When Du Jia woke up, he found that she had slept too long, it was almost noon, and the sun had risen very high.

"You're awake, hurry up and eat!"

Xu Ping beckoned Du Jia to come over and eat the roast rabbit, everyone else had already eaten, only Du Jia had not eaten yet.

"It's so delicious!"

After eating bacon and flatbread in the cellar for so many days, Du Jia was tired of eating it, and now let her eat rabbit meat, which feels very fragrant and delicious, and it is simply a rare delicacy in the world.

After Du Jia finished eating, Xu Ping packed up his salute and took Du Jia and the others to continue walking.

When passing by Sancha Mountain and Caomangling, I found that there were no bandits here, and it was estimated that they all followed Xuan Wang Ye south.

After all, these bandits are not real bandits, they are the army that Xuan Wang Ye planted here, and when Xuan Wang Ye comes, he will naturally return to the team and follow Xuan Wang Ye south to fight the country.

Until dark, several people had not yet reached Xujia Village, but they were already very close, about more than 20 miles.

If Xu Ping was alone, he could run to Xujia Village in one breath, but Du Jia really couldn't walk, his feet were grinding a few big blisters, and he was humming on the ground in pain.

Qiao'er was no better, bowed her head and didn't speak.

"Why don't you take us with you?" Durga suddenly thought of a good idea, and only then could he rush home.

"You're wonderful!" Xu Ping mocked her, but then thought about it, Du Jia's idea was not bad.

It's just that the luggage is a bit too much.

Bedding, clothes and a big bag.

Now these things were going to be on him, and Phil had to sit on the baggage behind him.

"Let's go!" After everything was cleaned up, Xu Ping took the three of them all the way and soon came to Xujia Village.

"You did it earlier, we wouldn't have walked so far."

Along the way, Du Jia complained to Xu Ping.

"Say it again, I'll throw you down!"

It's not that Xu Ping is unwilling to carry them, but in broad daylight, a big man is walking on the road with two women in his arms, and after being seen by pedestrians, it is a little unsightly.

At night, there won't be so many taboos.

And he likes to carry Du Jia very much, smelling the fragrance on her body, and feeling her warmth at the wrist.

It's a really wonderful feeling!

After arriving at Xujia Village, Xu Ping put down Du Jia and Qiao'er, and then led them towards his home.

"Shacks? What a shack you live in! ”

When Du Jia saw the shack, he was stunned.

At the same time, her heart was cold.

It's just a shack, but this shack is very small, not as big as her thatched house, and her thatched house is still built of blue bricks and red tiles, so the two can't be the same.

"Oh, how can there be people in there?"

Xu Ping walked to the door of the shack and heard the voices of one big and four small people talking inside, only to realize that the shack had been occupied.

This is his home, how can it be allowed to be inhabited by outsiders?

Xu Ping immediately stepped forward and knocked on the door, and soon, a middle-aged woman in her thirties and forties came out of the shack, followed by four children, both large and small, male and female, the eldest was no more than ten years old, and the youngest was not as old as Fei'er.

"What are you doing here?"

"I ...... This used to be my home! ”

Xu Ping didn't know what to say, the other party was so pitiful, and there were four children, he was reluctant to drive people away, if he didn't let people go, where would he and Du Jia live in the future?

"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't know this was your family's house, and the village chief arranged for us to live here."

"The village chief?" Xu Ping became angry when he heard this, what is the matter? He doesn't come back, and the village chief thinks he's dead?

"You guys rest first, I'll go find the village chief!"

In the end, Xu Ping didn't have the heart to drive these people away. After all, it's not their fault, it's all caused by the village chief.

……

"Xu Ping, it's all my fault, but I have to do it again, when more than 20 villagers went to the county seat with me, there were only eight people who came back, including you."

"A few people from mining came back, they are all crippled now, it is said that some time ago a demon beast was found in the spirit mine, killing a lot of miners, more than a dozen people in our village died, and there were five or six people who survived but were crippled, and these crippled people could no longer mine, so they were all sent back."

"In this way, our village has lost half of its strong labor force at once, and we can live without strength this year, but what about the next year? What about the coming year? Without these laborers, there will be fewer and fewer people in our village in the future, until in the end, only some old, weak, sick and disabled people remain, and Xujia Village will slowly decline. ”

"I've been thinking that if I want Xujia Village to continue, I can only absorb the foreign population, let them all integrate into Xujia Village, and finally become the people of Xujia Village, so on the way back, I took in dozens of displaced people, although these people are now old, weak, sick and disabled, but have you found out? Children under the age of 10 make up the majority, and when these children grow up, aren't they just the labor force in our village? ”

"As for your house, it's all my fault, I thought you ......., you guys will rest with me for the night today, and I'll find them a new house tomorrow,"

Xu Ping agreed, and under the arrangement of the old village chief, he temporarily lived in the old village chief's house.

"Xu Ping, who are these two women? It's not like a countryman, it seems to be the daughter of a big family and Yahuan, where did you get it from? And what's going on with that little girl? Why is she following you, her parents? ”

"Village chief, you ask this, I really have something unspeakable, although Du Jia and Qiao'er used to be young ladies and maids from big families, but ...... Durga is my fiancée, we have changed engagements before, or you gave it to me. ”

"Ah, Du Xianling's daughter?" The old village elder was taken aback, after the city was broken that day, Du County's family was killed, and I am afraid that only two people outside survived.

They have no way out, if they don't take refuge in Xu Ping, who else can they turn to? What's more, Xu Ping is still her fiancé.

"Okay, don't tell outsiders about this, they are willing to follow you, so follow you in the future!"

Xu Ping continued: "That little girl, I used to be neighbors with their family, and her parents entrusted her to me on the day of the city's break, so that I could raise her to adulthood. ”

The old village chief sighed: "This is also a hard-working child! Follow you is also her creation, take care of it! ”

…….

The next day, Xu Ping did not let the old village chief drive the middle-aged woman's family away, because he had already planned the previous night to rebuild a yard with at least three houses.

It's too late to make adobe, but there are trees on the nearby hills, so can't you make a wooden house for the time being?

On that day, Xu Ping went up the mountain to cut down a lot of trees, all of them were dragged back, and then he laid the foundation alone, built walls and ceilings, etc., and spent a day finally creating a set of original wooden houses, the walls and floors are wood, and some of the wood is not dry, and it exudes a thick green.

In the bedroom, a spacious wooden bed was built, and there were some rough wooden tables and wooden stools, and even a few wardrobes were made for them in the room where Du Jia lived, so that they could put things in the future.

After a few days, Xu Ping dragged a lot of tree trunks from the mountains and built a large yard around the wooden house.

At the same time, Xu Ping helped Aunt Wu's family build two wooden houses next door and reclaim his shack.