Traveler Major League

Chapter 123 The position is now stable
Since Zhang Pu partnered with Lao Kong, the smile on his face has increased a lot.

There is not much age difference between the two of them, and they are both well-informed, so they can talk together. The most important thing is that they are both old children. If there is any difference, just make a joke and have fun. , will not hold back in my heart.

When he was on the small island before, Zhang Pu could hardly sleep at night because of the construction work. He used to be a master under the county magistrate. Show your ability and ambition.

But since he entered Liu Ze's sect, it has been quite different. People in the People's Army speak out on the basis of strength, and whoever has the ability has the right to speak. People are still not convinced by him, thinking that he is an embroidered pillow who can only speak pretty words, but is useless at critical moments.

Although Zhang Pu wanted to prove himself, he never found a chance.

Later, a group of people came to the island for no reason. In order to survive, Liu Ze divided into many groups, and even gave Zhang Pu and Lao Kong the position of construction team leader. When you are free, you can work as much as you can. Anyway, in life, happiness is the most important thing.

Zhang Pu was different. He was trying his best and had nowhere to go. When he got this position, he plunged into it, only wanting to do his best. Do a good job on the construction.

As the oldest and oldest member of the People's Army, Lao Kong felt quite interesting seeing Zhang Pu like this. This was brought to this strange land by Liu Ze's fairy-like technique, and everyone's enthusiasm rose to a higher level. , and only Lao Kong is the calmest.

On a night when the moon was thin, he insisted on taking Zhang Pu to drink tea and chat with him. Zhang Pu was unwilling at first, because time was tight and time flies. Although the construction of the island has been initially completed, there are still There are many details that need to be perfected, and they don't even want to sleep, let alone drink tea.

However, such a trivial matter could not bother Lao Kong at all. He had already guessed that Zhang Pu would not give in so easily, so he went to find Liu Ze that afternoon, and asked Liu Ze for a souvenir. As the commander, Zhang Pu was ordered to rest for one night. If he did not obey the order, he would be dismissed on the spot.

Now Zhang Pu had to give in.

Looking at the angry Zhang Pu, Lao Kong poured him tea and told some interesting stories about his life as an old boy. After making Zhang Pu laugh, he stroked his beard and said like Liu Ze: " Everyone has to turn the earth away from it, rest when it’s time to rest, and work when it’s time to work! If you stay up all day and night like this, your body will collapse. Don’t tell me you want to go to heaven to find that little fairy so much?”

After Lao Kong finished speaking, the two of them laughed again, and Zhang Pu felt much more relaxed at this time. He sat cross-legged opposite Lao Kong, picked up the hot tea on the small table and blew, his nerves After being tense for a long time, it's time to relax.

"There are few stars in this month, so it's a good time to chat." Lao Kong pointed to the moon outside the window and said with a smile, "I just told you some interesting things about myself, so I'll drag you on and call you Uncle Yuan. It's been a long night, why don't you tell me some interesting stories from your past, so we can pass the time."

"It's not interesting, it's just ordinary things, I'm too lazy to talk about it!" Zhang Pu waved his hand as he recalled those bitter experiences in the past.

"Ordinary things are ordinary things, the old man loves to hear."

Looking at the sincere old Kong, Zhang Pu pursed his lower lip. He has been earning a living outside for many years, but this is the first time he has the desire to confide in him.

Under the cool and white moonlight, Zhang Pu also slowly told his story.

Zhang Pu's life experience is very miserable. His father is a wealthy family in the city, and his mother is a woman who sells charcoal. It stands to reason that these two people should have never met each other in their entire lives, but that winter when his father came back from doing business in the south, it snowed heavily. , all the vendors on the road were gone, the whole street was deserted, only his mother stood guard at the corner of the street, and refused to close the stall for a long time. Maybe it was the charming face under the snow that touched his father. In short, after a moment of hesitation, his father So he found his mother's alcoholic husband at the time, and proposed to pawn his wife for three years.

Without any suspense, his mother was taken away in the heavy snow, and the doors of the houses on the side of the street were closed, and no one came to ask this woman who was weeping and weeping in the snow.

A year later, Zhang Pu was born, and it was also a snowy day, but unfortunately, his mother left, and walked when the snow was falling the most. Since then, Zhang Pu has been equivalent to half an "orphan". "Are.

Because Zhang Pu's mother died on the way to pawn his wife, his father gave his mother's alcoholic husband a large sum of money in order to calm the turmoil. Although the money was nothing to his father, his father just complained. He blamed Xiao Zhangpu for being a disaster star, asking for money and life.

But Zhang Pu didn't know these things, and he made them up from the gossip of his neighbors when he grew up.

It is conceivable that Xiao Zhangpu lives in the big house. His father has a wife and two concubines, and he has five or six children. Among them, he is the most inconspicuous one, and he is also the most attractive to his father. What he hates, he knows his situation, so he can only pretend to be cute and obedient, and study harder than others, so that he can get a word or two of praise from his father.

Because he knows that everyone in this house is a watcher, he has no protection from his mother, and he is disgusted by his father, so no one treats him as a serious young master on weekdays, he can only behave well and get a word or two from his father The servants will treat him better when he praises him.

When other children were nestling in their mother's arms with innocent faces, Zhang Pu had already learned to read people's faces, and he had the right and wrong way. He never regarded this house as his own home, but instead regarded it as a place of work. You only need to pursue fame and fortune, and you don't have to worry about family affection.

Xiao Zhangpu grew up day after day in such an environment. He was enlightened in ethnology. In the blink of an eye, he had reached the age for scientific examinations. His grades are so excellent that Zhang Pu's father just won't let him take the scientific examination.

Zhang Pu knew that he was a thorn in his father's heart, and his father didn't want him to go out to show his face at all, just like when he was a child, important guests came to the house, and other children were called to meet the guests in the front hall, only Zhang Pu, no one Call him.

A few years later, his father was seriously ill, the whole house was in a mess, and there were people everywhere, so Zhang Pu took some clothes and fled overnight. Pu left his hometown and went all the way north to the county seat, but he didn't meet him.

Zhang Pu originally wanted to do some work to earn some money while taking part in the scientific examination, but he searched for a long time in the county but failed to find a suitable job. In the end, a kind aunt saw that he was gentle and well-spoken, so she let him go to the northern suburbs of the city for a test. Try, they are recruiting teachers for students.

Zhang Pu felt that being a teacher was pretty good, so he tried it, and he really got it. After that, he passed the examination as a scholar, and then continued to take the scientific examination twice, but every time he encountered physical discomfort, and gradually He also gave up his thoughts on Zhongju, and only taught in the school, and he was with the children. Occasionally, he also took on clerical work, helping others write lawsuits, calculating accounts, etc. The money he received was not much. He does things properly and beautifully, so many people in the county know him.

As for the relationship between children, Zhang Pu seemed to have never been enlightened. Whether it was a girl of the right age introduced by the aunt nearby, or a relative of a student he met from the teacher, Zhang Pu was not interested at all. He just wanted to live alone. Coming and going alone, he never dared to think about family life with wives and daughters.

In fact, Zhang Pu also had a crush on a girl, oh no, it was not a girl, but a woman. At that time, he taught in the north of the city for several years, and he was very respected by the students. During the holidays, the students would come to visit with their parents. He, one year at the Dragon Boat Festival, one of the naughtiest students in the class came to visit him, and it was almost noon when he and his parents sent them away. Zhang Pu waved goodbye to the students by the river in front of his residence. I saw a girl in plain clothes washing clothes by the river.

Her eyebrows and eyes are slightly lowered, and she is pounding the clothes by the river, like a grass that has grown there. The picture is extremely harmonious. Just when Zhang Pu felt that he was about to fall in love, the girl's hand was a deep one. The colored men's clothes gave him a blow. The style should be worn by young men, which means that this girl is likely to be someone else's wife.

Zhang Pu sighed, and returned to the residence with a heavy foot and a light foot.

But when it was almost noon the next day, Zhang Pu couldn't sit still anymore. He hid behind someone else's cowshed and peeked at the girl who was wearing clothes. She seemed to be in a good mood today, and she was humming a song while rubbing her clothes on the stone slab. , but Zhang Pu still didn't dare to go forward and ask "Is the girl married?" He was afraid that it might be the answer he thought in his heart, or it might not be.

After watching secretly for a month, Zhang Pu was finally discovered by someone. The man was an old man herding cattle. Seeing that Zhang Pu was fascinated by the girl, he squatted beside him and watched together. Then he suddenly lowered his voice and said: " Mr. Zhang, are you looking at Lao Chu's wife? She and Lao Chu have been married for several years!"

Zhang Pu was taken aback. I don't know whether it was the old man or what the old man said. In short, since then, Zhang Pu never went to the river to peek at the girl, and never thought about getting married. It's over.

In this way, after another half a year, a new county magistrate came to the county. As soon as the new county magistrate took office, he recruited a teacher in the city. The requirements for recruiting a teacher were also very high. The calculation is good, and the most important thing is to have a good reputation in the county, so that it will be convenient to do things in the future. Seeing these conditions, at the beginning, the big families in the county sent people to apply for the job, but they all failed. At this time, there are smart people After patting his forehead, he deciphered that this is just to find someone who has no background in the county!Then someone with good deeds recommended Zhang Pu to go there. If he had no background and nothing to do with the big family, then no one was more suitable for this position than him.

Zhang Pu himself is more interested in the position of this master. After teaching for more than ten years, it is time for him to experience a different life, especially in these years, he has seen too many natural and man-made disasters. Zhang Pu's life is miserable. Although the master is not an official, he is still a figure in the government. If he can secretly help the people, Zhang Pu feels that his life is not in vain.

So he resigned from his job as a teacher and reported to the county government with a small burden on his back.

Zhang Pu, who became a master, realized that being a master is much more tiring than being a wife. Especially in this small county, the master has to do more and more complicated work, not only to understand documents and files, but also to understand judicial taxation In addition, some important decisions made by the county magistrate also need to be discussed and considered by the master, so after becoming a master, even though he has no position, Zhang Pu is often too busy to touch the ground, and sometimes he doesn't even have breakfast and lunch. superior.

A few years later, Zhang Pu, who had been a teacher for several years, was even more confused. The county magistrate didn't love the people, and most of the time he only cared about his own interests, protecting himself wisely, especially when it came to welcoming and sending off. Zhang Pu didn't like these things. Talking nonsense to others, but slowly getting used to it, and even started to be good at it in the end.

It's not that he didn't think about leaving, but the county magistrate relied too much on himself. If Zhang Pu wanted to leave, it would be difficult for him to be kind. Fortunately, after a few years, the county magistrate returned to his hometown in old age.

When you get used to something, even if you don't like it, you will do it unconsciously. Zhang Pu is the same, and he has several county magistrates as teachers.

Just when Zhang Pu thought that he would spend his whole life in a busy life like this, Liu Ze appeared. At first, Zhang Pu thought that Liu Ze was just a small leader of the rebel army. Like Wang Er, he had no strength and no strategy. So after Liu Ze occupied Yijun County, Zhang Pu was very flustered. He was afraid that if Liu Ze got upset, he would cut off his head to sacrifice the flag, or throw himself in prison to be tortured to death.

But Liu Ze didn't. Liu Ze just asked him to prepare special food to reward the People's Army, and even made him a marching advisor after the conversation. Zhang Pu felt incredible that there were bandits who could not torture and kill their former enemies, but instead reused him. .

If things are abnormal, the picture is not small.

With the idea of ​​running away at any time, Zhang Pu started his life in the People's Army. What he didn't expect was that, unlike the bureaucratic Ming Army, the People's Army is an army that really values ​​equality and respect. Here, as long as you If you have the ability and consciousness, you can become an officer leader. Here, as long as you do not perform well, you will be criticized in public. Not only will you be criticized, but you will also have to criticize yourself in order to improve. Here, no one goes through the back door, talking about relationships and human relationships.

What surprised Zhang Pu the most was that the officers and leaders of the People's Army, even Liu Ze himself, lived and ate with ordinary soldiers, without any preferential treatment. When not training, Liu Ze would even chat with the soldiers , play games together, etc., just like a family.

All of this made Zhang Pu feel deeply shocked, and he was so shocked that he was more determined to be ready to run away at any time. It was too dangerous to follow this group of ambitious thieves, and it was really close to death.

Especially when he was besieged by the officers and soldiers on the top of the mountain, Zhang Pu was in despair. He knew the virtues of the officers and soldiers very well. He couldn't get rid of his bad reputation as a thief. That knife.

Then it was miraculous, this group of people was directly changed by Liu Ze to this place with good weather, and now Zhang Pu completely extinguished all his different intentions, and now there is a fire pit in front of him, as long as Liu Ze calls to jump, he will not hesitate .

Zhang Pu's only thought now is to hug Liu Ze's big thick leg tightly. After briefly describing his experience and beautifying his own experience, expressing his desire to make contributions to Liu Ze, he picked up the tea and drank half of the pot.

"I will recognize this old man as my elder brother from now on, and this old man will be happy to have a younger brother who can serve me tea and water!" Lao Kong joked with a smile after hearing his story. For people of their age, the joke is far away. More effective than direct reassurance.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Pu took this joke seriously, and immediately bowed down and said: "Brother, please accept my little brother's worship."

"Well, Zhang Pu, you're really a cunning guy." Old Kong stroked his beard and cursed with a smile.

"Brother, it's hard to follow a gentleman's word." Zhang Pu raised his head slightly and saw that Lao Kong was not disgusted, and Zhang Pu thought that his position was now stable.

(End of this chapter)