Chapter 112: The Old Man Comes with a Sword

Take the remote path from Meiwubao and go north along the Qiuye River, two or three miles away is Chen Hai's newly purchased grange. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

There are more than ten acres of peach forests planted on the beach near the river bank of the grange, and the original owner is also Yaqu before, and named the grange Taohuawu, but Chen Hai reminded Chen Hai of the poem "Peach Blossom Nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, Peach Blossom Fairy under Peach Blossom Nunnery".

As a tributary of the Chu River, the water surface of the Qiuye River through Meiwubao is unusually vast, and the water surface is more than ten miles wide in the cold winter, and the more than 300 acres of fertile land to which the grange belongs are reclaimed by the original owner from this piece of river beach and grassland.

With the exception of a remote road leading to the front of the Castle and the main waterway to the east of the Akino River, the other three sides of the Grange are shallow grasses overgrown with weeds and covered in snow.

In summer and autumn, when the water is at its peak, the river overflows, and the Grange is flooded into an island, and you have to wade to get up to the road in front of the Castle of Murdock.

Regardless of whether the displaced people will harm the Gyeonggi region, Chen Hai feels that they must take some precautions.

In addition to facing the attack from the water surface of the Akino River, the other three sides are also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the shallow grass around it will dig a ditch after spring, and the three or four hundred acres of fields will be planted with alfalfa and chrysanthemum grass, which will be directly used as a horse farm.

After Chen Lie and Su Yuan saw it, they were also very satisfied with the topography of Taohuawu.

The old lord is also a figure at the level of a village tyrant, in addition to the main courtyard house where the relatives live is beautifully built, there is also a miscellaneous courtyard where the village and slaves live, which can be used as a temporary military house.

A large number of bamboo, wood, bricks and stones were piled up in the grange, which was originally used by the old owner to build a walled wall to strengthen the defense of the grange when he saw that the Gyeonggi homeless people were in trouble and bandits were rampant, but in the end, he considered moving his family to Yanjing City, and these building materials that had been prepared long ago were cheaper Chen Hai and they did not need additional preparations.

In addition to the 200 soldiers, there were more than 30 craftsmen and craftsmen who followed Chen Hai and them into Yanjing, and everyone worked together to build a simple horse shed in seven or eight days, and built more than a dozen bamboo huts to supplement the lack of soldiers.

More than 200 guards and horses were relocated, and although the conditions were still very simple, they were much more relaxed than those crowded into the cramped Mewu Fort; The pine pier on the Akino River also requires a simple tidying up to dock boats.

At this time, Chen Lie was busy with Dong Pan and Ge Xuanqiao all day long, negotiating with the officials of the Taiwei Mansion and the envoys of the Hexiang Army, arguing about the grievances and rights and wrongs of the two armies, while Chen Hai stayed to rectify the Taohuawu, and before the New Year's Festival, he did not enter Yanjing City, but let Ding Shuang and Zhou Jingyuan go into the city to choose a house to open a soldier armor shop and a dart shop.

From Yao Xing's fragmented memories, Chen Hai can still roughly piece together the prototype of Yanjing City, but he is inexplicably resistant to entering the city, and Qi Hanjiang and other Kou slave soldiers are full of excitement when they drive them to the battlefield to kill, but they are reluctant to do chores for the craftsman, and only Chen Hai can suppress these people.

Towards the end of the year, a large group of displaced people, about 20,000 or 30,000 people, moved from the north, stranded in the river beach about seven or eight miles away from Taohuawu.

The local soldiers and horses of Gyeonggi Fuk County came to drive them several times, but after each dispersal, they regrouped the next day.

The vast majority of these homeless people were ragged and yellow-skinned, and more than half of them were old and weak women and children, who gathered in the river flats north of Meiwu Fort to fish, pick wild vegetables, or beg for food from nearby villages.

Although Chen Hai had long been aware that there were a large number of displaced and hungry people in Gyeonggi, he had never left Meiwubao very much, and this was the first time he saw the existence of large-scale displaced people in Gyeonggi, so he did not dare to leave Taohuawu easily.

It is not their duty to clear the locality, they come forward to appease the displaced people, it is all against the law, the local government and county have no problem, Chen Hai can only work with the Wuwei military and Taoist soldiers stationed in Meiwu in the south to strengthen the vigilance in the north, and it is difficult to do anything else.

Two days before the New Year's Festival, Chen Lie, accompanied by Su Yuan, rushed back to Meiwubao from Yanjing City, Chen Qing took Su Ziling from the school palace to celebrate the New Year together, and invited Li Yulin and his attendant Le Yi to Taohuawu to stay for two days.

Among the disciples of Taiwei Sect who participated in the selection of the Tianshu Academy's Academy this time, many of them were familiar faces of Chen Hai, Dong Ning, Xie Wenzhuo, Xie Wenchan, Chai Rong, Li Yulin and others, all of whom had to come over to see if they had a chance to be on the list of the Qingqi and become famous in the world.

Xie Wenzhuo was ruthlessly cleaned up by Chen Hai, even the nephew of Chen Zhiyi, the sect leader of the Chen family, also hid here; Xie Wenzhuo's relationship with this side was also sparse, Chai Rong almost didn't have the courage to go into Yanjing together, let alone show his face in front of Chen Hai; although Li Yulin was arrogant, because of Li Xianghai's relationship, he had also seen Chen Hai's courage and strategy, and he was close to the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion.

And on this day, tens of thousands of hungry people gathered in the northern river flats.

For more than ten days, Chen Hai and his team did not have time to build a strong wall to protect Zhuangzi, so they only built four simple bamboo towers at the four corners of the grange as sentry towers to monitor the movement of the river beach in the north at any time.

From time to time, hungry people would enter the grass shallows north of the Grange to pick wild vegetables, and Chen Hai was both vigilant and full of emotion in his heart.

The seventy-second year of Emperor Yitian is about to pass, and he has entered another world for nearly two and a half years, I thought that in this world where gods and demons exist, no matter how bitter the people are, they should be as small as ants and powerless to struggle under the trampling of gods and demons, but I never thought that Yanzhou was also a world where disasters and famines were rampant, and the bones of the hungry people were left behind.

Uncle Chen Lie, Su Yuan, Chen Qing, Zhou Jun, and Li Yulin all went to Meiwu Fort in the south to attend the banquet first, and Chen Hai was relieved that he could not go down to the movement of the displaced people on the river beach, so he stayed in Taohuawu, afraid that something would really happen, and he would delay the time to react if he came from Meiwu Fort three or four miles away.

The more the New Year's Festival came, the more restless the homeless people became, and the more Chen Hai dared not be careless.

When the sky was getting dark, Chen Hai stood on the sentry tower in the northeast corner and saw a cyan streamer galloping from the direction of Yanjing City.

The cyan streamer was far away from the peach blossom dock, but the sharp qi was like a golden needle, which made Chen Hai extremely uncomfortable.

What a strong gas machine!

Regardless of whether it was a friend or an enemy, he didn't say hello, and suddenly rushed directly to the Taohuawu side, Chen Hai didn't dare to relax at all, and when he untied the Blue Shadow Sword, it buzzed, and it was rumored that Wu Meng, Ge Tong, Ding Shuang, Qi Hanjiang and others, who were drinking in the house, led the soldiers to wear armor and go out into battle......

The cyan streamer stopped when it was three or four miles away from Taohuawu, but it was a cyan bamboo flute across the sky above the Qiuye River, and a Taoist wearing a half-old Taoist robe with half-black and half-white hair, stepped on the green flute, and glanced at Chen Hai and them suspiciously, as if he did not expect that the owner had changed here.

Qingdi Daoist shouted in the direction of Meiwu Fort: "Ge Lao Dao, in the coming year, come out and accompany me to spend the next game of chess, I haven't killed you for twenty years, it's really itchy to kill me!"

"It's said that you are in retreat, I haven't found your figure in Yanjing for half a month, why did you run here today to go crazy, and you can't find yourself happy?" Ge Xuanqiao's loud voice just came from the direction of Meiwu Fort, and I saw a golden light like a rainbow bridge coming out of Meiwu Fort and falling directly above the Qiuye River.

Ge Xuanqiao stepped out of Meiwu Fort, one step at a time, three or four steps were already standing side by side with the old way, and they all had the joy of not seeing each other for many years on their faces.

This old way of stepping on the green flute turned out to be Tu Ziji's teacher and one of the eight major sacrificial wines of Meizhu Academy, Chen Xuanzhen?

At this time, I saw my uncle Chen Lie, Dong Pan, Tu Ziji, Dong Ning and other sixty or seventy people, all flying out of Meiwu Fort one after another, and came to pay tribute to the crazy Chen Xuanzhen.

Chen Hai stayed in Taohuawu for the past two days, but he didn't expect that Dong Ning, the lord of Yuecheng County, and so many disciples of the Taiwei Sect rushed from the school palace to Meiwu Fort to celebrate the New Year's Festival - Chai Rong, Xie Wenzhuo, Xie Wenchan and others who usually avoided Chen Hai were also among them.

Chen Xuanzhen and Ge Xuanqiao stood in the sky above the Qiuye River to catch up on the old days, and then flew to the Taolin River beach outside the Taohuawu, Chen Hai asked Qi Hanjiang and them to continue to go back to the house to drink wine and eat meat, and he and Wu Meng and Ge Tong pushed open the chaimen and walked towards the river beach.

At this time, Chen Xuanzhen stood on the river beach, took out a chessboard with four legs from the wide sleeve of his robe and put it on the river beach, obviously prepared.

Chen Xuanzhen then took out two wooden chairs from the sleeves of his robe, handed one to Ge Xuanqiao, the two sat down by the chessboard, he glanced at everyone, and finally fell on Chen Lie's face, and then took out a chair from the sleeve of the robe and put it next to the chess table, and said, "You come and sit ......."

"The younger generation doesn't dare to be rude. Chen Lie said politely.

"Sooner or later, you will be the first of my generation, and sitting a few days early will not hinder anything. Chen Xuanzhen said with a grin, and designated Chen Lie to sit over.

Chen Lie can be given by the crazy Dao Chen Xuanzhen, but Dong Pan can only stand and watch the chess, and his heart will naturally not be happy, but it is difficult to figure out what Chen Xuanzhen's words mean that Chen Lie can step into the Dao Dan realm at any time, thinking that if Chen Lie can really cultivate the Dao Dan, his status in the Wuwei Army and the Taiwei Sect is not beyond the reach of him, a disciple of the Dong family's side branches-so that he has a little balance in his heart.

Chen Xuanzhen pulled Chen Lie to sit down, but his hand did not stop, and he kept taking out the red clay stove, a small table, a complete set of tea sets, and tea cans from the sleeves of his robe that seemed to be bottomless, and put aside his true disciple Tu Ziji, took out a three- or four-foot-high pot-bellied copper kettle, and threw it directly at Chen Hai, who was walking down the river beach, and greeted:

"Look at your baby is tall and strong, very strong, and his strength should not be small, help us get a pot of spiritual spring water, and then cut a few peach trees to pour tea......"

Your mother, if you see Lao Tzu falling in love, shouldn't you cry and shout and beg Lao Tzu to worship you as a teacher, why do you only get the job of chopping wood and burning tea?

Besides, Chen Hai came to this other world inexplicably, practiced martial arts, learned riding and archery, studied casting, and carving, but he had never been in contact with the tea ceremony, and he didn't know what rules he had for chopping wood and pouring tea.

Of course, these Chen Hai just thought about it in his heart, no matter how aggrieved and reluctant he was, he could only reach out to pick up the big-bellied copper kettle that had been thrown in front of him, but he didn't expect the big-bellied copper kettle to be surprisingly heavy, his arms sank, and he was almost stumbled......