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Chapter 12 The Lost Dog

"Brother, I still collected the money and rented a house in the city, and prepared more food to hide. Whether it was the White-Shirted Army fighting Jinling or the Jinling martial law, the city was safer than outside the city."

Huo Wu certainly would not say that "the dragon is tangled with it" and "the dragon turns into a dragon" is related to his wealth and life. He only talks about the matter of killing the bandits and repelling the bandits before.

"I won't say anything about Nanshan Village in advance, but only talk about saving people on the road. The Shi family is a local snake. Now it's so good. In order to save my children, we really can't explain it clearly. I am just Xiaobao's root, so I really dare not make any rash!"

Uncle Huo nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, I'm still far away from Jinling."

The Tiger and Leopard brothers will decide whether to stay or not; the brothers will argue with each other when they stay or leave.

Uncle Huo is over 60 years old and only has this grandson by his side, so he should stay by his side to serve.

Uncle Huo refused and wanted to entrust the stone to Huo Wu and his son.

"Brother, Shi Tou is filial and will not be willing to do so! It's not that we two are not coming back. If Shi Tou wants to go out next time, he will follow him." Huo Wu said.

Uncle Huo sighed when he remembered his grandson's temper and nature, and stopped talking.

After dinner, everyone was having sex in the house.

Millet porridge, steamed cake made of millet noodles and glutinous rice, and cold-sticked cabbage hearts and shredded radish, are very refreshing and delicious.

After dinner, everyone was in the main hall and talked about looking for work in the afternoon.

The third son of the Niu family found a temporary clerk's job in the grain shop and would set off to Changzhou to deliver food tomorrow. Huo Bao and others bought things and asked about the prices, but they did not find a suitable job.

"The boss is also summoning people to follow the car, or Shitou and others will go to Changzhou tomorrow, and it will cost fifty cents a day." Niu Dalang greeted enthusiastically.

It takes three hundred miles from Jinling to Changzhou, and half a month to travel, it costs one tael of silver.

Huo Bao was eager to try, but Shi Tou had no idea and looked at Uncle Huo.

Uncle Huo couldn't help but feel moved, but Huo Wu frowned.

I have asked about the price of rice before, and a bucket of millet costs 100 cents. The salary for this shop is only one bucket of rice for two days, and the salary is too generous.

"How many people have been recruited? How much grain should I transport?" Huo Wu asked.

"There are about 100, and it's probably 20 or 30 cars."

"Are there any old guys?"

"Yes, each car has two old guys, both of whom are big and round, and they have the strength to do it."

"Lao Wu, but what's wrong?" Uncle Huo said curiously.

"There are too much rewards. There are many refugee beggars inside and outside Jinling. Just say hello and eat, you can attract a lot of people. How can you spend fifty cents a day?"

The room suddenly became quiet.

"Uncle Huo Wu, then...what is going on? Can you still take this job?" Niu Dalang said uneasy.

"It's hard to say! All places are still far from summer harvest. There will be two or three months of food. If the grain shop really transports grain out, it won't be this time. It's better to inquire more." Huo Wu thought for a while and said.

The three sons of the Niu family looked at each other in surprise.

Since they went out to find a job for a long time, they were not ignorant of the price of employment. Now there are few jobs on the market and there are many people. As Huo Wu said, many jobs only need to be paid for food and don’t have a penny.

I was so confused by the fifty-money wages a day before. Now I think about it, it’s not strange. I remembered that a group of guys left today, and my brothers all felt a little scared.

Are those people really going to transport grain? If it weren't for transporting grain, where would they go?

The room became silent and everyone felt a little uneasy.

"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

There was a rapid knock on the door in the yard, which shocked everyone to get up and leave the house.

"Brother Huo Wu, it's me!" Someone was hoarse and greeting through the door. He heard that the sound was nothing but Jia Yuan.

Huo Wuda stepped forward a few steps and opened the door.

Outside the door, there were about a dozen people standing there. The leaders were Jia Yuan and his son who had just left in the morning.

"Brother Jia, come in quickly!" Huo Wu hesitated for a moment and called everyone into the yard.

Jia Yuan was obviously extremely angry, his eyes were red, his forehead was blushing, and he was clenched with his fists and could not speak.

Jia Daishan was quick-talking and cried: "Uncle Huo Wu, grandfather drove us out of the house and asked someone to beat us! Uncle stopped us and was beaten!"

Only then did everyone realize that there were a few healthy servants in the crowd who were holding someone, a middle-aged man with his eyes closed and bloodless eyes. He was following a woman, leaning on a servant, weakly and unsteadily. He also looked like he was unable to stand firmly. Listening to the voice, these two people were none other than Jia Yuan's brother and sister-in-law.

Huo Wu did not care about the details and asked someone to help the couple into the room.

At this moment, Jia Daihua also arrived in a hurry, followed by an old doctor carrying a medicine box.

But after half a day, the elegant boy became more cold.

Jia Yan was beaten twenty times, and his back to his thighs were bloody. The old doctor sighed when he saw it: "I'm afraid I will hurt my bones, and I'll have to keep my life."

I looked at Jia Yan's wife again and whispered: "At this age, you have to be careful when you are confinement, otherwise you will be afraid of hindering your life."

Jia Yuanren heard the doctor's advice angrily, and asked about the doctor's advice. Huo Wu, Huo Bao and his son looked at each other and remembered the Xue family at the same time.

When the doctor left, Huo Wu asked in a low voice: "Did Ling Zun take your brothers angry about the Xue family?"

"Relaxed? It's just taking advantage of the problem!" Jia Yuan looked sad and angry, gritting his teeth.

It is said that "family scandals should not be made public", but when the two brothers are separated from each other, there is nothing to cover up.

The Jia Yan and Jia Yuan brothers are brothers of their own. They are not the ones Huo Wu thought they were from the Jia family, but the legitimate origin of the main lineage, and the wife of the eldest son of the Jia family.

The two brothers died early and their biological father continued to marry.

Since ancient times, there has been a stepmother and a stepfather, and it is true.

In addition, the two of them had a decline in their biological mother's family, and their stepmother's uncle got the Jinshi exam. Once they lost their home, they lost their backings and lived like Coptis chinensis.

The two brothers were afraid of by their stepmother and suppressed by their family. They could not succeed in literature or martial arts. All their hopes were placed on Jia Daihua.

The reason why I agreed to let the children who were most promising to pass the Jinshi exam get engaged with the Xue family was not because I was greedy for the merchants to have a good deal of dowry, but because I used the relationship between the Xue family and the prefect's yamen to bypass the clan's examination.

But it is Xiao He who succeeds and fails.

Last year, their brothers arranged for the expedition of Jia Daihua in Yingtong by using the Xue family's relationship. Now their stepmother can use the fact that the Xue family was raided and encouraged her husband to expel two of his original wife and legitimate sons from the clan.

Even the inn in the city was not allowed to settle down, which made the Jia Yuan brothers have to leave the city overnight.

After hearing this, Huo Wu and his son had to ask a few questions about the reason why the Xue family was confiscated.

"The news came from the yamen that the magistrate's backer had fallen. I guess he knew that he could not save Fei Que from the magistrate of Jinling. Before he wanted to get a hand, he focused on the Xue family, which had no support." Jia Yuan said: "But Xue Biao was a man who took one step and looked at him three steps. He had already sent all his money away, leaving only a bunch of maids and concubines to raise children, so that the magistrate's office would run away!"

The prefect has not obtained the money from the Xue family, so he must focus on the local big players.

The stepmother of the Jia family encouraged her husband to expel the Jia brothers and his family's two families on the grounds that she did not implicate the Jia family, and at the same time ruined the imperial examination career of the eldest grandson of the Jia family.

The descendants who were removed from the family had a engagement with the bandits, and they were not clear and unreliable. How easy was it to be an imperial examination?

"Brother Jia, what are your plans in the future?" Huo Wu sighed and asked.

I have heard that brothers fight for family property and make human brains become dog brains, but it is rare to hear that this biological grandfather was bewitched by a woman and cruelly cut off his grandson's future.

"When my brother is ready, we will join the army! I was so overwhelmed in my early years that Shi Jin mentioned this... I have been suppressed by filial piety, and now I have become a lonely ghost without a family, and I am free!" Jia Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "A woman with a black heart wants to destroy the future of modernization and trample on us to death, and we will live forever!"

Huo Wu shook his head and took it as a warning.

In the future, you have to choose a wife for your son, so you should not let such a short-sighted and vicious woman come in.

What a year is like? It’s time for the family to work together, but instead they’re trying to make a lot of trouble from the inside.

This Jia family is difficult to be undefeated.

Huo Bao followed the father and son, but he was secretly talking.

These two founding dukes in the future, from the legitimate sons of gentry families to lonely people without family protection, seemed to have reasons to rebel.

After the Jia family members were temporarily placed, Shi Jin hurried over.

However, he was a real person. He didn't say anything that shared the same hatred for the enemy, but he also told the Jia brothers to rest and help Jia Yuan run to the army tomorrow.
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