There is a house, and there is land, and there is silver. From the first few thatched houses to the current bright three-compartment large tiled houses, from a few rags to cover up the shame, to the bottom of the current box there is also a silk robe, which is worn to support the façade during the New Year's festival or when there is something big in the village and county. In fact, it's not that he doesn't have the money to buy a few more pieces, it's really because he feels that he is a farmer, and it is really a bit nondescript to wear this, and it is not as comfortable as coarse linen clothes.

But Jiang Hui, as the first group of people to come to Xiangxi, is now the head of a village, and often goes out to do things on behalf of the village, so he can't let people underestimate his own village.

The daughter-in-law also said that she also added a baby to the family last year. He is a daughter-in-law who only got over forty years old, so naturally he is very precious, and all this was unimaginable in the Qin State before.

Now what he wants most is to take his family members who are still in Qin to enjoy the blessings, the two countries have been fighting in the past two years, and there is no way to go if he wants to, but now it is different, the Ming Dynasty has completely conquered the Qin State, and there is no obstacle, and when he receives this season's grain, he can go on the road.

The only thing that worries him is whether the family members who stayed in the Qin State will have any accidents in the war. But anyway, I'm going to go back and have a look.

Take a few glances at the green crops, Mei Zizi picked up the bucket and walked in the direction of home, the big yellow dog shook his head and shook his tail and ran forward and backward to spread joy, the village within the high wall in the distance has been rising smoke, back home, there is a hot meal, just stewed soybeans, drink a few sips of wine, this small day, but it is really a fairy to not change.

The big yellow dog suddenly stopped running, stood in place, and barked loudly into the distance, and the hair on his body also shrugged up, Jiang Hui was startled, and looked back into the distance, a straight wolf smoke looked particularly dazzling under the blue sky.

The big yellow dog seems to be very familiar with this pillar of smoke and knows that as soon as this column of smoke appears, something will definitely happen.

Jiang Hui's eyes suddenly became fierce, and he spat fiercely: "your mother, come again, come again, it's over." He spread his legs and ran towards the village, the two buckets shaking violently in front of him, and the big yellow dog did not scurry back and forth, but spread his hooves and ran ahead.

In the surrounding fields, countless men rushed out, or carrying hoes, or carrying baskets, or leading ploughing oxen, all of them were speeding up their pace and retreating towards the village, and in the village, the sound of a warning gong had sounded.

There is a lot of land in the village, there are many people, and there are hundreds of men, but the village enclosed by the wall is not large, which is mainly for the convenience of defense. When Jiang Hui left the bucket in front of the door and ran into the house, he saw that the hot meal was already on the table, and the woman was waiting there with his knife and a pair of half-body armor in her hand.

Put a set of half-body armor on his body, and then ran out again with a knife, and when he ran out, he saw men from the neighborhood coming out of the house with all kinds of weapons. Rushing to the high wall outside. Among them, there is no shortage of tall and strong women.

These women are basically from Qindi, Jiang Hui's daughter-in-law is a local, this kind of thing is not good, but following them, his woman picked up Jiang Hui's flat bucket that was still in front of the door, picked it on her shoulder, and ran out tremblingly.

There are still many old and weak people like Jiang Hui's women, and their main task is to carry water to extinguish the fire, or lift the injured down.

When the Qi army comes to attack, they often release rockets, and every time they attack, there are few dead people, but they often make a mess of the village, and after a few times, the people in the village also have a whole set of ways to deal with it.

Jiang Hui rushed up to the arrow tower in three steps and two steps, this is the highest place in the village, and there is already a person there, it is a military attache sent by the county. A retired veteran named Bao An. Bao An eats the imperial court, and his usual task is to organize these people to conduct military training during the slack time, and they will become commanders when they fight.

Of course, the abilities of the military attachés in each village are also different, like Bao An, the road is very wild, and this time he actually got a strong crossbow and put it in the arrow tower. Although it is the kind of strong crossbow that has been eliminated a long time ago, such weapons are generally not equipped in the village. I don't know what path Bao An went, but he actually got one, and ten strong crossbows like spears. He's fiddling with this crossbow somewhere.

Jiang Hui knew that Bao An was very precious to this thing, and he would spend a lot of time in the arrow tower every day to maintain this guy.

"This thing can't shoot accurately!" Jiang Hui Dao.

"What do you know?" Bao An said disdainfully: "Do you know what I used to do?" I'm a crossbowman, I've been fiddling with this thing for half my life, in this world, there is no one who can't shoot accurately, just look at the level of the person who shoots? Our Daming's current strong crossbow is not on the head, anyway, as soon as it is shot out, it will be one after another, even if it is blind, it can also be covered, but in the past, we relied on him to rely on personal skills, Jiang Hui, you just see, this time I will definitely do a Qi officer down, kill a Qi captain, and our village will be exempt from all taxes this year."

"If you really want to be able to kill a Qi lieutenant and exempt our village from all taxes this year, I invite you to drink." Jiang Hui said suspiciously.

"You're so stingy, everyone's taxes in a year are worth a meal!" Bao An rolled his eyes and patted the crossbow, "Are you going to see if there are any other villages?"

"The family will give you a meal!" Jiang Hui said loudly.

"Okay." Bao An was overjoyed: "Then it's decided. The big husband said, the four horses are hard to chase, look, they are coming, hey, this time there are a lot of people, isn't there a thousand people."

Looking at the Qi people running in the distance, Jiang Hui only felt that his cheeks hurt a little, "Damn, why are there so many this time?" Attache Bao, when will our reinforcements arrive?"

Bao An unhurriedly lit three piles of wolf smoke on top of the arrow tower, and turned around and said: "From the county cavalry, it will take an hour at the earliest, which means that we have to support one hour alone, what about thousands of Qi soldiers, seeing three piles of wolf smoke, other villages will not come to support us, we can only rely on ourselves to survive, Jiang Hui, you have to be mentally prepared, this time I am afraid that people will die."

Jiang Hui kept his face silent.

"You go down and take everyone to fight, what should be said, I said it earlier, everyone's cooperation is almost like this, the key is not to be confused, don't panic, and don't be afraid, fighting, it's a heart, if you are cowardly first, then you will definitely lose, there are many enemies, but we have high walls to block, and they don't have heavy weapons, an hour, it's not a difficult thing. I'm going to stay here and see if I can find a chance to take out their leader? There is only one chance, one miss, and it will be difficult to attack him again. It's a surprise, I'm afraid he won't think that there will be such a thing as a crossbow in our village."

"Okay, I'll go down first, we're not afraid of death, damn, it's hard to live a good life, the dog's day is three days and two ends to make trouble, and the clay people still have a few earthy natures, I also understand, if I don't kill them, I won't have a good life."

Jiang Hui walked to the top of the high wall, he could feel the worry and fear of all the people in the village, there were also Qi people attacking before, but sometimes there were only two or three hundred people, and sometimes there were only a hundred people, more of them were harassment and destruction, but this time there were thousands of people, which was a little different from usual.

"Don't be afraid, they don't have trebuchets or crossbows, they can't break our walls, if you want to come up, you have to climb, are the knives and axes in our hands vegetarian? Hack the fuck to death, are we still afraid of death? As long as you hold on for an hour, the reinforcements from the county will come, and if they dare to come, they will all die here!" Jiang Hui brandished a knife, ran around the high wall and drummed up, lowered his head and saw his daughter-in-law standing next to the two buckets of water, and shouted loudly: "In the house, is the food warm in the pot?" I've beaten away these robbers, and I'm going to have a few more drinks!"

The woman below was still carrying a swaddling doll on her back, and when she heard Jiang Hui's roar, she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "The master, it's all warm, I covered the pot before I went out."

There was laughter from the walls, and fear and worry dissipated little by little in the laughter.

In the distance, the Qi people began to unfold the procession, trampling on the crops that grew very well towards the village, looking at the seedlings that fell on the ground, there was a sound of scolding immediately from the head of the high wall, this is the hard work of the village for several months, from the beginning of spring sowing to the present, waiting for these crops like waiting for the ancestors, but now they are trampled on the ground without pity.

Those who have never been hungry will never understand the love of those who have gone hungry for food.

When more than 100 steps away from the high wall, the Qi army paused, and after a little rectification, several teams of Qi troops began to continue to move forward, and the remaining Qi troops stayed in place, Jiang Hui looked at the Qi army riding on a tall horse, and saw that the clothes should be a general, and after mixing with Bao An for a long time, he can also distinguish the different levels of the enemy's generals through the different styles of the enemy's armor. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at the still quiet Arrow Tower, if Bao An could kill this guy, it would not only be a year's tax, but also another reward to be taken in the village.

The Qi people continued to advance, until they advanced to about thirty steps, and then stopped, they were bullying that there were no archers in the village, and the crossbow machine of the Ming army could never be distributed to the village.

Qi Jun took out ropes one by one, and in front of the ropes, there were round balls one by one, and when they watched them light the balls and wave them in the air, Jiang Hui immediately turned around and shouted loudly: "Prepare to extinguish the fire, they are going to set fire."