Cub Nursery

The baby breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the problem was not difficult.

The cubs next to them took out the baby's small table, small bench, pencils, notebooks and so on early.The cub with a snake body hides in a corner and sneaks a pencil with the tip of its tail, writes and draws on the draft paper, and helps the baby calculate.

Under the watchful eyes of all the cubs, Bao Bao wrote and drew with the small pencil specially made for him. After calculating the answer, he checked the calculation again before showing it to Yan Xun.

"En." Yan Xun nodded affirmatively, "Suppose there are a total of [-] iron claw hyenas, and we can only plant [-] cotton stalks each year. Ten cotton stalks can weave a piece of cloth, and each battle robe in the border town needs One foot and eight pieces of cloth, you can calculate how many shirts the border town can produce every year."

"What is the length and width of a standard piece of cloth?" Baby asked quickly.

Yan Xun said a number expressionlessly.

This time the problem is more troublesome, the baby has been calculating for a long time.

The cubs followed around anxiously, and were afraid of affecting the baby, so they could only stay away.

Fortunately, although the baby was a little slower this time, he still calculated the correct answer.

"Next time, we have to work harder. There are time limits for exams." Yan Xun said, "Okay, your brothers have already prepared snacks, go and eat."

The baby cheered and hurried to eat snacks.

As the youngest brother, the cubs love the baby very much. They let him put on clean shoes and climb up to stand on the table. The plates and chopsticks for him are all handmade by the cubs, which are very suitable for babies.

Yan Xun and Jing Fengye retreated quietly together, blowing the cool breeze outside.

The clothes they wear are exactly the same style, but Yan Xun's is thinner, with trousers showing thin ankles, and cotton shoes with layered soles, all sewn by Jing Fengye himself.

Since the cotton cloth was put on the shelves in the shopping mall, it has sold very well, and many people imitated Yan Xun's clothes and sewed them themselves.It's just that everyone thinks that imitating Yan Xun's clothes can give him a certain demeanor, but they don't know that Yan Xun's clothes are all sewn by Jing Fengye.

"There is a seat over there, let's go and rest." Yan Xun said.

"...OK." Jing Fengye nodded.

In the spring, the riverside was rebuilt. In addition to the solid embankment, many more flowers and trees were planted on the bank. There are also small paths paved with stone slabs, and some wooden seats are hidden indistinctly. be seen.

Yan Xun took Jing Fengye and ran over to sit down excitedly, "How is this place?"

There are dots of shining stars above the head, the gurgling river not far in front, the lush trees behind, and the faint fragrance of flowers.

Jing Fengye hurriedly said: "It's beautiful."

It's just that although Yan Xun can't hear them, and people not far away can't hear their movements, but as a monster, Jing Fengye has very good ears and can hear all the movements not far away, far away, and far away. arrive.

They all came out for a walk after eating, all of them were men and brothers.

Well, there are also two men.

The movement is quite loud.

Jing Fengye approached Yan Xun unconsciously, and leaned over to kiss her.

In this environment, at this time, there is this kind of sound in my ears.

Right time and place.

half a crab

Oil lamps are lit at the gates of the workshops on this side of the river, and bright oil lamps are also lit on both sides of the cement road extending from Danxin Bridge, all the way to the sea far, far away.

In contrast, although there is no curfew in Beijing, very few people light oil lamps outside, so it is dark everywhere.

The palace was brightly lit, especially the imperial study room, where oil lamps lit up like daylight.

'boom'!

An inkstone was thrown on the ground, rolled a few times, and just rolled to Zhang Rui's feet.

Zhang Rui carefully picked up the inkstone and put it aside. This is the emperor's favorite inkstone. Now he dropped it in a fit of anger. Maybe it will be used again. Zhang Rui must have some refreshments.

"It's reversed, it's all reversed." The emperor slammed the table hard, and the imperial majesty disappeared.

Xie Qianshu's outer room has connections with Huang Ting and Fan Jiang in the border towns, and he even spread rumors all over the capital to deal with Yan Xun.If the emperor had really dealt with Yan Xun back then, wouldn't he have become a gun in the hands of these people?

What made the emperor even more angry was that the Xie family wanted Princess Shang in a roundabout manner a few days ago.

Xie Qianshu was personable, outstanding, and knowledgeable. The emperor was actually very tempted at the time, thinking that Xie Qianshu could be a son-in-law. The reason why he hesitated for a few days was just for the face of the royal family.

Fortunately, he hesitated a little, otherwise Xie Qianshu would be the princess, and if these things broke out again, the emperor would have to save Xie Qianshu's life and the royal family's face.

Xie's family used the emperor as a life-saving talisman, regarded the king's law as nothing, and played tricks on the emperor, which made the emperor furious.

However, Huang Ting and Fan Jiang had the guts to unite with the Xie family, which made the emperor feel a little panicked, and lost the last trace of trust in Qiu Bao.

"Zhang Rui, let Yang Qiong enter the palace." The emperor thought for a while, and felt that someone might catch clues that Yang Qiong entered the palace, so he hurriedly said, "You go out of the palace and tell Yang Qiong to help me with something."

Why did Qiu Bao rebel? The emperor needs evidence.

Once the emperor becomes suspicious, it is like the wind blowing, it will only blow bigger and bigger, and it will never disappear.

Yan Xun and Jing Fengye walked towards the meeting holding hands, they found much more than the emperor's.

"Is Zhao Yuanting related to Huang Ting and Fan Jiang?" Yan Xun wondered.

"He hid so deeply that he can't find it now. There is no other evidence to prove it, so we can only keep watching." Jing Fengye said, "Regardless of whether it is related or not, the Xie family cannot escape the responsibility."

"That's right, leave this matter to the emperor, let's go to other things." Yan Xun simply stopped thinking about it.

With Bei Qi and Baobao watching, and the help of other cubs, it is hard to believe that Zhao Yuanting can really never show his face.

At this moment, the cubs came to an end for the time being, and the cubs finally agreed on the places to go to the border town this time. The Shanshan cubs and the Huashu cubs stayed behind, and the war rabbit cubs and the snake body cubs followed on the train.

This time the train was still full of food, and besides that, there were some very mysterious people.

The Taoist soldiers by the sea, including the people in the workshop, except for the technical craftsmen on the train who knew their true identities, even Yan Xun didn't know them.

These people came from the capital to the beach in a carriage, and then they were led onto the train by skilled craftsmen when no one was paying attention, and they sat in the same carriage.

Yan Xun led the cubs onto the train, but did not show up in this carriage.

"Mother, the tables and benches here are all made of iron, how much does it cost?" Qin Zhou touched the bench excitedly, then the table, and then carefully touched the window, "Mother, take a quick look, It’s really all glass. How much gold and silver is this train worth?”

They have very little iron at home, and it was because of the discounts on kitchen knives in the mall a few days ago that Qin Zhou specially got up early in the morning to queue up, and then bought a cheap and high-quality kitchen knife, which is the best iron in their family. .

Qin Zhou couldn't stay idle, after touching his surroundings, he stood up and looked around, and found that everyone else behaved similarly, so he laughed.

"Brother Cai, calm down, don't embarrass your brother." Aunt Mo said hastily.

"Mom, I know." Qin Zhoucai hurriedly sat down, but still couldn't hide the excitement on his face, and looked out the window with bright eyes.

The train began to start slowly with a clicking sound, faster and faster, and the window flew across the wide river, passed through the capital, and ran to the distance.

Gradually, some villages and fields can be seen outside, and there are also curious people who came to watch the train.

Qin Zhoucai liked to run out to watch the trains before, but now he is in the body of this huge monster, and he can't feel the shaking. Only when he looks out of the window can he realize that the train has been speeding.

There are several doors in the place where the two carriages are used as an excuse. At this time, these doors opened one by one, and everyone looked at them subconsciously.

"I know them. They are skilled craftsmen on the train." Qin Zhoucai said excitedly, "They are the ones who brought people to our house. Parents, take a look."

Everyone else recognized it too.

The men were pushing long and narrow trolleys, and the man at the back was pushing a strange iron bucket.

Brother Huan walked to the front of the men from behind, and when he saw Qin Zhou protruding his head, he smiled and said, "Is Qin Zhou the one?"

"It's me." Qin Zhou quickly stood up.

He knew Brother Huan was the adoptive son of the emperor and also His Highness, but he didn't know how to salute, so he handed over and took credit in a mess.

"No need to be too polite." Brother Huan said with a smile, "I will send you some food, which are the simplest lunch boxes. Please don't mind. The iron bucket behind is filled with hot water. Have you brought bowls? No There is a wooden bowl on this side of the bowl to use."

The men immediately took out lunch boxes one by one.

Brother Huan immediately said: "Put the lunch box here after eating, and someone will clean it."

It is easy to open and close the iron barrel, and there is also a wooden bowl next to it.

The box lunch is based on the head, one box per person.

Only then did Qin Zhou open his share, and hurried to look at his parents' share, and found that everyone's dishes looked similar, but there were some small differences, but the steamed buns were all the same, soft and steaming, palm-sized, a meal One meal is absolutely full.

"Do you still eat the eggs we brought?" Qin Zhou asked in a low voice.

Although the skilled craftsmen on the train had told them to take care of the meals on the train, Aunt Mo still boiled some eggs to take with them, just in case they were needed.

"Take it out and eat it. Boiled eggs are not easy to put." Aunt Mo said.

Qin Zhou hurriedly opened the bag to look for eggs. He found that other people in the carriage also brought eggs for food, so he couldn't help smiling.

With steamed buns and eggs in the box lunch, Qin Zhou was full and his stomach was full.

Their family brought a bowl, and Aunt Mo went to pour hot water from the iron bucket and brought it back.

The inside of the train is very stable, there is no bump at all, and the water in the bowl is also stable.

Although it was very hot, the windows on the train were open, and the wind was blowing in all the time, so it was not hot at all.Qin Zhou felt curious everywhere and never rested. When the train finally stopped, he was still very excited.

Outside the window are large cotton fields and mulberry fields, and on the other side is the huge border town railway station.There were many people waiting there long ago, and everyone had smiles on their faces.

No matter how far away, there are square concrete houses, and even further workshops can be seen.

Brother Huan came again, "Don't be impatient, everyone, get off the train later, don't worry. The place for you to live is also arranged, it's in the concrete building inside the train station."

"There's no hurry." Qin Zhou said hastily.

The technical craftsmen got out of the car first, and then Yan Xun led the cubs out of the car.

After everyone dispersed, Brother Huan personally led Qin Zhou and the others off the train, and walked directly into the cement building through a separate passage.

There were rooms in the huge concrete building, and Qin Zhoucai's family was assigned to a room with two beds, and the quilts were well spread.

"Father and mother, the house is so clean. Do we need to change our shoes when we enter the house?" Qin Zhoucai walked up and down the house, feeling a little uncomfortable stepping on the clean floor under his feet, "This is the border town, what I think It's not the same at all."

There are rumors all over the capital that the border town is so miserable and life is so bad. Although the emperor issued an order to praise Yan Xun, the people no longer talk about Yan Xun, but they always feel that the border town must be very bitter.

It is not suffering for a while, but suffering every year, for decades.

Those guarding the border town are Taoist soldiers, and those military households can survive, except for those who have no choice but to stay in a border town that is so miserable that even thieves won't patronize?

Only then did Qin Zhou remember that his father had said that except for the big camp in the border towns where food was paid, the fields did not produce grain, because the crops would not grow at all, and it was difficult to survive in the border towns.

Their family is also very hard in the capital, but as long as they are willing to work hard, they can always fill their stomachs. Later, they have tofu, as long as they are willing to endure hardships, they can make money. As far as discounts and promotions are concerned, for the poor, it's like a pie in the sky.

Some people even say that Yan Xun's discounts in shopping malls every day must be for the poor. He is too kind-hearted, so he will definitely not make much money.

"There is nothing in the border town, and it is desolate. It has been like this since many years ago."

"Brother Cai, your brother suffered a lot in the border town. In the future... hey, I don't know if I will have the chance to see your brother again."

"At the beginning, our family was counting on your brother to be famous. Now that I think about it, it's better not to let your brother go to the army. This farewell is for a lifetime."

The old man Qin often said these words, and Qin Zhoucai's ears were calloused.

He is the old son of old man Qin and Mrs. Mo. When he was born, his elder brother had already joined the army. He had never met him since he was a child. Only his elder brother occasionally sent someone to bring back some silver, cloth, etc. to let him know that he had an older brother. of.

"Our family is still a relative of the emperor who gave birth to the fifth service." Qin Zhoucai often said, "But how is our family living? Even when I go out to work, there are people who exclude me."

Their family has the same surname as the royal family, but the relationship is too far away.

If their family changed their surname to avoid suspicion, if people found out, the emperor might be condemned by the literati, so their family could not change their surname, so they lived poor and helpless in the capital.

Fortunately, Qin Zhoucai also has an elder brother serving as a soldier in the border town, and the whole family hopes that he can make contributions.

"Father, I don't think those people look like they are living a hard life." Qin Zhoucai sat on the bed, touched the soft quilt, "This quilt is really good, it should be the latest material on the store shelves, and the price is very expensive Mile."

"These are all changed because of Master Yan." Old Man Qin said.

Aunt Mo opened the bag, took out new clothes for Qin Zhoucai to change, and said, "I heard people say that the border town used to be like that, and it only changed in the past few months."

Qin Zhou ran to the corner to change clothes, when someone knocked on the door, he hurried out to look.

It was a little man who knocked on the door, wearing a cotton singlet and looking very energetic.

"I'm Brother Huan." Brother Huan said, "You come with me to the workshop for dinner. The canteen at the train station is closed today."

"What? What happened?" Qin Zhou asked a little nervously.

"No. The train brought a lot of things. Everyone in the canteen of the train station went to help. Some of the food had to be chilled as soon as possible, otherwise it would be spoiled soon in the hot weather." Brother Huan explained, "There is nothing you don't like to eat Right? The food here in the border town is not that good, many dishes are not available, and they are all transported by train."

"What?" Qin Zhou couldn't understand.

Brother Huan explained again, "The doctor said that some people may get pimples when they eat something. If this is the case, they can't eat this kind of food in the future. Forcibly eating it will kill people."

"Oh, no." Qin Zhou finally understood it this time. He knew that there was such a thing, and he was curious, why the doctor still cares about so many things. If you see a doctor in the capital, you need to get a consultation fee, otherwise the doctor would say nothing Will not say.

Brother Huan led people to the workshop along the way, explaining.

Since the workshop was built, everyone has a charter no matter what they do.Even when they came out temporarily to ask these people from the capital to eat, Brother Huan and others only came after remembering the regulations in advance.

Huge, gigantic textile workshops stood before Qin Zhoucai's eyes.

There is a wide gate, a large open space inside, and a huge house.

"It's bigger than the workshop for the construction of the Conservation Hall that I saw in the train mountain." Qin Zhoucai said, "Did you build these?"

"Master Yan helped us build it. There is a dining hall over there. Let's hurry up." Brother Huan said with a smile, "Today's food should be very rich. When the time comes, you can choose what kind of food you like. .”

The border town now has enough food to feed everyone, but food alone is not enough, they also have to eat vegetables.

There is no way to grow vegetables in the field, but everyone has a way, take a lot of beans to germinate, eat bean sprouts, and add very few wild vegetables in the field, you can also taste Xianer.

In the past, there was no food to eat, so we had to go out to pick wild vegetables and boil them in earthenware pots. The taste was very astringent, and many people turned pale after eating them.

Now that there is food, there are cans of braised pork, and some wild vegetables to cook, there is only delicious food left.No one liked the wild vegetables in the past, but now they are in high demand, and some people go to the fields to grow them.

Brother Huan also likes to eat wild vegetables now, but he prefers to eat bean sprouts.

Big chunks of braised pork and stewed bean sprouts, Brother Huan can eat two big steamed buns with vegetables and soup for a meal.His height is also increasing, and now he is taller than brother Ming, almost taller than those Taoist soldiers.

Qin Zhoucai had never eaten such delicious food. Although it was not as rich as that in the capital city, it was large in quantity, delicious in flavor and had meat in it. He couldn't hold back and ate two big steamed buns.

"Should we go back to the train station?" Qin Zhou wiped his mouth, not daring to ask when he would see his brother again.

"No, you can walk around as you like. But the workshop and the train station can only go to specific places, and the rest of the places are too busy. If you go, it may delay things and be dangerous." Brother Huan explained, "You You can go to other places in the border town, you can also go to the fields outside, pay attention to take a special road, don't get into the field, it is easy to get lost."

Brother Huan still has things to do, so he can't stay with Qin Zhoucai all the time.

Qin Zhoucai and his parents came out of the workshop and stood at the gate for a while, feeling a little dazed.It was old man Qin who made the decision, "Then let's just take a look."

"Let's go!" Aunt Mo said the same.

So the family of three went into the city.

Some places are cement roads, some places are dirt roads, but they are all very smooth.You can see many potholes in the city, and you can see the obvious traces of new reinforcements. Looking at the original earthen houses, it is not difficult to imagine the situation in the border town.

On the side of the road, there was an old man sitting in a shady place to enjoy the shade, looking very leisurely.

But old man Qin could still tell at a glance that the old man's hands were full of calluses and his face had more wrinkles than ordinary people, obviously he had suffered a lot.

"Are you from the capital?" The old man asked with a smile, shaking his cattail fan.

The old man Qin didn't nod or shake his head. The whole family came to the capital by train without telling their neighbors.

"We all know." The old man said, "I used to be a Taoist soldier, and I started a family in a border town. My hometown was gone, so I didn't go back. You people are all lucky. If I had a chance back then, where would I be?" It will be like this now..."

The old man opened the chatter box, and the old man Qin listened beside him.

The old man started a family in a border town, but was seriously injured and had to retire and became a military household.My eldest son has cultivation and went to Daying in the border town. The old man has two young sons. In order to support the two children, the old man and his elder brother worked from dawn to dusk, and with the food saved by the eldest son, at least it was The two sons were not allowed to starve to death.

But the two sons couldn't die of starvation, and if they wanted to enter the camp in the border town, they couldn't hold on just to fight their bodies.

The eldest son lived frugally on weekdays, and he didn't dare to eat enough, and he didn't dare to go too far in the school field. He didn't improve his cultivation level all these years, and it was good to survive on the battlefield, and he had no chance to make meritorious service.

The whole family suffers like this.

"Hey, now my eldest son is in the camp in the border town. His cultivation has improved a lot and he has made meritorious service. He is a cook." The old man said proudly, "The two youngest sons are both working in the textile workshop. Originally, I wanted to go too. But Mr. Yan said that the old man was old and I should take care of him for a thousand years. He took me to see a doctor and gave me a daily subsidy. My brother should also rest, but he couldn’t stay idle. He bought fabrics and borrowed sewing machines. Sew clothes for our family."

"Is there money to get when you are old?" Old man Qin was dumbfounded.

In some remote places, because there is too little food, in order to keep the young people alive, the old men and women go to the mountains to wait for death by themselves when they reach their age.Old man Qin has heard of this kind of thing, but he has never heard of it, and he can't understand it.

In fact, the old man couldn't understand it himself. He babbled: "Master Yan said that we old men have made great contributions, and the children in the family are all hardworking, so he insisted on supporting us. Well, in fact, our family is not short of that money now... "

But there are also some lonely old people who have no family members. They are getting older and don't have so much strength to work.Yan Xun also distributed money to them, at least they would not be hungry, and they could find some work within their ability.