Chapter 212 After the Hero
"Thank you, my boss!" The two brothers looked at each other excitedly and stood up and clasped their fists.
"No thanks, no thanks, it's a simple task, but helping workers in the harbor is not a long-term solution. If you want to settle down, you still need to buy land. Just relying on fighting goods and being a coolie in the harbor is only enough to have enough food and clothing. It's too difficult to buy land. I think both of you are honest people. Let's rent more than ten acres of land in your family to you for farming. After paying the remaining 550 cents of the land tax every year, half of your family is half. In this way, at least you can have the guarantee of rest and make a living. Then, in the slack farming time, go to the harbor to help earn some hard money to subsidize your family. When life is stable for a few years, I will help find someone to make peace and see if you can get your household registration in our Maowan village..."
"Boss, are you really going to hire us to farm?" Zhang Yuanzhong was excited and slightly slapped.
"Well, I don't know how to manage farmland. I rely on A Lian to work alone, and at the same time I have to take care of the family and eat, drink, defecate and scatter. She is not busy and tired by herself. This land was left by his ex-husband, and I have no right to deal with it at will, otherwise it doesn't matter if I give it to you to cultivate!" Zhao Qi nodded.
"Puu~" Zhang Yuanzhong knelt directly on the ground, and reached out to pull his brothers to kneel down together. He kowtowed to Zhao Qi with tears in his eyes and said, "My brother cannot repay the kindness of the boss. I will definitely help the boss plant these more than ten acres of land!"
"Please get up quickly. There is gold under the man. Kneel down on the sky, kneel down on the ground and kneel on the parents. I can't bear this gift!" Zhao Qi quickly threw away his chopsticks and wine glasses, stood up and pulled the two brothers up.
Four women who were eating under the pergola were chatting, but suddenly they found three drinking men starting to kowtow, and they all couldn't help but stand up.
"Boy, come here quickly. My benefactor plans to hire us to farm for a long time!" Both brothers greeted their wives with red eyes, and the two wives were excited to cry after hearing this.
After another tug and comfort, I took my seat again.
The two couples suddenly changed from temporary workers to formal workers, and their mood improved instantly, and their faces were wiped out with a loss of sadness and fatigue.
Zhao Qi accompanied the two brothers to continue drinking, while the two women quickly finished the meal and began to work hard to help A Lian clean up the pots and pans.
Although A Lian felt a little sudden that Zhao Qi temporarily planned to hire two families as tenants, in her mind, she would spare no effort to support anything Zhao Qi did.
At the same time, A Lian suddenly felt much more relaxed. The more than ten acres of land were too stressful for her, just like a mountain, which made her breathless after being overwhelmed all year round.
Zhao Qi's temporary arrangement instantly helped her get rid of this busyness and hard work day after day.
"Sister A Lian, why are you crying again?" Seeing A Lian packing up her things and wiping her tears, Xiao Zhu stood beside her and asked in a low voice. At her age, she could not feel the pressure and pain that A Lian had suffered in the past.
"No, I'm just blinded by the ashes!" A Lian quickly wiped away her tears and started working with two women who were no older than her.
As Zhao Qi was preparing to formally hire the two brothers for a long time, he naturally had to ask their identities more clearly. However, it would be fine if he didn't ask. After asking, Zhao Qi felt as if he had won the lottery.
The two brothers Zhang Yuanzhong and Zhang Yuanyi are not ordinary farmers, but have a deep family background. They are from Cangzhou, Hebei. Cangzhou people have loved practicing martial arts since ancient times. Zhao Qi knew this, but the two brothers also had a famous Taizu Gong in the Song Dynasty, which was Zhang Xian, one of the five generals in the Yue family army.
Zhang Xian, awesome person!
Zhao Qi was deeply moved.
As long as those who know Yue Fei basically know how many generals he has, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing, and Yue Yun.
Yue Fei was killed in Fengboting, and Yue Yun and Zhang Xian were killed together. From this we can see that Zhang Xian has a very high status in the Yue family army, almost under Yue Fei, and Zhang Xian was seen in many major battles in which the Yue family army became famous all over the world.
Zhao Qi really didn't expect that he would pick up two refugees who harvested rice on the roadside, who were so big.
Therefore, after the two brothers revealed their origins of family education, Zhao Qi suddenly had a happy mouth and broke his head. Especially when he knew that both of his brothers were good at martial arts and were not weak, he was even more excited to ask Xiao Zhu to bring another pot of wine. He would drink with the two heroes until dawn and never return home.
Therefore, this wine was drunk from the dark sky until the stars and the moon were everywhere.
The three of them not only ate the food on a table, but also drank three large pots of wine, which was more than ten kilograms.
Although the two brothers who were full of wine and meals had practiced martial arts, they probably had been exhausted for a long time and could not bear the alcohol. After drinking, they were completely unrestrained and kicked the cave. Zhang Yuanyi even found a bamboo pole and took advantage of the wine to play a spear in the narrow open space in the cave. Although his gait was staggering, even Zhao Qi, who had never seen the world, was sure that this guy had two brushes and could not tell the difference between the east, south, west and north. This spear performance was extremely smooth.
Although Zhang Yuanzhong was much more mature and quiet, he patted his chest and squirted alcohol after drinking, saying that he had killed a big worm in Jingyanggang, Qinghe County.
Zhao Qi said laughing and cryingly: "Fifth brother, isn't Wu Song Wu Erlang of Qinghe County the one who killed the tiger in Jingyanggang?"
"My benefactor... don't believe it. You can go to Qinghe County to inquire. I, Zhang Wulang, have indeed killed a tiger, and the tiger's skin is still left at home, but later it was burned by the Mongolians... and it was burping~" Zhang Yuanzhong's face was flushed and burped, slapped his chest with a bang.
"Don't listen to Wulang's nonsense. He just killed a leopard. It was less than five feet long. He couldn't stop talking when he drank too much!" Zhang Yuanzhong's wife quickly explained.
"Haha, it's great to kill the bobcat. It's getting late. Be careful when you go back. Xiaozhu brings the lanterns..." Zhao Qi smiled and sent the two brothers who were tilted to the outside of the cave.
"My beloved doesn't seem to be... not drinking well today... I'll come and drink it in a few days... I'll stop drunk..."
The two brothers turned around and shouted loudly, and the two women were holding lanterns and carefully taking care of the road.
"Okay, we will drink again in a few days, and we will not return until we are drunk!" Zhao Qi said loudly to the drunken two people.
"Okay, no... I won't return without getting drunk..."
Among the stars in the sky, two lanterns gradually faded away, and an intermittent heroic song came from the night wind.
"The angry hair rushes to the railing... The rain stops... Looking up at the sky, the long roars... The strong heart is fierce..."
Zhao Qi stood at the intersection in front of the cave until the song disappeared and could no longer hear it. Then he calmed down and turned back to the cave.
After suddenly meeting two heroes, Zhao Qi was still very excited.
From the stories and songs of the two after they got drunk, Zhao Qi could also understand the anger of these people towards Mongolia, but more of them were disappointed with the Song Dynasty's anger and grief of their misfortune, and even extremely hated, hated the country's failure to be prosperous, hated the court's failure to work hard, hated the officials' corruption, hated the killing of Yue Fei and Zhang Xian to destroy the Great Wall, two dignified seven-foot men, the superiors could not be loyal and the subordinates could not be filial, and they actually fell to the point where they could not support their wives and children, fled all the way to beg, and they were all eyes rolled.
At the back of the wine table, the two brothers even hugged each other and cried loudly, laughing and crying after crying, as if this meal of wine and meal vented all the anger and sorrow that had been suppressed for many years in their hearts.
The two brothers cried and laughed. Not only did they wake up Old Lady Su and Baoer, but they also asked the two women to stand beside them and persuade them to laugh or not. They could only stay by their side and cry silently.
But Zhao Qi believes that after this drunken meal, waking up tomorrow will be a new beginning, and the lives of these two families will be completely different in the future.
"Xiaoqi, the hot water is ready. You wash it and go to bed early. It's very late!" After A Lian packed up the dishes, she came over with a small oil lamp.
"A Lian, I've been busy every day, thank you for your hard work!" Zhao Qi said gently holding A Lian's hand.
"I...I don't work hard..." A Lian turned her head with blushing cheeks and looked at Xiaozhu's room, where there were faint lights shaking gently.
"I should tell you about what happened today, these more than ten acres of land..."
"Stop talking about Xiaoqi. I know you are for my own good. I am very happy!" A Lian interrupted Zhao Qi.
"That's good. Our family is not short of money now. Farming is too tiring. In the future, hire someone else to farm. It's a killing of two birds with one stone. It's not easy for these people who escaped. If you don't help me, I always feel uncomfortable!" Zhao Qi sat down and hugged A Lian on his lap and said.
"Xiaoqi, sister thinks you are the kindest person in the world. No one can compare to you. You will definitely have good fortune in the future!" The woman hugged Zhao Qi's waist and back and said emotionally.
"That's not necessarily true. I'm a little afraid that A'an will come back one day to take revenge on me!" Zhao Qi joked, and his hands were familiar with the road and reached two peaks.
"Xiaoqi, take a shower first, I'll go and see if Baoer is asleep!" The woman stood up nervously and went back to the room.
After brushing his teeth and taking a shower, Zhao Qi did it in a few seconds, and then threw himself heavily on the straw mat.
The sound of water rushing outside was heard, and it was heard very clearly in the late night.
However, Zhao Qi, who was lying on the bed, felt his heart slowly getting hot. He widened his eyes and looked at the slightly white window. A hard thought emerged and could no longer be pressed.
"Squeak~"
Shortly after the sound of water disappeared, the empty door was pushed open, and a familiar figure came in, closed the door, and then a hot body with a faint scent of chrysanthemums gently fell on him.
Zhao Qi then hummed comfortably and slowly closed his eyes.
Chapter completed!