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At the Dali County Inn, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong ordered a jug of wine, a plate of fried peanuts, and poured it for themselves. It cost them [-] yuan. They thought it was a bit expensive, but it was actually expensive. It makes sense, the wine in this store does not have ginseng water, so a pot of wine is worth [-] yuan, and there is this big plate of peanuts, which are fried one by one, with a strong fragrance, and it costs [-] yuan a plate, not counting expensive.

But even so, the two still feel a little distressed. It's strange to say that when they were in the rebel army, they scattered boxes and boxes of silver without even blinking their eyes. Count carefully.

This made the two of them laugh, and Wang Jiadong put it to the point: the money in the past was robbed, and I didn't know how to cherish it. These copper coins were cut out by Lao Tzu with a sickle and a sickle. How can they be compared with those silver coins.

Li Dingguo also deeply agrees.

The two were drinking, but Li Dingguo's face gradually became gloomy. Seeing this, Wang Jiadong asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Li Dingguo said: "I don't know why, but when I arrive in Lantian County, I always have a feeling of restraint everywhere, as if everything is completely different from what I used to know. I don't like this feeling very much. It's like, like falling into a mud Tang, the more I struggle, the more I lose my strength."

Hearing Li Dingguo's words, Wang Jiadong laughed, poured Li Dingguo a glass of wine, poured himself a glass and said: "I don't adapt, that's because you have never lived a normal life."

"It's as if many veterans come off the battlefield and return to society, they will find that they don't adapt everywhere."

As Wang Jiadong spoke, he remembered that Li Chaosheng once mentioned this symptom, which is called post-traumatic stress disorder, and it seems to be referring to this aspect.

After hearing this, Li Dingguo took a sip of wine and said, "What do you mean?"

Wang Jiadong heard the words and said: "You have joined the rebel army since you were nine years old. Wherever the rebel army went, all the businessmen you met were bastards, driving up prices and refusing to save them. All the landlords you met were The bastard who sucks the bone and sucks the marrow. The government you have seen is a bastard who only knows how to oppress the people and force the people to sell their sons and daughters. Most of them are unscrupulous restaurants, so you have to beware of Mongolian medicine in the dishes you eat.”

"You have been going through this since you were nine years old, but suddenly one day you discovered that the merchants in this world would give away profits for the common people, the landlords in this world would also go to work in the fields themselves, and the officials in the government would also smile and sincerely help the common people solve the problem. The problem is that the common people all have smiles and live an enviable life. You don’t have to worry about being a black shop if you stay in a hotel, and you don’t have to worry about the sweat medicine in the wine. After drinking it, people will take it to make buns. You are not used to it. , This place is completely different from your world view, so you are at a loss."

Li Dingguo was upset by Wang Jiadong's words, and he couldn't help but shouted: "Isn't the world supposed to be like this?"

Wang Jiadong said: "That is the world outside of Lantian. You have also seen in Lantian that this place is not what you think. There are no unkind rich people here, no domineering government, not even thieves who block the road, or gangsters who fight. , this is a world full of ordinary and kind people, and this is the most attractive place in Lantian, and the only word to live here is peace of mind."

After listening to Wang Jiadong's words, Li Dingguo couldn't help but fell into deep thought. In troubled times, Li Dingguo could determine the world by riding a horse, rampage and invincible.

But in this world, he couldn't use the skills he had learned on the battlefield.

You harvest wheat for the landlord’s house, and they spoil you with good food and drink. Before leaving, they give you an extra [-] Wen as wages, and even the wife of the family makes a fuss about marrying her. There is goodwill everywhere, you are in this place. , How do you let Li Dingguo turn his face and kill people with a knife.

Even having such an idea, I feel that I am not as good as a beast.

There are no evil people blocking the way. When you are tired from walking, just knock on the door of a house. They will kindly give you a sip of water, see if you are hungry, and even give you a cornmeal pancake. They will even kindly ask you if you are enough. Well, facing such a family, Li Dingguo's invincible killing ability is useless.

This is the savage who came to a civilized society and found that his set of laws of the jungle no longer worked, so he felt that he was restrained and could not express his ambitions.

The two chatted until late at night, then fell asleep soundly, and slept until dawn. The two got up and went out, just in time to look at the bustling county town. It was too late to enter the city yesterday, so the two went directly to the store. They just went out, and immediately saw the bustling Dali County.

All the shops on the street are open, for buying, for selling, for deep-fried dough sticks, for selling sesame seed cakes, for all kinds of snacks, and some farmers with burdens bring the fruits they picked in autumn from their homes to Sell ​​in the city.

The two walked along the street, and soon stopped in front of a mutton soup restaurant. The mutton soup restaurant was full of people, and a group of tall people were busy working inside. Li Dingguo looked at these well-behaved people walking : "I was a soldier."

Wang Jiadong looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Don't you eat without looking at the signs?"

Li Dingguo raised his head, and saw the sign on the mutton soup restaurant: Veteran mutton soup.

Upon seeing this, Li Dingguo looked at Wang Jiadong and said, "I saw you and said earlier."

Wang Jiadong was very helpless when he heard the words, and shook his head with a wry smile. Li Dingguo led Wang Jiadong into the shop at this time, and then he saw a man with a broken arm coming over and said, "What would you like to eat?"

Looking at the aura on the man, it was obvious that he had killed someone on the battlefield.

Wang Jiadong said: "Two bowls of mutton soup, and six steamed buns."

"Got it."

The man didn't talk nonsense, he turned around and left, looking at the man's back, Li Dingguo said: "He has been on the battlefield and killed people."

Wang Jiadong said: "Yes, but it would be nice if he could open a mutton soup restaurant by himself, after all, hey..."

Wang Jiadong sighed. The life of some veterans is not as good as imagined. There are also some veterans in the rebel army. They said that after they were discharged, they returned to their hometown with wounded soldiers and received a penny of subsidies. No, so it leads to abnormal poverty in life, and even many people's lives are not as good as ordinary people.

The government is also very unfriendly to these veterans, there is no preferential treatment, and there is no good land in their hometown. They can only work as tenant farmers for the landlord's family and live the most inferior life. It is really desolate to encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. In fact, the most powerful soldiers in the rebel army are often veterans of the border guards in northern Shaanxi. Even among the major commanders of the rebel army, there are quite a few officers and soldiers who used to be members of the Ming Dynasty.

The earliest leader of the alliance, Wang Jiayin, was a deserter from Yulin Town, Zhang Xianzhong was expelled from the army, and Li Zicheng was a former postman and a frontier soldier for several years.

There are more below. It can be said that the early rebel army was supported by the frontier army of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the barracks, they often listened to these veterans complaining about the bad life back then, so they knew very well about the life of the soldiers after they retired.

No wonder it is said that soldiers should be shrouded in horse leather. He is a hero if he dies on the battlefield. If he survives, it may be an insult to the hero.

Why did Snow White stop writing after she married the prince? The reason is very simple. The life after marriage is daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. Who would want to watch the story of the prince being beaten up by Snow White for hiding money from his private house?

The mutton soup was served soon, a bowl full of mutton and not milky white. After all, there is no Sanhua evaporated milk in this world, so the mutton soup is still clear.

The six steamed buns were also very big, and the portion was quite large. Li Dingguo and his wife broke apart the steamed buns, threw them into the mutton soup, and ate them like this.

The food was delicious, and the one-armed veteran saw that there were fewer people at this time, so he sat down not far from Li Dingguo and rubbed his knees. It was shot by a arrow in the past, and it was cold and humid, or he would stand there for a long time. Make your legs sore.

Seeing this, Wang Jiadong said, "Brother, you must have been injured by an arrow."

After hearing this, the one-armed veteran looked back at Wang Jiadong and said, "How do you know?"

Wang Jiadong said: "Some elders in my family have been shot by arrows in their legs. It hurts when it's cloudy or rainy, or if they stand for a long time."

The one-armed veteran heard this and said, "Yes, this disease is really painful."

The veteran said, Wang Jiadong said: "By the way, brother, is this store yours?"

Hearing this, the one-armed veteran shook his head and said, "No, this is from the Veterans Employment Center in the county."

"Veteran Employment Center?"

Li Dingguo asked curiously after hearing this: "What is this?"

The one-armed veteran said: "It's just that the county invested and sent someone to find some deals, so that we retired veterans can have a job and don't have to wait at home to die."

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong said: "Brother, in your situation, aren't you tired from working?"

The one-armed veteran smiled and said, "Why are you tired? It's good to be tired. At least you know that your life is worthwhile, don't you think so?"

Wang Jiadong was puzzled when he heard this, and the one-armed veteran said: "Hey, you young people can't understand, we soldiers are not afraid of death, not afraid of tiredness, but afraid of being worthless. Being a soldier, the salary is very high, after retiring, especially after being disabled, there is enough money to feed us every month, even if we don’t do anything, we just sleep at home and get food every month.”

"Besides, the people in Lantian also support the soldiers very much. I can actually stay at home, but this is not a problem. The county lord spends real money to support me every month, but I do nothing. No, what a shame, now it’s all right, I can help take care of the business at this mutton soup restaurant, and live a fulfilling life every day, although I’m a bit tired, but my heart is full, unlike eating rice at home back then , I always feel empty chattering."

The one-armed veteran said, looked at the sky and said: "We are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but we are afraid that we are worthless and become a burden. Now I can help the county lord here with some work. I really want to do my best. Thank you County Honor."

"You work for him, and you still thank him?"

Wang Jiadong looked at the one-armed veteran in puzzlement. Hearing this, the one-armed veteran said: "Then why don't you thank me? This sheep soup restaurant is a good job. If you don't work hard a day, you can still get more than 100 yuan in salary. You know I don't know how many people outside want to do it, but so many people in the county don't need it, but I am a cripple, isn't that worthy of gratitude?"

Hearing this, Wang Jiadong was speechless, what he said made sense, a bunch of good people, the Lantian County Venerable, used these veterans exclusively, so it can be seen that the Lantian County Venerable specially treated these veterans favorably.

The one-armed veteran got the two of them talking, so he looked at them and asked, "What are you two doing in our Lantian County?"

Wang Jiadong waved his arms and said, "I can't live in my hometown any more. Those who come to us to make a living are now pretending to be Mike."

"Oh, it's right for you to come to Lantian to make a living. As long as we are willing to work here, it is not difficult to make a living."

"Yes Yes."

Wang Jiadong said, Li Dingguo said at this time: "Brother, has your Dali County been so prosperous?"

The one-armed veteran laughed after hearing this: "What kind of prosperity is this place? The real prosperity is Lantian County. Compared with Lantian, our place is considered lively."

"Is this just fun?"

Li Dingguo looked at the crowd outside and the peddlers hawking. In his opinion, this was the top level of prosperity. Even if he captured Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown Fengyang, he had never seen such a prosperous scene.

Seeing that Li Dingguo had never seen the world, the one-armed veteran laughed and said, "It's so strange, let me tell you that Lantian County is the most prosperous in the whole of Shaanxi. The appearance is very good, especially the business is extremely developed, there are people from all over the country buying, and there is even a bustling commercial pedestrian street, which is called prosperity. A little market."

"Brother, you are bragging. If it is so prosperous, I think the capital of the emperor's father is not as good as this Lantian."

The one-armed veteran nodded seriously after hearing this: "I heard from the caravan on the North Road that the capital city is like that, and it is not as prosperous as Lantian. Now it is not my old man bragging, the most prosperous place must be my Lantian county."

Seeing the one-armed veteran like this, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong also smiled, and disagreed in their hearts. After all, they had never been to the capital, but at this time they yearned for Lantian County even more.

Thinking of the two looking at the one-armed veteran, they said, "By the way, how do I get to Lantian County from here?"

The one-armed veteran heard this and said, "Are you going to Lantian to ask for a living?"

Wang Jiadong said with a smile: "Rich places are easy to make money, and we come out to make money."

Hearing this, the one-armed veteran said, "It's just right, I have a carload of apricots to be sent to Yuxianlou in Lantian County. If you are willing, you can escort the car to unload the goods."

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong looked at Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo nodded, and Wang Jiadong said: "That's great, thank you, brother."

The one-armed veteran said: "It's nothing to worry about, just help out if you can."

The one-armed veteran said, "Hurry up and eat, we'll load it into the car and leave."

"Got it."

The two agreed, and the one-armed veteran got up to look at the two, but his eyes turned to a tofu seller not far away, who nodded insignificantly when he saw the two.

The fish is hooked.