Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 14 Silly Brother

It happened to be noon when Luo Feng returned to Nanshan Village.Almost all the people in the village who were working in the fields came back. When they saw Luo Feng and the others coming back, they all came to say hello.

Especially the family members of Luo Feng and the others were overjoyed.

Nowadays, the imperial court and the government recruit civilian husbands to serve, and there is often no time limit.Originally, according to the system of the imperial court, the common people had to pay rent and transfer after the land was equalized, and serve the mediocrity. This mediocrity meant that each adult had to serve 20 days of free labor to the imperial court a year, and if the service was less than 20 days, he would be replaced by silk cloth.

But now the actual situation is that there are constant school service. Not only adults are often recruited, but even middle-aged men who have just turned sixteen have to be called to serve, and once they go, they don't know when they will return.In Nanshan Village, many villagers have been conscripted away, and those who have been away from home for the longest have not even returned for a year.

Nanshan Village is located at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and there are more than [-] households in the whole village. According to the rural organization of the Sui Dynasty, four households are neighbors, five households are Baobao, one hundred households are Li, and five hundred households are townships.

Nanshan Village is Nanshanli, which belongs to Changbai Township, Zhangqiu County. Nanshan Village and the two nearby villages are combined into Nanshanli. The township system is the core of the current rural grassroots in the Sui Dynasty. .

The village is similar to the village committee in the villages of later generations. In the middle ages when the imperial power did not come down to the county, the head of the village was very important to the management of the village.

Nanshan Village is very poor, about sixty households are divided into three surnames, the Luo, Guo and Li three surnames, the Luo surname accounts for about half of the thirty households, and the Guo and Li two surnames only have about ten families each.The village has only a simple low village wall, surrounded by a canal outside the village wall. The green mountains and green waters are also a good environment, but unfortunately every family is poor, and the houses are low and dilapidated, almost all thatched houses.

Xiaoliu ran home carrying the burden, and after a while, he brought his mother Luo Qinshi, sister-in-law and sisters out to greet him, and even his third uncle and their family members were called over by him.

Luo's mother is a thin woman, wearing a silk hairpin dress, with half white hair and wrinkled face, she looks like a 60-year-old old lady, but Luo Feng knows that Luo Qin's family is actually just over [-] this year.

She married into the Luo family when she was 15 years old. She has been working in this family for 25 years. During this period, she gave birth to nine sons and seven daughters. Everything in the family is amazing.

Too many births and heavy labor made this hardworking woman age early, her waist was bent, she was also very thin, her face was pale, as if a gust of wind could blow her away.

"Xiao Wu is back?"

The woman stepped forward happily, holding her son and looking left and right, for fear that something was missing somewhere.The government conscripted, and it took two months to go, Luo Qinshi was not less worried.

"Mom, I'm fine. I dug a river in Zhuojun for two months, and then I came back. There was a good thing on the way. We met blue-faced ghosts in Changbai Mountain, and then captured them. The county magistrate rewarded us a lot. ·······"

The name of the blue-faced ghost is well-known even in Nanshan Village. During this time, their notoriety has spread everywhere. Luo Mu's face turned pale with fright, "Why did you meet them? Didn't you get hurt?"

"Don't worry, mother, we are all fine. By the way, fortunately, I met Licheng's second cousin at that time. Mother, this is the second cousin of Licheng Tang's uncle's family. Now he is serving as a soldier in the Youyiwei Army Mansion. General Yiwei Laishuai's soldiers came home from Dengzhou to visit relatives this time, and happened to encounter the blue-faced ghost robbing Dao, so he drew his sword to save him, and captured the eighteen blue-faced ghosts in one fell swoop."

Qin Qiong has been looking at Qin Shi in surprise, he is so old that he dare not recognize each other.

At this time, he took a step forward and knelt in front of the Qin family, "Auntie, I am Qin Qiong, my father taboos the word Jiyang, my ancestor taboos Fang Tai, and my great grandpa taboos Xiaoda."

Qin Qiong reported her family name, and the Qin family understood it as soon as she heard it.

Qin Xiaoda is Qin Qiong's great-grandfather and Luo Qinshi's grandfather. In terms of seniority, Luo Qinshi is Qin Qiong's father's cousin.

"Are you Ji Yang's son?"

"Yes aunt, I'm Qin Qiong, the second in the family, I remember that you went back to the Qin family province in Licheng once seventeen or eighteen years ago, when I was only three or four years old, my aunt still hugged me .”

Having said that, Luo's mother remembered that Erlang Qin Qiong, this is the grandson of the eldest son of the Qin family. He went home once back then. It seemed that his father passed away and went back to the funeral. It seemed that he had hugged this nephew. He was only a few years old at that time, and more than ten years had passed in a blink of an eye. Since then, she has never been back to the Qin family in Licheng. Unexpectedly, her nephew came to the door today, and he is already so old.

"Oh, my son, get up quickly." Qin couldn't help but shed tears.

Xiao Liu looked at Qin Qiong from the side, "Mother, who is this?"

"Xiao Liu, come and meet your cousin, this is Erlang from your uncle's house." Qin Shi pulled Xiao Liu forward, and said to Qin Qiong, "Son, this is your sixth cousin, who died of fever when he was young. A bit brainy, so people are a bit stupid."

Xiao Liu didn't take it seriously, but just looked at Qin Qiong, "Second cousin, are you strong enough to beat cattle? I am very strong. I help the landlord next door to herd cattle, and none of his cattle have ever beaten a cow." I."

Qin Qiong laughed loudly, Luo Feng was helpless, "Second brother, don't pay attention to him, he just doesn't grow up." He patted Xiao Liu, "Xiao Liu, brother brought you some delicious food from the county town. , what do you see?"

He took the burden off his back and took out a package of dried lotus leaves to eat, but it turned out to be a package of flax cakes bought in the county, pancakes fried in mutton oil, sprinkled with sesame seeds, and even inside There is lamb stuffing and shallots.

As soon as the lotus leaf was opened, a burst of fragrance spread out, and Xiao Liu sniffed fiercely and his eyes gleamed.

"The flax cake."

Xiao Liu took it, took one but didn't eat it himself, but turned around and handed it to his mother, Qin Shi, "Mother, the flax cakes bought by Fifth Brother are delicious, you eat."

Qin smiled and said to her son, "Well, the delicious flax cakes are so delicious, you can eat them, Xiao Liu."

"Mother, you eat first." Qin Shi didn't take it, Xiao Liu refused to agree, but Qin Shi took it, Xiao Liu had to watch her take a bite before picking up another one with a smile.

Xiao Liu still didn't eat the second cake, so he turned around and handed it to a little girl behind him, "Little sister, this is for you."

"Sixth brother, you eat."

"you eat first."

This little girl is Luo Feng's fifth younger sister, the youngest girl in the family, she is only ten years old this year, she is as thin as a stick, her face is sallow and hungry, her hair is all yellow, it makes people feel distressed, it's already autumn But the girl is still only wearing a pair of straw sandals, with her toes sticking out.

There were only six packs of flax cakes. Xiao Liu first gave one to Qin Shi and Xiaomei, then gave one to each of the two sister-in-laws, and he had to give one to Qin Qiong and Luo Feng for the remaining two.

"You share it all, you don't want to lose it yourself, you eat it yourself." Qin Qiong declined with a smile.

"Where are San Niang and Si Niang?" Luo Feng asked suspiciously when he saw that there were no other two younger sisters in the crowd.The Luo family has six sons and five daughters, the eldest brother and the second brother are married, while the third and fourth brothers are not yet married.Of the five sisters, only the eldest and second sister are married.

A young woman who was eating flax cakes said to Luo Feng, "Uncle just came back and didn't know that since my father-in-law and your brothers were conscripted to serve, our family didn't even have a strong man, and the land was planted." However, no one took care of the blacksmith stall at home, and the source of income was cut off long ago, and the village repeatedly called for the payment of rent and grain, and the old debts we had borrowed were not paid off, and no one was willing to borrow new debts. There was no other way, and I found someone to help you tell the third sister and fourth sister about the family. Fortunately, the family I picked was good, the people were honest and honest, and the family was considered well-to-do..."

　It is estimated that everyone knows who this Xiaoliu is, a fierce man who can often defeat cattle, haha!
　　When I was a child, I saw a passage in the biography of Xingtang, where two cows fought, but the cattle herding frame couldn’t be pulled apart, and the fire caught up and knocked down both cows!

　　
　
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