Chapter 27 Soldiers
He left without saying goodbye, but he really didn't take away a trace of clouds! As soon as the sky was dawn, Hua Tianlin packed up and prepared to leave.
Hua Yun came over to say goodbye, patted his shoulder and said, "Brother Xiaoyu, actually I really want to join the army and kill the green-haired ghost, but unfortunately... we will have a date later!"
Although Li Yan and Mei'er didn't say anything, they could see their reluctance to each other from their eyes.
Hua Tianlin always hid in the sedan chair and did not come out. The second lady Gu Xiaoyu, who looked a little haggard, said a few words to her through the sedan curtain. Without looking at Zeng Xiaoyu, she went back to the room on her own.
When he saw Hua Tianlin and his group off, Zeng Xiaoyu was extremely disappointed. He wanted to go back and sleep for a while, but before his feet could cross the threshold, the convener He Xu came.
He Xunian was about forty years old, with a white face and a pair of triangular eyes. He knew that he was not a person who was easy to get along with when he looked at his face, so Zeng Xiaoyu specially added some caution.
Thinking of what Hua Tianlin said to him last night, he had some thoughts in his mind. He Xuzai carefully asked Zeng Xiaoyu's origin from beginning to end, checked the marriage contract documents of the two, and then stamped the list of soldiers to summon the soldiers after confirming that it was correct. The Gu family's recruitment quota was completed.
When Li Yan proposed to join the army with Zeng Xiaoyu, He Xu was very surprised. After asking about the relationship between the two, he asked Gu Feilong with a smile, "Is he a member of your house?"
Gu Feilong was not polite either, "Of course, he was the one brought by my son-in-law, that is, our family."
He Xu said angrily, "Then I want to congratulate the head of the family for getting a reward."
Gu Feilong smiled and said, "Just treat me as a filial piety, there is no need to give me money."
"Then I'm not polite!" He Xu looked at Zeng Xiaoyu meaningfully, "Do you want to say goodbye to your newlywed wife?"
Zeng Xiaoyu shook his head and refused.
He Xu laughed and said, "Let's go!" and then walked out of Gujiazhuang with his head held high. He came on a horse, so Zeng Xiaoyu and Li Yan could only walk.
After walking for a while, the road ahead was stopped by two carriages. The old man in the lead seemed to know He Xu, and called out "Mr. He" and bowed and retreated aside.
He Xu glanced at the carriage and asked, "How many are you back?"
The man said, "All are back."
Zeng Xiaoyu and Li Yan walked up to take a look, and they immediately got out of cold sweat. The car was filled with dead bodies, not counting the missing arms and legs, almost everyone had a hole in their chest.
The three of them continued to move forward, He Xu stopped and turned around and asked, "How much did you bring?"
Zeng Xiaoyu and Li Yan were stunned, "Does it cost money to be a soldier?"
He Xu looked at the corpses in the car meaningfully, then looked at them, shook his head and continued to ride the horse.
What does this mean?
Zeng Xiaoyu and Li Yan looked at each other and changed color.
Both of them don’t have a single gold coin. According to He Xu’s meaning, the probability of becoming a dead body without money is very high!
After walking for a whole day, I didn't even drink saliva in the middle, let alone eat. Zeng Xiaoyu and Li Yan shouted a few times, and He Xu in front of me seemed to have not heard it, and walked slowly on the horse without rushing.
Along the way, there were endless carriages and horses pulling dead bodies, and the more they walked, the more they felt, and they felt heavier and they couldn't even feel hungry.
Finally, before sunset, we arrived at a small town called Wujun. He Xu handed them over to a soldier in military uniform and disappeared.
Wu County looks like a small town from the outside, but when you get inside, you find that there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed here.
The soldiers took them to a slope and left, where a long line of people and dragons lined up. The two stood at the end of the line and followed the brigade forward.
A young man in front of him turned around and looked at the two of them, revealing a bit of not very neat teeth and asked, "You are here to report too?"
Zeng Xiaoyu nodded, and the man asked again, "How much did you prepare?"
Zeng Xiaoyu shook his head.
"Not prepared? Then you are miserable!" The young man turned around and stopped talking.
The team walked very fast, and in less than half an hour, we arrived at a large table. Behind the table was a greasy officer, with a roster in front of him, and a box filled with gold coins on his left hand.
The young man in front nodded and threw a handful of gold coins into the box, and said with a smile, "Yang Baoquan, Yang Jiazhuang."
The officer glanced at the box and asked, "How many?"
Yang Baoquan said, "Ten yuan!"
The officer pointed to the left, "There is a man who is there."
Yang Baoquan left happily.
Zeng Xiaoyu stood at the table. The officer looked him up and down a few times, glanced at the box again, and saw that he had no reaction, he asked, "Where is the origin, name!"
Zeng Xiaoyu said, "Gujiazhuang, Zeng Xiaoyu!"
The officer stopped writing and looked at him, "Are you ready to pay the donation?"
Zeng Xiaoyu knew that he was talking about gold coins, shook his head and said, "No!"
The officer frowned and looked at Li Yan behind him, "You two are together?"
Li Yan said, "Yes, my name is Li Yan."
The officer wrote down the names of the two people on the roster and pointed to his right hand, "Then he was responsible for the job!"
Zeng Xiaoyu knew that the first watershed between them was a new recruit.
The two walked into the simple tent and found nearly a hundred dust-shaped recruits sitting inside, each with dull eyes staring at him and Li Yan without stopping.
Zeng Xiaoyu found an open space to pull Li Yan down, and his stomach began to roar. A strong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes next to him stretched out his hand, "My name is Wei Dezhu!"
Zeng Xiaoyu and Li Yan held him one after another and reported their names.
Wei Dezhu asked, "I didn't bring the money, why did I come here without even having enough food?"
Zeng Xiaoyu smiled bitterly and said, "I walked with Lord He for a whole day, but my feet didn't stop. I was just watching the dead along the way."
When everyone heard the word "dead" and everyone became nervous. More than a dozen people surrounded him and asked in a hurry, "Where did you see the dead? How did you die?"
Zeng Xiaoyu thought to himself that he could not answer this question, so he could only shake his head.
Everyone was disappointed and sat back to their original positions and continued to bow their heads in a daze.
At this time, a soldier came over and said loudly, "Give extra meals tonight, follow me if you want to eat!"
Zeng Xiaoyu was about to get up, but Wei Dezhu grabbed him, "Don't be fooled!"
Being deceived? What kind of fooling him for a meal? Wei Dezhu stood up and asked, "Brother, do you still have work to do after the meal?"
The soldier glared at him, "Is there a free meal in the world?"
The few people who were originally standing up sat down again. Zeng Xiaoyu looked at Li Yan, Li Yan shook his head, and the two of them stood up at the same time and said, "We two!"
The soldier said, "Only two? There will be big meat tonight, don't say I didn't give you a chance."
"There is meat?" Many people's eyes lit up.
Wei Dezhu hesitated and stood up and said, "Damn it, die if you die. It is better to eat meat than to stay in this bird's place to eat soil, I'll go!"
"I'll go too!" Another young man with a thin figure stood up.
Chapter completed!