Little Xiucai's Flowery Love History

After passing Shuozhou is the Datong Mansion. After a lot of hard work, we hurried to catch up, and finally arrived, and it was almost the end of the year.The atmosphere of the New Year in Datong City is already very strong at this time, and the people are all preparing for the New Year.Walking through the streets, it is not surprising that every family has Spring Festival couplets and inverted blessings on their doors, but what is unique to Shanxi is paper-cutting, and every family pastes them on window paper.Although they are all in the house, most of them cannot be seen, but some houses are wooden buildings, and you can still see them when you look up. There are all kinds of tricks, prosperous and rich, there are children shooting cannons in the street, and there are adults chasing them. My own children scolded, and the children ran and laughed, and the air was full of the smell of gunpowder from firecrackers.

Tao Linghua sighed deeply, he didn't know if he would be able to reunite with his family and enjoy the family happiness in this life.

After being registered in Datong Mansion, they were sent to Gaoshanwei. Zhang Laobai and Li Xiao were about to go back after receiving the approval. Tao Linghua hurriedly wrote a few words for them to take home to report their safety. gone.

The officer who received the prisoner here made a gesture and shouted: "Where did the prisoner come from? He must be a bad guy. First choose a big stick to beat!"

Tao Linghua didn't know what rank this official was called, and he didn't know what the rules were here, so he could only laugh and said, "Please forgive me, the official. The younger one was wronged. Please forgive me. The younger one has filial piety."

The official looked at Tao Linghua's burden, and shouted: "Who wants your filial piety, quickly bring a big stick."

Next to him, who looked like a teacher holding a pen, came over and pulled Tao Linghua's sleeve.

Tao Linghua already knew about this situation, and Mu Qi had explained it to him, so he already had some money in his hand, and secretly stuffed it into the master's hands.

The master smiled at the official and said, "My lord, it's not too late to see what filial piety he has." As he spoke, he grabbed Tao Linghua's bag and searched for it. There were only some scattered copper coins, and the official said angrily, "That's all, it's not enough to buy a stick! Give it to him in the camp."

The master persuaded: "My master has accumulated virtue and done good deeds. Seeing that this boy does not look like a strong man, sending him to the camp to fight is also a waste of time. Let him raise horses."

The official waved his hand with a dark face, and the master ordered someone to take Tao Linghua to the racecourse.Tao Linghua secretly rejoiced that the one hundred guan money given by Mu Qi was hidden in his bosom, otherwise it would have been miserable.

When he arrived at the racecourse, Zhang Baihu, who was in charge of the racecourse, extorted ten guan of money, and he settled down smoothly, and it was almost New Year's Eve.Tao Linghua borrowed a quilt and huddled with a few veterans on the kang to sleep, the cold was piercing to the bone.

Before dawn in the morning, the big whip came over, hurriedly ate half a bowl of porridge, and hurried to work.

While working, I listened to a few old soldiers talking about it. It turns out that this Gaoshanwei is in a deep and wide ravine, which sounds inconspicuous, but this ravine is well-known, called: Yunganggou.Therefore, when Tao Linghua heard that the east end of this ditch is the famous Yungang Grottoes, he was not surprised.Further east of this ditch is the town of Datong.

Watching the sun rise lazily in the sky, Tao Linghua hugged a large armful of hay, staring at the sky, he would be dazed, a little dizzy, the weather in winter is always so gloomy, even if it is sunny, it is unhappy and gray.Suddenly, someone shouted from behind: "Little bastard, you still don't work, you can't run out of fodder today, I will kick you to death!"

Tao Linghua received a whip on his back, and it hurt so badly, he quickly hugged the grass and walked forward, stepping on the knee-deep snow, walked to the old soldier rolling the grass and put it down, holding down the end of the straw bale for him to roll the grass.The old soldier looked at the supervisor in the distance, and secretly said: "You must be more careful here, Mr. Zhang is famous for his violent temper, and it would be light to provoke him to eat the whip."

Tao Linghua nodded.The old soldier said again: "Don't wash your face so clean, put some putty on it or something."

"Washing your face isn't allowed here?" Tao Linghua wondered.He has always been honest, he is not lazy in his work, he has not had enough breakfast in the morning, and he has not washed his face, his face is dusty, his lips are not blown by the wind, and his fingers are also black.Taking a bath is even more of a dream.Lying on the big kang at night, the borrowed quilt was as smelly and hard as iron.The most disgusting thing is that there are lice!

Hua gritted his teeth and held back all these bitter pottery, but what's the point of not washing his face?There are only a dozen or so old soldiers in this army horse farm, including Zhang Baihu.

Seeing that he was ignorant, the old soldier sneered and said, "I'm doing it for your own good. Nine out of ten people in this city are military criminals. They are not allowed to return home all year round. There are more young and strong ones. Some of them haven't been able to find a wife for many years. Don't you?" Just want to go astray? You are young and good looking, don’t let them catch you. But it’s a coincidence that you came back, those strong ones were pulled out to fight in the camp, and you will be guilty of seeing them come back accepted."

Tao Linghua shuddered, and quickly asked, "Then what should I do?"

The old soldier shook his head and said: "There is no other way, paint your face black, hide more, and don't join the crowd on weekdays, but this can't be spared. I have seen a few people who were maimed by them How many years in this city don't die because of these things? You can only ask God to bless you. Even if someone wants to do something with you, be soft and don't hold on. It's better to save your life than anything else. It would be better if Mingchun sent you to graze the horses."

Tao Linghua secretly planned in his heart, only chatting with this old soldier.The old soldier claimed to be a local, military, surnamed Li, his family lived in this city, and he had a 15-year-old youngest daughter.

Tao Linghua wondered: "The old man is so old, why is his daughter so young?"

The old soldier said with a smile: "When we marry a military family, we have a son and have to serve as a soldier. Isn't it hard? The old man is poor and no one wants to marry. He only married a widow when he was 40 years old. My girl is the child's mother." It’s brought here, and it’s filial.” The old man’s smile deepened when he thought about his wife and daughter, but at the end he sighed and said, “Niu Niu is old enough to be engaged, and I don’t know where the dowry is.”

When Tao Linghua walked through the city, he also saw some military households. Many of them were in rags and looked like beggars.

Zhang Baihu, the head of the racecourse supervisor, has a bad nose. Although he is irritable, he is a good drinker. He gets drunk all day long. As long as there is wine, everything will be easy.Tao Linghua went out to the market to buy wine for Xiao Jing, and that person smiled a little.Squinting his eyes, he said, "Little Rabbit gave me some winks. Later, Master will give you some light work to do." Tao Linghua just nodded and bowed, and flattered him a few words.

Zhang Baihu was even more proud, keeping the jug in his mouth and saying: "If you have any troubles in the future, just come to the master, and the master will support you. It's just filial piety..." Tao Linghua hurriedly said: "It is duty to respect the master, little one Keep it in my heart and dare not forget it." At this time, I had to bow my head and learn some worldly ways.Fortunately, when I first came to report, all the superiors were transferred to the battalion, and I was sent directly to this army horse farm, otherwise I don't know how many gifts I would have to give, and the little money in the bag might not be enough to send.

When I slept on the big kang at night, I piled my coat on the quilt and huddled up in my jacket and cotton trousers. The charcoal basin in the house usually ran out of heat in the middle of the night, otherwise I would be too cold to sleep.Touching a jade tablet and a bead in his neck, he regretted that he forgot to give the bead to his sister, and he was embarrassed to see Mr. Zhao.Now it's all right to serve as an army, and take away a precious bead from others.I don't know if people will say that I am a liar.

I was thinking wildly, and suddenly heard kicking in the stables in the distance. Because of the dispatch ahead, there are only fifty old, weak, sick and disabled horses left here. I don't know why they bite.Several old soldiers who were on duty to watch the field all got up and said: "Go and have a look, I don't know which horse is biting the groove again."

Tao Linghua also got up, put on his coat and followed to the stable.It turned out to be a black horse with a wounded front leg, and the other horses would not allow it to eat in the trough, but this horse had a fiery temper, biting and kicking like crazy, and pushed the other horses aside.

Everyone hurriedly separated the horses and went to sleep.

Tao Linghua saw that the horse was tied to the outermost position of the stable, next to the snow, and the cold wind was biting at night. He wondered if the injured horse could hold on.Thinking about it, he ran to grab a few bales of hay to block the black horse tightly, and put some feed on the black horse.Unexpectedly, this horse, who is so human, would rub Tao Linghua's face with his big head.With a hairy touch in the cold, Tao Linghua couldn't help but also touched the horse's face, and said to the horse: "You and I are so destined, let me give you a name, Datong produces coal, and you are so black, I call you How about Wujin?" The horse even stretched out its big tongue coquettishly and licked Tao Linghua's face a few times, Tao Linghua thought it was funny, hugged the horse's head and rubbed it, each of them felt very warm in the cold wind of the snowy night.