The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

At night, the lights in the marshal's camp were still on.

Sitting under the lamp, General Zhao Zhuo and Zhao Zhuo unfolded the letter written by his wife. He read it carefully word by word. In the letter, his wife told him that everything was fine at home and that the two children were obedient. Her body is better than before, and she has grown taller. The letter said a lot, but she didn't mention herself.There is a sentence at the end of the last letter: Nian Jun is well, and I look forward to your return.Wife character, Yuyao.

Yuyao is his wife's boudoir name.

sounds so good……

Zhao Zhuo touched his wife's name repeatedly, and remembered the first time he saw his wife. She was twenty-eight years old, as beautiful as a flower, and she was the prettiest among a group of girls.At that time, he was like a boy with a headless head, he couldn't even walk when he saw his wife. Later, he learned to send flowers to his wife, snacks from Lao Yang's shop on the East Street, and the most popular words in the capital nowadays. Wives... many, many, and later he married a wife as he wished.

His wife gave birth to two sons and taught them so well.

In a blink of an eye, the two children were so big.He also has gray hair on both temples, and he doesn't know if his wife's face is still so beautiful, or if his temples are gray like him.For so many years, he has been far away at the border, and there are not many opportunities to go back to the capital. His wife is all in the capital, waiting for him, looking forward to his return, thinking of his wife waiting in the capital, thinking of his wife thinking about him alone at night...

The wife said, I wish you well, and look forward to your return...

General Zhao took a deep breath, and rubbed the corners of his eyes fiercely.

When he was sleeping at night, General Zhao folded up the letter in his hand and placed it on his chest close to his heart. The letter was stuck to his heart, just like his wife's heart was stuck together.

Thu

Early the next morning, the accountant in the military camp notified the officers of the battalions below to let the soldiers go to collect their salaries in batches. The soldiers in the big camp lined up in front of the accountant to receive their salaries. Clutching his pockets, he had a silly smile on his face, so that his teeth could not see his eyes.

It's great to have money!

Most of these soldiers are from poor families and have no choice but to become soldiers. The Zhao family army does not allow soldiers to rob the common people. Discipline is strict in the army, and they never take anything from the common people.

These people have really never carried so much money in their lives, this is quite a few taels of money.The accountant has now said that this is only their salary for one year. Later, the court will pay them the remaining two or three years of salary owed to them. How much money is that?

——It’s a lot of money!

Seeing these soldiers returning with silver smirks, Zhao Si twitched a little smile, his eyes were a little hot, and said, "That's great." These people, living today, don't know if there will be a tomorrow, but they can survive on the battlefield All are lucky.

They defended their homes and the country at the border, and the imperial court couldn't even pay their military salaries. These generals were ashamed to face the soldiers and soldiers below.I thought there was no hope, but I didn't expect that the court would suddenly give them a year's military salary, and said that the owed ones would be paid out one after another.

Life in the barracks is hard, and the lives of these soldiers are actually not easy.

In the past, the imperial court could not pay their military salaries, so the soldiers in the army could only find their own way, and arranged for the soldiers in the battalion to open up wasteland and farm here, but the land here at the border was barren, and nothing could be grown at all. The little food in the army is not enough for the soldiers of the army to chew. When there is no food, the soldiers of the whole army eat wild vegetables and grass roots together.

After reading the letter written by the young apprentice, Zhao Si knew that the young apprentice had done so much for the soldiers at the northwest border, and that their food and salaries were paid off thanks to his little apprentice. The little apprentice's contribution, it seems that he did not love this little apprentice in vain before, this apprentice was worth it.

Standing by the side and watching for a while, seeing the soldiers happily leaving with silver coins, Zhao Si turned around and left the camp on horseback.

Sunset and sunset, the sunset here at Yanmen Pass is the most beautiful, the clouds are all over the sky, the clouds are overlapping, the wilderness is boundless, you can't see it

side.

The horse was grazing leisurely at the side, and Zhao Si was lying on the hillside looking at the sky above his head, with a wine bag in his hand, which contained the wine brought to him by his apprentice, and he only kept A small jar, and the rest are distributed to everyone.

Although it is still during the national mourning period, drinking and having fun is not allowed, and they drink a little secretly by themselves, and no one else can find out, and the court can't control such a little thing.It's rare for Fusheng to have half a day's leisure, so he just hides here and drinks some wine, so he doesn't have to think about anything.

"Da da da--"

Suddenly, a fine horse appeared from the other side of the sky. On the horse was a young man in a foreign costume, driving the horse towards the hillside.

"Call-"

The boy reined in the horse's reins, and turned over neatly from the horse's back. From a distance, he saw the horses grazing with their tails swinging here. He knew that the man had come here. This made the boy feel grateful and happy. .Sure enough, when he got closer, he saw the man lying on the hillside.

Hearing the sound of horseshoes and seeing someone coming, Zhao Si only glanced at the young man coming towards him out of the corner of his eye, maintaining a posture of looking up at the sky, as if he was not surprised at the young man's appearance.

The young Aqi is the little prince of the Ma tribe in the upper reaches of the grassland. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, his facial features are deeper and three-dimensional than those of adults. His hair is a bit dark brown, slightly curly, and his eyes are brown.This look is different from that of an adult, it looks like a person of a different race

"Hey, why are you ignoring me." Seeing the man not looking at him, Aqi was a little unhappy.

He has learned Dacheng's language and culture from his teacher since he was a child, so he can speak Dacheng's language, but he still has a bit of their nonsense accent, which sounds a bit weird.

Seeing that the man ignored him, the young man was not really angry. He sat down beside the man, hugged his knees with his hands, and stayed by the man's side. Come here." He said with a little hug

blame.

The teenager never concealed his liking for this man, and even expressed his love for him to this man more than once, but this man only took him as a joke every time, and said that he was too young and they were not suitable , this attitude of treating him like a little brother made him feel very discouraged.

Obviously he has grown up now!

Zhao Hao just said "um", and said, "You shouldn't have come here." He knew that the reason why the boy appeared here was to look for him, but this is already the boundary of Dacheng, so the boy came here It's not safe, he said this for the sake of teenagers

miss you.

But this sentence heard in the boy's ears, it was the man who didn't want to see him.

"Is that why you don't want to see me? If you don't let me come, I'll come." A Qi is a bit willful young man, otherwise he wouldn't risk coming here again and again, just to wait This man who occasionally appears here.He also threw his guards to wait for him far away, not allowing them to approach, so he ran over by himself.

Hearing the boy's tone of voice, Zhao Si knew that the boy had misunderstood him, but he didn't intend to explain. He grabbed the wine bag beside him and took a sip of the wine. He asked the boy, "Drink?"

"This is your Dacheng's wine?" Ah Qi took it, raised his head and took a big sip, and finally stuck out his little tongue to lick his lips, "It smells so good." It's the same as the Dacheng wine he drank before. The wine with a little taste is completely different. This wine has a fragrance, spicy taste and delicious!

"Yes, very fragrant." Zhao Si asked for the wine pouch and went back, took another sip, and said proudly, "My little apprentice brought it to me, and my little apprentice made the wine himself."

He only gave the young man a sip, and he didn't plan to give the young man another drink.

Seeing that the man didn't plan to give it to him anymore, Ah Qi widened his eyes and asked, "Aren't you going to give me a drink?"

Originally, Zhao Si didn't want to give the young man any more drinks. First, the young man was too young to drink for him. Second, he only had such a little wine left, and if he gave half of it to others, he would have nothing left. I'm really reluctant.But seeing the young man staring at him with wide eyes, and then staring at his wine bag, probably the young man's eyes pleased him, so he passed the wine bag over again, "Let me give you another taste."

"Is that the apprentice you mentioned? He can also make wine, he is really good." A Qi heard that the man said that he had an apprentice, but he had never seen the apprentice the man said with his own eyes. After it was brewed by his apprentice, he couldn't help admiring the man's apprentice who could make wine, and the wine he brewed was so delicious, he asked, "When can I see him?" "Maybe there will be a chance." Right." Zhao Si's words were obviously perfunctory to the young man, but the young man didn't hear it.

He gave the young man another sip of the wine, Zhao Si would not give the young man a drink no matter what he said.

Seeing that the man refused to give him a drink, Aqi glared at the man and said, "You are so stingy, we Yuma people have good things to share with our friends."

"Hahaha... Dacheng doesn't have this rule."

Zhao Si laughed out loud, not at all ashamed of the young man's accusation, but thought it was fun to tease the young man.

The acquaintance of the two was a very coincidental coincidence. In the past two years, the closed gate would occasionally be opened, and Hu people would enter the customs to conduct trade with Dacheng people. Surrounded by a group of mature people, when he saw it, he helped the boy of the foreign race out of the siege.

I didn't think about this group, so I found a small tail for myself, and I couldn't get rid of it.

Dacheng and the Hu people have always had some conflicts. Although people on both sides have trade contacts, they often have conflicts and disputes.Hu people often make troubles in the pass, and even some Hu people entered the pass, killed people and ran away, so they closed the gate and prohibited trade with the Hu people.

And because he helped the young man at the beginning, the two formed a bond, and it was also their fate to meet again later.

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