The first day of the Lunar New Year.

Pingdeng Baozi in Tongdeng Township, Men County, Wu'an Prefecture is full of joy, and every household is decorated with lights and color. They hired the door god to buy new peach talismans, and even asked the teacher from Baoli Primary School to write the current fashionable Spring Festival couplets.

Last year, the Man of Man was in chaos, and the entire Yongjie was in chaos. At first, everyone was quite worried, but later the progress of the matter was overjoyed. Jucheng was defeated. Although Zuoximan rebelled against Juchengman, he then fled and surrendered to the court. The men of the heads of each family and the young children in the family were once summoned, but there were not many casualties on this mission. On the contrary, the rewards of the spoils were very generous.

Before the New Year, the Wu'an Prefecture Governor's Office and the Duke of Wei's Office had already implemented the rewards and pensions for military merits. Those who made contributions had led officials from counties and townships to go to the countryside to award them, and the pensions for disability were also particularly generous.

The young Liu Xiaosan went out for half a year, but after he came back, he had already matured a lot. He liked the name Liu Yanlu, who was named to him by joining the army, so now when he returned home, he asked him to call him Liu Yanlu in the fort, and no longer like the name Miss San.

Liu Yanlu was wearing a red pleated thorn, which was the style of the Tang army's military uniform. Last time he was summoned to the war, he fought with the army to Gaoping and participated in the Gaoping Guping Guards. Afterwards, he chased the Jucheng Man, swept the Jucheng tribes along the way, and finally arrived at the bank of the Nongren River.

After eating the farewell banquet of Wei Duke in Wenshan Prefecture, which was newly set up by the Nongren River, he and his friends returned to Wu'an Prefecture with a lot of rewards. Before the New Year, they finally returned to the fort.

The folds on his body were not the serious Tang army uniforms, but after the mistress and the others returned home, they took the silk cloth they gave their mother to cut and sewed it. He seemed to be much more arrogant when wearing the clothes.

In front of the wooden houses and straw sheds of every household, red lanterns were hung, and new peach talismans were even red Spring Festival couplets in front of the gate. On it was the blessing words of Spring Festival couplets written by the gentleman with a brush. Liu Xiaosan was illiterate, but remembered the contents of the Spring Festival couplets in his home.

The New Year is filled with Yuqing, and the Jia Festival is Changchun.

It is said that this sentence comes from the mouth of the Duke of Defense, and many families in the fort asked their husband to write this.

In order to obtain the couplet of the Spring Festival couplets of Duke Wei, the mistress also specially gave the husband two pieces of jerky pieces, which was also one of his rewards.

The smell of pork came from afar.

Before the New Year, many pigs were killed in the village. In addition to selling the fat pigs in the pen to counties and townships, almost every family also killed pigs. Each family has pickled a lot, preparing to keep them for New Year's greetings and gifts when visiting relatives. This was something I was reluctant to leave in the past, but this year everyone was particularly generous.

Because almost every family in the fort have two or three men, they have received some rewards. For those who are lucky as Liu Xiaosan and others, they even hit the Nongren River, the old nest of Jucheng, so the rewards are even more generous.

Every family has prepared a lot of New Year's goods, and women happily cut silk cloth for the young and old at home, make new clothes, hats and shoes. But they are reluctant to leave it, and they always have to do it for three years and three years. After sewing and repairing for three years, there are many children in the family, and the eldest brother wears the second brother after wearing it. After wearing the second brother, they have to keep the third brother wearing it. Even what the uncle has worn it for his nephew. In the end, it is too ragged and has to clean it up, and then use it for shoes and socks, or jackets.

In short, no piece of cloth will be wasted, and no old clothes will be thrown away.

Carefully bypassing the mud, Liu Yanlu looked down at the new boots on his feet, turned his head to look at the pants behind his legs, and then continued to move forward with satisfaction without being dirty.

After going out for half a year, I was very lucky. In addition to working hard and tiring, I was afraid of occasional fear, but I had basically never fought with the barbarians. I only helped prepare for the war from a distance, but I also received some credit.

After returning home, the family carefully summarized and found that it was really rich.

Among them, the Kaiyuan silver coins alone received three, and the Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins received five thousand. In addition, there were many silk, cloth, cotton, rice, and noodles.

Of course, what made the family happiest was the Jucheng girl slave whom Liu Yanlu brought back directly from Nongrenhe River and a horse.

The female manu slave is from the Juchengnong Renmen. She is about to touch her in her twenties. She looks ugly, has tattoos on her face and black teeth. She looks like she is not a human or a ghost, and she can't understand her words. But she does not do anything well. The family carefully trains her mother. Although she doesn't worry about using her loom, she can't do many stupid things.

Although the horse is relatively short, it is said that the horses used by horse gangs here are good at walking in the mountains, have good endurance, and can even be a good helper for arable land.

After discussing with Lao Ma's family, the woman decided to stay and help her reduce the labor burden. If she sells it now, it would be difficult to sell at the price. After all, after the quarantine, a large number of merchants rushed over, and teams of people transported the oxen and horses from there to here, and the price continued to fall.

Mr. Liu was not recruited last year due to a leg injury. She was very glad at the time, but later she regretted it. Seeing that others received so many rewards and got so many spoils back, she got nothing, and she felt empty. Fortunately, although the other two sons were not as good as those of the mistress, she also brought back some rewards, which finally made him feel a little better.

The Liu family plans to buy a little buffalo about one year old after the spring starts next year. After feeding it, they teach the plow themselves and work with the old horse to plough the fields at home, so that they don’t have to rent the cattle and horses in the village, which can save a lot of cattle rent. Moreover, the old horse is a mare and can still give birth. If you buy a heifer, you will still be able to give birth to your baby in two years, and you will be able to add a lot of money to your family.

If you serve it well, if you have a cow and a pony a year, you can increase your input by at least two or three thousand yuan.

The eldest brother expressed his hope to take out some rewards next year and start three houses in the open space next to him, not to mention a single courtyard, which is equivalent to building a side house. He is not young anymore and hopes to ask someone to ask someone to have a wife for a marriage. Lao Liu and his wife agreed with this. The second brother was a little envious, but he also knew that although the family had a new amount of money, it was impossible to marry his two sons at the same time.

I can only wait for the boss to ask for his wife first, and he will wait.

Lao Liu felt that most of the reward was earned by the mistress. Now he wanted to buy a cow to build a house for the boss to marry his wife, so he couldn't help but owe him a little bit, so he simply suggested that the mistress directly take the woman barbarian who brought back to his house.

Lao Liu said that he should use it first. After a few years, the eldest and second brothers said they had kissed him, so he would also tell him a wife.

The second brother was a little jealous. He wanted to treat the female slave to the third brother as a concubine.

Of course, because the third brother does not have a good official, and he is a white-Ding person who is not qualified to take a concubine with a bigamy family, he does not have the title of a concubine, or the like, he is the person in the room.

Liu Cutezi ignored his dissatisfaction with his second son.

"You have the ability, and you can practice martial arts well. Next time you have the chance to call and play, you can bring one back, right? If you have the ability, you can bring two back, I will keep it in your house for you."

The woman was in her twenties. According to her, she had married and had three children in the village. However, now that the village was destroyed and the husband was separated, she didn't know where the child was. As for the decision of the Liu family, this woman who could barely understand a little Chinese was accepted with dim eyes.

If you don’t compromise, you will be beaten. Although the Liu family is not the kind of vicious person, they will still be beaten and scold disobedient slaves. At the least, they will be hungry or whipped by bamboo. In this Tang people’s immigrant treasury, this female barbarian, like other slaves, could not see hope.

Although Liu Xiaosan thought that the barbarian was old and not good-looking, with tattoos on his face and dark teeth, when the barbarian moved to his house at night and slept on the same bed, the boy could not help it. Anyway, the woman's barbarian looked like she could not see. However, the feminine odor emanated from her body made the boy unbearable and he could not hold back himself.

The woman only resisted symbolically a few times. After being slapped by Liu Xiaosan twice, she stopped struggling in the dark. She lay on the bed like a dead fish, allowing the boy to move impulsively and impatiently, and her clumsy appearance made her less annoyed him. She remembered that she was taken to this boy from the bank of the Nongren River, and then all the way east, this boy took care of him. Although he could not speak, he was still good to her.

After a long time, listening to the boy's depressed sigh in the darkness, the woman stretched out her hand, but took the initiative to take him into a mysterious new world...

Zhao Siyuan came over with a horse. Seeing Liu Yanlu, he smiled and took out a piece of taro, "It was just dug out of the stove, it was still hot, and it was so baked."

Liu Yanlu took the ashes on the taro and asked, "Where are you leading the horse?"

"Let's take a walk!" Zhao Xiaoer said proudly. This horse was also his reward. It was also brought back from Nongrenhe. Compared to Liu Yanlu's horse, he was younger and more handsome. Although he was not as tall as a war horse, he was at least much stronger than Liu Yanlu's.

"Go to show off again?" Liu Yanlu said with a smile. Although he came from different places, he lived in this fort together for several years. Last year, he was called to carry a gun together and lived in a tent for half a year. The relationship between the two was closer.

"I heard that Qian Bingcao was promoted, and his eldest lady was very happy. She specially invited a opera troupe from Jiaozhou to sing a grand show for three days, and there were also a juggling team. Many vendors from all over the world also came to set up stalls, so the people from all over the countryside would come to watch the show. Then you think, there would definitely be many young ladies who would come here, so we should not clean up and show it. Maybe there would be a good marriage waiting."

"My family is talking to my elder brother," Liu Xiaosan said helplessly, "If my elder brother can succeed this year, he will have to prepare for my second brother next time. It will probably take several years to wait until I am, and it will be enough."

Zhao Siyuan is the second child in the family, but his eldest brother has already married, so the family is now planning to tell him about marriage. Now everything is ready, just waiting for the matchmaker to arrange it.

"I heard that your grandfather brought you back and that girl arranged for her to sleep in your room?" Zhao Siyuan asked curiously.

Liu Xiaosan's face turned slightly red.

"Have you slept?"

Liu Xiaosan was hunched, looked around and nodded.

"What does it feel?"

"It feels like it can melt the bones. I have never thought that it is so comfortable to sleep with a woman in winter."

"Just sleep with your arms?"

"The fool just sleeps with his arms around."

"Tell me quickly, what does it feel like, and how did this happen?"

"The boat will naturally be straight when you reach the bridge. When you hold it in your arms, you will know that it feels so beautiful!" Liu Yanlu was a little proud. Although he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely at the beginning, and later the woman took the initiative to guide him, he was suddenly defeated and fell down, which made him both ashamed and annoyed. Fortunately, the woman had experience, which allowed him to quickly regain his strength and really tasted the taste of a man.

Zhao Siyuan looked at his aftertaste and felt helpless, "I wouldn't have let my father sell that girl if I had known it. My slave is much younger than you. I only changed a buffalo, it's a loss."

He sighed, "Along the way back, the lieutenants were too strict in their control. I didn't give me any chance, otherwise I could taste the taste."

Liu Yanlu comforted him, "Your family sold that woman, didn't you exchange it for you and get the money, and did you buy a wedding gift for you? Wait until the girl from which family you mentioned, your life will be really beautiful."

Both boys were wearing brand new red robes, which were very eye-catching in the village. Soon, the other eight boys who went with them last time gathered together, which attracted many teenagers and children in the village to circle around.

"Have you heard that our lord Qian Langjun is going to be promoted to Qixi County Magistrate."

"Our Qian Langjun was originally a military officer in Wu'an Prefecture. He was renamed the magistrate of Qixi County. Is it a promotion or a surrender?"

"Although the military officers of the military officers were officials of the prefecture, they were only from the seventh rank. They were only subordinates in the prefecture, but when they arrived in the county, they were the chiefs."

A young man asked, "The newly established barbarian land in Qixi County should be the lower county. The lower county magistrate has only been lower than the seventh rank. If he is only the county magistrate of a small county, he seems to be even more up to the eighth rank."

The prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty were divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower, and were basically determined by the number of households, and were also divided according to the Ji Fu Wang.

The grades of the governor and county magistrate are also different at different levels.

The county magistrate of Xia County was only down from the seventh rank, but if it was a very small county, even the county magistrate was not even called, but instead a county magistrate was established, and his rank would be reduced to another level.

The full name of the State Military Commander Army is the State Military Commander Army. In fact, it is judged from the seventh rank to the State Military Commander Affairs, and the power is quite strong.

"Who said Qixi County is smaller? It's true that it was a new establishment of the barbarian land. But in the past, they were called Qiyuan Prefecture, but now they are demoted to a county. However, Sanlangjiao's household registration, changed the land and returned to the land, and then broke up and resettled many defeated and captured and surrendered barbarians there. There were even many migrants from the south, such as Dangxiang Qiang, Turkic Hu, etc., who moved south. Once Qixi County was established, the number of households was already over 10,000."
Chapter completed!