Nolan Meng's Timeless Tales Chapter 3

A few days later, Nolan Meng approached the middleman again, and successfully let out a message through the middleman's mouth. The reason why Meng Twelve Lang wanted to sell his house and land was to abandon his writing and join the army, and go to the land of Saibei to avenge his father and brother!

Meng Twelve Lang wants to join the army?

As soon as the news came out, it was like dripping hot oil into cold water, and Mengjiazhuang exploded with a bang. Even the woman who went to the well to fetch water and the farmer who went to the field to plow the ground all talked about this.

Within a few days, there were rumors in several nearby communities.

"Is Meng Twelve Lang really going to join the army?"

"Is this true? I heard it with my own ears."

"Maybe he is stupid. He can farm even without studying. But if he doesn't farm well, he will become a killer."

A few farmers were talking enthusiastically when another voice intervened, "Farming? Then you have to have land to focus on."

"How do you say this?" A farmer put down his hoe and rubbed his ears. "Meng Laoliu and his two sons are both capable, so they can't lose all their wealth, right?"

"I heard," the farmer who interrupted squatted at the edge of the field, gesturing for a few people to come closer, and deliberately lowered his voice, "Meng Guangxiao was unkind. He took advantage of the disaster that Meng Guangzhi and Eight Lang Jiulang suffered to bully the orphans and widows, and seek to seize the house and property. , forcing Twelve Lang's family to have no choice. Didn't everyone think it was strange that Twelve Lang was kicked out of school? Lang wants to join the army, probably because of this, there is no way to survive. "

"Ah?! Are you serious about this? Wang Laosan, please don't talk nonsense."

"How can you say that Meng Guangxiao is also the patriarch of the Meng family, and he and Meng Guangzhi are cousins who have not been in the fifth server. How can he do such a thing?"

"Can there be any falsehoods? Don't believe it. Not only Meng Guangxiao, but also Meng Guangshun and Meng Guangming are unclean. They worked together to calculate the cousin's property. Twelve Lang's family sold more than 60 acres of land, and most of it was farmland. Not to mention three funerals, thirty funerals can be held. But look at what happened after Meng Guangzhi and his son, and what life is like for Twelve Lang's family now. "

After saying this, everyone felt it made sense. With a widowed mother to support and two widowed sisters-in-law to take care of, the property and house could not be saved, there was no hope for the imperial examination, and there were no skills to support him, joining the army, even working in the frontier fortress, was at least a way out.

Thinking about it this way, it makes sense for Meng Twelve Lang to join the army.

Everyone loves gossip, and by adding fuel and jealousy to rumors, the reputations of Meng Guangxiao and others are getting worse and worse. Meng Qinghai, who was in school, was also asked about it by his classmates, but at least he took the scholar's face into consideration and did not embarrass him in person.

Meng Qinghai seemed unaffected. He devoted himself to studying all day long and prepared for the college examination in a few months. This move reduced the rumors surrounding him a lot, and by some strange combination of circumstances, he got the favor of the county school supervisor. He said frankly that this kid is not panicked and calm when things happen. This kind of demeanor is rare and he will become a great person in the future. . On the contrary, he was a little bit jealous of Nolan Meng, whom he had never met before.

"Rumors are never true. The character of a child who was kicked out of school can be seen clearly."

After learning about this, Nolan Meng just smiled indifferently. Not to mention the instructions in the county school, even the county school's teachings, the state school's correctness, and the government school's professors had nothing to do with him. He hoped that Meng Qinghai could pass the examination as a scholar, that would be a lot of fun.

As the days passed, the rumors showed no sign of dying down.

Meng Qinghai could remain calm and composed, and he could be used as a source of conversation for people who had nothing to do with him. However, the people of the Meng clan who were implicated were extremely anxious.

After learning that Nolan Meng was indeed going to join the army, Meng Guangxiao couldn't sit still at all. In other words, anyone who could be related to Nolan Meng couldn't sit still.

Is Twelve Lang really going to join the army? This is great! He became a military household, which affected more than just one family!

The system of recruiting soldiers was established after the mid-Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the local guard system had not yet collapsed, and military households were mostly hereditary.

Once you join the military, you will be a military household for generations. After the father dies, the son succeeds, and the elder brother succeeds the younger brother until the family is extinct. If you want to be expelled from your family, you can only do so by order of the emperor's favor, or if your family's children work hard to become ministers of the Ministry of War, and with fearless spirit, they conquer all majors and become the Minister of Defense of the Ming Dynasty.

In comparison, the latter is even less feasible, especially for the grassroots, and is simply an impossible task.

Of course, Emperor Hongwu was also a grassroots, but this grassroots was not the other grassroots. He knew it as an individual.

What's even more deceptive is that as long as a military household dies or escapes, the vacant position must be filled by a relative. If the relative is gone, the person with the same surname of origin will take the place. No matter whether it is to take care of the ancestral business or to draw dings from the Duoji, it does not matter whether the main household is connected to the household. In short, it is a carrot and a hole until it is filled.

Eating free money? From Hongwu to Yongle, this move was no different from seeking death.

Adopted son to replace him? In the early Ming Dynasty, when becoming a monk required household registration checks and strict age limits, it was even easier to think about it.

It doesn't matter if Meng Qing sells his land or house. It doesn't matter if he leaves Mengjiatun with his mother and sister-in-law. But if he wants to join the army, it will be very bad.

With Meng Twelve Lang's innate conditions, let alone going into battle to kill the enemy, he might not even be able to lift a sword. After joining the army, I was thankful to God if I could survive more than a year.

It doesn't matter if he is dead, there are no other men in Meng Guangzhi's group, and the ones left by Hachiro and Jiulang are all girls. Who will be found guilty of compensating for military status? Meng Guangxiao and others were the first to bear the brunt.

Once someone comes to the door, it will be useless if Meng Dalang passes the scholar examination.

Meng Guangxiao was anxious. He could not care about his own reputation, but he could not care about his son's future. Nolan Meng became a military household, and his family would be in trouble. If you can escape the first grade of junior high school, you can't escape the fifteenth grade. One day, Dalang's road to the imperial examination will be completely blocked.

The more I thought about it, the more uncertain I became, and finally I found Nolan Meng's house again. He was sincere and even put a linen garment over his cotton-padded jacket.

Nolan Meng bowed his hands and tugged the corner of his mouth with his long hair.

Family card? Who is the fool?

"My dear nephew, please don't be impulsive, at least think more about your mother."

Nolan Meng looked resolute and full of enthusiasm for book business, "Uncle, my father and brother were both killed by the Tatars, and even their bones have not been recovered. It would be unreasonable not to avenge this!"

A thin layer of sweat broke out on Meng Guangxiao's forehead, "Good nephew, the Tatars are not easy to kill. Listen to my cousin's advice. The fields and houses are the foundation for a family's livelihood, so it's better not to sell them. Don't think about joining the army anymore." "You are peacefully farming at home and want to continue studying. My uncle Guang Zhiquan will definitely not want you to act on your own initiative."

"How about the second cousin's money and food?"

"It doesn't matter, I'll tell you!" Meng Guangxiao said quickly: "We are all relatives, so we should always take care of them."

Seeing that Nolan Meng didn't speak for a long time, Meng Guangxiao thought that there was something wrong with the matter, but Nolan Meng's next few words directly made him angry, and he didn't recover for a long time.

"Thank you very much for your kind words, uncle. A true man sticks to his word and cannot change it easily. What's more, a person cannot be trusted without trust. My uncle cares about family ties, but my nephew does not want to embarrass his uncle. The man has been found, and it is time to return the favor to several uncles." With money and food, my nephew went to join the army."

"My dear nephew, listen to what my cousin has to say."

"Uncle, there is no need to persuade me any more. My nephew has made up his mind and will not regret it even if he dies!"

"My dear nephew, think about it again."

"No need to think about it," Nolan Meng waved his hand with an awe-inspiring expression, "If one person joins the army, the whole family... No, the whole family will be honored!"

Glorious x!

Meng Guangxiao stopped sweating and started to cry. A fool is unreasonable and cannot communicate. He was so confused that he thought the fool was "good".

Seeing that Meng Guangxiao wanted to persuade him again, Nolan Meng simply opened his clothes, raised his eyebrows, and said with a ferocious face, "Whoever stops my nephew from selling his land and house is stopping his nephew from joining the army. Anyone who stops his nephew from joining the army is stopping his nephew from avenging his father and brother." , I am my nephew's sworn enemy! He is not talented, but he can still wield a kitchen knife. "

"My dear nephew, you must pay with your life for killing someone..."

"Don't worry, uncle." Nolan Meng, his hair disheveled and his teeth bared, turned around and took out a large book, which was the "Imperial Imperial Edict" personally ordered by Emperor Hongwu. He raised his head and raised his eyebrows, "My nephew's family has " "Da Gao"! The imperial court has decreed that anyone whose family has a Da Gao will be punished by one level. If my nephew fights for his life, his head will be fine.

As he talked, he weighed the weight of the imperial edict and compared it with Meng Guangxiao's head, which made him eager to try.

He is a fool. What a fool does cannot be measured by common sense.

Looking at Nolan Meng, who was holding the imperial edict and looking a thousand auras of auspiciousness, Meng Guangxiao's lips trembled, he couldn't catch his breath, rolled his eyelids, and successfully fainted.

Before falling to the ground, he uttered two words of epoch-making significance: I x!