……

A quarter of an hour later, Gou Sheng kicked the mountain official awake.

Shan Guan was only a dog living in a dream, turning over and snoring a little, and doing two rounds with real guns and live ammunition, after all, it is still exhausting!

"stand up!"

Gou Sheng kicked again and yelled weakly.

"What's wrong?" Shanguan asked with a thick nasal voice.

"I'm starving to death!" Gou Sheng gritted his teeth and pinched the mountain official's waist resentfully.

The mountain official said "Hey", sat up with energy, got up and lit the oil lamp, "Wait a minute!"

Gousheng "groaned", covered his growling stomach, and lay back on the kang in a daze.

Shan Guan went out to scoop up some cold water to wash his face, he was sober, and thought about it for a while. In the middle of the night, there were only a few leftovers in the kitchen at night, and he couldn’t give people something too exciting, otherwise, there would be something wrong when he woke up in the morning. accepted.

"Taste my craft!"

After a while, Shanguan came in with a big bowl.

Gou Sheng dragged his coat over and put it on, and sat on the edge of the kang.

Shanguan mixed the noodles until thin, took a few dried shiitake mushrooms, cut them in half, and picked up some vegetables left over from the night, mixed them together and cooked a small pot of noodle soup, with dark gray shiitake mushrooms and green vegetables. With Bai Shengsheng's noodle soup, it looks very good.

Gou Sheng took it and took a small sip of the boiling hot noodle soup.

"How is it?" Shan Guan asked with a smile.

Regardless of the taste, it is delicious when you are hungry.

Gou Sheng gave Shanguan a sideways look, but didn't answer, and started to eat without caring about the heat.

"I'm very good at cooking. Speaking of which, when we were in the military camp, we practiced from morning to night, and we couldn't eat enough for two meals a day. At night, we cooked a pot of food randomly, and more than a dozen people competed for it." It’s delicious to eat. At that time, as long as it was food, it was collected and cooked in a jar. I remember one time, I really couldn’t find anything. The few of us touched all the corners of the school grounds. , hoping to find a few wild vegetables, and even dug out the grass roots and cooked it once... Unfortunately, everyone is scattered in different directions now!"

"Is there any more?" Gou Sheng asked as he handed over the empty bowl.

Shanguan was feeling emotional, and the leaked emotions were interrupted, "You!"

"Well, it's cooked well!" Gou Sheng yawned and asked.

"Sleep, don't eat, save food in the night!" Shanguan took the bowls and chopsticks, soaked them in the pot, and saved them for tomorrow morning.

Gou Sheng took a sip from the teacup on the kang, and fell into a deep sleep almost immediately.

As the saying goes, look at the beauty under the light.

Under the dim oil lamp, watching Gou Sheng's cheeks trembling slowly with his gentle breathing, Shanguan couldn't help himself, the original firm decision was slightly shaken for the first time...

The two and a half boys hang out day and night, and they will definitely not be able to get up the next morning.

Hua Ya was considerate and didn't bother, cleaned up the stove, cooked half a pot of noodle soup, and had breakfast with her two younger brothers.

Xiao Jiu hurried to the academy as usual, Hua Ya went out with her sewing basket, and the eggs were still serving Hei Ban.

When Shan Guan got up, the eggs had cleaned up the yard.

"Dandan, go and rest, go in and talk to your doggy brother." Shan Guan stretched his waist and said.

"Yeah." Dandan replied in a muffled voice, and carefully washed his hands and faces in the wooden basin.

Gou Sheng was already awake, but he realized the consequences of indulgence when he moved - he didn't have any strength in his body, even if he wanted to get up, he couldn't get up!

"Brother, get up."

"Oh, eggs!" Gou Sheng said in a low voice.

"It's okay, I want to go back to the village." Egg said slowly.

If you are a diligent farmer, there will always be endless work to do. Small yards in this city are different. Every day you go back and forth is just a few houses and a few vegetable fields the size of a palm in front of the house. No wonder farmers are not used to living in the city!

"Okay, in a few days, we will go back when your Shanguan brother leaves." Gou Sheng agreed.

Once the surface of the egg is loosened, it's time to pay attention to other things.

"Brother, are you uncomfortable?"

Gou Sheng shook his head, "No!"

"Don't get up!" Egg continued stubbornly.

Gou Sheng found an excuse for himself in embarrassment, "I want to lie down."

Dandan nodded, "Tired, take a good rest!"

"If you have nothing to do, go and play with Sister Hua Ya to her master's son!" Gou Sheng slightly turned his body to make himself lie more comfortably, and suggested.

Egg shook his head, "Not good!"

Gou Sheng understood, no matter what, with Egg's appearance, his family members would sometimes get impatient or bullied, let alone outsiders.

"Then bring the big brother's book, the one with the stitches on the side!"

The egg trotted out in response.

This old book is a collection of miscellaneous talks, and Gousheng organizes some of his own knowledge and writes on the blank pages that were specially bound on it at the beginning. It is cheap to choose one to reason with a few small ones when you have the opportunity.

"Come up and sit next to Big Brother!"

Last night before going to bed, the mountain official wiped the dog's body, and cleaned it up this morning. The cabinet at the top of the kang is equipped with a large dry towel every day. Unless it is urgent, the towel is usually put on the mat, so that it will not be changed every day. The bedding has been covered several times, and the kang is still dry now, and it will not be embarrassing to let the eggs sit on it.

With a smile on Dandan's face, he slowly took off his shoes and outer pants and put them in order, then rolled into the dog's leftover quilt and sat down.

Gousheng and Egg huddled together, reading a book, reading each word slowly.

Egg followed Gousheng to read sentence by sentence.

"Now that I'm free, I'll take this and read for a while every morning after I'm done with my work, and then I'll be able to speak more quickly."

Egg nodded heavily.

Gou Sheng read an article several times with the egg before getting up with his limp body.

Shanguan deliberately went to the market on the east side of the city to buy some rare breakfasts, and hurried back all the way.

"Try it, that's a time-honored brand, and the fresh soup wontons are the most famous!"

After Gou Sheng finished washing, he put his hair into a messy bunch and tied it on the top of his head, and sat down on the kang table with his waist supported.

There are a few mushrooms of various colors floating in the chaotic soup, no wonder it is called fresh soup.

In this era, no one specializes in growing mushrooms. Farmers in the villages took advantage of the spring rain to go up the mountain to pick them. They picked up the unattractive ones and dried them. That’s why there are so many dried mushrooms in the market. If Li saw it on the mountain, he would pick all of them back. Unfortunately, everyone in the family loves to eat them, so they didn't save any dried mushrooms.

Gou Sheng ate the little chaos, drank all the soup, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Edible mushrooms can be seen on the mountain, the most common one is a pure white oval mushroom, since this thing Scarcity, why not try to grow one yourself!

Shanguan finally managed to grab this bowl, and he could only hold the steamed buns and eat the pickles at home. Seeing the sweetness of the dog leftovers, he felt very uncomfortable. When he got a bowl of hot water, he ate four big steamed buns in one go.

The left and right mountain officials are going to leave in the next few days, and Gou Sheng only secretly planned in his heart, and did not speak out to discuss with the mountain officials.

The two of them had enough to eat and drink, and before they could rush to clean up the dishes, there was a hasty knock on the door outside.

Dandan is a sincere child. Since Gousheng had spoken, he just stood in the yard with a book in his hand to read, and only came in to ask when he came across a word he didn’t know or forgot. Way, at this moment he heard a knock on the door and shouted loudly.

"Who is it?" Shanguan asked standing behind the door.

"It's me, Old Sun, General Ding and Lord Sun are here!"

Lao Sun is the head of the trip to the capital this time.

Shan Guan quickly opened the door, and saluted the middle-aged man standing outside the door, "General Ding, Master Sun!"

"You're welcome, we have a lot of things to do today, so you should act quickly here, and sign after seeing these clearly!"

Gou Sheng heard the noise, cleared the kang table in the main room, and went to the kitchen to make tea.

General Ding was a robust middle-aged man with clean shaved beard. If it weren't for the three crow's feet in the corners of his eyes, he really wouldn't look like a man over forty years old.

People here generally have a short lifespan. In places like Liushutun, people who can live to be 60 years old are extremely respected old people!

"This is my Qidi brother, the person who is in charge of the family. You can talk to him about my affairs." The mountain official welcomed him to the living room of the class, and introduced the dog leftover who happened to be bringing tea in to the middle-aged man.

General Gou Sheng Chong Ding slightly bent over and smiled, hearing what the mountain official said, he sat on the edge of the kang in a fair manner.

The one who accompanied General Ding to deal with this matter was Lao Sun, and the other one was Sun Darong.

Dayong nodded to Gou Sheng, as a greeting.

Shanguan read the contract carefully, glanced at Gou Sheng, and signed it without saying anything, and pressed his red fingerprint on it with ink pad.

Dayong signaled Gou Sheng to take it over and have a look.

Gou Sheng was not polite, he took it from the mountain official and looked at it carefully.

In fact, the sergeants on trial like Shan Guan know the power and usage of muskets at most. There is only a three-year contract, and those craftsmen can’t do it. They have to live in a designated place for the rest of their lives and are not allowed to leave Beijing. A large sum of money to support the family, and the military salary will be paid after arriving in Beijing. Going to Beijing is purely voluntary.

Things have come to this, Gou Sheng has nothing to say.

Darong kept the contract in triplicate, one was kept here in Jiaxing City, the other was taken by the mountain officials to be handed over to the capital, and the rest was kept carefully.

General Ding is also a man who cherishes his words like gold, so he didn't say anything, and immediately took out the bank note with the mountain official, and was about to leave.

Gousheng counted the big and small banknotes and the total amounted to 300 taels. For ordinary families in Liushutun, if no one is sick, it may not be enough for a generation.

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