Nanshanxia

"Ah Yan, what's the matter?" Yuan Xiao noticed that there was a little worry in Zhu Yan's brow, and he knew Zhu Yan's worry. He stepped forward, took Zhu Yan's arm, and continued to ask, "Ah Yan, but Worried about conscription?"

Zhu Yan nodded, lowered his head and stared at Yuan Xiao's gentle face, and then said, "How did you get recruited so well?"

"Well, I don't know about this either." Yuan Xiao paused, then pulled Zhu Yan into the house, and said as he walked, "Ah Yan, don't worry, even if we are recruited, our family will find a way let you go."

Zhu Yan listened to Yuan Xiao's words, and the more he listened, the more confused he became. He wanted to continue to ask Yuan Xiao's family what to do, but as soon as he entered the house, he heard diners discussing the matter of conscription.

The old lady Zhu who had been holding the child to listen to the excitement, saw Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao came back, she went up to greet them, "Is it cold outside, you two go to the kitchen and drink some hot sugar water to warm your body After a while, when all the diners have left, we will have dinner."

Zhu Yan responded, and went into the kitchen with Yuan Xiao. After making sugar water for Yuan Xiao, he heard his grandma and auntie discussing the topic of conscription, and he couldn't help but approached him Said: "Grandma, why did we suddenly conscript?"

The old lady Zhu understood Zhu Yan's previous situation, stopped talking to Bai Zhen, and instead answered Zhu Yan's words seriously: "We haven't conscripted for several years, and I heard from other old sisters that it was because of the banned drugs that we were recruited." The ones who started the conscription said it was to guard against foreign enemies, and let each of our households send out a young and strong man, not the old ones."

"This young and strong man is the pillar of the family, who wants to let the pillar go out to fight and kill?" Bai Zhen cleaned up the stove, stopped what she was doing, looked around and muttered softly, "I guess There are not many people in our town who are willing to go, and the family donates money and food to the imperial court, and this matter just turns a blind eye and closes one's eyes."

"Is there another theory?" It was the first time Zhu Yan encountered such a thing as conscription. He took Le'an from his uncle's arms with a look of surprise on his face.

"Well, this is our unwritten rule. As long as we pay enough money and food, no one cares how many men there are." The old lady Zhu sent Le Ning to Yuan Xiao's arms, got up and took a sip Cha, sighed: "You don't remember the past clearly. Our family was poor at that time, and there was no money to change people. We can only exchange the food that we have worked so hard to save this year to the imperial court, so that you can be safe. Now My family is rich, old lady, I don’t have to worry anymore.”

After the old lady Zhu and Bai Zhen's explanation, Zhu Yan finally knew why Yuan Xiao was so calm, and he also breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't because he was timid or afraid of getting into trouble, but mainly because he couldn't bear it, he couldn't bear it. Yuan Xiao was also reluctant to part with him and Yuan Xiao's children and family members, so when he saw the conscription notice, he was still very disturbed. Fortunately, all this was just a false alarm.

Compared with the relaxation and leisure of the old Zhu's family, the old Yuan's family in Yuanjia Village was shrouded in anxiety and worry at this time. Yuan Jiaxing drank a bowl of rice soup with only a few grains of rice, looked up at his parents, and frowned slightly. With a heavy sigh, he asked again: "Mother, is this news accurate?"

"It should be accurate. After all, this is what the yamen said in front of our villagers. You were not at home at that time, so you didn't know." Zhou Caifeng stared at the clear rice soup and mustard green pickles in front of the dining table hungry. With no appetite at all, she raised her eyes and glanced at Yuan Laoshuan who hadn't said a word at the moment, rubbed her hands helplessly, forced a smile on her sad face, and said softly to Yuan Laoshuan: "This It’s too untimely, we just spent all our wealth to heal Jia Xing’s leg, and now we have to recruit soldiers, without money and food, Jia Xing must go to serve as a soldier, is there any other way for the head of the family?”

"Other ways? Are you asking me?" Yuan Laoshuan opened his bloodshot eyes, held back his desire to do something, and said angrily, "For the prosperity of my family, I spent a lot of time with my old Yuan. How can I have the face to borrow money from my relatives now?"

Zhou Caifeng sat on the stool honestly, and said in a low voice, "I have borrowed money from my natal family, and they will definitely not talk to us again this time. Why don't we find Yuan Xiao? His husband's shop is getting worse and worse. Big, there must be some spare money."

"What did you say?" Yuan Laoshuan slapped his palm on the table because of Zhou Caifeng's words. Perhaps he was too excited. He stood up and limped towards Zhou Caifeng. Under Zhou Caifeng's suspicious eyes I gave Zhou Caifeng a slap in the face, only to hear that he hated iron but not steel: "Zhou Caifeng, Zhou Caifeng, I think Jiaxing is here, I didn't want to fight with you, but you are so annoying, you don't remember how Yuan Xiao humiliated you that day? Mine? Even if I die of poverty, I will never go to him again!"

In the past, Yuan Jiaxing, who was not used to Yuan Laoshuan beating Zhou Caifeng, didn't want to help Zhou Caifeng anymore, and he remembered what he said to Yuan Xiao this evening, and his face burned with embarrassment, and he drank again. A bowl of rice soup, looking at Zhou Caifeng who has been covering her face and saying nothing, said coldly: "Mother, my father is right, we must have ambition, he Yuan Xiao can live a good life, I believe that I, Yuan Jiaxing, can too!"

"But, Jia Xing, aren't we in a hurry now? Let's fight Yuan Xiao again after a while, and now only Yuan Xiao can help us." Zhou Caifeng still didn't give up as she covered her face that was scorched by the beating. Waiting for Yuan Jiaxing's reply.

Facing his mother's shamelessness, Yuan Jiaxing suddenly felt an unspeakable sense of shame. He thought about what Zhu Yan said to him in the evening. At this moment, he agreed with Zhu Yan's words very much. His mother is a shameless woman , Yuan Jiaxing didn't want to talk nonsense anymore, he got up and was about to leave, when he was about to reach the door, he turned his head to Zhou Caifeng and said: "Mother, if you are my mother, don't go to Yuan Xiao again, this time I will definitely use my mother." Use your own method to avoid conscription!"

"Jiaxing, home..." Zhou Caifeng looked at Yuan Jiaxing's back, with a thousand words in her mouth, but when she felt Yuan Laoshuan's angry gaze, she held back and started to eat sullenly.

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The conscription time is more than half a month. After half a month, the local government will take the recruits to the place where they should go. There is another thing that affects the hearts of the recruits as well as the departure of the recruits. That is, the Xu family who just returned to the town has happy event.

The person who hosted the wedding was none other than Xu Ling, who was arrogant and domineering and hated by everyone in the town. Everything was as everyone said. Xu Ling had indeed recruited a son-in-law, and this son-in-law was none other than Yuan Yuan. Yuan Jiaxing, the grass of the village.

When Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao heard the news, Zhu Yan couldn't help but be surprised. He looked at Yuan Xiao with a calm face, stepped forward and bumped Yuan Xiao's shoulder with his shoulder, and then Yuan Xiao looked at him. When he was there, he said in a low voice: "This Yuan Jiaxing is so proud, how could he be willing to be someone's son-in-law?"

Yuan Xiao washed the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and after washing his hands, when Zhu Yan took the initiative to help him wash his hands, his eyes dimmed, and he said in a tone that had nothing to do with him: "That Yuan Jiaxing is as good as you think Seeing such arrogance, but after all, he is still a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. This conscription is not a child's play. Maybe someone who is not careful will die on the battlefield and become a ghost, so his arrogance is in line with his own. Compared with his life, he still chose to save his own life."

"You're right, it's true." After Zhu Yan finished speaking, he was silent for a while, and then pulled Yuan Xiao to the kitchen table to sit down together. He said again: "But is Yuan Jiaxing I'm a little confused, what's wrong with this, I insist on marrying Xu Ling, according to Xu Ling's temperament, I don't want to kill him."

"Haha, look at what you said, why is Xu Ling in your mouth scarier than the dominatrix in the storybook!" With Yuan Xiao's light smile, his delicate face made people unable to take their eyes off it. When Zhu Yan looked at him, his cheeks flushed slightly, and he continued to explain, "I reckon that Yuan Jiaxing has taken a fancy to the Xu family's property. After he becomes the Xu family's son-in-law, he can be exempted from conscription." Besides, he can also have a good living environment and be able to continue his studies, and when he gets his fame and fame in the exams, it will be the time for him to stand up."

Under Yuan Xiao's guidance, Zhu Yan finally understood Yuan Jiaxing's motives, but at the same time he still felt that Yuan Jiaxing had paid too much for his own fame. , it is not as good as having a partner who understands himself and loves each other. Fortunately, he has it now. Having Yuan Xiao means he has everything.

Zhu Yan saw that Yuan Xiao was relieved of the old Yuan's family, and he no longer struggled with it. He said casually, "Then let him cherish this opportunity to study hard. Although the old Xu's family is poor, he is dead skinny. Camels are bigger than horses, and they will still provide Yuan Jiaxing with education."

"Oh, you young couple guessed wrong." The old lady Zhu finished the calculation and went into the kitchen. Just in time to hear the conversation between Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao, she couldn't hold back and added, "I just heard Other old sisters said that the old Xu's family business was run by the boss and the second child together, that Xu Ling was stubborn and arrogant since she was a child, ignorant of the family business, and had nothing to do with her in business, and Yuan Jiaxing It's really difficult to get money from the old Xu's family."

After hearing this, Zhu Yan said directly and without thinking: "Grandma, with Zhou Caifeng's shameless virtue, she still has to teach Yuan Jiaxing how to cheat money."

"That's not necessarily the case. I heard from other old sisters that when Yuan Jiaxing was the son-in-law of the old Xu's family, he was asked by the old Xu's family to break off his relationship with his parents." "I really don't know what Yuan Jiaxing thinks. In order to escape conscription, he did not hesitate to seduce Xu Ling within a few days, and even broke up with his parents. This is a bit too decisive..."

Zhu Yan knew what the old lady Zhu meant. Yuan Laoshuan used to look down on Yuan Xiao, holding Yuan Jiaxing in his hands every day, and Zhou Caifeng was full of only Yuan Jiaxing's precious son. Now Yuan Jiaxing took the initiative for the future. Breaking off their relationship, I'm afraid this approach will really make the two of them die of pain!

Of course, Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao were not very concerned about what happened to Yuan Laoshuan and Zhou Caifeng. The two of them continued to live their sweet life until one day, when they went to Yuanjia Village to collect beans again. Only then did he know the specific current situation of Yuan Laoshuan.