Now, Qi Ruiyuan is angry when he sees Shang Chunni, angry that this girl is so shameless, slandering his grandson, destroying his grandson's reputation, and even more angry that he has no distinction between right and wrong, and is preconceived.

So knowing that Shang Chunni was standing in the courtyard of the sixth master's house and wanted to see him, Qi Ruiyuan just didn't go out.

Qin Yuxi can only follow him, anyway, she doesn't want Qi Ruiyuan, as Qi Zihan's grandfather, to have anything to do with Shang Chunni.

Therefore, Qi Ruiyuan's attitude won her heart.

Soon, Chen Yulian found a broom and rushed into the courtyard of the sixth master's house, and before she could start beating Chunni out, a few people hurriedly came on the path.

Those people all carried firewood on their backs, and shouted outside the courtyard of the sixth master's house:

"Sixth master, sixth master, there is a group of men outside, not wearing the clothes of our villagers, they are from outside, I am afraid that they are coming to make trouble!"

The sixth master's face turned pale, and he finally stood up from the recliner and asked:

"How many?"

Shang Chunni's face was shocked, remembering that she and He Chunhua had brought a group of men outside the village, but the group of men did not come in, her lips pursed, she gritted her teeth, and watched the sixth master walk out of the courtyard without speaking.

That group of people doesn't seem to be very easy to mess with, and they are not good people, saying that they are the old man who came to live in the patriarch's house temporarily, but what does this have to do with Shang Chunni?

The people in this village, no one helped her, why did she make a mistake and tell the people in the village about the intention of this group of men?

The sixth master hurriedly left with the comers, and Chen Yulian's face began to become solemn.

In this deep mountain and old forest, it has not been peaceful since ancient times, the Tujia people take the village as a camp, attack and defend at the time, resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and also have some of their own earthen cordons, and mountain lookout points.

The distribution of the stockade, surrounded by mountains on three sides, faces water on one side, and of course, now that riverbed has dried up!

Such a layout has its strategic significance, and it is clear who gathered at the entrance of the stockade standing on the mountain.

Obviously, such a group of outsiders, who are gathering more and more, are dormant at the entrance of the stockade, and the people who come are not good.

The sixth master went up to the West Mountain, stood at the lookout point with the best field of vision, his face was solemn, and he asked the people behind him:

"Does the patriarch know?"

"Got it. ”

The people behind him, with both hands on the patriarch's order, the token of the whole village chasing the soul flute,

"Sixth master, the patriarch said that he is old, let you arrange it. ”

The sixth master took the soul chasing flute, his face was solemn, he nodded, and commanded:

"Send someone to find out what is true. ”

The person behind the person took the order, found a grandfather in his seventies and eighties, carried a basket on his back, and went out of the stockade.

The group of people outside, not close to the entrance of the stockade, but lurking in the forest across the road, an old man of seventy or eighty years old, coughing and moving forward, did not attract the attention of these men at all.

Some of them sat on the ground, some of them stood, looking menacing, staring at the grandfather......

In the stockade, Qi Ruiyuan finally came out of the sixth master's stilted building, as soon as he stood in the courtyard, Shang Chunni came up, Qi Ruiyuan blew his beard, waited for her, and before she could speak, Qi Ruiyuan said:

"No shame, don't talk to me!"

Then he turned around, looked at Qin Yuxi, his face changed, and he smiled kindly:

"Girl, come on, grandpa will give you a greeting gift"

Before Qi Ruiyuan could take out his passbook, someone with a backpack on his back quickly ran over and informed him from door to door:

"The sixth master has an order, all the old and weak women and children go up the mountain to take refuge, and all go to Dongshan. ”

"What do you mean? How many people are out there?"

Chen Yulian's face was solemn, she jumped up, pulled the man and asked:

"What about the sixth master, why don't you men go up the mountain?"

"The sixth master said, people are in the village, not an inch of land! All men over the age of forty and under the age of seventy stay in the boundary cottage and are not allowed to retreat!"

"What's going on?"

When Qi Ruiyuan saw the people in this village, his posture was wrong, he had fought a battle all his life, although he couldn't understand the dialect of these Tujia people, he could also see it clearly, these Tujia people were being notified to evacuate from door to door.

Qin Yuxi on the side, with a serious face on his face, pulled Qi Ruiyuan and explained in Mandarin:

"Outside our village, there are about dozens of men from other places, someone went to explore just now, these people are afraid that they have long knives, and the people who come are not good, let's go to Dongshan first, and talk to Zihan and them. ”

"I'll take a look. ”

Qi Ruiyuan didn't seem to hear Qin Yuxi's words, so he walked directly and walked out of the courtyard of the sixth master's house.

Behind him, Qin Yuxi was in a hurry to chase after him, just catching up with Qi Ruiyuan, this seventy-old and eighty-year-old soldier suddenly turned around, full of anger, like a flood pouring out of the floodgates, his fingers were raised, with the power of scolding Fang Xuan,

"No, girl, the location of your stockade is very strategic, what are those people outside doing?"

The boundary cottage is in an arc shape on the waterfront side, surrounded by two big mountains in the east and west, there are protrusions, can be used as a watchtower, the back is against the boundary mountain, the highest and steepest, the environment in the mountain is steep and complex, it can be used for the old and weak women and children to take shelter temporarily, and is facing the water, although the water has dried up.

But if in ancient times, when the water had not dried up, if there was a foreign enemy on the opposite side and wanted to cross the river to attack the village, it would be really difficult.

According to Qi Ruiyuan's idea, this offensive and defensive terrain, plus two cannons, and a few snipers in the east and west, if there is an invasion from other places, I am afraid it will be difficult to knock down this stockade.

Qi Ruiyuan saw that the person who established this village was not simple, he must be a person with extremely high military talent.

So the question is, what does a person with such military ability do to build such a village in this poor and remote country with this thought?

Thinking like this, Qi Ruiyuan didn't go to the entrance of the stockade, but went directly to the West Mountain and went to the lookout point to observe.

From the lookout point, the view is quite wide, and standing here, you can see clearly the dry riverbed opposite the stockade, and even the other side of the riverbed, leading to the hill on the set.

The sixth master had already led the people and began to pour homemade flint into the musket, and when he saw Qi Ruiyuan coming up, the sixth master stepped forward, frowned, and shouted at Qi Ruiyuan:

"People over the age of 70 all go to the top of Dongshan Mountain, and the people below have gathered more and more. ”

Seeing that Qi Ruiyuan couldn't understand, the sixth master shouted in broken Mandarin,

"Go to Dongshan, go to Dongshan, you are old, hurry up and go to Dongshan. ”

Qi Ruiyuan glared at the sixth master angrily, not only did he leave, but also looked at the lookout point where the field of vision was better, and then the cat was on the ground, beckoning to the sixth master, and said very professionally:

"They are indeed not good, I saw an AK, you have to go and inform the Dongshan garrison, let them send troops down! ”