Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 185
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Walking out of the yamen, adopted son Kan Leng had already brought the horse, Ximen Junyi and Wang Xiongdan were also standing aside with swords in their arms, waiting.

"Father, they are white straight, holding clothes, and fighting body sent by the county."

Kan Ling pointed to a group of people squatting on the side of the road. They squatted on the ground, and when they saw Luo Cheng coming out, they got up quickly.

"Hello Captain!" Everyone nodded in favor.

Luo Cheng walked over and nodded at them.

There are ten people in total, three are white straight, three are holding clothes, and four are holding their bodies.These people are all villagers from the county, and they come to serve as errands, which is also a kind of forced labor, not regular service but miscellaneous servitors.

In addition to the five-day ten-day vacation, the officials of the Sui Dynasty also had more annual holidays. In addition, they could also enjoy the miscellaneous tasks assigned by the government, which were all free benefits.For example, these three Baizhi are all young people in the age of seventeen or eighteen. They came to Luocheng's place to do odd jobs. They can do all kinds of errands, similar to servants.

And the three Zhiyi are only fourteen or fifteen years old, younger, Baizhi doesn't care if they are middle-aged, while Zhiyi must send middle-aged men.The job of holding clothes is equivalent to that of a book boy, who carries the officials' pens, inks, papers and inkstones with them for them to use at any time, and usually does some work around them.

As for Zhanshen, they are all young men, and all of them are quite thick. These people are treated only as officers, and Zhanshen is equivalent to a guard.

According to Luo Cheng's grade, he can enjoy these ten free servants.

These people will follow him for food and lodging in the future, but the government will report the cost of food and drink separately.

"Well, introduce yourself, your surname, which village you are from, and you will follow me for a while. As for me, Luo Cheng Luo Shicheng, I am from Nanshan Village, Changbai Township. You probably know me too. I am very talkative. Don't be too restrained, everyone." He smiled and said to the nervous crowd.

Everyone laughed silly.

Luo Cheng wasn't too polite with them either. After asking his name, he asked everyone to go to the warehouse with him to collect the year-end benefits issued by the county. He had sixty coins, and ten of them gave good meat. Fifty pens are given to silk and cloth.There are also some extra things, some chickens, ducks, geese, some eggs, some fish, and a lot of pork and mutton, as well as wine and charcoal.

These are the benefits of the officials, and the chickens, ducks and fish are all alive, and there are still a lot of them.

They are all purchased by the Yamen in a unified manner, and then distributed to the officials.

There are a lot of things, and it happens that a group of white, straight, and naked people each carry a load.

I originally planned to go to the market to buy some New Year's goods, but now I can avoid it.But just passing by the gate of the market, he saw Liu Dalang waiting for him there.

"Captain, this is something our family prepared."

Last time the restaurant of the Liu family was sealed off, and the family of the eldest brother Liu was also arrested in the Yamen. If it wasn't for Luo Cheng's help, what would happen to them might have happened.After that incident, everyone in Zhangqiu knew that the Liu family restaurant was under the cover of Luo Cheng, and even the county magistrate couldn't do anything about him, especially after Luo Cheng reconciled with Du County magistrate, so the restaurant became more No one dares to harass.

The business is getting more and more prosperous. Luo Cheng even helped Liu's restaurant open a way. The beef slaughtered by the Zhangqiu government will be distributed to them. In this way, they will have beef from legal sources, and sell the beef openly. Later, the dishes made of beef became their signature dish, and the business was booming day by day.

Lao Liu prepared some beef for Luo Cheng, "I remember that the captain likes stewed beef and beef jerky. My third sister made some specially, and some were marinated and sun-dried beef liver and heart, and a few pairs of beef intestines. It was cleaned and stewed, and there are two barrels of beef bone soup that have been boiled from last night to today."

"It's not worth any money, just a little thought."

Luo Cheng looked at the pile of things and smiled, "Originally I couldn't accept it, but after the year, my fourth brother will formally welcome your third mother into the house, so we are also a family. Then I will accept it." .”

Luo Cheng asked Wang Xiongdan and Ximen Junyi to accept it, and asked Kan Leng to take out a few bolts of flower cloth to return the gift.

"It's also a piece of New Year's stuff from the yamen. You can also take a few back and make new clothes for your sister-in-law and children."

Boss Liu couldn't help laughing and crying holding a few bolts of floral cloth. He wanted to thank Luo Cheng for giving him something, but Luo Cheng returned his more valuable bolts of cloth instead.

"Okay, you go too, I'll go back first."

Along the way, the ten white straight men each carried a load of things, which were quite heavy, but they didn't even take a break in the middle, they just changed their shoulders occasionally.

Come to the village.

Then I saw my little sister standing there looking around.

"Wait for me?"

"Brother, Cousin Qin from Juncheng is here, and he is at home. Mother told me to wait for you here."

"Is Uncle Bao here?"

Hearing that Shubao was coming, Luo Cheng quickened his pace.

A large group of people surrounded Luo's courtyard.

In the middle of the circle, Qin Qiong was instructing Shi Xinma.

"Brother Uncle."

"Little five."

After a few months of seeing each other, Qin Shubao seems to have become calmer.

"I heard that you are now the commander of Jiupin county soldiers, congratulations." Qin Qiong smiled and patted his cousin Luo Cheng on the shoulder.

"That can't compare to you, cousin. I heard that after you returned to Donglai County, you were promoted to the captain, and then led the team to capture a group of thieves who stole the army food. Now they are all commanders from the eighth rank. gone."

Lai Huer admired Qin Qiong very much, knowing that he had captured thieves and made meritorious deeds when he was visiting relatives at home, so he was promoted to the leader of the team when he returned.Later, after capturing a group of thieves who stole military food, they immediately asked for credit for him and promoted him to brigade commander.

Qin Qiong is the brigade commander of You Yiwei. This is a regular military position. Although he only leads 100 people, he is far stronger than Luo Cheng, the county soldier.

"Did you come back specially for the New Year?"

Speaking of this, Qin Qiong felt a little helpless, "Let's go and chat."

The two left Shixin and they continued to practice martial arts, and came to the house, "Cousin, what do you seem to be worried about?"

"Originally, I had just been promoted to the brigade commander, and the Donglai military camp was very busy, but my mother called me back in a handwritten letter, saying that I was not feeling well. As a result, I hurried back, but I didn't know until I got home that he had actually booked me. A family affair."

Luo Chengdao, "Could it be with our county magistrate's daughter?"

"You know about this?"

"Well, County Magistrate Zhang told me before that he asked me to write you a letter to beat the side drum."

"You have seen Zhang Qianjin before. He looks good, and it is said that he is very gentle and virtuous."

"I'm not saying Miss Zhang is bad, but I'm still young and don't want to start a family too early."

Luo Cheng smiled, "Brother, you won't delay your career if you start a family. I know that you have to be highly regarded by the general now, and you have just been promoted to the commander of the brigade, but it won't delay your marriage. You are in your 20s. , it’s not too early.”

Qin Qiong said with some distress, "But it just felt a little too sudden, and I was so bored and panicked, so I came to look for you."

"Xiao Wu, I heard that Magistrate Zhang wanted to give you his adoptive daughter before, why didn't you agree?"

"Me? I'm only sixteen. It's too early to marry a wife. I'm five or six years younger than you. Don't worry."

Qin Qiong could only feel more depressed.

Qin's mother has now confirmed this marriage, and he is a little bit unwilling. It is said that he is disobedient and unfilial, and he has no place to reason, so he can only come to Luo Cheng.

"Let's not talk about that, I got a lot of dishes just now, and I'll make a few dishes in a while, let's have a good drink!"

"Row!"

(End of this chapter)