Late Tang

Dawn broke, and as soon as it was light, Wang Dong was awakened by the woman beside him, reminding him that it was time to go out for exercise.

Wang Dong yawned, rubbed his eyes, smiled at the woman beside him, gently lifted a corner of the quilt and covered her carefully.He is only 19 years old this year, and he is now a team leader of the Salmon Town Warriors.As early as half a year ago, he was just a poor boy in Wangli Village who had been farming the fields for several generations, but he would never have enough to eat.

Look at the present, although he lives in a small house, but in fact he was the first to follow Li Jing's qualifications, and now he is serving as the leader of the combat team. He has a house in the city, and the house is not small.However, Wang Dong gave up that house to his elderly parents and a group of younger brothers and sisters who were underage, and he took a nest under the corner of the city wall.

But even if it's the place where he lives, it depends on who he lives with. Wang Dong's age has not been officially crowned, but in the countryside, his companions of his age are already full of children.If his family hadn't been poor before, he would have married a child long ago.Wang Dong is not in a hurry, but his family is in a hurry.He is the eldest son in the family, and his father gave birth to a bunch of children, but they can only grow poorer and poorer.Now that Wang Dong has finally achieved success, they hoped that their son would get together early and spread out.

Wang Dong didn't like any of the women introduced to him by his parents and relatives, most of them were uncles and cousins ​​from poor relatives. No one looked down on him before, but now that he is prosperous, they all want to marry him. His family has come to be the official wife.Wang Dong looked down on such a woman the most, she was snobby and narrow-minded.He felt that looking for a woman was like looking for Saburo's wife.Even though Li Jing has already fallen into prison, he still doesn't dislike him.

By chance, when he took people to pick up the soldiers' families at the pier, he accidentally ran into this woman beside him.A refugee's daughter, she is tall and strong, with beautiful features and generous looks.He helped her carry her luggage off the boat, and she smiled brightly and thanked him.Just like that, he felt as if he was drunk.After returning to the fort, he immediately asked someone to find out the identity of the girl.Liu Qiaoniang, sixteen this year, did not mention her husband's family. The family suffered a disaster. When fleeing famine, the family was kidnapped by bandits to Wangli Village.Later, Saburo left them behind. She has parents and a younger brother who is now working in the clothing workshop.

After inquiring about the situation, he was restless, and finally gritted his teeth and ran to the General's Mansion to beg Li Jing.Others thought that he was the first few old people who followed Li Jing, but few people knew that he was not familiar with Li Jing before, and even said bad things about Li Jing several times.After returning to Wangli Village, he rarely talked to Li Jing again, but this time, he took the initiative to ask Li Jing to see Li Jing, hoping that Li Jing could help him as a matchmaker, and he wanted to marry Liu Qiaoniang as his wife.

Li Jing smiled and agreed, and first asked his wife Wang Guiniang to go to the workshop to find out Liu Qiaoniang's wishes. After getting an agreed answer, Li Jing personally acted as a matchmaker and prepared many rich gifts for Wang Dong as the dowry.With Li Jing as the matchmaker and Liu Qiaoniang's consent, the marriage was concluded without any obstacles.Talking about matchmaking, making a decision, although it is a marriage of two ordinary people, but the six rituals are the same.In less than three days, Wang Dong paid for more than a dozen tables of simple banquets, even if he was married.I only stayed in the new house in the city for one night, and moved to this nest the next day.

It is said that the sentient beings are full of water. Although they live in an underground nest, the hearts of the young couple are full of expectations for a new life.Wang Dong is the leader of the soldiers and has to be busy with training every day. Qiao Niang is a female worker in the clothing workshop, and she is also busy all day long. Neither of them has time to go to the construction site to work and get work points, but both of them are quietly saving money. .The plan is to buy a new independent house for two people as soon as the house in the southern district is repaired.

"Qiao Niang, you can go to bed again, you made my shoes and socks so late last night, I will go to the cafeteria and bring you two steamed buns later, so you don't have to get up to make breakfast." Wang Dong cherished his daughter-in-law Speaking of which, marrying this daughter-in-law felt like burning the fragrance of eight lifetimes in the previous life.Knowing the hot and the cold, and being considerate, this woman is so nice that he sometimes wants to tie it to his waistband and is reluctant to leave.Putting on the new and extremely clean red uniform, Wang Dong went to the cafeteria.

All the adults and men and women were extremely busy building the castle. In order to take care of many single soldiers, old people and children, Li Jing selected a group of people who could cook from the crowd, and set up a camp in each of the several camps outside the fortress. Big canteen.Breakfast, lunch, and even supper and barbecue are available, and the ones sold in the morning are all new tricks with strange names. If there is a hole in the pancake, it is now called steamed buns, and the stuffed ones are steamed buns.In addition, there are cooked and more expensive dumplings, turbidity, and cold pottery, cold noodle, jelly, fried dough sticks, soy milk, goat milk, milk, tea eggs, and rich breakfasts such as mutton soup and white porridge.

Now basically everyone is used to not making breakfast at home, but to sleep a little longer, then go out to the cafeteria to buy two steamed buns or steamed buns, and sit down to drink a bowl of soy milk or porridge or fried dough sticks when they are free.Occasionally, I can take my wife and children as a luxury, and order a bowl of mutton soup or dumplings.There are many varieties of breakfast, but basically they are not expensive, a steamed stuffed bun costs only one penny, and a bowl of mutton soup is more expensive and only costs three pennies.

But this little money is affordable for Wang Dong, he is now the captain of the soldiers, his monthly basic salary is two guan, the captain's allowance is three guan, and the other two meals a day are from the team, and he still has five dollars a month. Rice grain subsidies and one bolt of silk and two bolts of cloth.The wife works in the workshop and is paid on a daily basis. She gets [-] Wen per day, and when she works overtime, she gets [-] Wen per day as overtime pay.During the holidays, there are bonuses.The young couple has already saved a little money, and they are calculating how long it will take to buy a new house every day.

Sitting in the spacious cafeteria, he ate a bowl of hot porridge, two deep-fried dough sticks, and two steamed buns. Wang Dong packed two meat buns and a bowl of boiled goat milk, and handed over [-] Wen. In the past, it would be unimaginable to have breakfast for twelve cents.But now, he didn't feel any distress at all when the twelve cents were spent.On the contrary, I feel that twelve renminbi can buy so many foods, such as meat buns and goat milk, but they are all good things that can make up for my daughter-in-law.

When he got home, his daughter-in-law had already washed up and was filling his kettle with boiling water.Since arriving on the island, the town general's mansion has always issued some strange regulations every now and then.For example, everyone is strictly prohibited from urinating and defecating everywhere, and must be used in public toilets.Even the toilet at home must be emptied into the big bucket that came to collect night incense at the designated time every morning and evening, otherwise, it will have to walk a long way to empty it into the large cesspit dug by the public toilet.If there is a violation, they will be fined to clean the public toilets.In addition, there are many other rules. For example, everyone is not allowed to drink raw water. Even if the well water has just been dug, it must be boiled before drinking.There are also washing water before and after meals, taking a bath every three to five days, washing clothes frequently, drying bedding frequently, cutting nails frequently, washing feet frequently, and many other seemingly weird but very strict requirements.If the regulations issued by the town general's mansion are violated, they will basically be fined to perform public services, such as cleaning the streets, cleaning toilets, and so on.

In the beginning, many people were not used to it, and often violated it unconsciously.However, ever since the town general's mansion specially established a gendarmerie team for Duke Yuhou Wangzhong, those gendarmerie who always wear a red sleeve on their arm are watching these trivial matters. If someone violates it, they will be punished. Public health needs to be criticized by name at morning and evening meetings.After a few times, no one dared to be careless anymore. After all, it is a trivial matter to do some public service, but it is very embarrassing to be named and criticized in front of everyone.

The granary knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing know the honor and disgrace.Now that the people on the island have enough food and clothing every day, they are very concerned about face and dignity, and no one wants to lose face.

Wang Dong said a few words to his wife, and said goodbye with some reluctance.Although we can see each other again at night, Wang Dong is always reluctant to let go.

Putting on an iron armor, a pocket guard, a horizontal knife, a rectangular shield, a long bow and a Hu Lu's feather arrow, Wang Dong took the eight-foot-flag spear placed by the door.This flag gun is eight feet long, and there is a small red triangular flag under the gun head, which is very eye-catching and conspicuous in the hand.This kind of flag gun is only used by the captain or above and is qualified to use it. Officers above the captain do not use spears but flag guns. It is said that this is because officers hold flag guns to help command.The soldiers below looked at the bright little flag, so they wouldn't lose track of Shangguan.

Wang Dong is now the leader of the first group of the first team in Zuo Yidu, the first group of soldiers. The first group is also a group of strange soldiers. The whole group is a group of strange soldiers.The black-toed boots under his feet rattled on the frozen ground covered with hoarfrost.Wang Dong took a deep breath, and the fresh and piercing cold air poured into his lungs, refreshing him.

"Salute!" When passing by the barracks gate in the east of the city, a military police patrol team wearing red sleeve armbands just passed by, and they gave Wang Dong a military salute in unison.The gendarmes looked at Wang Dong with a little reverence and yearning in their eyes. Those who could go home and sleep were the privileges only for officers above the captain.Moreover, each officer can only sleep at home for two days a week.For the rest of the time, they had to live in concentrated camps. As for ordinary soldiers below officers, they only had two days to go home and rest in January.The gendarmerie is a newly organized team directly under the Marquis of Du Yu. Their duty is to manage the marching discipline in the army, and the Qi army orders them to advance and retreat.Outside the army, he inspected the former military discipline of the town and also took care of local security.In peacetime, he is still working in the assassination of the whole brigade, and the Qi army orders him to advance and retreat.Ming lawyer's hiding.Supervising military discipline, identifying spies, supervising wars, managing local security, and guarding important posts and generals are all their responsibilities.

But because of the inspection of military discipline and the management of law and order, the gendarmerie became the most unpopular team on the island almost as soon as it came out.

Wang Dong smiled slightly at the gendarmerie patrol, with a hint of pride evident in his smile.Waving his hand, he strode towards the school field. On the way, the first drum of Dianmao in the barracks just rang!

A round of red sun jumps out in the east, and a new day has begun.

(To be continued)