It was only at this time that Wang Zhong, who was full of melancholy, had time to come over to see Zheng Dapeng, and sighed: "The imperial court originally sent a team of soldiers and horses to be stationed in the county town under the mountain, specifically to deal with the increasingly rampant Taihang group. I didn't want the leader of the team to be nicknamed Hu Rigui, and regarded this place as a treasure place for him to exploit and make money, and took the Dai Lu of the court and the silver taels offered by the locality, but he lied that the food was insufficient, refused to send troops, and blocked Uncle Zheng and them back on the grounds of sending someone to report to the province. If we wait for the documents in the province to be approved, I'm afraid that we, the mountain people, will already become a pile of bones!"

When Zheng Dapeng returned to the mountain village, he did not see the officers and soldiers, calculated the time, and had expected the outcome of the matter, so he was not surprised, took out a letter from his arms and said to Wang Zhong: "Wang Zhong, people in the officialdom, there are good and bad, loyal and treacherous, you quickly ordered someone to take this letter and ride a fast horse to Taiyuan Mansion to meet a general soldier named Zhao Yinian, and he will make arrangements when he sees the letter." ”

Wang Zhong didn't expect Zheng Dapeng to have an arrangement, and he was immediately overjoyed. As a matter of prudence, he asked the chief to send ten strong hunters down the mountain to ensure that the letter would be delivered safely.

Zheng Dapeng saw that these people were pulling out mules, so he hurriedly took out the silver taels and handed them to the leader, and instructed them to buy fast horses immediately after going down the mountain, and not to feel sorry for the silver taels and delay the time.

Despite the arrangement, Taihang Mountain is far from Taiyuan Mansion, and it takes six or seven days for a fast horse to run back and forth, and if it is a large group of people and horses marching, it will not be possible to arrive at all in half a month. During this time, it will become the best time for Black Tiger Village to kill everyone.

In order to prevent the arrival of the thieves, Zheng Dapeng did not care about resting, and led Wang Zhong and the leaders elected by a group of villagers to inspect the terrain, demarcate the boundary, cut down wooden stakes, and build a wall to defend against the enemy.

Fortunately, the news of the people's resistance to the thieves spread quickly in the mountains, and the mountain people in the nearby villages who could not bear the bullying of the thieves rushed one after another, and nearly a thousand people had gathered in the past two days, and there were still people coming.

There is a lot of strength in numbers, and by evening, a simple stockade has begun to take shape.

Those villagers were bullied by thieves, and everything in the house that was worth a little bit has been robbed by the thieves, and at this time, seeing a savior appear, they all hope to use the power of these martial arts heroes to get rid of the thieves and, and live a stable life from then on.

Chai Shaoning watched it from the sidelines and sighed in his heart. The fierceness of the bandits is evident from the villagers, but most of the people in power are greedy for money and ignore the people's grievances. If it weren't for the fact that he learned the dragon sword technique by mistake, I am afraid that he would be just a weak scholar who has no power to tie the chicken at this moment, but since ancient times, no matter how many books he reads, I am afraid that he will not be able to change the status quo of the jungle.

Chai Shaoning couldn't help but take luck in his heart, and tightened the hilt of the sword in his hand even more. The yearning for martial arts pushed him to desperately comprehend layer after layer of higher swordsmanship.

In fact, after the battle of Black Tiger Village, Chai Shaoning has advanced to the extremely high realm of swordsmanship, although he has not really entered the house, but there seems to be an open door in front of him, from which he can vaguely glimpse the peak of swordsmanship, but to reach that height, he still needs to continue to work hard to climb.

When night fell, the villagers who had been sent out to reconnoiter the news of the thieves returned, bringing bad news, and the cottage on Yueya Mountain, which had been picked by Chai Shaoning and Xiao Ting, was lit up again.

It was expected that Luo Huaping would suffer a big loss and would not give up, but when the threat really came, the villagers still had a lot of commotion.

Zheng Dapeng felt the atmosphere of fear that permeated the villagers, so he called Chai Shaoning and Xiao Ting, accompanied by an old patriarch Dong who was very senior among the villagers, to patrol around the village, constantly boosting the morale of the people, and finally calming down the emotions of these villagers.

After a hasty dinner, Zheng Dapeng made arrangements, Chai Shaoning, Geng Qiuwen, Fang Xiaoyun, Xiao Ting, Xue Nianci, and Song Yuanlan were one group, Zheng Dapeng and Gao Fenglan led the rest of the small groups to be another group, and the two groups of people took turns to be on duty before and after night to guard the village.

In the middle of the night after arriving, after a full rest, Chai Shaoning's group of people took over and insisted on being on duty the night before because they were distressed by the small people, so that Zheng Dapeng and Gao Fenglan, who had not closed their eyes in the past two days and two nights, came to the exit of Zhaidong in the direction of Yueya Mountain.

A sentry tower has been erected at the exit of the stockade, which is simple but quite high. The four corner pillars are staggered and lengthened by double giant timbers, and then pulled to be fixed with diagonal braces, and a platform is erected at a place nearly five zhang high, and the four sides of the platform are made of horizontal logs as railings, and there are long wooden planks nailed along the edge, which can be used for people to sit down and rest, and the thatched roof is erected above the platform to prevent rainfall.

The people climbed up to the platform of the watchtower by tying up a simple upright wooden ladder, and found that there were iron hammers and gongs hanging at the four corners of the watchtower, and the two villagers who were guarding were already on both sides, and if something happened, they picked up the iron hammers and struck the gongs, which could warn the villagers.

In addition, there are two teams of people and horses composed of the villagers themselves in the village, constantly patrolling each other to prevent thieves from disguising themselves as refugees and making trouble at night.

After greeting the two villagers, Chai Shaoning and the others sat on the four sides of the platform.

Geng Qiufang and Fang Xiaoyun first got off the sentry tower, patrolled along the wall, and when they came back, they smiled and whispered to each other, looking affectionate.

After a while, Chai Shaoning and Song Yuanlan went downstairs to inspect, and when they came back, they held hands with each other, until the bottom of the sentry tower, Song Yuanlan threw off Chai Shaoning, jumped upstairs, hugged Fang Xiaoyun's arm and laughed and flattered, looking like they wanted to cover up, and everyone wanted to laugh.

Next, it was Xiao Ting's turn and Xue Nianci to go downstairs to inspect, and when they came back, Xue Nianci Shi Ran was walking in front, Xiao Ting followed behind honestly, and looked around vigilantly before going upstairs, very conscientious.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly.

Fang Xiaoyun glanced at Chai Shaoning, and Chai Shaoning said to Xiao Ting: "Second brother will accompany me to inspect again, so that Brother Geng and Sister Fang can rest for a while." ”

Xiao Ting's honest pimple, his brain did not turn, he immediately believed it, continued to maintain a vigilant look, and followed Chai Shaoning in a circle.

Fang Xiaoyun walked to Xue Nianci's side, pointed to Xiao Ting's hazy back below and asked Xue Nianci, "Sister Nianci, why does your second brother look stupid?"

Xue Nianci smiled "poof", glared at Fang Xiaoyun with disgust, and defended Xiao Ting: "How can Sister Yun say that about the second brother? ”

"Oh?" Fang Xiaoyun asked with a smile, "Sister Nianci thinks you're not true to Brother Geng?"

Xue Nianci said: "Sister Yun, this is in the eyes of a lover." The second brother and the eldest brother Geng have different personalities, and they can't simply compare who is more realistic. ”

"My sister has a point. Fang Xiaoyun pretended to nod thoughtfully, and then said, "But I'm worried that your second brother won't be able to find a daughter-in-law in the future." ”

"Sister Yun is worrying!" Xue Nianci almost burst out laughing, and said with an uneven look: "The second brother is a decent person and has an upright temperament, such a person can be met but not sought, in my opinion, who can marry a good man like the second brother, it is a real blessing." ”

Fang Xiaoyun laughed and said, "I thought you didn't know, sister?"

Xue Nianci smiled and said, "How could I not know-" She was suddenly stunned as she spoke.

Song Yuanlan next to her had already laughed when she heard it.

Fang Xiaoyun pushed Song Yuanlan, and the two of them giggled and dodged to the side.

Needless to say, Xue Nianci is a smart girl, but she is in it, and she doesn't understand Xiao Ting's mind for a while. Although Fang Xiaoyun hopes to see her two younger brothers and sisters walk together, whether she wants to or not, she still has to decide for Xue Nianci herself, and others have no right to force her.

Xue Nianci certainly understood what Fang Xiaoyun meant, and sat silently by the sentry tower with a red face, her heart going up and down, and she couldn't calm down anymore. Thinking of Xiao Ting's eyes every time he looked at her, he was really a little different from others.

Xue Nianci has been practicing art in Huashan with her master Yue Rufei since she was a child, and she is simple-minded, and she has reached the age of talking about marriage, but she has never thought about what kind of man she will find in the future?

Chai Shaoning is the first man Xue Nianci dealt with in the real sense of the word after being ordered by his master to go down the mountain, but because of the relationship between his master Yue Rufei and Qu Tongya, Xue Nianci has always regarded Chai Shaoning as his senior brother, a relative who has never met. Even though the two had intimate contact in the forest outside Taiyuan Mansion that outsiders didn't know, in Xue Nian's compassion, they only regarded it as a family relationship between brothers and sisters.

Sima Long, who met later, was a steady person, and he had the demeanor of an elder at a young age, and Xue Nianci respected him as his eldest brother from the bottom of his heart. As for Xiao Ting, Xue Nianci didn't feel anything, she worshipped her brother and sister, gradually got acquainted, and said nothing......

But all this happened so naturally, Xue Nianci didn't think that this was the love she wanted at all!

Xue Nianci's thoughts gradually wandered, and she thought of her life experience.

"I passed by the Qinling Snow Peak and found your mother's body in a canyon. Judging by the expensive raccoon dog dress she was wearing, your mother should have been the wife of an official or a wealthy merchant. "Master Yue Rufei once said this to Xue Nianci.

The Qinling Mountains guard the key roads of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and there are thieves in the mountains all the year round. Xue Nianci guessed that her family must have encountered robbers, so her mother was forced to escape from the mountains alone, but unfortunately she fell off the cliff. If it weren't for the mother who kept holding Xue Nianci, who was still a baby, in her thick coat on her chest, Xue Nianci would have frozen to death between the snow ridges.

Concubine Yue Rufei thought that a big family like Xue Nianci's mother had lost his wife and daughter, and he should spread the news all over and ask someone to search for it. However, Concubine Yue Ru has never been able to find out the origin of Xue Nianci's father, and most of the family has been poisoned by thieves. So Concubine Yue Rufei took the surname Xueling and named the baby girl Nianci, so that Xue Nianci would always remember her mother's great kindness.

When Concubine Yue Rufei found the body of Xue Nianci's mother, the canyon was covered with snow!

The snow-white field, the snow-white raccoon dog clothes, and the peerless face of Xue Nianci's mother, like ice carving, are cold and poignant.