Five Immortals Gate

During the treatment days, I fell into a lame condition.

Li Wei, who was half-kneeling in the room and supporting his mother, looked at Li Yan gratefully and said, "Lao Wu, Third Brother."

"Third brother, you don't have to say anything. I need you to take more care of the family in the future." Li Yan smiled softly at the third brother and interrupted, "Maybe I can become a general or something in the future, and then I can take you all to enjoy the happiness." ".

Li Wei looked at him, and after a while he sighed softly, then looked at his mother who was still sobbing softly while being patted on the back by the fourth sister, and said comfortingly, "Then the fifth son of the Li family may be able to bring glory to the ancestors."

In fact, Li Wei and Li Yan had heard from their father and the villagers who went to the city to sell wild animal meat or furs, or to buy daily household items in the city, that they were a border town, with the Mongolian country to the south, and the chance of a border war was still very high. Big, wars have broken out from time to time in recent years. Therefore, they have often recruited soldiers here over the years. In the past, recruitment required each village to write a letter of guarantee, proving age, identity, history at home, etc. Now, as long as the village chief sends you, you can join the army. This is also because the emperor of the current dynasty rules the world with culture and ethics. The victory of culture in the court has led to the decline of military power in the court, which has caused surrounding countries to be ready to take action, and wars have broken out from time to time. In recent years, not only There is war in this direction, and wars are breaking out on the border in other directions. Therefore, the garrison dispatched by the Central Dynasty cannot meet the needs of the local defense forces. The local garrison can only recruit troops on the spot to supplement the supply of troops.

However, some local people know that there is a higher chance of joining the army and participating in the war, so the enthusiasm for joining the army is not very high. Due to the current emperor's laws and regulations governing the world with culture and ethics, the local defense army cannot force recruitment, so these few As long as you join the army in the year, you can get a sum of money to give to the family members of the army, which is actually a settlement allowance, to stimulate the enthusiasm for joining the army. Once this method came out, it also caused many farmers to send their children to join the army. Of course, this is basically They are from poor families, but wealthy businessmen cannot.

However, these situations are not something that women in the village can know. In this world where men are superior to women, men rarely talk to their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law about these situations. However, these things can be used as a guide for the villagers.

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It was a topic of conversation when we were beaten in the fields, especially in their mountain village, which is more than 200 miles away from the county seat. There are only twelve or three families in the village. There will be no one who has enlisted in the army for many years, but the two brothers Li Wei and Li Yan But you can hear it when you are working in the fields or traveling with the team into the mountains.

Then, the room fell silent again. After a long time, Old Man Li banged his pipe on the threshold a few times and said, "Then I'll go find the village chief. You can rest." After that, he walked towards the village under the dark moonlight. After a while, the figure disappeared into the early autumn moonlight.

The moonlight was scattered on the pit from several wooden window panes with torn paper holes. Several tattered quilts with exposed cotton covered the two of them. Li Wei and Li Yan were lying back to back.

"Lao Wu, when encountering trouble in the army, you should be calm, endure what you can tolerate, and don't push forward."

"Um".

After a period of silence, "If, if there is a war, if no one sees it, don't rush ahead and fall a few steps behind."

"Um".

After another period of silence, he said, "You don't have to worry about your family. With your allowance for joining the army, I will take good care of your parents at home. You can buy more meat for yourself with your monthly salary."

"Yes. Third brother, you should work more in the fields. My parents are getting older."

"Okay, as long as I'm here, my parents won't be hungry."

"", continued silence and occasional words.

The moonlight is like water and the night is cool.

In the middle of the night, there was a soft knock on the main room door, and the two brothers stopped talking. Then the low and inaudible voices of their father and mother were heard in the side room. Soon after, the low sobs of the fourth sister and mother were heard. , it seems that the fourth sister has been accompanying her mother.

Li Yan still turned his back to his third brother, staring blankly at the wall in the dark night. The cracks on the wall, reflected in the hazy moonlight, were like the voices of relatives at home, each past event, from the beginning to the heart. Spread away.