The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 23 Whipping
"Second brother, I am your own father. If there is a chance, how can I not give you the benefits? And I also know that you are a man with high eyes but low power. If you are asked to go to the army, you dare to go? Be careful and lose it in vain. life."

"This year, Beizhen transferred so many military households to the Shenliao defense line, how many hundreds of households were crying along the way, have you forgotten?"

Wu Jinxiao earnestly

"If you let me do the hereditary hundred households, I dare to go."

"I think you're bewildered, that's up to me to decide? It's all said to be the master's arrangement, what ability do you have to make the master look up to you?"

"Don't look down on me. I will go to Beijing with you to meet the master next year. I still don't believe it. I can't be worse than others."

"Okay, remember your own words. In the past, you were afraid of the hard work on the road and couldn't shirk it. Next year, don't go back on your word."

As soon as Wu Jinxiao's voice fell, Wu Zhong hesitated in his heart.

All the way for more than a thousand miles, eating wind and drinking dew on the road, this taste is really uncomfortable.

Seeing the appearance of the second son, Wu Jinxiao sighed inwardly, helpless.

"Don't be angry, my cousin is also a member of my family, and the matter has come to this, why do you need to worry about it."

Ude knew that his second brother was a hard-working man, so he relieved him, turned around and smiled at his father.

"Father said that my cousin will come to our house after the spring. I will have a drink with my cousin then. Since my cousin is promising, as long as I can do it, my cousin will of course try my best to support him."

"This is decent. If the whole family wants to be united, how can we be successful if we don't have one mind." Wu Jinxiao was happy.

Wu Shun took Wu Liang to play outside, seeing that his father and second brother had stopped arguing, he went back to prepare for dinner.

Ruixue is a prosperous year.

Wu Jinxiao's family, leading the eldest daughter-in-law, and the two maids hired by the family, have been busy for half a day, preparing a table full of dishes.

Ude led his younger brother and stood up to toast his father.

Wu Jinxiao looked at his four sons, one grandson, and one granddaughter, and he had long forgotten the previous unhappiness.

"I wish my father a long and healthy life and all the best."

"Ha ha."

Wu Jinxiao grinned.

"I wish you all the best too."

Outside the house, on the land of Liaodong, thick snow has fallen, and the trees are covered with white fluffy snowballs.

The road was also covered by heavy snow, and it was impossible to see where there was a ditch and where was flat ground.

Some time ago, taking advantage of the snowfall, Liu Chengmin practiced for three days, but no longer gave any hope.

Yu Ding, the oldest in the institute, is over 50 years old, and the youngest is only nine years old. He is a young Ding in the Baihu Institute. Because his father died of illness in Shandong and there are no other brothers in the family, he was registered as an orphan.

There is only a widowed mother in the family. She is in her thirties. She used to have her husband's monthly food to barely get by. After her husband died of illness, the family stopped cooking.

A woman has no income and has a son to support, how can she live on in this day and age?

Tang Qing'an scolded Zhou Ji and Li Dun a lot.

The nature of this matter was too bad, Tang Qing'an personally checked the situation in one hundred households, and finally three of them were like this.

Without further ado, Tang Qing'an whipped two small flags in public.

Three families with five children, Tang Qing'an called these children to the Hundred Households Office to do some trivial tasks such as chopping firewood and carrying water.

Three kuai pocket money is issued every month. Although the money is not much, I can have enough food in the institute every day.

As for them secretly bringing food home, Tang Qing'an turned a blind eye and acquiesced to their actions.

A village three miles away from Baihusuo.

A 14-year-old boy led his younger brother out, because the ground was covered with thick snow and he could not see the road clearly.

The young woman at the door was wearing a plain thick skirt and a peach red coat, with a worried expression on her face, and repeated instructions.

"Be careful on the road. When you go to the Baihu Office, you must be obedient, work hard and do more things, and don't be lazy. Take good care of your brother."

"understood."

The boy led his younger brother around a corner, and stopped in front of a house. His younger brother looked around nervously.

After confirming that there was no one there, the boy bent down, dug out two lumps of soil from the snow, threw them into the yard, and then ran with his legs apart, the snow on the ground "creaked and creaked". .

The younger brother followed behind with one deep foot and one shallow foot. His legs were not sprinting fast, and he fell in panic. He was afraid of being overtaken, and he got up regardless of the snow on his body.

"Bunny."

The door opened, and a man came out yelling and swearing, only to see two small figures in the distance, and cursed a few words resentfully.

When they arrived at the Baihu House, the two of them were flushed from the cold. Fortunately, there was a padded jacket from the new Baihu, otherwise they would have frozen to death.

First went to the back kitchen for dinner, old man Liu asked them to go to the firewood room to carry firewood, this morning Baihu adults said that he would eat flat food at noon.

The children didn't wait for Old Man Liu's orders, those who cleaned the table, those who went to wash the rolling pin, those who boiled water... have already started their hands.

When it was ready, the old man Liu led everyone to make flat food, which was stuffed with pork, and he cut a whole ten catties of pork.

In one morning, nearly a thousand flat food were packed.

"How long will this last?"

"Master Baihu is so happy that he can eat flat food every day."

The talking child looked envious.

Old man Liu kept a straight face. He saw a few children hiding, because he was ordered by Baihu before, although he was angry, he could only pretend that he didn't see it.

When everything was done, he told the children to shovel the snow in the yard.Doing this kind of work will give you enough to eat every day. Old man Liu seems to be retribution.

After eating enough food every day, the children were full of strength and did not complain at all.

Enduring the cold air, I didn't feel the tingling pain from my hands. I only worked for half an hour to clean up the yard, and no child was lazy.

In the cold winter, I actually broke out in a sweat.

Back in the kitchen, Old Man Liu had already started cooking flat food. Looking at the steaming stove, several children couldn't move, staring at the pot, drooling.

"Send this pot over, don't spill it, be careful it's hot."

The boy from before, and another companion who was about the same age, took it away.

The public house consists of seven and a half rooms and a stable.

One public house for office work, one for the adults of a hundred households, one for adults of a hundred households, a kitchen, a storeroom, and a miscellaneous room.

Lord Baihu and Master Baihu used to have dinner together, the two teenagers came to Master Baihu's place with familiarity, and saw that the door was half open.

After entering, Master Baihu was reading a book, Master Baihu was talking to Master Baihu, and stopped when he saw them coming in.The two teenagers lowered their heads, served the table quietly, and retreated respectfully.

"There are three meals a day, Li Rujing, are you envious?"

Li Rujing saw his companion's expectant eyes, lowered his head and ignored him.

Mother said that her ancestral home was originally from Jinling, and her grandfather was a criminal, and the family was allotted here. Mother said that the people there were rich, and Mother ate three meals a day when she was young.

All I know is that the new Baihu is a good guy, unlike the previous Baihu, who was really bad.

After he came, the banner owner didn't dare to bully his mother easily anymore.

When the two returned to the kitchen, the younger brother saw him from afar, and ran over excitedly with an excited expression.

"Uncle Liu said that Baihu sent a message, and the remaining flat food was distributed to us to take home. He said that the road is not easy these days, and we will be given a few days off."

Hearing this, the two hurried into the kitchen. As expected, old man Liu had already divided the flat food. The flat food had already been frozen into lumps, and they divided it into three large bags, complaining.

"It's really retribution for doing such a little work."

(End of this chapter)