Liu Pei got off the boat and took people to change boats and went up the river. All the way to a village at the farthest end of the river. Liu Pei's arrival alarmed the local garrison. An officer came with a soldier to inspect it.

The officer was very surprised when he learned about Liu Pei's identity! The soldiers were even more excited! The eyes of excitement are round! They really didn't expect Dashuai to appear here!

Liu Pei motioned for the guards to let the group of soldiers approach. The group of soldiers approached Liu Pei with excitement and saluted Liu Pei together. After Liu Pei returned the salute, he said: "It's really hard for all the brothers to guard here!" Liu, I would like to thank you all here! ”

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The soldiers replied excitedly: "No hard work!" "The handsome man is really hard!"

When everyone quieted down, Liu Pei asked, "You are stationed here, I don't know if your family can take over?" ”

The officer replied: "My family has already been taken over, and I am going to settle here in the future." Some of the other soldiers have not yet started families, and those who have families have been settled. So we'll do our best to protect this place! ”

When Liu Pei heard them say this, he knew that most of these people were soldiers recruited from among the disaster victims. After understanding, the village was not very peaceful before. Occasionally, there will be natives looting. However, because of the protection of soldiers and the cooperation of the villagers, they can often repel the natives who come to rob.

But now the natives have also learned to be shrewd, and instead of harassing them often, they gather together and wait for the villagers to grab the grain when they have a harvest. However, the soldiers and villagers were well guarded, so the damage caused was not large.

After Liu Pei learned about the situation of the garrison, he instructed the officer to keep his identity secret, and he accompanied him to the village for a walk and a turn, and the officer naturally agreed happily.

Liu Pei changed into civilian clothes, took off his goggles, took only a few guards, and was led into the village by the officers.

The village is not large, with less than a hundred households. But there was a platoon of soldiers stationed here. Mainly because this is one of the villages that go deepest inland, the highest level of safety must be raised.

When Liu Pei got close to the village, he found that this village was not the same as an ordinary village. The village was in the form of a dock fort because it was to be prepared against the attacks of the natives. Liu Pei also deliberately knocked on the wall, which looked very solid.

In this way, Liu Pei was very satisfied. At the very least, this shows that the local village chief is not cutting corners. After all, this is a matter of human life, and there is no room for neglect.

Once inside, you can see a large clearing in the center of the village along the main road. You can also see the barracks directly opposite. On both sides of the continent are densely packed with dwellings.

When Liu Pei arrived, it was a hot day in the afternoon, so the villagers did not go to the field to farm in order to avoid the heat, but cooled under a few big trees specially set aside in the village.

Liu Pei watched the crowd carefully and found that most of the people here were young and strong, there were almost no old people, and even there were few children. Liu Pei couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart. After a long journey, many elderly people and children can't survive this hurdle, which is also helpless.

Later, Liu Pei took a closer look at the construction of the village and found that it was indeed quite neat. The most important thing is that there is no dirty mess in the Ming countryside here. I saw that all the ground in the village was flattened by the hammer. There were no fallen leaves, twigs, or anything like that, and there was no defecation.

All the houses are uniform, and they look like rows of soldiers. Seeing this, Liu Pei knew that the village chief here was only afraid that he was a retired veteran.

Liu Pei was looking at the village when a person walked through the crowd. The guards were about to step forward to stop them, when they heard the officer say: "Dashuai, this is Zhao Dabao, the village chief of this village!" He is also a veteran of our army! ”

Liu Pei nodded in understanding, and at the same time motioned for the guards to let people come directly. It can be seen that Zhao Dabao is very prestigious in the village. As soon as he got up and walked this way, seven or eight young men were about to follow, but they were stopped by the guards.

Zhao Dabao seemed to have an entourage to follow, and the officers of the garrison were with him, so he knew that the person who came was a big man. So he turned back and waved at the young men, signaling them to stay on the periphery. Then he himself walked directly to Liu Pei.

But when he saw Liu Pei, he felt familiar

, so he desperately thought about why the person in front of him was so familiar? When he approached, looking at Liu Pei's smiling face, he suddenly realized! He immediately stood up straight, raised his hand and saluted, and said, "Sword and shield hand Zhao Dabao has seen the handsome!" Handsome Wansheng! ”

Liu Pei looked at Zhao Dabao carefully. Just look at the right side of his face, and his neck is full of small scars. I'm afraid there are more scars on his body where his body is covered by clothes.

Zhao Dabao felt Liu Pei's eyes, so he touched his face and said, "Dashuai, this is when I was exterminating the mountain bandits, I was hit by the mountain bandits' earth cannon!" I didn't have time to hold a shield to protect myself, so the left half of my body was protected, but the right half of my body was hit with iron sand and was full of wounds! It took Lang Zhong a long time to pick out the iron sand on my body, and then he picked up a life and came back! It's a pity that the tendon in my right hand was injured and I couldn't hold the knife! Later, he was assigned here to be the village chief. ”

Liu Pei nodded and said, "You are really fateful!" ”

Zhao Dabao grinned and said: "That's also the medicine given by Dashuai, so that you can come back alive!" ”

Zhao Dabao's words made Liu Pei very proud! Because he has brought back a large amount of medicine from now on, he has indeed saved the lives of many soldiers. Many wounds that will die on the battlefield are easy to solve with current medical skills and medicines.

Liu Pei patted Zhao Dabao's arm and said, "Although you can't kill thieves with a knife, you can now lead the people to live and work in peace and contentment, protect one side, and your credit is no less than on the battlefield!" Here, call a few people for me. Don't reveal my identity, I just want to talk to them. ”

Zhao Dabao knew that Liu Pei wanted to understand the actual situation, so he beckoned to the young men who were following him and motioned for them to come over. The guards got out of the way and let them come over. Zhao Dabao said to them: "Listen, a few of you have come to our village!" It's a character next to the handsome. If you ask anything, just tell the truth! Do you understand? ”

The young men all nodded their heads again and again, with a look of awe on their faces. Liu Pei praised Zhao Dabao's cleverness in his heart, so he gave him a look and asked him to step aside. Then he said: "Several, I was entrusted by the commander to understand the local situation. So you don't need to worry, just tell the truth. ”