On the morning of the third day, Sun Chong returned to Linshan Village with a dozen veterans.
Although they are said to be veterans, they are actually not very old. The oldest among them is only thirty-four years old, while the youngest is only nineteen years old.
Moreover, all of them are full of vitality and have no disabilities.
Ordinarily, at their age and without disabilities, it is still early for them to retire from the army, especially now that wars are raging on the border and the retirement age for soldiers has been extended to fifty years old!
And like Sun Chong, they were all forced to retire early due to the implication of previous defeats.
In this day and age, being discharged early is not a good thing.
Although being a soldier is always in danger of life, it is a job after all. Not only can you eat every day, but you can also receive a meager salary to subsidize your family and buy some cheap whole grains. Even if you can't eat
Full, but not starving to death.
In addition, there is another advantage to being a soldier, that is, you no longer have to pay taxes.
Now, they are forced to return from the army. Not only do they have no pay, they also have to pay an extra tax. This makes the already poor family even worse!
Some veterans can no longer survive and have no choice but to work as tenant farmers in landlords' homes, or even sell themselves to wealthy families as domestic slaves!
Life is miserable!
After Sun Chong found them and told them about the situation in Linshan Village and the treatment given to them, none of these veterans hesitated. They all followed Sun Chong to Linshan Village in excitement!
Since these people lived relatively scattered and the transportation was inconvenient, it took Sun Chong two days to find more than a dozen of them.
He was worried that the bandits would come to the village to cause trouble again during the past two days, so he quickly returned with these dozen veterans.
After Lin Xu met these veterans, he was also very satisfied with them. After settling them in, he asked the kitchen to cook a good meal for them at noon to cleanse them!
...
"Brother Chong, you've worked hard these days."
Lin Xu and Sun Chong sat down at the table in the small courtyard. Lin Xu poured him a bowl of tea and said with a smile.
"Hey, it's all our own business. There's nothing hard to do. If you say this, you'll be outspoken!"
Sun Chong took a few sips from the tea bowl, wiped his mouth, and suddenly looked a little sad: "I heard that some soldiers from Xiaotun just came back some time ago. They were all brothers of life and death in the same battalion with me. When I returned to the village today,
I went to Xiaotun specifically to have a look, and the result... alas!"
"What's wrong?"
"Those soldiers all have a strange disease, how miserable they are!"
"Strange disease? What strange disease?"
Lin Xu was a little curious.
"how to say......"
Sun Chong had not read a book for a few days, and his ability to organize language was limited. He thought about it carefully before saying: "They have a lot of bruises on their bodies, and they look like they are about to bleed. Even their teeth are bleeding and falling out.
I can’t summon up the energy or strength to do any work. I either lie down or sit all day long..."
"Originally, I wanted them to come to our village. But when I saw them like this, let alone fighting bandits, they even struggled to walk, so I had to give up!"
"Xiao Xu, do you know medical skills? Do you know what strange disease they have? They were all good men who went into battle to kill the enemy, but now they are tortured like this... After seeing it, I really want to cry.