048 No more fear of wolves
Zeng County Ling is now a little unspeakably angry, and the anger is mixed with inexplicable grievances.
What made him angry was his rather tortuous fate-
The family was poor, and the whole clan was close to everything for him to be admitted to the Jinshi, and finally after winning the list, he was selected as the county commander in a remote area, and when he first came to the former county, he was quite unwilling, and wanted to find someone to leave this poor place, but he couldn't find a way because he had no money.
But unexpectedly, after the mountains and rivers recovered, he actually found a mineral deposit outside the county seat that made the nobles look sideways, so he lived a good life, if it was not for Princess Rui to insert a stick under the line, he may have been promoted to Zhizhou, and the Zeng family clan was arranged to go there.
However, there is no what if, he stood on the wrong team, was sentenced to hard labor by Princess Rui, and could only work hard like an old farmer every day, living in the dark.
If Princess Rui had been so ruthless all the time, who knew that she was actually from the fairy family, and it didn't matter if she came up with a jaw-dropping immortal technique, but she would use this immortal technique to bestow favors on him...... It's very unwilling.
It's very aggrieved.
If you come up, it will show that you are a fairy, and I have always been against you?
Now that you are forced to farm, it is just that, and I have to be grateful to your immortal skills...... The problem is that you can't be grateful if you don't want to, because that's immortal art!
Lao Zeng was about to be wronged and ruined.
I hate the injustice of fate, I hate myself for having no eyes, and I hate the messenger sent by the noble man that night.
The two overseers next to him looked at him and whispered to each other.
"What's wrong with him?"
"Tears of joy? That's what you say, right? ”
"Dude, you're really literate."
"Learn a little brother, we are the ones who read the second volume of the first grade of primary school!"
"I didn't expect my brother to study so fast? Brother, I haven't finished the first grade of elementary school yet. ”
"Isn't that right? In the first 30 years, the family was poor and didn't give us a study, if we had studied earlier, maybe we would be a big official in the court now. ”
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The two-storey building in the cotton field was built three days later, and when the clay mine was found in Xixian County, Princess Rui had red bricks burned, and the house was built with cement and red bricks, which was fast, clean, and strong.
The team of craftsmen who built the house told the three-person team in the cotton field that because Niang Niang said that there is a lack of a talisman called "steel bar", the floor is not high, and the two floors are separated by wooden boards, and the height of each floor is close to the top of people's heads, and the two floors are connected by wooden stairs, and the stairs stand inside the building, and there is only a narrow small door outside, and when you sleep at night, you only need to block the door with stones, even 100 wolves can't break in.
The three men who guarded the cotton fields were overjoyed.
Because the newly built cement red brick house had to be poured through the water and dried before they could move in, the three of them were looking forward to living in it day and night, and after two days, the mason announced that the brick house was almost maintained, and the three of them moved in first regardless of the dampness in the house.
At night, the three of them sat by the window on the second floor and drank soup from a brazier, which was served with wild vegetable dumplings.
There was no light outside, not even a star, except for the fire above the small building, it was pitch black, and even the cotton seedlings in the field could not be seen clearly.
At this time, Zeng Xianling, who inadvertently looked down through the window, suddenly found a pair of green eyes under the first floor.
This was followed by the 2nd and 3rd pairs...... 5 wolves appeared one after another!
He was so frightened that he gritted his teeth, and could only stare down, not even daring to breathe.
The other two people noticed Lao Zeng's abnormality, looked down one after another, and soon let out a low cry.
"It's the wolves again, they're here again!"
"The wooden stakes around the small yard were almost scratched by them, and they found out that we were moving so quickly?"
"I think these wolves smell people and chase them!"
The sound of claws scratching stones soon sounded on the first floor, but it was almost negligible compared to the sound of claws grasping wood earlier.
The three of them looked down in horror, because it was too dark to see the size of the wolves downstairs, so they could only catch the sound of claws rubbing against stones intermittently with their ears.
Suddenly, Lao Zeng took out a piece of wood from the brazier and threw it down the window where the window was not installed.
There was a clear sound when the match landed.
The wolves below whimpered softly, their green eyes slightly dilated, and the sound of their paws scratching stones stopped for a moment.
Lao Zeng waited and waited, nothing happened, and his clenched teeth couldn't help but let go, and even let out a long roar.
"You brutes, you can't come up, can you? If you can't get in, I'm mad at you! He leaned out of the window and screamed, and the people downstairs bared their teeth at him.
Other than that, nothing happened.
There were two wolves trying to jump up, and it seemed that they wanted to jump to the window, but after all, there were two floors, and the foundation was deliberately raised, and no matter how high the wolf jumped, he didn't have wings, so he naturally couldn't jump in even if he tried his best.
Lao Zeng laughed at the bottom with his hands on his hips, his laughter infected the other two people, and the other two involuntarily stood up and went to the window together, squeezed the window tightly, and provoked the wolves downstairs-
"Beasts are beasts, I don't know how to find a way, you have the ability to move the stones away?"
"A wolf that can't bite a man is worse than a dog? Why don't you just be dogs! ”
"I've heard that those wolves who love to chase people have eaten people, and these wolves downstairs are probably carrying human lives."
"Brothers, let's throw torches down and burn these beasts!"
So for the rest of the time, these dozens of years old men were like children, pulling out the firewood from the brazier and throwing it down indiscriminately, not so much fighting wolves as spreading joy.
I don't know how long it took, but the five pairs of green eyes around the first floor quietly retreated amid a whimper, and the three people upstairs also threw away the contents of the brazier.
After the eyes of the wolves downstairs disappeared, Lao Zeng was even a little unsatisfied.
"For so many years, the people in the former county were afraid to live in the wild, and I don't think these wild wolves are so scary." He pointed out the window.
The other two have now formed a revolutionary friendship with him, and they have expressed their serious approval.
"That's it, with our cement building, let alone wolves, even if the tiger comes, we are not afraid!"
"There's no need to be afraid of tigers! Have you forgotten that last time the princess had dispatched the whole county to kill the tiger? ”
"Yes, yes, although the princess is a woman, her courage is worthy of a general! In the past, there has never been a single adult in the county who has removed the tiger pest for us, put it in the hands of the princess, and the tiger was lost in two sentences! ”
After chatting and chatting here, Zeng Xianling involuntarily fell silent, his face was feverish for a while, and the shame and admiration in his heart drowned him like a wave.
- Princess Renrui has done so many big things quietly, and she also took out the immortal art for the people to use, which is much more useful than his county order.
I still remember that before the palace examination, he talked with the same year, and also chanted four sentences of Hengqu, putting the famous words of Zhang Zai of the Northern Song Dynasty "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations" on his lips and heart.
But after he was admitted to the Jinshi, especially after coming to Xixian County and being depressed, he kept his mouth shut about the four sentences of Hengqu, and never thought of benefiting one party in his heart.
He lost all the backbone of a scholar!
The other two were still chattering, but Zeng Xianling stopped talking, and fell on the wooden floor and closed his eyes with a heavy heart.
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Halfway through April, the wheat and rice fields were in good condition, and the ditches between the fields were criss-crossed, and the water from the river irrigated the wheat and rice, and more ditches were dug one after another, and the Rui Wangfu recruited a lot of people at the cost of 15 copper plates a day to dig canals for the fields and add the banks of the Gaoxi River.
Pei Qing sat on the ox cart and went out with A Xing, and saw that there was turquoise everywhere, and there were small cement buildings in the middle of the farmland, and the farmland continued to expand to the foot of the mountain in the distance......
is relaxed, and people can't help but raise the corners of their mouths.
"Niangniang, what are we going to eat at noon?" Ah Xing sat next to the cart and drove the ox cart, and asked greedily.
Now there are finally cattle available in Xixian County, although it is still less than 10 acres of land for one cow, but it is still possible to free up two heads to pull a cart for her Princess Rui.
Pei Qing looked at the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers with a smile, and replied casually: "There are meat buns, cold chicken shredded burritos, and sesame oil and cold skin." ”
Ah Xing quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and when she heard the princess Niangniang say the names of those foods, she was already screaming and drooling.
I don't know what it tastes like?
Ox carts walked slowly on the concrete road, and earlier there were only muddy roads outside the city, and as long as it rained a little, the roads were full of mud puddles, or the mud was so deep that people couldn't pull out their feet.
- The road surface like that in the past can only be called a disaster.
Now, several major roads have been paved with cement, from the county to the limestone mines, to the laterite mines, to the small coal mines, and even to the angelica fields...... It's all cement roads.
It's clean and convenient, and it makes you want to keep walking.
Just like now, sitting on the open-top bullock cart, the view is completely unobstructed, silently patrolling his own territory, and I feel that my whole mind has become clear.
After coming to the fork of the cement road, Pei Qing asked Ah Xing to drive the ox cart to Angelica Field, and finally came to the small hillside of Angelica Field before the sun was high.
Wang Ergou was weeding in the field with people, and after seeing the ox cart, the people in the field arched their hands to Pei Qing from afar, Pei Qing nodded to them, and looked over them at the small hillside.
The dead tree that had fallen to the ground on the hillside was still there, and the grass and trees in the woods were darker, and from a distance it looked like a person was sitting there, but when I looked closely, I saw that it was nothing more than swaying grass and trees.
Pei Qing flattened his mouth and silently moved his head away.
- She didn't think about anyone just now, she was just dazzled occasionally!