"Oh no! Sister, who are you?! Wang Ling, who had not yet reacted to what was going on, was dragged into the courtyard by this woman who somehow appeared in his house, and suddenly stunned as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw that Dawu was building a small room in the corner of the courtyard, and there was already a rough prototype, and there was a boy standing next to Dawu, and the boy was holding two green bricks for building a house in his arms, and was about to hand them to Dawu, but now the big and small two people maintained their posture as if they were stunned, and they all looked at themselves.

Without waiting for Wang Ling to ask, Dawu strode towards the gate of the courtyard, two muscular arms hugged Wang Ling into his arms, hugged him in a circle, and shouted happily: "Childe, you are finally back!" I knew you would come back! ”

"Yes, yes, I'm back, can you put me down first,! What have you been eating lately? Put me down. Wang Ling felt as if his whole person was caught by iron tongs, and there was a feeling that his bones were about to be broken, and he was so painful that cold sweat came down.

Hearing him say this, Dawu realized that he was too excited, and immediately put the royal order on the ground.

After his feet touched the ground, Wang Ling actually felt a sense of absurdity of escaping death, and said in his heart, is this kid so powerful? Luckily, the old butler didn't call him out, or I might have been killed.

Seeing that Wang Ling's face was a little ugly, Dawu was like a child who had done something wrong: "Childe, are you okay?" I, I didn't mean to, I was just overjoyed, sorry. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hands to support Wang Ling, but Wang Ling was so frightened that he instinctively took half a step back, and Dawu looked a little helpless.

Seeing Dawu's expression, Wang Ling realized that his actions were a little inappropriate, and patted him on the shoulder apologetically: "I don't blame you, it's because my body is too weak." ”

After speaking, he silently cried in his heart, which old man is willing to admit that he is weak, Dawu, I really sacrificed my reputation for you.

At this time, Wang Ling thought of the other two people in this small courtyard, he first looked at the woman, and then looked at the boy, the woman was about twenty or five, although she was slightly thin, but her appearance was extremely attractive, but her face did not seem to be very good, as if she had just recovered from a serious illness, the boy looked almost eight or nine years old, the little one, it looked a little malnourished, but the pair of dark and translucent eyes were very attractive, Wang Ling was looking at them at the same time, the two were also looking at him without blinking.

"They are?" Wang Ling asked, in fact, what he wanted to ask was whether the two people who could see at a glance that they were mother and son were Dawu's wife and children, but he thought that Dawu had told him about his past, and knew that he had not yet married a wife, let alone such a big son, so he changed the question to a more appropriate way.

Dawu suddenly, his rough and huge palm slapped his head violently, and introduced, "Childe, have you forgotten?" Sister Yufang and Xiaolinzi were rescued by you from that son of the world a few days ago, the lord took them back, Sister Yufang was injured at that time, but the doctor said, although it looks serious, but it is all skin trauma, the main thing is that the body is too weak, the lord said that you saved the person, so it was put in this yard to recuperate, she was able to get out of bed and walk this morning, and it happened that you came back. ”

Now that the mother and son have changed into ordinary cloth clothes and scrubbed off the dirt on their bodies, Wang Ling didn't recognize them for a while.

The woman, who was called Sister Yufang by Dawu, took the boy's hand and came to Wang Ling, and said with a crying voice: "Thank you for saving the lives of my mother and son, the little woman has nothing to repay, she is willing to be a slave and a maid, and be a cow and a horse for Engong!" As he spoke, he took his son and knelt on the ground with him.

Wang Ling was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly dragged the woman and the boy with both hands, stopped them from kneeling, and hurriedly said, "Eh, don't, don't, what are you doing?" I can't stand this the most, but don't kneel, get up, get up. ”

The woman is like a stubborn refusal to get up, insisting on kneeling, Wang Ling knows that he can't resist her, and understands that if you don't stop this situation, it is the best choice for them, the woman took the boy and kowtowed to Wang Ling three times, in the process, Wang Ling noticed the boy's eyes, compared to the day when he met in Washi, a little more angry.

At the end of the three ringing bows, the foreheads of the mother and son oozed a trace of blood, stained with a little mud, Wang Ling saw that it was almost over, and tried to help the two up again, this time the woman did not stop, and got up under the support of Wang Ling, and the big martial arts on the side helped the boy dust off his pants, and when he still wanted to help the woman, he realized that it was not appropriate, and the hand that was halfway out was taken back again, half squatting on the ground, looking at the woman's face from the bottom up.

The woman signaled that she could, Dawu smiled innocently, Wang Ling saw this scene, raised the corners of his eyebrows, and said in his heart, it seems that what he just thought was right, this kid, tsk.

Wang Ling saw that the time was still early, Cao Shuangxu still needed five hours to bring back the news, he was not in a hurry, just sat on the threshold with a butt, and listened to the woman tell her story, his mother's name was Cheng Yufang, and the boy's name was Lin Lin, who lived in Cangnong County, Dingzhou, and Wang Ling, they fled all the way from Dingzhou to Qingzhou, her husband died of illness at an early age, and originally relied on a small cloth workshop left by her husband to make a living. That day, I was going to go to the crowded tile market to ask for some food, but I met Dongchuan Hou Shizi.

After hearing this, Wang Ling couldn't help but sigh, not everyone was as lucky as himself, if it weren't for the old grandson, he might still be the beggar.

"I heard Brother Dawu say, that person that day was Dongchuan Hou Shizi, it was our mother and son who caused you to be affected, please accept the little girl again." As she spoke, she began to weep, and as she wept, she began to kneel again.

Wang Ling dragged her arm this time, and said with a wry smile: "Sister Yufang, don't kneel to me at every turn, I really can't stand this, I just allowed you, I can't help it, if you kneel again, it really makes me unable to stay any longer, I'm not interested in this, just once, don't kneel again, okay?" ”

When Cheng Yufang heard this, she nodded and got up, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, her eyes full of gratitude.

Wang Ling looked at Dawu, who was pouting with his back to him, piling up bricks and stones, and the boy named Lin Lin, who was piled up with one-person-high green bricks and timber all over the ground, the wood was about four meters long, all sent by Cao Yong.

The two were very busy, the boy helped hand over the bricks, Dawu took over one by one to build the wall, only relying on the boy to toss back and forth to hold one or two bricks, want to build a hut, then get the year of the monkey Ma Yue went, Dawu actually has the bricks he moved early in the morning, he will take it himself when he runs out, he can move about 20 pieces at a time, for Xiaolinzi's kindness, Dawu never blocked, and he never thought about whether the child would bump into it if he was so old, Dawu didn't understand these truths, he only knew, This child was very recognizant at the beginning, and he was reluctant to come into contact with people, but he finally had a little bit of the liveliness that a child should have, and Dawu was reluctant to let him stop.

Wang Ling asked with some curiosity: "I noticed it when I entered the door, what are you building here?" ”

Cheng Yufang seemed a little embarrassed to be timid, and explained to Wang Ling: "The master said that Gongzi, you just lack a person to do laundry and cook, so let me and Lin'er stay in this courtyard, and let the Dawu brothers build a small room for our mother and son in the courtyard, so that it will be convenient to serve you in the future."

The two were talking, Dawu had already completed two walls, but he didn't seem to have much experience, although there was no reinforced concrete in this era, but he couldn't even mix glutinous rice with water, relying on bricks and stones alone on the ground, this kind of wall collapsed with one kick.

Yours would die if you slept in a house like this, big brother······ The corners of Wang Ling's mouth twitched violently.

He seemed to see the scene of the mother and son who had just picked up a life and were buried by bricks and stones, Wang Ling really didn't look at Dawu's shoddy craftsmanship, he first looked at the sky, roughly calculated the time in his heart, and found his original plan, and when he had to go to the street division to surrender, seeing that it was still early, he decided to solve the problem in front of him first.

He walked over and kicked Dawu's buttocks, Dawu's ass was in pain, he turned his head to look behind him, and when he saw that it was Wang Linghou, he reached out and rubbed his buttocks, and said a little aggrieved: "Childe, why are you kicking me?" ”

Wang Ling said angrily: "Cao Yong, why did that old boy find you to do this job?" Even if you want to be simple, it's not like you, this wall will fall down as soon as it touches, do you want to smash them to death in your sleep? ”

When Dawu heard this, he glanced at the wall in a panic and didn't know what to do, and tentatively pushed it with his hand, the wall didn't fall, but it shook, Dawu smiled and said to Wang Ling: "Son, prison, you see that I push it like this, it won't fall." ”

Wang Ling rolled his eyes, raised his foot and kicked it sideways, and after Dawu instinctively avoided it, he only heard a bang, and half of the wall collapsed.

Dawu looked at the bricks and stones scattered on the ground for a while, and the brick wall that he felt that he couldn't fall down just now was kicked down by Gongzi, realizing that he almost made a big mistake, he picked up the bricks on the ground with some distress, and said in frustration: "What can I do... Or I'd better do as the master instructed, and ask two bricklayers to come over." Originally, I wanted to save two taels of silver to buy clothes for Sister Yufang and food for Xiaolinzi. ”

After Wang Ling heard what he said, his face couldn't help but pull a few more times, and he said in his heart, I knew that Cao Yong's old boy would not be so unreliable, let you ram the goods to build a house, and let you give all the money for the workers, I have only known each other for a few days, and I am worried about buying clothes for others?

Wang Ling doesn't know what to say about him, first of all, he must not have bad intentions, Wang Ling is still confident in this, but you say he's smart, just now he pushed the wall twice and swayed, you say he's stupid, hey! I have learned to engage in tofu scum projects.

The woman was also frightened on the side, but she didn't think about blaming Dawu, Dawu is an extremely simple and easy person to get along with, as long as you get along for a few days, you can see that during the time when she was lying on the bed to recuperate, except for wiping her body and helping to change clothes, the private work was done by the maids, and the rest was Dawu's work, if it wasn't for Dawu's careful care in the past few days, she wouldn't have gotten better so quickly, so the woman was just taken aback, and she didn't complain about Dawu's stupidity in her heart.

It just so happened that Xiao Linzi hugged another brick, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he was stunned for a while, as if he couldn't understand why the wall that had been built with great difficulty was going to be demolished, and he didn't have the slightest anger on his face, and he didn't seem to feel that his hard work had been trampled, but he was simply confused, and just stood aside quietly.

I don't know if he was dumb or didn't like to talk very much, Wang Ling found that he never seemed to hear half a word pop out of the boy's mouth.

Ignoring Dawu, let him hold those bricks and feel distressed, Wang Ling walked up to the boy, squatted down and rubbed his head with his hands, wanting to give him an explanation: "His method is not right, I'll teach you how to build a house, okay?" ”

The boy opened his mouth, Wang Ling waited for a long time, and finally heard a "um...", the sound was not loud, but it clearly fell into Wang Ling's ears.

Wang Ling smiled, smiled lightly, took the boy's little hand, and said: "I'll get you a small shovel in a while, you can do what I do, you don't need to sell too hard, the work can't be rough, after all, it will be a person in the future, you and I have to be careful, understand?" ”

The boy nodded, and he didn't know if he had listened to everything, Wang Ling didn't ask the child repeatedly like some adults, or let him repeat his words, anyway, if the boy didn't do a good job, he would help to remedy it.

Dawu followed the instructions of the king to get the tools, and then dug a deep ditch five and a half feet deep and almost a foot wide in the ground, three people, two large and one small, with the physical strength of Wang Ling and Dawu, it did not take an hour to dig them all.

In this process, Lin Lin, a thin child, was busy sweating profusely, his shoveling action would be fast, but he was extremely careful, he didn't know how deep five and a half feet was, and he didn't know how wide a foot was, but he would secretly observe Wang Ling, see how wide he dug and how wide he dug himself, but unfortunately he was busy for an hour, and he didn't dig much, in the end, Wang Ling dragged him out and personally completed the last paragraph.

"Those planks were taken and inserted into the ditch, and the bricks were filled in the middle, and the periphery of the planks should also be filled with bricks to prevent the soil from loosening, and the gaps were filled with yellow mud, and the bricks were passed through one by one." As he spoke, he took another long line, compared it with his thumb, looked up at the position of the sun, roughly measured the horizontal line, and fixed the two ends of the line on the courtyard wall and the wall of the original room, "The height of the plank is based on this line, and if the head rises, you hit it with a brick, and the height does not touch the line, you will use a stone to pad it." ”

Wang Ling's method, not taught by the army, Long Yan has no fixed place, wandering in the deep mountains and old forests of the ancient land all the year round, living in tents, or cutting wood to build a wooden house as a temporary residence, his method is taught by a comrade-in-arms, mainly because of the boredom of the real idleness, a group of people just wanted to build a house to play, did not turn their heads at that time, the stone was picked up by the big-headed soldiers on the spot on the mountain, the mountain was damp, they also built a clay kang, the process of building a house, a few big boys were very happy, but unfortunately just built a few days, The order of action came down, and they successfully completed the mission, taking down a drug factory hidden in the mountains, and the team also lost two comrades.

Wang Ling recalled the past, slightly distracted, and when he came back to his senses, a big hand was shaking from side to side in front of him, and Wang Ling slapped Dawu away, "Are you done with the work?" ”

Dawu grinned and said, "No." ”

Wang Ling directly knocked on the door of his head and said, "Why are you lazy when you don't finish it?" Don't hurry up and finish it, finish the wall and seal the top, and then move me a small bed, and send me the bedding in, the original bed is OK, give Sister Yufang and Xiaolinzi a new bed, I have to sleep when I come back at night! ”

Dawu sighed, and didn't ask much, for Wang Ling's words, he always chose to do it, and rarely asked questions.

However, these words happened to be heard by Cheng Yufang, who came over with tea, she hurriedly walked two steps, came to Wang Ling's side, and asked, "What does Gongzi mean, you want to sleep in this hut in the future?" ”

Wang Ling said in a flat tone: "Naturally, you two can sleep in the big house, I don't care, just have a bed." ”

"How does this work!" The woman immediately objected.

Wang Ling showed an extremely strong posture and said: "I like to live in a small house, I don't sleep comfortably in the big bed, besides, we are almost the same, both of us fled here from Dingzhou to take refuge, no one is taller than the other, you are a woman and a child, how can you be crowded in such a small room, I let you sleep in the big house, you do it, otherwise I will tell Lord Cao tomorrow, let you move to Cao's mansion, and change someone else." ”

When the woman heard that she was going to move to Caofu, not only did she feel happy, but she seemed to have been caught by Wang Ling, she hurriedly put down the tea and was about to kneel in front of Wang Ling, "Childe, please let me and Lin'er stay and serve you, don't drive us away!" ”

When Wang Ling saw that she was about to kneel down again, he had a headache, and hurriedly held her arm again, and said angrily: "How many times do you want me to say before you are willing to listen?" Don't kneel for me, I don't like it. ”

As soon as he helped the woman up, Xiao Linzi also ran over and knelt down, and said something in his mouth: "Don't go... I... Don't want to leave... Please. ”

Wang Ling stretched out his hand and grabbed Lin Lin's back collar and lifted him up, who expected Dawu to join in the fun, he couldn't hear that Wang Ling was scaring the woman at all, he really thought that he was going to drive the mother and son away, and he was going to kneel down and knock one, but was kicked away by Wang Ling, Wang Ling was angry and funny, one after another, and he was quite busy.

"You can stay, but you must come according to my rules, first, do not kneel to me in the future; secondly, let you live in a big house, and you shall not refuse; Third, if you have any grievances in the future, you must tell me. After talking about the three rules, Wang Ling looked at Cheng Yufang and asked, "Did you hear that?" ”

Cheng Yufang still wanted to refute, but after seeing Wang Ling's irrefutable eyes, she had to whisper: "Yes..."

Wang Ling smiled with satisfaction, turned his face to Dawu and said, "I'm going to go to the Street Division to surrender later, if nothing happens, I'll be back tonight, you can help me put it away." As he spoke, he took out a bag containing the pages he had recently obtained from the bakery, and the letter that Rou had left for him.

After he turned himself in, the extra items on his body would be confiscated, and he didn't want such a secret content to fall into the hands of the city servants, maybe any of the cheap hands would be publicized.

The reason why it was kept by Dawu was that she was not familiar with Cheng Yufang after all, even if she had the heart to repay her kindness, Wang Ling did not dare to hand over these things to her, and secondly, because Dawu never did superfluous things and was not worried that he would peek.

When Dawu heard that Wang Ling was going to surrender himself, he didn't have a word of advice, and took the bag without asking, the only thing he cared about was: "Childe, where is this thing appropriate?" ”

Wang Ling: "Whatever you want, as long as you don't lose it, hide it properly." ”

"Oh."

The woman looked a little sad and asked, "Childe, that person has a noble status, why don't you hide when you go to the yamen to surrender this time?" ”

Wang Ling said disapprerovingly: "It's okay, I'm sure I'll come back tonight, it'll be fine, by the way, you don't have to wait for me for dinner." ”

The woman wanted to say something, but when she saw that Wang Ling was confident, she didn't speak again, but the thin child was busy brick by brick at this time.

Wang Ling looked at the child's attentive appearance, and smiled with satisfaction, it was time to calm down this trouble.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Wang Ling got up to say goodbye to Dawu and Cheng Yufang, and walked towards the gate of the courtyard, the boy noticed the movement behind him, and when he turned around and saw Wang Ling preparing to leave, his face was flustered, and he rushed to Wang Ling in a panic and hugged his thigh.

Seeing this, the woman hurriedly grabbed her son and reprimanded softly: "Lin'er, let go of Engong quickly, don't be rude." She put her hand on the boy's weak shoulder, and pulled hard, and seeing that the child refused to let go, she had to look at Wang Ling apologetically.

Wang Ling motioned for her to be relieved, and then looked down at the boy, who was also looking up at him, and Wang Ling said, "It's just a trip out, and I'll come back at night, and I won't leave." ”

Hearing this, the boy really let go of the little hand holding his thigh, but his eyes were still a little reluctant.

Wang Ling rubbed his head, trying to reassure him.

After calming Lin Lin's emotions, Wang Ling walked out of the courtyard gate and politely refused the woman's request to send him off.

At this time, Cao Yong was in the mansion, Cao Shuangxu was sent to another place by him, Wang Ling asked Dawu to go back to the house and brought the little black donkey, I didn't see it for many days, the little black donkey rubbed his head on Wang Ling's chest unusually, and behaved very intimately, Wang Ling smiled, and rode a donkey alone, heading in the direction of the street division.