There were about two dozen people in this group, all young people in their teens and twenties, they were dressed in fancy clothes, and the men wore big earrings and turbans on their heads.

Several girls were dressed in colorful clothes with blue backgrounds, some of them only wore half-arm vests, two dark arms, and several silver collars and silver bracelets around their necks and wrists, and the language in their mouths Qingluan did not understand at all.

Qingluan stared at these people vigilantly and slowly retreated.

"Huh? Is there such a beauty in this village? A teenager was surprised.

"Humph! But a weak peasant woman of the Han nationality, no matter how beautiful she is! I could pinch her to death with two fingers! The girl in colorful clothes said disdainfully.

Qingluan retreated behind a tree to avoid their gaze, and Fang breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, the group of people roared away again.

Seeing that they were all gone, Qingluan came out from behind the tree.

Xiao Luo had already flown out of the house and rushed out of the yard to the stream.

"Aman! Who is Fang Cai? Mountains you don't have? ”

Qingluan shook his head, "I don't understand their words, it may be the barbarian Tu clan here." ”

Xiao Luo pulled her to the stream, squatted down to clean the pots and pans, and couldn't help frowning when she saw the arrows next to her.

"They shot arrows at you?"

Qingluan: "Didn't shoot." It's fine, it's just some savage teenagers. ”

Xiao Luo stared at her for a while, holding the basin in one hand and pulling her back with the other, "I'm going to build the wall of our courtyard higher, and you will stay in the courtyard and don't go out in the future." ”

Second, Xiao Luo really called more than a dozen villagers from the village, transported stones and began to build a high courtyard wall.

Not only did he rebuild the courtyard wall, but he also built a stone wall around the vegetable garden in front of the gate and even by the stream.

The project is a bit big, from the beginning of June to the end of July, and it was already the autumnal equinox when it was completed.

Qingluan saw that this place was built like a manor by him, and couldn't help but laugh: "You make this country farmhouse like this, why don't you build the house into a castle, and save yourself from hiring someone next time." ”

Xiao Luo thought about it and felt that it made sense: "Aman's right, I'll go back and think about how to build it." ”

Qingluan glared at him angrily, stuffed Ah Bao into his arms, turned around and went to the vegetable garden to pluck vegetables, ready to feed one of the family's female goats.

Xiao Luo followed behind her with Ah Bao in his arms, watching her bend over and pull wood in the vegetable garden, her eyes full of tenderness.

"Aman, I once saw a place where the villagers lived in a kind of circular earthen building, which could not only prevent wild beasts, but also prevent bandits and man-made disasters."

Qingluan was curious: "What kind of tulou?" ”

"I'll draw it for you in a moment."

Xiao Luo: "That kind of tulou is very safe, outsiders can't enter at all, in the future, you can do laundry and cook in the tulou, Ah Bao grows up and marries a wife in it, and our future children and grandchildren can live in it......

Qingluan thought he was talking nonsense, so he glared at him, lowered his head and plucked a basket of fat greens, took them to the stream to wash them, and fed them to the goats one by one.

The milk produced by this she-goat is Bao's ration, and she must feed it with all her heart.

A few days later, Qin Jiang came back on horseback.

His leg had already healed, and although it was still a little lame, it was no longer in the way of walking.

Qingluan took advantage of the time when Xiao Luo was carrying Ah Bao to go outside, and asked Qin Jiang: "Have you inquired about going to Weizhou?" ”

Qin Jiang nodded, "Yue ...... He really married a wife, the daughter of a local Tusi in Weizhou. ”

Qingluan paused for a while, then looked up at Qin Jiang, "Thank you for your hard work, rest well and then go back, the business over there in Weizhou will be done slowly first, and I will go there to see when Wei Bao comes." ”

Qin Jiang nodded, looked at his master with some concern and said, "You don't have to be sad, after all, Xiao Luo is ......"

"I'm not sad, you can go." Qingluan waved at him.

Qin Jiang stood up and hesitated for a while, then went to the next room.

Qingluan sat in front of the window and stared at the still green plantain outside, and was silent for a while.

Isn't it sad? Actually, it's still a little sad.

But so what?

The days still have to pass, even without that man, the sun rises and sets, and there will still be four seasons in a year.

What's more, she now has Po, and everything else is not important in her eyes.

"Aman!"

Xiao Luo walked towards her with Ah Bao in his arms, holding a handful of golden chrysanthemums in one hand, "Look at this!" There are a lot of them growing by the stream, and I will pick them all off and dry them to make tea. ”

"Well, when Po sleeps, I'll go with you to pick it." Qingluan reached out from the window to take Po and kissed his fleshy face.

"Senior brother, aren't you going to build an earthen building? Hurry up and prepare, the silver is not enough for me to have cherry blossoms here."

Xiao Luo smiled, "Okay." ”

It didn't take long for Xiao Luo to choose a place on the high slope and start building a circular foundation.

The foundation is made of a square stone block of water.

Xiao Luo and a group of villagers were building the foundation of the wall, and they told the villagers their plans while building.

The villagers were very curious and craned their necks to see what he was doing.

"Let's build a circle of houses, leave only a square hole in the outer wall, you can also shoot crossbow arrows, the doors of the house are all inward, circle into a circle, and leave a big well in the middle, and then a well is drilled in it, and it is ...... in this position."

The villagers nodded again and again, "This is good, we are here on the border with those barbarians in Nanzhao, and they often come to grab food and women, and they also kill and injure many of our villagers, if our villages live in such houses, those guys will kill one by one!" ”

"Yes, yes! Ah Baod, when your house is built here, help our village build one. ”

When Xiao Luo heard that people called him Ah Bao's father, he smiled from ear to ear, and nodded again and again in agreement.

The village where they live now is the boundary of Weizhou over a mountain.

Although Weizhou used to be the territory of Daqian, but now after Xiao Boyan ascended the throne, Weizhou is like a wild horse that has taken off a stiff rope, and he no longer refuses to listen to Luojing's constraints.

In addition, the people here have a long-standing grudge with the barbarians on the other side of the mountain, and it is inevitable that there will be several armed fights every year.

Therefore, the mountain village here is not as calm and waveless as Qingluan thought.

A month later, the tulou began to take shape, and although it was only three floors, it had already surprised many villagers.

"Ah Bao Dad, how many layers are you going to build?" A villager asked.

"Five floors." Xiao Luo smiled and said: "It will take a lot of bricks and tiles to cap the cap, and when all the materials are delivered, it will be completed next month at most." ”

The villagers were amazed, looking at Xiao Luo like a big ingot, "Ah Bao, you are really rich, your family is a rich businessman who does business, right?" ”

Such a big project will cost a lot of money.

Xiao Luo smiled, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

At this time, after Qin Jiang drove the carriage to deliver a cart of food and daily necessities to the master, he rushed back to Weizhou City, and met a team of people and horses halfway down.

The sword eyebrows and starry eyes in the lead are very strong and handsome, and it is Yue Wuwu, the second son of Weizhou Taishou.

He was accompanied by a beautiful woman with a slightly dark complexion.

Qin Jiang silently drove the carriage aside and let the group of people walk over first.

Yue Wuxian was riding on horseback, and suddenly turned his head to look at the white-haired old man who was driving the car, and looked at him like a torch.

He always felt that the old man's figure was very familiar.

Holding the reins of the horse, Yue Wuxian looked at the old man who was driving the car and asked coldly, "Who are you?" ”

Qin Jiang sank his mind and said, "People are doing business in the city. ”

Yue Wuxian stared at him for a long time, and then continued to rush forward with the people.

After walking for a while, he only listened to the cousin behind him talking to another brother.

"Yue Xiu, the beauty we met last time seems to live in the village in front of us, right?"

Yue Xiu shook his head: "I don't remember, anyway, it's by a mountain stream under a hillside." ”

"Let's go and have a look, it's okay anyway, the second brother went to Yunxian County to meet the guards, let's be bored with it, it's better to have some fun."

Yue Wuxian turned around and swept them away, and reprimanded, "Father didn't let you come here to look for flowers and ask willows!" ”

Yue Xiu and Yue Ting immediately closed their mouths.

The woman beside Yue Wuxian smiled: "Second brother, let them go if they want to play, there is nothing important." ”