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Lead-gray clouds swirled in the night sky, and although the wind was not strong, the winter wind was unusually cold, and the howling wind whistled a little in the treetops.

It was late evening when the snow was falling. The snow is getting bigger and bigger. It was another ordinary winter snow, in this wilderness, there was no shop behind the village, there was a recklessness all around, all covered with ice and snow, only a path extended from afar, if it were not for some rut marks on the road, I am afraid that in this ice and snow, it would be difficult to distinguish this road.

The snow gradually became heavier. There was no sound in the snow except the wind, except for the light of a small shop passing by on the side of the road.

The middle-aged man who opened the cotton curtain again and walked out of the house couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the road that was already completely covered with snow.

"Hey, this store can't be opened......"

The reason why the middle-aged man said this is because he lived here more than ten years ago, and he worked hard to build this simple house and open this small shop next to the former official road, relying on the skills he learned from helping the cook in the house back then, to provide a place for business travelers from the south to the north to rest and drink tea and stay overnight, so as to earn a few hard-earned money.

Although I don't make a lot of money, I can make a living. With this passing shop, I have also gone to my daughter-in-law to give birth to a child in the past few years, and the whole family lives on this small shop. Although life is not rich, it is also relaxed.

But last year, when the official road was renovated, the crooked official road was straightened at the same time, and the official road was transferred to a few miles away, leaving this place far away, and since then, he has no business as a passing shop, after all, who doesn't want to take the smooth official road paved with gravel? There are a few more people who are willing to walk this muddy road that has fallen into disrepair. As a result, the days are not as good as they are.

It seems that this business is not going to be able to continue.

"Hey......"

Standing in front of the store, looking at the growing snow, listening to the mournful howling wind, his brows furrowed slightly, and he sighed softly.

"What else is there to hope for?"

Not to mention that there will be no guests on such a day, it will be sunny and daylight, and there will be no more guests on this road. It's not a thing to sit and eat like this.

"Rushing to rent a piece of official land and planting ......"

This will be a little regretful, why more than ten years ago when he was here, did not open a few acres of wasteland, at that time because people were killed by the Qing soldiers, so this is everywhere ripe wasteland, as long as you are willing to work, maybe the family has opened dozens of acres of hundreds of acres of wasteland.

As long as the family has a field, naturally there is no worry about eating and drinking, where is it like now, although a few years ago relying on the official road, this life can be passable, but who would have thought that it was only two years of hard work, this business has reached today's field.

But now, even if he wants to open up the wasteland, he can't do it, even if there are thousands of acres of wasteland around, but he can't open up the wasteland casually, because those lands are official land-official wasteland! The whole world is not the king's land, since it is a terra nullius, it is naturally an official land, and it is illegal to open official land without permission.

Unlike the government in other places that encourage the people to open up the wasteland, this Jiangbei prohibits the people from opening the wasteland, and even being punished for opening the official land without authorization, if you want to farm the land, you can directly rent the official land, and those official fields are all wasteland that has been opened, and the land of the rich man's family is the same, but the rent must be handed over to the government. Ordinary people are not allowed to open up the wasteland at will, after all, those fields are all fields of official uniforms, and the government only rents those fields and does not sell them. Because of this, the days here are getting more expensive every day. Because everyone knows that as long as the government only rents and does not sell those fields as it does now, there will be less and less land in the future. The land is becoming more and more scarce day by day.

However, the tunnels in the hands of the government are not transferred to the people, but ordinary people have almost no hope of getting the land from the government. Because there is only one kind of land that can be obtained by one kind of person - the military. And if it's the kind of disabled retired soldier.

It was only after a crippled retired soldier in a nearby village came back that he learned about the usefulness of this official field - the retired soldier got 150 acres of official land as a meritorious field! Although it is a cripple, it is 150 acres, and he can collect 100 stone of millet even if he collects rent a year, and because of this, the person who gave him his relatives almost trampled the threshold of his house.

"Hey, I didn't expect that being a soldier would be a blessing......"

With such thoughts in his heart, he was a little envious of those who were soldiers, who would have thought that being a soldier would be able to gain so many benefits.

"A hundred and fifty acres of land......"

In the past, the land was not valuable, but now, since the ban on the people to open up the wasteland, this acre of land is worth ten taels of silver no matter how cheap it is. Such a good thing is the envy of many people.

I don't know if I can pump myself next time I draw troops, and I stood silently in front of the hut, his eyes staring ahead, but the thought in my heart was rolling.

"If you become a soldier, it's not bad......"

Unconsciously, no one noticed, because of the awards given to the families of those disabled retired soldiers and fallen soldiers, so that in people's hearts, the mentality of "good men are not soldiers" is changing little by little, and in many cases, it is not the honor that can inspire people's enthusiasm, but the real benefits. Only real benefits can stimulate people's inner thirst for honor, which is often closely related to interests. Honor without interests is nothing more than a castle in the air. It can't last.

For Zhu Mingzhong, who is bent on rebuilding the martial spirit of the Han people, what he needs is to use the temptation of profit to drive people's desire for honor and unwittingly change the reality of the low status of soldiers.

And now, it is precisely because of the preferential treatment of soldiers that the people's senses of soldiers in Jiangbei are changing little by little. Of course, this change is a long-term process. Now this is just the beginning. Even these civilians did not realize that their thoughts and senses about the soldiers were changing little by little, and they began to envy those soldiers. And no longer like in the past, although fearful, but look down on soldiers.

Just when the middle-aged man was thinking about the benefits of being a soldier, in the wind and snow over there, he could vaguely see a horse riding over here.

Someone is actually on the road at this time?

Seeing this day, the shopkeeper cheered up, after all, this is a business delivered to the door, maybe in the next few days, there will only be such a business, when the horse approached, he hurriedly greeted the snow and said.

"Guest officer, it's snowing so hard that you're still in a hurry, it's better to rest your feet here first, and warm up your body with a pot of wine......

Shi Lei, who was riding on the horse, looked ahead, looked up at the sky, and then turned his head and asked.

"Do you have any horse feed?"

"Yes, yes, there are good horse materials in the small shop, as well as hanging salt, look at the guest officer's horse horse, such a cold day, after walking such a long way, if you can eat some more black beans, you will definitely have the strength to hurry......"

There are a lot of horse materials in the store, both forage and concentrate, although the forage and hanging salt alone are barely enough, but it is just reluctant, for the store, if you want to make money, you naturally have to sell the concentrate. But not everyone is willing to feed the horses like this.

"Well, let's do it,"

For Shi Lei, who has been traveling south and north for so many years, he naturally knows the trick, but he doesn't care, so a few dollars are scattered and silver, besides, after driving such a long way, the horse also needs a good rest, and he also needs to eat two bites of good food.

"Is there lamb soup? Serve me a bowl of hot soup......"

Whether it is from south to north, in winter, mutton soup will be drunk, which is a warm supplement, especially for people like Shi Lei who have been on the road for a long time in the snow, a bowl of mutton soup with more pepper and ginger is enough to make the body sweat and force the cold out.

This mutton soup is originally a common thing in the roadside wild shop, although this business is not as good as day by day, but there is no shortage of things that should be prepared.

Soon a big bowl of mutton soup was served, the hot broth was very fragrant, but Shi Lei had no appetite, and now, he had arrived in Yangzhou, but he was worried in his heart, worried about whether he had come by mistake.

Why come to Yangzhou?

Although he knew that he should not meddle in this matter, but in the end he came to Yangzhou, why did he have to come?

Although Shi Lei has his own reasons, he knows that he came to Yangzhou this time. If it gets out, what will be the consequences?

But here he came anyway!

Thinking about these things, Shi Lei didn't have any appetite at all, and after swallowing a bowl of soup. Shi Lei looked at the shopkeeper of the passing shop, and asked casually.

"How far is it from the closed garden?"

"Closed? But the Zheng family's garden? Walk south along the official road for a mile, then turn right at the junction and walk for more than a mile. ”

You can almost walk past. Thinking so in his heart, Shi Lei, who knew that there would definitely be a secret whistle near the rest of the park, did not choose to ride a horse. After all, the goal of horseback riding is too big.

"Shopkeeper, please feed the horses well, and the silver will be left here for you."

When he finished saying this, Shi Lei took out a silver dollar and threw it on the table, but then did not speak again, but walked directly to the outside of the house, hiding his figure in the wind and snow.

The wind and snow outside the house covered the sky and the ground, as if it had experienced a little more sadness......

Shi Lei is no stranger to the rest of the garden, he has also lived here, and when the king of Huai stayed here, he also deployed the guards here, so although the rest of the garden seems to be guarded by guards, but he finally relied on his understanding of this place, found a vacancy and entered the rest of the garden, after entering the park, he went straight to the firewood room to find a set of clothes to change on, and then walked in this rest garden.

The guard is not as strict as imagined. There is neither internal looseness nor external tightness. muttering in his heart, when Shi Lei walked towards the garden, he looked no different from an ordinary domestic servant, and even when the guards saw him occasionally, they didn't glance at him, just walked around the garden, and observed from time to time, and finally, a small garden guarded by guards caught his attention.

"Is there anyone living in this garden?"

If it weren't for someone living in this courtyard, naturally there would be no need for guards, Shi Lei, who was puzzled, climbed over the courtyard wall after avoiding the guards by the door, this is a small courtyard, although the yard is not big, but the scenery is quite elegant, after turning into the small courtyard, through the light through the glass window, you can see that someone in the study is reading the newspaper, it seems to be a young man, so he walked to the side of the house like an ordinary domestic servant.

"If it's good, this time the loyal and righteous army is transferred north, it must be the royal brother who is going to go on a northern expedition!"

Wang Shiyuan, who was looking at the newspaper, looked at the news in the newspaper and suddenly said with some excitement. The reason why he seemed a little excited was that the newspaper had mentioned that in the past few days, the Loyal Army had been moving to the north.

"If the emperor's brother can overcome the Jingshi, then the father and the emperor will be able to look down under the nine springs......"

The seemingly inconspicuous words reached Shi Lei's ears, only to make his mind "buzz", and then he was speechless for a long time in horror.

Brother Huang, Father, no matter what the title is, he will not regard it as "Brother Huang" or "Father Huang", he knows what these two titles mean, especially the words in this person's words, which made Shi Lei clearly aware of who he was mentioning.

It's none other than King Huai!

Could it be that he is...... He's a prince!

Who is a prince? Apparently there is only one kind of person!

Suddenly, another question surged in Wang Lei's heart, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. In an instant, even the back was soaked with sweat.

Is this, is this true?

Who is this person?

Through the slightly foggy glass window, Wang Lei looked at the young man in the window, and looked closely, although it was a little blurry, he could still see that this person was somewhat similar to the king.

Who is he?

Father's ...... Could it be that he, he is really a prince!

Prince...... How is this possible, this is impossible, it is absolutely impossible! No way!

When he left the park in despair, Shi Lei didn't even know if he was discovered when he left, and there was only one thought in his mind at this time - this is not true!

It could never be true!

"No, no, he, he knows, never, never......"

Muttering to himself, Shi Lei's face at this time was completely pale, completely losing his former calm, he was just walking in the snow like this, walking along the road step by step, he just hid his figure in the night, drowning in the wind and snow. And his somewhat shaky figure revealed his mood at this time, if others saw it, they would definitely feel that he might fall to the ground at any time......

The snow in the sky is even bigger, and this snow seems to make this world a little more miserable......