If He Mulan's previous words only gave Qiu Linbaotu an "opportunity" to turn back, then the "past" that Hu Li described was truly shocking to Qiu Linbaotu.
The eldest brother who "picked him back" was forty years old and had neither family nor personal wealth. No matter how much money he has, he will use it up. If you can't use it, you will keep it and use it when everyone has no money.
People in Wuzhixia admire him and think he is a competent eldest brother. Only he himself once laughed at himself and said, "I have no children, no parents, no mother, so who should I leave the money for? It's better for everyone to be together. It's spent." and so on.
There are also brothers who say that he disappears for a while every year during the Qingming Festival, and no one can be found. Everyone guessed that he was going to visit the tomb. Qiulin Leopard Tu was picked up at that time.
Thinking about it now, probably his family's cemetery is in Xiaoshi Township, so he picked up Qiulin Baotu, who had fainted from hunger.
To be honest, Qiu Lin Baotu was also attracted by the bloodthirsty and desperate in the fantasy he described, and he couldn't help but imagine what he would say if he came to His Majesty.
Is it to complain about the injustice of this system? Or just yell at it
But as the happy imagination passed, Qiu Linbaotu could only smile bitterly.
They have only imagined capital. Because someone who has been a "deserter" can't get in front of His Majesty at all, and has no position to swear at it
Your Majesty, he has never been a deserter.
Whether it was the death of the late emperor, the Rouran people went south to take advantage of the fire, or the Liang and Qin countries covetted him and bullied him to invade at a young age. His Majesty, who had no children, was always fearless in battle, and acted with dignity. Those who lead the way and lead the way.
Qiu Linbaotu's head hurt more and more the more he thought about it. On this day, he first fell out of love, then was beaten by his brothers, and finally learned about such a sad story that can be said to be "a lesson from the past". Fell asleep.
He Mulan carried him all the way into this village far away from Wuzhixia, and under the guidance of others, he found a benevolent village chief, and only then did he have a place to live temporarily.
He Mulan took two bags of corn and asked the village head to boil some water for them and make some hot food. The village chief took it and gave it to his daughter-in-law. Then she took her daughter-in-law and started to work on the stove.
"I think you came from the front. Did you meet a strong man?" The village chief is an old man of Han nationality in his fifties. His face is very kind, and his family should be relatively wealthy. There is an empty space for drying things.
Poor people have nothing to bask in.
He Mulan knew that Qiu Linbao's sudden injury was terrifying, so she nodded.
"Hey, did those people on the mountain have no food to eat? They never robbed the people around them before." The village shook his head, "They even hurt the young man like this. Now people, once they are very hungry, Humans have turned into beasts..."
He Mulan blinked, not knowing what to say.
Fortunately, the village chief only saw strangers complaining, and he also saw that He Mulan and the others were not ordinary people. Although they did their duty to entertain guests, they were not warm, and waited for their daughter-in-law to bring food and hot water. After it was delivered, he hurried his children and grandchildren who were watching the fun back to his house.
He Mulan and Adanzhuo checked Qiu Linbao's wounds and put some medicine on them. They estimated that it would take two or three days for his injury to go away. They discussed whether to recuperate for him here or simply buy it in the village. A car frame, set a carriage back to Xiaoshi Township.
"Don't go back to Xiaoshi Township..." Qiu Linbao, who had been awakened by Adanzhuo's drug application, said suddenly, "I was beaten up like this, and my mother doesn't know what I'm going to be scared of. She is staying at home now. , know what I'm doing and worry about it, when I feel better, General Hua will send me directly to the military mansion."
"Is that ok? At least see your mother, right?" Although He Mulan always wanted Qiu Linbao to correct her mistakes, she still couldn't bear it when it was time to confess her sins.
"It's the same if I don't see it. My mother is timid, but she is resilient. No matter what kind of suffering, she can accept it. If I have an emergency..." He said uncertainly, "Should, Can you make it through..."
Adanzhuo scratched his face, opened his mouth to say something, but closed his mouth.
What he wanted to say was, "Why don't you go?", but when he thought that Qiu Linbao had finally gathered the courage to do so many things, and then gave up when things came to an end, it was definitely impossible.
The so-called "kill to create benevolence" and "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" are meant to correct mistakes, not to die.
Just like going to the battlefield does not necessarily lead to death, exaggerating the "danger" and sometimes asking for trouble.
Therefore, Adanzhuo finally closed his mouth.
They rested at the villager's house for two days. On the third day, Qiu Lin Baotu was barely able to mount the horse by himself, so the group began to rush to the prefectural military residence here.
In the Northern Wei Dynasty, in addition to the yamen, most of the public security in each state was in charge of the county soldiers, and the county soldiers were managed by the prefectural government.
However, in the entire state capital, the military households and skilled soldiers who can directly fight are managed by the general's government that the state has established in the territory. Each prefecture has a general guarding the army, who is responsible for "separating the supervision of the Hu, preparing the army, and managing the military households".
In fact, based on the military exploits of Mulan back then, she could actually open a mansion and become a "great general", with her own part and general mansion, but she did not continue to be a general, and she also did not agree to use a woman as a "shangshulang". Instead, he patted his butt back to his hometown, so the General's Mansion was gone.
The prefectures of Bingzhou are located in Yanmen and Shangdang, with Yanmen in Yanmenguan and Shangdang in Huguan. A-Danzhuo and He Mulan traveled from Huguan to Xiaoshi Township, and the way back was naturally familiar.
The state military mansion is not in the city, but in a spacious school ground in the east of the city. The soldiers recruited by the state military government must be managed according to the needs of each army. After receiving the military post, you only need to go to the military government to report where you are going, and then take your own weapons and equipment to the military camp you are going to. .
Therefore, when the guards of the state military mansion saw the three cavalry marching toward the military mansion, they were extremely puzzled.
Haven't heard of the military post recently? The last time I posted a military post was more than two years ago. Could it be that these people are here to do other things
The two young men dismounted from the horse at the entrance of the military mansion. The young man at the back was full of wounds, and the posture of dismounting was extremely strange, as if others had been riding a horse for a month. He stepped forward with his legs stretched out like this, and said loudly:
"The son of Lin Mozhen, a military household in Xiaoshi Township, Xiashangdang, escaped from military service and wandered around two years ago. Now the military government has come here to plead guilty!"
Several guards at the door looked at me stupidly, I looked at you, and whispered to each other.
"Did you hear what he said? He escaped military service two years ago?"
"Similar to what the woman who came yesterday said, is that her son?"
"I'll go inside to report, be careful not to let him go."
"You've all surrendered to the crime, how can you run away, you think too much!"
Qiu Linbao suddenly held his fist and bent his body for a long time, and then he heard the guards whispering in inaudible whispers for a long time, and then a young general who looked like a leader turned his head and entered the military mansion, and ran away without a trace.
Several other sergeants looked at Qiu Lin Baotu with pity and asked him to get up first.
"It turned out to be you. You can be regarded as a person who deserves a name here. When our palace master and the military commander talked about you back then, they hated their teeth so much that you could ask for more blessings."
As soon as these words were said, He Mulan and A Danzhuo sank in their hearts.
Although the surrender can be taken lightly, Qiu Linbaotu has been fleeing for two years before coming back. How this "light" should be handled depends on the judgment of the military officials.
In other words, personal factors account for a large proportion.
After a while, the teenager who went in to report the news came out with a few fighters, and wanted to escort Qiu Linbao to break in. He Mulan also wanted to follow up to see how things would continue, so it was rarely used to take the side out of his arms. , handed it to the leading teenager:
"I want to meet the Palace Master here."
As soon as the golden seal on the purple ribbon came out, the faces of these soldiers changed in shock. They couldn't perform the full salute because of the armor, but they still knelt down on one knee.
"Under the mark/last general, wait to meet the general!"
Although Hua Mulan does not have an official position, but the 12th military merit is an rank. Unless His Majesty cancels her lord personally, wipes her treatment and status as a "general", and takes back the purple ribbon and golden seal, as long as she is alive for one day , all soldiers should treat her with the courtesy of a general.
Although she has an honorary title, she has no real position. If she wants to rely on this to direct these people to do something, it will be in vain, and everyone can not sell this account.
A general who may be promoted to rank 12 in military merit, even if he does not have a real job now, must have an intertwined relationship in the military. Which one has a bad mind and will offend a hero who is a "superior general of the country"
So in some cases, having such an identity is still very useful.
For example, He Mulan and A Danzhuo were immediately treated as guests, and after a while, they still saw the military commander here.
The military commander here is very old, he seems to be at least sixty years old, his hair and beard are all white, but his actions are relatively vigorous, and he has the style of a warrior.
As soon as he entered the hall, he immediately knelt down on one knee, handed back the purple ribbon and golden seal, and saluted, "The last general will meet General Hua! The government, this place is temporarily led by the last general."
When He Mulan saw someone who was enough to be her grandfather kneeling on the ground, she took the letter uncomfortably, picked him up again, and said repeatedly, "It's me who came here presumptuously, and I'll bring you all trouble."
The commander was obviously a sociable person. As soon as Hua Mulan helped him, he got up and looked at Hua Mulan carefully from the corner of his eyes, but he couldn't see how she looked like a woman.
But the seal will not be false. Most people don't know what the golden seal of the 12th rank looks like. Only the atlas of the military government records it. In fact, this military commander named Wumengshan went to the picture book as soon as he got the thing. He had never seen what the pattern on the gold seal should look like. After it was confirmed, he ran out to greet him. .
"Don't dare. I have already heard from the gatekeeper in front of the gate. I heard that General Hua was escorting the deserter from the Qiulin family?" Wumengshan said with admiration: "General Hua really is a man of integrity and integrity. He actually personally pressed Qiu Linbao and taught him to be like that..."
Uh
Did he do something wrong
Wu Mengshan thought he knew some kind of truth, and began to talk incessantly.
"General Hua is a woman, and she knows that the military orders cannot be violated. She joined the army for her father and made some achievements in the army. After this Qiu Linbao suddenly became a hero, there were no dead or corpses in the past, which caused our palace master to be furious. It also dragged down a number of military households. I knew that if General Hua knew about this, he would not be able to spare this coward, but I didn't expect General Hua to come from Liang County, find this son in person, and send it to the military mansion... "
He was full of admiration: "It's just that General Hua taught this kid a little too hard, and it's not good for us to beat him up again. Tsk tsk, General Hua heard that he also practiced soldiers himself back then, but he didn't expect it. This 'training' technique is so skilled, Qiu Linbao has so many wounds on his body, but no one really hurts his vitals or bones, such a skilled technique, even a criminal in the army..."
"Wait, wait..." The more He Mulan listened, the worse he heard, and she interrupted: "Do you think that Qiu Linbao suddenly was injured by me?"
Wu Mengshan showed an expression of "It wasn't you who injured him, who else injured him", and then said clearly: "Yes, yes, General Hua won't teach the children, it's too impersonal to do so. It must be someone else. I can't stand him, others beat him!"
Seeing that the military commander seemed to have decided on a certain outcome, He Mulan didn't bother to refute it. A Danzhuo wanted to laugh behind her, but she held it back.
The commander-in-chief talked for a long time as if he hadn't spoken to a living person in hundreds of years, "... I'll just say how the attitude of the Qiulin family has changed drastically. First, a Wang clan came yesterday, saying that it was the Qiulin Leopard meeting two years ago. The reason why she escaped from military service is all hers. She came to accept the crime. Today, Qiu Linbao came in person, and the labor general came to the door. The palace master is not here, I should have handled this matter..."
"I despised the son of this family yesterday. It took two years for me to plead guilty, and I even asked my grandmother to take the blame. Looking at it now, there may be another reason..."
"What? Mrs Wang came yesterday?"
"Why did Aunt Wang go out!"
"It's the Wang family! It was sent by the Che family from Xiaoshi Township." After Wumengshan responded, seeing He Mulan and Adanzhuo both looking incredulous, he said blankly, "Why, the two of you actually I don’t know? Yesterday morning, I came to our military mansion to plead guilty, and I didn’t know what to do, so I had to detain her in the back office. Now that Qiu Linbao came suddenly, let’s interrogate her together.”
He Mulan didn't know what to do anymore.
Although Wang is ignorant and timid, she has no subjective thoughts of harm. The responsibility of the military mansion to "jointly sit" is a remnant of the previous tribal system. Few of the Xianbei people escaped military service. The Wang family may not have heard of it, or he may have forgotten it without taking it seriously. Later, his son escaped from the military mansion and began to " Sitting even." Then he panicked and fell into self-blame and remorse.
Although most of the blame for this regret was on the Wang family, in terms of internal causes, there was still a problem with the Xianbei system. In the past, it was a small tribe, and it was certainly possible to recruit troops to fight in the old way, and to be appointed as an official and awarded a title. Now the Great Wei has pacified the north and become a huge country.
On the one hand, He Mulan regretted the encounter with Wang and Qiu Lin Baotu, and on the other hand, he hoped that they could take responsibility and at least live innocently in this world. Shi pushes out the idea.
Now that Mr. Wang "turned himself in" and blamed himself for all the guilt, it was too unexpected for them.
It was a surprise to them that the Wang family was able to find the "adversary" car home and leave Xiaoshi Township and run to this Huguan.
"I don't know if I have time..." He Mulan pondered for a while, and said solemnly, "I want to talk to the military division Wumeng about what happened in Qiulin's house."
"General Hua, please take a seat, the last general will listen carefully." Wumengshan invited He Mulan to take a seat, and he himself knelt down under him.
"The first thing I want to say is that I didn't come here to plead for Qiu Linbao suddenly, and I didn't come here because I wanted to send him to plead guilty. He would come here, and it was his own choice. The matter of escaping from the service began a few years ago..."
He Mulan calmed down and explained the reasons for her coming to Shangdang, as well as the experiences along the way, the experiences of Wang Shi and Qiu Lin Baotu in the past few years, etc.
The military mansion was only responsible for the management of the military households and the mansion soldiers. It seemed that the story of all the men of a family dying in battle had not been heard too much, but the story He Mulan narrated did not come from her own body, but only based on a story. Judgments made from the perspective of bystanders are therefore more thrilling and twists and turns.
"I Have a Scroll of Ghosts and Gods"
When He Mulan said that the "eldest brother", the leader of the gang of robbers in Wuthering Mountains, was also a military household who escaped military service, Wumengshan couldn't help but let out an "ah".
The story continues. Gradually, the officers and soldiers passing by outside the hall couldn't help but stop at the door and listened quietly...
Seven days later.
"Qiu Lin Baotu, although you have escaped from military service, although you have surrendered yourself, according to the law, you can either serve seven years of hard labor in Shangdang County, build bridges and pave roads, and use lowly labor; You can recover your freedom, become a low-ranking member, or serve as a military slave, the military commander can let you choose your own path.”
Wumengshan read out the sentence against Qiu Lin Baotu in front of everyone on the school grounds of the military mansion.
The car division of the Che family, as well as the relatives of many military families in Xiaoshi Township, were invited here to participate in this belated trial.
'Finally free? '
The bound Qiu Linbao suddenly bowed his head to the ground, and said solemnly, "The sinner is willing to go to the west to garrison the border and use his military skills to clear up his past mistakes."
"Okay! This is the bearing that my Xianbei man should have!"
Wumengshan nodded heavily, took the documents on the side, and started to write.
When Wang shi, who was kneeling on the other side, heard his son's choice, he immediately burst into tears, crying uncontrollably, as if the sky had fallen.
Neither He Mulan nor Adanzhuo were surprised by Qiu Linbaotu's choice. With Hu Li's words, Qiu Lin Baotu would definitely try to redeem his fault in an upright manner.
Being a military slave in the army, although most of the time is used as cannon fodder, but now there are few wars, and the wars are not big, and the danger is much less. But in other words, if you want to kill 80 enemies, it is much more difficult than when Hua Mulan was a soldier. It is difficult to say whether there are hundreds of people in a battle. If you want to kill 80 enemies, you have to compete with the regular army for military merit. .
But since he chose this path, He Mulan could only respect his decision.
When Adanzhuo and the people in Xiaoshi Township heard that he chose to guard the side, complex feelings appeared in their eyes. Some admire, some gloat, and some regret.
People’s hearts always tend to be kind. Those who don’t want their own children to suffer and die, most of them don’t have the heart to see other people’s children suffer and die. Although there has been hatred before, but mistakes have been made, and their children have not died, but when they become military slaves, it is indeed a near death.
They are all old neighbors for more than ten years. Except for the car family who had a holiday with Qiu Linbao, most of them showed unbearable expressions.
"The wife of Qiulin Mozhen..." Wu Mengshan paused and picked up another document. "You are the wife of a martyr, and you should have been an example of a woman, but you instigated your son to escape from military service. I think that you are weak, and you will not be punished by corporal punishment, but the crime is unavoidable..."
Wumengshan glanced at Qiulin Baotu, who breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "You will be fined 1,000 sacks of grain to be sewn and handed over to the military within three months. If you fail to arrive within the time limit, you will be punished with 30 sticks. , the military government distributes food, I hope you can serve in peace, don't be lazy."
The grain sacks in the army are heavy bags made of burlap and gecloth. It is not easy to cut the burlap into the size of a grain sack, and if you sew it into a sack, you can't make ten pieces a day. Wang was a crybaby, her eyes were ill, and she couldn't even weave cloth. Now she had to sew grain bags. She was not a woman who could endure hardship. The job was not easy.
Qiu Linbao suddenly felt extremely entangled, and looked at He Mulan with helpless eyes. Although Wang was crying all the time, he bowed down and cried, "The criminal pleads guilty and is willing to serve."
He Mulan suddenly nodded to Qiu Linbao, which meant that he would think of ways to take good care of the Wang family. It is impossible for her to stay in Shangdang County, but her wealth is enough. It's really not possible, and it's not impossible to ask someone to do it.
After Wumengshan finished the judgment on the Qiulin Leopard case, he did not leave immediately, but ordered the soldiers to bring a few military books and said loudly:
"I know that many people think that my Xianbei military system is too strict. Since the first emperor, I have been fighting continuously for more than 20 years. I don't know how many people are extinct, but there are some things I have to say..."
Wumengshan is already sixty years old and his voice is old.
"It has been nearly 60 years since the establishment of the kingdom by the Great Khan of the Great Wei Dynasty. In the 60 years since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, there is not a single day that has not lived in the danger of instantly destroying the country."
"Our north used to be a wriggling that was more than ten times larger than our country. We have blocked the intrusion of the wriggling for 80 years with our own efforts, but the surrounding countries are not only not grateful, but instead often join forces when the wriggling goes south. Disturbing the border. Our north is Wrigg, the south is Qin, the west is Hu Xia, Liangguo, and the east is Feng Yan. It can be said that the tigers are eyeing, and the enemies are looking around. I think even in the past, there was no dynasty or generation, as big as ours. Wei walking on thin ice like this..."
"For more than 60 years since the establishment of the country, my Xianbei clan has established itself in the world with martial and bravery, and has won many battles and is not afraid of death. When it comes to Tuoba Wei in the north, all countries are afraid of the wind. Of course, there are those of our Xianbei clan who can conquer and fight well. Because of this, it is more because the military households endured tears and sent their sons into the army to earn a place to breathe. There is not an inch of the land of Wei that is not exchanged for flesh and blood. "
Wumengshan gave a heavy gift to the military households in the school field.
The military households who came to participate in the desertion judgment from Bingzhou panicked and returned their salutes. None of them expected that the old military commander would say so much.
He Mulan didn't know that Wumengshan would say such a long sentence after the judgment of Qiu Lin Baotu. A few days ago, when she was talking about what she had seen and heard about the military family, the old man had been silent.
He should be very proficient in the world, but because of this, he should feel more about these tragedies than others.
"In the past, the officials of the military offices of our prefectures would cry bitterly as long as it was winter. When the farming was slack, it was often the time to use the soldiers. In the winter, when the water and grass were not abundant, the crawly people would come down south to rob us. At this time, there is no one to conquer in the north, and the south is just settled, far less than the population of the big households in the north.”
"Why don't we feel guilty and sad when we send military stickers? We also have descendants. When there is no one to recruit, can we still have descendants? But if we don't completely eliminate the powerful enemies around us, we will live forever. In the shadow of the country's ruin, it's like Murong Xianbei who disappeared after the country was destroyed..."
"Is it to be killed in battle, or to be slaughtered like pigs and dogs after the country's collapse, making our wives and daughters become slaves? As long as there are bloody Xianbei men, they will know how to choose."
When Mr. Wang heard the old military secretary's words, his crying stopped, he couldn't help wiping away his tears, and sat upright and listened.
"You may not believe it, although the military posts one arrival, even if it is a frail, sickly, almost extinct family, the military government has records of the local military households, and they will deal with them as appropriate..." Wu Mengshan passed on several military books in his hand.
Military books are written in Chinese characters. Most people don't understand Chinese characters, and some people know a little bit. After flipping through it a few times, they can't see the pile of black and red things that are grouped together.
Someone remembered that Hua Mulan was still here, and the general book was sent to He Mulan to ask. She opened the military book and read it, and found that it recorded all the people who had recruited soldiers in Shangdang County.
The red letters are remarks, which one has died, which one is in the army, and which one has orphans and widows.
He Mulan pointed to these words and talked to them about the "human nature" contained in them. When some emotional women heard that there were orphans and widows in the family, they couldn't help but cry out in pain and couldn't help crying.
These steaming blood, the tombs of the dead in battle, and the dazzling pain and tears have all been turned into words and become the most powerful accusation.
Anyone who sees such a thing, His Majesty, will feel the accusation.
How can it be said that no one is working hard to change the injustice of this system? Since the human world is already suffering from invincible burdens, there is naturally such a powerful voice in the sky.
This kind of human pain has already made God unhappy, let alone the mortals who are trying to change
Wumengshan nodded slightly to He Mulan, thanked her for her explanation, and continued:
"If there are frail, more than three people in a household who have already joined the army, the local military government will assign the newly recruited people to a relatively safe rear military camp. Even if they arrive at the military camp, there will be a military government in the military camp who manages the corresponding nationality. If you really fight to the point of no one at home, the army will rarely incorporate these people into the forward camp.”
Looking at the military households with unexpected expressions, Wumengshan was also very sad. He had served in the military mansion for more than ten years, and he did not know how many Xianbei heroes were sent away. These regulations that were subtly changed later were never recorded in any regulations, because this was a decision that was not conducive to those years when there was a serious shortage of staff. Maybe "yin and yang violate".
He always felt that the big figures in the DPRK must know this "tacit understanding" between the military and the government, but he just chose to remain silent. Maybe he imagined it too well, but as long as someone is silent, it means they are doing the right thing.
"Our government's military system is a continuation of the ancestor's law. The Xianbei practice cannot be abolished, but there are human feelings outside the law. This distribution method has been used since we found that more and more casualties were used. In addition, it is not uncommon for the military to say that matchmakers lead marriages and switch defenses when there are enough people. Just because these violated the rules of the ancestors, the military government seldom publicized it, and the battlefield has no eyes. Sometimes even if it is properly arranged, it may not be so Everyone can survive…”
'The law of deserters sitting together is a law that cannot be defied, and the military government cannot change it. '
He Mulan thought.
'Even the changes mentioned by the Wumengshan Military Commander today are insignificant interference. Because there is really no one in front of the battle, the military camp at the back may be safe, and it will be on top later. But as long as there is a glimmer of hope, it is better to send back a few more children than to do nothing. They have at least seen the problem and are quietly changing in their own way. '
Wumengshan also thinks so.
"The times are different now. In the past, we were surrounded by enemies, surrounded by countries that were stronger than us. But after we fought for decades, all the soldiers and soldiers were fighting for a hundred battles, and the countries bullied arbitrarily because of their geographical advantage. We, but we don't know how to fight against horses and soldiers, and as long as we wait for the war, hundreds of thousands of people who control the strings will be able to fight immediately with the order of His Majesty. After all, these countries that once had the right time and place are still the horses that fell to my Xianbei man one by one. Down."
He stood up, glanced at He Mulan, and continued:
"Now that the Great Wei has unified the north, there are no more major battles to fight. We have sacrificed two or three generations of men, but in the end, we have swept the north and left the future generations with time to breathe."
"Maybe we look at the past and feel very cruel and ruthless, but people are in adversity. If we don't improve ourselves, future generations will have no chance to turn over. Our fathers died on the battlefield, our sons died on the battlefield, but our grandsons and great-grandchildren died on the battlefield. , but now we don’t have to go the way we have traveled.”
"Although there are dead people, most of them survived stubbornly and became stronger. I don't want to say whether the military system is right or not, because that is a question considered by the big men, but as far as I am concerned, I can see that the military stickers of Bingzhou Military Palace have been issued every six months, every year, and thousands of copies. Now I don’t need to send them every two or three years, and the number is only a few hundred each time. I am grateful. The love is so full that even words can't describe it."
"So, no matter how many people scold Your Majesty for being ruthless and ruthless, a king who only knows how to fight, and thinks that the military government's forced recruitment of strong men is a vicious thing to cut off children and never grandchildren, I still deeply respect Your Majesty and do not do it for myself. regret."
"There is no official position, and it is more unpleasant than the position of the military. I personally dismantle a complete family and send the men who are the pillars of other people's families into the army. This is also a battlefield that makes people sleepless at night. . If possible, we hope more than you..."
Wumengshan smiled bitterly.
"There will be a day when Dawei doesn't need a 'military mansion', a day when he never needs to use soldiers, and a day when he doesn't need a woman to join the army for his father..."
"But before that, we win first. Only the one who wins the battle at the end has the right to say 'we will live in peace in the future'."
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Wumengshan will say such a long paragraph here because he has reached the age of going to work.
He was not the military commander of the military mansion in Bingzhou before, but the military mansion where he served was worse than the one here. It was a place that was frequently attacked from the north and west. The military mansion was busy every day. Sometimes more people were killed than those who were recruited. The clerks in the military mansion had to break their hands every day. , Some are requesting support from the military government of various places, and some are sending military letters to each government, writing the list of the last batch of war dead.
After staying in the military mansion for so many years, no one is more aware of the changes in the past few decades than Wumeng Mountain. Military stickers are like life reminders, but after all, there are fewer and fewer reminders.
This shows that there are more and more people surviving on the battlefield. The surrounding powers are like grinding discs, grinding all those who are not strong enough. The strong ones who stay behind raise stronger offspring. Under the survival of the fittest, Dawei It was able to rise from the ruins of Shikoku.
The suffering of women and children will always pass. Da Wei produced a "Mulan", but after this Mulan, unless there is another danger of destroying the country, there will be no more.
Enough people died.
When everyone walked out of the military mansion, they all looked shocked. Wumengshan's words are very straightforward, even the uninformed rural women can understand, but they have long been frightened by the military stickers that have been sent to them for decades, so much that someone told them - "There will be no major battles in the future, and there are enough people in the army." Few people can believe it, and there is no sense of reality.
He Mulan remembered what several people had told her, that Tuoba Tao wanted to suppress Liu Song before it developed. She wondered if Liu Song, like Da Wei, who was a powerful enemy, was struggling to develop and improve himself, but at this time the people's emotions had reached the brink of collapse, at least within ten years, all Not suitable for military use.
She wanted to share what she had seen along the way with the person who could decide everything, but she was afraid that her decision would break the peace that Mulan finally gained.
In the end, all thoughts turned into a sigh. He Mulan helped Wang Shi on the ground and said, "Go, I'll take you home first."
Qiu Linbaotu was still in the military mansion. He would be sent to the border of Liangzhou by the military mansion. The Wang family received a thousand military sacks for corvée. Get it back after a month.
Wang's tears never stopped, she wanted to cry when she thought of her son, but she didn't curse her next fate.
Maybe everything she has experienced in these days will let her get out of the golden wire cage and grow a little bit.
"I know it may be hard for you to live alone. I rescued a woman in Dongping County, her surname is Li, and her husband's surname is Zhang. She is also lonely, and it is difficult to live in the local area. I will send a letter to my old friends there. Xin, if she is willing to come here to live with you, you can also be friends with each other. She can weave cloth and spin yarn to make clothes, and has a son who is also Han, but I don’t know you…”
"Hua Jiang's military affairs are arranged for us. What else can I be dissatisfied with? My house is very large. As long as she doesn't dislike my family's lack of fields, she can live as long as she wants." Wang lowered his head, "It's just that I am An immoral man…”
"The Qiulin family." A woman had already walked past them, not knowing what to think, she wandered in front for a while, and then turned back. "The thousand ration bags..."
She gritted her teeth: "There are many women in my family, come back and help you a little bit."
After the woman said this, she seemed to feel awkward. She stomped her foot and ran away without a trace.
Wang Shi was taken aback by this sudden kindness.
"General Hua, did I hear it wrong, she just..."
"Ah, you heard that right." He Mulan smiled.
She escorted Qiu Linbao to twenty-three families. This woman was the daughter-in-law of one of them, and He Mulan would not forget it.
She also splashed Chu Lin Leopard with water.
"This is a good start. Mrs. Qiu Lin, you need to be self-respecting in order to be respected by others. This is the first person, there will be a second and a third in the future. You have to wait for your grandson, You have to take care of yourself first..."
"Yes!"
Wang Shi burst into tears and laughed.
"After so many years, I only live the most like a person today!".
He Mulan stayed in Xiaoshi Township for a long time, she settled the Wang family, and entrusted the upright old man who always felt that she "sullied" his old wife to buy two acres of fertile land for Wang's family, and signed the contract. . She felt that two mu was enough. This woman couldn't grow too many fields at all. Even with Zhang Li, who had recovered from the injury, it was estimated that two mu would be enough for them to chew on.
The folk customs here are simple and sturdy. The women will scorn Wang's uselessness, while cursing and taking the burlap in bundles back to their homes, and the next day they will send the sewn sacks.
Those sackcloths were piled up in the courtyard of Qiu Lin's house by the people of the military mansion, and the amount of those sackcloths was enough to drive the people with intensive phobia crazy. Perhaps it was this hill-like height that made the women in the village uneasy, and they came one after another to help.
Adanzhuo and He Mulan chopped a lot of firewood, and went to Qiulin Mozhen's grave to talk about the changes in the past. When one plant was opened, she and Adanzhuo said goodbye to Wang and prepared to continue to the north.
She and A Danzhuo left and cried with tears in their eyes (Oh my God, why does she cry so much), and when they were heading out of Xiaoshi Township, they met a strange woman who asked for directions.
She was wearing an ill-fitting leopard skin coat, holding a four- or five-year-old child in her hand, walking towards Xiaoshi Township.
When she saw He Mulan appearing at the intersection, the woman showed a happy smile, saluted respectfully on the side of the road, and asked them the direction of Xiaoshi Township.
"Go straight in that direction..." He Mulan pointed at her whip, looked at her clothes and shoes, and frowned slightly. "Have you walked a lot? Well, it's not far anyway, we'll take you for a ride."
"Huh? No, no, no, I can go by myself..." The woman looked at He Mulan, who had an extraordinary bearing right away, and waved her hands again and again: "I'm a woman and I can't ride a horse with a strong man..."
Strong man…
Can't ride with a strong man...
He Mulan burst into tears.
In this life, I always open a big mouth and bite you out of nowhere.
woo woo woo woo…
"I'm also a woman, I'm just walking on the road dressed as a man." He Mulan explained.
"This... this is impossible... "
The woman showed an absurd expression, thanked her for her kindness, and dragged the child away.
"You are still walking, is your child moving?" A Danzhuo suddenly said. "I see his feet are already dragging on the ground..."
The woman's footsteps stopped suddenly, as if she had been casted on a spell to fix her body, and she couldn't move.
After a moment, she turned around and saluted.
"...Thank you for your kindness."
He Mulan and Adanzhuo would help her, not only because the woman and child on the road looked pitiful. He Mulan took the woman sitting on the side, A Danzhuo took the child, and the two of them took three horses. In just half an hour, they brought the woman exactly to the door of Qiulin's house, and then Quietly leave.
The woman was still grateful to He Mulan for their kindness, but the son beside her seemed to be still excited about riding a horse, and kept whispering words such as "driving" or "calling" in her mouth. class words.
'What a nice guy...'
The woman held her son's hand in embarrassment.
'Although he said he was a woman, but... ahem, how can there be a woman... so broad... Forget it, just think he is kind. '
"Let's go, baby dog, you must be obedient later."
The woman showed a worried look, gritted her teeth, but took a step forward and walked forward: "This aunt, may I ask if there is a family named Qiulin here..."
***
"Aunt Hua, did you also see that the woman was wearing a leopard-like leather jacket?" A-Danzhuo asked her dumbly, "She's from that river..."
"Ah, probably." He Mulan replied with a smile. "Wearing that leopard skin shirt is because Qiu Lin Baotu often wears this shirt and runs around. His mother must have seen it."
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"Huh? Didn't she and Qiu Linbao have already..."
Is it not that Lang has love and concubine unintentionally? Why did Qiulin Leopard suddenly run away with red eyes
"I don't understand the love between men and women..." He Mulan sighed with some regret, "Maybe she regrets it, and she doesn't necessarily want to turn back?"
"It's a pity that Qiu Lin Baotu has already gone to Liangzhou. It's a pity."
A-Dan Zhuoyue felt more and more regretful, whipped his whip and galloped. "Aunt Hua, it's been delayed for another hour, let's go quickly, don't miss the place!"
"Yeah." He Mulan grabbed the horse's belly and ran unhurriedly.
"Uh... Aunt Hua, where are we going next?"
"Go to Pingcheng."
"What? Don't you go elsewhere? Don't you send anything?"
"I think you're right..." He Mulan recalled her experience during this period and sighed: "Those who can't let go of me have already gone to Liang County to find me, such as you. And those who can let go, I should let go too."
"Well, let's go to Pingcheng. Drive!"
***
Mrs Wang, who sent He Mulan away crying, sat in the house and started her daily routine - sewing military ration bags, but suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside.
She had gotten used to being knocked on the door by her "Aojiao" fellow villagers, so she happily opened the door and said with a smile:
"I said I'll get it myself, I don't need you to send it... Huh? Who are you?"
The woman who was dressed in the dust but could not hide Li Rong grabbed the hand of the child beside her, and asked a little nervously, "Excuse me, is this Qiu Linbaotu's home?"
Wang shi looked at the woman, then at the leopard skin coat on her body, and nodded stupidly. "I am his grandmother, maiden name Wang."
When the woman saw the Lord, she immediately touched her stomach.
"Mom, I have a Leopard Tu child in my belly, it's been three months..."
pat.
The sack in Wang's hand fell to the ground, dumbfounded.
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"Mom, I have a Leopard Tu child in my belly, it's been three months..."
Wang: ... I, I, I, I have grandchildren
Adanzhuo: ... how come everyone has a son? I, I, I... I'm not alive!