Chapter 140 Qin Soldiers Return Home
Qin, a certain county, is sinking to the west day by day. It is the end of another day, and smoke rises from all over the village. People have finished their busy day and are preparing to eat.
In the courtyard of a certain family, an old man with gray hair and half his left leg was leaning against the courtyard wall and opened the wooden slip that he had read countless times.
While reading and rubbing the wooden slip, I seemed to see my son in the distance through the words on it.
He was illiterate, but because he kept reading, he already recognized the characters above.
However, I can understand the words on the wooden tablet, so when will his wife come back?
In the courtyard, a child of about four years old was playing in the mud. Seeing the old man looking at the wood piece again, he hurriedly ran over, raised his head and asked, "Big daddy, big daddy, daddy is coming back?"
The old man looked down at the young child, holding a wooden tablet in one hand and touching the young child's head with the other: "Does An miss his father? If you know that An misses him, he will soon." I'll be back soon!"
The little boy wrinkled his face and said in disbelief: "My father said the same thing a few days ago, but he didn't come back today to see if he had forgotten me. "An?"
The old man said: "No, An is his son, this is his home, why don't you come back?"
The child asked again: "Then when will he come back? If my father doesn't come back, Ann will grow up!"
How can the old man know when his son will come back?
It has been more than a month. It should have come back long ago, but why haven't you returned yet?
Is there still a war to be fought and Ya is still fighting?
Dan Ya said on the wooden slip that Qi, the last country in the world that could confront the Qin Dynasty, has been destroyed and the world has been unified. How can there be any war?
Even if Ya has died in the battle, a message still has to be sent back. Now that he doesn't know either life or death, it's even more worrying.
Seeing that the old man did not answer, the young boy took the old man's hand and shook it: "Big father, big father, when will father come back?"
A woman walked out of the house and saw the young boy struggling. He looked at the old man and said with a tigerish face: "An, if you keep pestering your elder father, be careful of your skin!"
Seeing his mother coming out, the young child quickly dropped the old man's hand and ran out of the yard.
The old man looked at the woman and said, "An just misses his father."
The woman muffled no reply, turned around and walked into the house.
At this moment, the yellow dog in the courtyard suddenly started barking, and a male voice sounded outside the courtyard, "Are you An? Why are you outside the courtyard?"
Hearing this male voice, the old man He was startled for a moment, then suddenly looked outside the courtyard, his wrinkled face full of excitement.
Two figures walked out of the house, one was the woman just now, and the other was an old woman. Both of them were equally excited.
After waiting for more than a month, their son (beloved man) finally returned.
Outside the hospital, the confused voice of a young child came: "Who are you? How do you know I am An?"
The three people in the hospital thought: 'He is the father you have been thinking about! '
Hearing the child's question, the male voice outside the hospital was silent for a moment, and then spoke again: "Of course I know you, because you are my son, and I am your father, 'An' or should I give it to you? You took it. You were only this old when I left home, and you are so big now."
After hearing this, the child yelled and hurried from outside the hospital to see his elder father and mother. The eldest mother was in the courtyard. She immediately pointed to the outside of the courtyard and said to the three of them: "Dad, there is a man outside who calls me father, and he also knows that my name is 'An'..."
The young child was saying, The man had already walked into the courtyard, and the child hurriedly said, "Father, mother, that's him!" The woman glanced at the man, touched the child's head, and said, "An, he is indeed your father!" < br>
The child was stunned for a moment, walked up to the man, raised his head and asked, "Are you really my father?"
The man knelt down, nodded to the child and said, "Yes!"
The toddler happily shouted "Father!" and rushed into the man's arms.
The man picked up the child and said to the three people standing in the courtyard: "Father, mother, Mr. Xi, I am back!"
The brilliance of the setting sun shines on the earth, and the sky and the earth are getting late and the sun is getting late. In the writings of many literati and poets, they are often full of sadness, but this family's home is full of joy at this moment. From time to time, a childish voice "Father!" sounds, and then And the response was "Hey!".
In the little daylight left today, the family began to have a meal. The farmers were not so particular and did not share the meals. The family sat around a table, although they were eating ordinary food. Eating food is enjoyable.
There was a young child sitting in the man's arms. He was peeling a cooked chicken and talking to his family. The old man asked: "Ya, do you want to leave when you come back this time?"
Hearing the old man asking this, several other people looked at the man almost at the same time, and even the toddler in his arms became quiet.
After peeling the cooked chicken and putting it into the old man's bowl, the man said, "I'm not leaving. Father, mother, Mr. Xi, you must not have thought that I have made meritorious services and the king has rewarded me. What?”
After hearing that the man said that he would not leave and that he had been rewarded by the king for his meritorious service, the few of them felt at ease. They were afraid that another war would break out and the man would be drafted to join the war again.
There is no need to go to war anymore, the family can be together and live peacefully.
Moreover, now that the world is unified and they, the old Qin people, have won the world for that great king, they should have a good life, right?
The woman asked: "What kind of reward is it? A field or a house?"
The man smiled proudly and said: "I said you can't think of it. Not only the land and the house, the king also gave me To hold an official position, you need to report to the county tomorrow, and then you have to watch the government..."
Having said this, the man scratched his head and said in words that could be understood by a few people: "To observe government is to learn how to govern the place from the county magistrate, county magistrate, chief officials, and jailers."
"In the future, not only Can be promoted by military merit Lord, if I can manage the place well, I can also be promoted to the rank. Maybe I can be summoned by the king in Xianyang in the future!"
The old man, the old woman and the woman looked at each other, their son (beloved man) wanted to Become an official?
Listen to this, is there still a chance to become a high official and go to Xianyang to meet the king?
The man remembered something at this time, the smile on his face dropped, and he said seriously: "Father, mother, Mr. Xi, there is one more thing I need to tell you. The place where the king ordered us to serve as officials is not in Guanzhong, but in that place. The land of the Six Kingdoms. Therefore, if I become an official, you will have to move to other places with me.”
The old man, the old woman, and the woman fell into silence. Sure enough, it was not all good. If you wanted to become an official, you had to leave your homeland and move to a foreign land.
In this era, although it is difficult to leave the homeland, people are still quite pioneering, courageous and bloody, and are not so resistant to migration.
The old man said: "Ya, what do you think?"
The man said seriously: "I want to go, this may be the best opportunity in my life. If I miss it, it will be difficult to meet again. And if we are willing to go to those places and serve as officials, your Majesty will still give us a gift. Not only does he have a large field and a house, he is also exempted from the corvee tax for twenty years. "
According to the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty, one has to reach the level of "no change" to be exempted from serving as a soldier, but there are still other services. You are required to serve, and you can only be exempted from the service if you reach the "public transport" level.
(End of this chapter)