Unfilial Sons in Ancient Times (2)

Along the way, Ji Changze said, "No, no, I don't want to be the accountant," and he didn't forget to ask them, "You two really think that with my appearance, the general can let me be the accountant after seeing me?"

The two soldiers looked him up and down in confusion: "What's wrong with you? Looking at you talking, aren't you very smart?"

Ji Changze spread his hands helplessly, showed them the blood stains on his body, and pointed to his face:

"With my appearance, some people believe that I am a beggar. They all say that a gentleman is well dressed. With my appearance, let alone a general, even a random passerby would not believe that I am a scholar."

What he said was reasonable and his facial expression was very appropriate.

The two soldiers looked at each other.

"Brother, I think what he said makes sense."

"I feel so too."

After they finished their discussion, one of them looked at Ji Changze with an expression that said, "You have a lot to do." "Then what do you think we should do? Let me tell you first, we will not let you go."

General Hou is a high-ranking general in the imperial court, either in the Northern Expedition or in the Southern Expedition. As his soldiers, they will have to go to the battlefield sooner or later.

Originally, both of them were very clear about their destiny. As small soldiers like them who grabbed a lot of soldiers in the military camp, their mission was to be at the forefront every time there was a battle.

They are the ones who will die the fastest.

But as this person said, having some military merit is very different. With military merit, at least you don't have to be cannon fodder.

It's strange that the two of them were willing to give up this opportunity.

They all looked at Ji Changze warily, fearing that he would run away.

Ji Changze didn't have this idea at all. He just shook his sleeves and said pleasantly: "I still need a new set of clothes. It's best to have good materials. It's best to change these shoes. In addition, put on a tie on your hair." It’s also dirty.”

Both of them looked like "you're just dreaming" on their faces.

"Do you know how much new clothes and shoes cost? We only ask you to be the accountant in the military camp because we think highly of you. You can't live up to your expectations."

"My little brother, since he knows the word "next step", he must have read some books. I dare to ask, little brother, you two recommended an accounting office to the general. To the general, when he saw that the person you recommended was a man whose clothes were stained with blood, he looked like a disaster victim. It seems that the accounting office was just picked out from the pile of dead people. Will he think that the two of you work hard? "

The two soldiers looked at each other.

"Aren't you the one we pulled out of the dead?"

Ji Changze waved his hand: "This is not important."

"Think about it, how easy it is to pull someone out from the dead. But what if the accountant you recommend is well-dressed, spotless, and speaks elegantly? You can tell the general that you can invite this accountant to serve the army. You spent so much time talking, and [with great difficulty] you persuaded this gentleman who seemed to have no shortage of money, that is, he came to the military camp to work as an accountant. Will the general feel that you two are loyal and think about the military camp all the time? Woolen cloth?"

He spoke slowly, but his enunciation was clear, and every word could be transmitted smoothly to the ears of both of them.

Both of them looked thoughtful as they listened.

"Brother, what he said seems to make sense. If we dress him up and bring him to the military camp, if he is well dressed, we can invite him here and it will be a credit to his face."

As they spoke, they looked at Ji Changze again.

Ji Changze nodded with a smile: "That's right, little brother, you are very knowledgeable."

The two of them muttered again, finally agreed, and straightened up again.

"Okay, we'll take you to buy clothes, but you have to pay for it yourself."

Ji Changze waved his sleeves with an innocent look on his face: "I don't have much, and I don't have much money to carry around."

"Who are you lying to? Just now you took away the coins from the two of us, which we worked so hard to pull off from the dead."

"Yes, we saw it with our own eyes."

Ji Changze said calmly: "That's for buying straw mats. After all, it's an event in the same village. Naturally, we have to bury the person properly."

With blood stains on his face that had dried but still looked scary, he smiled gently at the two of them: "Or are you telling me that what you said to me about going to collect their corpses was all false? You turned among the corpses? Turn over, just want their money?”

Just as they finished speaking, a gust of cold wind happened to blow between the three of them.

The two soldiers shivered, and then they remembered that they had been frightened by Ji Changze just now, and then heard what he said about Mr. Accountant. They hurriedly dragged the people away, and actually forgot to collect the bodies of the dead. .

When they looked at the scholar standing there in front of them with blood on his face, both of them couldn't help but swallow.

The feeling in my heart that "I am a soldier and you are a citizen, of course you have to be humble in front of me" is gone.

In this barren mountain, this man couldn't really be a ghost.

"Then, let's do as you say. We will buy clothes for you with our own money, and then buy some straw mats to bury everyone."

Seeing that the two of them looked frightened, Ji Changze did not clarify anything, nodded and smiled, and took the lead in walking in front.

The two soldiers looked at each other. Although they were a little scared, they still couldn't bear the military glory and followed cautiously.

When they arrived at the market, they saw people coming and going. With so many people there, they felt more confident.

When they entered a shop and saw that Ji Changze specially picked out the expensive ones, they couldn't help it.

"Aren't you spending your own money like this? It's just a piece of clothing, why does it need to be so expensive?"

Ji Changze looked at the materials and styles without looking back: "I originally thought that the more expensive the clothes are, the more the general will think that you two have contributed more. If you don't want me to wear expensive clothes, I will just choose the cheaper ones. Scholars are not particular about what they wear.”

As he said that, he turned around and headed towards the cheaper side.

"Hey, hey, no, no, no, no."

When he said this, the two of them saw that he was going to look at cheap clothes, so they quickly stopped him.

“If you buy something expensive, buy something expensive!”

"Is there something wrong?" Ji Changze looked back at the two of them, with a shy and embarrassed smile: "I think I'd better buy the cheaper one. You two are also good people. After all, you saved me. How could I let You spent a lot of money, and I thought that if I really became a bookkeeper in the military camp, I would repay you well. "

The two of them had no hesitation at all now.

They also came back to their senses.

Nowadays, soldiers are easy to find, but scholars in the military camp are hard to find at all.

In fact, it was easy to find civil servants in the military camp at the beginning. However, there have been a lot of wars in the past few years, either with the rebels or with the Zhao State next door, and from time to time with the neighbor next door.

Literati don't like to move very much, and their bodies are relatively weak. They are not as strong and strong as tough guys like them.

It's like their military camp.

Stationed in another place, the weather is too cold, the accountant will die.

The war was won, everyone celebrated, drank too much, and the accountant died.

The enemy made a sneak attack and shot arrows at their military camp. The accountant died.

It is said that the names of other generals are not so miserable, at least not like their accountant. He will die at will. If he dies, no one will dare to apply for the job again.

Being a bookkeeper has become a dangerous profession.

It was always difficult for the general to find an accountant. They were members of the imperial court, not bandits, and it was difficult to forcefully kidnap an accountant.

But everyone who took the initiative to vote died miserably. It is conceivable that in the short term, no accountants will be willing to come to the military camp.

At this time, if they bring a gentleman who is well-dressed and well-spoken to recommend, then the credit will be the recommendation.

Ji Changze was still refusing: "Forget it, I'll just buy something cheap. It's just a piece of clothing. In fact, I don't choose it."

"If you don't want us to choose, shopkeeper, hurry up and take out the most expensive scholar's clothes in your store and show them to our brothers."

"No, no, no, it's too expensive."

"Hey, what's the waste? You scholars are just grinding away. Shopkeepers, please hurry up."

Ji Changze: "But my body is covered with dust, and my face is covered with blood. Even if I change my clothes, I probably won't look good."

This is a problem.

"Shopkeeper, where is the bathhouse?"

So in the end, when the three of them came out of the bathhouse together, Ji Changze seemed to be a different person from beginning to end.

He was wearing a brand-new and elegant gown, and the uppers of his shoes were white and clean. He also scrubbed his body clean to remove the dead skin and dirt on the outside, revealing the fair skin on the inside.

The two soldiers had expressions of confusion from the moment he started washing his black arms into white ones. They were even more confused when Ji Changze changed his clothes and put on his hair tie and stood in front of them again.

Why is this person so different before taking a shower and after taking a shower?

He indeed looked like a scholar, a bit like the young master from a wealthy family they had seen when they were children in the city. His temperament made him look very gentle, but they did not dare to approach him at all.

Ji Changze smiled at them, and both of them were so laughed that they dared not say a word.

They thought that this might be the reverence for scholars.

In awe of the scholars, they returned to the village and dug a hole in the sky for a long time before finally asking: "Why don't you come down and help?"

Ji Changze stood on the edge of the pit and looked at them who were busy inside, and replied warmly: "I'm afraid that my clothes will be stained, and then it will be in vain."

That makes sense.

The two of them were thinking about it when they saw the scholar above him making a move to come down: "Seeing that you are very tired, why don't I come down and help you."

"No, please don't. If the clothes you are wearing are dirty, you will have to buy them again. We don't have the money to buy them."

Ji Changze was dissuaded, so he could only stand by the pit and said in a good manner: "Then I will stand here to encourage you."

Waiting for the corpses to be carried in one by one, wrapped in straw mats, the two of them gathered together and looked at Ji Changze, who had changed into a set of clothes and turned out to be a scholar. He stood by the pit and threw down a handful of soil in his hand. .

"What are you doing?"

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Once they come to this world, someone must send them off."

Ji Changze patted the dirt on his hands, looked at the two of them again, and said with a smile: "Now that everything has been dealt with, let's go to the military camp."

The two of them followed him; "Don't you want to go to the military camp?"

"You two are kind and will never harm me."

The two soldiers felt guilty.

They wanted to use Ji Changze as a military exploit, but in the end, this man actually thought they were kind.

"Ahem, cough, cough, actually, all the accountants in our military camp are a little short-lived."

"If it's short-lived, it's their life."

"Aren't you afraid that your life will be short-lived?"

Hearing this, Ji Changze turned around and smiled at them: "The short-lived people's lives are in the hands of others, but mine is in my own hands, how can it be short?"

Two people: "???"

"Brother, what is he talking about?"

"I don't know, but the meaning should be that he is not afraid of the short life of the accountant, and he still wants to go to the military camp."

"Then he is really a good man, he is willing to go like this."

"When we get to the military camp, we will try our best to take care of him. By the way, what is his name?"

Wearing the clothes bought by the two, Ji Changze happily accepted their evaluation of him as a "good man" and exchanged names.

The two soldiers turned out to be brothers. The older one was called Wang Da and the younger one was called Wang Er. The names were very easy to understand.

After Ji Changze understood, he asked again: "Do you have any brothers and sisters in your family? Are they named according to the ranking?"

The two nodded; "I don't have a sister in my family. My parents gave birth to brothers. There are seven brothers in total. When I left home, my mother was pregnant with another one."

Ji Changze didn't ask what their parents planned to name the baby in their belly.

In short, it should not be very friendly to this old eight.

On the way to the military camp, he asked about the civilian positions in the military camp.

Then he got the answer that the only literati in the military camp who was still alive was the military advisor.

The others died for various reasons.

Anyway, they were all unlucky.

As a result, no one dared to come to their military camp every time they wanted to recruit civilians.

Everyone guessed that the military advisor grew up with General Hou since he was a child. When he was a child, he was General Hou's book boy. When he grew up, he followed the general to fight. His body was stronger than those literati.

That's why he can live to this day.

Wang Da and Wang Er were grateful that Ji Changze was indeed a good person, and they didn't hide it from him. They told him everything clearly. If he was afraid and didn't want to go, they wouldn't stop him.

But the clothes and shoes had to be returned to them, which cost a lot of money.

Ji Changze didn't even think about leaving.

They arrived at the military camp smoothly. He waited outside, and the two went to report first.

After a while, Wang Da came out and asked him to go.

Maybe there was really a lack of literati in this military camp, or maybe General Hou was just free and wanted to take him to see the general.

Ji Changze didn't look surprised, he brushed off the non-existent dust on his body and followed behind.

The general's tent looked no different from others, just a little bigger. Wang Da took him to stand outside. The soldiers guarding the door looked Ji Changze up and down, and confirmed that he looked like an ordinary literati and was not threatening, and then went in to report.

Wang Da waited until he was called in, and then he led Ji Changze in tremblingly.

As soon as the curtain was opened, there was a wave of heat in front of him.

The one who was afraid of cold should not be the general.

Ji Changze looked at the shirtless strong man who had just put the long gun back in his hand, and was very sure of this.

"Is this the person you said can be an accountant?"

The strong man was still sweating, which showed that he was very hot. He looked good, and at a glance, there were two words, heroic.

General Hou, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a strong body, bulging muscles, and a heroic spirit, stepped forward and looked Ji Changze up and down, and asked directly; "Where are you from? Why did you come to my Hou family army?"

Ji Changze lowered his eyes slightly, saluted with his hands, and his attitude was quite indifferent; "My surname is Ji, my name is Qing, and my courtesy name is Changze. I was originally a scholar with no achievements in Hu County. On the way to seek medical treatment for my parents, my money was robbed. I went to Ke County and was rescued by my wife. I married my wife. Now my wife was abducted by the rebels. I came to surrender to the general, and I also want to follow the army to eliminate the rebels and find my wife."

This tortuous experience made General Hou very interested in looking back at the man who was writing something at the table in the warm tent with a cloak on his body: "Military advisor, what do you think?"

Ji Changze looked over. The military advisor was pale, wearing heavy clothes, with a white face and no beard. He didn't look good. He could only be said to be ordinary, but his eyes were very bright.

He glanced casually and saw Ji Changze looking at him calmly, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Since this gentleman is willing to be the accountant, the general will keep him."

"Okay, from now on, the gentleman will be our accountant, and the share will be the same as the previous accountant. That, you are called Wang Da, right? Take Mr. Ji to the accountant's residence."

Ji Changze bowed, and then followed Wang Da and Wang Er, who were happy, out of the tent.

The two were very happy

"Sir, you are lucky. The monthly salary of the previous accountant is the highest among all the accountants in history, and he lives in a separate tent, right next to the general's tent. Don't forget my two brothers in the future."

Ji Changze smiled and nodded: "Of course, of course."

He slightly turned sideways, glanced at the tent behind him, and touched his hair that was not yet dry.

"Your military advisor is really thoughtful."

The two were stunned: "Huh?"

Ji Changze smiled slightly: "Nothing, now that we have settled down, let's go."

Inside the tent, the general waited for them to leave before asking: "How is it, can this man be trusted?"

The military advisor coughed a few times and said, "He has clear eyes and doesn't look like a treacherous person. The clothes he wears are from this town. The white uppers of his shoes must have been bought recently and not yet completely dry. He just took a shower. The two soldiers were very careful when touching his clothes. They should know that the clothes were newly bought. It is more likely that they paid for them. They acted like this just to leave a good impression on the general. If they were spies, they would not do this."

"Then this person is trustworthy?"

"Eighty percent trustworthy, wait for me to check the household registration and have more contact with him. Contact... cough cough cough. "

The general nodded, picked up the hot water on the table and gulped down a few more mouthfuls: "Wait a minute, I heard that there is a doctor in Wu County. We will pass by there when we chase the rebels in a few days. I will invite this famous doctor and he will definitely cure you. "

"It's okay, I'm just weak, I won't die for a while, but the internal affairs of the army still need someone to handle. Since this Mr. Ji is here, let him take care of it for the time being, so as to test his strength. "

"Okay!"

The general gulped down several more mouthfuls of water.

"It's just that you need to recuperate. Even if you find out that he is a spy, I won't kill him for the time being. "

In the next tent, Ji Changze, who was watching Wang Da and Wang Er diligently making his bed, moved his ears slightly.

It seems that I can get some help from the famous doctor in Wu County.