Chapter 100 Growing Pains
The dinner was very sumptuous. In addition to the seafood dinner, when grandma saw her precious grandson coming back, she specially cooked Zhao Heng’s favorite shredded radish pancake. This kind of fried pancake unique to the north is not common in the south, and Zhao Heng ate it really well.
Hearty and refreshing.
After eating, Zhao Heng said: "Grandma, Mom, let me tell you something. I saw Zhang Side at noon today!"
Sun Jing didn't react for a while and asked: "Who?"
Grandma Ma Guilan, however, reacted faster. She immediately remembered the unmarried granddaughter-in-law and asked, "But your fiancée?"
Hearing what Ma Guilan said, Sun Jing knew who it was. She frowned and asked, "Why is she here? Aren't women in this era not allowed to leave the house? How can they just go out for a walk?"
Seeing that Sun Jing was unhappy, Zhao Heng quickly explained: "Mom, don't think too much. They are wearing men's clothes, and they are here specifically to see your son. Don't be weird, okay?"
Hearing her son speak for his fiancée, Sun Jing cursed: "I really forgot about my mother when I had a wife. Why is she here? Did she come all the way to see you?"
Zhao Heng blushed and nodded, saying, "Yes, my son has also seen Miss Zhang and he likes her very much!"
Seeing Zhao Heng like this, grandma Ma Guilan smiled and said: "Okay, as long as you like it, we don't have any objections!"
Zhao Heng was relieved to hear what his grandma said, but seeing his mother's expression a little unhappy, he quickly asked: "Mom, are you dissatisfied with her?"
Sun Jing didn't like Zhang Side. It wasn't that Zhang Side had any shortcomings. He just felt a little disappointed when he thought that the son he had raised for twenty years was married to another woman!
Grandma Ma Guilan came from here. When she saw Sun Jing like this, she smiled and said, "Zhao Heng, your mother is really disappointed. She has raised such a eldest son but it belongs to someone else. Naturally, she feels uncomfortable!"
Zhao Heng smiled and said: "Mom, we are not just a family from now on, my son is still your son, and he has brought you a daughter-in-law, and will give birth to grandchildren for you in the future. You should be happy!"
Sun Jing sighed and said: "Baby, mom is happy. Since you like that girl, mom has no objection. Mom hopes you live a comfortable and happy life, so mom is satisfied!"
Zhao Heng was very moved when he heard what Sun Jing said. He held his mother's hand and said, "Mom, after Miss Zhang joins the family, we will honor you and your father together!"
Grandma Ma Guilan laughed and scolded from the side: "What, have you forgotten grandma and grandpa?"
Zhao Heng smiled and took grandma's hand and said, "Of course you can't forget grandpa and grandma, I will always be your treasure!"
The dinner was very delicious. Zhao Heng ate a lot. After the meal, Zhao Heng had to rush back to the military camp to live. Zhao Heng walked on the path among the woods with a lantern, listening to the sea breeze blowing from the beach, and looked up above his head.
Looking at the moon, and remembering the words of his mother and grandma just now, Zhao Heng felt for the first time that it was really meaningless to travel to this era.
Although Zhao Heng felt good about Zhang Side, it was just good. He was still a little resistant in his heart when he was asked to marry a strange woman he had never met. But the reality was like this. He traveled to this era and had a relationship with the previous woman.
The friend lost contact, and everything he liked was gone, including clubbing, mobile games, and Werewolf. If there was anything in the Ming Dynasty that could be better than that of later generations, the only thing left was pollution-free seafood.
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He doesn't like Zhang Side. The two of them have nothing in common. They have different moral values, world outlook, and outlook on life. But what can Zhao Heng do? Zhao Fuxiang's words are still in his ears. He is an adult now, and he is not the one who lived by his parents before.
As a child, he had to consider himself and the family. Although he didn't like Zhang Side, he had to pretend to like Zhang Side for the benefit of the family, and even persuaded his mother to accept Zhang Side. Zhao Heng felt extremely disgusted in his heart.
Zhao Heng listened to the sound of waves coming from the beach and whispered: "Dad is talking about responsibility. Does it mean sacrificing yourself to save the family? This responsibility is really too great!"
Zhao Heng stood on the path and stared blankly at the sea. At this time, a patrol team appeared in the distance. There were about ten people in this team. The leader was a disabled man in his forties. This man's left hand was severed at the elbow.
The sleeves were knotted to cover the severed hand, and the other hand was holding the steel knife in his waist. Far away, he saw Zhao Heng standing on the roadside holding a lantern.
The disabled man first asked the team to stop, then walked in with a steel knife in his hand and asked, "Who is that person in front?"
After being woken up, Zhao Heng turned his head and saw the patrol team clearly, and said with a smile: "I am Zhao Heng, it turns out to be Brother Ma. Are you on duty tonight?"
This Brother Ma is one of the two servants hired by Zhao Fuxiang as instructors. His name is Ma Desheng. He was a servant of the previous generation of Baihu. He lost his hand because he saved the life of Baihu, so it is difficult for the current Baihu to expel him.
, had to be kept in the army. It happened that Zhao Fuxiang needed two veterans with combat experience to train the joint defense team, so Ma Desheng and Zhang Shitou were sent as instructors.
Unlike the talkative Zhang Shitou, Ma Desheng is taciturn. When he saw it was Zhao Heng, he put down his hand that was about to draw the sword and said, "It turns out to be the eldest young master!"
After Ma Desheng finished speaking, he did not stop and continued training with his men. Zhao Heng looked at Ma Desheng going away with great interest. He knew that this Ma Desheng was not a simple man. He heard from Fan Jian that he was also a ruthless figure in the army back then. If it hadn't been for that
Even if I lose a hand, I can't be like this.
Being interrupted from his meditation, Zhao Heng looked at the high moon and sighed. He suddenly remembered that there was a song in later generations that sounded very similar to his current self. Zhao Heng got emotional for a moment and sang loudly: "Are you just busy every day?"
For a meal, do you only dream of silk and satin? Do you have a lover who has become a companion? Do you rub your heart against the edge of the kang in the middle of the night? The sun is not always shining day by day, and the harvest is harvested year by year.
It's more sour than vinegar, happiness is like grinding in the sky and never comes down to earth, the colorful dangers are always around you, around you, why do people make others suffer, why do they shed tears for others, why do people fight against others,
Why do people follow each other? Oh, I said fate, ah..., survival, ah..., destiny, ah..., survival!"
Ma Desheng, who was not far away, heard Zhao Heng's song of howling ghosts and wolves, and looked back at the crazy young master of the Zhao family. He continued patrolling without saying a word, but the ten joint defense team members who followed him whispered behind him: "This
What kind of song is it? It doesn’t sound like a good song. I didn’t expect the eldest son of the Zhao family to sing such a slang tune!”
The team members were all whispering, and Ma Desheng turned his head and glared at them. The guys shut up and did not dare to speak, and followed Ma Desheng to continue patrolling.
Zhao Heng felt much better after crying like a ghost and howling like a wolf. He returned to his barracks with a lantern. Two soldiers at the door saw a man walking in with a lantern and asked: "Who is it, stop!"
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Zhao Heng shook the lantern and said loudly: "It's me!"
After hearing Zhao Heng's voice, the two men stood up again and said loudly: "I've seen you, sir!"
Zhao Heng originally nodded and went back to sleep, but when he passed the two guards, he found that one of them was the young master Mao Shaohong. At this time, Mao Shaohong was no longer the same as he had just arrived at the military camp half a month ago.
With his sunburnt and shiny face, coupled with the bulging tendons all over his body, no one would believe it now that he was a powerless scholar half a month ago.
Seeing Mao Shaohong, Zhao Heng felt a little owed to this guy. After all, he was able to come here entirely thanks to his father. If his father hadn't defrauded him of the hundreds of taels of apprenticeship fees, this guy wouldn't have done it.
Suffer this.
Zhao Heng looked up and down, and then asked: "Mao Shaohong, how are you? Do you miss home?"
Mao Shaohong listened to Zhao Heng ask himself, and nodded and stopped talking. Isn't this nonsense? I was still a young master half a month ago, and now I have been tricked by you and my son into being a top soldier here for half a month. How can I miss home?
Seeing Mao Shaohong like this, Zhao Heng thought of his uncontrollable fate and sighed: "Mao Shaohong, if you still want to go home in half a month, I will send you home!
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Mao Shaohong was very happy when he heard what Zhao Heng said, but he still felt a little reluctant when he thought of leaving the brother he had been with day and night for half a month!
Zhao Heng patted Mao Shaohong on the shoulder and left. When Zhao Heng walked away, another soldier asked: "Little scholar, are you a native of Qiongzhou?"
In the past half month, no one in the army knew Mao Shaohong's true origin, and they all thought that he was also a refugee. However, they saw that Mao Shaohong actually knew a lot of words, so everyone called him the little scholar. Who knew that he was really the scholar?
When the soldier saw Mao Shaohong nodding, he asked enviously: "Is there anyone else in your family?"
Mao Shaohong said: "My father is still here, and my mother is still here!"
The soldier didn't speak for a long time after hearing this. It took a long time before he said: "It's great that you still have your parents at home. My parents died at the hands of the bandits. My sister was eaten to protect me, but I can make it to Qiongzhou alive."
What a blessing from God!”
Most of Zhao Heng's new soldiers are single. It's not Zhao Fuxiang's special arrangement. It's not easy to find people with healthy families among the refugees. Mao Shaohong and this soldier are in the same platoon, and they usually sleep in the
Together, we naturally know his situation.
Seeing the soldier's low mood, Mao Shaohong advised: "Fourth, don't worry! When you get here, this is your new home, and the brothers are your brothers!"
The soldier raised his head and smiled and said: "Yes, the commander has said that when the country is liberated, each of us will be given a hundred acres of land. By then, all the brothers in our platoon will live in the same village. We will drink when we have nothing to do.
Chatting, just thinking about it makes people look forward to it!”
After half a month of collective life, Mao Shaohong has now been deeply integrated into the group. There are ten of them in a row. In order to train their coordination, Zhao Heng arranged for them to do everything together, even bathing, eating and going to the toilet.
There are also ten people together, so these ten people are like brothers, and their relationship is extremely deep.
Mao Shaohong thought that he would leave these brothers in half a month, and suddenly felt a little reluctant. He hesitated whether to go home and continue studying or stay here to be a leading soldier.
Chapter completed!