Chapter 66 First Choice

Qin Wa and Bai Tao listened to it for a long time, and suddenly realized, only to hear Qin Wa slap on Qi Zhang's shoulder,
"Wow, you have such a good supply channel of medicinal materials, but you don't introduce it to your master, you boy! Just watching the brothers in Beiying suffer in the north of the county, it's disrespectful."

Qi Zhang directly toasted a glass of wine to Qin Wa, and apologized:
"Before Erlang didn't come back, Amei and the four brothers were all messing around. I don't know how long this medicinal material can last, so I didn't tell Master, Master, I will punish myself with three cups."

As he said that, Qi Zhang was about to drink when suddenly a woman in the yard laughed and said:
"I heard that Mr. Tan Jiada came to your place as a guest?"

It was Aunt Niuju's voice.

Hearing Xiong Lin calling Tan Ji outside the yard, Sheng Jiaojiao hurriedly raised her head, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Tan Ji sitting in the stove with a wine glass in her hand.

His eyes were pitch-black, and he was also looking at her while drinking wine.

So Sheng Jiaojiao deliberately said:

"Tan Ji, I'm looking for you."

Didn't you say that you don't want to marry a wife?All the wives came to the door, and Sheng Jiaojiao was left to see what Tan Ji would do.

Zhou's chopped vegetables were put into the pot, and there was a "crash", and the smell of bacon filled the whole stove.

Tan Ji frowned slightly, got up, and left the kitchen.

Qi Zhang raised his neck and laughed at Tan Ji,

"Mother-in-law is here to see her son-in-law, so is Ah Ji also going to see her new daughter-in-law?"

Tan Ji turned his head, frowning even tighter, he had no idea what Qi Zhang was talking about, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao again.

Sheng Jiaojiao stared at her beautiful eyes, took the tongs a little angrily, stuffed a handful of dry tumbleweeds into the stove, got up and went to the backyard.

She didn't think much about it, she just felt that in her previous life Tan Ji never married, and in this life Tan Ji personally said that she didn't want to talk about marriage, but in the end she still wanted to talk to Niu Ju later.

Sheng Jiaojiao felt angry.

She didn't intend to do anything but get angry.

In the kitchen, Tan Ji went out to talk to Xiong Lin, while Qi Ming continued to talk about medicinal materials with Qin Wa and Bai Tao.

He has practiced outside in the past few years, and his mouth became more and more sharp. With a few words, Qin Wa and Bai Tao nodded and agreed to buy medicinal materials from Qi's family.

Moreover, they did not have any objection to the price of medicinal materials Qi Ming quoted.

"only."

Bai Tao hesitated and said:
"A few days ago, Mr. General Soldier wrote another report on the situation in the north of the county. The imperial capital still didn't respond. The luggage couldn't be transported, and the military salary didn't increase. How can we buy medicinal materials by ourselves?"

It has always been the case that military camps purchase supplies from the people themselves, and Bai Tao and Qin Wa do not reject this.

But after all, they are only battalion commanders, and they have no money at all. If they want to buy supplies from the people, they have to allocate funds from above.

To put it bluntly, it means that the imperial court's luggage cannot be in place, so it directly allocates funds to let the military camp raise its own luggage.

Or raise enough luggage first, issue an IOU, and then the court will pay it back.

There is no problem with this, but the problem is that there is no luggage, no money, and no accurate words in the imperial capital.

The military camp owed an IOU, will the emperor admit it?Not a single attitude.

All the papers were submitted, and they all disappeared, and half of the splashes were not seen.

Qin Wa drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, sighed deeply,
"My Zhishou County is suffering every day, but the imperial capital is singing and dancing, showing a vain air. Why don't they think about how difficult our life is?"

Without them working hard here, would the nobles of the imperial capital in the hinterland of the center of Daze enjoy peace and prosperity in harmony?

Zhishou County is now like a single soldier thrown in the wilderness, not given food or drink, and responsible for guarding the tribe behind him.

It hurts.

For a moment, there was a moment of silence in the kitchen.

Qi Zhang glanced at Qin Wa and said:
"So you have to figure out your own way. Before the vassal state makes Zhishou County blood flow into rivers, the emperor will not reinforce the luggage."

These are all human lives, and it is just a number reported on the papers of the imperial capital. The imperial capital has the consideration of the imperial capital. If the two countries go to war, if the death toll is not so shocking, the imperial capital will not declare war easily.

"Then what do you mean?"

Bai Tao looked at Qi Zhang, if the emperor didn't know how to provide reinforcements, would he pay for the medicinal materials himself?

Qi Zhang nodded, nodded with a heavy face, and said:

"We can only get rich from the vassal state and support our own soldiers."

As soon as he said it, Bai Tao understood, and he fell silent without saying a word.

Qi Zhang's master, Qin Wa, patted the table and said angrily:

"Qi Zhang, what do you want to do? Support your own self-respect, are you planning to build a private army?"

Daze is very sensitive to private soldiers. Although he did not expressly prohibit hoarding private soldiers, the private soldiers are controlled within a certain range.

Not everyone can hoard private soldiers.

Qualified people are veterans who have served in the army for generations, or masters who can stand on their own, so they are qualified to hoard private soldiers.

None of the people in this kitchen have the qualifications.

This is how people are, once they go beyond the scope of their abilities and forcefully do things that they should not do in their status and status, there will be no good results in the end.

They are just a small battalion commander with only a thousand soldiers in their hands. Once anyone starts hoarding private soldiers, he will bear a heavy moral shackle.

Because everyone will acquiesce, such a small position, people who start hoarding private troops have no brains, which is to make the heart of treason public.

The small battalion commander not only seeks the emperor, but also seeks his own immediate boss, he is too ignorant of the sky and the earth.

After all, the immediate boss has no private soldiers.

Sheng Jiaojiao at the back door of the kitchen directly threw a piece of firewood in his hand into the door, and scolded coquettishly:

"Isn't Daze not allowing the existence of private troops? They are all human lives. If the self-respect of soldiers can save the lives of these Zhishou County sons, my elder brother doesn't support private troops. I will raise them! Master Qin is old and old." , but the more confused he is, how can someone's life be important in a false name?"

It's not that Daze doesn't allow private troops, it's that Daze simply doesn't have veterans and masters available to support private troops.

The only county with a strong army is Zhishou County, but Zhishou County is the poorest.

The generals in Zhishou County did not have a private army either, because all the people in Zhishou County were poor.

The poor can only rely on the military pay of the imperial capital to live.

Every time the poor fight back, they have to turn in the spoils and take them to the small imperial court in Yangzhishou County.

This is a vicious circle. The poorer Zhishou County is, the less it can develop, and the less it can develop, the poorer it is.

Of course, regarding the private army, Tan Ji will raise it in the future, but now Tan Ji's money is not enough to raise a Tan family army.

Sheng Jiaojiao was angry because she remembered that Bai Tao and Qin Wa died in this winter.

Because the imperial capital did not declare war for a long time, and the soldiers in the north of the county lacked supplies, it snowed heavily one day, and the vassal state suddenly launched an attack on Daze. Bai Tao led the soldiers from the northern battalion to defend the north of the county to the death, and Qin Wa rushed to help, and both were injured.

Without supplies, the soldiers could not even eat a full meal after a day of hard work, because of the lack of wound medicine, when Qi Zhang and Tan Ji finally arrived, the wounds of Bai Tao and Qin Wa were already infected, and there was no way to recover.

In this way, the two battalion commanders who were strong and strong died directly on the battlefield of the first confrontation with the vassal state.

In that battle, Zhishou County won a tragic victory, and the iron hoof of the subordinate country did not step into the territory of Daze, but many Haojilang died in Zhishou County.

It was precisely because she remembered the ending of the two that Sheng Jiaojiao became anxious, anxious and angry when facing the conservative and stubborn Qin Wa.

Qin Wa was stunned by Sheng Jiaojiao's reprimand, and stopped talking.

Qi Zhang, however, lowered his handsome face, sat in the room, and said loudly:

"Sister! Don't talk to Master like this."

Sheng Jiaojiao in the backyard stomped her feet angrily, turned around, went out of the backyard, and sat on the stone behind the house.

Although Tan Ji in the front yard was talking with Xiong Lin, his ears were always listening to the movement in the stove.

Hearing Qi Zhang's voice reprimanding Sheng Jiaojiao, Tan Ji turned his head, glanced at Qi Zhang in the kitchen, said a few words to Niu Ju's Aunt in a hurry, then bowed his hands apologetically, bowed to Xiong Lin, and turned around He went into the kitchen.

Several men started a heated argument in the kitchen, and Zhou, a woman, was busy lighting the fire and cooking vegetables, and wanted to chase after Sheng Jiaojiao, but couldn't leave.

Zhou could only get angry at Qi Zhang, cursing and saying:

"I don't go home all the time, and when I get home, I scold my sister. I'm getting more and more capable. Why don't I scold my sister too?"

She murmured and complained, which made Qi Zhang feel uncomfortable, and now she kept persuading Qin Wa, so she really couldn't leave.

He looked at Tan Ji as if asking for help.

Tan Ji lowered his eyes and said in a low voice:

"I'm going to see Jiao Niang."

He was the battalion commander of Dongying, and he was also the first person who agreed to buy the medicinal materials from Sheng Jiaojiao.

So no matter whether it is buying medicinal materials from the private sector, or Qi Ming wants to price the medicinal materials, or make a long-term sale, Tan Ji has no opinion.

In the kitchen, Bai Tao is Qi Ming's uncle, and Qin Wa is Qi Zhang's master. To persuade these two, Qi Ming and Qi Zhang are the main force. Zhou is busy cooking, so Tan Ji is naturally free.

Qi Zhang looked at Tan Ji gratefully, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and told Tan Ji with his eyes, let him help him quickly and coax his sister.
It was still early, and there was no one in the backyard of the Qi family.

Tan Ji only looked around, and saw the tree-lined backyard of Qi's family, a large piece of lush green vegetables.

He bypassed the vegetable field, went to the fence in the backyard, and saw Sheng Jiaojiao sitting on a rock, beating a clod of soil with a branch.

So Tan Ji walked over and stood behind Sheng Jiaojiao.

She was startled, like a vigilant cat, she turned her head suddenly, saw that it was Tan Ji, then relaxed, and said in a bad mood:
"Your mother-in-law is gone?"

"I made it clear to Niu Niangzi. I don't want to talk about kissing. My aunt made her own decision before."

It was rare for Tan Ji to explain, he frowned slightly, took two steps forward, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao's petulant and self-willed side face.

With a stern and pretty face, she couldn't help but smile, then squinted at him, and said bravely:
"What are you talking to me about? I don't care about that."

Yes, she doesn't care, so why is she laughing?
Tan Ji silently looked at the smile on the corner of Sheng Jiaojiao's mouth, and felt helpless in his heart, but he didn't feel disgusted at all. Instead, he felt that Sheng Jiaojiao's squeamish temperament was just right.

He felt that it was just right wayward.

She didn't make him hate her, and she didn't think she was too arrogant, but she just expressed a little bit of her dissatisfaction. She let him know, so that he could clearly see that she was unhappy in her heart.

Because he said himself that he didn't want to marry her, he didn't want to talk about kissing her.

So she was embarrassed, she didn't mind if he married Niu Ju, because she was so proud, why did she think that Tan Ji would marry Niu Ju instead of her?
Even if she clearly knew that there was no romance between her and Tan Ji, she still didn't mind.

Even if she knew that compared with Niu Ju, she lacked the quality and temperament of Niu Ju, and that all the children in Zhishou County would not marry her, she didn't mind.

Even though she and Niu Ju are best friends, she still minds.

Sheng Jiaojiao just felt that in Tan Ji's mind, she should be the first choice!
If Tan Ji wants to marry a wife, Sheng Jiaojiao should be the first choice. If Tan Ji does not want to marry a wife, he should not marry any of them, and should not consider any of them.

Then I heard Sheng Jiaojiao crackling and saying:

"You didn't mean to kiss Niu Ju yourself. Your aunt would definitely not send bacon to Niu Ju's house. It must be because of your ambiguous attitude before that made your aunt think that you wanted to kiss Niu Ju. Wait for Niu Ju." Mother came to you, and you don't recognize it anymore, tell me, what does Aunt Niu Ju think now? What would Niu Ju think?"

Such righteousness, such grandeur, such grievance and resentment, every word and every sentence seemed to be accusing Tan Ji.

He broke his promise!

It's his fault.

Tan Ji folded his arms round, bent down, and saluted Sheng Jiaojiao,
"It's because Tan Ji didn't think carefully."

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the rock, turned her back directly to Tan Ji, as if not talking to him.

Behind, Tan Ji was silent, he straightened up, lowered his eyes, frowning deeply, and said:

"Jiao Niang, I also apologized to Niu Niangzi just now. I didn't know about the bacon delivery, but I did not convey to my aunt that I wanted to get married. Tan Ji was wronged for this matter."

One matter is another matter, if he can't explain this matter clearly to Sheng Jiaojiao, he himself can't feel at ease.

After all, he was the one who embarrassed her first, and now he broke his promise and became fat again. How can a person like Sheng Jiaojiao, who is so proud and arrogant, be able to be angry?

This matter was indeed because his attitude was not firm enough. What Sheng Jiaojiao taught was that, but he had already paid for his crimes with Niu Niangzi, so he couldn't get those two pieces of bacon back just to make Sheng Jiaojiao happy.

Of course, if he had to do this, Sheng Jiaojiao could calm down, and it's not impossible for him to ask for those two pieces of bacon
Sheng Jiaojiao, who had her back to Tan Ji, couldn't help laughing again.

That trace of a smile was quietly hidden on her lips, she turned her head abruptly, and said bravely:
"You don't have to explain to me. What you hurt is not my heart, but the hearts of Niu's wife and Niu Ju. If you want to explain, you can talk to them yourself, and don't bother me here."

She is angry with her, but he just ignores her, but he can't control the little daughter's mind. He is such a hero, he shouldn't pay attention to her fuss.

(End of this chapter)

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