Divorced woman with child travels through time

On the hill behind Tianjia Village in Liushui Town, all sorts of weeds, some new and some old, grow in abundance, with trees of varying heights scattered about. Seven-year-old Huwazi is weeding in his family's vegetable garden when his neighbor's friend Erya runs over anxiously, "Huwazi~ the village chief said that soldiers have come to help with farming. Go and tell your grandmother to register!"

"What? What did you say?" Tiger Boy was on the hillside, a bit far away, and couldn't hear very well, but he saw a figure getting closer and closer to him.

"Tiger Cub~" Er Ya stopped and cupped her hands in a megaphone shape. "Come back first, it's urgent!"

I heard that sentence clearly: "Oh, I'm here!"

Tiger Cub took the shoes, emptied the dirt out of them, put them on, picked up some wild vegetables he had gathered, and ran downstairs in a flash, without even breaking a sweat.

"What's wrong?" Tiger Cub was still damp.

"Where is your ancestor?" Er Ya repeated what she had just said.

"She's in the fields on the other side of the mountain. Should I go and call her?"

"It's so far..." Er Ya propped herself up on the awning and looked around. "You should go. Everyone will be gone soon. It's only a rare opportunity that the General has spoken, and people are coming to help with the farming. All we need is someone to register. Hurry up and go!"

"Okay, thank you, Er Ya!" Tiger Cub took off running.

"Don't be so polite with me! You go first, I'll go call your grandmother." Er Ya also took off running, the two of them running side by side, one to the south and one to the north, each with two buns on their heads, bouncing as they ran.

Tiger Cub ran fast and quickly entered the courtyard. Just then, he saw the village chief passing by his door. Upon seeing him, the chief said, "Go to the village entrance quickly and go to the town to register with the people there. Remember to say your father's name. Then someone will come to help your family farm."

"Okay, thank you, village chief." Tiger Boy put down the basket, quickly washed his face in the basin, wiped it off hastily, and ran away.

Along the way, he saw many villagers, including many elderly people and children, as well as a few young wanderers. Tiger Boy didn't pay much attention to them and quickly ran ahead.

Following the sparse crowd and amidst numerous skeptical voices, we finally saw a vast expanse of red, like swords drawn from their sheaths, rising from the wasteland beside the official road entrance of Liushui Town.

The people immediately fell silent.

Tiger Cub followed the crowd and waited in line until it was his turn.

"Hey, you little kid, where are your parents?" Gu Ming stood up, taking the opportunity to stretch his muscles.

Tiger Cub was a little uneasy. "My father is missing. It's just my grandmother and me at home."

"Oh~" Gu Ming straightened up, squatted down to look him in the eye, and asked, "What's your name? What's your father's name? What does he do?"

"My name is Yuan Hu, and my father's name is Yuan Jie. A few years ago, he went out with someone and never came home. I don't know what he did for a living," Huwazi answered honestly.

"Hmm, how many acres of land does your family own?" Gu Ming asked while taking notes.

"My family has four mu of land."

"Okay, where do you live?"

"I live in Shangtou Village."

"Okay!" Gu Ming packed up his things, looked at Jiang Zhiben's black toes peeking out of his shoes, his tattered pants, and the black mud sticking out between his fingers, and pointed to Jiang Zhiben sitting to the side looking at the sky, saying, "You go with this brother, he will send someone to help you go home and finish planting the fields later."

"Ah, okay then, but we don't provide meals." Tiger Cub's eyes darted around, but he still told the truth.

With a flourish of his pen, Gu Ming had done another good deed. "Haha, you don't need to worry about that, go on!"

"Hehe!" Jiang Zhiben laughed, patting the bag on his head. "You don't need to feed them; they brought their own food."

"Let's go!"

Jiang Zhiben casually pointed to ten soldiers, and then left with Huwazi.

"Seriously, there really is such a good thing!" The few playboys at the back of the line were immediately itching to try it.

Soon it was their turn.

Gu Ming glanced at it but didn't even open the booklet.

"Name?"

"Uh, Yuan Lin!" Yuan Lin looked up at the pretty boy in front of him. With such a fair complexion, he must be good at seducing young wives.

How many people are in your family? How many acres of land do you own?

"There are seven people in my family and ten mu of land."

"Go back!" Gu Ming glanced at him coldly, then casually pointed to the few people with him behind him, "You all go back!"

"Why should I!" Yuan Lin immediately erupted, and his cousins ​​Yuan Mu and Yuan Sen, who shared the same branch of the family, also crowded around, all talking at once.

"Exactly! Why should they get to do it!"

"Yes, our family is also short of people of the race."

"Who isn't? Are you looking down on us?!"

"That's right, they have to plant it whether they want to or not, they have to help us!"

"What are you doing?!" Jiang Zhiben roared! He arrived with several tall, mounted soldiers, looking fierce. "What's all the noise about? Don't you know where you are? You think you can run wild like this?!"

The Yuan brothers immediately fell silent, forcing smiles as they said to Jiang Zhiben, "Sir, we're poor too! Why won't you help us farm? This pretty boy must just not like us, that's why he won't let us farm."

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Slap!" Jiang Zhiben slapped him hard, "Do you think you can talk to Inspector Gu like that? If he says your family can't help, then your family must have a problem."

Gu Ming picked up a thick household register next to him. “Your Yuan family’s third branch, head of household Yuan Fang, was originally a peddler. He traveled from street to street and made money. After that, he built a house with six courtyards and four entrances, married a wife and took a concubine, and bought 58 mu of land. Later, he became complacent and squandered his money to support his family. He still has 20 mu of upper-grade land and 8 mu of lower-grade land.”

Yuan Lin stared at Gu Ming, dumbfounded, his face filled with astonishment. "You...you? How did you know?"

"What do you mean, 'you'!" Jiang Zhiben slapped him again. "What are you pointing at? That's rude!"

"These are just the official records, all the ones that are publicly available and can be verified by the government. What else do you have to say?" Gu Ming said with displeasure, slamming the booklet down heavily. "Get out of here now, or don't blame me for being impolite!"

The Yuan brothers wanted to say something more.

Jiang Zhiben stepped forward with his men, his menacing expression fully revealed! "Get lost!"

The group immediately fled in a panic.

After the incident and the commotion, the number of villagers secretly disguised as locals in the group decreased significantly.

Gu Ming's group also had a smoother journey. Wang Erniu sent out about ten teams like his. In the barracks of Quanzhou City, they recruited 50,000 men, but less than half of them were actually in the camp for regular training. They went out in batches to either farm or suppress bandits. It was all about training soldiers. It was tough, but the food was excellent, with plenty of oil and meat. Therefore, very few soldiers deserted.

In the paddy fields of Shangtou Village, Huwazi's grandmother wiped away tears of joy, repeatedly expressing her gratitude to the new recruit Chen Song.

"How come you guys work so efficiently? Oh, thank goodness for you guys, I don't know what to say. Without you, it would have taken my husband and me half a month to plant."

"Grandma Yuan, it's alright. This is what we should do. Besides, we do these chores at home too. It's nothing. I've finished my water and I need to get back to work. We have to rush back to the barracks tonight."

"Alright, alright!" Granny Yuan quickly let go of her hand.