Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 40
Xu Xiaomi thought to himself: If there is still a caravan passing through this Qinglong Town, that would be great!Then this place is a traffic fortress.

That will speed up her development in the future, but she has been here for so long, and she has never heard of it when she went to the market. There are caravans passing by or staying in the hotel.

Seeing that, grandpa shook his head and said: "It seems that there is no such thing! Chen Guo was destroyed by our Da Zhou 50 years ago! Now, the whole Chen country belongs to our Da Zhou."

"Grandpa, do you mean that there was a war here?" The more Xu Xiaomi listened, the more he wanted to inquire.

There is no history book she wants to show her here, so that she can understand what major events happened in this land before?Who is the emperor?What year is this eve?
There was no geography book for her to see how big the country was, what the climate used to be, and how did it get warmer?

In the geography knowledge she has learned, climate warming requires a major geological change.That is to say, only after the big movement within the earthquake will it affect the temperature change.

Grandpa saw that she was more interested in these things than boys, and a trace of regret flashed in his eyes, and he replied kindly to her: "Yes!"

"Grandpa! Then, is our Qinglong Town the target of the two armies' competition?" Xu Xiaomi asked expectantly, blinking her big black and bright eyes.

"Oh! No! The place where the two armies fought is said to be Jiangjun Lake. I have lived for a long time and I don't know where this place called Jiangjun Lake is?"

Zhou Xuewu raised his head and said, looking out of the door with those cloudy eyes, the eyes seemed to be looking far, far away without focus, and seemed to be in deep thought.

Xu Xiaomi originally thought that wars would be fought in ancient times, and they would fight for cities, but they didn't expect to fight in the wild.

"Grandpa, do you know what year the current emperor is? What is our country's surname?"

Xu Xiaomi finally found someone who knows more about things and has experience. He must know more about things!
So, she became a curious baby, always looking at grandpa with her cute big eyes, hoping that grandpa would give her more answers.

"Oh! This grandpa knows that it is Tianhe Nian, and the royal surname is Chen. This is the fifth emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty." Zhou Xuewu seemed to be brought back from a long distance by Xu Xiaomi.

"Grandpa, what are you thinking about?"

As if she wanted to see through her grandfather, Xu Xiaomi blinked at his wrinkled face and asked.

"I'm thinking! If I went to fight with you back then, what would it be like now?"

Zhou Xuewu regretted that he didn't serve in the army back then, and was left at home to farm by his parents who said, "Good iron doesn't make nails, and good people don't serve as soldiers."

Many people of the same age from the same village went there, but he was the only male in their family, and his parents did not agree.

Now, he is still farming at home.As for his good brothers who went to serve in the army, the youngest official now has a thousand households.

"Grandpa also had a dream of being a general back then? Grandpa, you are so great! Do all boys have a dream of being a general?"

Xu Xiaomi got excited when she heard that her grandfather also wanted to serve in the army. She remembered that when she was in high school, many boys with poor grades would join the army after leaving school.

Therefore, she thought that her grandfather was the same as these classmates.

"No, grandpa didn't want to be a general when he became a soldier, but the family didn't have food. Although it is hard to be a soldier and fight a war, at least he won't go hungry."

Zhou Xuewu said sullenly, as if he had fallen into a deep memory, he continued: "I remember that there was a severe drought for three consecutive years, there was no harvest in the fields, and many people in the village starved to death.

Only the upper reaches of the Daqing River have water, but the government does not allow private individuals to fetch water, and the government sends officers and soldiers to carry water to each village for distribution.

As long as the trees in the forest are exposed to fire, they will burn whole.The government has banned fires in the forest.

However, some people were hungry and caught small animals in the woods, and they roasted them in the woods. As a result, they burned down the forest in front of Daqing Mountain, that is, the forest near the Daqing River in front of your old house.

Including villagers and houses, and finally even the Daqing River was dry.Countless people died of starvation and burned to death in Qinglong Town.

At that time, I only had a good relationship with an officer and soldier when I was eight years old, so I didn't starve my parents to death.He is only three years older than me, the son of a thousand households.

There was a drought here, and many people fled to other places.Chen Guo knew and wanted to take the opportunity to swallow Da Zhou.

Therefore, a war was launched, and the imperial court recruited troops from all over the country.

The little soldier who was close to me brought me food every day, and one day he said to me: "The family is so miserable and there is no food. If you go to serve as a soldier, your parents can still get food from the government." .This way your family will not starve to death.

If you want to go, I'll tell my dad.Also, when you go back, you can ask if there is anyone in your village willing to serve as a soldier?If so, tell them to come to me and leave in a few days. '

When I went back to the village, I told my friends that I would go. I happily ran home and told my parents about it, but they refused to let me go.

On the day they left, he gave me a sack of wheat and a sack of millet and said, "Then you can stay at home and farm!"Remember, when it rains, some seeds should be left out so that food can be grown in the coming year. '

After finishing speaking, he patted my head, turned around and left, leaving me standing there alone watching his back blur before carrying the food back home.

After that, they went to the country of Chen and went to the battlefield.No. 18 days after they left, there was a heavy downpour, and the rain washed away many houses. "

After Zhou Xuewu finished speaking, tears were running down his face, and Xu Xiaomi hurriedly wiped him with his new towel.

Comforting: "Grandpa, don't be sad. People are the most helpless in the face of these disasters. You didn't go to the army so you would have four sons like uncles and a daughter like my mother!

If you go, you don't know what will happen!After all, swords and guns have no eyes! "

"That's right! After so many years, he may have forgotten me long ago?" Zhou Xuewu said with a wry smile.

"Grandpa, do you know his name?" Xu Xiaomi asked.

"I don't know, I only know that his father's surname is Qiu!" Zhou Xuewu felt much more comfortable after saying this.

Think about what my granddaughter said is right, there are gains and losses in life, if you don’t go, you don’t go!I am also in my 60s, and when I think about it, there are more smiles on my face.

Xu Hao, his younger sister Xu Xiaoting, and Xu Erqiang and his wife were just sitting at the table listening to the conversation between the grandfather and grandson.

They don't have any idea about snow disasters, wars, and warming weather, they can only listen.

(End of this chapter)