Chapter Seventy-Eight: A Secluded Courtyard
In the series of turmoil in Mocone Mountain in the past few days, the people who have been most hurt are the villagers in the village.
As a result of the civil unrest in the cottage, the middle-aged men of each family were forced to divide into different camps and fight each other. And among them, this high leader is even more wolf-like, colluding with the Sow Ridge thieves to capture Mocone Mountain, and the rest of the leaders and their guards in the Mocone Mountain cottage were killed or captured.
The Sow Ridge thieves occupied the Mill Cone Mountain for only a short time, so they plundered most of the goods and materials of the Mill Cone Mountain and forced the young men of the Mill Cone Mountain to transport the materials away overnight.
Seeing that the little grain of the villagers in the village for the winter was taken away by the Sow Ridge thieves, nearly 4,000 people in the Mill Cone Mountain dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, this group of Sow Ridge robbers killed people without blinking, and they could barely survive by relying on the production in the mountains without food for the winter, but they dared to resist the looting of the Sow Ridge thieves but they would not even leave their lives!
The robbers of Sow Ridge not only looted the goods and materials of the cottage, but also did not let go of the young women in the cottage before leaving.
The households of Mocone Villa are mainly composed of the four surnames of Zhang, Wang, Gao and Jiang, and the residential areas in the village are also divided according to different surnames.
For the grinding cone tiger poisoned and died, the villagers in the village not only did not grieve, but applauded. Almost every family is cursing the dead grinder: "You deserve to die!" After this wolf-hearted man led people to kill Commander Zhang and occupy Mocone Mountain, the villagers did not have a few days of peace of mind. ”
How many troubles did this grinding cone tiger provoke outside, he died, and now the sow ridge thieves have invaded the grinding cone mountain, and I didn't think that there would be a group of thieves to kill the grinding cone mountain, which makes the villagers in the village still alive!
Listening to the sound of fighting and screaming in the square from afar, everyone in the village was scared, and every household closed their doors and windows tightly! Adults and children alike are afraid to fall asleep with their eyes wide open.
A group of thieves later on the square directly fought with the sow ridge thieves, and there was a shout of killing in the square! The villagers in the village secretly hope that the thieves on both sides would be able to kill and lose both, so that they will not harm the ordinary villagers in Mocone Mountain!
To their disappointment, the sound of the battle in the square only lasted for a short time, and one of the thieves scattered and fled, and suddenly it became smaller, and many bold farmers leaned on the wall of their own yards and secretly looked at the square of Mill Cone Mountain.
Not good! Some of the escaped thieves fled towards the stockade, quickly shut the gate, and never let the escaped thieves rush in! Amazing! When the dealer found something wrong, he immediately took action to stop the thieves from breaking into his home.
Many dealers wondered, "This sow ridge thief is very fierce, isn't it, how could he be killed so quickly!" ”
Seeing that most of the thieves in the square set off to chase the remnants of Sow Ridge, and the thieves who stayed in the square did not seem to have the intention of disturbing the villagers in the village, many of the villagers were a little relieved, and the old people in the family were secretly praying!
"Don't drive away the wolf, the tiger is here again!"
"As long as you leave some food for the old and young in the village for the winter, let us villagers do anything, the villagers on the grinding cone mountain really can't stand the toss!"
The sky gradually brightened, and the wind in the mountains blew on the face and body with the cold of early winter, making Feng Jian and the officers and soldiers left behind in the Zhenshan Battalion, who had not slept all night, hungry and cold.
From yesterday noon until this time, the continuous marching battles prevented Feng Jian and all the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion from entering the water, including of course most of the officers and soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, including Xu Yannian, who went to chase the thieves in Sow Ridge.
There are only 36 soldiers from the Zhenshan Battalion who are left behind in the Mocone Mountain, and the Mocone Mountain is in turmoil at this time, Feng Jian naturally will not leave everyone to find a place to rest by himself, he is responsible for patrolling like ordinary Zhenshan Battalion soldiers, monitoring the movements inside the Mocone Village.
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The house with the door closed on the side of the Mocone Mountain Assembly Hall is surrounded by a tall courtyard wall made of bluestone in the mountains, and it is not clear from the outside that the house is divided into several courtyards.
At this time, there were two soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion standing at the front and back gates of the courtyard, and seven or eight soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion were walking around the house with knives and guns.
The soldiers standing at the door in the cold wind stomped their feet from time to time, and in the distant stockade from time to time, someone poked their heads to look here, full of panic and unwilling expressions.
After dawn, Feng Jian began to prepare a house to solve the problem of dining for the people who stayed in Mocone Mountain.
The meeting hall of Mocone Mountain is very large, but there is no stove canteen here, it is divided into two entrances before and after, and the front courtyard bedroom wing room and stove room are all complete.
He led Shen Xiaoshan Cheng Yousheng around the Mocone Mountain Hall, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the mansion guarded by the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, Shen Xiaoshan suggested that the three of them should open the courtyard door and enter the courtyard to see the actual situation, to see if the daughter of the Zhizhou family was still there! By the way, check if there is a stove room and a canteen in the courtyard.
Feng Jian nodded in agreement, so the three of them turned around and walked towards the main gate of the house, and the soldiers who were standing guard by the door saw Feng Jian leading people to come, and immediately stood straight to Feng Jian to perform the Zhenshan Camp military salute, Feng Jian returned the salute and said: "Brothers, work harder, here must let the people of Mocone Mountain come and go at will, if you encounter a person who forcibly enters and exits, it doesn't matter!" ”
Seeing that the guards nodded cautiously, he said, "Open the gate of this mansion, and this commander will go in and check it out!"
"Obedience"
The soldier guarding the door agreed neatly, turned around and pushed the courtyard door open for Feng Jian and the three of them.
Feng Jian led Shen Xiaoshan and Cheng Yousheng into the courtyard, and Shen Xiaoshan recalled as he walked: "The villain heard those remnants of the Mill Cone Mountain mention this place, saying that the original Great Commander of the Mill Cone Mountain who was killed by the Mill Cone Tiger lived here. ”
Feng Jian was noncommittal, and looked around when he walked into the courtyard, which was a square courtyard with a row of eight front halls facing south, and four wings on the left and right sides.
Through the courtyard, you can vaguely see that the front yard is connected to the backyard after the hall, and the front and back courtyards are only connected by a shoulder-wide passageway, which is extremely inconvenient for people to walk here.
This should be a deliberate design by the owner of the courtyard, separating the front and back courtyards so that the backyard can be used as the living room of the owner and his inner family.
The four wings on the left side of the front yard should be the residence of the chief and the guards who live in the front yard of the house, while the four wings on the right are the places where the utensils and miscellaneous items are stored, and the guards eat and rest.
Feng Jian instructed the guards at the gate of the house to go to the square to find Huang Fuchun, and asked Huang Fuchun to take some ready-made flour from the square and steam steamed buns in the stove to solve the problem of eating all in Zhenshan Camp!
Feng Jian himself took Shen Xiaoshan and Cheng Yousheng through the narrow aisle to the backyard, looking at the situation in the front yard, the entire courtyard was empty and seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time, and it was definitely impossible for Zhizhou's daughter to live in the front yard.
Shen Xiaoshan said: "There won't be thieves hidden here, do you want to find a few guards to check in the backyard together." ”
Cheng Yousheng said: "What are you afraid of? Now that the entire Mill Cone Mountain is in our hands, even if there are thieves in this mansion, they will have long been scared away! ”
Feng Jian said: "This place is very close to the Mocone Mountain Square, and ordinary thieves will not hide here. We've been keeping a tight watch over this place since last night, how can any thieves sneak in? Let's go, let's go in and have a look! ”
Shen Xiaoshan and Cheng Yousheng still cautiously guarded Feng Jian in the middle, and the three of them passed through the aisle connecting the front and rear courtyards, and the vision in front of them was broadened, and there was only one space between the front yard and the backyard gate, about three zhang square. After pushing open the door of the house, there is a wall of light, and a gold-painted "Fu" is inlaid in it on the wall, and the people standing outside the door in the courtyard cannot see it at all.
The pattern of the backyard is roughly the same as that of the front yard, the difference is that there is a two-story small building on the right side of the backyard, which seems to be the boudoir of the female dependent.
The whole courtyard was silent, and the three of them walked into the main hall, where the utensils and utensils were not messy, and it was obvious that the thieves from both Mocone Mountain and Sow Ridge had not ransacked this place.
There is a bedroom on both sides of the main house, and the bedroom is also clean and tidy.
At the end of the courtyard, there is a stone wall made of bluestone in the mountains, which is more than one person high, and outside the courtyard is the wooden house courtyard of ordinary villagers in Mocone Mountain.
The courtyard in the courtyard here is elegant and quiet, and I saw that there was a jujube tree planted near the courtyard gate, which was close to the thickness of the bowl mouth, and it was already full of ripe winter jujubes at this time.
A mountain stream meanders through the small courtyard, and on the south side of the stream is a field of blooming chrysanthemums, purple, yellow, and white; On the north side of the stream are some home-cooked vegetables such as radishes and cabbage waiting to be harvested.
At the base of the wall of the small courtyard a wooden trellis was crawling with vines, although the tide had passed, but there were still a few grapevine leaves hanging on the vines, and the surface of the grape leaves was stained with a layer of hoarfrost in the cold wind, and they shook alone in the wind.
The natural division of the mountain stream, the jujube trees, chrysanthemums, vegetables and grapes appear to be distinct, and people have a sense of tranquility and distantness in it.
It seems that the chaos outside does not affect the owner of the house at all, raising flowers and vegetables is self-satisfied, Feng Jian was a little surprised, looking at the layout of the courtyard, it is not like the village people who have no life and are forced to fall into the grass, but it is like a place for down-and-out literati to escape the world.
The three of them quietly observed the quiet courtyard, breathing and feeling the tranquility. Feng Jian had the idea of having a conversation with the owner of this courtyard.