Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 172 Guarding Hou Qing
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The sound of the sharp wooden whistle pierced the originally quiet air.

"Hurry up.!"

A group of young people sleeping on the Datong bunk all began to put on their clothes as quickly as they could. Hou Qing was one of them. This Hou Qing used to be a young man in a village thirty miles outside Chang'an City.

There are parents, two younger brothers and two younger sisters in the family. How can I say that a family of seven is difficult to live in. Although their family has planted [-] acres of land, because it is rented by the landlord, they hand over more. By the time I get it, the food is really not enough for a family of seven.

So Hou Qing took his younger siblings into the mountains to dig wild vegetables in the spring, went down the river to touch fish and shrimp in summer, and dug holes for voles in autumn.

Some rural children should have dug holes for field mice.

There are many mouse nests in the fields in the countryside. The mice in the fields are actually voles, and they are also called "cangguan" in the old family.Compared with house mice, voles look better. They are smaller, shorter and fleshy.

At that time, the threshed grain was temporarily put in the field, and it would not be transported to the home until it was picked and cut clean.This gave the voles an opportunity to steal the food into the nest.

Voles are small in size and can cause considerable losses to farmers every year.Especially the female voles have the habit of storing grain, and a nest can even hide dozens of catties of various grains.In order to avoid food loss, people often "throw open fires" in the fields after autumn.

Smashing open flames actually means robbery, and people digging vole nests dig out the grain they stole.

Digging voles usually come after autumn, when the crops in the field are harvested and people have free time.Usually voles like to make nests in bean fields and peanut fields. The terrain is relatively high or relatively flat. Dikes and high hills can prevent flooding.You can find voles' nests all over the ground. You can dig not only your own land, but also other people's land. You just need to fill it up after digging, otherwise you will be called immoral.

Voles are also very particular about their living environment, with special toilets and warehouses for storing food.In addition, the food in the field mouse nest is also stored according to the type, and it is well-regulated. No wonder people call it "Cangguan".

As long as you see grain, you can dig it open, so that you can get the grain out of the mouse's nest.There is more or less grain in the vole nest, and the diligent vole can dig out tens of catties and half bags of grain, and the harvest is full.

Even in modern times, when there is a shortage of food in many rural areas, people survive the famine by digging vole nests, but later on, everyone’s life gets better. After there is no shortage of food, the grain taken from the vole nests is used to feed livestock .

The only thing to note here is that digging vole nests is not a good thing. If one is not good, it is likely to cause plague.

This is how Hou Qing took his younger brothers and sisters to survive year after year. When Hou Qing was a little older, the landlord in the village found Hou Qing and asked Hou Qing to go back and forth to Chang'an every day to give money to his family. To deliver a letter to a shop, the round trip costs sixty miles, and one time costs ten Wen. You must know that this is a good job, one time is ten Wen, and ten times is one hundred Wen.

Hou Qing took this job and ran away for six years. Until some time ago, King Qi came to the village to recruit guards. As long as he became the guard of King Qi for one month, he would be paid five guan a month.

Wuguan, that's five thousand wen, that's five hundred round trips, Hou Qing's heart was moved, and the young people in their entire village were as excited as Hou Qing. Following a group of young people, they came to Chang'an City to apply for the job. The guard of King Qi.

And that king of Qi's way of selecting guards is very strange, it is actually running, leaving the 500 people who run the farthest and longest. To be honest, this Hou Qing is good at it, so Hou Qing successfully ranked 130th and second , honorably became one of the five hundred guards of King Qi, and only Hou Qing in Hou Qing's village became the guard of King Qi.

King Qi is really a good person. After being elected, King Qi directly paid five guan coins for one month's monthly salary. When Hou Qing sent the five guan money home, everyone in the whole village voted enviously. The look in his eyes made Hou Qing's family feel that their backs were straighter.

However, Hou Qing, who came to the Dunhuafang guard camp, was not used to it at first. How can I say that I am not very tired. I went out for a run in the morning, and then went back to have breakfast. After breakfast, I will train, and the training is not very tired. , just stand there motionless, as long as you move, the instructor will whip you with a twig.

The pain still hurts, but the most terrible thing is to stand there without moving.

Hehe, in fact, standing in a military posture without moving, you know, standing in a military posture is the first lesson for soldiers, and the military posture can be said to be the mother of all military actions.At the same time, the military posture also contains a deep meaning.

It's just that standing in the military posture is really painful. Brothers who have undergone military training must know that every part of the body is uncomfortable, so this is the first time that Hou Qing stands in the military posture.

What makes Hou Qing bear it is nothing else, but the noon meal, mutton, pork and bone soup. After eating, he will give a fruit. My God, I almost let all the guards die of happiness. It's all Peasant children, I have never eaten such a good Chinese New Year in my own family!

So although standing in a military posture is very difficult, but for this lunch and dinner, it is worth dying here.

Fortunately, Hou Qing soon began to adapt to this place, and the training gradually changed from standing in the military posture, bows and arrows, swords and guns, and battle formations also began to be trained one by one. Sometimes, Hou Qing did not feel that he was a soldier. Guard, but a soldier.

It's just that this idea just flashed through Hou Qing's head, because Hou Qing just wanted to live according to the current life. As for whether it is a guard or a soldier, does it have anything to do with him?

When the sound of the wooden whistle sounded less than one-third of the incense sticks, the five hundred guards had all dressed and came to the venue. Xue Rengui nodded slightly to express his satisfaction.

Then Huo Sheng shouted: "Run!"

Following the [-] guards, he began to run around Dunhuafang. This was an exercise before breakfast. After the run and breakfast, today's training would officially start.

At the same time, our Royal Highness King Qi finally woke up from the bed. Li You's original itinerary today was to go to the horseshoe kiln to see bricks fired, but Li You never thought that he would be invited soon It's time to go to the Tai Chi Hall, and today I want to refresh Li You's three views because of an unwarranted framing.

Li You really has never seen a guy who threw himself into a trap to seek death.

(End of this chapter)