The wonderful life of modern women in ancient times

So, each of them took a white, plump, hot steamed bun and started eating it in big mouthfuls!

Eat a few bites of steamed bun, drink a sip of meatball soup, scoop a fish ball into your mouth and chew it for a few times, the delicious taste of the fish meat will immediately fill your entire mouth!

Their eyes curved with happiness as they smiled. They didn't even have time to talk and just wolfed down the food!

Little Red, who was originally sleeping lazily on the hay, suddenly shrugged his nose and opened his big eyes with a whoosh!

The masters are so unkind, they always leave this out when they eat the spirit fish!

Oh! You still have to rely on yourself!

It ran to the table on its pony legs!

The owners were so busy eating that no one paid any attention to it!

Xiao Hong was not happy! He looked at the others and suddenly used his horse head to nudge Xiao An'er's arm! Hehe, he only dared to mess with Xiao An'er!

Xiao An'er was caught off guard and the bowl tilted, almost spilling the fish soup!

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and used his other hand to hold the bowl, thus avoiding being covered in fish soup.

Lin An stopped eating and put the bowl on the table. He jumped up, pouted and pointed at Xiao Hong, shouting in dissatisfaction: "Xiao Hong! What are you doing!"

Lin Xi and a few others held their bowls and glanced at Lin An and Xiao Hong while eating.

Oh my god, Xiao An is angry!

Xiaohong looked at the angry Xiao An'er, rolled her eyes, and actually put on a pitiful expression, with a few tears squeezed out of her big eyes!

Lin Dayong, An Er and Cao Shi looked at Xiao Hong like this and stopped what they were talking about. They looked at her in amazement just like Xiao An'er. This horse is so, so special!

Such rich expressions!

Xiao An was stunned for a while. When Xiao Hong blinked pitifully and squeezed out a few tears, he immediately came to his senses, pulled up his sleeves to wipe its tears with heartache!

He even held its horse head and patted it, saying, "Xiaohong, I won't be mean to you anymore, but you have to remember, don't suddenly appear to scare people in the future! You just suddenly nudged me, if I hadn't reacted quickly, wouldn't such a delicious fish ball have been scattered? What a pity!"

Xiaohong actually nodded, rubbed Xiaoan with her horse head, and nudged his bowl with her nose!

The meaning is obvious, it wants to eat fish balls!

The Cao family members looked at Xiaohong with their mouths wide open. This horse could actually understand human language and express its meaning easily with actions. This was the first time they had seen such a smart horse!

Lin Xi rolled his eyes!

She said to Xiaohong: "Xiaohong, I didn't expect you to be so good at acting. You are such a scheming horse!"

Xiao Hong said to Lin Xi in dissatisfaction: "Master, you clearly said that you would order some for me when we eat spiritual fish, but you always forget about me. You don't even allow me to think of ways to order some for myself?"

Lin Xi: "Haha! Sorry! It was so delicious that I forgot to think of you!"

Xiaohong secretly rolled her eyes, ignored Lin Xi, and tried her best to act coquettishly with Xiao An!

Lin An touched Xiao Hong's head, looked at his mother and asked, "Mom, can you give Xiao Hong some fish balls? Look, she's crying because of the greed!"

Xiaohong, who was crying out of greed, immediately turned her face towards Cao and looked at her pitifully.

Seeing this, Cao smiled and said to Lin An, "An'er, go get Xiaohong's basin and I'll scoop some fish balls for her."

After saying that, she turned and went into the kitchen. She also liked Xiaohong, who was so smart. She could even act like a child and act like a spoiled child!

When Lin An heard what his mother said, he immediately trotted into the kitchen with Xiaohong's basin.

Xiao Hong finally got the fish she had been dreaming about! She munched on the fish ball with her horse mouth and squinted her eyes in happiness!

Everyone looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads, ignored it, and lowered their heads to eat again!

After breakfast, two teams of yamen runners came to Linshan Village beating gongs.

The villagers soon gathered at the entrance of the village.

The bailiff took out the list and prepared to start recruiting people according to household.

The village chief stepped forward, smiled, and said respectfully, "Sir, the villagers in our village all used silver to pay for their military service!"

"All paid with silver?"

The bailiff scratched his ears, suspecting that he had heard wrongly. Where could they get the money to pay for military service in this poor place at the foot of the mountain?

The village chief said respectfully again: "Yes, sir, our village has paid with silver!"

After he finished speaking, he carefully took off the bundle on his arm, opened it, handed it to the leading yamen runner, and said, "Sir, there are 55 households in Linshan Village. This is 165 taels of silver. Please count it!"

The bailiff took it and looked at the white silver in his hand. He was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses and counted it. It was exactly one hundred and sixty-five taels!

Seeing that the entire village of Linshan was using silver to pay for military service, the runners looked at each other in bewilderment.

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the villagers in Linshan Village, they are also different from those of the villagers in other villages. In other villages, the villagers all have miserable and lifeless looks on their faces.

Although the villagers of Linshan Village were wearing tattered clothes with patches on top of patches, their sallow faces were full of smiles and their eyes were full of hope.

Do they have found a way to make money?

A yamen runner asked curiously: "Village head, where do the people in your village get the money?"

"Oh! Thanks to the care of Doctor Zhou from Huichun Hall, we were able to collect some herbs and send them over, earning some money. Then every household contributed their money, and finally we had enough money to pay for military service! What a pity! The herbs have been collected, otherwise we could have exchanged them for some food. Now we can only drink wild vegetable porridge!"

The village chief sighed and continued, "But we are very satisfied that we can collect enough money to pay for military service. The whole family is together, so we are not afraid even if we go hungry! It is better than sending our family members to the battlefield to die!"

Upon hearing this, the bailiff also let out a long sigh!

The court was corrupt and they had heard that the new recruits were sent to the battlefield without any training, while the old soldiers hid behind.

No wonder ordinary people are unwilling to send their families to the battlefield. No matter who it is, I heard that none of the conscripts survived, and no one would be willing to send their loved ones to die.

However, I heard that this time the regent seemed to have started to take charge of government, and the generals who did not fight seriously on the front line and did not take the lives of their soldiers seriously were replaced.

Moreover, the entire army has begun training. The new recruits will be trained for two months before going to the battlefield. Who knows whether some of them will survive or even make achievements.

The yamen runners collected the silver, left Linshan Village, and hurried to the next village!

The superiors are urging them to do it urgently and they are very pressed for time.

After watching the yamen runners leave, the villagers of Linshan Village also returned home, carried bamboo baskets and took hatchets, went up the mountain to collect grass for pigs, picked wild vegetables, and chopped firewood, and began to get busy!