"From tomorrow, no matter whether you lack food at home or not, when you come back from work, you will dig some wild vegetables, in addition, strangers are not allowed to enter and leave the village, starting tonight, each family will arrange a person to take turns patrolling the village, these two gongs are held by the patrol, if there is a stranger into the village or something happens, the gong will be sounded to warn."

The men of each family listened to his arrangement, and nodded hurriedly, none of them refuted.

Although Shen Jingcheng, the lieutenant chief, is young, everyone has seen his ability in the past few years, and they also think that this arrangement is very good, all for the sake of the safety of the villagers, and no one will be stupid at this time.

After everything was discussed, Shen Jingcheng took a few men to move one of the elm trees in front of his house to the middle of the village, and the bronze bell was hung on the tree, and people were arranged to guard it to prevent the patrol from notifying everyone if they did not have time to warn them.

Gu Jin looked at the elm tree that had been gnawed by locusts and had only a few green leaves, and he was distressed.

This elm tree just had elm money this year, and she only ate elm money once, so she actually moved places, and she didn't know if she could still live.

There is an extra tree in the center of the village, and there is an extra bell on the tree, and the children are curious to wander around under the tree, and they don't need to be told by adults, they are very much loved one by one.

They also know that this tree will bear elm money, even if the adults in the family don't let it in the spring, they have secretly picked it a few times while Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin are not at home, and the elm money is sweet and fragrant.

This tree is planted here, and they should be able to pick it when they get elm money in the future, right?

If they climb the tree, and the tree doesn't come back to life, won't they have one less to eat?

During the day, people still pack up the crops that have been bitten by locusts, and prepare to rush to plough while they can still plant grain, so that they can still harvest a little after autumn, so that they will not be unable to catch the grain stubble.

At the same time, the women would also tell the children who could not do much work to dig up some wild vegetables to go home, but in fact, the wild vegetables in the field were almost bitten by locusts, and they could not dig much back.

Sure enough, after a few days of going in and out like this, the displaced people gradually stopped approaching the village, and with them, they searched for wild vegetables in the wilderness like the children.

When the night watchmen saw that the homeless people were no longer near the village, they relaxed their patrols.

One night, Shen Jingcheng suddenly heard movement in the yard, quietly got up and opened the crack in the door, and saw a figure in front of the house where the grain was placed.

Shen Jingcheng was afraid of frightening Gu Jin, who was asleep, so he gently covered her ears with a quilt, picked up the wooden stick behind the door and walked out quietly.

The man who was concentrating on opening the door didn't notice Shen Jingcheng's arrival at all, only heard the sound of the wind breaking the sky sounding behind his head, and he didn't even have time to react before he knew anything.

After Shen Jingcheng knocked the person unconscious, he picked up the person with a stick in one hand and walked out of the courtyard with the other, and did not throw the person to the ground until he walked out of the courtyard about a few dozen meters away from the courtyard and woke up with a wooden stick.

The man woke up slowly, and he felt that his head was being hit by something on the ground and couldn't move, and a figure in the darkness, who was not very tall, was holding a wooden stick against his forehead.

"How did you get here?" A young man's voice sounded, which had not yet changed his voice.

The man knew that this was the boy of this family, he had also observed it before he came, and knew that there were only two children in this family, and he thought that the children were very easy to deceive, so he snorted coldly at the moment: "Boy, you let me go, I don't care about you, if you don't let me go, I will find someone to kill you with your little daughter-in-law." ”

Shen Jingcheng's eyes were cold when he heard this, his hand held the wooden stick against his forehead, and slowly took two steps back, just when the man thought that the young man was scared by himself and wanted to leave, but he didn't want the young man to suddenly pick up the stick and smash it down on his stomach.

Peng made a muffled sound, and the man suddenly arched up with a scream, but the stick seemed to not know that he hurt, and it was thrown into the air again, and smashed into his mouth with the sound of the wind.

There was another muffled sound, and the man lost his voice in pain, and the bloody breath filled his mouth.

"I'm sorry, I haven't killed anyone, I have no experience the first time, please forgive me." Shen Jingcheng said forgiveness, but slowly lifted the stick and slammed it into the air.

The man saw that the stick was about to go to his leg, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his leg, and reflexively was about to get up and run, but the stick Peng smashed into his lower back, and the man was immediately smashed and fell to the ground.

"What are you running for? You see, you won't be happy to die like this, and I'll have to work hard, it's very troublesome. In the night, the young man's voice sounded faintly, and the man had just climbed two steps in fright, when he saw a pair of feet slowly standing in front of him, so frightened that he fell on the ground and kowtowed.

"Spare your life, spare your life." The man's mouth leaked and begged for mercy.

"I don't dare to spare you, you're the one who wants to kill me." Shen Jingcheng said coldly, and the stick was raised again.

"No, I don't dare, I'm talking nonsense." The man burst into tears of fright, and his eyes were full of fear.

"Nonsense?" Shen Jingcheng seemed to be slightly puzzled, and the man nodded again and again, trembling and unable to say anything.

He didn't want to kill people, he really just wanted to scare this young man, who would have thought that this young man would take it seriously.

Seeing this, Shen Jingcheng seemed to believe him, slowly withdrew the wooden stick, and asked, "Then let me ask again, how did you come here?" ”

The man didn't dare to talk nonsense this time, and hurriedly pointed to the place behind Shimu Village, where he came from.

"Isn't there someone patrolling? They didn't find you? Shen Jingcheng asked again.

"They don't patrol this way around." The man replied tremblingly, for fear that he would be late in his answer, and his stick picked up again.

"Not patrolling this way?" Shen Jingcheng frowned, his tone a little disbelieving.

"Really, you can go and see it." The man raised his hand in fright and swore, "They've only patrolled here for the first two days, and then they won't come too much, I swear." ”

Shen Jingcheng heard that he threw the wooden stick on the ground, and he only felt funny.

He knew that it was impossible for him to take Gu Jin to patrol, so he specially bought a gong and a copper bell, but he got his warning, and used his things, so he treated him like this?

He didn't move, and the man didn't dare to move, and I don't know how long it took before the man heard the young man's clear voice again.

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When the man heard this, he got up in embarrassment and ran down the dirt slope, and Shen Jingcheng also turned around and went back to the courtyard, sat on the kang and stared at Gu Jin for a long time, before he pressed her on the back of her neck, tied her who was sleeping with a piece of clothing, and carried her into the night.

He had to see with his own eyes if it was as the man had said.