Song Zhiwen was worried about the maintenance of grain and grass in the city, and finally revealed after a few months of closure, the butchers in the city did not slaughter pigs and sheep to send for a long time, and the small stalls and vendors did not have a place to buy raw materials, these must have relied on the goods transported from the four leading avenues outside the city under the blockade of the barbarian rangers, even if there were merchant carts who dared to risk death to enter the city, most of them were to send some urgently needed and expensive medicines in the city.

As for you ordinary people who eat the cabbage and red weeds in the cellar and eat unappetizingly, what do you have to do with them? They are only engaged in business, and they may not be able to reach the city in three or five batches of ten groups of carts, and the price offered to the garrison state army will naturally rise by a lot.

However, the Jinzhou state army in the city had to pinch their noses to buy these medicinal materials, and the current drugs in the city are far from abundant, especially the medicinal materials that generate muscle and stop bleeding.

However, in general, there is plenty of rice and grain in the city, and the vegetables, vegetables and meat only depend on the amount of goods stockpiled in each vegetable cellar. Recently, there have been more and more petty thefts in the city, most of them are going to the vegetable cellar in the courtyard of the house to steal two cabbages, and the pickled fish and bacon hanging under the eaves of the house are all back, which is worth only a few dollars and broken silver, and they cannot be convicted if they are twisted into the yamen.

These days, there are more and more soldiers going to the city, and many of the people who live close to the city wall wonder whether to go to relatives who live farther away, after all, I have heard that the barbarians are powerful in bows and arrows, and what if the arrows come in together in the war one day, and they don't fall on their heads?

Therefore, these days the city is becoming more and more chaotic day by day, the rich and noble families are willing to pay a lot of money to hire a capable martial artist to come to the home nursing home, although Wu and the dart bureau said that there are no darts to bet, but only with the money of these people to hire a dart master is more profitable than the first-class oil and water darts.

"The people in the city can't even eat the cabbage gang, how can these rich people still put out such wine and food?" Wei Changpan frowned as he looked at the table of delicacies in the garden with his hands tied, and a steaming copper pot was set up in the middle of the table to boil, and the rich family sat happily around the table.

In the courtyard of Yu Wu and the Dart Bureau, he went out to practice the knife, which was accompanied by the old man whose body and bones were deteriorating, in the ancestral hall, listening to the dusty accidents in the rivers and lakes, and thousands of romances were all in the words.

The old man, who has not had much time left, is extremely talkative, but Wei Changpan is a little unclear, the old man's understanding of Jinzhou's current affairs, military and politics is much of the information he has never heard of, why these top secrets in the army let the old man who spends his days behind closed doors in the ancestral hall of the Wuhe Dart Bureau compound know. However, the old man avoided talking about it, and it was inconvenient for him to ask.

"It's not a reason to live in the ancestral hall all day long, and young people still go out and walk around more. One day, the old man said to Wei Changpan.

"Your body...."

"Someone next to you can go? Don't worry, you can't go out of the pool these days, don't believe it, the food you have eaten in this life is not as much salt as we have eaten. ”

Wei Changpan muttered in a low voice, "That's because I didn't eat when I was a child, and your taste is heavy...."

"Roll the calves!"

Then Wei Changpan was kicked out of the ancestral hall and came to this big family to be a nursing home, and he could receive thirty taels of snowflake silver for the monthly money alone in January, which was an amount he couldn't think of before, and he Wei Changpan has now become a person who can earn thirty taels of silver in a month?

Today's weather is fine and cloudless, and the sun shines on people and is warm, so the owner of the nursing home temporarily decided to go to the garden, and set up a table for the family to eat and drink, Wei Changpan is looking around boredly on a rockery nearby.

"Who knows, the way that rich people have rich people is not something that we people can think of. An old gardener who was pruning a dead branch nearby accommodated him, "But young man, look at that table, you can't get it without twenty or thirty taels of silver in a peaceful year, let alone at this time, if you come forward and say something auspicious and pleasing at this time, maybe you will give a reward of a few taels of silver." ”

"I'm a nursing home they've hired. Wei Changpan scratched his head and rejected the gardener's proposal, "They already gave a monthly payment, so they don't need to ask them for money again." ”

"Brainless! How can there be too much silver?" The gardener put down the scissors in his hand, patted the dust on his body, and winked at Wei Changpan, "Look." ”

Then Wei Changpan saw the gardener come forward with a smile on his face and said a lot of auspicious words, and said two funny jokes to relieve boredom, which amused the young lady of the family. After a while, the gardener came back with a spring breeze on his face, and took out the money bag on his waist for Wei Changpan to see.

"You can get five taels of silver after saying two words, and people are happy to listen to you and say it, what does it matter. Seeing that Wei Changpan was still unmoved, the gardener shook his head, "Today's young people, how can they know that it is not easy to get money, and if they don't learn how to earn silver, they really think that they have the family background of the gold and silver mountains?"

Probably a little afraid of Wei Changpan's saber at his waist, the gardener trotted away.

The aroma of the pot came to Wei Changpan, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he smelled it, although it was much better to eat in this family than to eat in a big pot of rice in Wuhe Dart Bureau, there were meat dishes at every meal, although the amount was not large, it was better than cooking, but at this time, the empty belly saw that this family was eating and drinking....

Fortunately, there was still half of the frozen pot helmet on his body, Wei Changpan felt it out and chewed it twice, but finally regretted that his teeth did not continue to get along with this pot helmet.

"It seems that the white rice in the town is better," he whispered to himself.

Jinju treats him well, but this is not his hometown after all.

Song Yanchao told him when he looked for him not long ago, saying that now a family in the city has pledged a lot of money to join the dart bureau and take a dart.

"Human darts?" Wei Changpan was also shocked when he heard this, and then asked tentatively, "Could it be that which family wants to escape and go to the city?"

"It's almost the same, he got all the documents in the city guard's yamen, and he can open the city in the middle of the night to let people out, but it's not easy to enter the city again. Song Yanchao rarely got drunk that day, "At that time, the brothers of the Dart Bureau will escort you all the way to Suzhou." ”

"Is there enough silver on his body?" Song Yanchao gave him a silver ticket of one hundred taels, "It doesn't matter if he has enough or not, when the time comes, he will not have enough silver on his body to redeem the flowers, don't show it easily outside the yellow and white, be careful that the Taoist with bad intentions will treat you as a stunned green cook." ”

"The martial arts is a three-story building, and it is not low to say that it is high, and it is not low to say that it is low. Song Yanchao finally put down the next sentence, "It's not okay to kill people, but you want to protect yourself." ”

There was movement not far away, so Wei Changpan had to deflect his gaze, the rockery he was on was more than a zhang high from the ground, and he could see the situation of a nearby street and alley. This is what the dart game has taught him, and if you are the only one who protects the bodyguard's things, then you have to stand in the best place of view and watch the movements before making plans.

"That's.... The people of the state army?" A group of sergeants outside the garden hurried to the north, Wei Changpan recognized their clothing, it was a whole team of 100 people, "How can the 100 team of the state army have such an urgent transfer? These days, the number of sergeants on duty in the city has almost doubled, how can there be..."

After the hundred-man team, there was another hundred-man team, and then another team of people hurried by, and three hundred-man teams rushed to the aid of a city wall?

Then he heard the bell, it was the ancient bell of the City God's Temple in the city, and it made a deafening movement when it was struck with a heavy bell pestle, which could be heard clearly in the remote places in the city.

"A bang.... Two sounds...."Wei Changpan turned around and stared at the direction where the bell came. "Three sounds. ”

Three bells rang, then three more, and the bells continued to sound heavy and long.

The rich families in the garden who did not know why were trembling and uneasy when they heard such a bell, but the owner of the house was about half a pound of good wine, and instead of panicking, he shouted and continued to eat and drink.

"Master Wei, why is this bell so noisy today?" The man blushed and raised his head, and saw Wei Changpan standing on the rockery looking at the northern city wall, and shouted, "Can you hear it, Master Wei?"

The garden is only a few hundred steps away from the north city wall, and the movement of soldiers and horses in the city is clearly seen by Wei Changpan, and the powerful soldiers carry the altars and jars full of fire oil and heavy rolling wood and stones to the city, and the bed crossbows with rollers at the bottom are also retreated to the battlements, and the archers of the whole team are concentrated near the city gate tower.

Such a transfer is to defend the city, which means that the barbarians are finally coming to attack and annex the city after two months of waiting?

Song Zhiwen was heavily clothed and armoured, wearing a long sword at his waist, and his own soldiers guarded the city.

"General. Zhang Ziwen also saluted with armor and sword, and then said, "The reserve of nine hundred people has all arrived in the city, and all the equipment to defend the city has been taken out to go to the city for later use." ”

After conquering the two county towns and more than ten neighboring county seats, the barbarians, who were accustomed to growing their appetites, finally couldn't help but covet the city.

Since you have a big appetite, you have to be prepared to break your belly.

Without any warning, the movement in the barbarian camp was completed in a very short time, and the first to see the barbarian army marching in the distance was the eagle-eyed sergeant in the city.

Song Zhiwen's prediction was not wrong, the lord of the Taiqige Department suddenly risked the large number of siege weapons he had made, so that he had enough to place siege weapons in another place. The Jinzhou rangers led by Wei Changpan had only burned half of them, and now the barbarian soldiers were under the siege of the city, taking with them all their siege equipment and the most elite men and horses.

He closed his ears to the wind, and the wind was mixed with the sound of drums.