"Damn, I'm lucky to be fast!"

Chen Xu ran to the location of the new house with a firewood knife and started to work, and at the same time swore with palpitations that he would never teach the little girl to sing again in the future, this girl was too sassy.

The frame of the house in front of me has been laid, and the remaining task is to get the walls, doors and windows ready, and then the roof is covered with dried thatch, if the weather is bad, it can be built in advance, anyway, all the grass on the river beach is cut down and hundreds of thatched huts are no problem.

After a while, the people who had finished listening to the play also came one after another with tools, and soon everyone began to work with laughter, some people cut bamboo, some broke the bamboo in half, some carefully tied the broken bamboo one by one to the beams and pillars of the room, and some climbed up to the roof to tie long and short wooden sticks, making a dense lattice to cover thatch in the future.

All the people are doing their jobs, and the progress is in an orderly manner.

"Brother Xu, am I really singing ugly?" Niu Dashi came over with a sad face.

"It's not unpleasant, you're just incomplete!" Chen Xu patted him on the shoulder and comforted.

"Really?"

"Well, when a manly singer sings impassionedly, it doesn't matter if it's good or not, the important thing is to have momentum, you have a lot of momentum and practice more, I'm going to dig a toilet over there, you go, practice more while digging, maybe one day you can boost the enemy's morale when you go to the battlefield!"

"Eh, yes!" Niu Dashi was so excited that he didn't hear what Chen Xu said, so he went straight to the latrine surrounded by a few stones with a bronze hoe and began to dig up, tearing his throat and yelling while digging.

"The birds in the trees are ...... in pairs"

Two seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men on the roof slipped and almost fell off.

One day, two days, three days, as time slowly passed, the new house slowly began to plump up from a frame, and the walls, doors, windows, and roofs made of green bamboo had been formed.

Today is the last day of Chen Xu's family to build a house, and it is also the last process, building the roof.

As long as the thatch that has been harvested and dried is sorted out, the weeds and thorns inside are removed, and then bundled into bunches and built on the roof one by one, the tallest and most spacious house in the village will be completely completed, and as for the furniture inside, Chen Xu has to find a way to get it slowly.

Therefore, almost all the men, women and children of the whole village came.

The children all sang and danced with the apricots and fed the pigs, the older children of about ten years old helped to sort out the thatch, the women were in charge of tying it, the men were carrying it to the roof one by one, and the seven or eight older ones were in charge of laying on it.

"咴~"

Suddenly, a neighing of horses came from the mountain road at the entrance of the village, and then the sound of horses' hooves was soon heard.

Several people on the roof couldn't help but stand up and turn their heads to look over, and one of the young men shouted at Uncle Ma below: "Dad, it seems to be someone from the town, and one of them seems to be the pavilion chief!" ”

Uncle Ma was stunned for a moment, dropped the things in his hand, frowned, and said, "It's not time to harvest the wheat yet, and I haven't found anything recently, what is he doing here?" ”

"Uncle, didn't I say anything in advance when I repaired the house?" Chen Xu asked a little nervously.

Building a house is a major event for people's social life in ancient and modern times, and in later generations, even in the most remote mountain villages, to build a house, you have to get the consent of the government department, and you can only break ground after planning the foundation, and the Qin Dynasty has strict laws, and this kind of thing may also need to be reported in advance.

"It shouldn't be, although there is such a rule, but no one has ever taken care of a place like ours, don't talk for a while, everything is up to me!"

"Good!" Chen Xu nodded gratefully.

At this time, it was already about two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was strong, and it had been a sunny day recently, and the temperature was at least thirty degrees.

As the sound of horses' hooves grew louder and denser, soon five fast horses rushed out along the path and appeared in front of everyone.

The first thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, wearing a light blue linen skirt, a short sword hanging from her waist, wearing a small hat on her head, willow eyebrows and starry eyes, smooth skin, a batch of jujube red horses under her crotch, although her face is a little childish, but it looks a little heroic.

The girl was followed by four people, a middle-aged man who looked old, a black-faced man in his thirties, holding the reins in one hand and an old sword in the other, and the remaining two soldiers in cloth armor, and weapons hanging from the saddle.

Looking at these people, not only Shen Jiming was surprised, but even Niu Dashi and Uncle Ma and a few other people who went to the town to sell meat together last time were also surprised.

This girl Shen Jiming remembered it clearly, and rolled her eyes at him fiercely after buying the snake away.

And the middle-aged man behind the girl is the one who pays to sell snakes, although he didn't see the middle-aged scribe, but these people should be with him.

What are a bunch of out-of-towners doing in our place where birds don't?

Chen Xu couldn't help but stare at the girl on horseback a few times, and then greeted with a fierce white eye, obviously the little girl had already recognized him.

The five horses quickly slowed down and walked to the open space in front of the new house and stopped, and Uncle Ma hurriedly caught up with him and bowed to the black-faced man: "Xiaohe Village is a horse who has seen the pavilion master again!" ”

"Well, Ma Chong, I have two things to announce today, as a village leader, you must act impartially and vigorously, and you must not slack off!"

"Yes, please ask the pavilion chief to command!" When Uncle Ma heard that it was not for the purpose of collecting the summer grain tax, he breathed a sigh of relief and was a little nervous at the same time, and the pavilion chief's tone was a little too serious.

"The first thing, the Lord of Nanyang County and the Lord of Pheasant County have an order, the whole territory of Pheasant County recruits two thousand people to participate in the construction of the Chi Road from Nanyang to Nanjun, Xiaohe Village is under my jurisdiction, and four people must be recruited according to the household registration, you deal with this matter as soon as possible, take people to Qinghe Town to gather in three days, and arrive at the county seat after five days to listen to the unified dispatch of the county order, those who slack off (qíng), those who delay (yì), those who escape (yuè), those who violate the order (chī) die, and those who dare to oppose are beheaded and abandon the city, Gather a crowd to resist the three tribes, Ma Chong, can you hear clearly? ”

"Listen...... Hear me clearly! Uncle Ma had cold sweat on his forehead, and although it was hot at noon, he fell into the ice cellar.

This sudden conscription order was completely beyond his expectations.

And all the people in the village suddenly lost all their voices, and the children didn't know what was going on, but all the adults turned pale, especially the women who had grown men in their families, and many of them began to tremble and shake their bodies.