"Old man Lu, there is an order from a hundred households, let me come to you," After the Land Temple, Jiang Xiaoshan, who had handed over his waist knife, waved away the greasy earth dog at his feet, and walked to a wooden grass house with a smile.

The grass hut without windows and doors is actually a shed, in which a few old people sit on the wooden board, around a pile of grass charcoal in a clay pot.

The craftsmen are ingenious and smart, there is no charcoal, charcoal, the cold wind swishing on the top of the mountain, although the fence blocks most of the cold wind, but it is still cold outdoors, people want to retract their heads into the cotton clothes; So, some people found a straw with thick branches, and burned it into charcoal, which could barely withstand the cold wind, but it was not burned.

"Well, you kid, you're almost thirty years old, and you still dare to break the ban, I don't know which military rule you violated this time?" The gray-haired old Lu Tou didn't look at Jiang Xiaoshan, waved his hand and said, "Tell your daughter-in-law, if you don't have it, you can go home, someone has to send the food,"

"I said it," Jiang Xiaoshan, who didn't care at all, tilted his head triumphantly, for fear that others wouldn't be able to see the medicine belt on his head, "Look where my room is, I'm going in,"

"Boom," several old men in old cotton jackets suddenly laughed, the grass house where the guards were held had been occupied by them, and it was in front of Jiang Xiaoshan.

"No, it's your fate, Baihu Kai's grace, the concession is forbidden to patrol the mountain behind the sergeant," Lao Lu Tou took a two-foot wooden stick from his side and cautiously handed it into Jiang Xiaoshan's hand, "Go, there can't be anything wrong with the pool, the military households in the whole tun are pointing at you,"

The glorious patrol work was handed over to Jiang Xiaoshan, and the old Lu Tou retracted again, and Jiang Xiaoshan, who was in high spirits, went out to patrol with a wooden stick; In this section of the mountain without a wall, the cold wind is even more pressing, and the sergeants of the water drawing team have now changed to half-day work.

The two small and large water storage tanks were built, and a thick layer of miscellaneous wood fences were added to the water inlets above, except for the three derricks in the distance and a thick wooden barrel, Jiang Xiaoshan could not see anything else.

On the edge of the high stone wall, he was dizzy when he stood and looked at it, so let's look around elsewhere, looking at the old people in the grass house from a distance, Jiang Xiaoshan suddenly felt that he was not at a loss, and he was originally locked up in the grass house, but it became a patrol.

He didn't notice that the opening of the thatched house was facing the stone wall of this section, and the eyes of the old people when they were chatting also glanced at it from time to time.

On the construction site of the Tian family's shop, Tian Xiuxiu didn't leave a single houseguard, and the craftsmen under Wang Dali, after Miss Tian left, Xiao Liuzi secretly muttered a few words to the Wang secretary, and the absent-minded Wang secretary suddenly broke out.

"This section of the wall must be built thick, one and a half feet is not good, two feet, the official has to check, it must be very cold in winter here, the foundation there, move it outward, let ten feet," the shouting Wang Si Official, obviously different attitudes, made the craftsmen all dissatisfied, the money given as much as the Huang family, why is it too tolerant than the Huang family, and the backyard covers half of the area.

It wasn't until a few guards came to check that someone who was familiar with each other met each other's eyes, squeezed their eyes seriously, and after two whispers, the craftsmen suddenly understood, whispered and passed on, and the people on the construction site were immediately full of enthusiasm.

"It's strange, why are they so capable, is it because they are paid more?" Holding the charcoal stove in his hand, Huang Deshan looked at the movement next door in puzzlement, too, if you don't step up the construction, you will wait for next year as soon as the ground freezes.

How did he know the power of the five words of the second lady of the hundred households.

After the noon training was completed, and the road to the coal pit was also arranged for tomorrow, Xiao Ye returned home, and saw Uncle Kun sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard with a happy face, waving his hand at him.

"What's wrong Uncle Kun, what are you doing with your hand?" Xiao Ye, who was puzzled, untied the war knife in his waist, and walked into the room while asking, and saw Mei'er, who was in tears, sitting on a chair and facing the wooden bed.

On the kang covered with a mattress, a cotton handkerchief can still be seen with red traces.

"Mei'er, what's wrong, who dares to bully you," Xiao Ye didn't see the steaming lunch, Xiao Ye felt bored, and when he looked at the kang again, he knew that something bad was wrong; The absurdity of last night, which was carefully mearized, was really discovered.

Really, Xiuxiu pulled down the handkerchief.

"Is she Miss Yang?" Mei'er, who was crying, raised her red and swollen eyes and stared at Xiao Ye's face, if Xiao Ye denied it, she would be dead.

"Oh, yes, it's her," Xiao Ye didn't think much about it, nodded in response, "You are the main room, she is a partial room, perhaps, she can't even enter the partial room,"

Xiao Ye's words, although Mei'er was a little sad, her face was much better, and Xiao Ye's last words diverted her attention.

"Why, she's like that, you still don't accept it, so how can she behave?" The sweetheart straightened her position, and Mei'er also stabilized her mind, wiped her tears, and asked suspiciously.

"The big family's face is ugly, let's talk about it in the future," Xiao Ye hung the war knife on the wall, frowning and looking at the bare desktop, "Lunch is not eaten?" ”

"Eh, it's broken, I'll do it, Uncle Kun," Mei'er, who jumped up in a hurry, hurriedly picked up the handkerchief and ran out with a red face. Xiao Ye chuckled and shook his head, before eating, let's read a book.

After eating, Xiao Ye took Mei'er to Li Langzhong, took Zuo Shi home to recuperate, and the little sister also came back; For a while, the quiet courtyard was lively again.

Mei'er, who was already familiar with her little sister, was more like the hostess of the family at this time, pulling her younger siblings to make love, and Xiao Ye was depressed, she met every day, and there were so many words.

After lunch, Xiao Ye was reading at home, Mei'er took Hanjuan out to play, Si followed some little girls, and there were two guards behind her.

After Sun Tzu's back of the Art of War was ripe, his father-in-law Yang Tianshou explained it to him a few more times, and then took out Liu Ji's "Hundred Battles and Strategies" and "The Heart of the Art of War", Liu Yin's "Seven Books of Martial Arts Direct Explanation", Jiao Yu's "Fire Dragon Artifact Formation", Zhao Benxue's "Continuation of the General Essentials of the Martial Arts" and "Sun Tzu's Book School Explanation".

Yang Tianshou, who has no actual combat experience, talks about soldiers on paper and tactics on paper, but is the first to go, and no longer instructs Xiao Ye's sergeant drills, but pays attention to his reading; There are 180 examples of war listed in "Sun Tzu's Book School Commentary", which made him appreciate, "It is a military book with unique insights."

Fortunately, the Confucian classics of the Four Books and Five Classics, which are very prosperous in the current dynasty, Yang Tianshou just handed over the books to Xiao Ye, and he didn't urge or ask.

Xiao Ye will also write down the things he doesn't understand in the military book, and find time to ask his father-in-law for advice, he looks down on the sour talent who doesn't know how to pretend to understand.

picked up the book and read it for a while, Xiao Ye heard the sound of giggling in the small courtyard, Han Juan and a few little girls, surrounded by the stone table, muttering quietly; Sticking out his head to look out, he didn't see Mei'er, so Xiao Ye coughed lightly, lifted the curtain and walked out.

"Big brother, you see, we have come back from looking for these fruits, and we don't know if we can eat them?" When Han Juan saw her brother come out, she said loudly, which made Xiao Ye's face black again.

"What about your sister-in-law," glanced at the fruit on the table, which was not much bigger than black beans, Xiao Ye asked dissatisfiedly, "Can't you eat indiscriminately,"

"She went to the Huang family's shop just now to buy something, and we'll be back," Han Juan saw that her brother was not interested, so she picked up the fruit on the table boredly and knocked on the table.

The little girls, seeing that Baihu's face was not good, ran out of the courtyard in a gloomy manner, and even forgot to say hello to Hanjuan. The guards at the door also turned a blind eye.

"Well, then you go to play, go to the private school tomorrow to study," Xiao Ye was about to go back to the house, but his body shook slightly, and he turned back suddenly, staring at Han Juan's little hand with blazing eyes; At this moment, he realized that the small fruit in the little sister's hand and the sound of the table meeting were very different.

"Where did this fruit come from, it looks very hard," he picked up a fruit on the stone table, put it in his hand and pinched it, but he couldn't pinch it at all, and the weight was a little heavy; I knocked on the stone surface again, and it was a dull sound.

"It's picked from outside the wall, but you have to be careful, if you let the thorn be pierced, you have to sleep for two hours," the triumphant Han Juan obviously didn't remember to eat, but Xiao Ye rarely didn't hear the words behind.

Use your nails to hang off the outer skin of the fruit, the blue-green skin is very thin, the exposed core, the earthy yellow and hard flesh, where is the flesh, the hard can't be pinched at all; No wonder Han Juan and the others just picked and played, if they bit it, they would knock their teeth for sure.

"Kernel?" Looking at the fruit in his hand, Xiao Ye suddenly remembered the words that he couldn't understand, and his hands trembled with excitement, and he suddenly stood up, "Little sister, go and take the eldest brother to see, go now,"

Ascending to the top of the dark fort outside the wall, at the corner of a stone wall, Xiao Ye could see that a few branches of vine grass that covered most of the mountain leaked out; On the withered yellow broken leaves, on the purple-black branches, in the sharp and dense black long thorns, there are occasionally blue-green fruits, the big ones are like projectiles, and the small ones are smaller than black beans.

In a few places that are easy to pick, there are only long fruit stalks left, which are obviously where Han Juan and the others picked.

Xiao Ye didn't say anything, and asked the guards to find the old sergeants who were in charge of cleaning up the vine grass, and ordered them to put on thick clothes, put on protective clothing inside, and went down the stone mountain.

Finding a depression at the foot of the mountain that could not be seen on the mountain, the two old sergeants skillfully put on double layers of cowhide gloves, tied the cuffs and trousers, brushed off the dead leaves on the surface of the vine grass, picked off the fruits one by one, and put them into the cloth bag around their waists.

In their waists, a thick rope was tied, and a sergeant pulled the end of the rope, and once they were scratched by a spike, they could drag it out and carry it up the mountain for healing; Now they also know the toxicity of the vine grass, at most they lie down and fall into a coma for two hours, and with the decoction, the time will be shorter, and there will be no major problems after waking up.

After picking hundreds of catties of fruit, several old sergeants carried two small cloth bags into the courtyard of a hundred households, and scraped off the skin with a knife in their hands, revealing the earthy yellow flesh; "When," a peeled fruit fell on the stone table, making a dull sound, which made the old sergeant secretly wonder too.

The peel asked the sergeant to send Li Langzhong there to see if there was any medicinal effect, and Xiao Ye left the remaining pulp.

After dinner, Zuo Shi went out on patrol with the captain, and Han Juan was tired after a day of playing, so he went to sleep in the right room.

After practicing the knife technique twice in the courtyard, Xiao Ye wiped his body casually and went to rest; The place where he rests now is the small courtyard from earlier.

With the money given by Brother Xiao, Mei'er gritted her teeth and bought a pot of ale wine for her father, and waited until Yang Tianshou fell asleep drunk, and after dressing up, she walked around the courtyard and looked at the low courtyard wall around her, the night was thick, and finally she stomped her feet lightly and quietly returned to her room.

She wanted to learn from Miss Tianjia, but in the end she backed down. If it weren't for the courtyard wall, if it weren't for those sharp-eyed guards, maybe her wish would have come true tonight.