Husband and Father Youwei

Chapter 101 Another Three Years

    While Ruan Tang and Su Bai were busy forging ahead and expanding their business territory, Tu Lin was not idle either. Three years also allowed him to rise step by step from a low-level soldier to a head of a hundred households in the guard, second only to Xue Jingnian.

Although the Fengyang Thousand Households Office is a local garrison guarding Langzhou Prefecture, and there has been no major war in the past three years, the soldiers of the guards must not only conduct daily training, but also conduct regular training sessions within the jurisdiction of Fengyang County. Patrol, and accept the entrustment of the government from time to time, to help the government arrest fugitives and robbers, or escort tribute, grain and grass, and official guards of honor passing through Fengyang.

During Tu Lin's first year in the guard, because he won the first place in each event in the military training competition, he was exceptionally promoted to a small flag after he had only joined the army for less than three months. In the following year, Tu Lin not only won the first place in the military training competition again, but also made great achievements when he went to a neighboring county to encircle a group of bandits who robbed tribute, so it was logical that he was promoted to the general banner again.

As for the card from the general banner to the hundred households, it was an extremely difficult card to overcome. Just look at the ten hundred households in the guard, all of whom are in their 30s and 40s, and they are veterans who have participated in it for more than ten years. But at that time, after Xue Jingnian and Wei Zhixun applied the suturing method they learned from Tu Lin to the imperial court, after two years of trial implementation, they have achieved extremely beneficial and huge responses, so the imperial court naturally wanted to reward them for their merit of.

Both Xue Jingnian and Wei Zhixun were bright and upright people, and they didn't have any thoughts of greed, so not only the two of them received rewards and seals, Tu Lin also received a lot of benefits, and then even under Xue Jingnian's full recommendation , Leapfrogged to test a hundred households, was directly promoted to a six-rank hundred households, awarded the title of Chengxin school lieutenant, and became a real general from a small soldier.

Although Tu Lin is only a military officer of the sixth rank, which is considered to be the lowest rank among military officers, but he is an official after all, and he still leads a lot of soldiers and holds a certain amount of real power, so he can give Ruan Tang great help , so that Ruan Tang's business has gained a lot of safety and security, at least there are no ruffians or powerful evil gentry in the shop who dare to make trouble.

As for the Jiang family, they have repeatedly targeted and framed the Tu family. Neither Tu Lin nor Ruan Tang will naturally give up with them. Ruan Tang was above the shopping mall, through Su Bai, united with several other merchants who had been suppressed by the Jiang family, and together launched a campaign against the Jiang family, while Tu Lin secretly collected all kinds of criminal evidence against the Jiang family.

The two worked together, and finally defeated the already crumbling Jiang family in one fell swoop in the third year. Not only was he deprived of the title of imperial merchant, but also because of crimes such as deceiving the royal family with shoddy goods, and extortion, robbery, murder and other crimes, his family ransacked his home and questioned him. At this point, the Jiang family, a prosperous imperial merchant, collapsed and ceased to exist.

On the day when the chief culprits of the Jiang family, the head of the Jiang family and Jiang Minghan, the young master, were asked to be executed, Su Bai went to the execution ground in person. He didn't go forward to say anything to Jiang Minghan and the Jiang family, but watched silently as the heads of the Jiang family were beheaded one by one. . After all the executions were over, he gave money to the guards in the execution ground, and got the heads of the head of the Jiang family and Jiang Minghan. Then he took the heads of the two and went to the grave of the Wen family to use the heads as sacrifices. All the writers were paid homage to.

After returning to the house where he lived in Fucheng, Su Bai confessed his true identity to Ruan Tang. In the past, Su Bai only said that he was from the Wen family, but he didn't say who he was from the Wen family. Although Ruan Tang also had a guess, it was either the master or the servant, but Su Bai didn't want to say it, and he wouldn't force him to ask, but he didn't expect that his guess was half right and half wrong.

Su Baiyuan was a beggar, because he was born with ugly and hideous scars on his face, he was regarded as unknown, and his family wanted to bury him alive to death. But fortunately, this scene happened to be seen by an old beggar, who dug him out immediately after his family left. It was not long before he was buried, so he was lucky to survive.

Because of his different appearance, the old beggar couldn't find anyone willing to support him, so he could only stay with him. When he was older, he began to beg with the old beggar until he was eight years old. In order to save him, he was hit by a dude who was riding a horse on the street and was in critical condition, but he had nowhere to turn for help. Just when he was blaming himself for despair, the master of the Wen family who happened to pass by here learned of the incident, so he sent his entourage to invite doctors for them, and paid for their consultation fees.

It's just that the old beggar was already quite old, and he was severely injured by a horse's hoof. After the old beggar died, Su Bai was left alone to beg for a living, but he still remembered the Wen family master who had helped him, and he wanted to repay him. Later, once, the purse of the Wen family master was stolen by a thief on the street, he took the purse back and returned it to the Wen family master, regardless of his bruised nose, swollen face, and scars all over his body.

But I don't want the master of the Wen family to remember him and recognize him. Later, when he learned that the old beggar had passed away and he was the only one left, he took him back to Wenfu with compassion.

Although the Wen family is a wealthy family, their population is simple. Except for the master of the Wen family and his wife, they only have one son, the young master of the Wen family. The three of them are extremely gentle and pure kind people, Su Bai never showed disgust or rejection because of Su Bai's ugliness, and they treated him very well. Especially the young master of the Wen family, because he is a few years older than Su Bai, he regards Su Bai as a younger brother. It's just that the young master of the Wen family has been weak since he was a child, and he can't leave his mouth with ginseng soup and pills every day, which makes people feel sorry.

In order to repay the kindness of the Wen family, Su Bai tried his best to do what he could for the Wen family. Because of his good abacus, quick-witted mind, and talent for business, Master Wen took him by his side and taught him how to do business. The young master of the Wen family is weak, and he will certainly not be able to take on the family business of the Wen family in the future, but Su Bai can be his most effective helper. Su Bai himself was also willing to do so, so he studied it very seriously.

What he didn't expect was that this kind of life only lasted for a few years, and it ended when he went out to inspect the property with the master of the Wen family, when he was robbed and killed by the bandits in Heifengzhai.

The master of the Wen family died tragically, and the young master of the Wen family was already extremely weak. Hearing about this incident, he couldn't stand the blow and vomited blood on the spot. After a few days, he stopped breathing and lost his pulse. Mrs. Wen lost her husband first, and then her son. Under repeated blows, in just a few days, she seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant. After reluctantly raising her spirits to organize the funeral for her deceased husband and son, she finally committed suicide by taking poison and followed her husband and son.

The wounds on Su Bai's body hadn't healed yet, but he still supported his body, suppressed the grief in his heart, held a funeral for Mrs. Wen, and buried Mrs. Wen, the master of the Wen family and the young master of the Wen family into the grave of the Wen family ancestors After that, Su Bai began to find the murderer who killed the master of the Wen family and avenge the Wen family.

Because of Heifengzhai and disappearance for many years, it took him a long time to finally find out some news. At the beginning, he was counting on the government of Langzhou to send troops to encircle and suppress Heifengzhai, and spent a lot of money on the government's office for him, but the fact that Master Wen was robbed and killed by Heifengzhai was just his one-sided statement. There was no other evidence, so the government ignored him.

Su Bai had no choice but to decide to go to the bandit village himself in the end to avenge Wen's family. It's just that Heifengzhai couldn't easily enter and exit, and he also needed some means of self-protection, so he found an old doctor and learned medical skills from him. Originally, he planned to enter the bandit village by himself after finishing his studies, but the old doctor saw that he had other plans in his daily relationship, and finally forced him to find out his ultimate goal.

The old doctor felt that Su Bai was looking for his own death, and he didn't want Su Bai to die, but Su Bai was determined, and the old doctor had no choice but to ask to stay by his side for three years, which was regarded as a repayment for his teaching. If he still has the intention of revenge, then he will stop blocking it.

Being a teacher for one day and being a father for life, the old doctor treated Su Bai very well, so Su Bai agreed. Until three years later, without changing his original intention, he decided to bid farewell to the old doctor and go to the bandit village. I didn't want the old doctor to see him resolute, not only did not stop him, but he wanted to go with him.

Su Bai knew that the old doctor was not worried about his own safety, but he also didn't want the old doctor to take risks with him, but the old doctor had made up his mind, no matter what he said, he would not change it, and in the end he just waited for the two of them to be together, pretending to be together. Going to collect herbs in the mountains near Heifengzhai, I bumped into people in Heifengzhai, and finally was brought into Heifengzhai because they learned that they were doctors.

During his stay in Heifengzhai, at the beginning Su Bai wanted to directly poison those bandits who did all kinds of evil things, but he overheard the conversation between the bandit leader Dong Chang and his subordinates, and only then did he know that the master of the Wen family was robbed and killed because someone spent money. instructed them. In order to find out the real murderer behind the scenes, Su Bai had no choice but to temporarily give up his original plan and settle down in the bandit village. While approaching several masters in Heifeng Village, he even tried to sneak into Dong Chang's house several times. , expect to find something.

It's just that during the half a year he entered the bandit village, he still got nothing. After the old doctor died of illness, he was almost insulted by others, but at the same time he got to know Tu Lin and Ruan Tang who had money into the bandit village. What happened afterwards, Ruan Tang already knew without Su Bai saying more.

For a long time, Su Bai's only thought was to avenge the Wen family, and now that his revenge has finally been avenged, his obsession for many years has dissipated. And after three years of experience, although the property of the Tu family has expanded more than ten times, Ruan Tang has already been able to take charge of his own business, and has a group of capable managers and shopkeepers under him, and he no longer needs his help, which makes Su Bai I suddenly lost my direction in life, I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know where to go.

In the end, Ruan Tang gave him a suggestion, let Su Bai go to the school he was going to open in Zhuxi Village to act as a temporary master. It won't be too late for Su Bai to leave after he has figured out what he wants to do and where he wants to go.

Zhuxi Village is not far from Fengyang County, whether it is Zhuxi Village or the children in the nearby villages, if they want to go to school, most of them go to the school in the county. It's just that those schools only accept boys and Shuang'er, and some of them don't even accept Shuang'er, let alone girls.

Now Tu Jiaojiao, the daughter of Tu Lin and Ruan Tang, is more than four years old. According to Tu Lin's previous life, she is already old enough to go to kindergarten, but naturally there is no kindergarten here, and it is a school that continuously admits girls. nothing. Although Ruan Tang could invite his husband to come to his home to teach his daughter himself, but it would inevitably make Du Jiaojiao feel restrained and lonely.

So after discussing with Tu Lin, Ruan Tang and Tu Lin decided to build a school in Zhuxi Village, near their home, where girls can also read and write. In the future, not only their daughters can go to school here, but girls from other families can also, so that My daughter can also have more friends, so she won't be alone.

It's just that it's hard to find a gentleman who is willing to teach girls. Ruan Tang has released the news for a long time, but no one is willing to apply. Originally, he was thinking of choosing one of the stewards under his hand to be the top, and he would look for it slowly later, but he didn't expect Su Bai to come at this time.

Teaching children to read, although Su Bai knew that Ruan Tang was going to run a school, he didn't think about it for himself, but now that Ruan Tang asked him to, he had nothing else to do, so he agreed. As for the scar on his face, it has already been covered with a delicate mask, so there is no need to worry about scaring the child.

Mr.'s problem was temporarily solved, and Ruan Tang started to build the school, but he didn't want the school to be completed just now. When he came back from the guard, Tu Lin brought him a message: the southern barbarians have repeatedly harassed the border of the southern land recently. The day is about to start a war.

When Ruan Tang heard the news, his heart skipped a beat. It would be fine if there was a war in the North or the West, and they would never transfer their soldiers there, but it would be different if it were in the South, especially in Longzhou, which Tu Lin said had been knocked down many times and the war would start. It is only one state away from Langzhou. If the battle goes wrong, if the security is not complete, troops will be dispatched from nearby state capitals, so how can Ruan Tang not feel uneasy.

Perhaps the more he was afraid of something, the more he would come. Just half a year after Tu Lin told Ruan Tang the news, the guard received a transfer order, ordering Xue Jingnian to lead his eight hundred households and their soldiers to Long State support, and Tu Lin's name is impressively on the transfer order.

Although he had learned that the front line was quite difficult, with countless casualties and casualties, Tu Lin had already expected that most of them would be recruited, so Ruan Tang had a mental preparation in advance. But when the transfer order was actually issued, Ruan Tang was still reluctant for a moment. But the military order was like a mountain, no matter how much he felt worried, Tu Lin finally went to the front line, and it took him another three years to leave.