Chapter 160: The Wall
Sakura hurriedly patted and coaxed: "If you don't see it, you won't see it, maybe the monkey stole it." ”
In fact, there are no monkeys in this mountainous area, but there are wild boars and roe deer, and wolves.
It's just that they are rarely seen during the day, and these beasts will stay away from adults as long as they see them.
But it is very dangerous for small children to encounter it. In the eyes of wild boars and wolves, children are equated with cubs that are easy to kill.
"Uh... Did the monkey really steal it? "Jiang Wu has seen monkeys. In the bazaar, there are often people who lead monkeys to beg for food.
Those little monkeys in little red shirts will not only turn their heels, but also nod at people.
Jiang Wu snorted, wiped his eyes and died down.
"Your sister lied to you, it wasn't stolen by a monkey at all." Wei Zhan was dismantling the stage on the side.
Sakuraho: ...... I really want to beat someone.
Yuan Bao also came over and echoed: "We don't have a monkey here, it must have been a thief who stole it." ”
Huzi nodded heavily: "Hmm! ”
Sakura Bao glared at them, and pulled his younger brother, who wanted to cry again, out of the bamboo forest.
Back home, Sakura tells the two younger brothers the story of a crybaby turned into Tanhualang.
In the evening, Jiang Saburo discussed with the eldest brother and second brother about going out to buy food while eating. "There are no bandits in Pingjiang County, we have to go buy some food and come back early."
Jiang Dalang: "Our family's food should be enough to eat, why do you have to buy it?" ”
"It's not our family, it's the people in the village who want to buy it." Jiang Erlang said.
Jiang Sanlang: "Not only the villagers have to buy it, but our family also has to buy it." Although the food at home is enough, the courtyard walls of your house and I have to be repaired, and I want to go to other villages to invite more people to come over and repair the courtyard walls and houses as soon as possible. ”
And when you hire someone to do something, the salary is small, and you must provide two meals a day.
Jiang Saburo drank porridge, pickled cabbage with chopsticks, "Then rebuild and raise the courtyard wall of our three houses, and bury broken porcelain pieces on it." When the bandits come again, we can also resist one or two. ”
Since the village wall has a large amount of work, then first build the courtyard wall of your own house.
In the town, Mrs. Zhang's house is the kind of courtyard wall that is more than a foot high, and the idlers can't go up, and the gate of her house is thick, and those bandits can't break it.
In this bandit, Dr. Zhang's neighbors took refuge in her house, and she saved more than ten families with her own strength.
Therefore, this courtyard wall must not be sloppy.
"Okay, find a few people to go to Pingjiang County together." Jiang Dalang said: "Just relying on the shoulder, I'm afraid I have to walk for more than ten days." ”
Jiang Sanlang: "When you come back, hire a few carriages or mule carts, don't try to save money, the sooner we come back, the safer it is." ”
"Okay, listen to you." Jiang Dalang nodded.
Early the next morning, Jiang Dalang and several villagers set off to Pingjiang County to buy grain.
Jiang Saburo went to a neighboring village to hire people, and hired dozens of villagers who were proficient in building houses at once.
Dozens of people worked together, and the mud beat the adobe, and the walls of the three courtyards of the Jiang family were all torn down and rebuilt.
Jiang Laohan went out to buy back wood and bamboo, and went to the brick kiln to order a lot of bricks and tiles.
Within two days, all the bricks, tiles, wood, bamboo, etc. were delivered, and even the new doors and windows were also delivered.
Then he began to build the house and tile, dig the foundation of the wall, and build the wall.
Not only did the original house be repaired, but Jiang Saburo's family rebuilt a few side houses.
The wall, which is two zhang high and more than half a zhang wide, encloses the entire house and courtyard of the three Jiang families.
There are also watchtowers built at the four corners of the wall, which can accommodate three people to stand inside at the same time and fire arrows.
From a distance, this wall looks like a small square city wall, tall and stocky, full of security.
After the wall was built, Jiang Saburo immediately had two thick doors installed.
There is only one gate, which can accommodate carriages to enter and exit, and after entering the gate, you will see the three courtyard gates side by side.
The distance between the gate of the wall and the gate of the courtyard is three zhang away, which does not affect the light and feng shui of the gate of the courtyard.
On the day the gate was installed, Sakura went up the stairs from the courtyard to the wall and walked around the wall.
The watchtower is very well built, and you can look out far from here.
Surrounded by busy villagers, those who cut bamboo, those who beat adobe, and children who stepped barefoot in mud and mud.
Yuan Bao and Hu Zi Wei Zhan and several children also ran up to the wall, giggling and jumping on it, and were beaten up by their grandmother with a bamboo pole, and then they were reluctant to give up.
On the second day after the wall of Jiang's house was built, I heard the villagers banging on the gong and shouting, saying that the imperial army had defeated the anti-thieves, and a large number of bandits had scattered and fled, so that the villagers in all villages should be vigilant and prevent the thieves from sneaking attacks.
When Jiang Saburo heard the message, he immediately asked people to inform the villagers, so that they had better get together at night to prevent trouble.
Yingbao rode Yoyou down the mountain secretly and went to the village school to find Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen.
At this time, everyone is busy tidying up the house, and even the family study is closed, Mrs. Wen assigns homework to Yingbao and lets her study at home.
"Master! Sister Wen! Sakura got off the back of the deer and ran into the school.
Wen Shu came out of the house, still holding a book in his hand. "Sakura, why are you here?"
"Where's Master?" Sakura asked.
"Come in, in the house." Wen Shu led Sakura into the house.
Ying Bao didn't talk nonsense, and directly pulled Xiao Zhenniang and said: "Master, come with me to Nanpo, the township said that there will be bandits, and my father asked the village to get together at night." ”
Xiao Zhenniang also heard the words of the villagers, and was worried about what to do, since the little apprentice asked them to go to Nanpo, she was also in the middle of it.
"Okay, I'll clean it up first."
Xiao Zhenniang said to her daughter again: "You also go and pack your things and bring them." ”
"Hmm." Wen Shu nodded and pulled Sakura to the next room.
Mama and Wen Shu lived in the same room, and hurriedly helped the little master pack up his clothes.
Wen Shu didn't have many things, only two packages and they were gone.
The grandmother rolled up the bedding on the bed again and tied it tightly with a rope.
Wen Fu bought a wheelbarrow from nowhere, stacked the family's food bags and bedding on the wheelbarrow, and pushed it away.
Xiao Zhenniang and her daughter Grandma only carried a package and set off with Yingbao.
Ying Bao didn't see Mrs. Wen, and asked curiously, "What about Mrs. Lin?" ”
Wen Shu whispered: "The third aunt lives in the Chen patriarch's house. ”
Sakura Po wondered.
That Wen Tian caused Patriarch Chen's grandson to break his leg, and he even accepted her to live at home?
Wen Shu saw Ying Bao's puzzlement and said, "The third aunt got along very well with the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chen family, so she moved to her house. ”
In fact, it was his mother who had a dislike with the third aunt and quarreled, so the third aunt moved to Chen's house.
But how can I tell Sakura Po about it?
Sakura led Wen Shu and Master back to their home and settled them in their own room.
Anyway, her kang is very large, and it is not a problem to sleep four or five people.
As for Wen Fu, he was arranged to live in a newly built side room.
Chunniang saw that her daughter picked up Mrs. Wen and a few people, but she was not surprised, she talked with Xiao Zhenniang for a while, and hurried to cook.
Now there are dozens of people in the family eating, and she and her sister-in-law and sister-in-law are busy every day.
Lunch is rice, cabbage tofu, courgette, stir-fried leeks, and pickles.
At the end of the day, it is steamed buns, rice porridge, pickled vegetables, cold courgette and cabbage.
Although there is no meat, but the tube is full, the side dishes taste good, the employees do not care, they work after eating, and they are not idle at all.
That night, a few torches circled around the village, and then came to the southern slope.
Jiang Sanlang, who was standing on the guard tower, saw this scene and immediately ordered the villagers to pick up bows and arrows and squat on the wall to wait.
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