Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

Chapter 112 Who’s going?

A group of people in military uniforms broke into Lihua Village.

County Magistrate Huang walked in front, holding the documents in his hand.

The village chief got the news and quickly came before County Magistrate Huang.

"County Magistrate, are you here this time...for something?"

The village chief was very nervous because it was not a good thing for County Magistrate Huang to come with soldiers.

This reminded the village chief of the time when County Magistrate Huang brought his men to recruit soldiers a few years ago.

What was different from this time was that County Magistrate Huang only brought the yamen runners with him.

At that time, County Magistrate Huang still had a smile on his face when he faced him.

This time, he rushed over with his soldiers and an expressionless face.

County Magistrate Huang glanced at the village chief and asked, "How old are you?"

"Forty years of age."

Although the village chief had some doubts in his heart, he still answered honestly.

"Then you are really lucky." County Magistrate Huang sneered.

The village chief's heart skipped a beat and his face turned grim.

"County...Warrant, what do you mean by that?"

Could this be what he was thinking?

County Magistrate Huang showed the document in his hand to the village chief, "This is a document issued by the imperial court. Please take a good look at it."

"this......"

The village chief took the document from County Magistrate Huang with trembling lips.

After reading the contents of the document, he fell to the ground.

"I remember there were fifty households here, and very few were of the right age, so I adjusted the age upwards to just over forty."

County Magistrate Huang said with a smile, his hands behind his back.

The villagers didn’t know what the village chief had just seen that made him so frightened and fall to the ground without caring about his dignity.

But I could catch a few words from the words of County Magistrate Huang.

That means the imperial court is going to start recruiting soldiers again!

Thinking of the retired soldiers in the village, they were either missing limbs or had internal injuries and died within a few years.

The battlefield has always been a cruel place.

If swords and knives are coming towards you, you will only die.

"Every household must send a male to join the army."

After Magistrate Huang explained the purpose of this trip, he led his troops away.

When the villagers heard this, they were almost scared to the ground.

"Village Chief, please tell us what the document says!"

"Yeah, how come this happened so suddenly? I could see the conscription notice on the town bulletin board before, but why did they come directly to the village to announce it this time?"

"Is the border about to be lost? Are civilians being forced to go to the battlefield because of a shortage of manpower?"

"Yes, what did County Magistrate Huang mean just now? What did he mean by every household must send a male to join the army?

Is my fourteen-year-old grandson going to the battlefield too?" An old woman patted her chest and cried bitterly.

This statement caused the villagers to riot completely, and they all asked the village chief to give an explanation.

The village chief stood up from the ground with a look of pain on his face, his eyes red as he said, "The imperial court requires every household to send a male to the border. Males between the ages of fourteen and thirty-five must go."

After hearing this, the villagers burst into tears and looked despairing.

Because more than 50 households have males of the right age.

The county magistrate has really put a lot of effort into recruiting soldiers!

.....

An hour later, the news of the imperial court's conscription reached the Yuan family's ears.

"That's too much! Isn't conscription a matter of personal will? Why force people into it?"

"You don't care about the drought in the north and the people having no food to eat, but instead you are using the people to fight for your kingdom. Ugh!"

"We in the north pay the most grain every year, but when we were in trouble, there wasn't even a shred of it left. All the grain was sent to the front lines to fight. Now that there's no one on the front lines, they're turning on us, the ordinary people who toil away from the fields for food."

"Fuck you!"

"I wish you give birth to a son with no asshole and no sack of offspring. I wish you will have no descendants!"

Old Lady Liu stood at the door and spat fiercely in the direction of the capital.

"Mom, stop scolding me. Aren't you afraid that the imperial soldiers have not gone far away?" Yuan Laosi quickly pulled Old Lady Liu into the yard.

Old Mrs. Liu covered her chest with her hands and spat again when she heard these words.

"If he heard it, he heard it. I'm just an old lady, so he can kill me or chop me up as he pleases!"

Boss Yuan stroked Old Lady Liu's back and said, "Mother, this has already happened. The emperor is far away, so can we really go to the emperor with a knife to make trouble?"

"If I could, I'd really dare to think about it! You're all my sons, my sweethearts. How could I bear to watch you lose your lives on the battlefield?"

When Old Lady Liu said this, she felt uncomfortable and suffocated all over, and was on the verge of an anxious collapse.

She is afraid!

She would rather it was she, an old woman, who went to the battlefield than her son lose his life at such a young age.

Who goes to the battlefield?

No matter who goes, it will be her heart that is to be torn out in the end.

The eldest Yuan, the second Yuan, the third Yuan, and the fourth Yuan were all silent.

Ye Wan's eyes were red.

Mother was right. No matter which one of them went to the battlefield, it would be a difficult decision for Old Lady Liu.

The boys obviously knew that their father, uncle and aunt might have to go to the battlefield, so they all huddled in the corner and stopped playing mischievously.

Even the little Guoan didn't squat on the ground looking for insect playmates.

Yaoyao curled up in Old Man Yuan's arms, opened her mouth and yawned loudly.

Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at Old Lady Liu with red rims.

hungry.

"ah!"

A soft and baby-like voice called out to Old Lady Liu.

Old Mrs. Liu quickly suppressed her emotions, wiped her tears, then turned around and smiled as if nothing had happened.

"Yaoyao, are you hungry? Grandma made you some bone soup mixed with porridge. It's so delicious."

"ah?"

Really?

"Really? When has grandma ever lied to you?"

The old man and the young man gradually walked away, and the Yuan family finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm the boss, I'm going to join the army." Boss Yuan said, patting his chest.

When Ye Wan heard this, his heart tightened and tears fell.

As a woman, she has her own selfish desires. She doesn't want her husband to join the army.

"Husband, the child is still young!"

Guoping and Guowang looked at their father with tears in their eyes.

Although they didn't quite understand it yet, they knew how dangerous it was to go to the battlefield.

Boss Yuan looked at the two little children, and the grown man turned around with tears in his eyes.

"Brother, stop talking, I'll go." Yuan Laoer said.

"I don't have any children, I'll go."

"I'm not married, so I should go."

The more noisy the front yard is, the more harmonious the backyard is.

Yaoyao nestled in Old Lady Liu's arms, eating the porridge she fed her mouthful by mouthful with a satisfied expression.

At the end of the meal, he was spitting out saliva and playing with it.

"You naughty baby, you play with food even when you eat." Old Mrs. Liu said with a smile, her eyes red, while touching her precious granddaughter's nose.

Yaoyao grabbed Old Lady Liu's fingers and showed her her pink gums.

Old Lady Liu was stunned...