Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 334

When he turned around and saw Li Xiangjun in armor, especially the frontier army behind Li Xiangjun, the old man immediately fell to his knees in fright: "I don't know the general is coming, please forgive me."

Although I don't know which general this is, but it's always right to call him a general.

Li Xiangjun ignored the old man, just walked over to help the girl up.

I saw that the girl had a dark complexion, but she was tall and strong.

The clothes on the girl's body were also in tatters, so she could barely cover her shame.

Through the holes in the clothes, one could clearly see the scars on the girl's body, some new and some old. Obviously, this girl was often beaten by her father.

For a weaker one, he would have been beaten to death long ago.

Li Xiangjun sighed softly and asked, "Sister, what's your name?"

"I, my name is Second Sister, and my surname is Chen." The girl looked at Li Xiangjun timidly, and then quickly stared at her toes.

Li Xiangjun followed the second sister's eyes and landed on her feet, and saw a pair of huge and calloused feet.

Chen Ermei became even more cramped. With the aesthetics at this time, it is undoubtedly embarrassing for a woman to have such a pair of big feet, but there is nowhere to hide such a pair of big feet.

But the old man became angry again, and raised the thorn to strike again.

Li Xiangjun got angry and shouted: "If you dare to hit someone again, you will be arrested and brought to the court!"

The old man didn't dare to beat Chen Ermei again, but he muttered, the little old man beat his own daughter, what official do you see?

Li Xiangjun then asked Chen Ermei: "Second sister, are you willing to be a soldier? If you want to, follow me now."

"Being a soldier?" Chen Ermei asked timidly, "Isn't it only for men to be a soldier? Women are also allowed?"

"It was not possible before, but now it is possible." Li Xiangjun nodded and said, "The Holy Majesty has issued an imperial decree to recruit a battalion of female soldiers in Xuzhou. This time the general returned to Nanjing to recruit female soldiers."

"Then, then..." Chen Ermei asked in a low voice, "Can a soldier have enough to eat?"

"Yes." Li Xiangjun laughed dumbly, and said, "I can eat every meal."

"Really?" Chen Ermei's eyes showed hope, "Then I will go with you."

At this time, old man Chen also asked: "General, it seems that soldiers are paid?"

Old man Chen didn't mind his daughter being a soldier. Even if he didn't join the army, he planned to drive him out of the house.

"Yes, five per cent per month." Li Xiangjun nodded.

"Five cents a month?" Old man Chen couldn't help but be overjoyed, wouldn't he be paid six cents a year?
"But this money is not for you." Li Xiangjun said coldly, "It's for Second Sister."

"Xiao Lao is her father!" Old man Chen became anxious immediately, "Of course her money should belong to me."

"It doesn't matter what you say." Li Xiangjun said, "This is a rule set by the Holy Majesty, do you want to resist the order?"

"Ah?" Old man Chen was taken aback. He dared not resist the order and wanted to behead him.

Li Xiangjun said again: "Old Mr. Chen, I took the second sister away."

After finishing speaking, he said to Second Sister Chen, "Second Sister, follow me."

Taking Chen Ermei out of the alley, Li Xiangjun planned to buy her an outfit first.

A girl of seventeen or eighteen, wearing ragged clothes that almost show her buttocks, and not even a pair of straw sandals on her feet, is really outrageous.

As a result, before leaving the bamboo charcoal workshop, I met a family who was having a funeral.

Funerals are held, and many neighbors are pointing around the door. Many people shake their heads and sigh, as if they are very sympathetic to this family.

Li Xiangjun didn't want to be troublesome at first, but when he passed the door, he heard a woman crying.

There are two neighbors who are talking about it. It seems that the man of this family has just died, leaving only the orphan and widow. As a result, the uncle of the family came to take over the house and drove the mother and daughter out of the house.

Hearing this, Li Xiangjun was so angry that his brows stood on end. This is a must.

Li Xiangjun immediately took Chen Ermei, Ge Nunniang and more than [-] frontier soldiers to force their way in.

The dozen or so men and women inside who were dividing up their belongings were startled, and looked at Li Xiangjun in a state of bewilderment.

Li Xiangjun glanced around, and saw the coffin placed in the main room, and a mother and daughter kneeling in front of the coffin, both wearing heavy filial piety.

The daughter is about ten years old.

The widowed mother is about twenty-five or sixteen years old.

When Li Xiangjun was looking at her, the widowed mother happened to also look up.

She still has a bit of beauty, but wearing a filial piety makes her look even more pitiful.

But what Li Xiangjun wants is not beauty, but body.

At that moment Li Xiangjun asked: "This general asks you, what's going on?"

The widowed mother said sadly: "Returning to the general, the girl's maiden name is Jiao, and her maiden name is Osmanthus fragrans. She has been married to her husband's family for eleven years and has only one daughter. My husband was sick, and I spent a lot of money seeking medical treatment, but in the end I couldn't save him. Three days ago, I left my mother and daughter behind and passed away. As a result, my husband's body was not cold yet, and my husband's uncle came to the door Come, say that this house is the ancestral property of the Chen family and must be taken back."

"It's unreasonable!" Li Xiangjun said angrily, "Is there any law for this?"

"This must be Li Xiangjun and General Li Shen?" A Confucian scholar stepped forward and bowed.

"It's this general." Li Xiangjun sized up the Confucian scholar with an unkind expression, "Who are you?"

"Here, Liu Jiaxiang, is a member of the southern Zhili." The Confucian scholar said lightly, "General Li, this is our Liu family's family business. As a general who aided Xuzhou, it seems that you have nothing to do with it, right?"

"That's not sure." Li Xiangjun said coldly.

Li Xiangjun didn't have so many scruples if he wasn't the son of Prince Qin.

After finishing speaking, Li Xiangjun asked Jiao Osmanthus again, "Jiao Osmanthus, are you willing to join the army?"

Jiao Guihua didn't look like a strong woman, and she wasn't actually a suitable candidate for a female soldier, but in order to save people, Li Xiangjun didn't care about that, at worst, she was assigned to the town soldier.

Jiao Guihua was taken aback when she heard the words, and asked in astonishment: "Can civilian girls also join the army?"

"Yes." Li Xiangjun said solemnly, "As long as you nod your head, you will be a member of the Xuzhou Women's Barracks."

"But, but..." Jiao Guihua looked back at her daughter who was kneeling at her feet, and said in a bit of a dilemma, "What should I do with the daughter of a commoner girl?"

"It can be taken to the barracks together and resettled separately."

In order to save people, Li Xiangjun also went all out.

Anyway, it's just a matter of having an extra mouth, which is easy to handle.

Li Xiangjun has such a temperament, born with a chivalrous heart.

Jiao Guihua was overjoyed when she heard the words, she immediately nodded and said: "General, women are willing to join the army!"

"Okay, then you are now a member of the Xuzhou Women's Barracks." Speaking of this meal, Li Xiangjun said to Liu Jiaxiang, "Is Liu Xiucai? Jiao Guihua is now a female soldier under the general's command. Her business It's the general's business, tell me, can the general take care of the Jiao family's affairs now?"

As a student, Liu Jiaxiang naturally knew about the women's barracks.

In the past few days, the first page of Huangming Times has been talking about recruiting soldiers every day, including female soldiers.

What's more, the romantic affair between Li Xiangjun and the Holy One is almost an open secret.

Now that Jiao Guihua has become a member of the women's barracks, and Li Xiangjun is behind her to support her, it is not something that a small Liu family can handle.

"It's in control, the general can control it naturally."

"General Li, please see Liang, we are leaving now."

Immediately, Liu Jiaxiang signaled his uncle to put down his belongings, and then left Jiao Guihua's house in despair.

The neighbors watching from outside the door suddenly applauded and gave Li Xiangjun a thumbs up. This scene actually made Li Xiangjun a little embarrassed.

Right now, Li Xiangjun left two frontier soldiers to help Jiao Guihua take care of the funeral, and after she finished taking care of the funeral, he took his daughter to Wuyi Lane to find her, and then left with Ge Nunniang and others.

It's just that Li Xiangjun didn't expect that these two small things would spread quickly in a short period of time and make her a famous celebrity in Nanjing again, but this time, Li Xiangjun was no longer relying on her beauty. , but because of her chivalrous heart, which does not see the ugliness of the world.

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At the same time, Duke Wei's mansion on the right bank of the Qinhuai River has turned upside down.

The main door, which is rarely opened usually, has been opened, and Ma Mingpao, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, led a few scholars and a group of soldiers from the Beijing camp to enter the room proudly through the main door.

Wei Guogong Xu Hongji is not there.

It was Xu Hongji's eldest son Xu Yinjue who received Ma Mingpao.

"Master Ma." Xu Yinjue said with a bitter face, "Please be sure to raise your hand and give me a fair price."

"How can I be greedy for your Xu family's mansion." Ma Mingpao said with a smile, "So such things as maliciously lowering the price will definitely not happen, but do you really think about it?"

"Think it over." Xu Yinjue sighed, "We can only offset the land and the house, and there is not even a piece of jewelry left by the female family members in the mansion. We have collected them all."

During the conversation, one could vaguely hear the cursing of the female relatives.

Ma Mingpao asked with no expression on his face: "How much has it all added up?"

Xu Yinjue said: "Not counting this big house, there are about three and a half million taels."

"It's only three and a half million taels? That's really far away." Ma Minghao said, "Including the house, it's four million taels. The top ten nobles in Nanjing include your Xu family and the Bao family." Duke Zhu's family has a strong family background, if you two can only collect four million taels, then you will definitely not be able to raise thirty million taels."

"Master Ma." Xu Yinjue almost yelled.

This house was built by more than ten generations of my Xu family, and the amount of money spent back and forth is more than tens of millions?
According to the market price, the east and west gardens are worth millions, not to mention the magnificent mansion in the middle, you, Ma Mingtao, only paid [-] taels?Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?
What's more, with [-] million taels, why should my Xu family take the lead?

"Not happy? It doesn't matter if you are not happy, I see who else can buy your house."

After Ma Mingjue finished speaking, he stood up and left. Besides his House of Internal Affairs, who else would dare to buy Wei Guogong's mansion?
(End of this chapter)