Chapter 281 Falling into the water
What Sun Lizheng meant was that the number of conscripts was registered in the household registration. Those who occasionally reported disability or illness could be exempted from military service once, but they could not exceed the prescribed scope.
Jiang Sanlang: "Understood, I will inform everyone, they can do whatever they want."
If it doesn't work, just spend money to hire someone to go on the expedition instead.
After sending Li Zheng off, Jiang Sanlang summoned all the villagers and read out the list of expeditions.
After listening to the list, everyone was silent.
Everyone is living a good life, and they don't have to worry about food and drink. Suddenly, there is a military conscription, and are they going to let people live?
Jiang Sanlang said: "I don't care what method you use, anyway, our village must send out ten people." It doesn't matter if they spend money to buy more soldiers, or find someone to smooth the relationship and report them as sick and disabled, it's up to them to do it according to their abilities.
"Then, since my Boyuan has inconvenient legs and feet, does that mean he doesn't have to serve in the military?" asked Chen Jiaxing, the eldest son of the Chen clan.
Jiang Sanlang flipped through the roster and said, "Your eldest son has inconvenient legs and feet, but your second son is on the conscription list, so he cannot be registered as sick or disabled."
It's not possible to apply for a false disability on the surface, but if his family has connections, he might be able to find someone to apply for a fake disability.
"Why can't you retaliate? You are Muramasa. All you need to do is say no." Chen Jiaxing said dissatisfied.
Jiang Sanlang glanced at him and said, "Jiang is just a small village leader. He is only responsible for spreading the news. He cannot be the master. Why don't you go ask Li Zheng."
In the end, it was up to the officials from the county government to confirm the matter of conscription. It was not just him or the village chief who said whatever he wanted.
Several families had begun to cry.
Everyone knows that once you go into battle, it can be said that you will have a narrow escape from death.
During the military conscription in the past few years, only a few people from the whole village came back, and there is still no news about the rest. I never sent a letter home.
Now that we are recruiting troops again, why shouldn't we worry about it?
Jiang Sanlang didn't care about this. After reading the list, he asked everyone to go back and prepare. They would have to report to the post office the day after tomorrow at the latest.
Of course, he will take everyone with him.
Three days later, Jiang Sanlang took the soldiers of his village to the Yi Pavilion to report.
The officials in charge of recruiting soldiers at the county government checked the rosters one by one, and finally checked the boxes to express their approval.
Jiang Sanlang breathed a sigh of relief.
When I got home, several villagers gathered around me and asked, "Is it done?"
"It's done." He stuffed the official with two hundred taels of silver and then settled the matter.
That's right, five of the ten people in their village bought more soldiers, including Jiang Quan, who had just turned seventeen.
This matter requires bribing the officials who check the household registration, so everyone asks this question.
Several villagers were relieved and thanked Jiang Sanlang again.
Jiang Sanlang was also helpless. He waved his hands and said, "You can't go out and talk nonsense. If something happens, no one will be able to eat and walk around."
"I know, Sanlang, don't worry, we won't let outsiders know a word about this." The villager slapped his chest loudly.
Yingbao stuck her head out of the window and listened for a while, then sighed.
They all spent money to hire people to go out on behalf of their children, and the people they hired were Dingkou from poor families in other villages.
In these families, the eldest child was less than ten years old. For fifty taels of silver, the man himself became a pawn and went out on the battlefield for others.
This is the case for the family hired by Uncle Jiang's family.
However, Uncle Jiang settled the family on the wasteland he purchased and built three huts for them to live in.
"Yingbao! Yingbao!" Chen Zhao came to find Yingbao again, holding a bamboo basket in his hand: "Shall we go pick up firewood?"
Her father went to study in the county seat, and her eldest sister went to tend the vegetable fields. Only her grandparents and that annoying Chuman were left at home. Chen Zhao didn't want to see that woman, so he often brought his younger brother to play with Yingbao.
Ying Bao was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and ask Sister Erni to join me."
Of course Chen Zhao had no objection and happily stood in the yard waiting.
After a while, Erni came over with a bamboo basket on her back and said, "Let's go to the pine forest to pick up pine cones. We have to walk a long distance. Is it inconvenient for you to take Xu Bao with you?"
The pine forest is far away from here, and two-year-old Xu Bao will definitely not be able to leave.
"Then I will send Xu Bao back to grandma to take care of her." Chen Zhao impatiently carried a bottle of oil, but his brother always liked to follow her.
In this way, Chen Zhao sent his younger brother home and handed him over to his grandmother Chen Fengshi.
The three of them carried bamboo baskets and hoes on their backs and headed towards the pine forest. Xiao Hei, who was seriously injured, also followed Ying Bao.
The pine forests here are all dwarf pine trees, with many pine cones growing on them.
But Yingbao didn't come here to pick up pine cones. She wanted to look for Poria cocos.
Sister Wen said that Poria cocos grows at the roots of pine trees, like cold rice balls covered with ashes, which is very easy to recognize.
There happened to be a large pine forest on the south slope of the wasteland, so she wanted to take a look.
The snow in the fields has melted, but the weather is still very cold.
The three of them entered the pine forest and each did their own thing. Erni and Chen Zhao picked up pine cones and looked for pine nuts that had not been eaten by squirrels.
Yingbao took Xiaohei to find Poria.
Under the pine trees, pine needles fell all over the ground, and there were many pine cones.
After searching for a long time, I suddenly saw a dark brown bulge as big as a goose egg under a pine tree.
Ying Bao quickly ran over, took out a knife and cut some, revealing a snow-white color inside.
It’s indeed Poria!
Yingbao was overjoyed and quickly dug it out with a small hoe.
The root was broken inside, so she dug some dirt to cover it.
Xiao Hei came over to smell it, and when he saw his little master putting it away happily, he tilted his head and ran away.
A Poria cocos was dug up, proving that there would still be some here, and Yingbao began to search carefully again.
Suddenly, Xiao Hei barked not far away.
Ying Bao ran over and saw Xiao Hei yelling at her twice and pawing twice with his front paws.
"Wow! It's so big!" Ying Bao exclaimed while touching something as big as a washbasin.
I took out the medicine hoe and dug around. It was snow-white inside, and it was indeed Poria cocos, but something had chewed it in some places.
But it doesn't matter, this Poria cocos plant is big enough, as long as you cut off a little, there is still a lot of usable part.
"Xiao Hei, you are so awesome," Ying Bao rubbed Xiao Hei's big head and gave him a pill.
After picking the Poria cocos, Erni called her over there: "Yingbao! Let's go back!"
While Ying Bao was looking for Poria cocos, Erni and Chen Zhao had already picked up a basketful of pine cones, many of which still contained full pine nuts.
"Here it comes! Here it comes!" Ying Bao put the Poria cocos into the backpack and took Xiao Hei to join Er Ni.
The three of them returned home happily.
As soon as I walked near the village, I heard someone shouting: "No! A child fell into the water!"
The three of them were startled and rushed over.
I saw two people on the other side of the pond, stamping their feet and shouting.
At a glance, Yingbao saw two children flapping in the pond, one of whom seemed to be his younger brother Jiang Wu.
If you fall into the river in such cold weather, you won't be able to swim up even if you know how to swim.
Erni and Chen Zhao also screamed: "Xiao Wu!" "Xubao!"
Ying Bao quickly took off her cotton clothes and pants, jumped into the water, and swam hard towards Jiang Wu.
At this moment, a few more people came to the pond. Two people who knew how to swim also took off their cotton-padded clothes and jumped into the pond.
But the water in the pond was so cold that they couldn't hold on until they swam very far, so they had to return.
Ying Bao's hands and feet were numb from the cold, but she still swam to Jiang Wu and grabbed him.