After dressing as a widow

Gu Lin asked him to talk while walking.

The little official knew that they were going to move canned meat and jerky, and said, "It's a coincidence, the people from the food transportation team are moving food to the army at this moment, why don't we move together?"

"No, no, we'll move, so we won't bother them!" Said the sergeant who followed Gu Linlinzhen to carry the canned meat, his attitude was very firm, fearing that the food transport team would steal their work.

The little official was taken aback by their appearance, and didn't understand what was going on with these sergeants with certain positions.

Nodding according to their intentions, and then reporting to Gu Lin the amount of food and grass this time, how much relief food was brought.

The food and grass are used by the army stationed here, and the relief food must be notified to Luo Ran's townships to collect it, just like what Lin Zhen did last time, the food is distributed according to the population of each household, which is fair and just.

They still keep the roster that Lin Zhen asked someone to count last time, which saves a lot of effort, just ask someone to go to the village to inform.

The grain transport convoy stopped in Luoran County, and the tired horses had been taken to the stables by the sergeants to take care of them. Only the carts of grain were still piled there.

After only a short while, a layer of snowflakes fell on the top, and the pockets below could hardly be seen.

Lin Zhen pointed to the last few carriages: "The canned meat and dried meat are at the back, and they can be moved by untying the rope."

The people in the grain transportation team were moving the grain to the storage place. In such a cold day, their heads were steaming.

Looking at the sergeant running towards the carriage filled with canned meat and jerky, the petty official finally understood why they didn't let the people from the food transportation team move it for them.

Not to mention, the canned meat in Boss Lin's slaughterhouse tastes really good, fat but not greasy, and the soup is delicious enough to pour on rice.

But it's no wonder, just because Boss Lin ran the pig farm and slaughterhouse, the price of red meat in the state capital has dropped by almost half. Every day, people go to the slaughterhouse's special meat stall to buy red meat, pig's trotters and so on.

I heard some people who work in the slaughterhouse say that the pig farm run by Boss Lin is clean and tidy. The pigs raised are fatter than ordinary people's, and the time is a few months shorter. The meat is all good meat.

That is to say, the soap shop and the soap shop only have white meat, and the demand is still large. These high-quality red meat are all rounded up by the people in Lin's business.

Everyone in the grain transport team had eaten canned meat, and when they saw the canned meat boxes carried off the carriage by the sergeants, they were greedy, and the sergeants seemed to smell the aroma of canned meat through the boxes, and their noses were almost stuck to the boxes.

Lin Zhen wanted to laugh.

The food, canned meat, and dried meat were quickly placed in their respective places. It didn't take long for night to fall. There were soldiers stationed in Luoran County and patrolling soldiers, and torches lit up everywhere.

Because it was announced during the day to celebrate tonight, the place where the soldiers lived was already lively, and several piles were lit on the huge fire, and the men sitting around the fire ranged from 50 to teens, and there were people of all ages.

This was the first time Lin Zhen saw so many sergeants, and it was a bit different from what he had imagined.

The robes they wear are uniform gray clothes, with short brown on the top and trousers on the bottom. The material is ordinary and not thick at all.

So they probably put several clothes on their bodies, which looked bloated, but they didn't keep warm very much. Even sitting by the fire would still feel cold.

Not to mention that the shoes on their feet were not the kind of fur boots that reached to the knees that they wore, but the ones that reached to the calves. It was obvious that they had been wearing shoes for a long time, and some of them had holes, and the fabric was cut from other places. Mend it.

These are Dayu's soldiers, who stopped Che Luoguo's people in the icy and snowy Luoran.

Before Gu Lin told him that Lizhou sergeants hadn't been paid for three years, he didn't have such an intuitive feeling. Only when he saw it with his own eyes did he know how dazzling it was.

Dayu had been at peace for so long that the people sitting on it forgot what these sergeants should gain and what they would lose.

"See Mr. Gu."

"See deputy thousand households."

Not all of them were stationed here, and some of them went to the prefectures and counties according to the order of the nurse. There were only more than 600 people here, and some were killed or seriously injured, and there was no way to come.

So many voices gathered together, like a hot sword, pierced straight into a person's heart, making people's heart boil with excitement.

"No need to be polite, get up." Lin Zhen looked at Gu Lin raising his hand, and the sergeants who knelt on one knee stood up in unison, "Thank you, sir."

From their words and actions, Lin Zhen felt their respect for Gu Lin, and Gu Lin became their backbone.

Gu Lin is not a talkative person, so after saying a few words casually, he asked the cooking guy to bring up the food that he had been cooking since the afternoon, and the soldiers came forward to cook the food according to the standard.

Gu Lin brought him a portion of sorghum rice soba noodles topped with canned cabbage stew and fried shredded radish: "Uncle Lin, try it."

This bowl is not small, and the rice and vegetables are almost flush with the edge of the bowl. Although there is not much oil and water, the smell is okay.

Lin Zhen took the meal and sat on the ground like Gu Lin. This is where the soldiers were stationed. The snow was swept every day, so it was quite dry, and it was not cool to sit on.

The bowl of rice in the hands of Deputy Qianhu who came together was a bit sharper than Lin Zhen, he looked at Gu Lin and Lin Zhen, and said hey: "You two are quite interesting, Uncle Lin? "

"Master Gu, you are so capable that you can ask Lin Fulang to stay with you."

"Hurry up and pass on your experience to me. Those women and brothers will tremble with fright when they see me, and I'm not superhuman."

Gu Lin came back with his own meal, just like everyone else, canned cabbage stew, fried shredded radish, and the sorghum rice and buckwheat rice below were soaked in the soup, so it didn’t look good.

He put a piece of canned meat the size of a finger into Lin Zhen's bowl, which was deliberately left for him by the cooking guy. Hu: "Thousand households are not powerful enough."

"Pfft." Knowing that he was playing tricks, Lin Zhen almost couldn't hold back.

With the body and beard of Vice Qianhu, and a fist as big as a casserole, ordinary women and brothers are not afraid when they see it. Picking up people is like picking up chickens.

But if you get along carefully for a day or two, you will find that this pair of Qianhu is actually a bit naive and open-minded person, who can't hide his words. If anyone marries him, it must be a good choice. At least you won't make you guess his mind. Before you figured it out, he couldn't help shaking it all out.

Lin Zhen ate the piece of pork head that Gu Lin picked up, looked at the deputy Qianhu and nodded seriously, and actually believed Gu Lin's words, turned his head to look at Gu Lin: "In the future, if the deputy Qianhu can't find you Daughter-in-law, this pot is on you."

But Lin Zhen also understands that it seems that this pair of Qianhu and Gu Lin get along pretty well, and Gu Lin will have some communication with him.

Stewed cabbage with canned meat, the sergeants below ate it sullenly. Occasionally someone got a piece of chopped pork head meat, and showed it off to the people next to him, and then ate it in one mouthful. It was delicious!

I don't know who sang the folk songs that almost everyone in Lizhou knows. The sergeants couldn't help knocking on the bowls to match the tune, which was vigorous and tactful, praising the impoverished land of Lizhou.

Lin Zhen was holding a bowl and chopsticks, looking at the sergeants who were singing folk songs, and slowly couldn't help but tune into this simple but nice tune.

After celebrating with the big guys, Lin Zhen and Gu Lin went back to the county office together.

When I first came out of there, the snow was not very big, but in the blink of an eye, it became so thick and thick that people couldn't keep their eyes open.

Gu Lin pulled him to hide in the empty house next to him, touched his cold hands, hugged him into his arms, and put his hands on her chest.

The snowflakes are rustling down, reflected by the torches in the distance, like a pure white dance between heaven and earth.

Lin Zhen's hands were warmed by his chest, and his head rested on his shoulder.

Gu Lin's voice sounded: "What was Uncle Lin thinking just now?"

"Thinking of you, of those sergeants."

"You haven't heard anything about the note you wrote to go to the court, and you haven't made any moves..."

"Uncle Lin is worried that the imperial court will not take my matter to heart and let it go? At that time, Lizhou will be the first barrier between Che Luoguo and Dayu, and will be in dire straits."

"Yes." Lin Zhen was really worried about this matter. In a war, it was not just one family, but tens of thousands of families in a state, and Dayu tens of millions of people.

He will be worried because of the turmoil in the situation, but he is more worried about Gu Lin.

He raised his head and looked at Gu Lin in the dark, "The population in Lizhou is too small now, what I want to do needs more people, Gu Lin, can you issue an order—"

"For me, Uncle Lin's words don't have no, only yes."

"I am the Zhizhou of Lizhou, and Uncle Lin is the one who holds the sword of Zhizhou of Lizhou. Wherever your heart is, the sword points."

"..." Lin Zhen knew that what Gu Lin said was not a lie. This child was very lonely from before to now. He seemed to have exiled himself in this place, and because of his emotions for so many years, he was lucky enough to be the child he wanted to inhabit. The place.

Lin Zhen felt heavy because of this emotion, and felt an incomparable feeling. He was held in Gu Lin's arms, raised his head and said to him: "Let's make a decree to attract people from other places to come here with more generous conditions. live."

"We can promise them wasteland, don't pay taxes for five years, and provide them with opportunities to work so that they can get wages."

"Although these conditions do not attract people who live a relatively stable life, they will be dissuaded by the weather in Lizhou because it is difficult to leave their hometowns, but there are still people who are struggling to meet their food and clothing. As long as the publicity is good, there are some Guaranteed, many people should be attracted.”

"Lizhou needs more food, more convenient cement roads, and more assets that can resist foreign enemies."

"Gu Lin, I know that one person's strength is limited, but I want to try, and I hope I can give you a little bit of strength."