Chapter 17 Mountain Character Armor, Jujube Red Horse
"My nephew, don't make this joke with me. You are a scholar." When the village chief Wang saw that Li Jing was coming, the smile that had just appeared on his face disappeared. He thought that it was really a family that was willing to come on behalf of him, but he unexpectedly came Li Jing. This Li Jing family was also a well-known family that was similar to the Wang family, especially Li Jing's father, although he was only a county official until his death, the father and son of the Li family were all famous scholars in the neighborhood.
In his opinion, no matter how in the Li family is, a poet and scholar like Li Jing cannot really join the army on behalf of him for twenty acres of land.
"Old Wang, Bo'an, Mrs. Zhang." Li Jing went to the hall and bowed to the old village chief and Wang Yueying to greet him.
"Is it because of the sharing of the equipment of the Unity Army? This matter is easy to deal with. Wu Niang, you asked someone to pay ten thousand coins to Ji Yu. Last time you had an accident, we didn't have time to help you. I also know the current situation of your family. You can use the ten thousand coins for the time being. If you have any more, just talk. I have a long friendship with your father. He left early, and I have the responsibility to help you." The old village chief thought that Li Jing was here to borrow money, so he immediately asked someone to get ten thousand coins.
"No, Mr. Wang misunderstood. I came not to borrow money, but to really replace Wang's Yingding."
"Isn't it really a joke?" The old village chief looked puzzled and there was a hint of expectation.
Li Jing nodded, "Why did my nephew dare to deceive my uncle? The uncle also saw the situation of the Li family. My nephew was unfilial, so the Li family did not even protect their ancestral property. I also thought it through. Since I can no longer protect my family's business at home, it is better to abandon my pen and join the army and seek a title of marquis thousands of miles away. Just think of it as a treasure. The family business of my Li family is also the family business accumulated by several generations of ancestors for military generals and lieutenant generals. In my early years, my father abandoned martial arts and followed the literature. Now that I join the army again, I can be regarded as inheriting my ancestor's ambitions."
"Well, my nephew Guofan is an ordinary mortal, and he has great ambitions in his heart. You have to think clearly about it just abandoning his pen and joining the army. Now you are just united soldiers. Even if you follow the army, you may only be just a coordinating servant. There are not many opportunities to make achievements."
"The uncle doesn't need to persuade him too much, and my nephew has made up his mind. I know that the uncle got the black stone, but there is no suitable person in the family. Therefore, my nephew is willing to serve the Wang family, and my nephew doesn't need twenty acres of fertile land. I just imagine that the uncle borrowed a few food to help take care of the female family in the family."
The village chief Wang Lao thought for a long time and said, "Mr. Nephew, your father also helped me in the Wang family back then. Now you have saved my Wang family again. From now on, you and I will be a family, and your family will naturally take care of you. Wu Niang, you can pull out a hundred acres of land and transfer it to the Monkey King, and then take out ten stones of grain from the granary to the Li family. By the way, take out the armor passed down from the ancestors who have been treasured in the warehouse."
This time, the time for the gents was very tight, and the superiors only gave each family half a day to set off in half a day. If there were no one who refused, the head of the family would hang himself as a deserter, and his family would be exiled. The village chief Lao Wang had found many people just now, but no one was willing to replace Ying Ding. It was because this united soldier was not just called once. Once this time, then this life would be a united soldier for generations. Every autumn and winter of the future, and once a war was encountered, he would have to participate.
There is no food and salary, no time limit, and there is still danger at any time. Who would like to continue this lifelong hard labor? If you give more time, you will definitely find someone who is willing to exchange your life for money with the Wang family. But the above is really urged, so you have to set off in the afternoon and don’t give them time at all. Once the time comes, either the village chief Wang will go in person or you will have to pick one of his unemployed grandsons.
Whether it is the old man or the young grandson, it will definitely be difficult to go back to this trip. Now that Li Jing is willing to replace him, isn’t this helping him?
Li Jing insisted on not accepting the 100 acres of land and ten stones of grain. Whether it is 100 acres of land or ten stones of grain, this can be regarded as the entire property of a small landlord family. Even in the Wang family, this is also a small family. Li Jing was really unwilling to accept such a big gift. Now the Wang family is in trouble. In order to thank him for giving out so many things, they don’t think anything. But if other people in the Wang family inherit the family business in the future, they will definitely not think so. One is not good, and then the two families may turn against each other.
"Uncle Shi, if you still recognize me as my nephew, then don't talk about land and food. If Uncle Shi really feels sorry, then Uncle Shi will rent fifty acres of land for my family to farm, and borrow two stones of grain for me. In the future, my nephew will return it as much as possible."
The old village chief refused and insisted, and the two old and young men were fighting and their faces turned red. In the end, Wang Yueying told a new way, the Wang family lent the 100 acres of land to the Li family for farming. The land was still from the Wang family, but the ten-stone grain was not collected. In addition, the ten-stone grain was lent to the Li family first, and then returned it when it was available.
This proposal still touched Li Jing, but he finally agreed. After all, land is too important to a farmer. Now the Wang family is not considered giving away, but only lent it to the Li family for temporary farming. It can not only solve the current difficulties of the Li family, but also avoid the possibility of rebellion between the Wang family and the Wang family in the future.
Seeing Li Jing finally accepting it, Village Chief Wang began to feel much better. After all, it is always uneasy to owe too much favors. Now that Li Jing has accepted the land and food lent to the Li family, this has become a business, and it is no longer a favor.
As he was talking, several servants of the Li family brought up a willow box. Seeing the box, the old village chief personally stepped forward and opened it, his eyes shining.
"My nephew, I remember that I used to be a military officer. The armor I used to be in the box was the armor I used to join the army. This set of armor was passed down to me by my father, and my great-grandfather passed down to my family ancestor, and passed down to my family ancestor. Hey, no one in my Wang family wears this armor anymore. Sanlang joins the army on behalf of my Wang family, but I have no choice but to offer this armor to express my feelings. I hope Sanlang will wear this armor and kill the generals and kill the enemy, make achievements, and will not be humiliated."
As the old village chief said, the box opened and there was a pair of armor full of heavy feeling.
It was a pair of iron armor, and a pair of mountain-text armor.
Several servants set off together and dressed up Li Jing piece by piece.
With pieces of armor on top of it, you can immediately feel a heavy and vague breath of bloody killing throughout your body.
The armor was quickly worn. This piece of Shanwen armor is not a full body armor. The shape of the piece of Shanwen armor is beautiful, and the two sides are concave in the middle of the piece of armor. Multiple pieces of armor are clamped together to form a whole piece of armor. In this way, countless concave surfaces are formed on the surface of the armor, which is very conducive to the defense of arrows. After wearing the whole armor, Li Jing immediately felt that this pair of armor that looked extremely majestic was not too heavy.
Shanwen armor should be positioned as a lightweight plate armor with a complex structure. The method of braiding into armor causes the shape of the armor to be fixed, and will not be deformed after being subjected to stress like ordinary scale armor. In this regard, it is more similar to plate armor. It is more conducive to protecting blunt-arm impact than scale armor, and it also has the lightness of scale armor.
Village Chief Wang stroked his armor, his eyes full of memories of the past.
"This armor is called Shanwen Armor, which belongs to a type of scale armor. But it is much more expensive than ordinary fish scale armor. It is not a general or family tradition. Generally, soldiers cannot afford this armor. Back then, my ancestors of the Wang family were the generals of the Shence Imperial Army, and it took a lot of money to set up this armor. Later, it was passed down from generation to generation, but unfortunately I was incompetent, so I finally went to the mountains and forests by the sea to live in seclusion. This armor has no chance to be in battle..."
Although it was just a few words, Li Jing immediately heard the greatness of the Wang family back then. Shence Army was the most powerful military force controlled by the central court of the Tang Dynasty. The organization of 150,000 troops can be called the No. 10,000 troops. The ancestors of the Wang family were actually officers of Shence Army for generations, which cannot be underestimated. Even as he heard that the old village chief Wang was an officer of Shence Army back then.
It seems that there is a story behind everyone. However, when it comes to knowing that this armor is not only extremely valuable, but also so meaningful. It is a family heirloom of the Wang family, Li Jing refused to accept anything. The ancestors of the Li family also had a set of ancestral armor, but it was a set of Mingguang armor. It has been passed down for several generations, but later Li Jing's grandfather died in a battle with the court, and the armor was not in the army. Such heirloom items were too expensive.
"The red pink is given to the beauty, and the sword is given to the hero! Such armor is suitable for giving to the nephew. The nephew takes him to make achievements and is also the pride of my Wang family. The nephew doesn't need to say much, just accept it. Staying there will be just rust." The village chief Wang sighed.
"I'm thankful for your love and gift to you. Li Jing dares not forget this great kindness in his heart." For a warrior about to fight, what else is more exciting than a pair of exquisite armor? This is the guarantee of survival and the basis for success.
"If you have good armor, you have to have a good horse. Unfortunately, the Wang family has no war horses, only a few horses, so I will pick one. I hope you don't dislike it. Unfortunately, there is no good swords and horse spears at home, so I can't help you."
A mountain text armor may be worth hundreds or thousands of silos, but an excellent horse spear is even more priceless. This thing is not a general tyrant, and it is impossible for ordinary families to collect horses after getting the armor. Li Jing was really afraid to take it, but he could not resist the enthusiasm of the father and daughter of the Wang family. In the end, he picked up a fiery red horse more than five feet tall in the Wang family's horse shed with excitement. Although it was just a slow horse rather than a well-trained war horse, Li Jing was still very happy and kept stroking the precious horse.
The Wang family gave Shanwen armor and a tall horse. Finally, Li Jing took out a horizontal knife from the family, and two pots of arrows with a corner bow. There were many other equipment that could not be purchased for a while, so he had to pay for it. After arriving at Penglai Camp, he went to pay for it.
Li Jing had just tried to run a round of the red horse. He felt that the horse was running very fast and was happy. However, the sound of a clanging gong suddenly came from the village. He looked up at the sky, but saw that the sun in the sky had risen to the center!
Chapter completed!