Chapter 111 Hard Brothers and Hard Brothers
(Two chapters arrive, check 4,500 words!)
For the recruitment of Xing Tianjun, many of the exiles outside are enthusiastically signing up. For nothing else, in order to have a stable meal with Xing Tianjun in the future. As for the fact that Xing Tianjun is a chaotic army, not many people have taken care of it. They don't make trouble with them, and they still have no food to eat. Do they have to starve to death? Anyway, it's all dead. If you follow Xing Tianjun, you can at least live longer. Even if you die, you will be a full ghost, so that you won't be a starving ghost after going to the underworld!
So Qing Zhuang, who had strength, quickly gathered towards the recruitment platform after hearing the news of Xing Tianjun's recruitment of Xinding.
"What's your name? Do you have any family? How old are you? Where is your home? What did you do in the past? What skills did you know? ..." Liu Bao, who was in charge of recruiting new recruits, and his instructors lined up the people who came to recruit and questioned them one by one.
"Gao Cheng, nicknamed Gao Da Cannon, is twenty-five this year. My home is Xiaogaozhuang, Anhua County, Qingyang Prefecture. I used to make fireworks with my father. This year, no one used this, so I have no food to eat. My parents are starving to death, leaving me and my brothers. Look at my body, don't look thin and strong. What! Soldier, just take me!" A thin man squeezed to the front and lay on the table to answer questions with the recruiter, still bragging to himself, and the person who wanted to recruit took him.
Liu Bao looked at the thin man, frowned and asked, "How old is your brother? Is it with you?"
"Nah! My brother is thirteen! Follow me! My parents are dead. I can't care about my brother! If you can do it, why don't you even accept my brother? My brother is also smart! Can work and run errands! You can also get a rabbit! It doesn't matter!" Gao Cheng quickly answered and boasted about his brother again. As a result, his words immediately attracted a group of men behind him to laugh. Gao Cheng turned his head and looked into their eyes and said, "What are you laughing at? I'm telling the truth! My brother is really clever!"
After hearing this, Liu Bao waved his hand and said, "Oi, go and wait! It doesn't matter whether I accept you or not. Let's wait for the news! Next!"
Even if Gao Zhicheng was pulled aside by the people behind him, he had to go under a nearby tree and sit down next to a thin teenager and wait for the news.
The thin teenager on the ground, with only a layer of skin wrapped in bone shelves all over his body, his stomach was swollen, and his face was full of unhealthy dishes, which was the result of serious malnutrition. When he saw his brother squeezing out of the crowd, he asked Gao Cheng expectantly, "Brother! Did they take you in?"
Gao Chengqiang smiled at his younger brother lying on the ground and replied, "They wrote it down. Who am your brother?" It will definitely be accepted. If you join this Xing Tianjun, you will have enough to eat in the future! I heard that Xing Tianjun's hands are very tight, and he is also benevolent and righteous. If you follow him, you will definitely not suffer! Don't worry! I also heard that there is also Langzhong in the Xingtian Army, who specializes in treating their brothers. As long as I join the Xingtian Army, I will ask their Langzhong to treat the wounds on your leg! You can be lively again! Ha ha! Don't worry!"
The teenager lying on the ground nodded excitedly, and his dark eyes also became bright, as if he had seen a trace of hope again. He gently moved his body and approached his brother, as if doing so would make him feel safer.
The teenager's calves are wrapped in a dirty cloth, which is stained with blood and smells like a bad smell. Obviously, his calf is injured and can't be treated. He is already ulcerated. Such a person may not live for a few days in this world. I'm afraid it's all up to his brother to carry him on his back. Come here.
Everyone who came in his turn answered the questions asked by these people honestly, and the three newly recruited young people who could write were acted as temporary book officials, responsible for grading the questions answered by these applicants. They were busy.
Everyone who has been registered stays aside and waits for Xing Tianjun to issue the list, because Xing Tianjun has made it clear before the recruitment. Not everyone who is recruited can join the Xing Tianjun. It must be screened before it can be decided whether they can be selected as a soldier for food, so After the candidates signed up, they did not dare to go far and waited for Xing Tianjun to announce the screening list.
In two days, nearly six or seven hundred people were recruited, including old and young. Liu Bao and a group of his men picked and selected 300 new men. At the same time, more than 20 blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers and other craftsmen were selected, and then a literate temporary librcerer stood on a table with a roster. The name of the voice.
Anyone who clicks a name will be immediately taken aside, and the instructors of the new barracks will organize a whole team to prepare to be taken into the cottage.
All the people who were named were happy and jumped out of the crowd and followed the people of Xing Tianjun to line up, while the people who were not named stretched out their necks and waited with an expectant face to continue to call names, hoping that the next one would hear their names.
"Okay! That's all! Everyone who didn't click the name, let's go! Our Xing Tianjun is not accepted by everyone, but those who confiscate it don't have to worry. Xing Tianjun will also give you porridge to eat! Let's all go!" After the temporary librical gave up his name, Liu Bao jumped on the big table and shouted at the people who were still in front of him.
Suddenly, there was a sigh and noise in the crowd. These people didn't know why they were not selected. They squeezed here or refused to leave. They scrambled to argue and let Xing Tianjun accept them.
The thin man who signed up yesterday squeezed desperately to the front of the stage and shouted to Liu Bao, "This stew manager! Why don't you accept me! I'm very capable! Please accept me! My brother is injured and waiting for treatment! If we don't save him, I'm afraid he won't live for a few days! Please, soldier, have pity on me! There is only one relative left in the world! Whoo-hoo..."
After saying that, Gao Cheng cried loudly, rushed to the big table, and pulled one of Liu Bao's legs standing on it.
Other people also coaxed, hoping that Liu Bao would accept them. The scene was chaotic. Many people who had been accepted looked at these losers with sympathetic eyes.
Liu Bao also sympathizes with these people, but he can soften his heart, because Xiao Tianjian put forward several requirements when recruiting soldiers. He must abide by them. First, he only recruits people who are healthier and stronger. Second, he should not be tired as much as possible. Third, he has craftsmanship. For those who have craftsmanship, the conditions can be relatively relaxed, and the rest should be strictly controlled!
So Liu Bao can only do this. All those who do not meet the requirements are directly excluded, and most of these eliminated people are directly eliminated because of their health or drag. Although Gao Cheng can make firecrackers, because he is still dragging a brother who is about to die of illness, and at the same time, he is also He was very thin, so he was directly eliminated in the first round.
Although Liu Bao also sympathizes with them, this is what happened. In this world, only the strong can survive, and there is nothing else to say, so he crossed his heart, jumped off the table, and took the newly recruited men to withdraw the big table and returned to the cottage.
The people who were not selected had to shake their heads and lament that they were unlucky, and they dispersed one after another. Anyway, at least they can mix two meals of porridge a day here, which is not bad! No one scolded Xing Tianjun. He didn't have to do anything.
Only Gao Cheng was left, kneeling outside the mountain gate, covering his face and crying. He kept kowtoing to the mountain gate and crying for Xing Tianjun to take him. As long as Xing Tianjun accepted him, he was willing to do anything, even if he let him die.
"Why don't you leave here and kneel here and cry?" At this time, a pair of big feet suddenly appeared in front of Gao Cheng, who was kneeling on the ground, and a thick male voice sounded above Gao Cheng's head.
Gao Cheng's face was full of tears. After hearing this sound, he quickly raised his head and saw a very tall strong man standing in front of him. He was wearing iron armor and a simple waist knife hanging around his waist. Behind him were a few tiger-biao men. At a glance, he knew that it was Xing Tianjun. Gao Cheng, the leader inside, had never seen Xiao Tianjian, but immediately guessed that this person was probably the palm plate of Xing Tianjun, so he quickly knelt down and straightened his body, and kowtowed three times to the tall man in front of him.
"Small Gaocheng! If you want to join the group, please pity me! Let's take me and my brother! My brother was bitten in the leg by a rich man's dog. He couldn't get treatment for such a long time. I can't help him! Please have mercy on our two brothers! Help him! I, Gao Cheng, am willing to be a cow and horse for our Xing Tianjun. As long as I save my brother, even if I die! Please, please! Please..." Gao Cheng answered eagerly, begging this man to accept the two brothers, and kowtowed on the ground repeatedly.
This head kowtowed to Bangbang, and soon Gao Cheng's forehead shed blood.
Xiao Tianjian came out this time to see the situation of the scattered people gathered around. When he went out of the mountain gate, he saw the thin man kneeling outside the mountain gate, so he was curious for a moment and came over to ask.
After listening to Gao Cheng's words, Xiao Tianjian was a little uncomfortable. The recruitment of new soldiers was his arrangement, and the recruitment conditions were also set by him. Obviously, Gao Cheng's physical condition did not meet his requirements, so he was eliminated. Moreover, he also had an injured brother, which was even more not suitable for Xing Tianjun's recruitment. It is no wonder that he will be expelled.
But as him, since he saw it, he always had to ask about it, so he lowered his head and advised, "Brother, don't be so anxious!" Where is your brother?
Gao Cheng, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, quickly raised his head with a tearful face, pointed to the dirt slope not far from the mountain gate and replied, "Master! My brother is lying there! Please help him! I'm very capable. As long as you save my brother, I can do whatever I want!"
Xiao Tianjian has been in a good mood these two days. Seeing that Gao Cheng cared about his younger brother so much, he did not hesitate to kneel at the mountain gate for his brother and smashed his forehead. Thinking that this person must not be a bad person, he moved his compassionately and said, "Let's not talk about this first!" Take me to see your brother before you talk about it!"
Gao Cheng heard this and quickly thanked him. He got up and led the way to the place where his brother was lying.
Xiao Tianjian looked down at the angry teenager lying on the ground. At this time, the teenager's face was like a withered worm, and there was no human form at all, which made Xiao Tianjian very uncomfortable. If it was during the Taiping period, a teenager at this age should have enjoyed the love of his parents in front of his parents' knees, but now he has to fall so tragically. What about this situation?
"What's wrong with this injury? How did he get here? As Xiao Tianjian untied the bloody rag on the teenager's leg, he turned his head and asked Gao Cheng, who was eagerly squatting beside him.
"When I went back to the house, after my brother and I left home, we wandered around and lived by begging. Some time ago, we went to a village to beg for some food, but we not only didn't get money, but was bitten by the evil young man in the village! I didn't have the money to invite my brother to Langzhong, so I dragged it. I heard that you, the head of the family, are benevolent and you are here to give porridge to those who can't live, so I tied a wooden shelf and pulled my brother here. I just want my brother to ask for a way to make a living! As for me, as long as my brother can live, I will die! There is only one relative left in the world! Please be the head of the family! You pity me..." Gao Cheng answered and cried again before he finished speaking.
Xiao Tianjian looked at Gao Cheng's brother's leg injury. He saw that his calf was very swollen, and there was still pus in the wound, emitting a stench. Moreover, the teenager's body was hot and he had a high fever. His eyes were staring at Xiao Tianjian in a daze.
"This old man! Please accept my brother! I don't know how much my brother has suffered for me! I may not be able to live, but please accept my brother! Leave me alone! If it hadn't been for my brother, I would have died long ago. I can live until now. I'm satisfied. I'm grateful to my brother. I can't repay my brother again in my life! Brother, don't cry! If I die, you won't be a burden! ..." The teenager suddenly opened his mouth and said to Xiao Tianjian in a weak voice. As he spoke, he also shed two lines of tears, flowing down his thin cheeks on the ground, and his dirty face was opened by tears.
After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian's nose was sore, and he was very sympathetic to the two brothers, so he gritted his teeth and stood up and told Tietou and others, "Take this little brother into the stockade quickly and give it to Lv Shenyi for treatment! Save him no matter what! Gao Cheng! Let me ask you! What can you do? Are you really willing to follow me?"
Hearing this, Gao Cheng knelt down in front of Xiao Tianjian and kowtowed hard and said, "Thank you for your kindness! The little one and my brother don't forget the kindness of the big head! The little one doesn't have any other skills. The little one used to be a sex bomber! I have been doing this with my father since I was a child. I don't know if I need it or not! But the small one still has the strength, and there is no problem to do other work! Thank you for the big head of the family for the small one!"
"Oh? So you used to play with gunpowder? Xiao Tianjian's heart moved and immediately asked.
"Yes!" Gao Cheng looked up at Xiao Tianjian, seemed to feel something, and quickly replied.
"Good! Follow me in the future! As long as you work hard, I won't treat you two brothers badly!" Xiao Tianjian was overjoyed and reached out and patted Gao Cheng on the shoulder.
Gao Huaiyuan's hand was heavy. With this slap, he almost sat on the ground with his thin and weak legs, but Gao Cheng immediately laughed and quickly kowtowed to Xiao Tianjian again.
Xiao Tianjian was not in the mood to look around. With Gao Cheng and others, he asked his men to hold Gao Cheng's younger brother, and hurried back to the stockade.