Early in the morning, the big locust tree in the front yard of Li Jingdong's wing came from the chirping and laughing of magpies. In the east wing, a pair of big red candles were still burning on the table, and Li Jing was lying on the bed and had not fully recovered from the hangover.

He drank a lot of wine last night, although the fruit wine was made from some mountain fruits, and when he drank it, he didn't seem to feel anything, but the stamina was not small. After the guests dispersed and returned to the house, he fell asleep on the bed without even taking off his clothes.

Gui Niang didn't sleep all night last night, first fetched water to help Li Jing wipe his face and wash his hands and put him to sleep, and then sat at the head of the bed while watching Li Jing guard the pair of happy candles. There is a folk saying that the pair of candles in the cave house cannot be extinguished at night, and if they are extinguished, it means that life will not be smooth in the future. And the two flower candles each represent the newlyweds, if the two flower candles are burned together, it is the best. Which branch dies first means that the newlyweds will not be the first to die in the future. Gui Niang stared at the pair of candles all night, and when she saw which one was burning fast, she had to get out of bed and cut the candle wick short.

stayed up until dawn, and none of the two candles went out halfway, and none of them burned fast and one slow.

Gui Niang looked at a pair of red candles, and then looked back at Li Jing, who was still asleep, with a happy face.

Suddenly, there were several rings of broken gongs outside the courtyard.

"Listen to the family, gather under the tree in the village, listen to it, gather under the tree in the village!"

Li Jing woke up with a shaking head, he had a hangover all night, and his head was still a little painful at this time. As soon as he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Wang Guiniang in a blue hairpin dress, and then looked down at himself, only wearing a middle coat, and the red wedding dress last night was neatly folded aside.

Li Jing was suddenly a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to call Gui Niang.

Calling husband and wife seems to be too frivolous. called Mrs. Langjun, a lady official, and I feel that I can't call it. The two looked at each other for a while, Li Jing didn't speak, and Gui Niang didn't seem to plan to speak first.

After the last moment, Li Jing had no choice but to say: "It seems that Uncle Muramasa is beating the gong to call people, I'll go see what's going on." After saying that, he got up, quickly put on his clothes and hats, and went out in a hurry.

As soon as I went out, I found many people on the village road rushing to the big locust tree in the center of the village. This locust tree in the village is the largest one in the whole Wangli Village, which is six or seven zhang high, with lush branches and leaves, and is shaped like an umbrella cover. Whenever there is a disaster year, April and May are the time when the green and yellow are not harvested. At that time, the locust flowers were blooming, and the people in the village relied on picking locust flowers, locust leaves and wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger to survive this difficult time.

In Wangli Village, this locust tree is the most loved by the villagers. Over time, this locust tree became the community tree of Wangli Village. The shrine tree, like the shrine temple, is very important, and everyone holds a prayer ceremony under this tree every year. Usually, when a family encounters a disaster or something, they will also come to burn incense and paper under the community tree, and even hang some strips of cloth with symbols under the hanging branches of the community tree.

Under the community tree, it has also become the center of the whole village, and whenever there is an important matter, the whole village gathers under the tree to discuss.

rushed to the foot of the community tree, and hundreds of people had gathered here one after another. Wangli Village is not big, but it is not small, there are 158 households in the whole Wangli Village, 1,130 people, more than 300 adults, and more than 400 middle-aged men and women. Such a village, after the Anshi Rebellion, was a big village.

Four families are neighbors, five families are protection, in the yi is the fang, and in the field is the village.

The seven-year household decree of Wude in the Tang Dynasty stipulated that those who were in the field were villages, and the fields referred to the areas outside the prefecture and county officials. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, in the capital of the state and county, the imperial court took 100 households as the li and 5 li as the township. However, at this time, the township system gradually relaxed, and the village and township system began to mature. The people live in villages and villages, and no longer live strictly according to the system of 100 households and 5 miles of townships.

Wangli Village has 158 households and more than 1,000 mouths, making it a large village. There are two village leaders in the village, who are responsible for guarding the village wall and village gate, and take turns to be on duty at the county office. He also had to help the county government collect two taxes, transfer errand officers, and issue government decrees from above.

"Uncle Village Chief, what's wrong, call the big guy early in the morning." Li Jing saw that the two village leaders under the locust tree had arrived, and there was also an official wearing a round-necked shirt beside them, and a beard who was eight feet tall and had a horizontal knife at his waist.

Wangli Village is a large village, with a population of thousands of people, and the whole village has also built a circle of nearly two zhang of earth wall defense, there are only two village gates on the village wall, and there is a special village protection team in the village, and each family takes turns to guard. And because Wangli Village is composed of two surnames, Wang and Li, and exceeds the scale of 100 households, there are two villages in Wangli Village. One is the very old village chief Wang, and the other is the village chief Li Shugen who is in his prime.

Wang Lao, the village chief, has been the village chief for decades, and has gained prestige in the village, and his family is the largest household in the village, with thousands of acres of land, and it is said that he also took refuge from the capital in the early years. The Wang family did not choose to live in the city, but bought a field and built a house in Wangli Village, where they lived in seclusion. The old village chief is fair and kind, although he is the largest household in the village, he has never done anything to bully others, so he has always been respected by the villagers. It's just that the old village chief has also grown old in recent years, so he gradually handed over the big and small things in the village to Li Shugen.

Li Shugen is just over forty, and he was a soldier in the state in his early years, and it is said that he is still a team leader. After returning to the village, he also set up hundreds of acres of land, and now the old village chief is not in charge of affairs, and most of the affairs in the village are handled by him.

Li Shugen's body is as strong as a cow, the cow is tall and big, and the sound is like a bell, but there is a scar in the corner of his eye. As soon as he saw Li Jing, he immediately shouted in his trademark loud voice: "Xiucailang, why did you get up so early in the morning." Good guy, my wife and concubine married together last night, so I won't have to fight three or five hundred times. Tell your uncle, don't you have soft feet! ”

The old and young masters under the community tree all laughed at once, the Li family was also a big family in the village a few years ago, and now although the family is defeated, Li Jing is a rare scholar in the village after all, Li Jing was a township tribute who had obtained the state and county recommendation book, and almost went to participate in the imperial examination. Such poets and calligraphers are still more respected. This time Li Jing had an accident, everyone heard about it, and they all sighed but never thought that he escaped death and came back, and everyone was happy for him. Li Shugen's joke was full of concern.

Li Jing smiled: "Uncle Gen, what's wrong, what's going on, doing such a big battle?" ”

Li Shugen's brows furrowed, and he sighed: "It's not that there is a big drought in Henan and Shandong this year, and there are already many people in many places who have no food to eat. It is said that in the early years, the remnants of Pang Xun in Xuzhou began to take the opportunity to make trouble again, and bandits broke out everywhere, and the imperial court had to order all localities to strengthen vigilance to prevent Qiu Fu, Pang Xun and other people with ill intentions from taking the opportunity to make trouble. Our Song Jieshuai in Ziqing has already written in all the states and counties of Ziqing, and every fifteen households will draw one ding and gather in each state and county to train together in case of need. ”

"Fifteen households levy one ding? What if there is no Cheng Ding House? Li Jing asked, Tang Chu was 20 years old as Ding, later changed to 21-year-old Cheng Ding, and then changed to 23-year-old to Ding. Li Jing is now twenty years old and has just been crowned. In terms of population, he is a middle-aged man between the ages of 18 and 23, rather than a young man.

Li Shugen shook his head: "As mentioned above, no matter whether it is a Ding or not, anyway, fifteen households must draw one Ding, and if the people who draw it do not become Ding, they will be middle-aged men." There are no middle-aged men, so you have to hire someone to serve on your behalf. I see, this time is different from previous years, looking at the style above, this time the recruitment, it is estimated that it will not be able to come back for a while and a half. ”

Uncle Gen was still talking about something, but Li Jing was stunned and pondered.

Ps: The book has been signed, so let's make everyone's recommendation votes more violent!