a high official.

But what surprised Cui San's wife was not how big an official this young man was, but that this young man carried half a scoop of a big fat pig on his shoulders.

"Is it Cui San's wife?"

Jia Jia's forehead was not sure, so he asked Wan Lin, the sentry officer of the Green Camp nearby.

"My lord, she is Cui San's wife,"

Wan Lin turned sideways to signal the admiral to come in, and shouted in: "Cui San, get up, the admiral is here to see you!"

Lord Admiral?

Cui San, who was still getting dressed on the bed, was startled, so was his daughter-in-law who stood in a daze at the door, and so was the blind mother in the next room.

"Sister-in-law, it will be thirty tomorrow, and I will come to see you on behalf of the imperial court."

With a chuckle, Jia Liu carried half a ladle of fat pig on his shoulder into the house, and unloaded it on the table.

This half scoop of fat pig is heavy, seventy to eighty catties, Mr. Jia is so tired that he is out of breath.

He turned around and ordered his followers to bring everything in.

Two bags of fifty catties of rice, one barrel of rapeseed oil, one jar of salt, ten catties of brown sugar, two ten catties of large grass carp, and a mess of fruit snacks.

They were all urgently purchased by Green Camp in Chongqing Town last night, and it took a whole night for this.

There is no way, who told this to be an emergency military order from the admiral.

"Wantou, this is?"

Cui San, who came out of the back room, looked at the things on the Eight Immortals table in his house, and then saw a young senior official looking at him with a smile on his face, and was stunned.

Wan Lin looked happy: "Cui San, this is our admiral, and he came here specially to see you!"

"Tell me, Lord Admiral?!"

Cui San was startled, subconsciously threw down his crutches and was about to kowtow to the admiral, but just as the crutch fell to the ground, before he could squat down with difficulty, the admiral stepped forward to support him, and said affectionately: "Don't be too polite, you are A warrior of the country, I am not honored by a warrior!"

After speaking, he turned his head and drank: "Bring it!"

Immediately, an attendant handed a bag of silver to the admiral.

"Cui San, this is the money that the imperial court owes you. It includes the principal with interest. The admiral gave you a whole sum of one hundred taels. Keep it well so that you can live a better life in the future. If you have any difficulties, come to me."

Jia Liu said this while holding Cui San's hand tightly.

While speaking, his eyes fell on Cui San's empty right trouser leg, his expression was very sad, and he looked around the Cui family's barren house, feeling even more uncomfortable in his heart, and turned his head suddenly to look at the green camp officers in Chongqing Town at the door, angrily: " Is this how you treat soldiers who work for the imperial court? This is how you bastards do things for the imperial court!"

"My lord, I'll be convicted!"

All the officers of the Green Battalion knelt on the ground with a "plop", buried their heads low, and no one dared to speak.

Because last night, Deputy General Cao Guoke committed suicide in fear of crime.

"Cui San, I'm late, I'm late!"

Jia Jia's forehead was extremely distressed, and his red eyes were full of concern for the soldiers of the green battalion.

Yipin court clothes are full of lard.

(End of this chapter)