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Chapter 638: Returners

Fifteen-year-old Liu Ru shook her wheels and lifted the water from the well with some difficulty. She poured it into the wooden bucket on one side, and then mentioned it to the vegetable field beside the yard, pouring it into the vegetable field one by one. The vegetable field is relatively large, with a total of two parts. This is still a heavy physical work for a fifteen-year-old girl. Half of it poured it, and her forehead was already full of sweat.

I stood up straight, wiped the sweat from my forehead, looked up at the sky, the sun was gone, and I could only see bright red clouds from above the top of the mountain.

Above the tiled house, smoke rose up, and a stream of fragrance blew. As the breeze blew, Liu Ru couldn't help swallowing her saliva. After doing physical work for a while, she was really hungry.

She looked at the road in front of the door with hope. Only when Dad came over the other end of the road would he eat! However, with Dad's temperament, he would definitely not come back if he didn't get dark.

He sucked two scents of the fragrance that came with the wind, picked up the wooden barrel, and walked back to the well.

The woman in the kitchen walked out and sat on a small bamboo stool under the eaves. She held a knife in one hand and a bunch of fresh pigs and vegetables in the other hand, and chopped them up with some vegetable leaves. She put the chopped vegetable leaves in a cube basket and brought them to the side of the low thatched house on the side of the house. She shouted and poured the vegetable leaves in the cube basket into the pig trough. Liu Ru immediately heard the sound of the three pigs at home eating.

In the long row of thatched houses, not only were pigs, but also two sheep, and more than ten chickens. When the sound of pigs eating, the two sheep's heads also poked out from the wall, bleating and waiting to feed. At this time, the dozen free-range chickens gathered naturally and clattered.

After the woman finished all this, the sky above the top of the mountain finally became darker and darker. Liu Ru finally finished the land and took a piece of cloth from the woman. While wiping the sweat on her face, she looked at the road outside the door with her head and head.

My father hadn't come back yet, but there was a horse trotting from a distance.

"It's brother, brother is back!" Liu Ru jumped up suddenly, threw the cloth veil to the ground, and ran happily like a deer to the outside of the yard, chasing the dozen or so chickens pecking in the yard.

"This child can't be quiet!" The woman was angrily, but her face was filled with a happy smile, and she kept moving outwards.

The tall and young officer dismounted with a saddle and smiled. The next moment, a figure had already crashed into his arms: "Brother, I miss you so much!"

Liu Xing tried his best to lift the girl up and stood on the ground, "A girl of this big, be more dignified." He scolded her, looked at her pouting mouth, looked up and down, but then smiled and said, "I have grown taller and better, I am not a yellow-haired girl."

He turned around and took a large bag of things from the saddle, "Here, this is what I brought back, all of which are rare things, sent from the army. I will bring them back for you to try."

Liu Ru cheered and carried the package and rushed into the house.

Liu Xing then walked forward steadily: "Mom, I'm back."

The woman went up and down, grabbed Liu Xing's hand, looked up and down, with a smile on her face, but tears in her eyes. Her son was a soldier, so how could he not worry about being a mother? Seeing her son who had to be full of beards and tails, this was better than any gift!

"Dad hasn't come back yet?"

"It's almost coming soon, I'm going to come back soon, Ru'er, you damn girl, why don't you go and call your father back." The woman turned her tears and shouted: "Xing'er, you sit down first, I'll kill a chicken, and cook a few good dishes. You and your father have a few drinks tonight."

He turned around and wiped his tears quietly, but he bent down quickly, picked up a big rooster at his feet, and walked towards the kitchen quickly.

Liu Ru, holding a canned loquat in her hand, ran out of the house, stood on the threshold, looked at the end of the road, and shouted loudly: "Dad is back!"

The brother and sister turned around together. Under the last light, an old man was carrying a pear shaved on his shoulders and a big yellow cow in his hand. He was heading towards home with barefoots.

Seeing the tall horse in the yard, he was stunned for a moment, then threw away the plowshare on his shoulder, threw away the cow reins in his hand, and strode towards home.

"Dad!" Liu Xing shouted. Liu Ru, who was behind her, ran out sensiblely, led the cow in, and tied it into the shed.

After leaving home at the age of seventeen, Liu Xing finally came back for three years. When he left, he still had a youthful face. When he came back, the eyebrows showed that he was already a mature man.

Old Man Liu raised his hand and wanted to slap his son, but he raised his hand, but finally fell heavily on his shoulder. Back then, Liu Xing ran away secretly. In the first year, his son had no news, but that year was the most chaotic time in Dizhou. Wars were everywhere, and many people died. After inquiring about his son, Old Man Liu almost gave up. But from the second year, his son finally wrote a letter back, and with the letter back, there were also the money sent back by his son.

From the letter, I know that my son has joined the army and his military salary seems to be pretty good.

The letters are always continued in a short time, and it was not until half a year ago that they finally stabilized. They were almost one letter a month, and the money they sent back was getting more and more.

From the letter, he knew that his son had been transferred back to Dizhou and became an official, but he was busy with military affairs and could not return home for a while.

"You are willing to come back!" There were thousands of words in your heart, but in the end, this sentence just popped up.

"Dad, you have received all my letters?" Liu Xing said with a smile.

"How come it didn't receive it?" Old Man Liu finally couldn't hold back. His son returned safely. All his past resentment disappeared as his son appeared in front of him. He looked left and right, and looked up and down, but he couldn't see enough. "Now the government's inn has been built into the town. Every month, I will go to the town to see if you have any letters back!"

Looking at the three large tiled houses in the house, looking at the vibrant appearance in the yard, and then looking at the girl's clothes, Liu Xing smiled and said, "It's a good life now!"

"That's right, the current government is very different from the previous government!" Old Man Liu smiled and said, "There are more than ten acres of land in the family now! And these pigs, sheep, and chickens can all be converted into money. These few vegetable fields can also add a lot of inputs to the family every year. The money you sent back by your kid has never touched, and your mother saves it for you to marry a wife!"

"Don't work so hard. My son's salary is very high now, which is enough for you to live a good life." Liu Xing said, touching the thick calluses in his father's hand.

"Thank you for your hard work, but you have to be happy with it! It's not what you looked like when you left three years ago!" Old Man Liu glared at him: "Dad is a farmer, this is all his duty. If you don't do it, then you will be punished by God!"

"Brother, I go to the town to sell vegetables and eggs every few days, and make money!" Liu Ru raised her hair and smiled, while tossing and turning at the canned glass in her hand.

"My little sister is so capable!" Liu Xing took the can from Liu Ru's hand, pulled out a knife from his belt, easily cut open the sealed iron sheet, and handed the can to Liu Ru: "Come on, try it. In our small place, this thing is not available."

Liu Ru took a sip of the juice inside excitedly: "Brother, it's so sweet! Is this very expensive?"

Looking at the sister who used two fingers to pick out a loquat and put it in her mouth and chewed it carefully, Liu Xing said, "Well, I heard from the junta officer that when selling it outside, it would cost about one tael of silver for this can!"

Liu Ru was frozen at that time. Her mouth was wide open and she could no longer close. She held the can in her hands tightly, for fear that she would break it by accident, but her trembling hands showed her inner surprise at this moment.

Old Man Liu also widened his eyes: "One tael of silver? Grandpa, you damn girl, can you eat this?"

"Dad, it's nothing, I didn't spend any money. I sent it to the army. Each of our officers of our level sent several cans!" Liu Xing said with a smile: "Sister, just eat it."

Liu Ru shouted, stood up, held the can in both hands, and walked towards the kitchen in small steps.

Old Man Liu looked at Liu Xing, but his eyes were filled with relief. Son, after all, was a promising future! Now it seems that he was right to run out.

"Didn't you say half a year ago that you were fighting in Mozhou? Why are you transferred back to Dizhou now?" asked Old Man Liu.

Liu Xing smiled and said, "Yes, in Mozhou, we were under General Liu Chenglin. After the war in Mozhou was over, we received another military order to come to Dizhou and be led by the Qin general."

"Can you still adjust it at will?"

"Look at what you said!" Liu Xing said: "We are all soldiers of Master Li and are often mobilized. Today, I am here. No one can tell when to change my boss. Besides, I am a Ranger, my son is originally a Ranger, wherever there is a war."

Old Man Liu trembled: "So, is our Dizhou going to fight again?"

"It should be!" Liu Xing said: "Otherwise, we will not be transferred to us Rangers. But the specific details are not something that my level officer can know. Anyway, I will be ordered by the orders at that time."

"What an official are you now?" asked Old Man Liu.

Liu Xing was a little proud: "My son is in charge of No. 1,000 cavalry now! Dad, do you know the spectacular scene of a thousand cavalry riding horses?"

"It would be great not to fight? I live so well now, why do I have to fight?" Old Man Liu said in a loss.
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