...

The old woman entered the house and took out two bowls of noodles, two wheat cakes and a bowl of cabbage soup from the basket...

After the arrangement was completed, the old woman stood aside with the child and said, "Two, the old woman only has this food at home. If she is not well cared for, please take care of her..."

Wu Sidao hurriedly stood up and bowed to the old woman, saying, "Thank you for sending the food to the owner. I am very grateful..."

"Grandma, I'm hungry..."

At this time, the boy snuggled in the old woman's arms looked at the steaming food on the table, couldn't help swallowing his saliva and said.

The old woman hurriedly said to the child: "Go'er, how did your father and mother teach you, treat guests with courtesy and not lose their composure..."

Wu Sidao heard the child's words and said to the old woman: "Old man, has the child not eaten yet?"

The old woman smiled and said, "Customer, don't care about the children, he's just greedy, just eat..."

Wu Sidao glanced at the old woman and looked at the child again. He immediately took the wheat cake on the table and handed it to the child and said, "Come on, take it and eat..."

The old woman was about to stop her, but Wu Sidao smiled and stopped her, and still handed the wheat cake to the child.

"Thank you uncle..."

After taking the wheat cake, the child thanked Wu Si and hid behind the old woman and started eating it voraciously.

Seeing this, Wu Sidao said to the old woman: "Old man, the child shouldn't have eaten? Why is this?"

When the old woman heard this, she stroked her child's head and sighed: "To be honest, the family doesn't have much food in it, and our family lives on wild vegetables. There is nothing we can do about it..."

Wu Sidao browsed, pointed to the noodles and wheat cakes on the table and said, "Old man, what are these foods?"

The old woman said, "These are the only fine grains left in the family. When the old woman saw the two of them being exhausted, she must have been exhausted. She asked her daughter-in-law to come to entertain you..."

Wu Sidao hurriedly said, "Old man, how did this happen?"

The old woman smiled and said, "It's okay, the households in our manor are all hospitality. How can you feel wronged for a few guests? Just eat with peace of mind and don't think about anything else..."

Master Wu Sidao sighed and said to the old woman: "Old man, how can we swallow this?"

Speaking of this, Wu Sidao seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly said to the old woman: "By the way, old man, I heard that the grain harvest last year and this year are abundant, how can there be food shortage?"

The old woman replied, "Isn't it just a war now? The Governor didn't know why, but he insisted on being in trouble with the Marquis of Hanling as soon as he took office. He first formulated a series of rules to disturb everyone's peace of mind.

Then the war started to start all the time. The surplus grain in the family, which was originally quite abundant, was collected by the official, and even my son was recruited to be a coolie.

Alas, the old woman just doesn't understand what it is for? Good days, do you have to cause these annoying things?"

Jiang Ze, who was sitting at the table, looked dark when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he immediately said, "No, this time when fighting with the northern Hebei Army, isn't all the food and money distributed by the Governor's Office? There is no order to collect food and grass..."

The old woman said, "This guest, we ordinary people don't know about the affairs of the Governor's Office, but this tax is actually being collected.

Not to mention the rest, just our manor, each household is calculated based on the cap, each person has 30 kilograms of rice, and a household has 3 taels of silver. The old woman pays 120 kilograms of rice.

Because I didn't have any money, I sold the surplus grain from my family, but the rice merchants deliberately lowered the price. The rice price of one stone, one tael, three coins, was suppressed by you to four coins.

After we had enough money to pay, our family would not have much surplus food to make a living. In addition, my son was conscripted to the Governor's Office for corvee. No one cared for the family's few acres of thin fields, so we missed the sowing.

I don’t know how to survive this future..."

After listening to the old woman's words, Jiang Ze and Wu Sidao fell silent together...

Jiang Ze was upset that he had not understood the specific situation in the Far East, and Wu Sidao deeply understood the endless disasters brought to the people by war...

The old woman did not notice the two of them were strange, and then said, "Now, the old woman has nothing to ask for, but only to ask the Marquis of Hanling to win this war quickly and pull down the damn Governor..."

"Do you really hate Governor Jiang so much?" Jiang Ze asked with his cheeks twitching.

The old woman said, "Of course I hate it. Not only the old woman hates it. When the people in the entire manor talk about Governor Jiang, they don't grit their teeth. They want to curse him to die earlier..."

Seeing that Jiang Ze's face was flushed and his breathing began to be rapid, Wu Sidao hurriedly took the conversation and said to the old woman: "Old man, why did you say that you wanted the Marquis of Hanling to win this war? You must know that Governor Jiang is the highest commander of the Far East..."

The old woman said, "The Hanling Hou knows what the people want. They don't have so many colorful things. Didn't they read the previous newspaper?

As long as you follow the people of Hanling Hou, who will get better and better? Look at the current Governor Jiang, who has caused chaos everywhere when he comes to the Far State.

He also sent people everywhere to smash schools to search for books, so he didn't let people listen to books and went out to the streets. Now he can't even eat enough. Who would like such a person? Anyone would want to follow the Hanling Hou, and at the worst he would have a full meal..."

Jiang Ze was so angry that he heard that the old woman hated her so much. If Wu Sidao hadn't been in front of him, he would have been furious at the old woman...

After hearing what the old woman said, Wu Sidao sighed, took a jade pendant from her arms and said to her: "Old man, thank you for the food you sent. We encountered bandits on the way, and there is nothing valuable on us now. You can take this jade pendant and exchange it for some rice and flour..."

"How can this work?" the old woman quickly refused, "How can the old woman take your property for a mere meal?"

"You just take it..." Wu Sidao forcibly stuffed the jade pendant into the old woman's hand and said, "If you don't accept it, we will really feel sorry for it. I'm afraid we will spend our whole life in guilt..."

The old woman was about to continue to refuse, but when she saw Wu Sidao's sincere look, she stopped insisting and said to Wu Sidao: "Since that's the case, then the old woman will keep it for you first. After nagging for so long, the old woman won't bother you to eat..."

After the old woman left with the child holding a jade pendant, Jiang Ze could no longer help cursing: "I didn't expect that a small civilian woman would dare to discuss this supervisor behind her back?"

If this continues, it is necessary to make trouble. If this governor had not been transformed by this drama, he would have to punish them..."

Wu Sidao said: "Governor General, you have also seen the views of the people on the Governor General's Office. In fact, they are all against you initiating this war.

Since taking office, we have not been able to fight against the people, so the people will naturally not stand on the side of the Governor, but will only resent us even more.

There will be such a defeat today, and it was expected at first..."

"What are you talking about?" Jiang Ze said dissatisfied, "If I lose, I will lose. Does it have anything to do with whether I give these people a benevolent policy? This is just the saying of secular people and sour scholars..."

Wu Sidao said: "Although that said, the resentment in the hearts of the people is real, and the support of people is the main cause of failure..."

"Okay, the nagging is not over..." Jiang Ze stopped Wu Sidao and continued, picked up the noodle bowl and said, "Hurry up and have dinner first. We will leave quietly before the sky is clear. When we reach the Bojun River, we will escape from the sky..."

After saying that, Jiang Ze swallowed a large mouthful of noodles, then grabbed another wheat cake and rolled it into a ball and ate it hard.

Seeing this, Wu Sidao could only sigh helplessly, took a wheat cake and teared it off a small piece and ate it slowly, but his eyes were full of confusion about the future.

...

At the same time, in Wushan Town, Liu Ce sat upright in the affairs hall with a gloomy face, holding a three-eyed gun left by soldiers of the Vulcan Camp in his hand, and carefully looked back and forth. There were still a pile of remaining firearms seized on the table.

"Report~ Report to the Military Supervisor, news from various departments of the Intelligence Department has been heard, but no trace of Jiang Ze is seen..."

"I understand, go back..."

When Liu Ce learned that Jiang Ze was still not informed, his expression became more and more cold. He silently took a bag of gunpowder from the table, filled the radial hole of the three-eyed gun with gunpowder, then took three lead-made pellets and stuffed them in, and then used a strip to tinker with solid...

At this time, Wei Ding walked into the hall with bare shirtless and said to Liu Ce: "Mr. Military Governor, Jiang Yuan, and Jiang Hun brought it to~"

Liu Ce nodded and said, "Bring them in and let the logistics department take three cups of ice cheese..."

“Yes~”

After Wei Ding roared and took the order, he turned around and left the house.

Soon, Jiang Yuan and Jiang Hun, two generals of the Jiang family, appeared in front of Liu Ce in a dusty state.

Liu Ce glanced at them and suddenly pointed the three-eyed gun in his hand at Jiang Yuan...

"Well……"

This sudden scene made the two of them unable to help but let out a slight moan from their throats, and cold sweat fell on the ground like raindrops on their foreheads and cheeks.

Liu Ce's extremely cold words echoed in the room: "I don't want to talk nonsense, I just ask you one word. I'd like to submit to my military commander. You only need to answer whether you are willing or not, three breaths..."

"I'm willing, I'm willing..."

Without thinking, both of them said in unison that they did not have much psychological shadow on surrendering to Liu Ce and others. Isn’t they still Jiang Xun’s son-in-law? They are exactly the same. Moreover, when Jiang Xun was there, he told himself that as long as Liu Ce had requirements, he would do his best to satisfy him.

"Smack it..."

As soon as the two of them finished speaking, the three-eyed musket in Liu Ce’s hand made three light sounds, and as the white smoke filled, a fire burst out...

Jiang Yuan and Jiang Hun gritted their teeth. After they came back to their senses, they realized that they were safe and sound. However, the Office of Affairs was covered with the strong smell of gunpowder, and tears were flowing out of their eyes...

"A wise choice..."

Liu Ce threw the three-eyed musket aimed at the top of their heads to one side, and got up and came to them.

"Since you are willing to surrender, this military governor will naturally not treat you badly. As for whether he is sincere, this military governor doesn't care. Now this military governor wants you to lead your headquarters to stabilize the public security in various parts of the far states, can you do it?"
Chapter completed!