Chapter 55 Foreigners are coming

Chapter 55 Foreigners are coming

After returning from Nanpo, Yingbao stayed at home to teach his younger brother how to speak and recite, and when he found time, he went to the cave to sort out the crops.

The golden fungus and snow fungus that were cut last time had been dried for a period of time, and none of them were moldy. She put them in a bucket.

Now, mushrooms are sprouting on the ten mulberry trees. The golden ears and snow ears are translucent and white, which is particularly pleasing.

The cotton seeds planted have emerged and are growing vigorously.

After offering sacrifices to the stove, Jiang Sanlang took the time to go to Nanpo again, asking Wang Ke and his son to go back to celebrate the New Year first, and then come back to do work after the New Year.

Jiang Sanlang also measured five bushels of wheat and one bushel of rice and gave them to him as advance wages.

Wang Ke happily carried the wheat and rice and took his two sons home.

There are still three mouths waiting at home, and the little food left before has probably been eaten by them. The five bushels of wheat and one bushel of rice given by Jiang Sanlang were enough to sustain his family until February or March.

As long as in February and March, wild vegetables and elm shoots grow in the wild, and their family will deal with them carelessly, they will not starve to death.

By the time April comes, the locust trees all over the mountains will fill their stomachs. If the children go to the river ditches to catch some small fish, shrimps and loaches, they will be able to make do with the summer harvest.

In this way, his family can be considered relieved.

For many years, the poor people have been able to survive like this year after year, until they can no longer survive.

In a blink of an eye, Spring has passed and the ice and snow have melted.

Another new year begins.

During this period, the imperial court issued a conscription order, and many young men in Chuanhe Town were forced to go to the battlefield.

The same thing happened in Dongxichen Village. A dozen men over the age of 18 were taken away at one time.

Even the patriarch Chen's family was not spared, and his youngest son was finally drafted into the army.

This time the conscription was very strict. In order to raise the number of soldiers, it was not allowed to buy private soldiers to replace the soldiers. Therefore, the leader Chen had to push his youngest son to apply for the conscription.

But no one expected that the old man of the Jiang family had become a mature man. After replenishing the food requisition, he went to Li Zheng to allocate households to his three sons.

In order to confirm his son's household registration as soon as possible, Mr. Jiang also gave half a catty of dried golden ears to Sun Lizheng.

Sun Lizheng didn't accept his things in vain, so he sent his household registration to the county government for filing the next day.

The advantage of dividing households is that the county government will not issue a conscription order to the only male in the household.

If there is anything bad about it, it is that every household must pay one cent for the annual labor service.

In other words, the three brothers will have to do ten to thirty days of hard labor every year from now on.

There was nothing that could be done about it. It was a blessing in disguise. It was better to work locally and die in an unknown battlefield.

As a result, the three Jiang brothers escaped conscription and saved money for more soldiers.

Just after the first lunar month, Sun Lizheng brought someone to the Jiang family's house to recalculate the household status.

In the end, the three Jiang brothers were all assessed as second-class households. In the future, during the summer and autumn harvests, they would have to pay taxes as second-class households.

Jiang Sanlang was not surprised and readily accepted this assessment.

As soon as spring comes, I am as busy as a top and can't stop at all.

If my daughter wants to transplant fruit trees on the south slope, she must first dig a tree pit. After digging the pit, she must carry the chicken manure piled outside the yard to the south slope for fertilization.

"Sanlang, a local man came to our village."

Chun Niang kneaded the dough and said to her husband: "Then foreigners want to set up a girls' school here."

"What kind of school are you running?" Jiang Sanlang was surprised, "No wonder a new house was built over there."

He had been living on the south slope recently, digging holes and planting trees, and his daughter was also helping there. Unexpectedly, within a few days, the village built a new house for a group of locals next to the clan school.

"It's said to be a school where female dolls learn medical skills."

Chun Niang kneaded the dough, pulled out the large pieces of dough, and started kneading the steamed buns.

"Learning medical skills? That's good. It's just right for Bao'er to learn too." Jiang Sanlang said.

My little girl is smart and smart, and is destined to be different from ordinary village girls. If she learns some skills, she can find a husband in the city in the future.

When Ying Bao heard this, she immediately became curious.

In my previous life, there were no girls' schools here.

She took Yoyou out, put a saddle and reins on it skillfully, and climbed on the deer's back on the bench. She wanted to see what the outsiders looked like.

I don't know when several houses were built next to the Chen clan school, and a large yard was also built.

The yard is not quite finished yet, and several villagers are helping to carry earth walls.

But there seemed to be people living in the house, and there were two well-dressed children standing at the door. They were obviously not from the village.

Because they were far away, Ying Bao couldn't see their faces clearly, but she vaguely thought they were a boy and a girl.

The girl is slightly older than Erni, and the boy is about the same height as Yuanbao.

Yingbao urged Youyou to get closer, and saw two children who had also noticed her and were looking towards her.

At this time, a woman in a camel-colored dress came out of the house. She was in her thirties, dignified and quiet.

She also saw Ying Bao and waved to her.

Ying Bao Shen sent ghost messengers to urge the deer to come over.

The woman smiled and asked, "Whose child are you?"

"From Jiang Sanlang's family." Ying Bao suppressed her excitement and kept glancing at the girl next to her.

This girl looks like Sister Wen, her facial features are exactly the same, but why did Sister Wen come to this little-known mountain village?

"She belongs to Jiang Sanlang's family." The woman smiled more gently and asked softly, "What's your name?"

"Yingbao, my name is Yingbao." Yingbao answered loudly.

The boy next to him froze, looking a little unhappy.

The woman and girl both laughed.

"So it's called Yingbao. It's such a good name."

The woman spoke gently and softly: "Do you want to come down and play for a while?"

Ying Bao nodded quickly.

The woman stepped forward and took her off the deer, touched the braid on her head, and said with a smile: "Come and meet her, this is my daughter, her name is Wen Shu. That is my son, his name is Wen Hengyin."

Warm and comfortable?

Yingbao almost screamed, the young lady was really called Wen Shu!

Ying Bao's eyes were bright and she stared at Wen Shu without blinking. She said over and over again in her heart, don't reveal your secrets and don't get excited. There are many people with the same name and surname in the world. She must not mistakenly identify people. She must ask carefully before confirming.

Wen Shu also smiled at her and stepped forward to hold Ying Bao, "Ying Bao, how old are you?"

Ying Bao raised three fingers and said, "Three years old." She will be three years old in two months.

"I just turned nine years old and my zodiac sign is Rabbit. You are a Monkey, right?"

"Yes." Yingbao nodded vigorously: "Sister Wen guessed it right."

The boy next to him snorted and muttered, "You still need to guess? You idiot."

Ying Bao turned to look at him. He looked six or seven years old, with a chubby, pink and tender face. If he had two pigtails, he would definitely look like a girl.

"My brother is a Snake. He is six years old."

Wen Shu led her aside, took out a piece of light green flower cake from the food box on the table and handed it to Ying Bao, "Try the mung bean cake made by my mother."

"Thank you, Sister Wen."

Ying Bao took the cake and started to eat it, squinting her eyes and looking at the little girl in front of her.

Willow eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, a straight nose and a beautiful mouth, soft and white skin, the more she looks at her, the more she looks like Sister Wen.

"Sister Wen, where is your hometown? Why do you come to us?" Yingbao asked boldly, taking advantage of her young age.

Wen Shu smiled: "My hometown is far away. My father is weak and wanted to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to cultivate himself, so he came here."

Yingbao rolled her eyes and asked, "Isn't Grandpa Wen who came to our place last time a relative of yours?"

Wen Shu nodded: "That's my grandfather. He was the one who told my father that this is a good place to stay healthy."

"Oh." Yingbao understood. "Then your family runs a pharmacy?"

Wen Shu lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "My family does not have a medicine shop, but my father once worked as a medicine man."

Wen Hengyin suddenly snorted from behind and said dissatisfied: "Are you from the patrol room? Ask me this and that."

Ying Bao ignored the little kid's sarcastic remarks, hugged Wen Shu and smiled mischievously.

"Sister Wen, can I be friends with you?"

"Okay." Wen Shu touched the little one's head, feeling warm in his heart, and said warmly: "You can come and play with me at any time in the future."

This little doll is so cute and gives people a warm feeling, not like my cousins ​​at all.