Lu Zhi turned around and walked towards the stove. He saw Li Tannian standing at the door and quickly looked away.
He didn't know what kind of strange disease he had. As soon as he saw her, he thought of the blush on her neck. After that, he felt so embarrassed that he didn't know how to move his hands and feet.
He is no longer a stupid boy in his teens, but this is the first time he has been in such a state of mind.
He lowered his head and reached the stove. He took a coarse porcelain bowl, filled up half a bowl of black chicken soup and placed it beside the stove. He tried to speak in a calm tone: "Come over and have something to eat."
When Li Tannian heard what he said, her whole body came to her senses. She walked up to the stove. She held the bowl in her hands. After hesitating for a moment, she asked, "Did you wash the mattress?"
"Yes." Lu Zhi nodded, using only the tongs to take out the unburned firewood from the stove, and poured cold water on it.
Just hearing the sound of "sizzling", the torch that was still burning suddenly went out, and the smell of unburned carbon came, and it disappeared in an instant.
Li Tannian didn't expect that he would admit it so straightforwardly. She was stunned for a moment, and then thinking about the large amount of menstrual blood she had left on the mattress, she felt a little embarrassed.
"You don't need to wash it yourself." After saying something uncomfortably, Lu Zhi came back and put down the tongs, "There is no need to bother outsiders with family matters. This is not good."
Li Tannian suddenly realized: He is afraid that it will not sound good if it is spread out, right?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard his powerful voice again: "Aunt Yao has sent Dabao and the others to the town. You can have a rest after drinking chicken soup. I will go to the entrance of the village."
"Yeah." Li Tannian responded, naturally knowing that he was going to recruit soldiers.
After lowering his head and drinking the fragrant chicken soup from the coarse porcelain bowl, Li Tannian felt as if his whole body had gained strength. After a little hesitation, he put down the bowl and went to the entrance of the village.
When she passed by, a large number of people had gathered at the entrance of the village.
The villagers were quite dissatisfied with the forced recruitment of soldiers in the garrison camp, and there was a huge commotion for a while.
But after all the trouble, in the end, everyone still drew lots according to the wishes of the old patriarch.
The method of drawing lots is very simple, that is, put a lot of paper balls in a large wooden box, among which ten paper balls are dotted with ink.
Whoever draws the ball of paper dotted with ink will have his name added to the military roster.
At a glance, Li Tannian saw Mrs. Yang, her mother and her son, who had squeezed to the front and were scrambling to draw lots with other people in the village. She hesitated for a moment, and then walked towards Lu Zhi, who was standing behind the crowd with a cane and a calm expression.
Lu Zhi was an extremely perceptive person, and he noticed her presence as soon as she passed by.
He didn't expect her to come and was stunned for a moment: "Why are you here?"
Li Tannian didn't want to come either, but she had some kind of friendship with Lu Zhi, and this was an extremely important thing to him, so she followed him by accident.
"Do you want to join the army?" She asked the question again.
Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and glanced at her faintly. If she were an ordinary woman, she would not be willing to let her man join the army. After all, she would have to become a widow.
Thinking about it, she sincerely despised him, let alone regarded him as her man, so she asked such a question calmly and calmly.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhi felt as if someone had poured cold water on his head. Those awkward thoughts before had long since disappeared.
At this time, many people in front had already grabbed the slips.
Some people caught the blank slips of paper and hugged their wives and children at home, crying with excitement. There were also a few who caught the slips of paper with ink stains. In an instant, their faces turned pale and they were silent.
When Patriarch Lu handed the wooden box to Lu Zhi, he glanced at Li Tannian again, then reached out and grabbed a note.
The note was gently twisted in his big knuckled hands a few times, and then spread out. Li Tannian saw the ink mark in the middle of the note with sharp eyes. Before he could recover, Mrs. Yang's hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed it.
He snatched the note from Lu Zhi's hand.
"Sanlang, your second brother has caught your note for you. This belongs to your second brother!" As she spoke, Mrs. Yang pushed the note in Lu Erlang's hand to Lu Zhi.
Lu Zhi and Li Tannian looked at this scene and smiled mockingly.
Everyone on the side was a little confused, until they saw a piece of ink on the note that Mrs. Yang pushed to Lu Zhi. For a moment, everyone had different expressions.
"Aunt Yang, you are Sanlang's biological mother after all. The palms and backs of your hands are full of flesh. How can you be so partial!"
"No, the quota for Erlang should be given to Erlang. Why do you let Sanlang take the place for Erlang? You are going too far!"
"Sanlang is my son. He has to do whatever I ask him to do. What does it have to do with you?" Mrs. Yang snorted disapprovingly. She happily handed the note to Lu Erlang.
Anyway, today, as long as she can keep Erlang at home, let alone letting Sanlang enlist in the army for Erlang, she is willing to sell Sanlang.
Zuo Sanlang is nothing more than a waste.
Lu Erlang's eyes lit up when he saw his mother grabbing the paper ball. This time, holding the note, he hurriedly opened it and looked at it, but his expression suddenly changed.
"What's wrong?" Mrs. Yang noticed his strange look and followed his eyes. In an instant, her whole body froze in place.
She never thought that there was a ball of ink on this note.
"Patriarch, how can two brothers in the same family join the army! Now that my third son has been selected, there is no reason for the second son to join the army!" Mrs. Yang finished her hum, and everyone was in an uproar.
It turns out that the note in Sanlang's hand was also stained with ink. Mrs. Yang deserved it. After this incident, Sanlang had to see through his mother's true face no matter what!
"Whatever you take is what you get." Patriarch Lu said calmly.
There were still many paper balls in the wooden box for those who worked outside, so he waited for them to come back and let them draw lots.
"How can that be done? My two sons have joined the army. If something happens to me in the future, who will support me in my old age?"
Patriarch Lu glanced at her faintly: "I thought you only had two sons, Dalang and Erlang."
The villagers burst into laughter.
Li Tannian glanced at Lu Zhi. He was originally going to lead troops to fight and become the king of Zhenbei, so she was not surprised at all that he occupied a quota.
However, is he too calm?
Thinking about it, Li Tannian looked at him seriously for a few more times. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Lu Zhi actually looked towards her.
His deep gaze fell on her face, and seeing that she still looked like she had nothing to do with her, he suddenly felt unspeakably depressed.