The next morning, I visited the grave.

Han Yugui was buried on a hillside not far from Ciyun Temple. Han Yucai, who died a few years ago, was buried here. The two tombs were built very grandly. In the future, this forest will be the ancestral tomb of the Han family.

No matter how high-ranking official Han Xiufeng was, he was originally ranked fourth in the family, but now he has adopted the third brother Han Xiuyue to the second wife and has become the third brother. He is still Han Da’s younger brother. Whether he kowtows and burns paper or does anything else, he has to hold his baby with Qin'er and follow his elder brother and sister-in-law behind him.

After the worship, he looked at the stone tablet in front of his father's grave with the name "Fengzheng Doctor" engraved, and couldn't help but remember his uncle's wishes. Han Xiufeng secretly decided to send someone to the city to help his uncle donate a seal when he went back. After the imperial documents came down, he also asked the painter to draw a statue of his uncle to the ancestral hall.

After packing up the offerings, he was about to follow his elder brother and sister-in-law around the back mountain and look at the forests and paddy fields of the Han family. Pan Er actually rushed to the foot of the mountain with dozens of people.

Chen Hu and Ge Erxiao were very familiar with him and his two brothers brought back from Hai'an. I don't know how excited I was to see him again in Sichuan. But thinking that Mr. Han is different from the past and cannot be seen by anyone, I asked them to wait first. After Chen Buxun helped inform him, he asked him to go up the mountain alone. The others were stopped and they all stayed at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing Pan Er again, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but remember the scene of going to Beijing to invest in the capital and sighed: "Although I'm thinner and darker than before, I look more energetic than before, and I have a bit of an official demeanor."

"I'm not much thinner, it's really darker than before. Fourth brother, you know that the corner slanting field is on the beach, and the sea breeze blows every day. Even the whiter people will be blown black when they arrive there." Pan Er said with a wry smile.

While Han Xiufeng signaled Qin'er to take two kids and his elder brother and sister-in-law to go back first, he asked in a low voice: "I heard that the sea water was pouring back, the horns were slanted, Anfeng and Fu'an were all affected, and many people died."

"There are many deaths, and more are displaced. However, when I came back, the victims had been resettled. The imperial court's will to suspend taxes from the disaster-stricken areas was also down."

"That's good," Han Xiufeng looked back at his father's grave, and couldn't help but sigh: "Tell me about this world, it's both natural disasters and man-made disasters. You'll finally make up for the lack of things and have to come back."

Pan Er firmly believed that Han Si could still be a good official at this time, and subconsciously looked at the direction of Zuomagang: "Second Master, I don't feel sorry for you. I'm not afraid of you making fun of you. In fact, I have long missed homesickly, but I didn't expect my father to leave so suddenly."

"Yes, the earth dragon turned over, who would have thought of it?" Han Xiufeng didn't want to mention sad things anymore, so he immediately changed the topic: "Is it okay for my sister-in-law and the kids?"

"It's all fine, just... I've been together for several years, and the two children are a little bit distant when they see me."

"I'm about the same. You saw it just now. My elder brother and sister-in-law didn't even say anything to me," Han Xiufeng sighed lightly, then looked down at the soldiers at the foot of the mountain and asked, "Changsheng, what's going on with those brothers at the foot of the mountain?"

When Pan Er mentioned the important matter, he didn't care about family matters and hurriedly said, "These brothers at the foot of the mountain were all fellow townsmen selected by Mr. Xue and Mr. Liu from each camp, including from our Ba County, from Jiangjin, and from Bishan. They all went to Guangxi with Xiangshuai, from Guangxi to Changmao and to Jiangsu. I don't know how many battles they fought, all of them crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. The biggest official has accumulated merits and achieved the 100-year-old general.

It is precisely because of the battles and seeing too many dead people, and more than twenty of them not only don’t want to go into battle, but even the officials don’t want to be an official anymore. They just want to go back to their hometown to marry a wife and spend a few days of safe birthdays. But before they came back, Mr. Xue and Mr. Liu told them that after they arrived in Ba County, they would have to listen to you, Fourth Master. If you don’t say anything, they wouldn’t dare to leave.”

"If you want to go back to your hometown, let them all go back."

"Okay, I'll tell them later."

"There is no need to wait, and I will talk now. I have already arrived at my doorstep but can't go home. They must be willing to return."

"Okay, I'll talk now."

"Go together."

As expected, the two of them walked to the foot of the mountain and said a few words.

The military officers and soldiers of the Green Camp who were afraid of fighting were so excited that they kowtowed and thanked each other.

I watched those who were busy going home, and there were only a dozen people left in my hometown and no money in my pocket. I felt that there was no place to go, and it would be better to follow Mr. Han to organize a group training.

Han Xiufeng weighed the pros and looked at them and said, "Everyone, I know you want to work with me and make a living with me, but I am now in Dingyou, and the group training is just a helper. Don't say that it may not be possible, even if it can be done, you won't receive much food and salary."

The dozen soldiers who left behind were stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Han Xiufeng looked up at the mountains in the distance, and then said, "You Mr. Xue and Mr. Liu asked you to come to join me, so I, Han Xiufeng, naturally, cannot ignore your life or death. If you are willing, I will find a way to help you fill out a household registration card for you to go to the yamen and settle down in Ciyun Mountain in the future.

Those who are willing to farm, I will help you find a way to rent a few acres of land and work as tenants in the village. Those who are unwilling to farm can do some small business. As the saying goes, relying on the mountain to eat the mountain. There are many mountain goods in the mountain, and the villagers have no knowledge. Every time they carry the mountain goods out and sell them, they can’t sell them at a price. You have seen the world, and as long as you are willing to endure hardships, you will definitely make money."

Those who stayed behind also didn’t want to fight again, they also wanted to live a peaceful life.

As soon as Han Xiufeng finished speaking, more than a dozen soldiers who had crawled out of the sea of ​​blood in the sea of ​​corpses kowtowed and thanked him.

"Don't rush to thank you for now." Han Xiufeng signaled them to get up and warned: "But as long as you settle down in Ciyun Mountain, you will be from Ciyun in the future. You must abide by the village rules and regulations here, and you must listen to the greetings of Baozheng, Chief A and several respected old gentlemen in the village."

"This is naturally. A young man will definitely live a peaceful life. He will not do anything that commits crimes even if he is beaten to death!"

"Master Han, please be calm. The young man is a scheming person. He used to be unable to survive before and then joined the army."

"Okay, okay, I know," Seeing Xu Yunshan coming over with a few young people, Han Xiufeng simply came up and bowed: "Uncle Xu, I'm sorry, I have to ask you to help you as soon as you come back..."

Ciyun Village belongs to the top ten of Cili. In the entire Cili, it is a small village with poor personal strength, so it is not even qualified to run a group training. Xu Yunshan, who had long since wanted to pay and work to make wedding dresses for others, heard Han Xiufeng's words, and then thought that the dozen young people in front of him all had killed the formation and killed Changmao, and agreed: "Master Han, this is not a big deal, it's not a problem. I'll take them to settle down and find them a place to live first."

"Okay, then please."

"Master Han, you are always so polite. You and Mr. Pan Er are busy first, and I will take them to settle first."

...

Duan Jiqing, who was following behind, wanted to speak but stopped. The second master Fei and Gao Yunfeng who accompanied him guessed what he wanted to say, so they simply pulled him aside and leaned into his ear and said, "Duan Jingcheng, the village plans to organize a group training. There is indeed a shortage of people in the group training, but there is no shortage of what happened just now."

"How do you say this?"

"Zhi Ying can be such a high-ranking official. In the final analysis, it is because Zhixing can train troops. The Ciyun Group, which Xu Yunshan and the others are planning, is used to protect the family. Zhixing either does not help, but as long as it helps, it will be done well. It will train the Ciyun Group into an elite soldier who can live in the area with three or five hundred bandits, so it looks down on the green camp soldiers who have been scared by the hair just now."

Seeing Duan Jiqing's skeptical look, Master Fei Er could not help but point to Chen Hu and others in the distance: "See, that's the real war! Those who just now, although they had fought with Changmao under the command of Shuai Xiang for several years, had more defeats and fewer victory. It is said that they fought with foreigners in Shanghai, but in the end, thousands of people were killed by hundreds of foreigners and were thrown away. It was really useless."

"I thought anyone who has been in the formation would be elite soldiers."

"Maybe for others, for Zhixing, they are nothing."

When talking about war, Gao Yunfeng couldn't help but murmur: "I don't know what's going on in Guizhou right now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Han Xiufeng suddenly turned around and asked, "Brother Ji Yue, where is your hometown in Guizhou?"

Gao Yunfeng hurriedly bowed and said, "Report to Mr. Han, my hometown is Annan, Guizhou (now Qinglong), and is under the jurisdiction of Xingyi Prefecture, Guixi Road."

Han Xiufeng took a deep breath and thought to himself how it was so coincidental. He really didn't know how to explain to Gao Yunfeng, so he simply turned around and said, "Changsheng, tell Mr. Gao."

"Affect the order."

Pan Er reacted, took a deep breath and said with a bitter face: "Report to Mr. Gao, in the twelfth month of last year, Yang Yanxi, Tailor Shu and other bandits who occupied Tongzi defeated the officials who had been suppressed and then abandoned the south of the city and captured Annan on the 24th of the twelfth month, and then besieged Xingyi Prefecture. Zhang Ying, the new Guidong Dao, ordered his sons Zhang Zhiqing, Zhang Zhiyuan, Zhang Zhidong and Xingyi Prefecture and other civil and military officials to lead troops and the temporary recruitment of Min Zhuang to defend the city.

He summoned more than 2,000 brave men who dared to die were out of the city overnight. At the critical moment when Xingyi City was about to be broken by bandits, he led more than 2,000 brave men to come out from behind the bandits, killed Yang Hanxi, tailor Shu and other bandits off guard, then took advantage of the victory to pursue, summoned the village heroes all the way to recover Annan and lift the siege of Xingyi Mansion."

Hearing that his hometown was captured by bandits, although he had recovered, Gao Yunfeng's heart skipped a beat. He was stunned for a while before asking in a trembling tone: "Have the bandits been wiped out?"

"As far as I know, Yang Yanxi and Tailor Shu fled to Pu'an and captured Pu'an County."

"Mr. Han, I...my brother and sister-in-law, my son and daughter-in-law, my grandchildren, my daughter and son-in-law are all in my hometown. I'm not at ease, I want to go back and have a look..."
Chapter completed!