A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 4 Double Happiness
Longqiao Fort is extremely lively, and the Wu family is even more happy.

"Everyone will come to drink mutton soup in a while." The warrior Ke, who has always been extremely stingy, was also extraordinarily bold today, limping and greeting the villagers with a red face.

"The sun is coming out from the west today, you are so stupid that you are willing to kill a sheep to treat guests? Usually you are reluctant to kill a sheep during the holidays, and now sheep are precious." Xu Zhongyi, the father of the second fool, joked with a smile.

"My baby is back, the eldest baby still has to be an official. He has just taken over and entered the camp. This is the second time. He has made meritorious service and was awarded an official. See if there are golden knives on the belts of my two children. His Royal Highness Qin personally gave it to me." Well, I'm happy today, I picked the biggest sheep and killed it, there are no other dishes, but you can drink the mutton soup!"

Cripple Wu is very happy today, not to mention adding another [-] mu of land to his family.

Wujia Wukong Cave Dwelling is facing the river on the back slope, at the highest point of the river slope on the north bank, overlooking the Qinghe River from a high position, it is a beautiful river view house.

Huaiyu was surrounded by countless villagers, and she hadn't felt such enthusiasm for a long time.

The elder sister helped the father to pick the fattest sheep from the sheep pen, and the second son and the father and other men also came to help butcher the sheep.

The whole village knows that Samurai Ke is usually the pickiest. Although the family has a sheep, they are reluctant to kill the sheep to eat even during the Chinese New Year. At most, others will kill the sheep to buy a leg.Although Samurai Ke was originally a brigade commander of the seventh-rank forbidden army, but he lost his father at the age of seven, and his widowed mother sold tofu to support the family. He began to pick tofu and sell it in villages and alleys since he was ten years old. He has experienced the Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties in his life.

He sold tofu when he was young, and he sold wood outside the Great Wall when he was young. He sold wood in his middle age, and was later arrested and participated in the campaign against the Liao Dynasty. I have suffered countless hardships, so although the conditions are better, I am used to thrift.

Cheng Chumo looked at the bustling scene in Wu's courtyard, and felt quite envious in his heart, the son of his country's Duke, a seventh-rank guard, but his father was not so close to him at ordinary times, and he would always stick to education.

"Aye, I'll make a basin of mutton for Da Lang Erlang to eat, to warm up the body." The eldest daughter of the warrior Ke mentioned a large piece of mutton that had just been cut. , but also a hard-working person, married at the age of 15, and her husband was forcibly conscripted into the army and went to Goguryeo in the newlyweds. That year was the seventh year of Daye and never returned.

After three years of filial piety for her husband, she remarried, but in the end there was a second Eastern Expedition, and her husband never returned.

Two marriages failed to leave a child. Wu Shike took his daughter to Guanzhong and picked Han Liang, a fellow from Hedong, Yuancong, a child of the Imperial Army for his daughter. After marriage, he lived a good life for several years, but Han Liang died in battle in four years of Wude In the Battle of Hulao Pass, she became a widow again, but fortunately she left two daughters this time.

Wu Yu'e was scolded by her husband's family for killing her son, and because she had no children, her husband's family couldn't tolerate it. Lao Wu came to the door to bring her daughter back, and the two granddaughters who were disliked also brought her back.

Today's Wu Yu'e is very happy, her second brother is almost from birth to three years old, until she gets married.

Her eight-year-old eldest daughter, Yingsu, and six-year-old daughter, Hansu, have been looking at the second uncle curiously, wanting to go up but a little shy, and seeing their mother going to stew meat, they hurriedly followed, "Let's help mother light the fire."

The white-haired Wu Liushi kept holding Huaiyu's hand and refused to let go, for fear that if he let go, his son would be lost again.She is not yet 70, and she is very old. Huaiyu feels that she is as old as [-] years old.

"I have been in Zhongnan Mountain with my master for the past nine years, and I went down the mountain occasionally, and I don't remember anything earlier..." Huaiyu's rhetoric is still very effective, and no one doubts it.

Moreover, Wu Huaiyu is not only very similar to Huai Yichang, but also very similar to Samurai Ke. Although the third son is of a different age, everyone who sees Huaiyu is convinced that this is the second son of Samurai Ke's family who has returned. They look too similar.

Everyone was even more curious about Wu Erlang's experience in the past nine years. Even Cheng Chumo, who stood aside, listened carefully. When they knew that Huaiyi was seriously injured and recovered very well after being treated by Huaiyu, they were even more impressed. There are hundreds of households in Longqiaobao Among them, fifty households were resettled here by Yuan Cong's forbidden army, and the remaining half were people who returned home after the war.

Many of those imperial guards from Yuan Cong also had honors and officials like Samurai Ke. Some retired and some were still in service, but most of them used to be low-level civilians. Few were literate, and soldiers respected doctors even more.

Wu Huaiyu has fair skin, white and neat teeth, and is tall and tall. She really doesn't fit in with everyone. Even Cheng Chumo is a little jealous and envious of his appearance.

"Your master must be a very powerful man, don't you know what the name is?" Cheng Chumo asked seemingly casually.

"My master's Taoist name is Xiaoyaozi. He was already one hundred and four years old when he emerged. He calculated his own emergence time a long time ago, and it has been calculated to this day."

Cheng Chumo was extremely surprised by Huaiyu's words, but he didn't dare to doubt it face to face. After all, Taoist priests are outsiders, and there are many mysterious masters.

At least Wu Huaiyu's medical skills and medicine made him extremely admired.

"The night the master became immortal, he told me to go down the mountain early the next morning, and let me take a path that I don't usually take, and let me go all the way north. I obeyed the master's order and walked that path the next day, so I happened to meet brother! "

When the surrounding villagers heard this, they were all amazed and said that it was an old fairy.

Samurai Ke and a few old imperial guards from the same village were skinning, dismantling, bonening and chopping meat, while the two young men were digging up intestines, mincing meat, chopping sheep's feet and stuffing blood sausage...

A group of women were also helping to boil the water, and several pots were temporarily set up in the courtyard. After cleaning the sheep's head, sheep's stomach, sheep's heart, sheep's liver, sheep's lungs, blood sausage, etc., they were put into the pot, and a pot of haggis soup.

In another pot, mutton bones and mutton are stewed in a large pot to make mutton in a water basin.

I was in a hurry and didn't have any preparations. In addition, the landlord's house actually didn't have much supplies these days, so a sheep and a lot of water made it haggis soup and mutton soup, and there were no other dishes.

It was too late to grind flour and millet, and there were still some shelled millet at home, so I directly cooked several large pots of millet porridge.

The eldest sister Yu'e stewed a pot of mutton alone for more than an hour.

Once it was cooked, it was served to him.

"Erlang, you're hungry, eat quickly."

Huaiyu thanked him, Yu'e looked at him and smiled, "I haven't seen you in a few years, why are you and sister so polite, eat quickly."

The mutton soup and haggis soup in the cauldron over there are also ready. Wu Shike warmly entertained them. Mr. Xu Zhongyi and the others were there to help serve the soup for everyone. The one came over to pick it up, and then squatted in the yard chatting and eating.

Although there is more soup and less meat, the atmosphere is extraordinarily lively.

Yu'e filled Huaiyu with a large pottery basin, and brought another basin for Huaiyi and Cheng Chumo. Lao Wu and Liu Shi didn't care about eating, and were busy greeting everyone.

The mutton in the Huaiyu basin is all mutton brisket. After stewing for more than an hour, the mutton melts in the mouth, but it is still chewy. The most rare thing is that the soup is clear and delicious.

"This soup is really fresh and the meat is delicious." Huaiyu praised.

"The freshly slaughtered lamb is freshly stewed, and the soup is also fresh with bones." Yu'e's craftsmanship is very good. Add some pepper and almonds, it will be more fresh, and when you eat, sprinkle with chopped green onions can eat your tongue."

Cheng Chumo also directly praised that the mutton in the water basin is very delicious, "The imperial chef in the palace is no more than my sister's craftsmanship."

"We don't dare to compare with the imperial chef. I heard that the mutton in the palace also needs to be peppered. It is more expensive than gold, and we can't afford it."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and went into the room and brought a large bowl of Hubing, "I made some Hubing for you, it would be delicious to eat with the mutton in the basin." As she spoke, she broke Huaiyu's beard beside her Cake, broken very finely.

Huaiyu saw that the biscuits looked a bit like vegetarian naan, thin in the middle and thick around the sides, with some sesame seeds added.

"Sister, you eat too."

"You eat first," Yu'e looked at her younger brother, feeling that she couldn't get enough of it. When Huaiyu was born, she was 12 years old, and until she got married at 15, she always took care of her younger brother, Huaiyu.Looking at her brother who had been reunited after a long absence, tears glistened in her eyes. "Sister is really happy today."

"You still called your sister your mother when you were young." Huai Yi said to his brother with a smile.

Although the meal looked simple, Huaiyu ate it very happily, even a little full, the eldest sister kept asking him to eat more, and Huaiyi also added a few large pieces of mutton for him.

"Sister will make cold locust leaf pottery for you tomorrow. You will eat it in summer when you are young." She said with great love, "You don't know how you have spent these nine years in the mountains."

The night is deep.

The old and young men in the village also ate mutton soup and millet porridge. Everyone lit torches and continued chatting under the stars. The village is extremely lively today.

Wu Shike called all the forbidden troops in the village, young and old, to a corner of the courtyard, and Wu Huaiyi and Cheng Chumo announced the latest changes in Chang'an to everyone.

"The abolished crown prince Jian Jiancheng and Yuan Ji conspired against each other, and were killed by King Qin's army. The emperor has ordered King Qin to control the world's soldiers and horses, and to take charge of the general affairs of the military and the country!"

It has been a few days, but Longqiaobao Village, Dongli, Qinghe Township, Sanyuan, more than 100 miles away from Chang'an, has only vaguely heard some rumors and does not know the details. At this time, I was shocked to hear the official news. Fortunately, I heard it Now that Chang'an has stabilized, everyone can feel a little more at ease.

Tianzi Yuan was involved in the imperial army this time, and the imperial army on duty at the Beimen camp suffered a lot of casualties, and the general of the camp, Lu Shiheng, and the others all died in battle.

Fortunately, Yingtun was basically on the side of the King of Qin this time. Many forbidden soldiers like Huaiyi had made meritorious service, but it was a blessing in disguise.

There are also rewards and pensions for the few casualties.

There are fifty forbidden troops in Longqiao Fort. At the beginning, a group of people were placed here, and now many of them are replaced by young children. There are still fifty forbidden troops in the village, and they are usually divided into five squads. This month is Huaiyi and Brother Xu Erleng and ten of them.

Huaiyi told everyone that other people in the village were fine. Although Huaiyi did not perform as well that day, there were no casualties, but he was still in Beijing temporarily and could not come back.

The village official Liu Wei took the lead on the spot to express his support for His Highness King Qin. He used to be an old imperial guard, but after he was injured in a battle, he asked his eldest son to replace him and return home. Because he was only in his early fifties, he became the village official.

"I'll go to Lijiazhuang and Lizheng tomorrow to register Huaiyu's situation, and report the real proof to the county government, and get the household registration done quickly."

Liu Wei used to be the team deputy in the Forbidden Army, but Xiaoqi Weixun, who is regarded as the sixth rank, has served as the village leader in the past few years, and he has done things fairly. It is a rare kindness to be able to share it, and it will definitely be in full. Nowadays, there is no room in every township and village. There are so many males and males, but they have no land to divide when they reach their age, so they can only wait in line.

When a young man dies, the land should be withdrawn, but as a rule, it will be given priority to the middle school in his family. Only those who have no middle school in the household will be awarded by the public, but there are too many monks and too few rice. "

If normal, even if Wu Huaiyu was naturalized, it would be very difficult to get the land now, and there was this wave of bonuses at the beginning of the founding of the country, but it will become more and more difficult to implement in the future, after all, there are only so many fields.

The land equalization decree says that every tenth and middle-aged man will be awarded one hundred acres of land, but in fact it is based on the actual amount of public land in the hands of the local government, excluding a large number of private land, and there is not much land to divide. It is divided into [-] to [-] mu of land, especially since this is the Guanzhong area.

At the beginning, the samurai Ke and Yuan Cong's forbidden army were able to grant a hundred acres of land, and that was because they were the emperor Yuan Cong. This was a special welfare treatment, and other people did not have this treatment.

There are more than 100 households in Longqiaobao, and those [-] households of the imperial army are allotted a full amount of land. Officers like Lao Wu also have additional officials, honored officers, etc., but many of them later won honors However, none of the fields could be assigned to Longqiaobao, and Qiguan and Xun Yongye fields were all assigned to other places.

As for the other dozens of villagers, most of them only have the [-] to [-] mu of land they were allocated at the beginning, and they usually have to rent a part of the land from the Wu family and other forbidden army families.

Huaiyu has the order of the king of Qin to divide the land, and the local government will definitely find a way to give him enough.

"However, our village has no land, and even Qinghe Township has no land. It is estimated that it may be allocated to Fengyuan, Bailuyuan and other northern plateaus. The land there is worse, but at least it can be allocated."

Wu Shike is also very aware of this, "It is already a great gift from King Qin to be able to share it. There is no reason to pick and dislike it, and Lao Cunzheng, you bother."

Liu Cunzheng smiled and said, "These [-] acres of land are divided into one share. Brother Wu, you are the largest landlord in our village. Erlang is eighteen years old, and he is also tall and handsome. How about I ask you about the land in our Sanyuan Forbidden Army?" Who has a suitable woman?"

Huaiyu had been listening quietly, but upon hearing this, he answered quickly, "No hurry, no hurry."

He likes the Wu family very much, and he also likes this simple village, but it is a bit too fast to get married now.

Knowing that I came to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Huaiyu has actually gotten used to it after the initial shock, and even has a faint impulse in his heart, thinking that this is God's arrangement, the old way cured his terminal illness and gave him a second life, now God sent him here again, he should cherish this rare opportunity, maybe he should let go of his hands and feet and work hard here.

At least let yourself and the Wu family live better.

(End of this chapter)