Chapter Forty-Eight: The Little Queen Is Dead?
Dongjia Village - located in the east of Jiangling City more than 100 miles, is a small village surrounded by mountains on three sides and adjacent to water on one side, because of its remote location and rugged roads, there are few business travelers, and there is less trouble in the troubled times!
There are more than 100 families in the village, who live by farming, raising silkworms and fishing, working at sunrise and resting at sunset every day.
"Huh! --Bellow! ”
"The big guy should be diligent, harvest the rice and hand over the imperial grain, otherwise the above will blame it, and our Dongjia Village will be unlucky!"
"I heard that Cao Jun went south and already occupied Jiangling City, but no matter who is in charge, the common people also have to pay grain and taxes, this is our fate!"
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In the early morning, the lame old village chief Dong Da and an old buffalo with broken horns walked on the path outside the village, inspecting the fields to see how the crops were growing, and urging the villagers to harvest rice before the rainy season!
In the autumn of October, the rice in the field is ripe, and the color is golden and the grains are full, and the villagers have to harvest, thresh, dry and bagged...... After handing over the imperial grain, military rations, and all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, the remaining little is your own!
Next, the people have to go down to the river to fish, go up the mountain to cut firewood, and cook cocoons to draw silk...... It takes hard work to barely support a family and eat a few porridges!
After a round of inspection, let the old cow forage for food on its own, the old village chief took off his short shirt, revealing his body full of knife and arrow scars, and then dragged a lame leg, and also went to the field to participate in the labor, the countryside does not raise idlers!
Some people must have wondered why characters like the pavilion chief and the village chief are all lame, broken arms, and blind...... An old man covered in scars, can't he find a person in the huge village?
The reason is also very simple, the Han Dynasty implemented the system of 'all the people are soldiers', and when a man reaches the age of 20, he must declare his household registration to the government, officially enlist in the army, and be a soldier or guard for three years before he can go home to grant fields, marry a wife and have children!
If the country needs it, it will also recruit men to enlist in the army at any time, and the number of times is not limited, until the age of fifty is retired, so the adult men of the Han Dynasty all have the experience of serving in the army, and there are naturally many disabilities!
If a man is not a soldier, he will not be able to declare his household registration and receive land, so he can only become a black household, and he will not be able to marry a daughter-in-law for the rest of his life!
The folk selection of pavilion chiefs and village chiefs, one on military merits, two more than prestige, three on skills, those veterans who fought for the country, were full of scars, and had seen the world, naturally stood out!
"Da! --Da! Da! ”
While the villagers were busy, there was the sound of rumbling horses' hooves in the distance, and hundreds of iron horsemen roared in, fast like a whirlwind, one by one wearing heavy armor, carrying bows and crossbows, and they were all murderous, and at first glance they were the elite who had experienced a hundred battles!
There was a black smoke horse in the team, and on it sat a young man, tall, wolf-backed bee-waisted, with dark and thick eyebrows, eyes as sharp as knives, and his appearance was not handsome, but he had a special charm!
This person is dressed ordinary, and he does not wear armor, but he has the temperament of a superior person, if the cavalry around him is a ghost pawn in hell, he is the king of Yama who sits in hell and is in charge of reincarnation!
"Dare to ask this old man, is this Dongjia Village?"
"Dongjia Village-Village Chief Dong Da, meet all the military masters, the rice in the field is being harvested, and it will be delivered to the army after drying, and I don't dare to be in short supply!
Let's rest in the military master's village, the little old man asks people to prepare fresh fish and wine, and they must be well treated, what do the military masters like, you can take it at will, and please don't harass the people! ”
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The team stopped at the entrance of the village, the black-faced young man turned over and dismounted, clasped his fists and saluted to ask, his attitude was very easy-going, and the cavalry were distributed around, forming a protective trend!
Dong Da has been in the army for many years, and he still has some vision, knowing that a big man has come, at least a partial general, a lieutenant or something, he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, for fear of causing the disaster of slaughtering the village!
The villagers also stopped their work, and gathered together in fear, young men in front, old and weak women and children behind, among them the eldest girl, the younger daughter-in-law, and so on, all of whom grabbed sludge from the rice fields, and painted their faces and hair as much as possible!
In the troubled times, the bandits are like grates, the soldiers are like shavings, these soldiers and uncles loot, but they are much more powerful than bandits, property, food, livestock, and women are all not spared, and they are trying to destroy the whole village at every turn!
Over time, the villagers have also learned to be well-behaved, as long as they don't hurt people's lives, take away property and the like, accompany more smiling faces, say more good things, and try to fool around anyway!
However, the people also have a bottom line, when it becomes a luxury to steal a living, they will rise up to resist, and the well-behaved little sheep will instantly become a tiger wolf, and hoes and sticks can kill people!
"Don't get me wrong, old man, we are not here to collect grain and taxes, but to find an old man, and we have no intention of disturbing!"
"It turned out to be a search for someone...... The people of this village are all here, I don't know who the military master is looking for? ”
"Can the merchant Dong Xing's family live in the village?"
I don't know if I don't say it, the black-faced young man is Xiao Yi, after the army took Jiangling City, he didn't participate in the reward meeting, but ran to a small village, just to find someone - Queen Guo!
When she was in Wohu Mountain, Xiao Yi heard the little queen talk about it, her father was called Guo Yong, who was an official in Jingzhou-Nanyang County, and her mother Dong, she also had an older brother, an older sister, and two younger brothers, and the queen was the second daughter in the family!
According to these clues, after Xiao Yi took power, he sent people to Jingzhou many times to look for him, but there was no news at all.
After Xiao Yi took Xiangyang City, he immediately flipped through the official and civilian household registers, not only to prepare for taking charge of Jingzhou, but also to know the situation of the Guo family, and he really found a clue!
The queen's father, Guo Yong, was indeed born in Jingzhou, and he also served as the Taishou of Nanjun, but in the sixth year of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty - Zhongping, Guo Yong died of illness, and his wife Dong was overly sad and died soon!
Immediately afterwards, there was a plague in the Nanjun area, and many soldiers and civilians died, Guo Fu, the son of the Guo family, Guo Du, and the third son Guo Cheng all died, and the eldest daughter Guo Yuyuan married in a foreign country, and the queen became a poor orphan, and then was adopted by her cousin!
Xiao Yi checked around again and learned that this cousin's name was Dong Xing, a small leader of a caravan, who made a living by selling grain and silk, wandering around, and had no fixed residence, but his ancestral home was from Jiangling-Dongjia Village, so after taking Jiangling City, he came to look for it as soon as possible!
In fact, Xiao Yi knows in his heart that there are constant wars in the world, the corpses of the people are everywhere, it is difficult for a lonely young girl to survive, and the little queen is probably no longer in the world!
Taking a step back, even if the little queen survives, it will be a double decade, according to the Han Dynasty women's fifteen and seventeenth non-marrying guilty customs, I am afraid that she would have married others and had children a long time ago!
Xiao Yi even thought that when she found the little queen, she had already become a village woman, wearing a white wooden hairpin, wearing coarse cloth clothes, carrying a bamboo basket in one hand, holding a baby in the other, and several children behind her, constantly mischievous............ It's terrible!
Even so, Xiao Yi still made up his mind that he must find Queen Guo, not only to fulfill his original promise, but also to end a relationship, otherwise he may have to spend the rest of his life in worry!
If Queen Guo really gets married, then give her a mansion, hundreds of acres of fertile land, and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, so that she can live without worrying about food and clothing, and live up to the sweet 'worry-free brother' by the Panlong River! ’
"Qi Qi, this adult, Dong Xing is from this village, and he sells rice and silk as a business, and it is very fair to do business, but five years ago, they moved away with their family!"
"The family has moved away, dare to ask the old man if he knows, where have they gone?"
"I heard that I went to Changsha County, where there are fewer wars, the people have a better life, and it is easy for businessmen to make money!"
"Changsha County...... It's good to have a goal! ”
ran all the way over, but the result was empty, Xiao Yi was quite depressed in his heart, but at least there is a clue, Changsha County is not far away, just on the south bank of the Yangtze River!
Thinking of this, Xiao Yi was relieved a lot, and asked the soldiers to take some money and prey and give them to the people in the fields, so that they don't have to be afraid, and they can just farm with confidence!
He took down two jars of wine, sat in the field, and drank opposite the old village chief, one was to chat about some trivial things in life, to understand the livelihood of the people near Gangneung, and the other was to ask the people he cared about!
"Did my husband ever know that Dong Xing has a niece whose family is surnamed Guo, and her parents have passed away, is her condition good?"
"Adults want to ask, but the little queen, that's a naughty ...... No, innocent and lovely child! ”
Xiao Yi wanted to describe it, but he couldn't understand it for a long time, more than ten years have passed, what has the lively and lovely little queen looked like?
Unexpectedly, the old village chief actually knew about the little queen, and touched his beard, looking like he had palpitations, it seems that the little queen has caused him a lot of trouble during his residence!
"It's Queen Guo, is she okay?"
"Alas! --Five years ago, the little queen died of illness! ”
"Sick?"
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