"Then don't worry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Li Mingli's face was shining, he stood up and walked around the room a few times, and there was a feeling in his heart that the shackles were gone.

That sense of crisis that the day is precarious and that he may be killed at any time has made Li Mingli always walk on thin ice and tremble, maybe he himself doesn't know that he has actually been trying to live in the past few years, and all his behaviors, all his caution and reluctance to worry about it are nothing more than fear and timidity.

When it was time to make a decision, images of the past flowed like water, and a sense of relief that I had never felt before.

"Although we must go, we still have to plan well." Li Mingli held back his excitement, looked at the child next to the big girl on the bed, and sat down again.

"yes, I just want you to set your mind." The eldest girl also looked at the child next to her at this time, the newborn child's hair was still a little wet, like a chicken that had just been peeled out of the shell, an unprecedented feeling hit the young girl's heart, even if it was for this child, it was worth the risk.

Although I heard that it was very the Dongjiang River, and a large number of people died in Phi Dao and other places, as long as you get rid of this butcher's knife on the top of your head at any time, and you have to be willing to be a slave, even if it is worth risking your life.

"We may be more ......bitter than now when we run away," Li Mingli took the hand of the big girl and said in a deep voice: "There are also many corrupt officials and corrupt officials on the Ming side, and sometimes the door is not better than the Dongyu, but the Ming side will not treat all the people as slaves, and if you are lucky, you can survive." For the sake of the child, it's still worth it. ”

"Leave in the summer." The eldest girl said resolutely: "The child will be older by then, we will prepare some food to eat on the way, a family of four will secretly cross the river, you are the sentinel guarding the river, others can't run away, we will definitely be able to run away." ”

"No matter how hard it is, it's worth ......," Li Mingli muttered.

……

When Cao Zhenyan rushed to Li's house, he happened to see a crowd of people coming out of Li's house.

Originally, there were a lot of people in this village, and when Cao Zhenyan first came over, the number of Dingkou must have been more than two hundred, which was equal to a small Jurchen Niulu.

Later, some Jurchens also scattered in this village, and lived with the banner-carrying Handin and a small amount of clothing.

Everyone's land was distributed among the public people, and the Han freedmen were able to retain their status and a small amount of land at that time.

When they came later, there were no Han freemen, and everyone was either carrying a flag or wrapping up a coat of Zhuangding.

When I came back this time, all the way was bleak, the original pure Han residential area has become the official village where the Eight Banners and Niulu live scattered, the Jurchens and their Han people's clothing, plus a small number of Han army bannermen, the original village of a few hundred people, now only a few dozen Jurchens and dozens of Han people live, the number of people is only one-third of the original, or even less.

Where more people have gone, Cao Zhenyan doesn't want to think.

Of course, the people who came to Li Mingli's house were all Han bannermen, the number was very small, and everyone knew Cao Zhenyan, they showed a slight smile on their faces, everyone bowed to each other, and a bannerman with a goatee said: "Brother Xiao Cao is here, Brother Li's family is importing Ding." ”

"My sister-in-law gave birth?" Cao Zhenyan was also in good spirits, and said with a smile: "It's really a coincidence, just in time to congratulate Brother Li." ”

"It's a good brotherhood." The goatee gave a thumbs up, exchanged a few more pleasantries, and left.

Everyone is obviously not high-spirited, come to congratulate just follow the habits passed down from generation to generation, the recent harvest is very poor, everyone is not only not full, the whole family is thin and out of shape, and then go down to starve to death, and everyone is often bullied by the Jurchen bannermen and soldiers, and it is common for them to be used as free labor, and the Niu Lu Zhangjing and Niu Lu Ezhen on the top have to urge the Gongzhong Tian Fu again, and they have to honor these Jurchen officials so that they are not targeted and difficult, everyone lives very difficult, and even struggles on the death line, In this case, people can squeeze out a smile on their yellow and thin faces, and they are willing to take this trip to congratulate, in addition to habits, Li Mingli's popularity can also be seen.

Cao Zhenyan was thoughtful in his heart, but he strode in, saw Ding at the door, and said, "Hello Aunt Ding, congratulations on hugging your grandson." ”

Ding is also a little happy, she is not for anything else, her husband is dead, and the woman who lives by her daughter and son-in-law is very depressed, but no matter what, people always have to survive, and having a grandson seems to have a new hope, and Cao Zhenyan will bring something every time she comes, and the woman is of course a little happy to see it.

At that moment, Ding replied: "Xiao Cao, you are here by coincidence, the child has just fallen asleep after feeding, and your brother Li and sister-in-law are talking in the room......

"I'm afraid I'm going to tire my aunt if I go down." Cao Zhenyan took out things from both sides of the mount, carried them directly to the stove, and said with a smile: "Auntie, don't just starve, although I am not very prosperous there, there is still no shortage of food, but it is too far away, and I don't have time to come often, since I have added a little nephew, I will come early next time and bring more food." ”

Ding looked at the ground, and saw that there were a few catties of cured venison, two smoked chickens, and a few preserved fish, in addition to some dried fruits such as pine cones, and a small bag of grain, estimated to be about five liters, of course, the grain is not refined grain, it should be a hybrid grain mixed with refined grain and miscellaneous grains.

While the woman was happy, she said with some anxiety: "I heard that the situation in your house is not as good as before, how can you bring these meat and dried fruits here......

Cao Zhenyan said seriously: "It's not worth anything, if you know that your nephew was born today, this thing is still too little and too slow." ”

Ding almost cried when he heard this...... A few years ago, if you said that your grandson was born, someone brought a few catties of venison to congratulate you, I'm afraid you won't even be able to enter the door, right?

Gold locks, silver locks, tiger shoes inlaid with gold and silver sheets, all kinds of children's utensils, this is a serious congratulatory gift, even if there are poor relatives and friends, they will make two children's clothes and send them, how can there be a strip of bacon and a few liters of grain as a gift? Even if the host doesn't say anything, the giver will make people laugh and lose their big teeth, and he will be ashamed to death.

I never thought that in just a few years, everything was turned upside down, Ding had been at home in the past, except for going out to incense and visiting relatives and friends, things in the outside world have never been related to her, who would have thought that everything would change overnight, the Ming Dynasty lost Liaodong, not only the face of the imperial court was gloomy, Shanhaiguan was threatened, and the worst situation was of course the Liao people living in this land.

Cao Zhenyan saw Ding's sadness, so he didn't say anything more at the moment, clapped his hands and folded out of the stove room, and went straight to the main house.

It is said that there is a small courtyard with the main entrance stove room and the main hall, but in fact, there are a total of four houses, and they are all low grass houses, but fortunately they are new grass, otherwise they will die when it rains a lot in summer. The yard is not small, there is no shortage of land on the Houjin side, people are about to be killed, the place is enough, Li Mingli built a shed in the backyard to support his most valuable wealth, the war horse that has followed him for more than two years, although it is a low jujube red horse, but it is also a serious war horse, some Jurchen bannermen do not necessarily have horses, this horse is also the most valuable wealth of the Li family.

There are a few chickens in the front yard, which are also the most valuable things of the Li family, eggs can be used for cash, and the eldest girl can't eat fish in the later stage of pregnancy, and there is no meat, so she relies on eggs to survive.

Even so, it was born prematurely for more than 20 days, and Cao Zhenyan was really a coincidence.

"Big brother, sister-in-law, I'm in."

The children of Cao Zhenyan's family, politeness is still rooted in their bones, and after knocking on the door, they pushed the door in.

Li Mingli had already greeted him with a smile on his face, and he said, "What did you bring again?" ”

The eldest girl lay on the bed and said, "Is there a brother like you, meet and ask what your brother brings." ”

Li Mingli said with a smile: "It's reasonable for me to pick up his things when he comes back...... When an uncle doesn't bring something to his nephew? ”

Cao Zhenyan also smiled and said: "I originally planned to come back in a month, anyway, the fourteenth elder brother will often send me over to see the harvest of the official village here, and it is okay to run twice a month, but I didn't think that this time the little nephew would be born, but I was caught off guard." So I brought some meat and food, which is probably enough for you to survive the spring famine. ”

Li Mingli didn't expect Cao Zhenyan to bring a lot of things this time, the last two times, the food brought was just some miscellaneous grains, the Cao family said that life was not easy, I didn't expect this time to bring a lot of things, this really solved the urgent need, the eldest girl gave birth to a child is weak, urgently need tonic, the person who nurses the child is not full, milk, water must be insufficient, the child is aggrieved, crying all day long, adults are in a hurry, the child cries all night, and there is no milk, water, of course, there is no millet porridge to boil up to the child's hunger, I can only hold the doll and cry all night...... During this time, several babies were born in the village, but they were not raised, and they all died in less than a month. Even if the infant mortality rate in this era is very high, it still makes adults sad if they can't raise a single one.

"Eat and put it outside, I can't be an uncle without a greeting gift at all." Cao Zhenyan smiled and took out a small ingot of gold from his arms, gently placed it beside the child, and said in a relaxed tone: "There is no shame in being an uncle now, this is a decent meeting gift." ”

"Put it away." Li Mingli glanced at it, then immediately picked up the gold, handed it to Cao Zhenyan and said: "This thing is very rare now, you don't know where to get this piece, don't hurry up and put it away." ”

This small ingot of gold has more than five taels, according to the exchange ratio of the Ming Dynasty can be exchanged for more than 30 taels of silver, according to the price of Liaodong at this time is a stone and a half grain, in the peaceful years, you can buy five acres of land, or three or four cows, or a small courtyard covered with green bricks, in the city enough to pawn a few rooms, in short, it is a lot of wealth.

At this time, because of the war and the looting of the Jurchen aristocracy, the gold and silver in Liaodong have been almost looted by the Jurchen upper class, especially the gold, the upper class is very concerned about the collection of gold, the original gold mining in China is insufficient, and the gold reserves of thousands of years were also looted in the Mengyuan period, the recovery of these hundreds of years is limited, coupled with the open sea trade, a large amount of gold was exchanged for silver by the Europeans, and the private gold reserves are even less, and the people here in Liaodong can hardly see gold, even if it is silver, it is in the hands of the Jurchens, The Han Chinese had very little silver in their hands, let alone gold.

It is conceivable how valuable the ingot of gold given by Cao Zhenyan is, and of course Li Mingli refuses to accept it.

"Brother Li doesn't have to be polite." Cao Zhenyan said: "There are some things I haven't said yet, but to tell you the truth, I don't lack this amount of money now." ”

Saying this, Li Mingli knew that there was still a following, and it was also ugly to push it in front of the eldest girl, so he immediately accepted the gold and ordered the eldest girl to be stuffed under the corner of the quilt, so as to prevent the people who came in to see it accidentally.

"I have something to tell you." Li Mingli looked at the eldest girl and made up his mind: "If it's a fatal thing, if it's not you, it can't be said to be killed." ”

"Okay, then I'll listen to Brother Li first,......" Cao Zhenyan pulled a chair and sat down opposite Li Mingli.