20. Bandits

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Zhou Hong sent the patriarch outside the door and said, "I said that you, the patriarch, the two families have been separated by seven or eight generations, how much benefit have you received from Li Laogen?" Mind the matter! ”

The patriarch was told to be on the job, and he coughed so much that he barely gasped for breath. His family saw that something was wrong and quickly helped him back.

Zhou Hong looked at Li Laogen's family and said, "You are called self-inflicted, hurry up and find a place to live, don't feel uncomfortable here." ”

The guards cooperated and drew their knives and stared at his family. Li Laogen's youngest daughter immediately cried in fright when she saw this person with bandages, Li Laogen sighed, and had to pull his family out of the gate of the Li Mansion.

Meng Changjiang finally found his feeling after these two battles, although he didn't get Zhou Jin's personal admission, he also felt that he didn't disappoint Zhou Jin, so he was in a good mood now. Even though he was stabbed a few times, he didn't feel any discomfort.

As when he lived in the hotel, Meng Changjiang began to arrange the situation on duty, he selected some people who were not seriously injured, and arranged six people in the front and back yards, divided into three groups of guards. Since Zhou Jin's female dependents lived in the courtyard of the second entry, only two people were arranged to guard at the gate of the front yard, waiting for the situation to enter.

That night, Li Yu woke up and found Zhou Jin guarding the bedside, very sweet in his heart, with a faint smile on his face, looking at him intently.

Zhou Jin touched her head and found that her body temperature was normal, so he asked, "Shall I pour you some water to drink?" ”

turned around and poured a glass of warm water, helped Li Yu up, and personally fed her and drank the water.

"Fourth brother, I'm sorry, if you hadn't come to Ji'an for me, we wouldn't be in danger." Li Yu blamed himself after drinking the water.

Zhou Jin came to Ji'an just as a means to please her, but since he made a decision, he would not complain about others, and now that he loves her so much, it doesn't matter if he goes through an adventure. And what this experience can bring to you, no one knows. He didn't want Li Yu to blame himself for this, so he kept hiding the attack until he couldn't hide it this time.

Therefore, he gently hugged Li Yu into his arms and said in her ear: "I am willing to do anything for you, don't blame yourself." I didn't protect you and let you get hurt. You should have enjoyed my love, not stood for me. Do you understand! ”

"But I love you so much, how can I bear to see you hurt."

Zhou Jin kissed her on the forehead, helped her lie down and said, "I'm a man, what's it if I'm injured." Okay, you go to sleep. When you're well, I'm at ease. ”

After covering the quilt for her, Zhou Jin said: "I'm on the couch next to me, and call me when the wound hurts." ”

Early the next morning, after Zhou Jin saw that Li Yu was recovering well, he came to the front yard. After checking the injuries of the guards, it was found that most of them were skin injuries, and only one or two were stabbed a few times, and the injuries were serious, but none of them hurt internal organs, major arteries or anything like that, so there was no danger to life. As long as you do a good job of hygiene and cleaning, most of them can be well recovered.

Zhou Jin called Meng Changjiang and Zhou Hong over and instructed: "The cloth for wound bandaging must be replaced once a day, and those new cloths must be boiled in boiling water for me." And you can't freeze anymore. Their clothes should also be changed frequently, Zhou Hong, you go and hire two people to wash their clothes specially. ”

Zhou Jin said: "The bed in the room has to be changed frequently. Zhongwei, you remember, you will do the same in the future. ”

The two immediately went their separate ways. But in the afternoon, Zhou Hong came back and said that no one wanted his daughter-in-law to wash the clothes of these men, and it was useless to give more money.

When Zhou Jin heard about it, he said with a smile: "I didn't think that the men in this village are very distressed about their daughters-in-law." That's another way. "After a while, he had a solution, and that was to build a washing machine.

So he called Liu Quan and asked him to make a wooden barrel the size of a water tank first, with a double bottom of the barrel, and the distance between the two layers of barrel bottoms is one to two inches, and then a wooden shaft is embedded in the middle, which runs through the bottom of the barrel and is fixed on it. Then make a round plank and cut three parabolas out on it. And the log board is fixed to the bottom of the stick shaft, above the bottom of the upper barrel. A smaller gear is fixed to the wooden shaft, which is linked to a larger gear by an iron chain. The larger gear holds a wooden bar, and the donkey pulls the bar to rotate.

Zhou Jin said: "Another suggestion, that is, you can dig a pit a little below at the bottom and let the shaft rotate in the pit." The way to fix the shaft is to fix two splints on the shaft, let the splints hold the bottom of the barrel, and you get some small round stone beads in the splint to make it rotate more smoothly. Leave a valve between the bottom of the two layers to drain the water. ”

Liu Quan thought for a while and asked, "Young Master, what is a parabola?" ”

"Just bend the surface a little bit, don't make it flat."

"Yes. I went for it immediately. ”

After hearing this, Zhou Hong asked, "Young Master, can this thing wash clothes?" ”

"Of course, you can go and prepare some soaphorns."

Liu Quan, a carpenter, was very dedicated and did it overnight. The next day, after Zhou Jin looked at it, he felt that he could give it a try, so he threw three or four pieces of clothes into it and began to wash them. Finding it barely usable, the garment would often wrap around the wooden shaft, but it was better than nothing. It's better than these lazy people who don't do laundry for half a month.

So the guards took out their dirty clothes and lined up to do laundry. The washerman drove his own donkey and made his own clothes in the bucket.

Seeing that the effect was good, Zhou Jin said: "Okay, you wash slowly, remember, you don't turn in one direction ten times." It can only be used for half an hour per person. Supervise each other. ”

A few days before the official worship of Li Chengkong, Zhou Jin, in addition to studying in the room and accompanying Li Yu, visited the Li family according to the list that had already been set. And of course, the patriarch. The patriarch and Zhou Jin are not a big enemy, not to mention that Zhou Jin's gift is not light, he is embarrassed.

Every day is peaceful, and it seems that the people who are looking for trouble have forgotten about them.

After ** days of cultivation, Li Yu's wound has become scarred and itchy, and it is all healed. Except for those who were seriously injured, the guards became fierce and began to train in the courtyard. The one or two seriously injured also recovered well, and under Zhou Jin's instructions, they began to move into the field regularly.

On November 16, the day of Li Chengkong's death, leaving six people, including the seriously injured, at home, Zhou Jin led Li Yu and other female dependents and guards to the ancestral tomb of the Li family.

The ancestral tomb of the Li family is located on a hill ten miles north of Zhuangzi. Li Chengkong's cemetery is located in a prominent position in the ancestral grave. The tombstone reads: Ming Anqing Mansion Tongzhi Li Chengkong Tomb.

The worship is first of all the fruit sacrifice, and then Zhou Jin began to read the sacrificial text he concocted, the sacrificial text is nothing more than to commemorate Li Chengkong's exploits and deeds, and then tell how sad people are about losing him, and finally Zhou Jin also added some guarantees or something.

Because of the need to perform, Zhou Jin read this memorial text of less than 1,000 words for half an hour. Then Zhou Jin and Li Yu bowed and worshipped, they first bowed five times, and the last one bowed three times, put on incense, and stood up. The various sacrifices were then burned, and after about a quarter of an hour, the burning was finished.

Zhou Jin was about to light firecrackers to end the sacrifice when Li Laogen's pleading voice was heard not far away. He was stopped outside by the guards, clamoring to see his young lady. Since Li Yu never mentioned this Li Laogen, Zhou Jin also looked at him.

Li Yu asked, "Fourth brother, what's the matter?" ”

Zhou Jin didn't want to be here to argue, so he said, "I'll talk about it when I go home." Then the guard said loudly, "Take him back to the house and speak." With that, he lit the firecrackers.

Back at the Li Mansion, Zhou Jin asked Li Laogen to take him to the hall, he was about to leave, and when Li Yu asked him to question him alone, Li Yu stopped him. Zhou Jin had no choice but to sit on the main seat.

Li Yu stood in the middle and asked, "Li Laogen, tell me what's going on?" ”

Li Laogen crawled on the ground and begged, "Please forgive me!" I was also bewitched by my wife to do that kind of thing, begging Miss to let us come back. ”

Li Yu was still confused and asked, "What the hell is going on, when did you move out?" ”

Zhou Jin thought about it and felt that it was better to tell the matter by himself, after all, he was the one who drove the people away, so he said: "This is the case, when we came back that day, when we arrived at the door, we knocked on the door and waited for half an hour before his son came out." But he didn't let us in, and he had to go in and report it. You were wounded, and I didn't have time to wait for him, so I sent for them to be driven away. ”

Li Laogen hurriedly said: "My son didn't know that the young lady was back, so he was lazy." Miss, spare us. ”

Zhou Jin didn't believe it after hearing this, there must be a cause and an effect, but after all, Li Yu was still here, so he was silent.

After hearing this, Li Yu felt that after all, he was an old man in the family, and it was too unkind to drive him away like this, but this matter was Zhou Jin's decision, and of course it was not good for him to directly veto his man's decision as a woman, so he discussed with Zhou Jin: "I think it's better to forget it, it's not a big deal." ”

Zhou Jin doesn't like to drag mud and water, and he feels that since he has the land for the first time, it is inevitable that there will be a second time, not to mention that this Liu Laogen didn't take a good look at this house, so Zhou Jin said: "In fact, this house doesn't need to be guarded by someone, just ask the patriarch to come to maintain it regularly." As for Li Laogen's family, give them a sum of money and let them fend for themselves. ”

When Li Yu heard him say this, he couldn't pay attention to it. After all, this Li Laogen is the only person in the Li family.

Seeing her hesitation, Zhou Jin said, "Since his wife doesn't want to be the Li family, if you keep them, they won't feel comfortable." Why not let them go. ”

Li Yu said: "Li Laogen is an old man in the family after all. ”

Zhou Jin understood what she meant, so he said, "You and my family love you." ”

Li Yu finally sent Li Laogen's family away. However, there was a feeling of sadness in his heart, so Zhou Jin had to accompany her all the time, and gave up checking the training of the guards.

In the evening, when Zhou Jin was finally about to climb Li Yu's peak after an afternoon of hard work, Li Min ran in and told Zhou Jin that Zhou Tong had an urgent report. Zhou Jin was already angry about being interrupted many times, and came to the living room sullenly.

Zhou Jin asked with a stinky face, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhou Tong glanced at Zhou Jin and lowered his head and thought, seeing that he was fine at noon, who provoked him now, so he said cautiously: "In the afternoon, when the guards were resting, I asked a few people to go to the tavern in Zhuangzi to drink." Then I saw some people there. ”

Zhou Tong stopped and looked at Zhou Jin, saw that there was no response, and continued: "Those people who are not in Zhuangzi still have blades, and some of them have scars on their faces. It doesn't look good. Steward Hong felt that these people were suspicious, so he asked them to follow them. Then the problem was discovered. ”

Zhou Jin still didn't say anything, so Zhou Tong had to continue: "There are four of them, first walking around the Zhuangzi, and then wandering around our yard. We didn't touch them so as not to startle them. As if they had found something to know, they left Zhuangzi in batches and headed into the mountains. Our men eventually followed them to a cottage with about a hundred bandits. ”

After Zhou Jin heard this, he immediately sat up straight, and said with a straight face: "Are you sure it's a bandit?" ”