Two days later, the sky was unexpectedly clear, and the blue sky after the snow looked exceptionally blue and clear.

On Zhuolu Mountain, people are boiling and extremely lively.

Dingguo, Song Xiance and Xiaojie arrived with people one after another.

"Brother, do we have a house to live in?" When she saw Zhiwen, she couldn't wait to ask.

"Yes, yes, we have." Zhiwen said to her at the time that she had a house to live in, it was to give Nan Nan a thought, and she could get out of it, and she was ready to be complained about and even punished by Nan Nan when the truth was revealed, but she didn't expect to be right, and now she really has a house to live in, of course, it's not so good.

"Do you have a kang to sleep?" Niu Niu asked.

"Well, this one is not clear, the house is over there, you can go and see for yourself."

That morning, under the sneak attack of Kewang, this group of bandits, no more than fifty people, both men and women, were all taken down without any suspense, and after the inspection, except for the three people who each had a knife, the others only had long sticks, and more were hoes and shovels and other farm tools.

They are not so much bandits as they are mountain people.

Huang Si volunteered to recruit them, most of these people were silent, and the leading three felt that they were careless and were attacked, and they were a little indignant.

After obtaining Zhiwen's consent, Huang Si promised them that as long as they joined the family, each person would be given five catties of grain to settle down, and they would have work to do in the future, and they would not be hungry.

When Zhiwen, Kewang and the others really carried the grain bags in front of them, everyone was excited, and the three leading people bowed their heads, and since then, they have subdued this group of natives from Zhuolu Mountain.

Zhiwen knew that food was a temptation, but it could be as powerful as Xu Xu, which was still greatly beyond his and Huang Si's expectations, didn't they just rob a batch of grain, and it was only a few days of work, and it was gone?

A leader named Liu Cai took the initiative to explain why.

Originally, they were all nearby mountain people, who made a living by farming, hunting, and picking mountain goods, but because they could not bear the increasingly heavy taxes and servitude of the imperial court, they had to go into the mountains to become bandits.

The rest of the family is the old father and mother, who can rest assured that they can't leave the old house, and because of their old age, they can be exempted from forced labor and some taxes, and barely survive.

And this is also the reason why they are well-informed, people within a radius of hundreds of miles are related to them, and they can deliver messages to them.

After the situation of the small caravan was seen by the mountain people who were concerned, they kept reporting to them, so they could know everything about it.

Of course, these news are not taken in vain, and most of them still have relatives under the mountain, and no one wants to watch their relatives and friends starve, so every time they rob grain, most of them have to be divided.

This time it was the same, they didn't have much left, and they were about to run out of food again.

Now Zhiwen gave them food on the spot, and promised that there would be a regular business in the future, who would be willing to be an enemy of Zhiwen and them.

As Zhiwen expected, the place where the mountain people live is not far from the intersection, there is no wall, no gate, no hall and other buildings that must be built in bandit cottages, not so much a bandit cottage, but an ordinary village.

Some are dozens of houses of different heights and sizes.

There are a lot of houses, because the surrounding mountain people come to report the news, come to visit relatives, come to get food, to avoid the officers and soldiers, it is inevitable to stay for a few days, in order to let everyone have a place to live, they have built a lot one after another, anyway, the place is not small.

As long as relatives and friends don't rush to come, the house is actually a lot empty, enough for Zhiwen, Nannan, Xiaojie, Kewang, Sun Dafu and other core personnel to live, but the teenagers and refugees are not enough, they have to build a shack first.

Zhiwen roughly turned, although this mountain is a little steeper, and the larger flat place is the current small village, but the place is big enough, even if tens of thousands of people live in it, it is no problem.

Refugees and teenagers can only settle down for a while, and then slowly build houses after the spring begins.

Of course, it is impossible to live in such a nice place.

Zhiwen has already thought about it, the top of the mountain is still set aside separately, as a place to wash wool, the village and its surroundings are places to live, the upper limit is 5,000 people, although the number is not enough at present, but in the future, only close people can stay in Zhuolu Mountain, if there are more, they can only live outside the pass.

Other open spaces, in addition to a place for drills, can grow grain.

As for the pass at the intersection, Liu Cai and they don't know its origin, I don't know when it was discovered by a certain mountain people, and there are not many people who know it, because it is very hidden, and the pass is the only entrance and exit, and it has gradually become the last place for mountain people who have no way to live in recent years.

Liu Cai said that after he fell into the grass, he saw that the pass was a little dilapidated, and he also organized everyone to repair it.

"Zhuolu Mountain is so dangerous, it may be a camp built here by a certain previous dynasty." Song Xiance guessed, but for some reason, he only repaired a pass, and he might have been abandoned after a long time.

"Brother! Come on, there is a kang. Nannan's voice came from a nearby room.

Zhiwen pushed the door in, and a large group of people in the house rushed to go to the kang, but Wang Gao Li was big, and one person occupied a large area, and no one could pull him in.

Niuniu didn't grab the position, and was a little angry, "Dazhu, if you don't get up again, I'll tickle you." ”

"I can't afford to tickle it." Kewang shrunk into a ball.

Doctor Sun is old, so it is naturally impossible to play with the juniors, so he looked funny on the side, and went up and slapped Kewang's buttocks, "Okay, Kewang, there is no fire, the kang is cold, what are you doing lying down?" ”

"Father-in-law, just let me lie down for a while, I haven't slept on the kang for almost a year, and my waist is sore." Kewang shouted.

"Stinky boy, how old are you, your waist is sore." Dr. Sun scolded with a smile.

"Brother, come in, I'll let you lie down for a while!" Nan Nan occupied a seat early, saw Zhiwen enter the courtyard, and wanted to get up and let him.

"No need, you lie down a little longer." Zhiwen didn't enter the house, just stood in the courtyard and watched everyone fight, there was a room and a kang, and then look at the stove room, there was a pot and a stove, well, this is home.

"Brother Zhi, Brother Zhi!" was sighing when he heard Huang Si calling him.

"Here."

Hearing the sound, in addition to Huang Si, there were also Ma Er and Liu Cai.

"Xiao Zhi, Lao Liu took us to see the stream, the water is good, but it is smaller, they used to have no problem with dozens of people, but now I'm afraid it's not enough." Ma Er raised his hand happily and wiped his sweat, he was not hot, he was excited.

"Go to Lao Li and ask him to arrange someone to dig a few big pits next to it, fill it with water, and save some use, it should be no problem." Zhiwen has thought about this question a long time ago, since there is water, he can't let it flow away in vain.

Now that he is ready, Zhiwen feels that even if there are thousands of troops and horses outside, as long as they can't break through the pass, there is water and food in the mountains, they can't trap themselves.

By the way, if there are many people, there may not be enough firewood on the mountain, but if Zhiwen is there, it will not be a problem, and a few more warehouses will be built in the future to fill the firewood, even if he is not there, it will be fine.

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