Chapter Eighty-Three: Simple Village

Just when the population of Tong'an Town was thriving with the efforts of everyone, Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng galloped towards Tong'an Town, accompanied by one person.

More than a dozen miles away from Tong'an Town, Meng Xuan saw a simple village not far away, which was more like a temporary place to settle down, with no walls around it, only houses that resembled shacks. Some houses are fixed with some wooden pillars around them, and some of them are covered with some thatch at will, and some are built into a triangular shape, and the two sides are also roughly covered with thatch, this kind of house is neither sheltered from the wind nor rain, fortunately it is now the end of September, the weather has not yet turned cool, and it is okay to live temporarily.

Although the huts made of wood and thatch are simple, they are arranged very neatly, and from a distance, they are arranged in horizontal and vertical rows, which is quite orderly.

Outside the village, a number of people gathered in an orderly manner to reclaim the wasteland, and although these people were in tatters, their emotions were high.

Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng glanced at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes, when they left Tong'an Town a month ago, there was nothing here, but they didn't expect that a village would suddenly be born now, although it is simple, but it is indeed not easy to start from scratch in a month. And looking at this posture, now the wasteland has been opened to a range of more than ten miles outside Tong'an Town, which proves that Tong'an Town must have undergone great changes in the month they left.

The arrival of Meng Xuan and the three did not attract too much attention from these wasteland people, and from time to time there were sergeants of the Flying Eagle Regiment in Tong'an Town passing by on horseback, they were used to it, they just looked up, and then lowered their heads and were busy dealing with the wasteland under their feet.

Yan Yue, the chief security officer in the crowd, saw Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng, hurriedly put down the shovel in his hand, greeted him, and laughed: "It turned out to be Meng Team Zheng and Luosheng, but I haven't seen the two of them for a long time, I don't know who this is?" Yan Yue's eyes looked at the person who came with Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng.

Seeing Yan Yue coming, Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng dismounted together, and the person who came with him also dismounted together, Meng Xuan arched his hand and said, "It turned out to be Yan Baochang!" ”

Relatively speaking, Chen Luosheng and Yan Yue are more familiar, so the title is more casual, "Yan Yue, come, let me introduce you, this is Tong Kan, the captain of Fengxiang Mansion; Tong Xiaowei, this is Yan Yue, the chief of the Weizhou Zhichong Mansion. ”

"Chief?" Tong Kan looked at Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng with puzzled eyes, he had never heard of such an official position.

"Well, that's a unique position here." Meng Xuan replied vaguely, he couldn't explain the armor protection system proposed by Qin Zhen in one or two sentences, and Tong Kan was an outsider, so he didn't need to explain.

"I've seen the boy captain!" Yan Yue hugged his fists and saluted.

"Well, I've seen Chief Yan!" Tong Kan replied.

"It's really strange that Chief Yan personally went to work in the field!" Tong Kan said with a smile. Although Tong Kan doesn't know what kind of position this security chief is, he can also guess that it is probably a grassroots official like Lizheng, although he has no official position, but his influence among the people should not be underestimated, in other places, this kind of position is generally held by local landlords and squires, at least he is also a wealthy family, and now he sees Yan Yue standing in front of him in tattered clothes, barefoot, trouser legs, and unkempt, if it were not for Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng's introduction, he really couldn't believe it.

"Haha, we are lonely and short of food here, and if we don't work in the fields, we will starve to death!" Yan Yue pointed to his stomach and smiled.

Tong Kan nodded, no longer spoke, but stared curiously at the simple villages and the people in the wasteland not far away, as if there was something more attractive to him.

"Good job, Chief Yan Bao, I remember that when I left with Meng Xuan, this place was still bare, I didn't expect it to change a lot in just one month, why did you run so far to open up the wasteland, and you also built a village here, tell me, what's going on?" Chen Luosheng patted Yan Yue's arm, and Meng Xuan also turned his head and looked at Yan Yue full of questions.

Yan Yue laughed, his expression was quite proud, but unfortunately he was covered by the dust on his face: "What is this, after a while, we will have to open up more than ten miles ahead." ”

"So you built a village here?" Meng Xuan asked.

Yan Yue nodded and said: "Yes, after all, this place is too far away from Tong'an Town, it is too much time to go back and forth every day, and the houses in the town are not enough to start, and so many people are squeezed into this problem, so Captain Qin and the Han team are discussing with them to adapt measures to local conditions, so that the people who are far away from Tong'an Town can build villages near the land exchange of land reclamation as a unit, which will greatly improve the efficiency of land reclamation. Our village was erected half a month ago. ”

"It's still hot, and the villagers can still make do with rest in such simple shacks, but when the weather gets cold in a few months, these shacks will obviously not be able to protect them from the cold, what will they do? Even if the weather is good now, if it rains on a day, there is no way for these shacks to shelter from the rain, and it is not a month or two to build so many houses here that can shelter from the wind and rain. Chen Luosheng said with some concern.

Yan Yue nodded and said: "Our foundation here is too poor, and we will definitely face all kinds of difficulties at the beginning, which exist objectively, and none of us can ignore it." However, it is because of such and such difficulties that our value can be truly reflected, we must be good leaders and leaders, and move forward bravely, and at the same time we must believe in the wisdom and endurance of the people, and the strength that can be united together, and all difficulties can be overcome. As the saying goes, there is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts. ”

Chen Luosheng was stunned and said: "Yan Yue, I haven't seen you for a month, you can say such profound words, it really surprises me; After three days, when I am impressed, you really impress me now! ”

Yan Yue was suddenly a little overjoyed, pointed at Chen Luosheng and said with a smile: "It's really not easy to get your Chen Luosheng's impressive sentence, I still remember when you fought with Ma Rui, that ruthlessness was shocking to see me, and my heart said that it wasn't you who found me at a loss, and later talked about it with Ma Rui, he also had palpitations, saying that you were really a dead hand, and then I paid attention to you, and found that although you were weak, but your heart was very arrogant, and no one was convinced except Xue Yuan at that time. It wasn't until Captain Qin gave us hope that night that you were truly convinced of Captain Qin. Now that my old Yan can be impressed by you, it's really an honor. ”

Chen Luosheng was a little embarrassed and said: "Lao Yan, can you not mention those things, I was too young at that time, and it was inevitable to be reckless in doing things, besides, in Qin Zhen's words, at that time, we did not unite, we did not recognize that it was a contradiction within the people, and each other regarded each other as class enemies, you know what I experienced when I was a child, and it is irresponsible to myself not to treat the enemy ruthlessly." ”

Yan Yue put away his smile and patted Chen Luosheng on the shoulder: "I'm just kidding, you know me, how can I have that ability, say such a capable word, this was said by our Captain Qin, I borrowed it." Ha ha! ”

"Huh!" Chen Luosheng rolled his eyes, no wonder he felt that this was familiar.

Tong Kan turned around and said with a smile: "I've heard too many stories about Captain Qin along the way, and now listening to Captain Yan's words, I'm even more curious about Captain Qin in your mouth, and I can't wait to see him right away." ”

Meng Xuan nodded and said, "Captain Tong doesn't need to worry, we will be able to meet Captain Qin soon, and you can also implement the things we talked about with Captain Qin." ”

"Since you are in a hurry to see Captain Qin, then I won't delay the trip of the three of you!" Yan Yue gave his hand, he didn't ask what happened between Meng Xuan and Tong Kan, he knew very well that Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng had disappeared for more than a month, and no one knew where they went, and now they were back, and they were also with a captain of Fengxiang Mansion, who must have been secretly dispatched by Qin Zhen, and there were some things that he could not know or not know.

Meng Xuan, Chen Luosheng, and Tong Kan threw their fists at Yan Yue, then got on the horse, clamped the horse's belly between their legs, and headed north.

Along the way, the three of them could see groups of people cultivating in the wasteland every other way, and Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng also saw the chief or the chief they knew from time to time, but they didn't stop to chat with Yan Yue like that, just said hello from afar.

"Since crossing the boundary of Qinzhou, what we encounter is often the barren fields and ridges, and the lonely image of no rooster crow for hundreds of miles, and the people we see are also numb and blind, I didn't expect to see so many people working together in the hard-hit area where the party is raging, although the people here are still unclothed and sallow, but they are full of energy, I can clearly feel their vitality, it is really a miracle, I really can't think of how you can say that the Qin Captain did it." Tong Kan said with emotion immediately.

Hearing Tong Kan's emotion, Meng Xuan and Chen Luosheng were honored. Not to mention Fengxiang, Chang'an and other places east of Longshan, where the land is fertile and the villages are dense, of course, it is not comparable to places like Weizhou. To the west of Longshan, most of the places they walked through were lifeless and desolate, and none of them could be compared with the current Tong'an Town, no wonder Tong Kan had such feelings.

"Captain Tong, we have just run this place, and it is only the beginning, if you come back in two years, I guarantee that their lives will be twice as strong as they are now." Meng Xuan said with a smile.

"I'll see!" Tong Kan nodded.