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Three days later, Wu Liu led people to leave Beizhuang.

News came from the front, Zhenhai Jiedu envoy Zhou Bao died of injuries soon after arriving in Hangzhou, Dong Chang was furious when he heard the news, and accused Qian Biao to send troops to Zhejiang West Road to avenge Zhou Bao. Qian Biao ordered Cheng and Du Ling to attack Runzhou, and ordered his younger brother Qian Jiao to contain Xu Yue if he had the opportunity to capture Suzhou.

Shen Miao knew that the war could not be delayed, so he did not keep it, and thought about Wu Liu's injury, and told Monk Gu before leaving: "You have to help me keep an eye on it, and I can't let his injury worsen." "Shen Miao has been changing the dressing for Wu Liu in the past few days, and she is very aware of Wu Liu's injury, although it has improved, but due to the frequent movements, the speed is not fast.

When Monk Gu heard this, he teased: "Don't worry, if you leave Beizhuang, he won't 'work' so often, and the injury will definitely heal immediately." ”

Shen Miao immediately understood what Monk Gu meant, and said angrily on the one hand: "He is intact, you can take care of him less when you go to the battlefield, that is a benefit, you are good, you know how to tease me." ”

Monk Gu had an unrepentant expression on his face, and looked at Shen Miao with a smile on his face. Caught off guard, Wu Liu's voice sounded: "Have you done everything you did?" Do you have the leisure to chat here? ”

When Monk Gu heard that he was busy begging for mercy, he ran away in a hurry, this Wu Liu was too much, the materials needed to build a house on the mountain, Luo Zhaozhi sent them the next day after the discussion, and Wu Liu actually instructed him to do it before leaving. It was originally difficult to find, and the news suddenly became terrible, and Monk Gu was so tired that he had nothing to say. It's finally done, but you can't let Wu Liu catch the strong man anymore.

There were only Shen Miao and Wu Liu left in the courtyard, and Shen Miao was reluctant to leave soon, especially in the past few days, the two have become more and more intimate and familiar.

Wu Liu hugged Shen Miao and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will be back soon." ”

Although the army is strong in Zhexi Province, Zhou Bao has not taken care of the government for many years, and the power has been left to others, and there are many capable generals under his command, but they have their own policies and seek their own future, so that the battles are frequent. Qian Biao is different, the soldiers are united, even against Liu Hao and Xue Lang, two famous generals in West Zhejiang, the odds of winning are quite high. Therefore, Wu Liucai promised Shen Miao like this.

Shen Miao didn't understand the war, but he was assured of Wu Liu's ability, so he smiled and said: "You can go with peace of mind, when you return triumphantly, I will definitely show you the Zhuang Lizhi here." ”

"We'll see." Wu Liu smiled, lowered his head and kissed Shen Miao.

The two rubbed against each other, reluctant to give up, and Wu Liufang stepped on the war horse and led people away.

The construction of a house on the cliff crack was very smooth, Monk Gu found all the materials needed before leaving, and transported them all together with the soldiers, and the bandits who had been subdued before also transported together, and after the transportation, they lived directly in the cliff crevice, and began to inspect while building the house.

The homeless people began to appear in twos and threes, different from Shen Miao's imagination, it was not entirely the toiling people who fled, many small rich merchants and small scholars also followed them, they were not like the big rich merchants and scholars, they were not afraid of taxation and war, and they also made good friends along the way to help each other, and there were many private guards around them. With their strength, if they go to the plains and exploit all the way, they will not have much property to live on, so they will also choose a relatively safe mountain road.

According to the previous discussion, Luo Zhao asked those people on the mountain to pretend to be farmers, or chopping firewood, or hunting, these people are farmers, and there are no flaws in pretending to be flaws, whether it is the posture of working in the field, or the knowledge related to crops, or even the calluses on their hands, they are all fake farmers.

According to the instructions of Luo Zhao's advice, he answered truthfully to the homeless people: The manor under the mountain belongs to his own master, and the master is out of the house, and he doesn't know what he does, but he only knows that his status is quite high. The lord knows that there are people from Zhejiang West Road who have come over the mountain, and have set up porridge in the pergola under the mountain, so you can go and rest.

Most of the real toiling refugees went all the way to starvation, and when they heard that there was a porridge shed down the mountain, they were busy going down the mountain.

The little rich merchants, the little scholars did not have a short time to eat, and they were not in a hurry to go down, but sat aside to rest and ask more about the things under the mountain, and for them the future livelihood was more important.

For this part of the people, Wu Liu Shen Miao and they have discussed before, these people all have some money in hand, and their morale is much higher than that of farmers, it may not be a good thing to stay, they are mainly sent out, and only those who are willing to stay will be allowed to stay.

Therefore, Luo Zhao instructed the mountain people to answer: "Go out of the village and go south along the stream, you can go to Fuyang, Qiantang and other counties, where it is naturally much more prosperous than ours, of course, there are people outside the village who bring their families to come and run over these years, saying that life is not good, but most of them are farmers, and they have not seen rich businessmen coming." ”

After hearing these words, most of the small rich merchants and small scholars also went down the mountain, although they still did not know much about the mountain, but they already had some genealogy, and thought that it would not be a problem for them to go out and mingle.

After these people are screened, the rest of them who are still inquiring will be paid attention to. Luo Zhaozhi particularly emphasized that the more talking, the more he loves to be tricky, the more firmly he should keep an eye on, the person who talks to him must answer honestly, and he must say that he does not know about matters involving the pass, and the people who are ambushed around him are responsible for surveillance.

Under such a division of labor, most of the people who listen to the news do not have many good results.

Shen Miao was assigned to the porridge shed at the foot of the mountain by Luo Zhao, and talked to the homeless people who ate porridge, and selected some people to stay according to the criteria of those who wished to take the bait. Shen Miao went with great energy, the homeless people were hungry all the way, and after drinking the porridge, most of them eased up, and they were not in a hurry to leave, they liked to sit on the side and talk.

Shen Miao looks pleasing and has a good attitude, but whenever she goes up to talk, the homeless people are willing to say it nine times out of ten, where they came from, how difficult it was to escape, how to climb the mountain, and what they encountered on the way.

Shen Miao also responded one by one, empathetic and considerate, and the homeless people liked him more and more.

An old farmer held a bowl of porridge and chatted with him about opening up mountains and fields: "This little brother, I just came down the mountain road, and I saw a lot of people in that mountain col from a distance, that is opening up mountains and fields, right?" ”

Shen Miao nodded hurriedly: "Yes, there are many people and few lands, and I can't eat enough, so I can only open up the fields." ”

"How did you get your fields?" The old farmer asked.

Shen Miao explained the method of cultivating fields before, and the old farmer shook his head when he heard it: "This method is too wasteful. ”

Shen Miao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Is there a better way for the old man?" ”

"Of course, there is." The old farmer took a sip of porridge and said with a smile, "The reason why you use this method is nothing more than because the soil layer of the mountains here is too thin, but you know that not all the mountains here are thin soil layers, and those mountains with thick soil layers can be turned into terraced fields for the whole sun." ”

Shen Miao immediately remembered that when the old men first discussed, the mountains in the land of Bashu mentioned by the old men were all terraced fields all over the mountains and fields until the top of the mountain, because of the thick soil layer of the mountains in Bashu. If you can find a mountain with thick soil here, as the old man said, the man-hours required to open the field will be greatly reduced. Then he said, "Then the old man will investigate?" ”

The old farmer smiled proudly: "Since I dare to mention it, I will naturally do it." ”

"That's very good." Shen Miao was overjoyed and asked, "Are the old people willing to teach each other?" ”

The old farmer smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Naturally, I am willing to teach each other, but I have a request." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to talk about it." Shen Miao said hurriedly.

"I took my children and grandchildren all the way from Zhexi Road to here, and I heard from the people of the merchants in front of me that the life of the farmers was not easy to go down. I thought that instead of working harder, it would be better to stay here, I just don't know......" The old man didn't continue, only looked at Shen Miao with a smile.

Shen Miao understood what the old farmer meant, but Luo Zhaozhi told him in advance that when he met a farmer who wanted to stay in the village, he should not agree immediately, and observe it for a few days. Then he said: "I can't be the master of this matter, I have to go back and tell the steward, the old man is willing to wait." ”

The old man rubbed his hands, hesitated, and finally made a decision: "Okay, I'll wait." I have porridge to drink every day, I don't die of hunger, the big deal is to sleep on the side of the road, and I have slept in places worse than this when I fled. ”

When Shen Miao heard this, he hurriedly pointed to the drying field in the village and said with a smile: "There is no need to dry the grain over there now, the old man can go there to sleep." ”

When the old man heard this, he smiled and said, "Thank you." ”

Shen Miao went back and informed Luo Zhaozhi of the matter, and Luo Zhaozhi nodded when he heard it: "If this is the case, it will be a good thing, let him dry for a few days first." ”

Shen Miao knew the intention of Luo's edict, one was to listen to the truth, and the other was to deliberately shelve it and force him to work hard.

Sure enough, three days later, the old man came to inquire again, and this time he returned some other homeless people, old and young, all with expectations in their eyes, and the old man spoke on his behalf: "This little brother, I don't know what happened to the thing I mentioned that day?" In the past few days, I have also been shaking around, women and children have gone to the field, and Zhuangding has opened the mountain, thinking that there are not enough people to come to Guizhuang, so I have not replied for a long time. I found some people, most of them came together, they all had good character, they worked hard, and they could come to open up the mountains and fields. ”

Shen Miao was happy when she heard this, and her face did not show Xiàn, but smiled and said, "You are a little old, I will let people go to the steward." As he spoke, he glanced at Duo'er, who hurriedly ran back to the village and repeated the story.

Luo Zhao smiled and said to the steward: "Go ahead, do as previously discussed." ”

The steward hurriedly followed Duo'er over, and the old man repeated it again, frowning in embarrassment beforehand: "Our village is not very rich, only enough to come up with the money for those people to open up the fields, and we really can't afford to pay your money." ”

The old man brought the farmers to look at each other, and some of them did come with a fancy to make money from the fields, and when they heard that there was no money to take, they wanted to retreat.

More people said to the old man in order to be stable, to make a living, and to run less, "As long as Zhuangzi can accept us, if there is no money to earn, there will be no money to earn first." ”

"What do we eat without money? What do your babies eat? "There was opposition.

"It's really not good, every day I come to rub porridge to drink, this passer-by can drink it, is it possible to watch us starve to death?"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's good to stay. ”

"This can't work, how can you have the strength to work when you drink porridge? I don't do it, you can do it. Someone heard this and looked like it was not going to work, and immediately left.

More people stayed and informed the old man of the results of the discussion, and the old man said to the steward: "We also want to settle down, as long as we can stay, we can do without money." ”

When Shen Miao heard this, she was excited, and she had achieved the desired result as discussed before.

"That's fine." The steward nodded, "How about you go back with me and discuss specific methods?" ”

The old man nodded hurriedly and said yes repeatedly.

Shen Miao saw a group of people leave, and the specific method had already been discussed with Luo Zhao and the steward, and the wages were not paid, but the workers were guaranteed two meals in the morning and evening; The required materials are required to be taken locally, there is no shortage of soil in the soil and mountain opening method, only the lack of stones, and there are many boulders in the mountains and ravines, so you can choose to use them; The family members of the workers can be allocated land to live for their planting, and when there is no output in the early stage, they can receive food in the porridge shed, and solve it by themselves after there is output; As for building a house, pay for it out of pocket.

In the evening, the porridge shed was finished, and Shen Miao walked back to Beizhuang with Duo'er, and on the way he met the homeless people who came back from the conversation, and their faces were full of joy. After being around for so long, he finally has a place to stay, and the owner of the village is still a good person and is not harsh.

Shen Miao happily looked at the smile of the homeless people, stretched his waist, and relieved the fatigue of the day, the sunset was shining, and the sunset was like fire, indicating that tomorrow would be a good day again.