Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Gu Li: "Don't worry, Dashan. In addition to storytellers, I have other jobs in my tavern that need hiring people."

Qi Dashan breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want Jiang Zhuo to owe him a favor just because he didn't understand the storyteller's job clearly.

As long as there is work, he can do anything.

Qi Dashan lowered his eyes to glance at his empty left trouser leg and clenched the crutch in his hand.

Jiang Zhuo didn't say anything. Although Qi Dashan had lost one leg, he could do a lot of things with the support of a crutch. It's just that most people were unwilling to hire a disabled person as a helper, so it was more difficult for him to find work.

He would feel more at ease thinking that if he returned to the military camp, he would have Qi Dashan guarding him in the tavern.

The position of storyteller was temporarily vacant, but Gu Li did not leave. Instead, she sat down with Jiang Zhuo and Qi Dashan to discuss the whole story of the battle in Taiyin Mountain last year.

In the Battle of Taiyin Mountain last year, Jiang Zhuo had been promoted twice and was no longer the head of Qi Dashan's garrison. Qi Dashan's foot was cut off by the enemy's sword during the Battle of Taiyin Mountain.

Because they belong to different branches of the military, the Battle of Taiyin Mountain in the narrative of Jiang Zhuo and Qi Dashan becomes more rich.

However, the narrations of the two straight men were very rough. Gu Li heard the cruelty of war, the hardship of fighting, and the difficulty of victory, but nothing else.

It certainly won't work if we just put it in a straightforward manner.

After Gu Li wrote down some key words and events on the bamboo slips, she packed up and prepared to go back. "I'll go back first."

She already had a rough outline of the story of the Battle of Taiyin Mountain, and she only needed to go back and polish it to complete the manuscript.

"Are you leaving so soon?" Jiang Zhuo stood up and said, "Stay at my house and have dinner together! I have some things to add about our trip to Taiyin Mountain."

The two of them were standing quite close, and Gu Li had to tilt her head slightly to see Jiang Zhuo's face. "Anything else? Don't eat snowballs for several meals in a row. Tell me what grass roots you chewed on. I know all this!"

Jiang Zhuo: -----

"Brother, if you have nothing to do, take Brother Dashan for a walk on the street, or go to the tavern!" After saying that, Gu Li left in a neat and decisive manner.

Jiang Zhuo sent Gu Li into the gate of the Meng family. He went back reluctantly only when he could no longer see Gu Li's back.

Qi Dashan was sitting at the table drinking hot tea. When he saw Jiang Zhuo coming back, he teased, "What's wrong? Did your soul get lost outside?"

Jiang Zhuo also sat down at the table, picked up the kettle and poured himself a cup of hot water. "You, who don't have a wife, certainly don't understand the troubles of a groom-to-be like me."

He drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, "Oh, the days are really long!"

If you didn't know, you would think he was drinking the military liquor.

Qi Dashan smiled. As a disabled man, he would never have the chance to get married again in his life.

He came from a poor family. His older brothers had all enlisted in the army, but his grandparents paid him thirty-five copper coins to use the name of the son of a wealthy family in the village to join the army with his older brothers.

His eldest brother died in battle in his first year of joining the army, but he was luckier and managed to survive the vanguard battalion and was assigned to Jiang Zhuo's team.

Jiang Zhuo had a high combat talent and was quickly promoted from a soldier to a sergeant, then a squad leader. Finally, he was selected by the captain and was selected to leave the combat team.

It was not until the Taiyin War broke out that Qi Dashan met his comrades again.

Although Jiang Zhuo looked rough, he was also considerate. He filled Qi Dashan's cup with tea and patted Qi Dashan's shoulder hard, "Don't worry, as long as you sincerely follow A Yao, she will definitely not treat you unfairly. If I am not at home in the future, I will trouble Brother Dashan to help my A Yao more!"

"You don't even need to tell me that!" Qi Dashan also drank the water in the cup in one gulp, and pounded his chest with his fists. "You brought me this life from the frontier. Even if there is no reward, I will still work hard for your A Yao!"

Qi Dashan broke one of his legs and only received cursory treatment from the military doctor. Before he had fully recovered, he was ordered to leave the barracks.

If he hadn't met Jiang Zhuo who was also returning home, he would probably have died on the way home.

Jiang Zhuo waved his hands, "It's not like she's risking her life for him. What she needs now is a storyteller!"

Qi Dashan is moved: -----

"I'm worried that I'll ruin Miss Meng's business. I've never heard of a storyteller since I was a child. I don't think I can do this well."

"Did you learn how to fight before you went to the battlefield? Everyone has a first time. Besides, can storytelling be more difficult than fighting with your head on your belt? You killed two enemies in a row when you picked up a weapon for the first time, and you are still stumped by sitting down and telling a story."

Qi Dashan was silent for a while, "Then Miss Meng, can you give me a chance to try?"

Jiang Zhuo smiled and said, "I'll go ask for you tonight!"

Qi Dashan opened his mouth wide, "Why do you want to go at night?" Visiting a woman's boudoir at night is not something a decent person would do!

But he didn't say the rest.

Jiang Zhuo laughed, "Ayao and I grew up together. Both families treated us as each other's children, without any distinction. I used to often climb over the wall to play with Ayao. There was a shortcut, so who would be patient enough to go through the main gate? Besides, my father had agreed with Uncle Meng since we were young that when Ayao and I grew up, we would get married. Sooner or later, she will be mine."

Qi Dashan had always envied Jiang Zhuo. In the past, he envied his talent for marching and fighting, but now he envied him one more talent.

"It's great to have someone waiting for you at home!" said Qi Dashan.

He left home to fight at the age of fourteen, and is now twenty-five. If he had not been disabled, he would still be at the border ready to fight at any time.

When he returned to the home where he grew up after going through untold hardships, his family was more shocked than delighted at his sudden appearance.

They were surprised that he was still alive after so many years. His grandparents who sold him starved to death in the famine the year before, and even his father was gone.

There was no trace of his existence in that house. Even that night he slept in the woodshed that his mother had cleaned up, with two wooden boards put up by his third brother.

He is the seventh child in the family with many siblings and nephews and nieces, and they all look at him as a foreign guest.

But whose guests would live in the woodshed?

Because he is disabled.

It's great that his family has taken him in.

However, if he did not have the severance pay issued by the army, Qi Dashan didn't know whether he could still live in the woodshed.

So, when Jiang Zhuo found him, he followed him without thinking.

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The information found on the Internet also has a related record in "Huang Ming Jingshi Wenbian": "For the land troops, they follow the ancient system of ten and five, five people form a group, two groups form a ten, and there is a squad leader, three groups form a team, and there is a team leader, three teams form a sentry, and there is a sentry officer, five sentries form a general, and there is a captain, and five generals form a battalion, all of which are under the command of a commander.