Zhu Yuenuan walked out of the county office alone and came to the edge of the city gate.

After years of destruction, the city wall of Qimen County has become a virtual state, and only a few intermittent lines can prove that this was once a city.

It took an hour for Zhu Yuenuan to follow the traces of the city wall before returning to the street and preparing to return to the county office.

"Escort Zhu." On the way, Wu Laohan came out of a tavern and blocked her way.

"Uncle Wu, so you're here." Zhu Yuenuan hurriedly greeted, "I didn't greet you that day, I'm sorry." ”

"The old man has a place to go." Wu Laohan waved it, still holding a wine sprout in his hand, and hiccuped before he said, "The old man wants to ask Guardian Zhu, what are the arrangements for Lord Chu?" ”

"I don't know what Uncle Wu is referring to?" Zhu Yuenuan asked cautiously.

"Naturally, it's the business of these villagers in Qimen County." Wu Laohan swept his fingers on the street, "You have arrested the people of Natuo, they will definitely come to retaliate, Zhu Guard, you have done a good job, but in this Qimen County, there are still nearly 10,000 ordinary people!" Moreover, most of them are either too old to walk, or they are children, and then they are women's families, I don't know what Lord Chu's plan is? ”

"My family has said that only if the people believe in us and are willing to continue to be the people of Longyue, we will do our best to protect the villagers." Zhu Yuenuan noticed that the people around her had gathered.

"You can't just talk big, you have to come up with a discipline to convince the big guys, right?" The old man shook his head, not quite satisfied with her answer.

"Uncle Wu, we have a heart, but we also need the help of the villagers." Zhu Yuenuan looked at him seriously and said, her voice raised slightly, and she said simply, "As the saying goes, unite as one." With the strength of more than a dozen of us, it is not a big problem to protect the county Ya Anran, but to protect the entire Qimen County, we still need the big guys to twist into a rope. But I don't know, the people in the county are willing to work with us? ”

"Lord Chu can really protect all the people?" Wu Laohan asked again.

"Uncle Wu, before leaving home, my family has settled the second elder in the family. I don't dare to say that my lord has the ability to protect everyone, but I know that he will not give up any of his people lightly. Zhu Yuenuan looked at the old man solemnly. You also know that we all know the situation in Qimen County, but we are still here, since we are here, how can we give up easily? ”

"I believe in you, but there are no prime people in the county, how can a dozen of you keep them?" Wu Laohan obviously drank a little too much, and there was a clear difference between his speech and before, at this time. He was more skeptical, "Unless you are immortals." ”

"Even if there is no prime of life, aren't there still nearly 10,000 people? Protecting the family and defending the country is not only a child, a woman can also hold up half the sky! Zhu Yue said in a loud voice, looked around, looked at the people who came up around her, and asked loudly, "In this world, there is nothing that can't be done." Only people who don't want to do things! I believe that over the years, there has been no strong man in your family, and the work on the field should be handled by women, right? The rough work, the dirty work, the tiring work. Aren't all women on top like a son? Why can't a woman protect her homeland? ”

There was silence.

Zhu Yuenuan glanced at it again and struck while the iron was hot: "I know that for so many years, it has not been easy for everyone, and it is not easy to think about the peaceful days in front of us." However, have you ever thought about it, is this peace in front of you really a stable life? The people of Nada come as soon as they say, and the fruits of everyone's hard work, they say to take them away, and in their eyes, we are just their granary, their captive hunting objects! ”

Behind the crowd, there was a low cry.

"Perhaps, you will think that if you take refuge in Natuo to do things for him, you can still have a stable life and be able to eat, but do you know how those people in Huyou treated our people in Longyue after several battles before Longshi Pass?" Zhu Yuenuan asked loudly, and without waiting for them to answer, she gave the answer directly, "They will catch up with all the Longyue people who have taken refuge and plundered them to the battlefield, walk on the front line, and use them as cannon fodder and pioneers to open the way!" Because they know that our soldiers in Longyue will not care about the life and death of the people, and they use this as a coercion to treat our people in Longyue as stepping stones, rather than a living person! In such a fate, are you still willing to be their slaves, to be their gunmen, to help them turn their heads against our people in Longyue? ”

"But we can't do anything, how can we resist them?" In the crowd, Ah Nong looked at Zhu Yuenuan with a frown and worry, a pair of smart eyes with tears in them, but they did not fall, and his hands were clasping his clothes.

"I'll teach you how to do it if you want to." Zhu Yuenuan looked at her and softened her tone.

"Anon is willing to follow the guard brother!" When Ah Nong heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward and said loudly to Zhu Yuenuan.

"Ah Qian is also willing to follow the guard brother!" A petite girl next to Ah Nong also jumped out, looking at Zhu Yuenuan with a red face.

"We are also willing to follow Brother Guard~ Brother Guard says East, we will never go West~" Several people stood up behind and said in unison.

Zhu Yuenuan took a look, but it was the girls she had seen before, and she couldn't help but smile at them: "They are all good girls!" ”

When the girls heard this, they immediately bowed their heads shyly.

"Escort Zhu, how exactly is this going to be done?" Wu Laohan asked again.

"yes, what are we going to do?" The people behind asked one after another.

"The previous time to take down those sixteen people, it was a shallow trap, this time, the matter is urgent, we can only use this method again, specific, the adults have already arranged, and now there is only a lack of manpower to help the battle." Zhu Yuenuan explained, "Don't worry, things are not difficult, if you learn it well, it is not a problem for one person to deal with two or three ordinary pawns, as for those who have kung fu, it is naturally solved by me and other guards." ”

"Folks, the left and right are dead, let's fight!" In the crowd, a sturdy woman shouted in a rough voice, "The old lady has endured it for so many years, and finally there is a county master who can avenge my man!" I don't have to say, count me Alan as one! ”

"Okay, later, someone will arrange specific things, and everyone will report according to what they are good at." Zhu Yuenuan nodded and confessed.

"Brother Guard, what about us?" Nong hurriedly asked.

"You guys?" Zhu Yuenuan was stunned.

"Didn't you promise to let us follow you?" Ah Nong and the others said in unison, "Follow the guard brother, of course, you will not leave an inch~~"

Zhu Yuenuan was suddenly dumbfounded, and looked at the few people in front of her in a daze.

"Zhu Huwei, a good man still needs three gangs, they ...... Not bad. The old man laughed, pointed to Ah Nong and the others.

"It's fine." Zhu Yuenuan looked at a few people seriously, groaned slightly, and said, "It's going to be very hard to do things with me, aren't you afraid?" ”

"Don't be afraid~" Everyone shook their heads in unison.

"Whatever I say, I am what I say, and you must obey unconditionally." Zhu Yuenuan said again.

"Yes!"

"Okay." Zhu Yuenuan nodded, and looked at them again, "Go home and change into clothes that are convenient for doing things, and come to the county office to find me." ”

"Yes, Brother Guard!" The girls cheered with joy.

"My surname is Zhu, so I'll call me Zhu Guard in the future." Zhu Yuenuan couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth and turned to Old Man Wu, "Uncle Wu, can you go back to the county government with me?" There are some things I have to ask you, and besides, are there any folks in the county who are familiar with the nearby terrain? Or if you know the movements of Natha, please come along, we need to know all kinds of details to facilitate action. ”

"The old man is willing to go." Someone immediately echoed.

"Please." Zhu Yuenuan respectfully bowed her hand and stepped aside to please.

"Brother Zhu, we'll be there soon." Ah Nong shouted sweetly and pulled Ah Qian into the crowd.

Not to be outdone, the other girls scattered.

Zhu Yuenuan took Wu Laohan and a few old men back to the ya, met Nan Xinshan and Mo Jiangchun on the way, told them what had just happened, and asked them to go to Hu Lin to distribute their own manpower.

Sitting in the empty room of the second hall of the county government, several people talked about Natuo one after another.

"Natuo looks like he's only in his thirties, because when he first came to Qimen County ten years ago, he looked like an adult."

"Their family is Huyou Quping County, originally a merchant, and then his father spent money to donate a hundred households, five years ago, after the death of the old hundred households, several brothers of Natuo robbed this official, two died, Natuo grabbed the official, and now there are two younger brothers under his command who are following him to do things."

"The one who came to take the lead that night was his third brother Nasuo."

"It is said that Nada's only younger brother is Nasuo, and the other is called Nalian, who was born to a concubine."

"So Nata is coming." Zhu Yuenuan interjected, her brows furrowed tightly.

"Not only will it come, but I'm afraid it will come soon." The old man looked at her.

"How many of them are there?" Zhu Yuenuan asked hurriedly.

"At least hundreds of people." Another old man interjected, "However, we have never seen Natuo go out in person, and the people who usually come to the gate are Nasuo and Xunlian, and there are still some discords between the two, and there are several times because of the grain and grass, they have robbed each other of grain and fought each other. ”

"And how many of them are there? Who won? Zhu Yuenuan asked hurriedly.

"Those few times, everyone seemed to have thirty or forty of them, Na Suo was not Na Lian's opponent at all, he was pressed to the ground and beaten, and he didn't have a chance to fight back at all, but later, when Na Lian came again, he was injured on his face and body, and he didn't know who was injured."

"There is no doubt that the one who suffers from him will be Natha." Wu Laohan continued, "If you come to Nalian this time, it will be easy to do, but if you come to Nata, it will be troublesome......" (To be continued.) )