Chapter 263: The Earth Moves
My uncle walked around the farm and seemed to have noticed something.
"Xiao Tian, I see that your farm is very big, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is really a good place to live. I saw that the workers next to me were building new houses, which were enough for thousands of people, do you want to move all the people in the stockade here? ”
"That's what I really think, life in that village is too boring, and the population of the village is getting bigger and bigger, so it's not a way to live in that village all the time. You see, here, there are fertile fields, there are water sources, and there are salt mines next to it, which is really a great place to go. You said that this place is so good, why didn't the old patriarch bring someone to live here? You see, this time, as soon as it is besieged, the people in the stockade will starve to death. ”
Uncle Hu took out a cigarette rolled out of paper and smoked it. It's called cigarettes, but it's better to say that there are some leaves rolled in a yellowed piece of paper that I don't know what they are. The smell of this cigarette was so great that it was even more choking than the inferior cigarettes I usually smelled.
"Come on, Oda, come on me." My uncle took out his own cigarette and handed it to Uncle Beard.
"Heh, this is a rare thing, I haven't seen it in years." Uncle Beard took a puff of his cigarette and seemed to reminisce about the old days.
"Xiao Tian, you said that the old patriarch knows that this place is good, but he still insists on living in the village." My uncle raised his confusion.
"Yes, this was originally just a vegetable field in the village, or did I develop this place like this after I became the patriarch. As you know, although the defense of the stockade is excellent, there is no material support. At that time, I also suggested that all the people in the village should be moved here, but the old patriarch did not agree, and he must guard the village. ”
"You see, after I became the patriarch, I began to develop the farm, and I built houses and infrastructure, and now more than a hundred people have moved in. I wanted to move the rest of the people over within a few years, but I ended up with these werewolves. If only I had brought everyone here, at least I wouldn't have run out of ammunition. Now we can only transport all the supplies back and prepare for a protracted war. ”
"Xiao Tian, you mean that you and the old patriarch proposed to move to this land, but the old patriarch did not agree." My uncle seems to have noticed something wrong in Uncle Beard's words.
"Yes, I didn't understand it at the time, why don't you come to such a good place, and stay in that stone forest where there is nothing."
"Hehe, it seems that the answer to this question must be hidden in the stockade, whether we can reach the golden city depends on whether we can find the secret in the stockade. Oda, do you know that the earth moves? At this time, my bearded uncle nodded.
"When the earth moves, it is a great earthquake, and you have also seen the mantra left by Sun Xiang. At that time, we also followed those mantras to come here, and Sun Xiang inquired with the old patriarch for a long time, and the old patriarch told him the secret of the earth's movement. But I was injured at the time and didn't hear what the secret was. Later, when I asked the old patriarch again, he was unwilling to tell me, but only told me not to leave the village. ”
"When Sun Xiang left, was there any movement in the stockade?" My uncle asked again.
"Deshui, there is really movement when you say this, the ground moves, the earth really moves. On that day, the old patriarch ordered everyone not to go out and closed all the doors and windows on the periphery of the village, and then there was a great earth movement. The movement lasted for a long time, a full hour, and I wanted everyone to leave together, but no one dared to leave without the order of the patriarch. ”
"The ground shook so strongly that it almost broke all the bottles and cans in the stockade, and several people were injured by falling stones. But you have to admit that the stockade is really strong, and it can still be intact after such violent ground movements. ”
"That's what it looks like, Xiao Tian, you want to move to this farm anyway, and when the time comes, the village will let me study it carefully, how about it." My uncle is not welcome.
"There is no problem, as long as you can solve the problem of the werewolf, you can study it as much as you like." My bearded uncle is also very bold.
"Let's go, the supplies are almost loaded, and everyone has packed up, so we can go back." By the way, you still need to get salt for the car, it's not far, get water and go with me again. "Uncle Hu Zi and my uncle took a few people to the nearby salt lake to get some salt and came back, and let me and Xinze guard the farm first.
"Big brother, there seems to be movement outside." As soon as Xinze reminded me, I also saw a few figures flickering in the woods outside. But what is over there, I'll use my dagger to find out what the situation is first. The dagger shot out and rushed straight into the small woods. The short sword seemed to have stabbed something, and the barking of wolves and dogs came from the woods. No need to ask, it must be the ones who came to spy on us.
I took back the short sword, there was blood stains on it, it seems that we are in danger, I wonder if my uncle will be okay with them. Half an hour later, our uncle and the others drove back in a carriage with two carts of white flowers, is that salt?
"Open the door and let's go." Uncle Hu gave an order, and the 100 people on the farm began to withdraw from the farm in an orderly manner, and we escorted so many supplies, if those werewolves came to attack suddenly, we would suffer a big loss. No, I'll have to tell my uncle about what happened.
"Uncle, there were werewolves spying on us just now, you see." I handed my blood-stained dagger to my uncle, but my uncle just smiled and ignored me.
"Uncle, why aren't you in a hurry, these werewolves have been monitoring us, we are now carrying so many supplies, if we are suddenly attacked by these werewolves, it will be powerless. Otherwise, I'll call Qin Wu and them to support us. ”
"You really eat radishes and don't worry about it, you just put your heart in your stomach, I bet with you, we won't encounter any obstacles all the way back, believe it or not." My uncle said that, but I can't bet with him, he has too many ghost ideas every day, and he basically didn't guess anything, so I'd better stay honest.
Sure enough, as my uncle said, I still felt that there were werewolves hovering around us all the time, but they didn't attack us.
"Uncle, why don't they attack us."
"If they wait for the best time to attack, I wouldn't attack now."
"When was that?"
"You'll find out right away."