"General, it's impossible for these civilians to help us. Don't bother them. We can take care of this landslide ourselves. The black handsome man crossed his hands on his hips.

"Okay, you black handsome, we don't have a hoe, no pickaxe, no earthwork dustpan, how can we remove this roadblock?" Gong Changyu frowned.

"You can forge a sword into a plowshare." The black handsome shrugged.

"I'm speechless about you. Thousands of earthworks you want to hold in your hands? Gong Changyu said.

"Why don't you buy some tools and come back." Hei Dashuai said.

"Where's the silver?" Gong Changyu stretched out his hand and asked.

"No, I'm brain-dead, okay." Hei Dashuai said embarrassedly.

"You two big men, you are fighting over this little issue, are you annoying." Ran Jiufeng smiled slightly.

"Our army comes from the common people, it is the people's army, and it does not belong to the Sero family (the emperor of the Qing and imperial court is surnamed Fei Luo), so we should have a good relationship with the common people. Ask the people to dig this road for me, it is a military-civilian interaction. Got it? Gong Changyu said.

"General, you can't talk nonsense. If what you just said reaches those people with ulterior motives in Jingbei camp, you will fall to the ground. Hei Dashuai said.

"Hei Dashuai, General Gong is not wrong. Mencius said that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light, so it is the hill, the people are the son of heaven, the son of heaven is the princes, and the princes are the doctors...... Without the common people, the emperor is nothing. "Ran Jiufeng came out to play a round.

"Sister Jiufeng, I'm just a big old man, straight to the point. The army that loses the support of the common people, and the imperial court that loses the support of the common people, will be finished sooner or later. The fall of the Qinghe Kingdom can last for a maximum of fifty years. Gong Changyu kicked away the stone weighing more than 200 catties beside him, "Tianjin Weihai was blocked by the Fan army warship, why don't the surrounding armies actively prepare for war?" ”

"Brother Changyu, this is not something you can control. There are so many officials in the imperial court, and they have the country's money and let them think about it. Ran Jiufeng said, "Let's overcome the difficulties in front of us." ”

"Okay." Gong Changyu nodded, "Then you will go to Pingzi Village with me?" ”

"I'm not going." Ran Jiufeng shook his head.

"Why?"

"The Miao family can't understand my Cantonese and Western dialect, and it's in vain to go."

"It's fine. They also speak Hmong, which is not much different from yours, and if you don't go, I won't be able to communicate with them. Gong Changyu scratched his head, "I just can't learn Miao language, I can understand a little, but I can't speak, you have to go." ”

"Then how can you understand all of me? You're not fooling me, are you? Ran Jiufeng said with a smile.

"Sister Jiufeng, I'm afraid that the girl in the village will not be able to come out if she takes a fancy to General Ben......" Gong Changyu said with a smile.

"Puff puff...... Xu Yanxia couldn't help laughing, "General, you don't look at what you look like, and other little girls take a fancy to you?" I think you want to take this opportunity to talk more with Sister Jiufeng and cultivate your feelings. ”

"Brother Changyu, you think too much. In order to prevent you from being taken away by those Miao girls, I will accompany you to Pingzi Village. Ran Jiufeng hung the medicine box on Xu Yanxia's shoulder.

"Sister Jiufeng, please-" Gong Changyu was excited, and finally didn't have to worry about the Miao family's sister taking a fancy to her. So, the two walked down the collapsed mountain, followed behind the little girls, and went all the way to Miao Village.

On the road, those Miao girls always kept a certain distance from Gong Changyu and Ran Jiufeng, and were extremely vigilant, picking mushrooms in the grass, singing pleasant mountain songs, and throwing flattery at Gong Changyu from time to time. Of course, Gong Changyu couldn't understand what these girls were singing.

Only Ran Jiufeng understood that the little girl was singing those love songs about Gong Changyu, but she wouldn't explain them to him. Just walked to Gong Changyu and said that the Miao girls sang mountain songs to find lovers' customs, and Gong Changyu was itchy in his heart, but he was familiar with Miao Mountain (Sinicized Miao people) and couldn't sing mountain songs, otherwise he would have to sing a few songs a long time ago to tease those Miao girls.

Ran Jiufeng took Gong Changyu's hand and told Gong Changyu very patiently:

Between the green mountains and green waters where the Miao people live, there are gurgling springs as companions, elf-like larks as harmony, and mountain echoes as effects, which is simply a natural singing room. Miao women who grow up in such an environment are naturally good at singing and dancing, so their temperament will naturally come out. Not to mention how they look, just because they can sing and dance, they can already charm thousands of young men.

Miao women are also very good at dressing up, which is naturally liked by men. Miao women can not only be welcomed by men of the same race, but also loved by Han men, but Miao women rarely marry Han men, and most of them still choose to marry men of the same race.

The Miao people are particularly fond of singing, and even finding a partner is to develop feelings through singing, which is further developed. And those men who can get the favor of Miao women in this way are all people who can sing and win women, which does not work at all for Han men.

Han men do not have an environment suitable for singing since childhood, and most Han people are not good at singing, so it is difficult for Han men to win the hearts of Miao women......

"The Miao people are very enthusiastic about the love between men and women, and they are also very upright about love. In the way of making friends with songs and finding companions with songs, the Miao people, regardless of men and women, are all singing experts, and as long as they are in love, they can hit it off. Ran Jiufeng picked off a leaf and put the leaf between his lips and teeth with both hands, "This girl will give you a wooden leaf to play a song......

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ran Jiufeng blew the leaves, those girls actually let go of their voices and sang together:

To sing a song, ask the root of the song, the song is born in that year and month. The song was born to a few sisters, a few sisters and a few names. The name of the big one is like that, and the name of the little one is Nayin. You're the singer of that house, please come out and sing clearly.

To sing a song, we should ask the root of the song, and the song is born from the ground. Since Pangu opened the world, the three emperors and five emperors have come to the present. Since the old one sang first, he stayed in the mortal world to complain about his grievances. The eldest one is named Seven Sisters, and the younger One is named Chang'e. The illiterate ancestors sang songs, which have been passed down from ancient times to the present......

The song stopped, and the girls' singing also stopped, only Gong Changyu was ignorant, looking at the girls stupidly and laughing. Hey, the language barrier, what's the solution.

After half an hour, they finally arrived at the Shuikou tree in Pingzi Village, and then the Miao girls dispersed.

When the people in the stockade saw an officer with a sword and a woman, they couldn't help but be shocked, and a Miao man immediately blew his horns, and his cry was eager and loud.

Gong Changyu thought it was a welcome ceremony, but he didn't care. Soon dozens of men with scimitars and harpoons surrounded them, and the braggart man shouted: "Don't move, who are you, dare to break into our stockade?" ”

"Brother, I am Gong Jichang, the deputy general of the Jingyi Battalion, and I came to the village for help, not to find fault." Gong Changyu was very calm.

"Why should we trust you?" The man asked.

"Brother, we're really here to ask for your help." Ran Jiufeng smiled slightly, and she explained the dangers encountered on the post road to the man in Miao language.

"Oh, it turns out that you are passing by here, going north to Jingshi to go to King Qin, not the Blue Wolf Army, a false alarm." The man said, "Please go and dredge the mountain road, how much silver will we give?" ”

"One tael for one person, three hundred taels for 300 people." Gong Changyu took out fifty taels of silver from his arms, "This is an advance payment, and the balance will be paid after completion." ”

The man unceremoniously accepted the silver, weighed it in his hand a few times, and then said to the group: "Brothers, go back, prepare hoes, shovels, pickaxes, axes, and bamboo baskets, and later we will go to the Black Wood Cliff to dig earthwork and earn silver." ”

"Brother Wuxiong, why should we help the officers and soldiers?" A man with a turban wrapped around his head asked.

"Black Eight, this army is the army of our people, so naturally we have to help them." Wuxiong patted the man on the shoulder, "Stop grinding, go home and prepare tools." ”

"Okay, Big Brother Five Bears." Hei Ba answered, and left with everyone after speaking.

After a while, 300 young and strong young men from the Miao family gathered under the maple tree. invited the Miao compatriots in Pingzizhai so smoothly, which Gong Changyu did not expect.

"General, the Black Wood Cliff is only more than twenty miles away from the Blue Wolf Army, what if they come over?" Five Bears asked suddenly.

"Brother, the Blue Wolf Army is the defeated general of my men, I don't think they have the guts!" Gong Changyu threw off his robe, "General Ben has fought with them for many years, and he has never been defeated. ”

"General, how many of you came?" Five Bears said.

"A thousand people. It's all the latest weaponry. Gong Changyu smiled.

"General, there are more than 2,000 people in the Blue Wolf Army in Mazitang......" Wuxiong said worriedly.

"Brother Five Bears, with General Ben here, even if it is 20,000, it is not to be feared." Gong Changyu pulled out his revolver, "Our weapons are much more powerful than the Blue Wolf Army, this thing can shoot six bullets in a row, and we still have dozens of artillery pieces in Blackwood Cliff, all of which are imported." ”

"Then I'll be relieved." Five Bears nodded......

After Gong Changyu and his entourage returned to Heimu Cliff, they saw that Hei Dashuai and the others had already done a good job, and the big stones and trees on the surface of the landslide had been almost cleaned up by the soldiers of the Jingyi Battalion.

Seeing that Gong Changyu had rushed over with hundreds of people, the black marshal who was covered in mud sat down on the trunk of a fallen tree: "General, you have all been gone for more than an hour, and we are all so tired that we are about to lie down." ”

"Black Marshal, let the quartermaster give each of these Miao compatriots a ration." Gong Changyu said.

"What, give them rations?" Hei Dashuai asked rhetorically.

"General, no need. Everyone brings their own camellia tea ingredients and tea. The five bears were happy, and the cloth bag took out a bamboo tube from it, and poured out some beans, corn, yin rice, and peanuts in the palm of his hand, "These foods, if we go to work outside, we will carry them with us." ”