Soon, all the men in the village gathered at the village chief's house. These people are either sick for a long time, or they are missing arms and lame legs, most of them are injured in battle, and the army does not support idlers, so they can only go home and farm. Chen Dahe, the leader, was caught by a wolf and blinded in one eye while hunting, while Liu Chen, the eldest son of the village chief's family, was not conscripted because of his meritorious fame.

There were more than 400 people in the whole village, and excluding the 87 people who were taken away, there were less than 20 people who could be used.

Looking at these people, Liu Ziliang had no bottom in his heart, and he could only give orders in a row, "Dahe took people to inform them door to door, Shangyang County was in chaos, and a large number of victims came to our Qiyang." Let them prepare early, stock up on food, and hide it! If you can't go out in the next few days, don't go out. After the few of you have taken care of your home, you will have to have patrol people day and night, and this time will be hard for you. ”

After speaking, he ordered his eldest son to take eighteen taels of silver, and divided them one by one.

The people were not very happy when they got the money, and they were all worried. Liu Chen and Chen Dahe each brought a few people to knock on the gong to convey the news from house to house, and the family from the head of the village to the end of the village did not fall.

Some people still don't take such a big battle seriously, and some people hurriedly hide the grain at home in the cellar.

Si Tu went to the town again in the afternoon and bought 300 catties of rice and 200 catties of noodles. This time, he only sent people back to the official road on the side, and took advantage of the night to roll the grain with his tail and rode home in the wind.

didn't dare to move too much, but only sent twenty catties to Aunt Chunhua's family. Aunt Chunhua's house doesn't have a cellar, and it's not easy to hide it in the past.

After finishing this, Si Tu went to the vegetable garden again, turned into a fox shape the size of a zhang and began to plow the ground. He was going to dig a cellar, and his two claws were extremely sharp, and he dug a spacious cellar in half an hour. He threw all the things he had bought during the day into the cellar, and used a flattening spell to hide the hole tightly. Everything is restored to the same as before, and no one can see that there is a cellar hidden under this vegetable garden.

Jiang Qishi listened to the movement outside, smiled and shook his head, "This kid is really cautious, it's a good thing, it's not like me...... Alas! ”

In the night, Muyun Village was shrouded in darkness, and a few fires wandered in the village. It was a patrol organized by the village, which had just been arranged during the day and had already begun to patrol in the evening.

There was nothing to do overnight, Liu Chunhua made a pot of steamed buns early in the morning and took the black beans to Jiang's house. She hadn't slept well all night, and she was very upset. Although she has lived alone for so long, she is a woman after all. I heard that the homeless people might have come to Muyun Village, and I had nightmares all night.

"Why is my aunt's face so ugly? Isn't it scary? Si Tu just teased the black beans to play, and now he saw Liu Chunhua's face was bloodless, and his eyes were blue and black.

Jiang Qishi touched Liu Chunhua's hand when he heard this, it was cold and cold, and he couldn't help but be a little worried, "Chunhua is afraid that she is frightened, and I didn't think it through." It's really not appropriate for you to live alone, otherwise you will move in with me first, and then talk about it later, and we can take care of each other together. ”​

Liu Chunhua was a little hesitant, no matter how much she was an outsider, she usually took care of each other, and it was still a little inappropriate to really live here.

"Auntie, don't think about it, just listen to my mother, it's safer for us to live at the foot of this mountain." Muyun Village is almost surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only entrance is the head of the village, if she really can't hold it, she can still take her mother and Aunt Chunhua to retreat to Muyun Mountain.

Liu Chunhua wanted to say something, Jiang Qishi squeezed her hand, and pretended to be angry and said, "Could it be that I think my place is dilapidated and unwilling to sleep in the same room with a rough woman like me?" Saying that she was about to wipe her tears again, Liu Chunhua waved her hand busily, "Sister-in-law of the Jiang family, don't cry, I'll just move over, you can't cry in your eyes." ”

Hearing that Liu Chunhua agreed, Jiang Qishi pulled her to a stool and sat side by side, "It's okay to agree, and let Heng'er come over with you to clean up your things later." Let's eat, if it gets cold for a while, it will ruin your good craft. ”

"I don't have a few things, I'll just bring some change of clothes and quilts, and let Heng'er take care of you at home." She didn't want Si Tu to move things, the situation in the village was grim now, and she might be arrested if she met a living person.

Jiang Qi didn't force it, anyway, just move over.

After breakfast, Liu Chunhua took the black beans home. As soon as they entered the yard, the black beans began to bark non-stop.

Is this someone coming in? But the courtyard door and the door are well locked. Suspicious, Liu Chunhua walked around the courtyard, and sure enough, close to the wall of Zhu Hongxia's courtyard, a vegetable seedling was trampled on. The two families share a courtyard wall, which is only about five feet high, and Liu Chunhua can easily climb over it by building a stool by herself. has always been peaceful, but I didn't expect this thief to dare to steal from her now.

Liu Chunhua was very angry, and hurried to check if there was anything missing at home. The door was locked, but there were signs of smashing, as were the locks in the other rooms. Fortunately, Changgui changed the locks inside and outside the house before leaving, otherwise this home would have been emptied for Zhu Hongxia.

Not good! Liu Chunhua hurriedly rushed to the stove room, most of the stove rooms in Muyun Village were open, only the pillars and the top, naturally they could not be locked. Running straight to the shelf where the basket was placed, fortunately no one seemed to have touched it. There are several layers of shelves, three baskets, and a dried chili pepper on the surface. Pull out the bottom and take a look, it's empty, and there's something there.

Liu Chunhua's tears flowed out, and he picked up the burning stick on the ground and walked out. It was the ginseng that Si Tu gave him, and he came back yesterday to dry it for a while, and it was collected in the stove room at night. In the morning, I was so restless that I forgot to put things into the room, and let Zhu Hongxia, the thief mother-in-law, touch her, how willingly.

The burning stick knocked on the door of Zhu Hongxia's courtyard, and a little daughter-in-law leaned out half of her body to look at the door and said, "Sister-in-law Chunhua, are you looking for the Zhu family?" I saw that she had gone out with her baggage half an hour ago, and I heard that she was going to pick up her son. ”​

Liu Chunhua looked at it, and the door was indeed locked. With nowhere to vent her anger, Liu Chunhua had no choice but to pack up her things and move to Jiang's house first. If it weren't for the fact that several courtyards were next to each other, she really wanted to set fire to Zhu Hongxia's house.

When she arrived at Jiang's house, Liu Chunhua told Si Tu about it, and she couldn't swallow this breath in her heart and felt ashamed of Si Tu. The things that were just delivered to my hands were gone in a blink of an eye, and I blamed myself for not confiscating them. It took a while of comfort for Si Tu to stop his tears, and he was also very angry at what Zhu Hongxia had done.

In the village, the villagers who had not taken the rumors of the displaced people seriously yesterday began to panic. A few families went to the town to buy something, but the doors of the shops in the town were closed, and there was no one on the street except them to buy things. I knocked on the doors of a few houses to inquire about the situation, and got the same reaction - dare to run around these days? I'm afraid you're going to die!