When the wage seller saw the tortilla in his son's hand, an evil fire inexplicably emitted and scolded: "You're afraid that others won't know that you have food at home, right?" Eat, eat, eat! You know how to eat, if the pile of firewood outside is used, these months will be in vain! ”

The lame son snorted and said, "I really want to take it early." Even the doctor's 60,000-strong army has been defeated in Jishui, can you still stop it if you take a little something? ”

The wage sellers know that this is the case, and if those people outside really take it, there really is nothing they can do.

He took the tortilla and whispered, "You're watching here." ”

The lame son smiled bitterly: "Dad, aren't you scared stupid?" My leg is broken, what's the use of me looking at it? Don't say that the army wants to take it, even if someone else wants to take it, I can't catch up. ”

The wage seller shouted angrily: "You are stupid! If they take it, no one can stop them. I'm afraid that they will pull people to carry the baggage, and if you break your leg, they will not be able to pull you on the same side. If it really doesn't work, I'll have to split our horseshoe armor tomorrow, although it is distressing, it will affect the work in the future, but it is better than being pulled away. ”

The lame son nodded, and many people in the city were now familiar with it, and some of them were selling herbs that made horses diarrhea, just to avoid military service.

There are also people who cut off their big toes, which makes it very unsteady to walk, so that they can also avoid military service.

He went back and ate a few bites of food, carefully hid some of the grain stored at home, and walked around his horse for a long time with a stone, staring at the part of the horse's hooves, but he still didn't give up.

I thought to myself, maybe the righteous teachers of the Mo family are really different, they are really like those rumors.

But after thinking about it, my heart said that the crows in the world are as black as the world, and there are still tigers and wolves who don't eat meat? I'm afraid it still doesn't work.

The only reliance in the family is this horse, if it really smashes the horns of the horse's hooves, it will not be able to pull the cart for two or three months.

How did the horse know that he knew his master's worries, and still graze quietly there, and when he saw his master beside him, he came around and rubbed the back of his master's hand with his wet nose.

The salaried man's heart softened, and the stone in his hand fell to the ground, and he said in his heart that he would talk about it tomorrow.

He couldn't sleep after tossing and turning in the wheat straw all night, and always hallucinated that someone outside was grabbing his pile of firewood, and when he woke up, he went out for a spin and saw a bright bonfire in the distance.

He was startled, and hurriedly called out his son's name twice, but there was no answer, and he was even more anxious, and hurried over to take a look, and found that his son was asleep in the haystack.

There was a lot of firewood outside, and some singing could be heard in the distance, and the wage seller finally believed a little bit in his heart, and said in his heart: "It's not that they haven't seen my pile of firewood, could it be that they really have nothing to do with Minqiu?" It's like the sun coming out in the west, the fish don't have to drink, the people don't have to to eat, and it snows in the summer. ”

I finally let go of my heart, and the sleepiness that had accumulated before hit me suddenly.

The morning dew hit his face, and he woke up suddenly, and quickly looked at the stacks of firewood and grass outside, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

The neighbor next to him was bolder and was already doing things outside, and he also had the courage to walk out of the house.

However, he did not walk out normally, but limped.

He didn't have any problems with his legs, and it was with these legs that he pushed the firewood and turned his ink cart into a carriage.

It's just that the son has been lame for a long time, and he has seen each other all day long, and he has learned seven or eight points, and limped out of the door, so that at least he doesn't have to be dragged away to serve as a labor force or a baggage soldier.

It's a pity that when the doctor was recruited, all the neighbors knew that he was not lame, and he was reluctant to cut off his toes, otherwise there would be no one to do the work at home in the future.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but regret a little in my heart, I knew that this was the case, I should have broken my eldest son's leg with my own hands, it would be better than dying outside.

As soon as I limped outside, I saw that many people had gathered near the market.

Between the bazaars, which was the hardest hit area of the Mo family's infiltration, these people who were engaged in carpenters and blacksmiths, one day when the princes cleared out the ink and killed all the heads, they cut off one by one and there were fish that would have slipped through the net.

These craftsmen were closer to the Mo family, and they knew about the Mo family's system and policies early on, and they were not afraid of anything, so they peddled some goods in the bazaar.

A crowd of people gathered in the distance, and a local carpenter was muttering something, this carpenter was the first to make ink carts in the city, and the first ink cart of the wage sellers was made by this carpenter.

He limped into the crowd and listened to the carpenter say, "The Mo family said that a car, a horse, and people are all wages. Give copper coins ......"

Surrounded by many neighbors, the lame man asked, "What is this for?" ”

The neighbor smiled: "The Mo family really has nothing to do with Minqiu. It's not, I want to go to Beiji to transport grain, two days round trip, and give enough money. If you don't need money, you can give cotton cloth or something. We all know a lot of people, can they still deceive us? ”

"Don't you have a horse and a cart? Why don't you take advantage of this to make a lot of money? ”

The neighbor's voice was not loud, but the wage seller suddenly waved his hand and shouted, "Quiet, quiet!" ”

He looked back at the righteous soldiers who were maintaining order next to him, and found that they didn't seem to understand well, so he was relieved, and said in his heart: "I won't make this money either, but don't be deceived, and the horse will be gone......

Based on the distrust of history and previous cognition, the wage sellers also slightly feel that these people of the Mo family are indeed a little weird: they have a blade in their hands, and they can rob them directly, so why deceive?

When he was young, he also served, which princes and princes' armies went out to war, not to plunder the villagers, but to harvest and eat all the wheat and corn in the fields.

Although he suspected in his heart that the Mo family was really deceiving his horse, it was already very strange to see an army with a blade but not directly robbing it in those years.

It was inevitable that he was curious, and after being curious, he listened to it for a while, and there was a person who could speak Qi fluently after a while and was talking about some simple and easy-to-understand truths.

Well, in that case, that's fine!

He thought like this, but he didn't think it was realistic, he really didn't care much about the fact that there was no distinction between the old and the young, so it was difficult to understand why people such as shoemakers, carpenters, potters, etc., would burst into cheers.

However, the words that the people's things should not be expropriated privately, and the people's private property should not be moved at will, spoke to his heart.

So I couldn't help but think that if this was really the case one day, then my livestock would not have been levied as Qiu Jiafu back then. You said that even if you have a horn left for yourself, you can still sell it to those who make bows and wrenches, and you can exchange it for two catties of corn......

Listening to it gradually became fascinated, before he knew it was already afternoon, those words seemed to make people full, and he forgot that he was hungry.

As he was about to leave, a Mo man in a strange military uniform who could speak Qi greeted him and said, "Folk, I heard that your family has a carriage?" There's nothing going on now, so why don't you go and transport grain? It only takes two days to come and go, and the horse counts as a penny, the car counts as a penny, and the person counts as a penny. ”

The man said a number, and the salaried man smacked his tongue and said, "That's more than I could have earned by chopping wood for two days." ”

Surprised, he said with a smile: "I do have an old horse at home, but I accidentally injured the horn of my hoof yesterday." I'll show it, this beast is just shining on my legs, you see I can't walk this way......"

"Oh, I really want to make this money. If it weren't for my horse being hurt, if my leg hadn't been kicked by a brute, I'd have gone. The horse is lying on his stomach in the den now, where can he stand up? ”

The ink man sighed and said, "Then your leg is okay, right?" There are doctors in the army, that's Changsangjun's disciple, Changsangjun, have you heard of it? Tomorrow there will be a free clinic in the city, if you have any symptoms, you might as well go tomorrow to see it. There are often bruises, broken bones, and broken bones in the army, and Changsangjun's disciples have a set, and they don't take your money......"

The wage seller thanked him again and again, but said in his heart, "My leg is fine." If I go, won't I be seen? ”

When they got home, their wife and son were muttering, "We heard that people give a lot of money to each person in one horse and one cart." You can also give iron, cotton, or grain. You say you can't do anything now, but you don't go...... The black buttocks next door are going to go, and they gave half of the money first......"

The wage seller snorted, "Laugh today, and tomorrow they cry." Have you ever seen a dog that doesn't eat? If you haven't seen it, how can there be an army in this world that doesn't levy people's husbands? ”

"I tell you, don't rush ahead of this kind of thing. If the Mo family is really like what they say, then it will be good, and I will be happy. But what if not? ”

"If they are good, then even if I deceive them today, can a good person punish me? Won't I be able to transport grain then? ”

"If they are bad, they will know when they return."

"What they say today is to benefit oneself, hey, let them go, let me come."

I said a few more words of "far-sightedness", ate some food, and slept much more soundly at night than yesterday.

Early the next morning, the volunteers stationed outside got up early, and soon built some small houses made of mud nearby, and after a few dozen I heard that it was a toilet, and said that when the volunteers were camped, they even had rules for where to and pee.

In the afternoon, some people gathered in the city, and heard that some ink writers were talking about how to grow crops, how to compost with manure, how to scrape nitrate, and said that as long as the nitrate was scraped and boiled, some merchants would buy it.

Many people in the city listened, especially when they talked about how to grow crops, and preached that the population was like a stormy water, and he looked like an old farmer in every gesture, and he told the story of planting crops in a way that was convincing.

Later, I heard that this person turned out to be a Qi person, and he was still a member of the Tian family.

This makes the wage sellers even more unable to see through, not that they can't see through how the Tian family still goes to work in the Mo family to help fight the Qi country: at this time, there is no concept of a nation, the struggle between the nobles is really ordinary, today to Qi tomorrow to Zhao and the day after tomorrow to Lu, what has changed is only the doctor who collects military labor and pays rent, and sometimes even the villagers who collect taxes have not changed.

What he couldn't see through was that those aristocratic gentlemen who thought that crops were a lowly thing could do farming in Sishang?

In the evening, another army came from outside the city, and it seemed to be a follow-up force, which also camped in the open space outside the bazaar.

With the arrival of this army, those small traders who had become accustomed to the existence of the righteous teachers began to peddle some food in the vicinity, and some people in the army came to find some local people to buy grain, vegetables, sheep and dogs directly with copper or gold.

It's still autumn without committing any crimes, buying and selling.

Seeing all this, the wage sellers who still felt that they were far-sighted yesterday already regretted it in their hearts, and said in their hearts: Could it be that in this world, there are really dogs that don't eat?